The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-24

giiStened with Joy. FROM thls case IL might oe
seen that if the churches would come out honest
ly and not leave slavehodIng hiding place nor
rest ill the monster had breathed its last gasp,
then would the religion of the Son of God stand
in the pure light of her own native heaven, and
no man would be so presumptuous as to say that
she sanctioned the most foul and abominabe filth
that the nosrils of man had ever smelt
Mr.. Tappan desired to state one fact A young
man from the North was laboring as hired hand
on board a vessel in the port of Charleston and at
the close Of the day handed religious tract to a
colored man who had been laboring with him.
For this offence he was next day arrested and put
upon his rial--yes-for the crime of giving tract
to his fellow laborer He stated to the Judge
that he had not been aware Of the existence of any
law prohibiting such an act: that he had been ac-
cusomed to give away tracts and had no ld'a OF
committing any offence in so doing. The mag
istrate said in reply, {" believe your story have
no doubt you did it with the best intentions !;
but we have law, and it is my duty to execute
it," whereupon he sentenced the young man TO be
confined iu the common jail for SIT months. Dur
ING the same period the American Tract Society
acknowledged the receipt of $1,000 from the Tract
Society at Charleston. Both facts had been pub
ished, and went abroad to Europe. He believed
the statement to be true; he had never heard it
contradiccd. He hoped the reporter would re-
port this statement in full that the American peo-
pie might see the monstrous inconsistency. He
had forgotten to state thatthe donation was spe-
cial one, {" for distribution among the heather in
foreign lands"
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
The Convention met and was opened with
prayer
The first resolution reported by the business
committee was still under discussion.
Mr.. Denison read quotation from a newspa-
per emitted the Baptist Advocate, in confirmation
of the statements made at previous sitting, by
the Rev. Mr.. Brown. He said that not one word
was allowed to enter this Baptist religious iourn-
al, although the Baptist denomination had hun
dreds and thousands of members in the West In
dies, where the abolition enterprise had been
crowned with such signal success. All this was
carefully kept out of sight. He further stated that
the Philadelphia Religious Telegraph, established
as the organ of the new school party in the Pres
byteran church had been expressly pledged to ST.
lence on the subject of slavery.
The latter statement was fully confirmed by
the President of the Convention.
Mr.. Bradley, of Philadelphia, explained on the
same subject. He said that the Telegraph had
formerly been published at the South, but an e.
Emergency in the Presbyterian church having re-
quired the united strength Of certain churches at
the North and South, to carry the new school
party, the Telegraph was united with another re-
ligious paper called the Philadelphia Observer
and the southern editor had been transferred from
the South to Philadelphia 10 take charge of the
two papers thus amalgamated into one, under an
express pledge given by the patrons of northern
paper to the patrons of the southern, that if they
would consent to the union of the two, the new
choul1 ut touch m tho cnhioct of ell
Mr.. Mellen, of Boston stated as reason, why
the churches of every religious denomination
should purge themselves from the contamination
OF slavery, that certain minister at the South
not only held and sold slaves, but actually owned
n slave who was himself a minister. When one
minister of Christ prolessed to own another as
his property it was time for the churches to speak
out.
Mr.. Patton, of New York, farther explained
respecting the pledge given by the Telegraph and
Observer. He stated that Rev. Mr. Barnes, who
stood high with the new school party, had exerted
his infuance in ellecting the arrangement, but the
pledge had been given, not to crafty the wishes
of the people Of the South but of those residing
in Philadelphia who were apprehensive that Mr..
Converse, the editor, would otherwise pursue the
same course at Philadelphia which he had at
the South in the promulgating of pro slavery SEN
timcnts.
Mr.. Neal, of Philadelphia, said that he had
lately been travelling in the State of Delaware,
and on his return approached an ancient grave
yard, in which beloved relation had been few
months inferred. The ground lay open and ex-
posed to the road murmurng brook made its
way down ravine under the dark shades of some
copsewood while the only sound which interrupt
ed its murmurs the lonely note of the wood
robin. Wishing to visit the grave of his relation,
ne alighted and made his way to the spot where
1t was said to be, and there he found in state of
RUIN and dapidation a stone chimney, together
with portion of wall which had once formed
the side OF Westinghouse of the Friends Socie-
ty. The meeting had once numbered from two
to our hundred members. 1t had recently been
sold for Fifty dollars to dealer in the Mcrus Null
tlcaulis. He need not ask why--he need not inquire
why no meeting had been held on that spot for
eight years. The resolution would tell why. Sa-
very was there, and as it was well known that
their religious principles were utterly opposed to
slavery, whose influence was always aggressive,
they had been gradually driven out from their
ancient possessions, until their sanctuary was ru.
IN, and the enclosure which contained the sacred
ashes of the dead lay open without a wall to eve
ny beast of the field While there. he had search
ed for another grave, it that Of his own grand