Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-13
VOL. 5.

Note particularly few facts.
l. Mr.. Deputy Lund advised my expulsion.
2. Special Deputy Cady advised it in behalf
Of the Grand Division.
3. The District Deputy who initiated mo
was ccnsurcd and removed for initiating mo-
A. The Grand Division approved of and en-
dorscd this removal Of the District Deputy
Capt. Cady paid the highest compliments to
my character, and reported distinctly TO the
Grand Division that my complexion was the
sole objection against me. In reporting 10 the
Grand Division against the District Deputy, ho
uses the following words, "haying; actually.
initiated colorcd man."
The Grand Division, repeat, endorsed the
whole of this report, as you will sec in their
proceedings.
Mr.. Ward also says:
| The Grand Division will not allow black men,
charters to form subordinate Divisions under
| thcm That was tried In New York, and thov
refused The black Divisions are all indepen-
dent OF the q. d.; having received their char
ters from the Caledonia Division of Scotchmen.
j. w. Logucn was proposed as a
member, in one Of the Divisions, in this city
| (Syracusc.) Tho committee reported favorably.
but there were black balls enough to keep him
out a committee wrote TO the Grand Dvi-
sion to know whether black man could be
admitted. The reply was, that inasnuch as tho
Grand Dtrision do not grant black men charters TO
JoTm DirStons, black men ought not TO DO admit
toG 70 local Decisions.
Those excellent brothers, Lund, Cady, &c.,
have officially advised the expulsion of a black
man, just because he is black. Capt. Cady. a.
! you viii see in Proceedings of Grand Division.
ior lSii, officially censured o. ii. Salisbury.
Tor initiating black man into Division. And
what 10 more, tho Grand Division sustained
| Capt. Cady's action. This occurred in 1871
j. w. Loguen was rejected by one Of the Sy~
| rncuse Divisions. and the Grand Division sent
the instructions, above referred to, in lS60.-
A leading member of the Order,
whom asked few days ago by a gentleman,
"Do you receive coiorcd men into your Or
der| replied, "No: We have nothing to do
with the niggers."
John Thomas, Editor of the Liberty Par
ty Paper, was the presiding officer of the
Division at the time Of Mr. Wards expul-
sion. His testimony is as follows;
They will not receive a colorod man into
lodges that are composed of white men, at all.
We are informed by Mr.. Cady, one of tho
principal officers of the Order.
We should say, however, that we arc inform
cd by Mr. Cady that the terms of the Consti-
tuition Of the Society did not exclude colorod
mon, but that they were excluded in adapta-
ton 70 southern feelings, and preudices and
customs of tho country. He told us, that to
tho Society: for that their brethren at tho
South would not endure it.
Our conversation with Mr., Cady was in re-
gard to the exclusion of Rev. s. II. Ward
IRON tho Society of the Sons OF Temperance
in Cortland Village. We were told that unless
the Society excluded him, the charter would bo
unnulled, and because the Society was driven
to that crisis, it voluntarily dissolved, prefer
ring dissolution to the pcrpetration of such an
outrage
So much for the facts out of which grew
our controversy with Mr.. Harding Which
OF us is cornercd, let the public decide
The following article, from the Salem Mass.)
Freeman will show that the .NalionaL Diyi-
sion of the Sons is also defilcd by Color
phobia.
Doubtless many of our readers as well as
ourselves learned with surprise and regret
ny statement in our last paper that the Ma
tionul Division of the Sons of Tcmpernnce
had voted, "a yeas to 6 nays, that the adj
mission of coiored persons into the order was
improper aud Illegal"
In the New Englander, an organ of the
sons of temperance, edited by VIM. A.
White and Chs w. Slack, we find an
account OF the steps by which this result
was reached.
The matter was brought before the divi-
SION by committee on appeals, composed
OF Charles Eginton, of Ky., VIM. N. SearIes.
OF N. J. John B. Smith, of Wis. Mareus
j. Carpenter, of Miss, and Thomas Il.
Powers, of VI, who reported that the Grand
Division of Ohio desired to have settle
Inont by the National Division of the ques-
ton OF the propriety of admitting colored
people to the Order, aud concluding brief
argument in favor of excluding them by
recommending that " the admission of me-
groes into Subordinate or Grand Divisions
under this jurisdiction, be declared improp-
CT and illegal"
This report was no sooner read than a
dozen voices moved and seconded its adop-
tion. Immediately Isaac Litton, of Tenn,
moved the previous question, which was as
summarily sustained, thus cutting all de-
bate or explanatory and the yeas and nays
upon the adoption were ordered, with the
result of "a yeas, 6 nays The vote of the
minority was entirely from New England
and the Province of Canada West.
Upon the announcement of the vote. Mr..
White, of Mass, rose and and said, that as
tho professed object of the Order of the
Sons of Temperance was to promote "the
cause of all mankind" and as, by the adop-
ton of the report just before them, an at
tempt was made to exclude large portion
of said mankind from its blessings, and as
all opportunity for a free discussion of tho
matter has been virtually denied him, he did
not deem he would be doing Justice TO his
own sentiments or serving his constituents
by longer continuance in the deliberations
of tho body and he therefore respectfully
resigned his seat in the National Division,
and withdrew from the Hail. by the no
knowledgement of Mr.. Litton himself, the
'applier of the 'previous question gag, we
learn positively that the plan to force the re-
port through the Division, as described, was
duly arranged and decided upon, previous
to its delivery. So much for the dignity of
the transaction
On the following day, after some unavail-