Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-23

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From the Ccntrcville tIa.) True Democrat.
The Convention Of Congregational Friends.

NEOih thc SShehcNhAc Nli.D AiuS OShSOtue
The Convention Of Congregational Friends,
This Convention, held at Greensboro,
Henry County, Indiana, the 10th and 17th
inst, was attended by hundreds of persons,
aud excited an Impressive interest. An in
teresting letter was read, addressed 10 the
Convention by Richard B. Glazier, OF Micbi-
gan. Tho inclcment season of the year did
not prevent the attendance of many from
distance; one aged man, moro than eighty
two years old, walked over thirty miles to be
present. Some of Committee from the
Green Plain Yearly Meeting wcrc also in at
tendance, among them Jesse Holmes, Joseph
A. Dusdde, aud tlicir wives. The subject
of religious organization was caayassed ut
lcugth, and the attendance continued to in
crease until the large Liberty Hall would not
sent the listening and attentive audience
The Business Committee of ten men and
women, Seth lliushuw, Pleasant Johnson
llannai Small, &c, reported the following,
a':ich was adopted, to wit;
The religion that ii was the mission Of Jo-
sus to publish to the world is u religion de-
signed 10 renovaie the universal family oi
Iuan. The Infinite and Eternal Father re-
CARDS each individual from the monarch on
ms throne, to the peasant in his humble cot
from The martyr at the stake, to him covered
over with the blood and mirc of pollution
with parental soliciiude, and ycarns over
them with bowels of deep commisoration and
dnhounded compassion. Those, then, that
are baptized into his nature, and gssmiiatcd
10 his attributes, will ever feel bound to labor
for the removal of all evil, every barrier TO
the universal brotherhood of the race, the ell
tire redemption ofhumanity, and their perfect
assimilation to the divine character
War, with all its concomltant culamiiics
slavery, with all its manifold enormitics; in-
temperance, with its debasing and withering
influences, will enlist all tie sympatliics of
these, aud melt away before the warming,
renoyaing beams of the .SWn of Righteous
ness. The monopoly of land in the hands of
the few will be repudiated by the mind thus
enlightened, aud the elevation of Woman to
a sphere Of perfect and entire equality with
the other sex will call forth the earnest soli-
citude of every mind upon which the light
divine has bcamcd, and the observation of
sect and prejudice has been dssipaied.
Feeling thus, and being desirOus for our
own advancement, and for the universal pro-
mitigation of the godlikc principles of Etcr-
nal Ti7rh, us revealed in the Univssh Soul
we hereby cordially endorse the following
basis OF association, adopted by Green Plain
Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends,
viz:
"Belieying the Religious Sentiment is deep
ly laid in mans nature; that il is essential
10 his true interest to bow in allegiance TO
the Divine Laws of God, written in orr be-
ing, and that in the worship intclgentiy per-
formed by rational creatures, man should
never concede to any combination or order
of men his individual ffccdom--but rccogni-
ziug the Infinite Source aud Centre OF all
mind us Sovereign Lord-we now associate
ilIahe capacity of an Annual Meeting, which
shall be advisory in its character, and design
1a ed to aii us more eficctually in carrying for
wHrd the testimonies of the Gospel, which le
H ultimately result from communication will
fheSouRcE of all Good, aud in their natur
aud essence are designed To- make. man tl
friend of man, and give right direction 10 tlr
noble faculties with which we are endowed.
.. Pho Committee would further recommcu
that the Association Of Congregations
Friends thus formed hold a Seni-AnriuJ
Meeting alternately at Greensboro, llcnr
Co, and Dublin, Wayne CO., Indiana an
that the next meeting he held at Dublin, th
4tE seventh day Saturday of the 9th mt
(Jnne) and at Greensboro the 4ih sevent
day Saturday of the 10Th mo-, lDec.) lS5I
and thereafter upon the days and at the pl;
ces agreed upon, until otherwise arranged.
Any Meetings or Congregations, recogn
zed by this Association, will be regarded {
hIdependeHi, making their own arrangement
in all local concerns, not in anywse subo
dinate 10 larger meetings., which are alone az
ViSO,y ia their character.
80 ISAAC KINLEY, ,,..I..