Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-24
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YrsILANrI. ID mo. Eth. 1858

hb III Ti0nu5 oil michigan have
seen It to be their duty to disown me, in order to
sustain their Yearly Meeting, I thought il would
nc right Tor me, in order that tho truth might be
known, to lay the circumstances Of the case before
the readers Of the Bugle, so that they might see
she moral development of the Friends of Michi-
gan.
1t will be remembered by some of the readers of
the Bugle, that I criticised the acts of the Yearly
Meeting of which I was a part, in regard to certain
documents it published in 1852, on the subject Of
slavery, in which it used language that seemed to
me to be irreconcilablo with truth. As I WINS n
member in unity with that body, and had always
been for more than forty years, / felt that its acts
were my acts. And as | could not endorse its Ian
guage, without doing violence to truth and right,
as thought, asked the attention Of our quarterly
meeting on tie subject. But they said no. We
VIII not let them have the use Of our meeting
mouse, to relieve their mind in, nor will we allow
shcm to mention the subject in our meetings. So
there was (seeminglyl no way for me but to lay it
before the public. So as they had addressed them
selves on my behalf to the public at large, and
used language which would be false for me to use,
and as they had refused to hear me either in meet
ing or out Of meeting, on the subject, / therefore
- NS h'hO VI IN uSlC " tltJ puEDOSt,
which 1t very kindly granted, although 1 was at
that time a stranger to its editor, its columns, and
nearly all its readers.
But the Friends here have decided that this was
criminal in me, according to their good order. Not
but what that communication was the truth, but
then--to use the language Of the Monthly Meeting,
through their Committee-"The truth is not Arrays
TO be told"
Well, then the question arises, why was it con-
trary to their good order Why, they said in the
charge against me, that l had written and circu-
lated documents (meaning the article before no.
ticed) contrary to the wishes of my friends. But
then why did they wish it not published, if it was
the truth Why, simply and wholly because /
had dared to speak out my own convictions of the
truth, independent of the Church organization, and
because those convictions ran contrary to the
judgment of the Yearly Meeting. This vas the
reason, and the only reason, why my course was con-
trary to TIE good order of Friends. To sum all up
in a few words, it is briefly this: that everything
that is not in accordance with the judgment of the
Yearly Meeting is not in accordance with their
good order. And every one that takes issue with
it is out of unity, and must be disowned.
This position has been most fully proven in my
own case. Inc leaTiy NneellDS says t1at slavery
is confined to a section of the country, and is not
under the control of the General Government
With this language l took issue, FIST in our own
church, and Friends decided they would not have
anything said against their Yearly Meeting. J
then spoke against it elsewhere, and they disowned
me-. although they admitted that what l had said
was the truth. But then they must sustain their
Yearly Meeting, even if it should tell what is not
the truth. And they must hold me as a heather
man and q Publican because l told the truth.
But although they have to hold me as such, ac-
cording to their good order, and my wife and chill
dren as Christians, this don't remove them from
my sympathies and pity. l believe, and l have
reason to believe, that there are II few friends here
in Michigan, that have a warm feeling for the cause
of suffering humanity. But through the influence
of their Church, together with the course the
Michigan Free Democrat has taken against the
agents Of the anti-slavery cause, sympaihies fUI
the higher grade Of anti-slavery are dried up, and
in some cases turned to bitterness. l am some
times inclined to the belief that of all the instru-
that the Free Democrat has done the most to stine
the higher anti slavery convictions in this State.
/ append the testimony OF the Meeting, exclud-
Ing me iTOm llo iclloWbnlp.
SAMUEL D. MOORE.
Samuel D. Moore has so far disregarded the good
order of our Society, as to neglect the atten-
dance of our meetings, and is out of unity with
Friends, and has also written and circulated GER
tain documents, contrary to the wishes of his
friends, for which he has been labored with with
out the desired effect; we therefore disown him.
Signed in and by direction of Rasin Monthly
Meeting, held at Rasin, 18th of 9th mo-, 1854.
DANIEL I~IEvELIN, Clerk.
School HoURs.-William L. Crandall, who has
just issued Il Report on the state of Common
Schools in New York, recommends that children
be confined but 'Mree hours a day in school.
Such indeed is the title of a volume he has just is
sued. 1.-The first duty Of every child" says Mr..
Crsndall, sis to grow" Whatever in~terferes with
its growth and physical development, is at war with
the first principles of true education. Free air,
and exercise, and open space are primary condi,
tions of development, and experience. he tells us
has proved that three hours Il day in the school
room is as long as attention can be unfaggingly
given by children to books.
LAND ROBBERS IN HIGH LIIE,-The newspapers
are Just now occupied with exposures of frauds in
Kansas lands. Colonel Manypenny Indian Com
missioner, makes some exposures OF swindles by
oficers of the army. Other charges are made
against Governor Reeder and the Judges of the
Territory, They have purchased claims on Indian
reservations, s~windling the poor natives out oil
soil coded to them by recent treaty. 1t is to be
hoped they will yet fail in this attempted land pi
racy.
The German astronomer, Hansen, has been max
ing discoveries in the moon. He says, /" the centre
of gravity in the moon does not coincide by seve
eral miles with the centre of its figure, and that
therefore, although that side of the moon which il
always turned towards us, presents the appearance