Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-24

ges in the arduous and Improbable work
OF re- converting their brethren, or OF raising
their standard above the position which i;
at first occupied. But fixed and lmmovaoIe
as are our principles, the measures, which
are the result of those principles, have with |
propriety been varied according as change |
Of circumstances has indicated the utility OF
assigning 10 one or another greater or less
degree of prominency. Hence the remov-
ing of obstacles thrown In our way by the
Colonization Society; the unlocking of
meeting house doors, closed against US by
lim:d or nercenary hrelings, or bigo,ed Sec
tarians the maintaining Of the right of free
discussion, and free press, in the face Of
lawless and brutal MODS; the right to an
equal privilege of the United States mail /;
the night of petition; church action, and po-
lilical aclion,-these and many other meas
ures have, each in their turn, demanded and
obtained different degrees of attention, at
different times, and In different sections, as
the interests Of the cause seemed to require
Ii is no, surprising that in an association
like that of the American Anti-Slavery So
ciety and its auxiliaries, embracing men
and women of almost all compilations,
creeds, and parties, extending over a wide
spread territory and requiring but one test
OF communion, there should be a great d.
versity of sentiment on many collatera
questions, and on the degree Of importance
which should be attached to different meas
! ures in order TO accomplish the same result
the overthrow Of slavery.
Whilst one, believing that the system o
. southern slavery is mainly upheld by tn
: support of northern churches, and therefore
e that church action is the all important weap
d on to be welded against it, may be jealous
IT ly engaged in trying TO close all the north
e ern pulpits agains: the slave holding minis
IL ter, and TO exclude the slave holding profes
y sor from the northern communion table:
le another equally confident that the ballc
D box is the most effectual instrument for il
4bolishment, may be as actively employee
le in enforcing the duty of all consistent abol
> tionists, who 60 10 the polls, to remembt
= there the bond-men as bound with them.
:" In these diversiIes of views and CORES
: pCndiLg action, there need be no contentio
!, among brethren-indeed there will be nom
;; so long as we all keep in view the origin;
:, conditions Of our association, and are col
tent that each should work in his own Wa
- to discharge his duty to the slave-so lor
as he does not by one act nullify his 9th
ali labors in his behalf-and so long as all STR
ad 10 maintain that spirit of charity witho
ITS which all our professions are but as SCUM
ity ing brass or tinkling cymbal.
be- Let us then strive TO walk together
he love. To labor yet little longer, with t
full assurance that if we faint not we sh
ich reap an abundant reward.
or ROWLAND T. ROBINSON Sec'y
fer AT the Annual Meeting of the A. S.
is of Ferrisburgh and vicinity, held 18th
'on month, 1889,
ate Voted, unanimously, that The Annual I
Us port, just read by the late Secretary,
adopted and offered for publication in
r. Voice of Freedom, Vermont Telegra
Vergennes Vermonter, and Zion's Wat
man.
'si- NICHOLAS GUINDoN, President
HENRY MILES, Secretary.