Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-05-30


Throughout the entire management of its
early affairs, the whole struggle with its
early difficulties, there was no breath off
discord between them. It's Richard Fur
man and VIM. Staughton, its Jesse Mer-
Ger and its Thomas Baldwin led on the
sacramento host, shoulder to shoulder, and
heart to heart. Their rivalry being only
in earnest efforts for common cause, their !
entire aversions and enmites were directed |
with all the strength Of their souls, against
the common foe. And to the last, did they
not cherish the strong belief that they left
no other enmities, or aversions no other
rivalry, to their successors?
| In particular, Special Rule of the con-
stitution defines sOho may be missionaries,
viz Such persons only as are in full
communion with some church in our de-
nomination; and who furnish satisfactory
evidence of genuine, piety, good talents,
and fervent zeal for the Redeemer's cause"
Now, while under this rule the STAKEHOLDER
has been, in his turn, employed as mis-
sionary, it is not alleged that any other
persons than those above described, have
been appointed. Moreover the important
post of superintendent of the education of
native missionaries has been assigned, with
Universal appropriation, to the pastor of
one of our largest slavehoding churches.
But an evil hour arrived. Even our
humble efforts in the conquest of the world
to God, excited the accuser of ovr brethren
to cast discord among US; and in the last
two Triennial Conventions, slavery and
anti-slavery men began to draw off on DIFF
ferent sides. How did the nobier spirits
on each side endeavor to meet this They
proposed and carried almost unanimously,
the follow explicit Resolution
"Resolved, That in cooperating toge-
Their, as members of this Convention in the
work of foreign missions, we disclaim all
sanction, either expressed or implied, whe-
Their Of slavery or anti-slavery; but as in
dividuals, we are free to express and to
promote, elsewhere, our views on these
subjects, in christian manner and spirit. :"
Orr successors will find it difficult to
believe that so important and plain de-
claration had become, before the close Oh
the first year of the triennial period, per-
s feet nullity. In December last the acting
Board of the Convention, at Boston, adopt
ed new qualification for missionaries, a
new special rule, viz: that elf any one
who shall offer himself for missionary
having slaves, should insist on retaining
= them as his property, they could not ap'
point him." lone thing is CERTAIN they
continued, eve could never be party tc
: any arrangement which implies approba
ton OF slavery
= We pray our brethren and all candle
men to mark the dale of this novel Rule
he the close of the first six months of thei
We three years power, date at which the
Compromise-resoution could scarcely have
n reached our remoter Mission stations. /
n usurpation had been intended could ithavt
!. been more fifty timed! An usurpation o
i. ecclesiastical power quite foreign to GU
n policy. Such power was assumed at I
n period when the asgrieved thousands o
Israeli had, as it now appears, no practica
,e remedy. Its obvious tendency was. eithe
J. our final subjugation to that power, or
s. serious interruption of the flow of Southern
ii benevolence. The latter was the far NOR
" probable evil; and the Boston Board knew
70 this we'll. They were from various quar-
Ell tiers apprzed of it. We, on the othe
II hand, did not move in the matter Of a new
"a organization until three liberal States ha
- refused to send Northward any more con
o. tributions. Our leaders had chosen new
n Rules. Thus came war within GU
as gates: while the means of war on the com
" mon enemy were daily diminishing.
is By this decision the Board had place
S. itself in direct opposition to the constltu
IN ton of the Convention. The only reaso
" given for this extraordinary and unconst
I'd tutionaI dictum being-that the appointin
I'd power for wise and good purposes. is cor
H. fded to the acting Board On such
of slight show of authority, this Board ur
- dertook to declare that to be disqualifcs
O. ton in one who should offer himself for
to Missionary, which the Convention ha
$. said shall rot be disqualification. 1t ha
also expressly given its sanction to Ant
D. slavery opinions, and implicitly fixed il
as condemnation on slavery, although tn
of Convention had said that "neither" shout
IN be done. And further, it forbade thos
RS who should apply for Missionary az
e- pointment to ''express and promote else
RS where" their views on the subject of slave
lis ry in right "manaer and spirit whe
ed the constitution declared they severe tree