Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-19
COMMUNICATIONS.


ESTEEMED EpIroRs: 1'.
Two letters have been received from our
beloved James and Lucreiia Mott, which
abundantly confirm the facts which, You
know, | hesitated TO publish lest there might
be some misunderstanding. After the recep-
ton Of the first, / wrote 10 James desiring
permission 10 send some extracts 10 the Blu.
gle, which ! am permitted to do with great
caution. lie states explicitly that he had no
idea Of such use being made of them at the
time Of writing. But really, | believe the
period has come when the dJ0miHniions in
high places should be looked into by the
common people, who will, it is to be hoped,
yet exercise their s~orerejgnty and learn to
loathe the Juggernauis before whom they
have bowed in Ignorance, and by whose Sc
cret mackin1hionS their dearest rights are
crashed, and their true manhood and individ-
uality nearly destroyed. | know many in
Ohio, as well as other sections Of the land,
will read with no ordinary interest their en-
counter with the pharisees Of Indiana Year
ly Meeting. Verify, | have drank largely of
the bitter waters Of s~eetarian intolerance, and
can well appreciate the testimony of these
dear apostles of an enlarged liberty. Heav-
en- bless them they are faithful heralds of
the ''good day coming"
After an interesting account of their Jour
ney, and Of intercourse with Stree spirits
and noble hearts" in a number Of localities
after their arrival at Richmond, the letter pro-
ceeds:
''Ilaving said this much OF ourselves, |
will give you a brief account of the Yearly
Mecting-a few ruling spirits guide and d.
rect the body. + = = j. P.
PIummer stated tina, he felt great sympathy
for the situation Of Green Plain Monthly
Meeting in consequence Of the rebellion that
took place in that meeting some time since;
those who rebelled had kept all the records
and it would be much labor for many years,
&c. A committee Unsupported who propo-
sed that Green Plain monthly. meeting APP
point a iudicious committee to call on all their
members to know if they wished to be men,
bers, and if they did, to make a record Of their
names, and those who did not have their
names recorded were TO be considered as not
members-minors to be placed with their pa
rents. So you see they are going to make
short work with YOU"
Here | would remark that in the separa-
ton among Friends in '2S, the body term
ed Hicksites believed the system of disown-
ment practiced by the orthodox to be eccle-
s%lastical tyranny, yet they cheer(ully allowed
all minors to retain membership. In IS
years this portion Of the body assumes the
ground Of their opposers, and not only dis
owns all who will not bow TO its dictation
but thrusts the innocent children out of the
pale Of their church. 1t is an old Grecian
%proverb, "Whom the gods intend to destroy
they first male blind"
The letter proceeds IL will now give
you an account Of their bigotry, and an at
tempt Of a few individuals 10 prevent our at.
tending The Yearly Meeting. On first day
morning five friends called TO see US, Amos
Cook, Arnold Boone, Solomon Swiggett and
wife, and Margaret Hutton. An interview
took place in the parlor, a good many others
present, among them Ruth Tonlinson who
spoke up manfully for US. Amos stated that
we had been travelling and holding meetings
contrary 10 the order of Society, and thought
we had better return home and obtain the ap-
probation Of our friends before travelling any
farther or attending any more meetings.
We told them where we had been, and what
meetings we had attended, not emitting the
anti-slavery ones, and Green Plain-that we
felt at liberty TO do so and should attend any
meetings as way opened-that we had a
right by long custom to attend the Yearly
Meeting and should do SO unless they would
Introduce the subject for its consideration,
and fit should be the united judgement OF
the meeting that we should not attend, We
might then withdraw. 81.
"Tlis plan did not suit them and Solomon
said, that If we attended we must not sal
my hing! This we told them was contra.
Ty to the practice of our Society and our pro.
l%esslon, and we should not come under any
such obligation, but should most certainly
! speak cut whatever we believed it right t.
! say Finding this would not do they said
how did they know we were members4 It,
this We replied, they knew well enough W,
t were members, that was only a subterfuge
: Finding we were not disposed to bow TO thei
J. d~ic'aNon or give any place to them, they lef