Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-29

Convention, to instruct them ID use their |
influence in procuring such action on the
part Of that body as may be thought needful
and proper2 Might not the way be thus
prepared, for the Convention, at its next
anniversary, to address kind and affection
ate, but faithful remonstrance on the sin of
slaveholding, to each of the thirty-fou hun
dred churches in the slaveholding states?
Dear brother, you see that have not
room to enlarge. If you approve of the
hints thus loosely and briefly thrown out,
trust you will urge them more fully upon
the attention Of the churches, until our
brethren in this state shall clear themselves
Of all participation in the guilt Of slave
holding, by standing forth as its faithful
. reprovers, Yours, &c. W.
The foregoing communication is from a
source, breathes spirit and touches point,
all which render it, to US, exceedingly inter-
esting; and we believe the last two consid-
! erations will secure for it the prayerfuI at
tentlon Of our readers generally-and the
| first, doubtless, would secure the same regard
| from large pr portion of them, as from US,
were we permitted to give the name instead
I Of the initial.
/ Our brothers "facts' very clearly set
torth-what has from time to time been
urged in the Telegraph, though we confess
; not so frequently or SO forcibIy as it might
have been-that the Church at The North
has much to do for the removal of Southern
slavery. The clouGless sun at MONDAY is
not more easily discovered, by him who
will look, than the truth that an overwhelm-
ing responsibility rests, this moment, on
every protested Christian, in relation to this
subject. And we rejoice and thank God
that SO many Of our brethren are making
the discovery, and are so nobly coming up
TO the work. Nothing less than the power
OF Christianity can ever perfect this enter
Prise. BY the power of Christianity We
here mean the effects Of Gospel truth, ap-
plled TO the understandings and COnscienccs
OF sinners. And such application nccessa-
rily supposes action on the part of Chris
tians.
We second vs. suggestion that there
Is no good reason why faithful remon-
STRANGE should not at once 90 forth from the
Baptlsts in Vermont to the Baptists who
are shareholders at the South We do hone
that the object will be so kept in view as
w.. has proposed, by the several Associ-
atlons, and that the next State Convention
will speak out, in the name Of the ten-thou-
sand Baptists in Vermont, the faithful, SOL
| emn, scriptural language of warning and
reouke, to those protested Christians who
make merchandise of the image of their
Maker and Savior. Let these ten thousand
voices be lifted up together from our vallies
and echo and reverberate from our noun.
talns, until, Joined by other thousands a:
they go, Earring blasts shall rouse and shake
from their cupidity, their guilt and theil
danger, the thousands in the Southern Dor,
lion OF the American church, whose present
practices are the reproach of American
Christianity, and the ruin Of undylng souls
we undertake not TO enlarge, at this time
upon what our beloved brother W. has
so we'll laid out for the consideration Of in
dlv1duals, churches and Associations
! Trusting that he and others will vet have
more to say, through the Telegraph, on the
subject, we commit it, with dissent from 2
single opinion-which may amount, after
! all, to nothing more than different use Of
language. We trust, in this frank ayowal
. not to be chargeable with less forbearanc,
towards our brother, than he exercises tow
ards shareholders. He says: "Thev The
shareholders may be kind to their slaves
and doubtless many Of them are So" Com
pdrahre|y, they may be so-that is, some
may be less unklnd than others. But W,
holo IT to be an absurdity in language. t
= talk OF Kindness to STARE The simnl,
holding him in slavery, is in itself a]I-ima
= glnable unhindness Take an innocen
child, place iron shoes on its feet and =,
|. iron cap on its head-fasten iron WEIGHTS +,
!, It's hands that will keep it constantly bowe,
d down to the earth-then, feed and clotbe =;
n as you may, who will think you kind tow
o ards it, while you keep on the irons2 Bu
V slavery Is infinitely worse than this. VIVA
a this would be to the mortal BODY, SLAYER,
!, IS to the immortal mind, impedinc it crrsb
= ing II, bowling it down into the dust. ON,
brother! tell me not of kindness to a slave
But II attention has been diverted from
the main subject, We would now recall ;
& and leave it.
J. For the Vermont Telegraph.
TO THE REV. HADLEY pRocu