1843 THE ABORIGINES Meeting For Sufferings Indian Affairs Seminoles Quakers

Description: FURTHER INFORMATION RESPECTING THE ABORIGINES,CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING FOR SUFFERINGS IN LONDON, AND OF THE COMMITTEES ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, OF THE YEARLY MEETINGS OF PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE TOGETHER WITH SOME PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE SEMINOLE WAR. Printed in Pursuance of the Direction of the Yearly Meeting. Second Edition. Published by Edward Marsh, London, 1843. (Tracts relative to the Aborigines, No. 3.) The book is a 34 page pamphlet that probably was once in wraps (soft cover) but now is in a library hard cover binding. This is an exceedingly rare publication of the Religious Society of Friends—Quakers from 1843. From Wikipedia: Meeting for Sufferings is an executive committee of Britain Yearly Meeting, the body which acts on behalf of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies. It has about 200 members who meet five times a year to make decisions when the Yearly Meeting is not in session. Meeting for Sufferings was originally established to assess the persecution of Friends and attempt to obtain redress. Morning Meeting, a now-obsolete body of London Quakers, agreed in October 1675 to commission certain local Friends to meet four times a year for this purpose. Their efforts were mainly directed towards the suffering of imprisoned Quakers, but they also lobbied Parliament to reduce the burden of tithes and oaths. (The refusal of Friends to take oaths, based on Jesus Christ's words "Swear not at all" (Matthew 5:33 – 37), caused great difficulties with the government and courts.) Smaller weekly meetings, which continued until 1798, helped to push this process forward. In the eighteenth century, the Meeting began to broaden its interests, campaigning against the slave trade; a Slave Trade Committee between 1783 and 1792 helped prepare the way for the Slave Trade Act 1807. Other legislative successes included the Affirmation Acts, which allowed Quakers to avoid oath-taking; however, attempts to put forward a "Quakers Tithes Bill" were fruitless. The beginning of the nineteenth century saw a renewed interest in contact with other Quaker groups around the world, especially in continental Europe, Calcutta, and southern Africa. Even so, Meeting for Sufferings remained a London-based body until the expansion of the railways allowed Quakers from more remote parts of the country to participate. The larger membership meant that even more subcommittees could form, covering administration, libraries, and printing; and lobbying against gambling, opium and war. It was not until 1898 that women were allowed to join the Meeting. Although the Society of Friends was egalitarian in many other respects, the participation of women in meetings for business - as opposed to :meetings for worship - had been contentious since its beginning. Founder George Fox's model was a middle way between exclusion and total inclusion: men and women were to have separate meetings for business, communicating by the passing of messages. The perceived benefit of this system was that it made it easier for wives to have different opinions from their husbands. When as in London the male membership was unusually wealthy and powerful, female interests often went unheard. (All meetings now have mixed membership.) THE ABORIGINES contains very interesting information regarding North American Indians, particularly Upper Canadian Indians in the areas near Lake St. Clair and Toronto. Also, a document entitled: OF THE INDIANS SITUATED IN, OR BORDERING UPON THE UNITED STATES. includes a letter “To the President of the United States.” by “sachems, chiefs, and chief warriors of the Six Nations” [Senecas, Onondagos, Cayagas, Tuscaroras, Oneidas and others] on the Buffalo Creek Reservation in New York. Also a copy of President Monroe’s Letter to the Seneca Indians. “My Red Children, I am very glad to learn by your friends…, that you no longer live in that miserable and destitute state which you once did…” Also The present state of the Shawnese Indians… There are two “Memorial of the Cherokee Nation to the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States…” and information on “Removal of the Cherokees.” “We are enabled to lay before our readers the following letter from a gentleman in the Cherokee country, dated 18th 6th mo. 1838…the inhabitants of Georgia commence gather the Cherokees in Georgia: they were generally taken from their houses, leaving their fields of corn, their cattle, houses, and most of their moveable property, for any person who please to take it to possession…. Our poor Cherokees, with a resignation calculate to secure for them our sympathy, have abandoned in silent despair their fertile fields and beloved homes. Resistance should have been madness, as there were 8000 United States troops collected to enforce the cruel sentence, and the volunteers from all the plundering states were ready to put in upon them… “It is stated, in documents presented some time since to the American Congress, that there are thirty different tribes residing west of the Mississippi, and connected by treaty with the United states; their number is estimated and 156, 307. Thirty-nine tribes are mentioned with whom the States have make no treaties: the number of these Indians is stated at 156,300. At the time that these estimates were made it was reckoned that 47,000 Indians remained to be removed from the states to the West; making an aggregate Indian population of about 350,000. In 1834 the number of Indians remaining in the United States, and who had not consented to emigrate was estimated at 30,000.” ”Since the publication of the pamphlet on the Aborigines, issued but the Meeting for Sufferings, at the commencement of the present year, some fresh steps have been taken in reference to this deeply interesting subject, and important information has also been received, more particularly relating to the North American Indians. A brief report, or narrative of proceedings, was presented by the Meeting for Sufferings to the Yearly Meeting, and that Meeting directed that the statements therein contained should be published, together with such additional matter connected therewith as high appear suitable for general circulation. The following pages have been prepared in pursuance of that direction, and they are now commended to the attentive perusal of Friends generally, and more especially of those who may have any opportunity of assisting to redress the wrongs, or promote the welfare of the oppressed. DESCRIPTION: 34 pages 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches Second Edition hardcover CONDITION: This book has been rebound into a modern, plain, but sturdy buckram cloth binding some time in the past. The book, was once a 34 page pamphlet, most likely in wraps. The cover is clean and shows little wear. The original book starts with the title page. There are no library stamps anywhere so it may never have been in one. The pages are clean and without tears (with the exception of one small, 1/4 inch tear in the top edge of the title page), although the paper is tanned with age. Its not overly brittle—mostly delicate along the edges, but of course, care should be taken as the paper is thin. 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