Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
A Disclaimer.


We, the undersigned, members of the So
ETY. of Friends, within the compass Of Green
Plain Quarterly Meeting in the State of o.
hio, being now here for the purpose of attend
ing said meeting, and having read with NOR.
LITIGATION and establishment a narration by o.
liver Johnson of Boston, purporting 10 be a
synopsis of a discourse delivered in Rose
street meeting in the city of New York, by
George F, White, an individual who stands
as a minister among Friends, wherein he de-
nounced Temperance, Non-Resistance, and
Anti-Slavery Societies, in the most opprobri-
GUS terms, and charged the latter Association
with maintaining the doctrine that the only
hope of the slave was not in Truth, or in
God, but in themselves, and then proceeded
to speak Of them (making no exception) as
hypocrites and blasPhemers, &c. In view of
such high-handed misrepresentation, and the
unchristian treatment which is represented TO
have been offered to Oliver Johnson, who
called in accordance with a public invitation
of George F. White to examine the vouch-
ers for the assertions made at said meeting;
we feel bound as Friends, and some Of us
standing in the same relation 10 the Society
as George F. White, to utter publicly our
solemn protest against such charges and de-
pertinent, in accordance with the apostolic
injunction, ''rhem that sin rebuke before all
that others may also fear" LIST Timothy,
5th chap, Goth v. In the above emphatic
condemnation, we are actuated by no invid-
ious feeling towards the erring individual,
but speak the truth in love, for we know that
the expression of such sentiments as are attri-
buted to our friend George F. White, will
pain the hearts Of many who love and cher
ish the principles as prOfessed by our rcli-
gious society.
Convened in Friends meeting house at
the close Of the Quarterly Meeting, 9th mo.
Sd, 1s4l.
Joseph A. Dugdale, Sarah B.. Dugdale,
Benjamin Michenor, Eliz. L.. Borton,
Richard White, Celia Anderson,
James Anderson, Sarah Michenor,
Asa Mosher, Sarah Ann Engle,
David Hester, Mary Ann Hayward,
Robert Ingram, Hannah Ingram,
Thomas Borton, Ruth Dugdale,
Isaac Richardson, Mary Ingram,
William d. Pearce, Elizabeth Borton,
Aaron Borton, Martha Michenor,
Thomas w. Shaw, Elizabeth Shaw,
Nathan Engle, Rachel Wright,
John Shaw, Ann Richardson,
John I. Swayne, Rebecca l.. Shaw,
James Frame, Pease Mosher,
Joseph Mormon, Mary Jane Wright,
William Gummere, Aseneth Frame,
William Thorn, Phebe Gummere,
Levi Townsend, Ann Hester,
Ellwood Borton, William Hayward,
Joshua w. Engle, Thomas Swayne,
George Hayward, Charles r. Dugdale,
The names following were Friends not a
BILE to be present at said meeting, and subse
quently desired the privilege of a%pendin,
their signatures.
John Dugdale, Hannah P. Wilson,
Edwin Pearce, Eliza Swayne,
James Anderson, IT,, Ruth Anderson,
The foregoing is a verbatim copy take
from the original. This was made the basi
of al attack upon Green Plain Quarterl,
meeting, although it is well known the rea
: grounds Of dissatisfaction was on account c
the interest felt by many Of its members i
Iefornatory Perhaps Friend
will remember that a series of letters wa
published over the signatures of G.. F. Whit
and o. Johnson, wherein the former, in III
most unchristian manner, assailed the mora
movements of the age. Our friends had n
wish to injure G. F. White, but they fe
that his unjustihable assertions were calcul;
ted (if believed) to place them in commo
with a large class of persons in a false pos
tioH before the public mind. We desired
be the expounders Of our Own risws, henc
our Disclaimer. The published statement
the Bugle purporting to have been made
Ohio Yearly Meeting has since been exam
ined and received the sanction of Green Plai
Monthly Meeting.
That our position is a true one-that III
signing Of the Disclaimer was made a mel
pEeiext, Friends in Ohio Yearly Meeting ma
Judge, when they are Informed that objec
isrs wsIs openly wsde by that class VIII