Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-30
COMMUNICATED.
DUBLIN, Wayne Co., Indiana, J
Sd Month l2th, l949. I
FRIENDS EDITORS /:

Oh NloHln lStnj lo4S'
FRIENDS EDlToRs:
have enclosed one dollar in this letter for
the continuation Of the "Bugle" 10 me an.
other year. | feel that | cannot give it up.
! should feel lonesome without it. / like to
read from such men as II. G. Wright, Pills.
bury, Phillips, Walker, Curtis, Townsend,
Nicholson, &c. | like TO see Cor hear of
men standing up for Truth and Right against
Falsehood and Error. The times call for labor
for " honest, devoted laborers men who,
while they would "not say a word for the
sake of oxasPerating any, would not with
hold a single Truth for fear Of exasperating
any one"
l wish we had many such men in Indiana.
They are very much needed; men who
would
=" Oppose all evil with an honest frown,
Till vice shrinks back though seated on a
throne"
Aye, or in The pulpit-or in a certain Quaker
gallery, where, | understand, a number of indi-
viduals congregate at least twice a week, who
have lately exerted themselves "to exaltN TO
the highest seat Of honor and trust in this ma
toms gift, the chief hero of the Mexican war,
and the Louisiana Stakeholder" And for
these efforts, not only are they themselves
responsible, but the whole Society Of the, Or
thodox and Hicksites, who have g sanc,ioRss9r-
and sanctified " their acts by continuing TO
fellowship those who did thus. | am aware
that the Society generally endeavors to excul-
pate themselves by charging it on individu-
ais but | understand the whole Society to
be implicated.
know of two of Orthodox who sat side
by side in the gallery for years; one a Dem
ocrat, the other a Wing, and both too old and
feeble to walk or ride on horseback. On
election day, in 1914, each was hauled in his
wagon 10 the place of voting, and voted in
direct opposition TO each other, though each
for an inveterate stakeholder; thus apparent
ly sacrificing Brotherhood, principle, and all
for party. Like
"Parson and priest from West to East,
For Rulers good will pray,
And then turn round at party sound,
And vote for Polk and Clay"
Time was when it was not so. When
was young, it was customary 10 read in oul
meetings adyices that Friends every where
behave themselves orderly, SO as 10 answer
the witness for Truth in those with whom
we are concerned " with those round abou.
us). In those times the seekers after Truth
and Right flocked TO us as "doves to oul
windows" i scarcely remember a Monthly
Meeting in those times, but that some applied
10 come amongst US through CONFINEMENT
because when we kept to that advice, anC
while we were careful to live up TO that wit
ness in our W breasts, we were like "a ci
=, ty set on a hill that cannot be hid, or like
candle on a candlestick that gives light to al
+ around" or " like a tree planted by the wa
f lers, that spreadeth out her roots by the rive
regardless Of heat; whose leaf is Away
: green, and who is careless of the year @
; drouth, and doth not cease from yieldin
fruit" But what is its condition now J.
More " like the heath in the DESERT" tina
knowelh not whence good cometh, silk
those who inhabit the parched places in tn
wilderness, like an oak whose leaf fadelh
f or like a garden that hath no water" | hav
f scarcely known an application of that kin
in the last twenty years. And what is tn
cause? sis The fountain become dry ~
- Is the arm of the Lord shortened that h
cannot save1" No! "Christ is the sam
!, yesterday, to-day and forever; but the
have committed two great evils-have fol
: saken The fountain of living water, and hav
= hewn out to themselves cisterns-Jroken eli
s ierns-,ha, can hold no water" Or, in oil
er words, they seem 10 have forgotten TIL
progression is a law Of Grace, as well as
nature; and have become content with 80
a c%upying no sliding PLATFORM" forgetting tn
not to 90 forward is to go backward, al
seem to ask the question, Have W not Fo
liz Penn, Benezetl, Woolman, &C., to our fat
Of ers, and shall we not be saved " Tn,