Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-31

pie. You are in full fellowship with
ministers at the South, and
their more guilty apologists at the North. I
For ten long years we have been Iaooring
to awaken an interest in our churches IN
behalf of the bleeding slave, Labor
enough has been done in New-England,
to have made every church, as such, the
infexible foe of oppression as It exists at
the South, had it pot been Tor the mighty
opposition that has been constantly thrown
in the way, by the pulpit 1t has come to
be mere truism, that the 6rmest pillars
of the bloody Moloch, are the protessed
ministers of Jesus Christ. Aud in no
part of the northern States have those
ministers shown themselves more SUBJ
servient to the will ofsonthern slave-breed-
ing ministers and others, than in Boston
and vicinity. With ycur blood stained
feet on the necks of three millions OF your
brethren you are deliberately talking of
8. ceasure' and resumption Of license"
Recreant to the interests of ny Re-
deemer's kingdom should be, 10 rec
ognizc such men as the ministers of
Christ. Brethren, | know full well how
the warning will be received, but sill |
warn YOU to REPENT. God has contro-
verse with you in relation to the awful
sin of enslaving millions of your own
brethren, and compelling them to live in
state of absolute heathenism, concubin-
age and adultery, robbing them of every
thing, wives, (such but in NAME children,
all the endearing relations Of life, and
even manhood ITSELF to crafty the cupid
ity of an un righteous masterhood. The
Christianity go~ profess and teach, has
less of humanity In it, than has the re!ig-
ion ofthe Seminole savage. He bef'iends
| the slave, and gives him cheerful well
come to his wigwam, while you and most
of those under your pastoral care, are deaf
as the adder to his woes. Search The
heather world, ancient and modern, and
you look in vain Tor system of abomiha.
TONS SO horrible as that OF American slave
ry. And yet you baptize, and admit it
to full church communion and church
| fellowship The Roman with heart of
steel, had bis god of war, and the fero
cious VandaI his god of vengeance but
on none Of their hills reeked an altar with
incense to slavery-toving divinity. Did
| the Nine Sisters ever hold do IlIance with
the demon of slavery Was Apollos
Tyre ever tuned 10 his praise2 Did ever
the wild harp of northern minstrelsy, in
all its long buried melodies, indite hymn
to the blood sweled vampyre2 No, neU-
er, NEVER. Never was pro slavery
Deity worshi2ned, till the $50 cailed)
Christian coffle was forged, and the
(misnamed) evangelical thumb-screw was
invented, and human flesh had Kissed be-
meath the initializing branding iron of
gospel (what impiety y chattleship. And
now you call upon US to fall down and
adore such God, or be subject TO CEN
sure and to resumption Of license to
preach the gospel, or accommodate from
the church, Brethren, you knouo you can
| not deny it. ..".."
| For three hundred years your Christian
! ity has been enawing like vullnre on
the vitals of Africa, and tearing from her
bosom her sons and her daughters, to sup
| ply the Christian slare market. Her
1 NdihhSS nave OSSIl UOiHo VII the LEduS
winds. to the ends of the earth. And vet
Doctors of American Divinity, are divided
on the question whether slouerg IS sin
| And even those who feign to believe it is,
are By a strange and unaccountable 81.
lence in relation to it, more guilty, if pos.
sble, than are those who doubt.
| | have on y to repeat, do not recog
nize as Christianity, that which is pro
fessed and taught by the great body ofthe
ministers of our land. | have confined
my remarks atthis time wholly to slave,
ry, hut / have other accounts TO settle
when slavery shall be abolished LIE
your inumated threat Of censurc' and de
privation OF license by your scribe. b,
carried into full execution. / shall stii
preach the gospel Of Christ, and oy hi
grace, wash my hands from all partici
patton in your guilt on the subject of slave
ry; and in the last day, be swift witnes
agains' you, unless goa repent. Brethren
regard this as my letter Of solemn excom
municatioL of you, anc my work wit
you is done. 90 now to the lost shee
on the mountains, to unfold to them tn
treasures OF the gospel.
PARKER PILLsBURY.