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SLAvERy-The Epistle of the Friends written
at the yearly meeting held in Indiana, merits
more than passing notice on more accounts
than one.


|. 1t breathes forth a true Christian spirit
There is in it no violence, no denunclatlon
nothing of that rabid spirit which is full of heated
feeling, and is flashed forth by political and
partizan zeal rather than wise regard for the
rue welfare of man.


They bear their testimony like men who un-
derstand the evils Of slavery, and who would
eradicate them from the land, by means as pacific
as they would be effectual And who does not
feel that this is the true course on all great SUBJ
iects touching human progress A few of their
number have left them because the body of
Friends would not act with more decision"
against Slavery; to these the authors Of the ad-
dress allude but the schism is small, and the
society at large adhere to the principles OF their
fathers, avowing that they will give no counte-
nance to measures Of confusion and violence to
attain any object whatever" and holding 1t to be
lrrehgous to resort to force, resistance against
the law, or the government Of the land on this or
any other subject.


= They have right TO bear testimony on this
subject, and that testimony ought to have weight,
for their lives are living proof of It's truth Go
to North Carolina, or to East Tennessee, or to
to any Slave State where FRIENDS live, and they
are to DC seen there, obeying the law, yet claim
ing no ownership over human flesh; living at
peace with all men, yet preaching hourly by their
examples, that such ownership is wrong. And
who shall limit the influence of this example 2
They are, as they have ever been, missionaries in
the cause OF human liberty, and hence, whenever
they reside III Slave States as is the case in East
Tennessee, and part of North Carolina, we find a
healthier tone prevailing on the subject of slavery
"a willingness not only to discuss it, but to look
out for remedies by which it may be removed.