Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-12
COMMUNICATIONS.
HE EprToRs OF THE BuaLE:-

To THE EDIToRs OF THE BuaLE:-
The following communication was
sent to Salem monthly meeting of Friends
(not Orthodox in September last. 1t was
read in that meeting and remarks made upon
it by several members; after which it was
laid over to be taken up the month following.
In the October Monthly Meeting it was again
read and gave rise to considerable discussion;
but no definite action, so far as | am inform
ed was taken upon it.
Whatever conclusion the Monthly Meet
ing may come to in this case, | believe it
right Tor me to make the communication pub
lie, as believe it to be my duty to disown
the Society of Friends, whether Friends
shall choose to disown me or not
l believe the Society (though not worse
than the other religious sects of this cou-
ntry, with perhaps one or W exceptions)
is doing nothing to advance the Anti-Sla-
very movement, that it is not promoting chris
tianitv or morality, but rather opposing them;
and hence | wish TO hold no fellowship or
connection with it, which cannot rightfully
be held with any other corrupt organization
or with moral corruption in any form.
The friends of humanity have been sacri-
fcing principle to sect and party, long enough
have long enough been engaged in build
ing up with one hand the evils which, with
the other, they have been laboring to over
throw. The progress of reform is at best tar
dy enough, and will be so when its advocates
shall cease to add any part of their influence
to increase the mountain mass of corruption
which impedes it and which must be over
come before the right can triumph.
IL hope, therefore, that those friends of truth
who are connected with the church organiza-
tons, and political parties Of this country,
will look about them; for they are in nearly
every instance, whether they are aware of the
fact or not, so far as this connection is con.
cerned, the supporters Of savery-he enemie,
Of The Siaue.
]. B. JR.
To Salem Monthly Meeting Fl Friends.
FRlENDs:-
After careful and candid con-
sideration, | have arrived at the conclusion,
that justice, both 70 you and to myself re-
quires thatl should lay my views relative to'the
position of the Society of Friends, before your
Monthly Meeting. My name is upon your
records as a member of Society. 1t was new
~ nj, God tbora in a,onr1,no. .r;+b
quest or desire of mine, and for the last year
at least | have not been a member of your
Society in feeling, though have been such
in form.
The Society of Friends in its present posi-
tion-which is mainly the same it has occu-
pied for a number of years past is, l be-
lieve, standing in the way of the Anti-Slave-
ry movement, as well as the other great re-
forms of the age. Every individual who is
truly moral and intelligent is engaged in the
promotion of these reforms; and no one, as |
conceive, who is thus engaged, can consist
emily or rightfully be an adhering member of
a society that, as a body, is ~exerting its in
fluence against them-that closes its meeting
houses against the discussion of moral ques-
tions-that disowns its members for engar-
ing in the anti-slavery reform Gas in the case
of Isaac T. Hopper and others in New York,
and of Green Plain Quarterly Meeting)-and,
that issues no testimony against those of its
members, who are actively and bitterly op-
posing the cause Of the slave.
The Society of Friends Processes to be a
Christian body. 1t processes to do all in its
power to keep itself pure, by dealing with
those of its members who are guilty of I'M
christian or immoral conduct Even a slight
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