Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-12

timony against slavery, but the sale and use
of the productions of slave labor, and voting
for Shareholders for office, as mentioned in
one report, are named as exceptions to the
proper support of this testimony.
In order to give to the Yearly Meeting an
Idea of the state of the society, each Quarter
ly meeting is required to answer certain que
ries; and the meeting whose report is refer
red to in the above answer, we have been IN
formed is New Garden. This meeting by
the way is in advance Of any others we know
of; and in its desire to maintain perfect free
dom for all, it refuses to recommend any min
lister, or to appoint any elder to superintend
the preaching of others, and guard against
the promulgation of false doctrine. 1t holds
that every one should have full liberty to
speak as God giveth him utterance, and that
all who hear should receive or reject that
which is spoken, as seemeth best.
The confession of the Yearly Meeting,
that it has not borne a faithful testimony a.
gainst slavery, and its admission that some
of its members have impaired its proper sup
port by voting for Shareholders, are import
ant, and should not be forgotten; and we hope
that when it is charged with inconsistency
and unfaithfulness in future, its members will
bear in mind that it has itself recorded the
fact, and out of its own mouth do We con-
demn it. We however have in this circum-
stance, an evidence that progress is being
made, and when the members of Ohio Year
ly Meeting see that voting under a pro-sla-
very Constitution is support of slavery, is
in fact slave-hOiding, and the inferior meet
ings discipline such of their members as Of
fend in this particular, we shall cheerfully
award to it the name of anti-slavery.
Epistles from other Yearly Meetings were
received and read, and it was announced by
the clerk that he had in his possession one
from Green Plain Quarterly Meeting of In
diana-that meeting that was SO contuma-
ciously anti-slavery that Indiana Yearly
Meeting had to lay it down, but it wouldn't
stay down, but came up to the Ohio meeting
with its Epistle in its hand and demanded
admittance. What shall be done with TINT
epistle, was the question that presented it
self to the minds of many. If the meet
ing read it, it would ina manner identify itself
with the rebels; if ii did not, very many would
be dissatisfied. 1t is customary when epis-
ties or communications out of the regular or
lor 49, r,oat,oJ e. r,fNr tI,o,, 60 , no,, nit
tee for examination, and it was at once pro-
posed to dispose Of this in the same way, but
an unusual course of proceeding was suisse
qucntly adopted, and it was agreed to refer
it to the Representatives of the various Quar-
terly meetings. The majority of these were
known to be pro-slavery, and it Was proba-
bly, feared that if d committee was appointed.
it might be composed mainly of abolitionists
who would oppose the suppression of the
document. The Representatives held many
meetings, and it was with considerable DIFF
fculty they came to a decision. They final
ly advised the meeting not to have it read,
on account of the disorder it would produce,
but be returned whence it came, with infor-
nation of the reasons for its rejection. Only
one of the Representatives objected to this.
The report was the cause of a long and warm
discussion. Some were very fearful that if
the Epistle were read, it would divide the So
ciety-that its publication in that meeting
would have a devastating tendency. Two
prominent MEMBERSHIP anti-slavcry men
,ro,o f,,or,11a@ 90 IL. b,ni,cr ro,l /, l~lar tO cot
tie the difficulties in which the meeting had
become involved. A large majority Of those
who spoke wished to have it treated as the
other ~epistles had been, but gallery influence
carried as usual, and it was Gec,, el not &c
read it. We understand that some professed
abolitionists were willing to make a COM
promise, and as they had not replied to lndi-
ana they consented that Green Plain shout
be gagged. Fit had a right to be heard
neither they nor any one else had any bust
ness 10 suppress, barter away, or compromise
that right, and such as consented to sacrifice
the right of Green Plain to be heard in its
own defence. no matter under what preteXtit
was done, will yet bitterly rue it. This COM
promising of principle, this yielding up q
the rights of another is what no true MAJ
will ever do. II man chooses to withdraw
his claim, that is one thing, but trampling /
under foot. is quite another. If all who were
on the side of Right had been unyielding
that epistle would have been read and replied
to, and the little band Of prosecuted Quakeri