Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03
Salem, Ohio, November 3. Isd0.
S. NJ, Janney's Lctter.-OhiO Yearly Meeting

A friend has furnished us a copy OF the
o Friends Intelligenccr," of October 18th, con-
tanning letter from S. NJ. j., Is. NJ. Janney) CIV
ing an account of the doings of the late Yearly
Meeting of Friends held at Salem. The letter
will be found in another column.
There is one circumstance connected with
Friend Janney's account which surprises us not
a little. While protesting to give a statement
of the doings Of Ohio Yearly Meeting, he entire
ly leaves out of sight the action, and even the
existence, of one-half of that body; for the
Epistles from Waterloo and Green Plain were
read only in the mems meeting.
What would be thought of a female member,
who, in protesting to give information to those
at a distance of the proceedings of the Yearly
Meeting, should state that the Meeting had re-
fused to read the Epistles referred to: Yet such
a statement would be as nearly correct as that
of S. NJ. ].
The Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends is com
posed of about an equal number of male andte-
male members. Thu female portion is, accord
ing to the Discipline, and according to right, as
legitimate a part of the Yearly Meeting of
Friends as the ~male-thcre being no superiority
given to the one over the other. The Disci-
plinc distinctly states that its administration and
the order of Society, shall devolve alike on male
and female; recommending, however, that in
the meetings for discipline the men and women
should meet separately, but, at the same time,
near together, that they may mutually aid and
counsel each other.
We do not suppose for a moment that Sam
uel NJ. Janney intended to give a wrong impress
sion. The mems meeting did nearly as he rep
resents but in the women's meeting the action
was entirely different. That portion of the
Yearly Meeting refused to read the Epistles re-
ferred to. As earnest a discussion took place
in the womcn's meeting, concerning the reading
of them, as in the mems. A deep interest
was felt and manifested by both the Re
form and Conservative parties, and doubtless
a desire was felt on the part of many Of
both parties to act for the best. Is it not due
to persons abroad, and to the women Friends Of
Ohio, that this should be made public: Is it oil
no consequence that the world should know
that these Friends, after as long and Us earnest
a elaboration as that of the mems meeting, de-
cided not to read the Ep;stIes And more than
all, is it of no consequence that, after so long and,
to many, so painful a discussion in relation to a
matter of great importance in the estimation, at
least, of many honest persons, the womcn's
meeting should be thus either entixsla aAspsQticea
or represented as doing what, in TACT, It refused
to DOE
We suppose s. M. J. forgot, at the time o.
writing his statement, that there was another
part of the body, as legitimate, as large, as re-
spectacle, as that which he represents as tn
Yearly Meeting! Friend Janney hopes thai
but a small part of the Yearly Meeting will join
in the Congregational movement. For ourselves
we think it about time that some kind of
movement should be commenced that SHOULD
"movc" at least the intelligent portion of the
Society of Friends from position in which they
seem to forget that their own mothers, and wive.
and sisters are moral and responsible beings.
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