Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-06-10

any respect All that we claim is that we may, in an
ecclesiastical and christian sense speak of slavery
tually among ourselves, and If speak wrong we
ask all brethren to remind US Of it, and pledge
selves in the spirit of brethren to correct ourselves
We are ALL said he, engaged in a common cause-all
trave ling the road in the same hope of eternal
happ mess in heaven, and we must not fall out by the
way God forbid that we should"
We repeat the question-can this be so?-and in the
strong hope that Mr. L. may have been misrepresent
ed IN the above report such comments as would other
wise seem demanded, are withheld. 1t must be ad-
mitted however, that the Tribune is correct in its
reports as perhaps any journal in the Union. Can it
be- that Harvey F. Leavtt who was for so many years
President of the Vermont Anti Slavery Society," and
who endured the toll, self denial and reproach Of the
cause in its elementary stages, has now gone south to
Join in the bitter crusade against his co-laborers, and
deal out words of consolation to the troubled con-
sciences of boated Doctors of divinity whose skirts
drenched in the blood of their felowmen? Our heart
sickens at the thought
Should the above report prove to be correct we trust
the General Convention Of Vermont will not allow their
approaching annual meeting to pass without admins
tering signal ebuke to their recreant delegate, or,
lOl vi consistently iCC tlCH
years resolutions upon the subject of slavery, among
which were the fol0wing:-
Resolved LIST, That this convention still believes and
maintains that the great system of American slavery
is in its fundamental principles contrary to the spirit
and gospel of Christ, and utterly sinful before God
that the laws which support are unrighteous, and
cruelty oppressve that the tendency of the system is
and must be, to degrade, demoraze and destroy the
souls of the enslaved, and to bring divine condemna
ton and wrath upon those who thus enslavs and wrong
them; to disturb continually the peace which should
subsist between the different states of Union, and
thus to greye from the Spirit of God and to hinder
deporaby the prosperity of his kingdom both in this
and other lands; that these evils not incidental but
inherent in the SYSTEM making it utterly incurabe,
and before heaven and earth Obomnable; and that for
these reasons all men, especially all christian men,
ought to lift up united voice of strong remonstrance
against a system ranght with so much guilt and mis-
cry, and to do whatever they rghtuy and udciously
can, to bring it to final and speedy termination
ResOlued, .fnaitB That the voice of remonstrance,
which now, in the fear Of God, and hope in the
spirit of the gospel, lift up against slaveholGing, with
all its manifold evils, is addressed not only to
churches, but to all thrse ecclesiastical bodies who
hold christian correspondence with us; especially such
of them as tolerate slaveholding among themselves,
and that beseech them to do what in them lies for
the speedy and entire removal of this evil among them;
that the down-trodden may rejoice with us and them
in the enjoyment Of civil and religious freedom and
the power of religion be revived and made glorious in
the earth"