Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-05-04

that green must not be mixed with lime.
The lime destroys the color, and the color
has an effect ON. the whitewash which
makes it crack and peel
When walls have been badly smoked,
and you wish to have them clean white,
it is well to squeeze indigo plentifully
through a bag into the water you use
before it is stirred ia the whole mixture.
II a larger quantity than five gallons
is wanted, the same proportions should
observed. l.. M. CHILD. =
4. From the Friend Of Man.
FOREIGN HIIssIONS-THE IS AMERICAN
BOARD,'' sc.
NO. l. =.
Mr.. EDIToR,-N has seemed to me
that when abollionists object TO the sup
port.of the A. B. G. F. NJ, they are not
wont to state, as fully as they might do,
the strong grounds of objection against
that Board. - Fl. -
It is not merely because the Board per-
sists in soliciting the contributions ofslave-
holders, that l, for one object to support.
ing It,. 1t might do this from mere mo-
tives of policy, since it is we'll known and
admitted that the Board suffers more from
the loss of anti-slaVery support than II
gains from the support OF shareholders.
Many circumstances might prevent the
Board from sending It's agents to the
South. 1t might cost more than the re-
ceipts. 1t might be difficult to obtain and
support agents. And yet these circum-
stances would not alter the character or
the position or the feelings or the prinel-
pies of the members of the Board.
1t is not merely because. in addition 10
soliciting the funds Of shareholders, the
Board decline to adopt resolutions against
lslavery. This, too,s il might do, as a mat
ter OF policy and even of compromise.
Nothing has been more common than for
Ecclesiastical bodies to do this, with the
known object of putting the excitement
at rest and sometimes with the express
understanding that, on the adoption of
such resolutions, there shall be nothing
more said or done on the subject. ~
4 What we ought to demand is-that
which God and humanity ~demand-that
, those whom we recognize and sustain as
Standing at the head of Christian missions
should openly maintain and exempIify
Christian PRINCIPLES, that they should ex-
} hibit Christian habits, and of course, that,
on all proper occasions, they should be
the out-spoken reprovers of oppression,
the advocates of the oppressed.
Nothing short of this can afford US any
| guaranty for the Christian integrity of
|, their course, and the discharge Of the
, specific duties committed to their care.
, The problem to be disposed of is wheth-
|, er a Board to which shareholders are
: freely admitted as members, a Board COM
| posed, with few exceptions, either of pro-
r slavery men, or of those Indifferent or hos
E tile to the agitation Of the subject of slave
D ry, can be properly regarded as coming
: underth the description we have given of
i competent ndtrustworty Christian Board.
v Whatever others may say, l, for one,
!, must confess frankly l can have no con-
fdence in such a Board.
There was a time when the most im-
plicit confidence was placed in the distin-
guished individuals standing at the head
Of or National Missionary and Bible anc
: Tract Societies. That time has nearly
e gone by, so far. at least, as watchful and
e intelligen. abolitionists are concerned.
b For, qOho are these men! With few ex-
Y ceptions, they are, to the present hour, the
unwavering supporters OF the COLOMBIA
d ton Society. At this late day there needs
g no additional proof that that society is a
J. pie-eminently wicked organization, that
II It's objects are base, that its measures are
t, dishonest. that its policy is Jesuitieal, that
1; its pretenees are hypocritical, that it car
a lies a double face, that it is deceptive and
!; servile, and prosecuting, and perhdious,
l. and cruel. This is, noa0. Its known and
h lascertained and fixed character. As such,
st it is execra,ed throughout Ch-istendom
sr Equally with slavery, lof which it is the
a offspring and handmaid.) il is the disgrace
re of our country in the eyes of the civilized
e; world.
IS Yet our great .nationa, boards for the
Ut management of the Bible and Missionary
Be and Tract enterprises. are still chiefly in
Ii the hands of the same set of men that sup
re port the COLONIZATION Society. What Sc
lie lcuIity can they give that the business
es committed to their charge VIII be con-
d. duc.ed on any better or more honest OF
Christian principles than those they sup
4 mort and approve. and exhibit and defend
os 10 their beloved Colonization Society,"
i Sufficient time has now been given
re for the facts of the case TO develop them
Is. selves and to be exhibited and understood
de There has been sufficient time. too, 70
yn prejudices and demonstrations 20 be dis
O. slpated. There is no excuse for ignor
A ance on the subject of COLONIZATION. now
for But whether il be owing 10 ienoranc
ION or to corruption on the part Of the leat
yn, ing members Of our Missionary and ethe