Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-10


Green Plain alone was suffering. White
Water Monthly Meeting, which was COM
posed of two Preparatives, one had laid the
other down, and proceeded 10 disown its
members for not being in unity with the body.
This same meeting had also excommunicated
Frederic Hoover, a man Of unblemished rem
utation, who | believe had been an elder
thirty years. Several others had shared a
similar fate. Miami Monthly Meeting had
thrust out Xaclariah Johnson because of his
liberal sentiments. Centre Monthly Meeting
by the aid of the locomotive committee, had
disowned Abraham Allen, the Yearly Meet
ing committee man, who detected and en-
posed the fraudulent minute before referred
to. The larger sentiment expressed was
against the accommodation, yet the deed
was done by the committee incorporating it.
self with the meeting, and claiming to be a
part of it. This same meeting has disowned
Thomas Winery and others.
Camden Monthly Meeting is also laid
down, part of its members disowntd, and
others have united themselves with the Or
thodox Anti-Slavery Friends. White Water
Quarterly Meeting of ministers and elders
entered a complaint against Maurice Place
upon their minutes for attending a meeting
of the disaiIected part of society at Green
Plain while passing through our vicinity up
on secular business. They finally became
ashamed of it, and dismissed the case. Re-
Gently they have renewed their hostilities
against him under the more plausible charge
of having lost his gift as a minister and have
recently elected him from the select estab-
lishment. | learn they have also been treat
ing with dear aged Jesse Bond, a precious
minister of the gospel whose sentiments are
decidedly liberal; although | do not know
that he ever attended an abolition meeting,
yet he has borne a faithful testimony against
the intolerant measures of these prosecutors
and although his locks are whitened in the
service of truth, he is a marked man. Since
the decision in our case, Thomas Lawrence,
a valuable member of Blue River Quarter,
offered a resignation TO the Society, on ac-
count as he stated, of his disunity with the
ruling powers in Indiana Yearly Meeting.-
He was himself a committee man to visit the
subordinate branches, but had never been
united in membership with an Anti Slavery
Association. The Friends who visited him
at his wish, had SO little fellowship with the
Yearly Meeting that they were unwilling TO
grant his request. When in our vicinity he
attended our Monthly Meeting and spoke ap-
provingly Of our
The same spirit is doing its work in other
places. Friends of Michigan are now pro-
scribed by a ruling clique in tennessee,
Yearly Meeting, on account of their .,nsci-
entious opposition to the meeting of minis
tiers and elders. l have learned by letter
that Friends there are expecting to hold a
conference upon the state of society, and that
John Mott has desired Green Plain Friends
to meet with them. There is now lying up
on your table an epistle purpor,ing to be
from Indiana Yearly Meeting. Is it so =
If that body can thrust out of the union one
Quarter without its consent, it may another
then there will remain but NO.. Would it
still be Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends &?
Have WE no right to be heard
There will be introduced TO this meeting
a certificate from Hannah P. Wilson, a min
lister from Hayti monthly meeting, at Green
Plain, which withdrew from us, set itself
up and reported to Miami Quarter. Friends,
you will have to meet this question, and
| again repeat, that if you are prepared to
receive the epistle from Indiana and the GER
tihcates of It's ministers and 10 reject ours, |
will withdraw from your councils, and
think my friend James Frame, who is with
me, will do the same. / will take this on
portunity to declare my attachment to reli-
gious society, to religious organization based
upon a liberal and enlightened arrangement
adapted to the age in which we live.
While prosecuting a religious visit 10
Friends within the several Yearly Meetings
was often urged to publish these facts, or
write them out and allow them to do it, but
have forehorne, hoping that justice might
yet be done.
This is emPhatically a struggle of truth
with error. 1t is spiritual despotism in high
places. Friends, admit the course of Indi-
ana Yearly Meeting to be right, and your
W liberties are in danger. 1t must be met
and arrested or our own religious society will
be ruined, as the blighting, whitening insti-
tuition of American Slavery is fast UNDER
mining the republic.
A Fool AT II FALLs.-On Wednesday,
a little excitement was created at the Cata-