Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-11-17

there Is no room or power ie1t tor arriving
at any just estimate of the comparatively
superior worth and efficiency Of right meas
uTes. How long will moral and religious
guides and teachers govern themselves, and
so far as their influence goes govern man
kind, in morals and religion, by worldly
policy and dollar-and-cent principles
In the course Of the argument in support
of reform, when the final question was pend
ing, allusion was had TO the resolutions
already adopted, Withdrawing fellowship
and association 10 tie pulpit and at the
communion table. 1t was con,ended by the
advocates Of separation that consistency
would require all those who would separate
from given sin and the sinners, 10 the pull
pit and at the communion table, to separate
from the same sin and sinners on the mis-
sionary platform. This view was opposed
by the Professor with st.enuousness and
vehemence amounting almost to desperation.
He saw and felt the lameness, at this point,
Of those a5olilionists who were against The
separation on the missionary platform. The
inconsistency was glaring, and nothing
would hide il but parade Of words, which
he appeared TO think himself particularly
qualified to make. But let il be remarked,
understood and remembered that the plea
was manifestly not for himself, but for 9TH
ers. 1t will be remembered that brother
Thresher, for the sake Of the argument"
allowed slaveholding TO be sinful. do not
recollect to have heard Professor Sears al
low even SO much. Whether he did or not,
neither he Eor brother Thresher avowed the
sentiments Of the resolutions to be theirs,
separating from Shareholders in the pulpit
and al the communion table. No. They
did not either Of them do any such thing as
to ayow that they withheld the last particle
of christian fellowship, al any point, or in
any manner, from shareholders. Not they
The inconsistency they were endeayoring
to conceal (for they were together in the
thing) was no. their own. 1t was the in
consistency Of those abolitionists who had
taken two steps, and were hesitsting about
taking the third like unto the others. They
knew better, to be sure, than TO oppose Yer
mont abolitionists in regard to the other two
steps-separation in the pulpit and at the
communion table. They feared that oppo-
sition here would cause failure in the
whole. The pro-slaveryism would be too
glazing. So they concealed their own SEN
timents in regard to the former steps, and
rallied on the latter. Let the few who
suffered themselves to be taken by such
craftiness open their eyes upon their own
inconsistencies and the company they have
chosen. Their inconsistency is just this /:
Shareholders are not ct to join them in
preaching, and associate with them at the
communion table, here at home-but they
are fiji to join them and associate with them
in preaching the gospel abroad. The COM
pany they are in have Withdrawn no man
ner or degree of fellowship from slavery or
shareholders, in things at home or abroad.
Their position briefly defined, then, is pre-
cisely this:-They have hold of the left
hands Of those who have given their right
hands to shareholders and slavery.
In the course of the Professors heated
remarks against division and dividers, be
let off broadslde against Anti, Masonry,
for having formerly divided the church.
But he soon found that Vermont was the
wrong place to reproach the memory of
Morgan. So, when he saw the Indignation
rising he arose and avowed himself an
Anti Mason! Now look at his consistency.
An Anti-Mason reproaching Anti Masonry
for the legitimate workings of Masonry !
II he were in fact and in heart an Anti
Mason, why did be make Anti-Masonry
accountable for Masonry's sins2 So in re-
gard TO slavery. did not hear him make
any pretensions TO Anti-Slavery. Whether
ne makes any such pretensions or not,
slavery must be accountable for the division.
Without slavery there could be no Anti
Slavery. Without Anti Slavery there could
be no purifying Of the church from this
enormous sin-no relief Cor the crushed and
perishing slave.
A great part of the Professors speech
pertalned to the Baltimore Convention af-
fair. He had succeeded admirably in the
woodstock Association, in turning & hold
ing attention to that point, and in plasteripe
the matter over so as to convince the l.retb-
rem there that no very bad thing was done
at Baltimore, after all. Therefore we ouch,
to heep u2 our connection with the foo, Gin
and the incorrigible sinners. AT Water.
bury ne could not make either his issne ~
his logic to bear. The lat,a.