American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-05-13

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oama, ana many more are expected from that
quarter tonight, Dr.. Manly, late of your city ,
among them. Georgia viii be strongly repre-
scented. Two gentlemen have reached here
from Baltimore. The South and Solth West
a-e expected q be heard from, although the
very short tine IL which the Convention has
been got up will no doubt prevent 4 large at
tendance from that quarter. As far ns We have
heard there seems to be Grca; nnanmity O.
feeling ON the question in al! tina; country.
LATER. We received last night the Aa-
gusta Coasti.utionas, containing several day s
! proceedings Of the above convention. 1t as
sembled in tie Eaptis. Church Of that city On
Thursday.
The convention was called 20 ORDER by the
heF. Nm. !, brant!y, presiding pastor Of the
! church, wien, on motion, The Hen wilson
Lumphln was called to the char.
/ About SOC delegates ale IN attendance, from
the States o' Maryland, Virginia. North AND
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louls!ana,
kantucby, and from The District Of Columbia.
=: The Rev. ~. e. Johnson, d. d. Of South
Carolina, was elected President of convention.
Rev. J. i. Taylor OF Virginia, and siou
Wilson Lumpkln Of Georgia, Wee Presidents
Rev. J, Ha!twol Of Alabama, and Mr.. J.
G. Crane, Of Va, Secretaries.
, committee 0! sixteen was a2poa,eG 10
prepare preamble and resolutions for the ac-
ton of the convention. That commi.tec con-
sisted Of the Rev. Dr.. Fuller and DR.. NJ. T.
Mendenhall Of s, C.; Few. J. A. Mexican and
W. Crane, Esq, Of Md; Rev. T. W :;nydor.
Of d. c.; Rev. ). 4. Jeter and Rev. T. Hume,
of Va; Rev. Il. NcNabb, OF N. c.; Rev. e.
NJ Sanders and Rev. c. d. Mallary, Of Ga;
Rev. A. Travis ard Gen. E. ID. King. Of Ala;
Rev Isaac T. Hinton and Rev r. Holman.
OF La; Rev. Isaac Mccoy, Of Ky.
he Convention then took recess until 4
O'Clock.
The evening session was occupied, for some
time, IN pcrlecting the list OF names of Dele
gates from the several states and churches.
a committee Of FIVE was appointed to recon-
mend rules for the government Of the coaven-
ton.
! The committee Of sixteen, through their
chairman, the Rev. Or. Fuller, OFFS. G.. mad =
their report. After some slight discussion in
reference TO some facts presented in the report,
the convention adjourned until Friday morning,
8 O'Clock,
y The convention met on yesterday morning
and after appropriate prayer, and the reading
OF the proceedlngsof the previous day:
! Inc preamble and resolutions reported by
the committee OF sixteen We're taken up, and
after much time occupied IN the discussion of
then1,-although there appeared no opposition,
they were adopted.
REPORT.
The committee 10 whom il has been refer
red, to report preamble and resolutions, can
not but express their profound sense OF the re-
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sent eVentful crisis as the integrity of the ma
tion-the interests of truth-the sacred enter
prise Of converting the heather, are all nvoly-
ed in your deliberations. That such a conyen-
ton was imperously demanded must be appa-
rent to all The Boston Board have in their
answer to the Alabama resolutions, most clear
~ and unnecessarily exceeded their power and
violated their trnst. Ii is question admitting
Of no debate, that the Triennial Convention
was formed on the principle Of perfect equal-
ty Of members from the south and north
AND what Is all-imporant the very quahfcG-
tons Of Missionaries arc prescribed by the ori-
glnal constitution of thai convention: The
fifth article providing that, "such persons as
are IN tull communion with some regular
church OF our denominations, and who furnish
satisfactory evidence OF genuine piety good
talents, and tervent zeal for the RedeeIner's
cause, are to be employed as Missionaries "
Besides this, too, the declaration Of the
Board that II ''any one should offer himself up
as Missionary having slavos and should in
sst on retaining th9m, as his property, we
could not appoint him, y is an innovation and
departure from the course hitherto pursued bv
the Triennial Convention, such persons having
been appointed.
And. lastly, this infractioh of the resolution
passed the last Spring at Philadelphia, and the
General Board, at their late meeting at Proyi-
dence, have failed to reverse this decision.
Amid such circumstances, your Committee
esteem it absolutely necessary that the friends
Of the constitution Of the Triennial convention,
and the lovers Of the Bible shall at once take
their stand, and assert the great catholic prn-
clp!es OF that constitution and OF the Word of
God.
Your committee, therefore, submit the fol-
lowing resolution as embodying II That they
are now prepared to suggest to our body:
ResotcsG, That for peace acd harmony, and !
IN order to accomplish the greatest anqant of |
gooc, and Tor the maintenance of .aose Scrip
tural principles on which the general Missiona- |
ry Convention of the Baptist denomination of
the United States was originally formed, it is |
proper that THIS Convention at once proceed TO
organize Society for the propagation of the
Gospel.
A committee was appointed to draw up
suitable constitution for the government of the
proposed organization. To the committee of
sixteen, with the addition of several other
gentlemen, was committed this object
After prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Fuller, the
Convention took recess until O'Clock.
During the evening session, the Rev. Mr..
Burroughs delivered very interesting address
on the objects ofthe Baptist Publication Society
at Philadelphia, and solicited the patronage Of
the Southern BaPtists to that Society.
The evening session was closed with PRAYER,
and the Convention adjourned to this morning
at O'Clock. The committee appointed for
that purpose had not reported upon the Consti-