Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-06-02
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
From the Christian Reflector
DOINGS AT BALTIMORE.


To those who have read with care the
report we have given In our paper, of the
doings al Baltimore, in the Trienuial
Convention, and who have read the Re-
fector for the last Eve or six months, it
would seem that nothing need be said, in
order to demonstrate that it has been the
settled purpose of Southern Baptists TO
exclude from all participation in the man.
agement of Foreign Mission affairs, all
such persons as were considered decided
ly favorable to the Abolition cause In our
churches. TRi. acas done. Elon Ga
lusha, Duncan Dunbar and J. 0. Choules
were excluded from the Board. We have
not yet seen list of the members of the
aew Board, but have learned that several
brethren who, but for their Abolitionism,
would probably have been elected. were
not-as Neale and TurnbulI. of Boston.
s. B. Swain, of Worcester, w. H. Bris-
bane, of Cincinnati, S. Adam. T. o. Lin.
coin, G. Newton, of Maine, (where 40
member is elected, as Maine is an Adolf
ton s,ate) and several others who might
be named, in other states.
To aid the South in accomplishing
their of-repeated threats OF having all
Abolitionists excluded from the Board,
Spencer FL. Cone of New York, and we
believe some others, attended the Slave
holders caucus held previous to the Tri'
ennial Convention, and agreed to the plan
of pGcifc0tioa. TUo tickets were pre-
pared and printed-one containing the
names of the former Board, The other not
having Their names of the three prescribed
members. The former of their tickets
was distributed in the Convention, and
afterwards. the later. This was the tos-
en-, the masonic sign, to the slave holders
and their Northern abettors. They uu-
derstood it; and so without a word said,
the exclusion was effected A few ques-
tions were, indeed, put by some, whether
members had come instructed to effect
such exclusion, and, astonishing as Il mus.
be to every one acquainted with these facts,
these questions We're answered 10 the neg
attire BY Southern men. :
Such instructions had been roted by
several southern bodies and had been pa
lished in the Southern papers and copied
into the Reflector. The South had de-
clared that with such men as Grosvenor,
Galusha and their co.workers,' they
would no longer cooperate.
As it is our purpose, at an early date,
| to prepare an exposition of the facts IN the
case, which will more fully evince the
falseness Of the southern deniais at Balti-
more. and the turpitude of he secrel
maneuvering in the Convention for thrust
ing out the abolitionists. we shall at pres.
ent only copy from "the Minutes Of The
Twenty fourth Anniversary of the Betn
lehem Baptist Association (Aia.) held
Sept 25th-28lh, ls40," the following
record of that body:
Appointed Brethren Travis, X. Haw.
thorn, Bonham, Schrebel and Reeves, .
Committee to present to this BODY such
resolutions as In their opinion NAV be
proper, touching the Address of the
American Anti Slavery Convention y o.
New York. signed by Elon Gaiusha. as
President. and O. s. Murray, Secretary
which instrument has been sent to mos
o. the Ministers of this Association
Whereupon the Committee presented the
following Preamble s. Resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted.
Whereas certain paper called e The
Christian Reflector, Extra" has been for
warded TO many Of US as Pastors Of
Churches; which paper contains SEMI
ments abhorrent to our views, and certain
threats against Us, as holders of slaUes, we
feel that il is our duty to express oul
views. on this subject. We think our.
selves compelled 70 declare against men
who misrepresent and sllnder as-who