Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-08
Ohio Yearly Meeting,

report of what was said and done as the char
acter Of the body and the circumstances un-
der which 1t met appear TO demand.
or the meeting of Ministers and Elders.
or The Select Meeting held on the Satur-
day before the Yearly Meeting proper, we
can of course say nothing, for we were not
admitted TO its councils. The meeting for
worship on Sunday was crowded. The
house was so full that many were compelled
to stand in the doors and %aisles. The first
speaker in the morning was SARAH DUGDALE,
an old and highly esteemed minister, now a
member of the Green Plain Yearly Meeting.
Her communication was remarkable chiefly
for its simplicity, and for its freedom from
the disagreeable tone in which most Quaker
sermons are delivered. She was followed by
Joseph Watson, and soon afterwards by her
whose presence was the more agreeable 10 US
because wholly unexpected. The Green
Plain Yearly Meeting, Of which he is a
prominent member, was not in good odor
with the dominant power of the gallery, and
so reformatory was his communication that
John H. Price. Amos Garreison, and others
Of the rulers in Israeli were constrained to
ask him TO sit down. Joseph, however,
deemed it his duty 10 refuse compliance with
this arrogant demand, and proceeded TO finish
his remarks. He was encouraged TO do so
by many, and SAMUEL NJ. JANNEY, who sat
at the head of the meeting, requested that
he might not be interrupted. This opposi-
ton TO Joseph was the first exhibition Of a
domineering spirit which was conspicuous
among many of the occupants Of the gallery
at every subsequent stage of the meeting
1t caused considerable excitement, as was
very natural. By request OF SAMUEL M.
JANNEY, from the Baltimore Yearly Meeting,
another meeting for worship was held in the
afternoon, at which he was the principal
speaker. We had often heard of him as one
who had dared TO testify against Slavery at
home, and therefore we listt ned 10 his com
munication with great pleasure. His man.
ner was calm, dignifed, and earnest, and en-
iilely free from the usual 'tone.' We could
hardly believe that a man so gentle and cir
cumspect had been indicted in Virginia as
an incendiary, and yet we are told that such
is the fact.
On Monday morning the meeting assem-
bled for business. Amos Wilson, The Clerk
for last year, took his place and read the ope-
ming minute. Samuel Myers now proposed
William Griffith for Assistant Clerk. In ut
ter disregard of the usual practice, without
allowing lime for any response to this pTopo'
| sition, Isaac James, a bigoted Conservative,
nominated for the same place John H. Price,
one Of the most thorough partlzans in the
whole meeting. The gallery leaders, as if
by a preconcerted signal, Immediately united
with this nomination, while the Reformers
remained silent from utter asionishment.-
They had not anticipated such a movement,
and could hardly believe The testimony oil
their own senses. The next movement Of the
Conservatives was 10 exclude from the meet
ing all who were not members Of the Society
Only a few OF the more extreme partizan;
were in favor Of this measure. The Reform
ens opposed it strongly, con,endlng that
Church should not be a secrei c%OnclaUe, hid
ing its light under a bushel, but that, on th'
contrary, il should say in the face Of the world
: Who soever will, let him come The ole
custom Of secresy was felt 10 be contrary +
the spirit of the age and of Christianity itself
and it was therefore 10 be honored in tn
breach and not in the observance.
After The Reports Of The several Quarterl.
I Meetings had been read, the Clerk remarked
that there were on the table Epistles fror
( the several bodies with which the meetin
l was in correspondence. He was asked
there were not also Epistles from other soul
ces. He admitted that there were two othe
, documents on the table, but it was not ant
he was repeatedly urged to do so that h
could be induced to name the bodies frol
3 which they came. One Of them proved
t be from the Yearly Meeting at Green P!ail
= and the ether from the Yearly Meeting
Congregational Friends held in Waterloo, \
Y, in June last. 1t was proposed that Il
regular Epistles should be first read, whit
was agreed 10. At the close, Samuel
l. Janney, from Virginia, proposed, by way
st compromise, that The Green Plain and W
s. erloo Epistles should simply be read, wi
id the understanding that no farther mott
h, should be taken Of them! The friends
a. Freedom would not enter into any such
ID ~rangement. They insisted that the doc
u menis belonged to the meeting; that the i
Id Of Christian courtesy required that the me
u bers should first hear them, and then jud
m. whether farther action were demanded. I