Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-12-02
;e.;,o 6del;,v to God and mankind They

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know that God hates robbery for offerlng.-
And they know equally well that many of
he offerings mingled with theils are rob-
bery-are the proceeds OF unrequlted labor
arc wrung. by the hands that bring them,
from their robbed and heathenized slaves.
They feel in duty bound to protest against
spch robbery. extortion, and heathenizing,
and 10 rebuke those who. commit such sin
AGAINST God-such outrage upon their fel- [
low beings. And they know OF no one
better or more effectual way tosenter. such
protest or express such rebuke, than TO
withdraw connection and alliance from the
guilty. until they repent How can they
do less and be consistenl9
who that upholds the withdrawal of the
! Baptists from the American Bible Society,
will not Justify the withdrawal of Baptist
aboIiiionisis from alliance with those whose
hands are full Of robheues and stained with
innocent blood? The former was no ADAM
donrnent of the Bible cause. The latter Is
no abandonment Of the Missionary cause,
or of any other benevolent work 10 which
! we have had all lance with extortioners.-
The plea that union is strength is TO be met
in one Of these cases, precisely as II Is IN
1.-THE other Forced and unnatural unions,
and unhoIy alliances, having no foundation
in truth or righteousness, will not stand
To undertake TO weld iron and clay, or &c
make FIRE and wafer dwell together. is &c
fight against nature To undertake 10 unite
f truth and falSehood, liberty and slavery,
right and wrong, is 10 fght..against God
) Such attempts at union are not productive
; of strength. Union is not strength, exeeP
there be a consistency Of the parts to be
united. The friends Of the American anc
Foreign Bible Society maintain that they
have not only done their duty in breaking
| up the unholy alliance, and leaving the ole
! institution, but that they have, by this di
rision, Strengthened the cause in which
they are engaged. Baptist aboIi,ionist>
look-and, they contend, with good reason
for the same results from their breaking
alliance with robbery and unrighteousness.
But the Board will al least have as mucE
r trouble with the Shareholders as with th,
abolilionists. They can no more reconcile
the former TO the latter, than they can Iht
latter to the former. The Shareholders make
it as much sin in aboIiionists to denounct
sIavehoIding, as the aboIltionists make il &
/ sin in them TO be in the practice of slave
holding. On the subject Of slaveholdng
= the shareholders view their own sentiment:
and practices and those Of tbs abolitionists
to e peril city at ENTHUSIASTICALLY irrecon
>, cilable- indomirably antagonislic. They
do rot look for any reconciliation. The
see and know that the one or the other mu
# undergo radical change, and that the soon
e er it is effected the better. The slavehold
e ers are far more rational in all this, than tn
y Board in undertaking to reconcile them an
= the aboltionists. Truly the Board hav
undertaken a thankiess task. For thei
j. counsel will be rejected both at the Sout
s and the North.
. . II the Board can satisfy themselves tina
- 1t Is their duty to let this grievous sin alone
v and hold the sinneS in fellowship and cor
nectlon; If they, Priest and Levi,e Ike. ca
persuade themselves to pass by in siIenc
on the other side, while one class Of thej
Professed brethren have another class b
t their throas in the ditch; if tbey will nc
, NEEDLE with system Of wholesale heath
v eh-maktng at homo, lest the domestic heath
: en-makefs refuse to cooperate with ther
# IN their enterprise against foreign heather
q ism; if they think to unite in peaceful ar
y profitable alliance and cooperation, tbos
: whose princiPes and practices are so pei
j tectly hostile, as those Of shareholders an
p aboliiOnis's; they must go on, until the,
q see their folly, their sin, and their delusioD
: The Board doubtless acknowledge tba
D slavery IS one of the most awful sins Tia
e any class of human beings now existing ar
e gully Of They would no doubt treat il q
t SANDER, If ii were to be reported that the,
I do not thus view it. Why then do the,
not tebvke it, aud take measures for lis re
moVai from the church and the world, in
stead OF tailoring to effect a compromise be
tween those who ale guilty of it and thos,
Y who oppose il?
l close with repetition Of the statemen
That there is no alienation, on the part o
D Baptist aboitionisss in general either from
: the cause Of Foreign Missions, Or of an,
: other work of benevoIence, for the salvation
I oil lost men. They would only h,eak all;