Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-16
Friends Yearly Meeting Michigan.
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Dean MAmus: We are very unfortunate in
our visit to Michigan, on the account of the
sickness of Charles Griffing. Before the close
of our first meeting at Adrian, he was attacked
with the Bilious Chill Fever, and went to the
Lenawcc Water Cure for healing. There NC
left him in good hands, and accompanied sever
al Of our friends who belong to Yearly Meet
ing" to Battle Creek, to attend the Michigan
Yearly Meeting Of Friends" We held meet
ings on the way, at Prior Fosters School and
Mills, and also at Friends Westinghouse at
Hickory Grove.
The Battle Creek Meeting was numerically,
small, but every other way it was one of the
largest. 1t commenced on Saturday, the LIST of
October, and continued two days. On Friday
evening, our excellent friend, jacob Walton,
carried Mrs Griifing and her sister, Miss White
of Connecticut, and myself, to the neighbor-
hood of Hiram Cornwall's Select English
School. five miles from Battle Greek, where We
had most interesting m ,eting as well as de-
lghtful visit with the family OF Reynolds Corn
we'll, father of tho Prcccptor of the School
The instruction at the Institute is intended to
be in the spirit of the times-frce from all sec
tarinn or party bias, and in harmony with the
progressive genius which marks the age.
Our meeting there was well attended, and
the remarks made were seconded by tho teach
or and enforced upon the young people under
his charge with peculiar carncstness. Mrs.
GrifIing and her sister added much to thcintcr-
est of the evening, by their fine singing, which
in a Ecighborhood so entirely Quaker, was as
novel as it was pleasing to the audience.
The 4" Yearly Meeting" exercises commcnc-
cd on Saturday. Mrs. Griffin and myself were
invited to attend all the sessions. and take any
part We saw fit. Indeed, it seemed to me our
/ speaking had the preference, and that with al
most all, our most radical doctrines were liked
the best. Before night the meeting outgrew
its former name, and at the reading of the cap
ital address of "Ohio Yearly Meeting" recently
held in Salem, (penned, 1 believe by Oliver
Johnson), 1t was adopted with great unity,
name and all. So that now, it has maturcd up
into the MICHIGAN YEARLY MEETING OF PRo-
GREssvE FRIENDS" by which designation it is
hereafter to be addressed and known.
Saturday. Sunday and Monday evenings. We
held nnti-slavcry meetings proper, and they
were continued to very late hours, with good
attendance, Most of the Yearly Meeting came,
and seemed in full agreement with us. Indeed
their own meetings were moro like Anti Slave
ry, Temperance, and Peace Conventions, than
anything else, and it was distinctly avowcd that
tho organization should be continued only for
such purposes. Nor did hear the least dis
sent from that position. No other organization
can or should stand.
At the last meeting for business, the subject
of the Anti Slavery Bugle, was at my request,
introduced, and received due attention. Rich
ard B. Glazer of Ann Arbor, (at whose house
1 am now writing), Henry Willis, Thomas
Chandler, brother of the authoress, Eliza NJ.
Chandler, Isaac C, Mott and Others, spoke earn
estly in favor af its circulation, the result was
the list of subscribers already sent, with the two
added whose names send you to day. On the
whole. our visit to Battle Creek was most truly
pleasant and gratifying; and we think not
without much profit to the cause, We were
welcomed and entertained, as were many others
at the pleasant and hospitable home -four wor-
thy friend, Joseph Merritt and his family, whose
kindness and attention We shall not soon for
get. Other houses were also opened with the
genuine Western cordiality, and none who came
up to the meeting will ever regret the time OF
the labor