GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE THE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE “I’d rather use the nuclear bomb.... The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you? I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ’s sake.... You’re so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don’t give a damn.” — President Richard Milhous Nixon, on tape, 1972 VIETNAM ATOM BOMB “Fiddle-dee-dee, war, war, war, I get so bored I could scream!” —Scarlet O’Hara Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation. War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012, <[email protected]> HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1829 1 Friend Jonathan Dymond’s ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY was printed posthumously in London. READ THIS BOOK WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY 1. The ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY including an essay on War. A very large number of editions would follow. A New-York edition would appear in 1834, and another in 1844. The “Essay on War” has many times been reprinted by itself, and John Bright has prepared an introduction. In 1896 the Book Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends put out the edition ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY: AND ON THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF MANKIND / BY JONATHAN DYMOND which is here reproduced in its entirety. HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1834 In New-York, Harper & Brothers put out a new edition of Friend Jonathan Dymond’s ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY, AND ON THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OF MANKIND. At Harvard College in 1837, student David Henry Thoreau would consult this volume while preparing an essay for Professor Edward Tyrrell Channing’s class. PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY The London publishing house of Harvey and Darton reprinted extracts from Friend Jonathan’s ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY ... retitled as THE CHURCH AND THE CLERGY: SHOWING THAT RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS DERIVE NO COUNTENANCE FROM THE NATURE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THAT THEY ARE NOT RECOMMENDED BY PUBLIC UTILITY: WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND, AND ON THE SYSTEM OF TITHES / BY JONATHAN DYMOND. READ THIS BOOK Also, Friend Jonathan’s AN INQUIRY INTO THE ACCORDANCY OF WAR WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY: AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL REASONING BY WHICH IT IS DEFENDED, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE CAUSES OF WAR AND ON SOME OF ITS EFFECTS / BY JONATHAN DYMOND, PHILANTHROPOS / PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM BROWN, PRINTER. READ THIS BOOK THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. War Resisters League “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE March 8, Saturday: William Lloyd Garrison reviewed, in The Liberator, the 1st American edition of Friend Jonathan Dymond’s ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY, AND ON THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF MANKIND. BY JONATHAN DYMOND ... WITH A PREFACE BY THE REV. G. BUSH [1796-1859] (NY: Harper & Brothers). Terming Friend Jonathan “the Lord Bacon of our times,” Garrison recommended the power and perception of this book as “almost super-human.” This British Friend’s thoughts finally were reaching their American audience! READ THIS BOOK It was in this manner that Friend Jonathan’s thoughts on “Civil Obedience” (Essay III, Chapter 5) and the Quaker Peace Testimony reached an American audience. The page header for one of the pages of the chapter on “Civil Obedience” (Essay III, Chapter 5) was “RESISTANCE TO THE CIVIL POWER,” and at that point the author was observing that “satisfactory knowledge may be deduced respecting resistance to the civil power,” that the true and original Christian will, where appropriate, such as in regard to “acts of bloodshed and violence, or instigations to such acts,” decline to participate. This would constitute a “resistance to ... civil power” based upon “non-compliance”: When the first Christians refused obedience to some of the existing authorities, — they did not resist. They exemplified their own precepts, — to prefer the will of God before all; and if this preference subjected them to evils, to bear them without violating other portions of His will in order to ward them off. WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 7th day 8th of 3rd M / I do not remember to have been more seriously struck than I was this Morning on reading in the Newport Paper Notices of the death of Catherine T Jordan aged 29 Years in Hudson where She lived with her husband - & also of Catherine F Bailey aged 26 wife of Saml Bailey & daughter of our next door neighbour E Pascal Faisnear — With Catherine Jordan I have known & been acquainted from her childhood - she was when a child a dilligent Attender of Friends Meeting in Newport & seldom Missed being there with her Mother on First days & she & her Husband are intimate acquaintances of our Son John in Hudson — Hannah T Bailey we have also known from her infancy & was a very pleasant pretty & clever girl & play Mate with John living side by side we were in habits of intimacy Both were in the bloom & blush of life both called away at an early age & well may we say, in the Midst of life we are in death - Man cometh up like a flower & is cut down, & to whom shall we seek for Succor but from Thee O God. — This language with several passages of Scripture have dwelt much on my Mind thro’ the day. —— I have also noticed in this evenings paper the decease of Doctor Gustavas Baylies who I well remember as a practitioner in Newport when I was a boy, The paper says he was 70 Years old, but from his appearance then I should think he was older. — he HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE Died at Newtown on Lng Island. — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project War Resisters League HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1846 The reprinting, in Boston, of Friend Jonathan Dymond’s DYMOND ON WAR or CAUSES OF WAR as Publication Number LVII by the American Peace Society). READ THIS BOOK THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1923 The War Resisters League (now at 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012, [email protected]) was founded: Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT War Resisters League “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1941 Elbert Russell retired as dean of the Duke School of Religion in Durham, North Carolina (he would continue to offer classes until 1945). The Divinity School Alumni Association established the Elbert Russell Scholarship in his honor.2 Dr. David Tillerson Smith’s DISEASES DUE TO FUNGI. He would serve as consultant to the Secretary of War (until 1945). Susan Gower Smith, David Tillerson Smith, and Jasper Lamar Callaway’s DYSFUNCTION OF THE SEBACEOUS GLANDS ASSOCIATED WITH PELLAGRA. When, in the wake of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Friend Bayard Rustin’s co-workers in the Young Communist League did an abrupt about-face on the issue of segregation in the American military, the young black man became aware that their antiracism was merely a ploy, that what mattered to them was their theology, and he broke ranks with them. Soon he would become involved with A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and would head up the youth wing of a projected march on Washington that Randolph was envisioning. When Randolph cancelled that demonstration because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had issued Executive Order #8802 forbidding racial discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries, Rustin transferred his organizing efforts to the peace movement, at first as Race Relations Secretary with the Fellowship of Reconciliation and later as the first field secretary of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, with the American Friends Service Committee, with the Socialist Party, and with the War Resisters League. The 18th Anniversary dinner of the War Resisters League. After release with a felony record from the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, George Mills Houser found himself unwelcome back at the Union Theological Seminary (administrators at that Christian institution considered that he had by his principled stand against war and against draft registration brought discredit upon them). To complete ministerial training, this student would need to transfer to the Theological Seminary in Chicago. 2. At this point he was editing a diary written by his aunt Rebecca Russell, who had been a schoolteacher in their home neighborhood of West Newton south of Indianapolis, Indiana. HDT WHAT? INDEX WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1947 At the 23rd Anniversary dinner of the War Resisters League the speakers were John Howland Lathrop, Deryck Siven, and Evan Thomas.