Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-12-30
CORRESPONDENCE,


the following uncaed for and malicious attack against
myself and the Society of which am an agent; and
the columns of paper profes5edy Christian have
been denied worthy friend of mine in your State and
as there is no Baptist paper now published within your
commonwealth, desire, for the benefit of the friends
of Free Missions, as well many of your respected
readers, to have a place in your columns for some
structures on said letter. extract of which enclose
as follows:
In speaking of the addison Associations" be says
" Bro. Bingham was present accredited agent
of the Free Missionary Society If there is anything
on earth deplore it is the existence Of this snciety
Were there sufficient cause for its existence, would
90 whit with all my heart Vermont would 60 with
it unanimously, but the case has not been shown
We were sorry that the agent of the Society should
have the appearance of giving false colorng to facts.
It, Of ITSELF gives doubtful aspect to the whole matter.
We however, have too high regard for the agent to
believe he would do this desgnedIy. We think he
must have overlooked some important facts, and feel
a degree of assurance that on review of the whole
subject, he will conclude that he is engaged in bad
business We are glad that the association gave him.
MS body, no encouragement. He has found very
littlen the State. suppose your readers gener-
ally that the friction of the machinery put in mo-
/ ton by this organization consumes large amount Of
t the funds paid into the treasury We can but regard
it as a sinful waste of money"
What is there so hostile in the existence of the Free
Mssionlry Society," which this correspondent so much
deplores? 1t was shown, the occasion to which he
a aludes, after an uncaedfor attack was made the
above named institution that it a bona hde Bap-
list society, having no christian fellowship with slave
holders their apologists in the church, in the God
= like enterprise of missions. Was ii not shown that
G Ia r..
v ions in our own land passed codly by as well as
If millions in adjacent countries, while the proesse tai
Il ent and piey of the denomination were engaged in
sending missionaries to tie ends of the earth2 Was ii
not shown that this the only BytiSt Society in the
If land, that entirely divorced from slavery?-that il
t. refused the known avas Of that eayenaccursed sys
IL TEN into its treasury because it was the price Of
Blood" because it was contrary to sound christian mo-
ray to imbrute and heathenze one portion of the hui
man family, and use the gars Of oppression for the
purpose of evangelizing another portion. 1t was shown
- too, from undisputed documents then and there pre-
sented that the so-caled Baptist Missionary Union
t. was ant-slayery, both in its character and action
that according to its constitution, "oher persons may
" become members by the payment, at time, of no
al tan or moral character II shown from undisput
:, ed testimony, that Shareholders had become c-mem
ID bers and that funds to the amount osevera thousands
of dollars, within the past two years, received
y into the treasury 1t shown that that body since
It's ovistoneo bad oyays been oont the crave OF
d. the system Of slavery 1t shown that at the tim,
of its organizations this union refused to ndmt into it
Is articles any clause prohibiting Shareholders from be
coming missionaries or peachers;-that it refused t.
l. incorporate into its constitution any article forbidden!
or the known avals of oppression into its treasury
n Facts, Mr.. Editor, "are stubborn things" The
o need no false colorng" 1t was deeply regretted tina
nd these things so; it is deplored by hundred
fpreachers of our faith who have joined the Ere
C. Mission ranks and by tens of thousands of our churc
~ members, whose sympahics, prayers and contribution
es show how much they feel for the laccraed and down
trodden slave.
en- at gives" he says, ga doubtful aspect to the Who'll
IT. NATTER" What the " false cooripg Of facts" by
in humble agent! Certainly not. If we admit, for til
IS sake Of argument that this is the truth, then wer
eS all the old heroes of '76 traitors, and their cause
doubtful one, because Benedict Arnold proved ira
d. tor Then all the disciples Of Jesus, the Son
nd God, devils, because of their number sold an
~ betrayed his Master. 1t is easy for ettor-wricrs
make bold assertions without proof But it is said W
have "overlooked some important facts" 1t may b
so. 1t would seem impossible in the short compass
half an hour, interrupted every few minutes as wa
by mpertinent questions, asked by certain inquisitor
whose business it is to keep in the dark all that wou
prove TO the common people the glazing Inconsistent
es, of protesting to be anti slavery and yet sympahiz
with Shareholders, and Join hands with them in one
Ut tho most necessary and important enterprises ov
committed to the hands of man.
| will now proceed to notice some things that ma
De, have bsen overooLod or not brouc f,rn,r5 .+ III
time.
LIST. That the Baptist State Convention of Vernon
III controlled principally by ministers, have given count
nance and support, not only to this proslavery unio
~ but also to the American Baptist Home Mission Soc
y, which, during the years 1916 and ~, have had
missionaries and agents sustained for greater or le
portion of time in connection with sayehoding churcl
Ia es and during the past year, no less than l6 mssion
- res have been placed over slaveholdng churches Vi
In Virginia 1; in North Carolina in Florida
Id Texas Il in Arkansas g in Tennessee q in Kentucky
~ in Missouri 5. Now, God forbid that should oppos
ba the sending of pure unadulerated, and free Gospe
c either to the oppessor or the oppressed for, have
doubt, before the gospel can triumph over the cart
the ignorance and superstition SO prevalent in IL
southern part Of this country must be removed by tt
in moral force ohat Gospel which sis the power of Go
OIL unto salvation to every one who beheveth 1t"
These men have encouraged shareholders in the 81
H. of ensaving Gods image and Chrsts brethren an
the above named Society sustain them in this course.
ay Again. During the past year, some 1896 81 ho
been received into the treasury of said Home Misso
Society; greater portion of which has been exorte
from Gods poor, Notwithstanding He has said 81 hat
robbery for burnt offering" And further, at a lat
meeting of the State Convention of Baptsts for Vel
Of mont, no alusion made by the accredited agent
this Society," who there present. to the slave c