Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-14
.RrRRNooN SESSION.

uel Sn0Wueb.
Henry B. Stanton, from the business COM
mittee, presented a series Of resolutions on
the sinfulness Of slavery, and its connexion
subject Of an animated and in interesting dis
upon them, the Convention ad journed to
meet at Park-street church, tomorrow morn
ing at 9 o'clock.
THIRD DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Thursday morning, June l.
The Convention met in Park-sl. Church,
agreeably to adjournment.
Prayer was offered by Nathaniel Colver.
William Goodell moved and sustained
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the principles Of aho-
litionists are nothing distinct from those
fundamental axioms of natural justice,
moral truth, and changeless right, which
commend themselves to the consciences of
all men, and are included in the professed
religious principles of all Christian sects:
that anti sLGrery measures, considered in
the light of existing and well-known facts,
are nothing more nor less than the con-
sistent advocacy and practice of those
principles and hence, the present con-
troversy resolves itself, mainly, into a con-
test between PRINCIPLES, on the one hand,
and NO princi pies on the other
Unanimously adopted.
Nathaniel Colver submitted the following
resolution, which was adopted, viz:
Resolved, That Northern interference
with the subject Of slavery is an imperi-
Gus duty, from which none can escape,
without mourning personal guilt.
James G. Birney offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That the assumption, that
man can be happy in state Of absolute
slavery, is refuted by facts, and by his
moral constitution.
The Convention was also eloquently ad
dressed by Henry B. Stanton and Charles
G. Bureigh, after which the following reso
lutions were adopted
On motion, it was voted that the thanks
Of this Convention are cordially and unan-
imously rendered to the Convention of the
Park-street Church, for permitting the use
Of their house for one Of the sessions of
this body.
Resolved, That the Secretaries furnish
the Committee with copy of the fore
going.
Adjourned to meet in the Church-street
meeting house, at 8 o'clock, P. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention met, according to ad-
journment.
The following resolutions were then taken
up, and discussed at great length, and with
much ability-only one individual speaking
| in opposition to their passage at the present
time, as. he thought there we're some chris
tian shareholders who needed more light to
render them guilty men!
PURIFIcATIoN OF THE CHURCHES.
Whereas, the holding of human beings
as property is a violation of the great law
Of love, a usurpation Of the prerogatives
of the Most High, an inSasion of the
rights Of man. and, in ITSELF extortion and
robbery Of the most heinous character:
And whereas, it annihilates human per-
sonality. and practically renders null
and void the parental and conjugal rela-
tons, driving the ploughshare of ruin
over the whole field of social rights and
domestic ties, and introducing system o
universal concubInage-withholding the
Bible, and, at the masters discretion. al
other means of grace, so reducing mind
by wholesale and on system, to ignorance
vice, and even heathenism itself:
And whereas, the system of wrong:
and denominations which grow out Of this
practice, is, to an alarming extent, upheld
, both in the theory and the practice O
. members of Christian churches, and o
, professed ministers of the gospel:
And whereas, such conduct passes un
s reproved by large portions Of the christian
church, not directly implicated in tn
practice, and so, by the theory and prac
3 tice of the one class, and the silence an
;. good fellowship Of the other, the sanction
Of the church and Of religion itself
\, given to this enormity:
= And whereas, it is the right and dut
;, Of every man, in the church or out of i
!, not indeed to legislate for the church, bu
to express his opinion Of crime, and {
the duty Of himself and his fellow mer
in their various relations in life, in respet
a 10 it:
:, And whereas, it is libel on christian
|. ity to suppose. for a moment, that she ca
: welcome within her sacred enclosur,
- and give her sanction and countenance t
N oppression, and theft, and robbery, and e.
= tortion Of the very worst kind:
.s And whereas, God himself, in the scriI
lures Of truth, by the mouth Of his apo
=. ties, has enjoined upon the christia
.. churchto have no fellowship with iniquit
s. and particularly, If any man that is call.
n a brother be an extortioner, 'to put ava
;s that wicked person from her: Therefor
No Resolved, |. That in the opinion
m this Convention, no man who holds h
ce brother man as property, should be a
mitted to membership in the christie
NJ. church.
to Resolved, 2. That persons, now mel
ter bers Of christian churches, whether p1
IN yate members mr. ministers .Uho are puil