Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-03
From the Anti-Slavcry Standard.
The QuakCrS at Marlborough, Pa.

and makes them clean men, but it always, at
least, seems to put the devil into them. We
shall not enter into so delicate a psychological
subject as to whether the devil ever finds a
lodgment except, where tho lodgings arc already
swept aud garnished for him, or as to whether
he really enters into, or comes out of the hui
man heart; but we fancy our first position will
no. be controvcrtcd, that Oliver johnson never
rises among the Quakcrs, that otherwise gencr-
ally quiet, and somewhat sleepy, and dead and
alive body, is not galvanized into life quite as
unmistakcable, and quite of the same character
as that which anmatcs the worship of the pa
tron saints Of New York, St. Tammany
The existence Of the Missionary would seem
to prove the necessity OF the mission; and if
any other evidence of that necessity were want
ing, it is given in the fact that one of so gentle
a spirit, has been the instrument Of arousing so
much commotion and developing the spirit of
persecution among those who consider them
selves as pre-. .ominontly the Church of gentle.
ness and peace
Most of our readers will remember how Oil
yer johnson disturbed the peace OF the Cherry
Street Friends of this city, years ago, 10y simply,
at first attending there as a worshipcr and
looker.on, and how the meeting mover got rest
again until they had cast out from among them
three Of its best and most valuable mtlnbcrs,
the venerable aud noble Isaac T. Hopper, the
amiabc and puro-miudcd Charles Marriott, and
James J. Gibbons. who, having rot yet gone,
as the other two have donc from works to re-
ward, We designate only by name. Later still,
Johnson appeared among the Friends Of Ohio,
with certificate Of membership in his hand,
and his advent was like to rcnd the Society in
pieces, so great was the commotion produced
discord, or throws any frcbrands among the
drowsy members on the contrary, if he says
anything, it is to arouse them merely to active
and hcalthful life, and to emulate tho example
of the Fathers of their Church. But so it is
that instead of producing such a result, they
aro disposed rather to rush upon him, and mctc
out to him that measure which, in the olden
time, those very Fathers suffered among those
to whom they went to testify as they were
moved by the spirit.
On the first page Of this number of our pa
per will be found detailed account of the
latest appearance Of Mr.. Johnson in Quaker
Meeting, and how it iarcl with him AMI thcm
The spirit with which he has been met else
where manifested itself in the same kind, but
in a more aggravated degree, at Marlborough.
Il certainly makes n very singular chapter in
the History of Modern Quakcrism, and one we'll
worth reading. Mr.. Johnson, we know, is
ment and principle, to unluc excitement
Though u rcformer he is no fanatic, and would
always appeal, in advocating any rciorm, to the
reason, and all tho better qualities of human
nature, in his hearers, and never to their bascr
passions. But in this particular instance he
intended to bear his testimony merely to those
principles which distinguish Friends as a sect,
aud in which lie is in harmony with them, and
not to any special reform. Why then was he
so rudely treated, and this unprecedented appeal
them of the presence of a man who, even by
right of membership, was entitled to be heard
and whose extreme doctrines should not be Of
fcnsvc to Friends lie himself probably gives
the true reason. The whole proceedings lorci-
bly, reminds US OF a passage in Barclays
Apology for Quakcrism which is certainly
very striking commentary upon the conduct of
these modern Friends OF Marlborough. Speak
ing Of the QuaIers of the early times, says
Barclay:
Without regard to any opposition whatso-
ever, they went up and down as they were
moved of the Lord, preaching and propagating
the truth in market places, highways, streets
and public temples, though daily beaten, whipped,
hailed, and imprisoned therefor. And when
there was amongst them n church or assembly
gathered, they tauJht their people TO keep their
meetings openly and not TO shut the door nor do IL
By stealth, that all might know il, and those ,oho
ieouh might enter"
What would have become Of Marlborough
Meeting in those times
But the conclusion of the whole matter is not
more curious than its beginning & progress. The
ton Of them, did not reckon without their host.
They knew who were their friends. On Satur-
day evening, the Justice pronounced the fol-
lowing decision in the case of those who were
arraigned before him for tnal for wishing to
listen to the preaching of the Gospel in meet
ing of the Society Of which they are members.
GENTLEMEN This is a painful duty i'm
posed upon me--to entertain II suit against
you Tor such II cause. undertake il with
great reluctance, well knowing that the ex'
element thereby occasioned would have the
effect to bring down upon myself aud others
connected with the prosecution, the llhellous
remarks of the Editor OF the Pennsylvania
ffeemdn.
Ihave considered the evidence and argn'
ments pro aud con, offered in the case, and
an. fully of the opinion that the law has been
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