Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-31

mind in great doubt whether they really
considered it anything more than ply sical /
"eviI,"S or whether the most unrelenting
| STAKEHOLDER might not be admitted into their
"uNIoN.'
Pastoral Letters and Ecclesiastical Res
olutions have been issued, denying to Anti
Slavery agents the right to lecture in par
ishes without the consent of the pastors,
and calling upon the churches TO sustain
the rights of the Clergy, and cooperate
with them in resisting this encroachment
upon their assumed prerogatiyes.
Appeals have been made to sectarian
prejudice; and on this ground strong efforts
have recently been put forth to form a new
Anti-Slavery Society of milder type and
of an exclusive character.
The direct tendency of all this opposi-
ton, from men making high professions in
the churches, is to divide and scatter our
strength, to retard our operations, to render
US odious in the eyes of the public, and to
let loose upon US Infatuated and lawless
mobs.
These facts in the history OF the Anti
Slavery cause are not adverted to for the
purpose of exciting any unkind feeling to-
wards those who have been so conspicuous
in their opposition to it; but in order to set
US on our guard against their insidious wiles,
and that by exhibiting the mighty array of
/ power and influence with which abolition
lists have had to contend, and the signal
prosperity which has nevertheless attended
their efforts, we may be inspired with fresh
vigor to press on ward in this moral conflict.
) For, Notwithstanding the opposition with
which the friends Of impartial freedom have
had to contend, from these and other sourc-
es, the Anti~Slavery cause is moving on
ward with firm and steady step, enlisling
more and more the sympathies and cooper
. alton of the benevolence of this and other
lands, making new conquests over preju
dice, apathy and every other obstacle; and
clad in the armour of Truth, and sustained
|" by the God of the oppressed, we trust it i:
,, destined, by his aid, to speed rapidly the
" day when neither the groans of the LAGER
ated slave, nor the clank of his chain shall
any longer assail the ears Of freemen ant
when the foul reproach Of slavery shall b
} wiped forever from our banner.
Row'D T. ROBINSON, Sec'v
ID At the fourth Annual meeting of the Anti
le Slavery Society Of Ferrisburgh and vicinity
,e held I'd of 1st month, 1888,
Of The Report Of the Board Of Manager
IS was read by the Secretary, and on motion
he Resolved, That the Report be adopte,
70 and offered to the Vermont Telegraph 70
- publication.
The following Resolutions were adopted
after interesting remarks by H. F. Leavit
" B. F. Haskell, o. J. Eells, R. LIE Bore, n
" C. Hoag, T. Whalley and others:
\" Resolved, That we will not cease on
lr- efforts for the abolition of slavery, until on
IS object shall be fully and entirely accom-
ee plished.
=. Resolved, That in view Of the pressin
IL necessity Of the American Anti-SlaVer
ur Society for funds to carry on its operations
ne we feel called upon 10 contribute to its alt
IN to the extent of our ability.
q" Resolved, That the recent Resolution {
TY Congress, to lay on the table all Petition
lat and papers relating to the subject of slave
;o nv, without reading. discussion or reference
is virtual denial of the right Of petition
uT and should excite the alarm and indienatio
al Of every northern freeman, iuasmuch as
Ia evinces base bowling down of many
the members Of the non-slaveholding State
ise to the spirit of slavery, which threatens tn
be surrender of all our Liberties to its insatii
all bic demands.
49, Resolved, That Committee be appoin
"'0 ed to prepare a remonstrance against tt
en- resolution of Congress above referred t
in addressed to the House of Representative
to Whereupon, Row'd T. Robinson, Tho
US Whalley, Jos. Rogers I'd and Cyrus y
err Wicker were appointed said committee.
by Resolved, That the above Committee al:
ra- prepare remonstrance 20 Congress agaiL
longer depriving any citizen in the Distri
of Columbia of any of those rights whic
we hold forth TO the world in the Declar
All. ton Of independence as universal and ina
:, ienable.
the EDMUND LYMAN, President
the Row'D T. ROBINSON, Sec.
nd, P. S. The following resolution, amor
7 of others, was passed at a meeting Of our S
'ro- ciety, held 10Th Of 18th month 1887, for Il
lily purpose of noticing in suitable manner Il
the melancholy tragedy at Alton:
alb RESOLVED, 4th, That whilst it is certa
oc- that no body of men have ever had bett
md right to take up arms in self-defence, thu
h view Of the dreadful provocations and pc
ent ills with which they were assailed yet v