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

was sdlu, Oht the ABOVE was the substance.
| think they felt rather smaller when they
went away than when they came. 1t is due
TO Arnold Boone to say he only asked a ques-
ton, The reply to which he said would, he
had no doubt, set right a report Friends had
heard, and which did. lie has since been
quite friendly TO us.
son 4th day after meeting we went to Dr..
Plummer's, by previous invitation from his
wife, who was formerly an intimate and low
ed acquaintance. Lucretia was then and had
been all day suffering from indisposition and
wished 10 consult the DR.. He was no, at
dinner, being engaged in his profession. AZ
ter some time he came in, when Lucretid told
him how she hid been, and was, and if he
could cure her she would willingly paw him
as much as she would pay an anti-slavery
lecturer, but that she did not know that she
would follow all his prescriptions, as she was
pretty independent. He sal rery still, loohed
rery sober, and ] thought was considering
what remedies TO recommend. The room
was full of. Friends. At length he said in a
tremulous voice, 'Lucretia, however my dis
position might lead me TO extend kindness
and hospitality TO my friends, such is my af-
Fiction on account of thy state Of rebellion,
that do not feel that | can prescribe for
thee Lucretia replied that she liked his
honesty Of expression, and would leave it to
the friends present to judge of the spirit. |
arose and said to my Lucretia that we had
better 60, as it was evident we were not
wanted there. Lucretia then said, she had
supposed Sarah knew what she was doing
when she invited us-that we would not
willingly intrude on any one, she was glad
he had given an exhibition of his feelings be-
fore these friends who could judge of the spi-
rt Of both, or what spirit we are both Of
Lucretia observed that before going she
would say, that she was as much afflicted as
he could be to see the spirit Of intolerance
that was among them, and at his Out door al
t~eraiion or addition 10 the minute of the
Yearly Meeting, that made such havoc at
Green Plain. To this he replied, that the
statement of j. A. Dugdale as to that matter
was not true. That it was done by the revi-
sing committee and sanctioned by the Yearly
Meeting !! and that we had much to learn
before we should have a right understanding
of that business, to which | added, hey had
much TO learn before they understood the
rights of others. 1t is due to the DR.. 10 say
he offered 10 send LucreIia home in his car
rage. The Dr., we are told SAYS he felt
great peace in being thus faithful. If such
exhibitions of bigotry and intolerance and
cruelty are evidences of christianity, / desire
to be a heathen. lie is a tyrant, and if he
had power would use it numerically. /
told him the next day / considered his con-
duct u,yeehihg and cruel. He said he could
now receive us at his house freely, bu, he
will not soon have that pleasure"
will take occasion here TO add that ny TO
this hour, ] have never known a member of
Indiana Yearly Meeting to assert that the re-
vising committee committed that outrage up
on us. Lucrelia adds after a warm exprcs.
sion Of love for dear friends here, Ruth
Tomlinson has been a friend in need TO u.s.
She felt il right to sit with us when that pos
Sc of Elders came to advise us to 90 home
she spoke her mind to them freely. She al
so rose in the select meeting on 4th day, after
they denounced me, and said, The prophets
of the Lord have always been prosecuted
Margaret Hutton, the clerk, has not taken
Ruth's name on any appointment though Of
fered more than once" (This is the old
game you perceive.) "Do hold conferences
and reform meetings. Yours for unlimited
freedom. l.. NJ"
The following extracts are from the second
letter dated 10th mo. 90, l5d7. "Third day
morning after we returned TO Richmond from
Newport, soon after reaching there a lad call.
ed at Charles Stars to inquire if we had got
hack, finding we had he soon brought the
following note addressed to my wife:
The o~uerseers of Whitewater monthly
meeting are DESTROYS Of having a private in
terview with thee to-day, al any h,ur and
place suitable for the occasion. Thou will
l"S ~ uCSiShdtO tilt Time ana
place most agreeable to myself. The Iiu!e
messenger will wait for a written reply. On
behalf of men and women overseers,
Mary Coale, 81
John V. Plummer,
10, s., 1917" o.
"When this note was brought, my wife
was lying down. consulted her and return.
ed the following answer
"My wife is now lying down, but will Sc,
any one who may wish to call on her at o.
after A o'clock, as friends. If as overseer,
of Whitewater monthly meeting, she declinei
seeing them, not considering herself amena
BILE TO them. .asdl .i j.. Morn"
'We heard no more of them"
wish you could read the interesting mar
r%ations they give of visits in different places
and how the people met with them and hear,
gladly the words they uttered, but | nus
conclude with the closing sentence. 18Th
comforts of our own home never SCENE,
more delightful and desirable, and we ca,
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