Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-01-18

Ex. Xxx. l6, and the apostle here classes
them with sinners OF the first rank. The
word which he uses, in its original import,
comprehends all who are concerned in
any ofthe human race into slave
nv, or in retaining them in it. Stealers OF
men are all those who bring of slaves or
freemen, and keep, sell or buy them
TO steal freeman, says Grot'us, IS
the highest kind of theft. In other
instances we only steal human prop
ertv, but when we steal or retain men In
slavery, I'VE seize those who, in common
with ourselves are constituted by the orig
inaI grant, lords Of the earth" 1t is j re-
markable fact that this note, which was
standing condemnation ofail the members,
Of the Presbyterian Church who were
guilty of retaining their fellow men in
bondage, was ExPuNcED by the General
Assembly in 1916, and has since been
omitted in all future editions Of the cate
chISm. Declarations Of their CensUTe OF
sIave-holding were however occasionally
made, but with so little effect that church,
members, ministers, and even churches
buy, sell and retain men, women and
children il slavery with IMMUNITY, and to
use the language Of one Of their members
"to crown this whole mass ofiniqu!tv, We
are oracuIarIy assured, that Christian pro-
fessors sell, as slaves, members of the
church into the most woful bondage;
TO remove this dire reproach fEom the
church, about forty memorials from differ
ent synods were presented to the last Cen
eral Assembly, asking that body to renew
its testimony against the sin Of slavery,
and to take some efficient measures which
should result in its ultimate removal from
! the church. The delegates from the
slave holding states held a convention up
on the subject and by their future move
ments in the Assembly, it was manifest
that a dissolution of the bond of union be-
tween the churches would be the price of
granting the just and humane prayer OF
the petitioners, or Of any expression ofthe
Assembly condemnatory Of the system O.
slavery. Thus this august body was
overawed by party ofslaveholding min
listers and elders whose habits of contro
were formed in the school of domestic
tyranny backed by some Of their obse
quious brethren Of the north, and the
plague spot of slavery is still suffered tc
adhere to the church without a passing
rebuke. But the honest indignation O
many ofthe northern members is aroused
who deeply deplore the existence of thi
sin in their midst, and they will persever>
with renewed vigor in the work of its ex
termination.
The destruction Of the Anti-SIaver,
Press at Cincinnati, in the seventh month
last, by lawless mob, is worthy of no
ticc, both as it exhibits the violence Of tn,
means resored 10 by our opposers in or
der TO arrest the progress Of our cause
and affords another instance ofsuch oppo
si>ion, producing effects directly the re
verse from those intended by the pcrpe
traitors.
The publication of the PhiIanthropis
was commenced in Ohio, on the first O
this year Owing to the hostility mani
Tested at the appearance of the Prospectus
it was started at New Richmond: but was
soon after removed to Cincinnati, the plac,
where it was originally designed to be es
tabHshcd. The appearance ofthis paper
edited by one born and reared in the mils
of slavery who might we'll be supposed
qualified to reveal its denominations, and If
populous city intimately connected, b,
its extensive commercial and manuCactur
ing operations, with the slave states, alarm
ed the pro-slavery party in its vicinity
and set them TO devise means to effect it
suppression, indignation meetings wer,
called, similar 10 those of New Y orS
B.ston, Utica, &c, in which in1ammato
~ speeches were made, and resolutions
adopted, having direct tendency to cal
into action the worst passions of that clas
of society who are ever ready to run a
: the bidding of riot and rum and to tur
: their senseless clamor against the ahoIj