Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

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fee.
Yours truly for the Right.
PARKER PILLSBURY.
Boston, Sept. 10, 1916.
FRIENDS EDIToRs -
do not wish to ''Pick a ~quarrel' with
you, but merely to pick a RatO in your COM
ments on the subject of my letter oflast week
the Ohio Yearly Meeting. | take excep-
ton; LIST, to the remark that the Yearly Nee
ting, according to my letter, is decidedly
progressing backwards" as an unwarranted
conclusion. Cd, / object to the idea that
''seceders are akcays odious to body mem
bers" as incorrect. Sd, | do not admit that
the Yearly Meeting extended the hand of fell
lowshlp to a pro-slavery body. 4th, 1t is not
correct to say that the abolition members
''asked for less this year than they did last"
9th, That 'thc Pro-siavery part wheedled the
abolitlonists into a Tctrocession from their po-
sition Of last year." is equally Incorrect
9th, That the sending of an epistle to Indiana
Yearly Meeting was "the mast important an
ti%-slavery point which came before them,'' is
not the fact. 18th, That the Anti-slavery Adj
dress, and the appointment of a committee on
the subject OF slavery, were ''two of. the
least Importance" as you have presumed up
on two 'iFs", to assert, will be found to be
equally wide Of the mark. But had you
distributed more literally through the article,
those 3'S, it might have saved me some trou-
BILE and you some annoyance.
protest, eighty, against the insinuation
that difference in latitude makes so great a
difference in feelings" unless it should have
reference to the fact that southern members
OF the meeting did not oppose there, that
which they did here, or that as a body they
accomplished more than they did at Salem.
9th, deny the ''inglorious ~retreat'' and
the STARTER" of all that had been gained s'for
a committee" &c.
will forbear noticing, regularly, several
other errors into which you have fallen, or all
The misrepresentation which characteri re
this editorial, but really, if there be any thing
which would admit of being literally and
spiritually picked to pieces, / think it must
be this same editorial about "Ohio Yearly
Meeting"
The more jealous anti-slavery members of
the meeting, who arc also among the prom
lnent members of the Western anti-slavery
society, having congratulated each other
since the meeting that a betterday was dawn
ing for the slave, 50 far as Friends were con-
cerned, that after long and arduous labor, the
opposition to anti-slavery action had nearly
ceased, the Indifferent had become active, the
answers to the queries began to indicate a
better feeling on the subject; the important
testimony against slave-grown produce had
been urged upon the members, political sup
port to slavery discouraged ~epistles sent to
the other Yearly Meetings partook of the an
ti-slavery feeling; an address embracing the
whole circle of anti-slavery duty passed with
out a dissenting voice. (Very few anti-sla-
very meetings that do nothing else utter as
full, strong, and as elaborate a testimony on
the subject.) After doing all this, and more
ALTER devollng quite as much attention TO
that branch Of reform as was due from one
meeting Of the society, in view of other i'm
portant duties-we come home and are greet
ed with the Anti-Slavery Bugle which Aou,s
In our faces its hurried condemnation of our
recreancy TO the interests OF the slave :
ONO Yearly Meeting last year refused to
leau a communication from Green Plain
Quarter and refused to sanction its reading
~ Inc members out of the meeting, this yesr
the latter was agreed to by the meetipg.-
Na'' year the meeting declined sending an
'p'S'e 10 Ind Yearly Meeting, contrary TO
"y wis" ana mat OF many of the strongest
l"''S'aSeTy members but perhaps agreeably
'ns "'S'' OF some Of them. This wear one
OIL the best an'i-slavery letters ever issued bv
a early Meeting was sent to. them, and no
aN'-SiaVery man ought or did object 10 its
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