Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-17
INDIANA A. s. SOCIETY,".

This Society holds its meetings the pres
ent week at Newport, Wayne county. That
place was decided upon with the expectation
that the committee from the London Yearly
Meeting of Friends, would make it conve-
nient to attend.
1t is perhaps known to most Of our read
ers that there has been a separation in the
Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends,
upon Anti-slavery grounds. The abolition
lists of that body, after vainly trying to in
duce 1t to take an Anti-slavery position, with
drew and organized under the name of the
"lndiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-Slavery
Friends" and sent out epistles in the usual
form to other Yearly Meetings in thi, coun-
try and in Europe. Their epistles were, for
the most part, treated with silent contempt,
and their organization regarded as a nonen-
tity. The London Yearly Meeting became
somewhat interested in their situation, and
in order to effect a reconciliation between
the parties, appointed a committee to visit
this country, and to labor with the members
of the pro-sllvery and anti-slavery Yearly
Meetings. The committee consists Of VIM.
Foster, Josiah Foster, John Allen and Geo.
Stacy from England, and Joseph Bewly
fom Ircl nd: the first named is a minister,
and the others are all elders.
We are glad our Indiana friends gave
them an opportunity Of attending the annual
gathering, but have not the most distant idea
that they will embrace it. They didn't
conn to this country to attend anti-slavery
meetings, they came on a great mission, on
a hind of semi-religious visit, and of course
VIII dc nothing that will identify them with
the abolitionists of America-that would be
geug out of their appropriate sphere. They
may, and do plead for the slave when they
are at home in old England, in that great
country where the very rascals are abolition
lists. Two of them-Joseph Foster and
George Stacy-recently attended a great
meeting of the British and Foreign Anti
Slavery Society. They took their seats
upon the Platform beside Joseph John
Quincy. who was chairman on that occasion.
We don't know but they will be consistent,
everyday abolitionists in this country. We
hope they may, bat fear they will not, for
being an abolitionist in America, is very
different from being an abolitionist in Eng.
land. In the one country a man guns pop
III irity by it, in the eth T he Losses cast
A voyage from England to America has as
astonishing an influence upon the moral con,
s~titution of a British abolitionist, as doe,
a trip to Liberia upon the colored man o
this country. The one converts a nuisance
into a christian missionary, the other changes
an abolitionist into a dumb dog that canno
bark.
Joseph John Quincy was a flaming aboli
zionist before he came to America and afte
he went home. He could make speeches
at anti-slavery gatherings preside at the meet
ings of the British and Foreign Anti-Slave
~ Society, and do various other anti-slavery
work; but when he was in this country, W,
could not even persuade him to let a meet
ing be called, that he might testify as an icy,
witness, to what Freedom had done for tn,
!, British West India colonies. 1t is true h
afterwards addressed a series of letters to hi
/, Dear Friend Henry Clay, and told him wha
emancipation had effected in those islands
: but there was nothing in this to lessen hi
popularity, but OF the contrary he was bette
thought Of fI calling thai terrible despot III