Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-12-18

! VIZ tnot tue Wofk Will NOT be thorough
enough to cleanse the churches which enjoy these
REVEALS from the sou-destroying sin of slavery.
For the Vermont Telegraph
NEW VERSION.
TOWNSEND, Dec. 10, 1889.
The Fourth Resolution in the publish
ed report of the Quarterly Convention of
The VI. Anti-slavery Society, lately held at
Townshend, was enormously inserted, in
that report. The Resolution which aoas
passed, and which should have been the
one sent IS the following:
ResoLUed, That the colonization scheme.
though plausible IN theory, is impraclicable
and unjust in execution it was created and
IS upheld mainly by Southern influence.
Southern interests, and Southern munif
| cence, and is no doubt sincere in one of its
professionally has nothing to do with
Slavery HIN. GRAVES. Sec
Please give the above an insertion. The
illness of MIR. Graves family, as we'll as
the fact Of the error having arisen from
carelessness of my own, brings the correc-
ton from me- m. SH.Frpp
This very much, very much indeed alters the
case This looks more like an Anti-Slavery reso-
luton than the former. Happy to give the correc
ton.
The NATIONAL Who CONVENTION,
recently held at Harrisburgh, Pa, NOM
mated, for the next President of the Unit
ed States. VIM. Henry Harrison, of Ohio,
and for Vice President, John Tyler, of
Virginia.
Henry Clay may now see, doubtless.
that in his anti-abolition speech, in the
last Congress, he hung the milestone
about his own neck. The Convention
manltestly had too much discretion to ask
the abolitionized and abolitionizinq North
to vote for the man who estimates
millions of his fellow countrymen in dol
lars and cents-who is himself parri,i.
pator in the bloody system of slavery.
lending his influence for it's indefinite per-
petuity.
The MAINE BAPTIST CONVENTION
held It's Fifteenth Anniversary at Sede
wick, Oct 2, & 8, 1889. Calvin New
ton, President-E. r. Warren, Secretary.
The Treasurer's Report shows Sl493 81.
Number of Churches, 255-Ordained
Ministers, l83-Licentiates, 3l-Baptiz.
60 during the year. l2OO-Whole num-
Der OF commandments, 1919. Next sess-
ION TO De held with the I'd Baptist Church
in Thomaston.
~ Brother J. Laurence. of Perkins.
vile, is requested 10 act as agent for the
Telegraph.
AN APOLOGY for the lateness of the
appearance of the Minutes of the Conven-
ton. A heavy job of book-work, previ-
ously engaged, and commenced in the
summer, proving to be one-fourth more
volumlnous than was anticipated it be-
ing lmpracticab'e to employ sufficient
help in the Office to despatch it sooner
has caused the delay of the minutes. not
only OF the Convention, but of several o,
the Associations previously. trust tba,
such delays will be avoided in future. and
thank brethren, all around, for their ma.
thence. have heard no complaints-al
though | have expected them. If might
be permitted. however, to speak of the
habits of others who do such work,
might mention facts in mitigation, may
be, although not in paliation, of my own
present case-that is, if it may be any
; mitigation of an evil at home to know
that the same evil exists abroad! Th,
minutes of the Maine Convention, held a
week earlier than ours have but just ap
peared. The minutes of the Connect
cut Convention were much more tardy.--
The minutes of the New-York Conven
= ton, held week later. only, than ours
y are not yet received. But enough of this
t Our own minutes are now out of press
) and the clerks of the different Associa
: tons will do wei! to embrace early oppor
/. tunities TO send for tEemdo brother c. A
d Thomas, of this village.
ri CONGRESS-.
= The Presidents Message was expecte
l. in season for last weeks paper-mucI