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A review Of the Bill introduced into the
Ohio Legislature to incorporate the Ohio
Yearly Meeting for certain purposes
therein specified, BY Elisha Bates.
The three speeches to which have
alluded, are represented BY the Hick.
sites, as the most mastery exhibition
Of their cause that ever has appeared
before the public. Perhaps they are
%. The estimation in which they are
held the industry with which they
have been circulated from west to east.
and north to south, will entitle them
to some attention and examination,
though ] consider them, as to their
own simple, intrinsic character, as per.
fectly beneath notice. The mem.
bers Of the legislature whose names
they bear will please to excuse me for
this freedom. 1.-THE pieces in ques-
ton are not their own production they
should disavow them, and if they are,
they should be content to receive a
just rebuke for the unprovoked injury
they have done to Peaceable and un-
offending people.
The first speaker, Blocksom, sets
out with a remarkable display Of his
ignorance Of the simplest facts con-
nected with the subject Of his speech.
He first asserted that the application
had been made withom a petition.
On being informed by one Of the MEM
bers from Jefferson, that he was iDcor-
recs-he went on to say, that the pc
tition was ''signeI BY very few, per-
haps only by the half dozen whose
names are sought to be Incorporated
in this Bill" THIS guess was about
as vide Of the mark as the first. Not
q single name that he supposed was to
the petition. but only the name of the
clerk Of the meeting which drew it,
and which, according 10 the long IS
tablisbed usage ofthe Society, in every
part Of the world, represented the
whole Yearly Meeting. :.
These blunders to be sure were not
vrs, important; only they shew that
he had not attended to the subject sol
as to become acquainted with facts,
that every body in the House and a.
bout it, might have known.
He th-n prococJs TO MARE anoth4-,
perfectly in character with
the foregoing. Abiding to the separ-
alton which has taken place betweenI
Friends and the Hicksites, he says
"In the few remarks which Ihave tol
submit, shall view them az one uni
ted body Of people, and as if no divis-
10, had ever taken place among them ,"
Now do not suppose that any body
else in this world pretends to piezo those
two Societies "as one united body Of
people," But as no body can believe
It to he true. need not take the trou-
bic even to contradict it. Or these
extraordinary premises he raises the
fabric Of his eloquence; hearing just
portion and relation to its base.
In casting his eve over the preamble
lpd first section Of the Bill. he discov-
cred enough to carry conviction to his
mind that it ought not to pass into a
law. And what could he this uran-
swerah,e objection? Whv! '.there is
a large amount # property. real and
persnnab'e 5rlopeine to Ohio YEARLY
Meeting BIT WHY should the a.
mount ofpropertv re an objection to
extending over it the protection Of the
lass? Can any conceivable reason he
given for such a conclusion! tits true
that whNn there Is a design to resort to
a scramhling kind Of possession, the
prospect Of advantage NAV bear some
proportion TO the amount Of property
or which this system is intended to
operate. and the success Of the Whole
scheme may be depend mt on leaving
TIL prnp-rty as much as possible un-
protected bv the laws. But cannot
suppose the honorable member intended
any thing Ct this kind. whatever might
have been the secret designs of his ad-
visers and prompters.
He then makes a most remarkable
parade Of alarm about the form Of the
Bill, in mentioning the names of six in
dividuals and their associates. ia he in
eorporated as''Ohio Yearly Meeting"
He does not appear t. have bad the
most remote idea that this is the COM
monmode adopted in all interpretations
Of religious Societies. Perhaps he