Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-03

grown products, furnished many Of the most
efficient lecturers and editors that have plead
the cause Of the slave and the inebriate. Az
Of all reform societies, iEsomuch that it has
received the title of being " the corner stone
Of the anti-slavery %reforin,'' and although
there are, | should say, near ttUo "modern
abolition members in Ohio yearly meeting,
to one that would have been found ten years
since, yet my friend believes there has been
no advancement, no reform in the society
1t is moreover, true, that the society has every
year, and from time to time, adopted many
decided anli-slavery ac's, such as no society
ia JatOr Of slarery, would pass, and has not
adopted one pro-slavery measure.
j. b. says it would be the worse for my
argument, if it requires the general consent of
a meeting to pass an act, and that a bare ma
jority cannot do it. This would be true, if
the society passed Pro-slavery acts, but as my
friend has citod none such, and as there are
none TO be cited, my argument cannot be weak
ened as to the pro-slavery action of tbs society.
But when | refer to its a1ii-siaeery acts. q
believe | have already specified many of them
and they were not, nor will not be denied TO
be snch) NoSe require that same "%unanimity"
to pass them. What then, is the conclusion?
Why that Friends as a body are anti-slaYery.
Ohio Yearly Meeting has officially appreciated
the A. S. movement in documents passed that
body, but never to my recollection CONDEMNED
them.
Is friend Barnaby correct in chasing dress
among the offences for which Friends disown
their members? Does he not entirely mis-
represent the society by saying it disowns its
members . for joining Temperance and Anti
Slavery Societies :" Has he been able to
show any instance which will sustain such a
charge
Suppose the charges of the Monthly Meet
ings of New York and Green Plain, had spe-
Gifted, as the offences of those members "de-
traction and joining Temperance and A. S.
Societies." and upon these charges disown-
ed them and at the same time retained many
members who trere connected with these So
%cieties, and suppose the charge of detraction
to be true, and forbidden by Discipline, | ask
friend Ddrnaby whether under such circum-
stances he would feel justified in saying that
his procea that Friends disowned their men,
bers for "joining Temperance and Anti-Sla-
very Societies -
These cases (of l.. r. Hopper Sci are the
strongest evidences ]. B. has brought o sus-
tain his charge Of "pro slavery" and l be-
lieve the only ones he has vcntured to spec
ify; and as l have shown, even if joining
those societies was the only and real charge,
they could not prove the point, any better
than one temperance society opposing another
proves the first contemporaries, or one relig-
ious society disowning a member for joining
another proves the first 10 be opposed to re-
ligiou. The great error OF my friend on this
subject, as he has again shown in his last
article, is that because il is obvious to him
that the Auti-Slavery movement is the only
hope CT the slave, no person can oppose it
and prefer their w mode Of operation, with
out being justly chargeable with being in Ca-
eor y 0iapery.
N. b. In the Duglo Of the 9th ult., I
perceive a note dated Green Plain, the 25th
ult.,) from those wen known friends of the
slave, I. and Il. S. Borton, to the effect that
there is a misunderstanding with me or my
author as TO the - retraclion" which l Incl.
d%entally noticed in lay last. The circum-
stance, as related 10 me by those who were
at Green Plain at the time, is substantiaIlv
ihis-That S. NJ. Janney sought to effect a
reconciliation - that he obtained from the
members Of the Jofy an agreement to accept
an acknowledgement such as he supposed the
Friends of Green Plain quarter would agree
10 make - that they did assent to the pTopo-
sltlons - that Janney left with the expecta-
non that the difficulty would be settled by a
TetTacIion' embracing neither moro nor less,
as | understood, fian an acknowledgement
that they regretted having used the name Of
u +, While in the disclaimer. 1t did not
occur to me hotc many, either of the body
members or of the excommunicated ones. were
in this measure, nothing, to nv
recollection, having been said as to anv en-
ceptlons, my impression was that prominept
of each side were parties TO tbiS
compromise II that was not the case, | am
hiSlhloFmed. Friends Borton were Doubt
less among the exceptions, but their commr.,