Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-11-10

tory society ever ContenuS suSuSseiu.y
apains, practices which it tolerates IN It's !
members,l but such decision. ifpersist-
ed in. and carried out into practice, would
make our churches and the missionary
generations connected with them, so many
ORGANIZATIONS and instruments for the prop
aqation of pro-slayery religion, both at
home and abroad.
For the act of receiving or permanently |
retaining pro-slaveyy members and min
listers in the churches, or extending to
them religious fellowship and support, or
remaining in connexion with oro-slavery
religious bodies, after suitable and unsuc-
cessful efforts for their amendment, would
be saving, in the strongest possible lang
/ VA ge, that there is nothing in the practice
or defence of slaveholding that is inconslst-
ent with credible profession Of the Chris
tan religion. The religion we prop
agate abroad cannot be expected to be more
. pure than that which is maintained at
home. And if we take the negative side
! of the questions, and act accordingly, our
missions to the heather, if successful,
: would be the propagation throughout the
i world Of Christianity not Inconsistent
3 | with slaveholding. But such is not the
/ Christianity Of the Bible-the Christianity
! that saves men from sin. 1t is not the
: Christianity tha. the Head of the Church
. intends to have propagated in the ca Ith-
q and he viii not fail TO bias. any such at
tempts.
= Equally manifest is it that our civil and
e religions Liberties in America, cannot be
!. maintained but by the presence of reli.
n gion that practically regards the question
j. Of human rights test question. 1t is ad
NJ United that our liberties must be preserved
i. by our religion if preserved at all. Blu
how shall a religion preserve liberty tina
IL does not regard and treat the violation o
4 liberty as san? What if it shall appea
). that we lave sort of religion among u
20 that has done, and will do nothing tor lh,
3 liberty of the enslaved nothing lin time
I'd of mob law, and of threatened endctmen,
IS, against freedom of speech, and in times 9
lit the actual prostration OF nations right {
he petlion) for the liberties of the free
! / What il il shall have been found proclaim
he ING that the friends of the liberty ar
q. Justly liable to the highest civil pena
ed ties and ecclesiastical cersures. ?" VII;
de if its ecclesiastical censures" should +
re- profusely dispensed2 What if it teache
he from its highest seats that chattel SLAYER
lee is " Bible institution What ifit oper
its doors to slaveholding ministers fro
a the South, for the propa CATION Of this do
lis trine, while it bars them against tho
rs. who would expose and confute them, d
re- ciaring them TO be "disturbers of Il
70. peace of the churches"2 What if it shs
Tic. have come to pass that a proposal to r
ese gard the sin Of despotism as presenting
ne, les, question shall be denounced, on his
ali authority, as cool attempt 40 drive Il
oc. ploughshare of divisioa through our mort
AXE ern churches. :.
ain Ii Jefferson did not err in saying tn
ers the Liberties Of people could only be pr
-ent served by "convlction that those lIbe
for ties are the gift of God--that they are n
ts," to be violated but with his wrath" then
See follows that religion that excommur
Gates despctism is the only adequate sal
be- guard of our freedom. And shall '
nds place lower estimate upon religion TIL
add did that sceptical statesman2
re- Literary and Theological Review.