The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-11-30
Mr.. Pierpoint and the Hollis Street Church
n, your associate,
and fellow laborer,
WIS TAPPAN.

Mr.. Pierpoint and the Hollis Street Church.
The enemies, not OF exciting liquors OIL. excite
mobs, but exciting QueStionsn the Hollis st. church
voted to request their pastor to ask dismission
tie would not, and gave strong reasons; at tn
same time proposing TO refer subjects of diferenc
to a mutual council. The enemies of discussion
Of course they wanted no council AS their las
move, they have held a meeting, and appointed
a committee to devise the thing to be done. 4
majority OF that committee reported vote II
dismiss the pastor summarly and peremptorily
That vote was to be acted on the 18th of Novem
Der. The majority report as against one of the
most distinguished ornaments of his city ant
country,-a man who honorS his church more
than it could possibly honor him, is a curiosity
1t deserves to be bottled up in some great "cornel
stone" as specimen OF pro-rum and pro-slavery
literature and logic We give a sample of it
Here is at least one aboitionist who is man oil
more than one idea; and it would seem from
their list of exciting topics that the Hollis street
folks want a pastor without any ideas at all
They say
1t is we'll known that he was settled as oul
minister with the understanding, as in like cases
that we should receive his undivided attention
having, as all will allow, an unusually large
salary, at least for those days-and while he con
fined himself to his ministerial duties, it is believ
ed that no fault was found-but when his atten.
ton was drawn from those duties by the making
of books, and the manufacture of Store and ScreacS
and RAZOR sTRAPs-and by his entering into coer9
exciting topic that the ingenuity Of the fanatic al
home, or the imported mountebank could coniure
up to distract and disturb the public mind, such
as imprisonment for debt, the militia lalO anti
masonry, phrenology temperance, and last of all
and above all, The abolition Of sIaUery question
which threatens more than all else the destruc.
ton of our Glorious UNION, it would be wonder.
full indeed if his people were made of such mate
rails as to sit quietly and tolerate such freedom
We believe, that if the public were to decide the
question, it would say at once, that no man could
follow all these occupations and attend, day and
night, to all these exciting Subjects and still be a
faithful minister of the Gospel A6o.
Mr.. Pierpoint, in his reply, goes at full length
into the discussion of all these topics, which he
handles in mastery and satisfactory manner
calculated to make his enemies feel exceedingly
ashamed. Our limits allow room only for his re.
marks on the 9th of the " exciting topics"
SLAVERY.
No. 6. Last of all, and above all, the abolj-
ton Of Slavery, a question which threatens more
than all else, the destruction of our GLoRIous
UNION
~ cannot but think, gentlemen, that in this
cause of offence, the Fears Of your colleagues, that
look before, are stronger than their facts that lie
behind them. What are the facts in this case
The abolition of slavery has never by me, been
made the subject of discussion in my pulpit, in
any such sense as is ordinarily conveyed by the
term, discussion. 1t has, in very few instances,
been alluded to, or named, in conEexion with 9th.
er questions of public interest, and, on one occa-
sion, not in a sermon, in stating 10 my people
some considerations that had prevented me from
discussing, or discoursing at large upon, the sub
Jet of ant-slavery, made brief declaration Of
sentiments upon it, merely, as told them at the
time, to show that had no concealments, but ra-
Their wished to have it understood exactly what my
feelings upon that question were. These sta
ted in the following words, as nearly as | could
afterwards write them down,-'If am asked
whether | am abolitonst or not. my answer will
depend upon what is meant by ian abolnonst.'
II the inquirer means member Of any society,
association or party, organized for the abolition Of
slavery as political paryI am not an abolitionst.
But IT, by IAN abolitionist" he means one who
has most cordial deestaton of Slarer9, in all its
phrases and rms-personal and domestic poiti-
cal and spiritual, and one who with this feeling
would have all forms of slavery Immediately abol-