Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-14

WAYS to be taken for granted that aboli-
tionists, ia their associated capacity, Will
act in good faith with each other, and not
drag in foreign questions for discussion
to the confusion and arrangement OF the
anti-slavery organizationi and because 1t
implies. what is not true, that antl-slayery
conventions have not heretofore been
strictly of an anli-slayery character.
He protests, in the third place, against
the assumption of the respected President
of the Convention, that the OBJECT of this
Convention is mainly, if not exclusively,
political; because no expression Of sentl-
ment, on this point. justifying such an as
sumption, has been made, either by the
American Anti-Savery Society, or any OF
! its auxiliaries; and because the under
signed believes, that the grand object OF
the Convention, in the eyes of American
abolitionists, was, to examine the question
of slavery as much In its religious as It's
political bearings; to bring the artillery
of truth to bear as powerful upon COR
rupt Church as upon a corrupt Statei and
to enforce the obligations resting upon
those abolitionists who are church-mem
bers, as strictly as upon those who use
| the elective franchise.
He protests, in the fourth place, agairs
the conduct of the Committee of Arrange
, ments, in refusing to explain, for the sat
isfaction of such delegates present al
} might be in doubt on the subject whom
4 they meant to include or exclude by tn
word en'-whether they meant b,
e it legal voters, or men on y, or all pei
n sons, who are abolitionists, without res
/ pect to sex, cline or condition. In de
: claring that they had no explanations t
;. make on this subject, the undersigned
} constrained to regard such conduct as M
only extraordinary, bu: as contrary to tn;
st frank and ma gnanimous treatment of eac
4 other and of their opponents, which. ha
is ever characterized aboltionists; and {
> evincive of spirit of moral timidit,
b which is afraid 10 take the responsible
Of It's own acts.
s. He protests, in the last place, again
in the vote of the Convention, by which OF
ID half of the most devoted, powerful al
successful advocates of enslaved human
to ty,-to wit, the anti-slavery women of Il
lr United States,-Were declared TO be di
I'd qualified or incompetent to sit as equ
ut. beings, in this assembly, or participate
they a,e WOMEN. For the first ii;
it. in the history of the anti-slavery ente
zee prise, it has been authoritatively decid
. by body of -Professed abolitionists, Il
the anli-slavery platform is not bro
we enough to contain all persons who {
&c. in favor of immediate and unconditiol
In. emancipation that human beings, aoi
I'VE out reference to seq, cannot properly
;av allowed to consult, deliberate and act
act gether, for the deliverance Of those W
On are held in-siavery; and that the call G
SON committee, inviting tfreemen' only
in meet in national convention, is in acco
anee with the wishes of the Ameri'
ais- Anti-Slavery Society, which recogni
the women as equally entitled by the tel
in of its Constitution, to participate In
proceedings with the other sex. In Vi
to of this extraordinary decision, on the |
the of those who profess to believe that,
the Christ Jesus, there is neither Jew
Greek, neither male nor female, but
is are one-and that it is the duty of all
ties sons to remember them that are in BIO
ner as bound with Them and to labor uni
,ro. ly for their deliverance; the undersig
be is compelled to regard the present c
nee vention as defective in its organizat
exclusive in its spirit. and therefore nc
H. strict accordance with the genius
ham scope of the anti-slavery enterprise.
" by All which is respectfully submitted
sert- M. LLOYD HARRISON
ught Albany, July 81, 1889.
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