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

The individual in question, as we believed,
illuminated the Anti-Slavery movements
We felt ourselves identified with this move
ment and proceeded TO correct the false i'm
pressions being made on the public by as
Stunning our true attitude. For this, Indiana
Yearly Meeting appointed a committee to
visit Green Plain Quarterly Meeting, and la
Dor for ats help and encouragemeni."-
When the committee produced the minute Of
appointment, it was found to be essentially
changed. At the Yearly Meeting, where re-
port was made, one of the committee stated
that he never could have gone upon that err
rand with such a minute-"It has been mu-
%ulated," hence an earnest discussion ensued.
The revising committee were appealed to,
who admitted they had agreed to add "in
the truth to the concluding sentence " help
and encouragement" Friends queried where
did The balance como from! 1t was not I'M
iii the matter was closely pressed, that the
clerk said In substance, he believed IL 10 be
his duty 10 do hH Yes, after the Yearly
Meeting had closed its deliberations and set
tied upon the phrascology of its minute in
the premises, the clerk felt it to be his duty
to add the phrase usually incorporated in a
Monthly Meeting minute, where members of
society have committed some fragrant breach
of The moral lar. The words added were,
and endeavor to convince them of their er-
ror " these, with the words sin the truth"
made eleven in number.
When this fraud was fairly detected, a
large number urged that it be erased and the
minute left as it was first framed, but those
who assumed to bear rule decreed otherwise,
and all the subsequent action against us is
based upon this fraudulent record. At the
session, when the report was produced upon
which final action was had, some members
tf the committee protested against it, and
others refused TO sign it. A delegation was
named TO inform women's meeting, while
those in the negative were claiming to be
heard in opposition 10 the measure, and al
called upon to wait until full express
sion could be had, they persisted in going,
and did so. The clerk entered the decree
upon the journal as though all had been done
in good faith and unity. Not a member from
Blue River Quarterly Meeting, | believe,
united with the measure; there being but
quarters it remained for White Water
md Miami to consummate the deed. Did
hey do it? No, they were divided in SEN
Liment upon the question.
The next measure of high-handed tyranny
in the appointment of a committee to
draft Epistles to other Yearly Meetings.
Every Friend named on that occasion known
to be active in the An,i-Slavery cause was
rejected, not by open opposition, but by the
clerk refusing 10 record their names. This
outrage was not perpetrated upon Green Plain
Friends alone, but upon members of other
branches of the Society. | remember Israel
French, who was once the clerk Of your own
body, was of the number. The Discipline
of Indiana requires that when ministers,
unfaithlulness or otherwise, shall
lose their usefulness, the Preparative Meet
Va 'ihioNtlo w ClNGlo Sudll ldhD up the (
question and report the same to the Select
Quarterly Meeting, where, after judgment is
had, the case shall be transmitted to the
Monthly Meeting where such persons hold
membership. One Quarterly Meeting, in its
haste to depose four ministers, did SO by a
stroke of the pen in a Quarterly Meeting for
Discipline, without so much as speaking TO
the persons through a committee or otherwise,
or informing the Monthly Meeting or asking
its cooperation. At this |juncture Samuel
NJ. Janney, from Virginia, visited us on a
conciliatory mission. He attended the sub
soquent Quarterly Meeting, asked for the
reading of the Discipline in the premises,
and then proceeded to show them the fragrant
discrepancy between their practice and the
order. They revoked their decision, and
this was hailed as an omen for the cessation
Of hostilities; but it proved otherwise, for
committees were appointed as kind of loco
motive Monthly Meetings, Incorporating
themselves into the bodies they visited, and
forthwith proceeded to deal with Anti-Slave-
ry Friends as offenders.
1t is said We are disowned. How? AT
the time was accommodated, | was the
clerk of the long established Monthly Meet
ing, then held, and which is now held, in the
usual place, and retains the books and re-
cords OF the meeting from its establishment.
How was disowned? By individuals
who withdrew from us, leaving US our over
seers and other officers, and retired to a room
in The dwelling house of Abel Walker, where
they issued their testimony in the name of
Green Plain Monthly Meeting, and sent it
within the verge of all the Yearly Meetings
in America. But to the credit of Friends in
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