Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-29
Green Plain Yearly Meeting.

The mail has just brought us a copy of the
Minutes and Proceedings of Green Plain Year
ly Meeting of Friends, who have adopted the
Congregational Order of Church Government
the same being in the form of a neatly printed
pamphlet of q PIP. Having attended the meet
ing and given our readers an account of its pro-
ceedings, there is no occasion now for an extend
cd notice of this publication. Let us glance,
however, for a moment, at the principal topics
which occupied the deliberations of this new
religious organization, that We may see how
well it fulfls the promise which hcralded its
birth. We findithat the meeting did not spend
its time and waste its moral energies in theolo-
of reforming, purifying and clevating mankind,
and sought by all the means within its reach to
generate a moral influence potent enough to
sweep away the lies and shams which have SO
long shrouded the world in darkness, and to in
roducc the era Of Practical Christianity, in
which love to God shall be hymncd in deeds of
charity to man. The spirit of philanthropy
pervades ali ciie'.pistles, addresses affuNssstimo-
MICS which it put forth; they are not a collcc-
ton of cant phrases, strung together on the
weak cords of q sentimental and hollow pietism,
but the strong and manly uttcrances of men and
women who feel that they were sent into the
world for some higher purpose thar to keep a
dull and unrcasoning watch over the fossil re-
| mains of old dogmas and crecds, or to sit shiv-
cring in mock reverence around affairs on which
nothing is burning save the pale and sickly
lamp of superstition. Religion with them is
not a creed to be wrangled for, but a LIFE OF
DEVOTION TO MANS HIGHEST WELFARE. Here
tics, fanatics, infidels are they all, if we may be-
lieve the testimony of the popular Church; but
let them derive comfort from the reflection, that
it is a small thing to be judged of mans judg-
ment while a pure Conscience blesses them with
her approving smiles
Tn meeting lent its car to the tale ofone who
had been despoiled of his goods by the laws
which make it q crime to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked, and the purses of not a few of
the members testified how sincere was the SYM
pathy which hat tale awakened. The slave
was remembered, too, and the unholy Union
which rivets his chains was exhibited in its true
light. War, that dire scourge of the nations,
did not escape the attention which its indescri-
bable horrors demanded at the hands of those
who were seeking to follow in the footsteps of
the Prince of Peace. Intcmperancc, and the
agencies by which it is promoted, were clearly
exposed, and the guilty parties kindly warned
of their fearful responsibility. The accumula-
ted evils of Land Monopoly were also noticed,
and Congress was pctitioned to apply an appro-
pirate remedy. The injustice done to the free
man of color in our State, by dcpriying him OF
the Right of Suffrage was made the occasion OF
an appropriate appealt to the Constitutional Con-
v~ention. The condition of Dillingham;, the ten
ant of a prison in Tennessee, and of Sayers and
Drayton, treated as felons III our nations CAPT
tai for deeds of mercy which, in a land truly
free, would have won for them the highest hon.
ors, awakened the tcndcrcst sympathy III every
heart, and the governments by which they are
incarcerated were appealed to for their release
The corrupting influence Of an immoral pres;
and an impure literature, particularly upon the
youth of our country, was a subject of earnest
remonstrance and timely warning. And last
but not least, the degraded and subserviont con
dition of Woman and the manifold evils brought
thereby upon the race, were seriously consider
cd, and the meeting uttered its testimony in ia
vor of Equality in language not to be mistaken
1t was on these topics, and such as these, tina
the Green Plain Yearly Meeting bestowed it
earnest attention, thus showing that the weigh,
-. Al. l0,J .oy oct IN fhni
minds and hearts.
We wish this pamphlet could be strewet
thick as autumnal leaves throughout the land
Particularly do Wa hope that it may find it
way among the bigots who wear the outward
garb of Quakcrism while they arc destitute o
its spirit. Ut '