Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-17

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owed land. beseech my brethren to de-
sist from Juggling into this great and good
cause those collateral questions which oc-
casion strife and debate, and are diverting
attention from the main object. Ii any of I,
US are no-government men let US so rule
our own spirits, that we may escape, as
society. and as individuals, that desolation
which is as city that is broken down
and without walls II we have embrac-
ed the sentiments of the Non-Resistance
society, let us Unite with it, and labor I'M
der our own appropriate flag but as alb
oltionists, let us resist the Devil, that he
NAV fee from u.s. and no longer annoy
and harass our brother loving society, by
introducing alienation, discord, and divis-
ion. Fundamental principles should en-
gross our attention, that we may continue
with all the force of united and harmoni-
GUS action, to urge onward the glorious
cause of emancipation. Every press
friendly to abolition should hold it up be-
fore the people singly and alone, and
spread its unadulterated doctrines over its
pages, and infuse them into the readers of
its columns, until our good cause, divest-
ed of all extraneous matter, shall recon-
mend itself to every mans conscience, and
secure the hearty cooperation of ALL
MY prayer is that the National Conven-
ton may be instrumental in restoring har-
mony, and in inducing to strict and un.
divided adherence to first principles
Your friend and brother,
RYLAND FLETCHER.
MY brothers. exhortatons to unity are ap
: plicable to other ATTITUDES, more than tt
Vermont, and were probably designed fo
such application. There is great unanimi
l. ty among the abolitionis:s of Vermont
n True, there is variety of religious opin
t ions among the individuals who compos
i the abolitionists of Vermont. But, as
}. general thing, good degree OF mutual for
!, bearance has, as yet, been manifest, and
!. trust will continue. Far from US be tn
day when it shall be otherwise. And nea
at hand, the Lord grant, may be the day
. when our friends abroad may see eye to eye
l have a word Of reply to my brother
e where he throws the accountability for III
r present divisions among our friends abroad
lie more than think he ought, upon my Nor
er Resistance friends. BY acquainting hin
N self with the history of the case, he wi
r. find that, as general thing, the onset hs
a been made-as by himself in his preser
communlcation-by the enemies Of MOI
Resistance. Why, allow me to ask, shoul
= not the friends and members Of the No
" Resistance Society, who are members al:
10 of the Anti Slavery Society, be allowed,
1d their Anli-Slavery brethren who disagr'
of with them in regard to their Non-Resis
lis ance, to enjoy and proclaim their sentiment
M as Non Resistants, just as Baptists, Co
- gregationalists, Methodists, Friends, Ur
:. versalists, Temperance-men, &c. &C., wi
- belong to the Anti-Slavery Society, are &
" lowed to enjoy and proclaim their sen
ments on these subjects p
y My brother says: "Every press friend
} to abolition should hold it up before Il
iis people, singIy and alone, and spread its u
'n' adulterGted doctrines" &C., "until Q
III good cause, Invested of all ertrdneous mc
on ter" &c. ask my brother if am 10 U
derstand from this that, because the TIE
he graph is friendly to abolition," he wou
on require it to suppress its Baptist principle
:, or its Temperance principles? If not W
any more require it to suppress its Non-I
SiStGnce principles | can conceive of
W. answer that he can give, only that the for
TO- er two are popular, and the latter unpopul
cir Is this a good and sufficient reason with
= brother? l trow not. l protest that
I'M abolitionlsts who read the Telegraph hs
to no more right to find fault with my publ
and ing my Non Resistance principles, Il
no. with my publishing my Baptist princip
,ba or my Temperance principles. Furth
more, protest that my Anti-Slarery re
ers have no more right to require me to S
= rifce my Baptist principles, or my N
tue Resistance, or my Temperance princip
nu- than my Baptist, or my Non Resistaq
do or my Temperance readers have, to req,
Wis me 10 sacrifice my Anti SlaDery princip
ect- Further still, protest that no one Of til
ION. classes has right TO require me to suppl
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