Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-19


after him of better discernment than I possess,
if he can show, to their satisfaction, why his
comeouter doctrine will not apply to anti
slavery societies, between whose profession
and practice there is so glaring a discrepancy.
Friend ]. b. is known to entertain a settled
antipathy to a hireling priesthood, which by
the way, may, together with his anti-slavery Y,
temperance and peace principles, be ascribed
to the influences exerted over him in times
past by the society he has now %disowned,
and which, in the language of Abby Kelley,
or one Of her CONDUCTORS, sis the corner stone"
of all these reforms. He has therefore ''dis-
owned" the only society perhaps in exist!
ence, which occupies his own ground upon
the subject of a hireling ministry; while those
with whom he seems content to act, and who
as | have already shown, trample under foot
nearly every other principle which lies near
his heart, and hold in Glowing fellowship"
the 'blackcoated priesthood"
| hope for the sake of giving his friends
some clue to the mode OF reasoning by which
he seems to be able to reconcile in his own
mind some apparent incongruities, he will be
pleased to answer, through the Bugle, the
following intcrrogatories.
LIST. Is associated action more ~effectual than
single handed effort for the advancement of
any moral, religious or temporal enterprisel
end. Is it our duty to use the most effec-
tual means Cor accomplishing any good o%uject9
3D.. Are there not other evils than intem-
perance and slavery in society, which it
would be right to use our best endeavors to
remove!
4th. Since the withdrawal of ]. Barnaby
from Friends, has he been connected with
any association in which it would be in order
to agitate all questions of moral reform; and
did he, while a member of the first, attempt
to effect that, the omission of which consti-
tutes in his estimation their guilt!
9Th. If a portion Of the members Of a So
ciety, formed for a good purpose, forsake the
object of their organization, are all the other
members Of such society necessarily lInpllca~
ted in the guilt Of such dereliction from duty
on the part Of the restl
9th. Would the fact Of a practical slavchol-
, der joining and acting with an Anti-Slavery
+ Society, under the false p~retence Of being a
friend to liberty, make it the duty of the true
c members to withdraw therefroml
S 18th. Would it be wrong to associate with
d a horse thief, so far as it might be necessary
to act with him in pulling a sheep out of the
mire, or doing any other good act!
9th. Would slavery continue to exist were
all persons to refuse purchasing their products!
e 9th. Does the Ohio A. A. s. Society hold
{, in good fellowship those who participate with
" the land pirate" in his booty, by p%urchas-
'e ing and trafficking in and consuming such
products!
10th. Would our refusal to purchase of the
Shareholder his corn, sugar, rice, cotton and
!" hemp, or our refusal to give him our votes
, most certainly destroy his inducement to hold
%slavesl
~ llth. Is it the duty of one member of a ia
" mily to dissolve his or her connection With
on discovering that the rest are supporting
. slavery or war!
18th. Does the Society of Friends require
:, any of its members to violate any principle o.
- moral right!
10 B. B. DAVIS.