Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-15

That the great problem lie
Whether the emancipated slave will peace "
ablv labor for wages has been a0o'ked out :"
in favor oc freedom, Mr.. Clay dared not ii
deny.
IF the obstinate adherence OF the South P
to the doctrines and practice of despotisn c
be taken for proof that the glorious facts .
of the West Indies are making no i'm
preston upon southern minds, great
mistake will be committed. 1t is to be
remembered that the minds of the whites
as we'll as the bodies of the blacks ale en-
shaved. No favorable change of public
opinion will be perceived till 1t becomes
equivalent to the REFRESHING power, and,
indeed, breaks out in moral lnsurrec,
ton. That the change is proceeding, and
not slowly. we have evidence which can
not now be produced without endangering |
tie lives of parties at the South.
The committee are rejoiced to say, that
the sound anti-slavery sentiments express
ed in minor religious bodies of various
denominations have been, during the past
wear, too numerous to be embodied in a
report. These expressions have come
from those portions of Christ's visible
church which are most active in every
branch OF true Christian charity at home
and abroad-whose religion benefits their
next door neighbors as well as their an
tipodes-and may well be taken as the
voice of true Christianity. 1t is TO be de-
plored, however. that the spirits which
E lead the chief ecclesiastical organizations
4 are, most of them, still hostile to inmedi-
0 ate justice on the soil. They still copy
: the policy which, in Congress, gags dis
: cussion and tramples on the right of petit
It ton. Not only are they deaf to the cry
t of the two and half millions who have
n fallen among thieves, but they seem re-
|, solved on expelIing from their pales all
: sympathy for them-as near as may be
o in republic, by hurting bolts after the
manner of the great spiritual power oil
1t Europe. All such ecclesiastical proscrip.
r. ton the committee cannot but regard as
D. the seal of Divine appreciation upon their
N labors, when they remember what a sys
r TEN of unparalleled wrongs it is employed
IN to support.
I'd The General Assembly of the Pres
ell byterian Church furnishes a most sigma
to proof that a religious body cannot EN-
Us brace slavery without embracing death
re The very year after this body shuttle,
be aside the claim of humanity on the pie
in that to attend to It would destroy the peac
as of the Church, il was rent in sunder an
of divided into two jealous and hostile sects
to This is the same body which, in 1915
at, declared slavery TO be "a gross violation
ed of the most precious rights of human ma
as ture, and utterly inconsistent with the lay
led of God" and which testified that 18th
OIL evils to which the slave is always expos
Fat ed, often take place 10 their very ror!
six degree and form; and when all of ther
las do not take place, still the slave is DE-
sh- prived of his natural right, degraded as
for human being, and exposed to the DANCE
ely of passing into the hands of a maste
ere who may infict upon him all the harl
ely ships aud injuries which inhumanity an
ley avarice may suggest" Since the separ;
ba- ton of the General Assembly, the lea
un- ing influences of both parts have thong
)O,- it best to abstain from all action while
for might displease the upholders of sy
cen tenn which violates the most preciol
/, 10 rights of human nature as we'll as Il
hat law of God. On one side we are to
r Of tina, the peace of the church was sacr
My feed to keep peace with Shareholders, ar
,iv- that the old school party is pure fro
on, abolitionism; on he other we see tho
red ough-going defender of slavery transla,,
our from Richmond to Philadelphia to taI
has charge of newspaper, which propos
ort- TO make itself the principal organ of Il
om- new school party. Are we mistaken
ons supposing that the great body of Pre-
the byterians cannot much longer be led |
- men who cast off and contemn its solem
ish- ly recognized obligations to the slave O.
va One Presbytery, that of Chilicothe, Oh
hat we understand, has already Withdraw
Wv and established itself on q thorough
ala antl-slavery basis.
'wd At the same time the southern PORTO
MIS- of the church are endeayorino to oct ,
eral OF The lntolerable restraints of human
the and honesty, by declaring their indeper
at, ence. For this purpose paper has be
lted established in Charleston, ana we me
TO with expressions from many minor bodi
II 10 IKE the following resolution passed
the Presbyterian church of Petersbu,
the Virginia.
ooo "ResOtUed, That as shareholders,
=, cannot consent longer to remain in CO
col nexion with any church where the
now exists statute comforting the right I'D
Is slaves to arraign their masters before /
ana Judiciary of the church, and that too
lent the act of selling them without their co
II IS sent first had and obtained.'
will A similar influence Is At ,xorL - hr;
ered the Methodist Episcopal Church 10
as SUnD0rt Of ell 7Nh., A