Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-07-04

4nii-Siapery run mad. In New Hampshire
portion Of the aboliioniss--or at least two agents
ofthe society deem it their right and duty to en-
ter public meetings Of any sect or class OF people,
ut any time, and take the pulpit and lecture on
slavery, whether The proprietors OF churches or
The audience choose to have them do so or hot
OF course it is TO he supposed that these agents
would meet with opposition: they have been op-
posed, refused admission to meeting houses, and
oused from pulpits and houses which they had
entered without leave, and sometimes entered and
commenced speaking in the midst Of religious ex
ercises. This-sort of opposition these agents call
persecuon-a violation of the liberty of speech
lis it any more so than their stopping the cler-
gymen in the pulpit = sunti conclusive evidence
that their opposers are pro slavery men aud worse
than infdels and pagans. Thus much we have
deemed il necessary to say, TO introduce the fol-
! lowing extraordinary resolutions, which were pre-
scented and discussed at the recent annual meet
ing Of the N. H. Anti-Sla,ery Society, and refer.
red to The next meeting for further discussion -
| For Our facts, stated above, and The resolutions we
are indebted to the Herald of Freedom publish
ed at Concord. Such proceedings should call
| ple-anti-savery men and all men who care for
right order and peace.
The following were offered by S. s. Fosterl
Resolved, That equal, unrestricted liberty of
speech is the inaenabIe right of every member OF
slhe family of man.
Resolved, That the assertion Of this right is the
imper ous duty Of the friends Of humanity, as the
most effectual means of abolishing slavery.
j Resolved, That the clerical office is ia itself a
hagrant violation of this right and therefore in
| herently sinful and ought TO be Immediately and
| Internationally abolished.
Resolved, That the clergy, being religious ar
iStocracy, are The natural enemies of human lib
ery, and in opposing the Anti-Siavery enterprise
only act in self.deiense and that all hope of their
conversion to Anti Slavery principles, so long us
they remain clergymen, is vain and futile.
Resolved, That so long as any portion of our
countrymen are held in slavery it is the duly OF
abolitionlsts so far as is practicable, to enter the
public assemblies Of all who are concerned in
their enslavement, and there demand their release
in The name Of humanity and the living God.
The following were offered by p Pittsburgh
Whereas, The sectarian churches and clergy c:
/ New Hampshire have now fully shown, in resor-
ting to threats, fines, imprisonments aud other
hedthen means OF opposing tho progress Of ruth
/ that they are not the church of God, but com.
bnations Of practical if no, real Atheists There.
fore
Resolved, That no friend of humanity and pure
religion will any more support them, than they
would the worshippers of Juggernaui or Moloci
or enter their assemblies, except it be TO preach
to them the GLORIOUS gospel of The blessed God .
Resolved, Therefore, That no person who has
not renowned all fellowship and communion with
these churches and their more guilty priesthood
is worthy to be regarded as n Christian or aboi
zionist.
THE following was offered by s. S. Fosterl
Resolved, That the revlvals of religion which
are now spreading over The country under the aus
picies Of the clergy are tainted and spurious, and
utterly subversye of the principles of human LID.
ery and ought therefore to be universally repu
diluted by the friends of humanity.