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

Enough, perhaps, has been said of the
origin of this movement. Were we asked
to characterize the conduct of our North
ern brethren in one short phrase, we should
adopt that of the Apostle. II was "for.
bidding us to speak unto the Gentiles. p
Did this deny US no privilege! Did it
not obstruct us, lay kind of Romish in
terdtct upon US in the discharge of an i'm
perative duty; duty to which the church
has been. after lapse Of ages, awakened
universally and successfully; duty the
very object, and only object, of our long
|cherlshed connection and confederation!
And this would seem the place to state,
that our Northern brethren were dealt with
as brethren to the last moment. Several
Iof our Churches cherished the hope that
by means of remonstrance and expostula-
ton, through the last annual meeting of
the Board of Managers at Providence, the
acting Board might be brought to feel the
grevious wrong they had inflicted. The
Managing Board was therefore affection
ately and respectfully addressed on the
subject; and was entreated to revise and
reverse the obnoxious interdict. Alas! the
results were-contemptuous silence as to
the application made; and deliberate re-
solve, expressing sympathy with the Act
ing Board, and determination to sustain
them.
II, heprinciples of the Southern Bap-
list Convention it remains then to be stat
ed, are conservative, while they are also,
as we trust, equitable and liberal. They
propose to do the Lords work in the way
our fathers did it. It's title designates at
once its origin and the simple, firm abiding
OF the South on the ground from which it
has been so unconstitutionally and unjustly
attempted to eject us. We have but en-
quired for the old paths of Missionary
operations asked for, and attempted to
restore the practically good way" The
Constitution we adopt is precisely that Of
the original union; that in connection with
which, throughout his Missionary life,
AdonIram Judson has lived, and under
which Ann Judson and Boardman have
died. We recede from it no single step
; We have constructed for our basis no new
creed; acting in this matter upon Baptis
: aversion from all creeds but the Bible
We use she very terms as we uphold the
, true spirit and great object of the late
General Convention of the Baptist demon
ination of the United States 1t is they
, who wrong US that have receded. We have
3 receded neither from the Constitution no.
from any part of the original ground or
which we met them in this WORK. And if
, we ask in parting, the original and broa,
: Bible ground Of Confederation were no.
equitable, how came it so nobIy and 81
d long to be acted upon! If equitable, why
: depart from it
We claim to have acted in the premises
with liberality towards our Northern breth
= rem Thrust from the common platform o
4 equal rights, between the Northern ant
g Southern Churches, we have but recon
u structed that platform. Content with ii
4 we adhere to it, and reproduce it, as broa'
enough for us and for them. Have the,
y ,, thrust US OFF, We retain but one feelin
II in the case. That aOe eUiU not practicaA'
! leaUe 1t on a1y account: much less in ODE
q dience to such usurped authority, or in de
II ference to such manifest breach of Trus
t as is here involved A breach of covenan
" that looks various ways-heavenward an
earthward. For, we repeat, they aCoH
i forbid us TO speak unto the Ge,atiles.-
" The Jerusalem church, then, must be re
u gathered at the suspected Samaria, or {
! some new centre of operations like Ar
y tioch. zone thing is certain''-We mus
Il go every where preaching the word. "W
can never be party of any arrangement
for monopolizing the Gospel: any arrange
d ment which like that of the Autocratic;
l. Interdict of the North, would first drive u
n from our beloved coloured people, of whor
L they prove that they know nothing CON
g paratively, and from the much-wronge
l. Aborigines Of the country; and then cut U
off from the whitening fields of the HEATH
l. en- harvest-Iabor; to which by cogent az
a. peaIs and solemn prayers, they have SO 0
ten protested that, without us, they wer
ID inadequate.
:; III. Our objects then, are, the extenslo
=. of the Messiah's kingdom. and the glor
% of our God. Not disunion with any {
- ~ his people; not the upholding of any lor'
~ of human policy, or civil rights; but God
&c glory, and Messiah's increasing reign;
? the promotion of which, we find no NJ
= cessity for relinquishing any of our civ
9 rights. We will never interfere with aCht
~ =, is Cgsar's.* We will not comprom