Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-28


Rev. JOSHUA LEAvITT: My dear Sir
The accompanying should have gone 70
yo. long since Will you have the good
ness 70 draw attention 70 il. in your paper,
and request other editors TO copy it.
Yours very truly, John EDGAR.
Belfast, May 10, 1887.
For he Nsw-Yotk Evangelist.
~..s. n~-.srs q me Amsriosn Churches.
R.,nonsfranc, oft Presbyte,idn Synod
az Ir,l1pds d;sfingmshed BY the name
Secsdsrs, on fhe s'sbject Of
sLAvEar.
DEAR Brethren in Christ-We have
long looked to your country with intense
and increasing interest, not as the home
ofliber,y, or as the scene Of an immense
experiment, in which the destines OF the
world are involved, bat a. exhibiting the
sublimi.v of Christian. enterprise encir-
cling the world and embracing the whole
human amily. Resolutions such as have
been passed and carried into execution by
your Bible, Missionary and Temperance
Societies, have given to America a sub
Unity and glory, which her gigantic
rivers, lakes and mountains, her great
statesmen and free institutions, never
could have bestowed and while We re-
feet with thankfullness on all you have
already done, we look forward with high
hope 70 enlarging fields Of still nobler and
holier enterprise.
One melancholy, consideration, how
ever, mingles with all our sympathies to-
wards you and while we hold up your
bright example. that the world may re
ioice 10 rs light, our hearts sink at the
thought that America. the land ofiberty
10 also the land Of the slave; and tina
while her ships sail on the bosom Of al
seas, trophies Of temperance emancipation
and her missionaries in all lands proclaim
liberty 10 the captive, and the opening o
the prison 10 them that are bound, the vic
tins Of her oppression pine at home; AM
cruel prejudice and heartless self-inter
cot hold in degrading bondage tens Q
thousands, who have proved themselves, i
unnumbered ways, worthy Of every RICH
and privilege Of man.
Brethren, we have no wish to dwell o
a ne many and aggravated wrongs inflic
= a BY you on your countrymen in SLAYER!
nor 70 denounce in harsh terms the IN
iuR and unchristian policy towards tn er
dictated bv your pride or your fear: W
address YOU in love, and it Is because W
love you. and rejoice in the great thing
which God has done By you, that we spea
20 You plainly and boldly. beseeehing yo'
blythe God or the spirits of all flesh an
by the spiril Of him in whom the Dor
and tho free are one 10 let the oppresst
70 free and break every yoke.
: When the path Of duty 10 plain. y
: know nothing OF impossibilities you ha
taught NJ that what ought to be done Ct
be done, and should be done, noo Anne
- ican Christians have accomplished VIII
fear and selfshness deemed impossibiliti'
and they will accomplish more: the sal
truth which has returned triumphant fro
many Geld, can conquer still and ,
shall not, we trust, wait long. till the 70
blot on Americas fair fame-the dar
unseemly plague spot-be wiped aw
forever. Then shall the mouth OF ga
savers be stopped, and your examI
shine in unsullied lustre; then shall yo
licht break forth as the morning, a
your health shall spring forth speedily:
your righteousness shall go before VI
ana the glory Of the Lord shall be 20
reward. If you take away from
midst Of YOU the yoke, the putting forth
the finger, and speaking vanity-if y
draw forth your soul to the hungry a
satisfy the afflicted soul-then shall yo
light rise in obseurity. and your darkn'
Be a. the noon day. The Lord hast
& in his time.
Signed. JoHs EDaAR. D. D,
Prof Divisity, Royal College, Bs!tc