Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-13

Resolved, That no slave held 10 bond
age in any State, escaping into any Terri
tory or District of the Union, or any slave
held in bondage in any Territory or Dis
trict escaping into any State. can be law
fully restored to his claimant. in pursu-
ance Of any authority gwen by the Con-
stitution of the United States.
Resolved, That we urge il upon the at
tention Of every Anii-Slavery Society 10
adopt measures forthwith for an address
on slavery on the ensuing fourth of July.
Whereas, the friends of the immediate
abolition Of slavery, after having been
long and cruelty shut out from most of the
churches Of the city Of Boston, as well as
from all public Halls Of convenient size,
land been compelled from time to time to
hold their meetings in the loft Of stable,
and other places altogether unsuitable and
inconvenient; and whereas, through the
kindness of Divine Providence. and the
labors and sacrifices of certain of our fell
low, citizens, the friends of liberty and re-
ligion, we are enabled this day to meet in
magnificent and a beautiful edifice, con-
sec rated to the worship of God. and also
to free discussion and the cause of human
ity; therefore, be il resolved by the New
Eng land Anli-SIavery Convention, that a
committee of three gentlemen be appoint
ed to communicate 10 George Thompson,
the British Philanthropist, the pleasing
circumstances under which we this day
meet, and return him our cordial and hear
" thanks for the valuable services he rem
dered, in connection with others, while in
this country, to the great object of FEAR
ing public hall in the city of Boston,
which should be open to the cause of op-
pressed and bleeding humanity.
Resolved, That said committee further
express 10 George Thompson, their ST. ong
belief, that when he next visits the me-
iropolis Of Massachusetts, he will find a
hall in which he may be permitted to
speak, and which shall be in some degree
worthy to resound 10 his thrilling, soul
stirring eloquence. l,.-
Resolved, That American Slavery be-
ing a most obvious violation of Gods law,
the discussion and condemnation of it is
peculiarly the business Of the church -
and that no church, not under the inhu-
ence Of spirit essentially at war with
genuine christianity, has any thing 10 fear
from the agitation Of this subject,
d And. whereas, The great object Of the
christian ministry is to preach the gospel
to the poor-to cry aloud against all sin,
in high places and low, whether commit
ed by individuals, churches or nations
and especially 10 exert their utmost efforts
to purify the church, by purging it of the
crime of neutrality-suspicious.
Resolved, That it is the imperious du-
ty Of every protested christian minister,
u cry aloud and spare not against the
slaveholding Of this country that no val
id excuse can be made for the conduct OF
those clergymen, who, by their silence, or
otherwise, give countenance 10 this great
sin and that those who do SO, are con-
niving at and aiding the vilest robbery,
and are recreant TO The cause OF God and
humanity.
GREAT CHANGE IN Connecticut
We have received cheering intelligence
from Connecticut The famous, or, ralh-
er. most infdmous law called the BLACK
AoT,' passed without opposition three or
four years since by the Legislature of that
state, in order TO suppress Miss Gran
dails school, for The education of colored
females at Canterbury. has just been RE-
PEALED by a unanimous vote in the Sen
ate, and with only dissenting voices in
the House of Representatives Of all the
celebrated Blue Laws alleged 10 have
aeen enacted by the pilgrim fathers in that
State, not one can compare with the re-
scinded Black Act on the score Of abb
surdity, prescription and tyranny. For
the credit Of Connecticut. and the honor
Of our race, we rejoice that the finger OF
Legislative condemnation, in accordance
with the voice Of public opinion, has blot
ted out that Act from the Statute Book.
We also learn that the Legislature has
passed law, granting jury trial to all
persons claimed as runaway s,ayes--so
comprehensive and exact in It's terms, that
it will be scarcely possible to get a slave
back again into bondage -Resolutlons
have als5 been adopted, against Mr. Pat
tons gag act, the annexation of Texas,
and the admission of new slave States In
to the Union; and declaring that Cong
ress has, by the Constitution, power to
abolish slavery and the slave trade In the
District of Columbia, and ought to exer-
else that power, so soon as the interests OF
all concerned require it The delegation
in Congress, from that State, are request:
ed TO act in accordance with these resolu-
tons. Verify, if the last is not IN this
instance first, Connecticut may at least D.
said to staad side by side with Massachu-
sets and Vermont The ball of revolu-
ton is rolling onward with surprising "a
pidiiy.-L iberatOr.