Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-19

For the Telegraph.

HE OHkEANS SOUNTI ANTI SLAVERY
SOCIETY held its first annual meeting, at
Irasburg, on the 4th Of July, and was we'll
attended. After listening to spirited and
animating address by H. w. w. Miller,
Esq, and appropriate remarks from Rev. R.
Mason and others. passed the following res
olutions:
Resolved, That the cause of Abolition,
when rightly understood, powerfully recon-
mends itself to the universal reason Of man.
kind, and the deepest and most enlightened
svmpathies of our natures. .
Resolved, That those calling themselves
Abolitionists, propose to themselves and to
the world, as the great and genuine object
of their Association, the political, religious,
and intellectual liberty of every human
being.
ResotUed, That as the United States of
America, in their Declaration of Independ-
ence affirmed these truths to be selfevident,
That all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights, that among these arell life,
liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness;" the
undeniable and melancholy fact of the exist
ence, within these states, of three millions
of slaves, is grossly inconsistent with the
doctrine preferred and promulgated by our
forefathers in the aforesaid declaration, and
justly subjects US to the censure and rep
rotation of the whole civilized world.
RESOLVED, That it is the duty of every
freeman to use his most active and unremit-
ting exertion for the immedi ate abolition of
slavery in the District Of Columbia, and,
so far as is consistent with the Constitution,
throughout these United States.
Resolved, That the right of petition is
the precious and invaluable privilege of ev-
cry American, and that we will never uiL-
lingly suffer it to be infringed upon, or in
one jot or title diminished.
Resolred, That it has been demonstrated
in the recent struggles between Liberty and
slavery in the Congress of the U. States
that the slavery Of the South is inconsistent
with the freedom of the North; and thai
the desPotic regulations of post office and
public mail, the suppression of debate upon
the subject of slavery, in the Councils Of
the nation, the prohibition to print, and
speak upon that subject can never be yield
ed or submitted to by the freemen of the
North, without an entire and perfect sacri
fee Of their dearest rights.
Resolved, That the cause of Abolition
and universal Emancipation is making rap
id and successful progress in our country
and that the epithets "fanatic, bigot ant
hypocrite," so frequently and literally be
slowed BY our enemies, are received as Z
proof that they have no stronger wea pons tt
WELD against US.
!. Resolved, That Abolitionlsts will use ne
other weapons for the accomplishment o.
their object, than moral, legal and religion:
means, and that in the use Of such mean:
their brief and energetic motto shall be
"Persevere" and Onward"
After appointing the necessary officers
and passing votes of thanks to the proprie.
tors OF the Chapel for the gratuitous offer oil
their house, and to the Choir for their excel
lent performance on the occasion, the socie-
ty unanimously voted that the doings of the
meeting be signed by the President and
Secretary, and published in the Watchman
and State Journal, the Vermont Telegraph,
the Herald of Freedom and she Vermont
Chronicle, and such others as may see fit to
copy. Samuel c. CRAFTS, President.
ALBA srMsoN, Secretary.
July, 1887.
The following communication, from the
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