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

important topic he has introduced, | shall be
slow to doubt his integrity and honesty Of
purpose.
Friend Barnaby advises the friends of truth,
connected with church organizations, to look
about them, for they are, says he, in nearly
every instance, so far as this connection is
concerned, The supporters Of ~starery-he enc
mics of The STARE. He makes some exceptions
10 the general charge of the corruption of all
churches, but the inference is, that the soci
cites of Friends do not constitute any of those
I executions. 1t is also to be inferred that he
is not opposed to organizations as such, nor
in favor of coming out, except from corrupt
bodies, and those who retain member who
act immorally. lie is a believer in organiza-
tons or associations for the promotion ofright-
eous objects, and doubtless for those of secular
gain also, but believes it the duty of a friend
of truth to abandon them when he conceives
an act which they do, to be wrong. If | I'M
derstand him, it is on the principle that each
individual member of such an ASSOCIATION is
necessarily implicated in the guilt of every
wrong act committed by the body, or by a
fellow member, unless expelled for it, that he
bases this doctrine. When friend Barnaby
shall have convinced me of the tenability of
that position, he will shortly have an access
sion Of at least one member to his new Come
outer society. l should however, in main
tanning that doctrine, be under the unpleasant
necessity of abiding but a short time with
him. With a manifesto in my hand against
the Anti-Slavery and Temperance Societies,
in which he and | have been won't to laboi
side by side, | should be obliged to say to
him that "dearest friends, alas, must part
The former fellowship Shareholders as fit en-
blems of their cause,
For those are not, who feed or drive,
But those Uho on The booiy hripe.
The latter are calling into requisition measures
sustained by r]iolence in prosecuting the re-
tailers of ardent spirits. | should go further
and discard all associations on the ground that
no two or more individuals differently organ.
lied, and surrounded by different circun
stances, as men generally are, can be fount
to unite on all questions involving moral duty
, and cannot, consequently, unite without in
curing the guilt Of each others errors.
The counterpart 10 the obiector in the com,
outer school, to keep out of the organization
f for fear Of I" contamination" is the bigoter
, s~ectarian preaching against the " MIXTURE
" eating with publicans and Sinners" &c
> If there be any palliation (save the want Q
iighO for either, it appears to me the sccta
e rian has it; for, bad as our churches aIc, tn
II mass of wickedness is still without their pale
or no history is to be credited.
The principal charges brought against til
society of Friends by ]. b., are that they ri
u tain members who are actively supporting
slaveholding, wal making, piratical govern
: ment, and who uphold slavery by voting ft
e stockholders. The members of the tempe
ance and anti-slavery societies, with whic
o friend Barnaby acts and acknowledges goo
= fellowship, do all these to a greater eXtel
than do the society of Friends anywhere
N lh0 iolHhol SuPPOlt So'CihlhCht ~ nt'Chui'
e political meetings, uniting with political pal
ties, publishing political papers, voting fl
officers and holding office, by training wit
military companies, and in innuinerable way
Y render efficient support to the war as well
to the civil department. The anti-slavery o
y ganization processes to raise a higher stan
dard against slavery than that of the socieI
of Friends. Its motto is, no union wit
t Shareholders" and it processes to withdra,
all support from the institution, and even
refuse fellowship with those who do not
: the same. Their profession, | say, on til
subject is higher than that of Friends, y
without a word of rebuke, the anti-slavery S
lie ciety ~to!erates and even justices it's membei
= in rendering the most efficient support whit
l. it is possible to conceive can be given to tn
s system which it is their only purpose, profe
'g sedly, to cndeavor to pull down, which is n
rs true of the society from which my friend h
n seeded. All the votes which were ever ca
for slaveholders-all the pro-slavery pal
- graphs which have ever disgraced the &C
umns of political newspapers, and all Il
ecclesiastical! acts, bolstering up this gross sy
! TEN of %iniquity, will not, when combine
compare, as slavery sustaining causes, wi
the hiring of the STAKEHOLDER to extort the
Dor from his bondman by holding before hi
=, the glittering pelf-by purchasing his boo