Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-06-03
Resolutions.
adopted al the Anniversary Of the A!$ayicaa aud
Foreign Anti-.SZauerN SOcietn.

AuOPteU ~ tHe anniversary " CHe I1!'oG;ttttit GHu
Foreign Ant|-SIdUery Society.
ResolOed, That in view of the wide diffusion of
anti-sayery information throughout the country,
and the thorough discussion the inquitous sys-
tenn of slavery is undergoing, we have great cause
of thankfulness to Him who has caused light to
spring up to those which sat in the region and
shadow of death, who maketh the wrath of man
praise him. and who encourages us to labor with
undated zeal by the gracious assurance that the
Lord taketh part with those who plead the
cause ofthe poor ana needy.
ReSOtOed, That we sympathze with the kim
bred and friends of the lamented THOMAS CLARK
SON, and of all who have been called, since the
last anniversary, from their labors in behalf of
the oppressed and in view of the mighty work
before us, and the admontions of Divine Provi-
dence that our time on earth is short, we would
dedicate afresh our faculties and resources to the
cause of emancipation, in humble dependence
upon the God of the oppressed, and with firm re-
lance that his promises of mercy and interposl-
ton on their behalf, will be fulfilled.
ReS0lued, That the absurd discrimination
sought to be made between those who persevere
in holding slaves, not by their own fault or for
the sake of their own advantage, but from mo-
tves entirely benevolent, and those who hold their
fellow creatures in bondage for the sake of gain,
is unworthy of the countenance of the church of
Christ, or the friends of sound morality, and de-
serves the Reproduction of the wise and good in
"Church and State"
Resolved, That the avowal that the Bible
sanctions American slavery is blasphemous and
heretcal that it tends to drive men into nfdeli-
ty; that it should be thus considered in every
" doctrinal basis" formed to promote union a.
mong Christians and that no STAKEHOLDER ought
to be fellowshiped as Christian, because of the
countenance he affords to immortality and here
sy.
ReSOl0ed, That it is the right of every ind-
vidual man, throughout the world, bond or free,
to possess and read the Bible, and obey it for
himself, under his responsibility to God, who has
given him that revelation to be a lamp to his feet
and light to his path that it is the right of every
man to enjoy the rest of the Lords day, to be
protected in his family relations, to enjoy the
fruits of his own labor, to educate his children,
and to sit under his own vine and fg-tree, with
out any to make him afraid.
Resolved, That we view with peculiar salts
faction the establishment of the " National Era"
at the seat of Government; and that we recon-
mend to all the friends of impartial liberty to sus-
Idlll pdpGI dDdIlIl8 llDCIdl
port of other anti-savery papers, in the expecta-
ton that ere long it will be published daily, and
long continue an ornament to the press, and
powerful auxiliary to the cause of human rights.
ReSOlced, That we rejoice in the fact that there
are conscience Wings" indie pendent Demo-
Gratis" and influential scholars and Christians
who are aroused to the claims of the oppressed
and to the rights of the free States-who feel the
tho Al
who are breaking away from ecclesiastical and
political thraldom-who have the magnanimity to
confess, that whereas they once spoke "gingerly''
about the domestic institutions of the South, they
have learned from the abolition party" to "cail
things by their right names, and to speak out,
with refreshing bodness, Of the curse of saverv:''
and that we cordially invite them to unite with
the Liberty party, in berng testimony against
slavery at the ballot-box and in withstanding the
encroachments of the Slavec crlcy of this coun-
try.
ReSOlUed, That we recommend to the Execu-
tive Committee to publish the laws relating to
slavery in the different slave States the slave
laws now in force in the District of Columbia
work on the agriculture and mechanic arts of
the slave States as compared with the free
States ; an ant-slavery periodical for children
and youthj series of tracts, in which the prln-
ciples and measures of the Anti-Slavery Associa-
ton shall be clearly and forcibly stated and re-
commended and a republication of the Essays
on the Power of Congress over Slavery in the
District of Columbia, and the View of the Ac-
ton of the Federal Government in Behalf of
Slavery.
ResOlccd That we rejoice in the existence and
prosperity of Home and Foreign Missionary As
sociations, that carry an uncorrupt Gospel to the
destitute that will correct the notion that a
knowledge of the doctrines and duties of Chris
tianty will avail without enforcing their applica-
ton to all the relations of life; that will send
missionaries to preach the practice Of justice to
rulers and oppressors liberty to the captive, equal
and impartial freedom to all men; that will sus-
tain ministers and missionaries who are perse-
cuted on account of anti-slavery preaching, and
that will uphold both tables of the law of God.
ResoIUed, That we look upon the existing war
being waged by this country against Mexico, for
the support and extension Of slavery, with un>