Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-11-23

We recognize in the signature attached
TO the following article from the New
England Spectator the initials of Henry
c. Wright, late Children's Minister in
Boston. Brother Wright is one of the
salt of the earth. He goes about doing
good. Comparatively few ministers OF
this age possess equal christian fidelity,
seIf-denial and apostolic spirit
Rhode Island Anti-slavery Society.
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 10, 1886.
Dear Brother,-In some remarks on a
resolution recently passed by The aboIi-
tionists of Newburyport, on excluding
Shareholders from the church, intimated
that YOU would hear from me again re-
specting this matter. In the following
resolutions you hear not only from me
but from a whole state. These re-
solutions were presented by the standing
committee to the Rhode Island State Anti
Slavery Society, at their first anniversary,
Nov. 9Th and 10th, 1896, in Providence.
The resolutions passed unanimously, at-
ter much discussion. The 4th, reSpe citing
ministers, was passed by the assembly
rising.
Resolved, |. That tearing asunder
husbands and wives, parents and children,
brothers and sisters, and severlng all the
bol.ds of domestic lite, as JUSTIFIED by the
American slave system, is fragrant out
rage on the dearest and tenderest af1ec
| - IS th Of no
principles of humanity and Of the reveal
I'd will of God, a crime OF greatest mag
nitude; therefore, those who actually
pursue this practice, or claim right 10
pursue it, or Justify the conduct of those
who pursue it, ought TO be ranked among
the worst Of slnners; and as such, should
not be received into the Christian church !;
and if in it, should, after due admonitlon,
be forthwith expelled, unless they repent
and forsake their sins.
g. That. as Jesus Christ has comman-
ded all men to search the scriptures, we
regard the re0d1ng of them as solemn
duty and an inestlmable privilege; there
fore, to deny the scriptures to men, and to
prevent men by law, from learning to read
them, is direct violation of tie Savior's
command and all who do IT, or justify
those who do it, ought not to Be admitted
into the church Of Christ.
3. That, as the traffic in the bodies
and souls of men, is a direct violation Of
the law of God, and has been declared 10
be piracy by two nations, and those who
engage in it to be pirates, worthy of death
> therefore, all who engage in this piratical
traffic, on sea, or on land, in America or
Africa, or elsewhere, or justify the system
Of iniquity that supports it, ought to be ex-
, , cluded from the church of Christ.
4. That those ministers, who hold, OF
claim a right to hold man as property, and
claim a right to separate husbands and
wives, and parents and children, and &C.
: tuaIy pursue this most infamous and un
godIY practice, or justify the conduct O
1 those who pursue it, or palliate the sys
= TEN of denominations that sanctions ant
T defends it, are utterly unworthy our con
6den e, and should no longer be regarded
|" as ministers of Christ.
y 5. That, as holding or claiming a RICH
to hold men as property, is fragrant usur
patton of the prerogatives of God over hi
= Observation-Disclosures all who claim sucI
" right, or thus hold their fellow men, ar
waging an impious and open war agains
:. God, and should no longer be regarde
D as reputable members of the Chris,ia
st church.
:; - 6. That we cordially approve the ser
timent of our brethren in Great Britain
4 who have expressed their determinatio
g not to hold Christian fellowship with thos
- churches and ecclesiastical bodies in
i; merca, that shall continue to justify an
y. support, by precept and example, the sy
- tenn of American slavery"
u, Will not you. will not your readers. wi
of not all the Christians of New Englan
bs heartily respond to the sentiments, and
~ the great object Of the above resolutions
u What do they say2 That separatir
q. husbands and wives, parents and childre