Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-08-04
REPORT OF SPEECHES. 3
Eceaiag Session at the CAardoa Street

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w. l.. GARRISON said: [ am sure
that | shall tell nothing new to most CT
those present, when l say, that | all
wearied and WORKOUT in three days
struggle for the emancipation Of our ttl-
low-cTeatures, who are enslaved on the
American soil, would, therefore. gladly
be excused-solely 90 this account--trom
speaking on this occasion. The resolve
which have to present, however, is one
which will render long speech from me
unnecessary. It is as follows:
ResotUe2, That the cause Of Moral Re-
form, in this impure age and country, Is
one in which all who are pure in heart,
must instinctively feel deep Interest -
That those who assail it, or stand aloof
from it, give evidence that they arc stran-
gers to virtue THAT the great body of
the American Clergy, in view of their
high religious profession, are deserving
of special Reproduction for their criminal
silence IN relation to the awful profigacy
of the country THAT the American peo-
pie in annuliing by their impious Slave
| System, the marriage institution among
three millions OF their number, and con-
signing them to state of universal IiceE-
tiousness and brutal pollution, show them
selves possessed Of a spirit of profigacY
scarcely surpassed BY the abandoned in-
habitants of Sodom and Gomorrah,s and
may, like them, unless they repent, expect
the retributive visitation of Heaven
The formation Of the various reforma-
tory associations Of the day, notwithstand-
ing we may gladly hail their appearance,
must be looked upon with feeling Of
sadness, as furnishing so many proofs of
thespurious character of American Christ
ianity. Genuine Christianity would re-
quirc no special efort-no separate or
ganization, to carry out the principles of
Anti-Slavery, or of any other moral or So
cial Reform; for it would, of necessity,
make clean work of every thing which
is offensive to God, or injurious osman.
But American Christianity is not of this
character. 1t leaves untouched the work
WHICH Christianity should do, and there
fore it is that Anti-Slavery, Moral Re-
form, and other kindred associations, are
| necessary. do not look upon any OF
these societies as embracing all the prin-
ciples of the Gospel. but each one is well
adapted to the work for which it is espec-
iallv Instituted and each in its ownsphere
may be considered as John the Baptis,
in the wilderness. crying, "Prepare We
the way of the Lord Make his paths
, straight !"
Worn down as 1 am, with previon.
exertions, am yet happy to have it in
my power to speak in this cause-happy,
: because it IS good cause, aud especially
SO, because II is an unpopular one. La
dies, The great, and the horored, those 10
5 high standing, aud of mighty influence,
: do not appear 10 cheer you On in your Ia
bors; but, like the Prizes, and the LevIte,
| they pass coldly by on the other side. The
! Clergy, when your cause or your society
is mentioned, are silent, like dumb dogs;
sslor if they open their mouths, it is nc.
boldly to reproVe the vice, which needs TO
/ be put away, and those who are guilty Of
J it, but 10 bark at you, and at all, who. like
you, are faithful in the cause OF moral
: purity. Yet notwithstanding this desef-
e lion of those who should be your alliez
e yon are not without friends. You 6Bc
: chem among the pure in heart, who, tho
e they may be few in number, and lowIy in
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