Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-05-27

ures as in their judgment will be best
fitted to carry out the principles & meas
ures in which we have all been agreed,
till within the last two years.
Yet, we can not but hope that the
American Society now on the eve of its
annual assemblage, will adopt such meas
ures as will effectually disencumber this
holy cause from all foreign and extrane-
Gus subjects. Belonging as we do, IN
different States, we are to very consid-
cradle extent, acquainted with the views
entertained by the fast friends of our
cause in those States. We know that
they are looking to the doings of your
body, at present, with intense interest, that
the single purpose of the Anti-Slavery
enterprise shall, by you, be so disincum-
bered and made to stand forth before the
American People with such pre-eminence
that all shall fully understand what is the
great and only object of its organization.
That you may be directed by wisdom
from above, and your present doings more
| eAectually than ever promote this object,
is the prayer of yours for the true and
the right
Joseph A. Merrill, johann Horton, Or
ange Scott, Frederick Upham. MassachW-
sets; Phineas Crandall, f. w. Stickney.
A. D. Merrill, Rhode Island; Ezekiel
Robinson. Benz Jones, Moses Hill, Dan'I
B. Randall, W. G. Larrabee, R. E. Bal
ley, Maine; J. F. Adams, J. Perkins, G.
d. Cahoon, S. Chamberlin, Jas. Temple
ton, Vermont and Neao- Hampshire iona.
Dodge, John Parker, Neao- York.
Letter from the Pittsburg and Azeghamy
Anti-Slavery Societies.
AT a meeting of members of the Old
Plttsburg and Allegheny A. S. Societies,
held In the first Baptist Church, Pittsburg,
on Tuesday evening, May S, by special
invitation, to consider subjects Of impor-
lance in regard TO the approaching ami
versary of the National A. S. Society, TO
be held in New. Y ork on the 18th inst.
Whereas, the members Of the above
societies, not being able from the pres
sure of the times to defray the expenses
OF delegate to the above named anniver-
sary, they consider it their duty TO express
their sentiments on some momentous sub
jects.
L Resolved, That we seriously depre-
cate the transfer of the Emancipator into
private hands; for other reasons, as well
as that recent events evidence the neces-
slty OF strict supervision by judicious
Executive; we also fully concur with the
sentiments of the protest of J. S. Gibbons.
g. Resolved, That we seriously dep
recate the destruction of the National A.
S. Society, under any circumstances what
ever, believing it to be the simplest and
most efficient organization that can be
devised for the overthrow of despotism in
our land.
IS. Resolved, That we most solemnlv
deprecate the scheme proposed in the
Emancipator, of forming an Independent
Board Of Commissions for the abolition
of American Slavery. like that of the A.
B. c. F. Missions, and the appointment
of such boards under their control, in the
different States, which are designed to
supercede the National Society, and the
different State Societies. We deprecate
such scheme, because it is anti repub.
lscan; 1t is monopoly of power; it will
become selfelected body, and therefore
irresponsible; it would be an oliearchy,
subject to the dangerous influences which
absolute power always engenders. We
see its sad results in the proposed model,
A. B. G. F. Missions for VINO would
| have conjectured, that that Board would
have held slaves, or have put gag on
their missionaries, in regard to slavery
and yet such, We have reason to believe,
has been the case.
/ 4. Resolved, That we lament the course
pursued by some oc the agents of the
National A. S.. Society, and also by the
Emanclpator, in giving countenance 10 the
deplorable divisions in the anti-slavery
cause in Massachusetts,
| 3. Resolved, That we would depre,ate
any steps as fraught with the spirit which
would exclude from our Society, the no.
| bic, self-denying men who. for conscience
sake, have disfranchised themselves: be-
ing convinced that such intolerance was
never contemplated at the National Con-
vention in 1883.
D. Resolved, That we deprecate the
formation of an Anti-Slaverv Political
Party, sensible that it would tend to sub
merge our moral power in the dead sea
OF selfish policy and worldly expediency.
=. Resolved, That we consider the
platform of the National A. S. Society,
as laid down in 1888. sufficiently ample
to admit all true friends of the oppressed,
without infringing on the rights of con-
science. We desire it may so remain,
and therefore solemnly deprecate all al
tempts to narrow the platform by forced
interpretations, or to lower the standard of
our holy enterprise.
Q. Resolved, That if it be not our
duty TO sustain political men who reGnsa