Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-06-02

EettOWSHlP AHeICloIe
Resolued, That we hereby express our /:
otter detestation Of the principles, accusa-
ions and threats contained in the Adj
dress to Southern Bap.ists" believing
Them to be ankiad, untrue, uHehTistian
and unseriptnrGL.
RESOLYED2 2. THAT IN THE
EVENT OF THE BAPTIST GEN
ERAL CONVENTION. AT THEIR
NEXT MEETING, REFUSING TO
EXPRESS THEIR DETERMINE
TON TO WITHDRAW THEIR
CORPORATIONS IN EVERY |
WAY WHATEVER WITH THOSE |
FANATICS OF THE NORTH, WE
RECOMM MEND TO OUR BRETH-
Rem OF THE SOUTH TO ADOPT
MEASURES FOR OPENING A
CHANNEL BY WHICH OUR
CHEERFUL BENEFACTIONS
MAY BE CARRIED TO THE PER
ISHING HEATHEN. THATTHEY
MAY RECEIVE THE WORD OF
LIFE. .....
RESOLVED 8. THAT WE
THINK ELON GALUSHA, ORSON
s. MURRAY, CYRUS P. GROSVEN-
OR, AND THEIR COADJUTORS
IN THE BODY, SELF-STYLED
THE AMERICAN BAPTIST AN
TI-SLAVERY CONVENTION."|
SHOULD SHARE THE SAME Elk
COMMUNICATION WHICH THEY
so FREELY AND SO UNFEEL-
INGLY EXERCISE TOWARDS
THEIR BRETHREN AT THE
SOUTH. .s ...=
Rssotueed, L. That we recommed to
our brethren at the South to speak out
their sentiments fully and fearlessly on
this subject, and let the Northern Bsptists
know distinctly that ice cannot cooperate
t1ith those aoho thus stigmatize and e.
communicate US.
| Resolved 5. That the Clerk is hereby
authorized to forward to Cyrus P. Gros-
venor, and to The Secretary and Tressur-
er of the Baptist Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, one copy each of our Minutes
And in conclusion, adUise the CHURCHES of
this Association TO be strictly cigttant In
admitting Northern preachers into their
pulpits, and ad1ise them to examine their
credentials, and put the question pointcdLy
to them, aohetheT they are Abolitiontsts or
not for we fear that after those inham-
matory libels shall have been circulated.
!. some of those fanatics will transform
themselves into '.Angels of light" and
endeayor TO apply the torch of destruction
to US
These resolutions need no comment by
} US; the reader will make his OVID.
Our Abolition brethren (aoe we're mol
; there) quietly endured the fiery ordeal
| But the Union is dissolved, and dissolved
, by the power of slarsry. Shareholders
: avowed their determination to dissolve j.
/. and they have succeeded and now the
: Triennial Convention consists of Slave
: holders and such Northern men as have
0 consented to the deed of them" tt
talk of the propriety of withdrawing from
that body is. therefore, an absurdity.-
They have thrust US out We expected
: i. and are not disappointed. Neither. S:
| long as the support of slavery is requirec
|, as a qualification for membership on tn,
e Board, and even for having a representa-
: ton in it, as in the case of Maine, do W,
l. at all regret the separation. 1t is don,
u and cannot be undone. The wound il
: made and can never be healed, until Slave
e ~ is no more in the Baptist Churches o
t America.
j A fact fraught with much instruction
5 10 the Northern apologists and defender:
! of slavery. may here be stated. After S.
: Fl. Cone had consented to be made the
5 instrument of the Shareholders for accom-
ptishng their scheme. he having acted, a:
!, he himself admits in letter written or
: the Monday previous to the Convention
T in the capacity OF the Chairman of tht
t committee appointed in the Shareholders
I cauous for carrying the paciication schem,
: into efect,-after thus faithfully serving
the south, he himself was thrown aside
by the same men, and w. B. Johnson, {
STAKEHOLDER of South Carolina, was, b,
: Southern votes, elected in his place, a:
4 President of the Convention.
: 1t now becomes every true-heartec
:, Baptist Abolitionist to inquire 10 the feal
of God, what under all the circumstance:
ought to be done. s. If any are fearful
!, and afraid, let them return - but th,
e friends of the slave, who love truth AMI
e righteousness more than their own pres
: ent ease and popularity, will have but on,
I answer TO give. The noble spirit mani
Z tested by Paul. as described 10 the 37tl
: verse of the 10th chapter of the Acts, i
e by no means unworthy of Abolitionists ii
/ the Baptist Churches at this crisis for
d though modesty and ineekness well be
g come men and ought never TO be lost sigh
of. it has often occurred that duty TO Ger
: and his cause has required of his people ;
a frmness which no terrors could intimi
3 date, and perseverance which no earthI,
e obstacles could renress. Iorl hath q