Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-07-06

! is brewing, and more lives may yet be
sacrificed in the cause OF the oppressed.
Slavery, fear, will end in blood.
am q peace man and have always OPP
posed anything in the shape of wsr. 50
that there was no danger of anything
from me deleterious being found IN
John Browns budget.
I did not expect to fill more than one
page when | commenced writing. and
now l find myself at the bottom of the
half sheet and have scereely begun to
write on the subjects | intended to
write about, but nv mind is thoroughly
turned in another direction. Ii | write
any more | must take another hall
sheet / intended TO write William
Hough also, but this mast suffice.
Thou wilt please let him read this.
Give him my love, &c, for | have not
tims to write to him at this time.
There was no report of our case
from New Garden received at last
monthly meeting here at Driftwood
though there was plenty of time for i,
to have come. Their monthly meeting
is held the second seventh day in the
month. Next seventh day week will
be our monthly meeting. | mean
Driftwood, not ours, for we are not
yet members, and do not know how it
will turn; tomorrow week perhaps
will tell the story. | suppose both re-
ports will come at the same time If
they forward them promptly, but what
the monthly meeting will do | cannot
tell. John Thomas, son of Frances.
is an elder and sits head of Sand creek
meeting, and is full of zeal. and has
received letters from his father
on the subject. am
informed since the monthly meeting at
New Garden, the purport of them |
know not, he may be Influenced and
may kick against our reception. |
can not tell. John and his wife were
both on the committee that visited us
when the request was made, and be
haved nicely then, We had quite a
good time of it. Not one word said
about the separation, but much en-
couragement given and much sym
patty expressed. and the interview
closed with a powerful aud remarkable
supplication by one of the committee,
a woman Friend from Sycamore pre-
parative, some twenty miles distant.
She is but young In years,
and younger in her public appearances;
had but seldom appeared in public
meetings, She was a stranger to US.
do not remember her name, but | well
remember that we were all melted into
tears, and cemsnted together in one
bundle of love; nobody said anything
about an acknowledgment from us.
but | think we were all willing to
acknowledge that we had been fed to-
gether and watered together from the
heavenly fountain, and the committee
made a clear and satisfactory report to
the monthly meeting. with which the
monthly meeting heartily united and
sent it up TO New Garden where Fran
ces and Nathan clogged the wheels,
and stopped the carnage. Well. good
may come of it, let US not complain.
How it will now turn at Driftwood,
/ know not. | do not feel much anx
iety about it. | believe | have done
my part as far as L have
been favored to see or to
know, therefore | feel willing to leave
the matter entirely to Friends, let it
turn as it may. can not be of much
benefit to society, and desire not to
be dead weight or stumbling block
in the way of others.
With love to thee and wife and all
my friends,
l remain as eyA thy friend.