The Incorporation of Ohio Yearly Meeting, for the Purpose of Establishing a Boarding School, Defended: Or an Explanation of the Application Made by Friends, to the Legislature of Ohio (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bates, Elisha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1528332024 ISBN 13: 9781528332026

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

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Excerpt from The Incorporation of Ohio Yearly Meeting, for the Purpose of Establishing a Boarding School, Defended: Or an Explanation of the Application Made by Friends, to the Legislature of Ohio

A most extraordinary degree of zeal and perseverance ha been manifested by the Hicksites lately, in circulating three articles, purporting to be speeches delivered in the House of Representatives of the, Ohio Legislature last winter, against the act of' Incorporation for which we petitioned. These pieces have been published in various N ewspapers, from Columbus to Philadelphia; and how much further 1 know not; as if the very existence of the Hicksite Society depended on the effect to be produced by them. I do not pretend to know whether they were delivered in the Legislature or not, or whether they are the productions, extemporaneous or studied, of the individuals whose names they bear, or were written by some ignorant, or ill designing individuals of theihicksite connection,to cnculate, as they have been circulated, to produce an effect on the public mind, which could not be produced in a fair and honorable way. We asked for an act of Incorporation, for the special pur pose of carrying into efi'ect atrust, in establishm and governing a Boarding School, for the Education of the chifilren of our own members. The Bill which we prepared, we endeavoured so to frame, as to have no effect on the Hicksites whatever, nor any bearing on any other concern of the Somety, or any propert which did not pertain to the proposed Boarding School. Thi Bill, after being changed considerably in many of its provi sions, passed the Senate, about two weeks after its introduc tion mto that body. It was detained in the House about a month, during which time some amendments were suggested in Special Committee, which would have had a most discs trous effect on the Society, as well as have totally defeated th very objects for which it was proposed. The effect would hat v been not only to have destroyed the character of the Yeafly 'meeting, but to have deprived it of the whole amount ofthe funds provided for the School, down to the date of the lncorpw ration, and all the property prenously held by the Society f r neral purposes - such asmecting houses, Grave yards. C. The information was kindly communicated to us by some of our friends in the Assembly. In our reply, after stating; the consequences of the proposed amendments, we requested that if a suitable act could not be obtained, they would use their utmost exertions to defeat the Bill, and prevent it from passir g in a form that would be injurious to the interest or reputation of the Yearly Meeting.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1528332024
• ISBN 13: 9781528332026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32