Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-11-25

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80. RESOLVED, That it is the sense Of this
Conference that after specified date, all per
sons who shall be found in the church, sustain,
dg the relation of voluntary shareholders. should
be expelled from the church."
These sentiments are honest. They were
so unanimous in the Conference that no opposition
was enc0untered% The momsnt they fell from
the lips Of the mover, they were voted and filed
They will have their influence. Coming from
a Conference of US sble clergymen as any in
the Uniou, they will tell. The border men
steaers will squirm, no doubt but they must
grin and bear it, The battle must be pushed
to the gate; the sanctuary must be ceansed.
Mark this, all ye trafickers in human blood!
We Methodist ministers Of the North consider
slavery the sum of all villainies' And as TO:
the Fugitive Slave Law, we hold it as a mon
strous out.blrth of an unmligatsd sin. We
have ne respect for it, whatever 1t never has
been obeyed by us--it never wtll,be. No. Let
there come bonds, Imprisonment, con6scation,
and death.-stiIl we despise that law, and do all
in our moral power to defeat its execution. No
plea of expediency, no amount Of political
wrath, no degree Of santlre, contumely, or re-
proached, will ever avail. Agitation is our
right and we shall agitate the subject despite
tlti tliG CduSC 10 IGAtiJFGO3 'WOiu
without end
These are net the foamings of passion; they
are the conclusion of the syogsm of which
the command Of God and The promphngs of a
pure philanthropy are the major and minqrSu 3,
misses
81, Mass, Anil o 81 flESII.Y
4 Who are these A sGGaEI!p ~ =
/ these trafickers in i4er RRafIliRs MateF@s
ifesly members of the MelhodistN. cE.- :
pal Church, in the border ConfereGo~,.l,
as the writer says the " sanctuary must be
ceansed." And this account is given
BY one of the ministers of thssConerence,
and cannot be a misstatement. But where
was the influence these strong resolutions,
as they will be called, had in the General
Conference When the captured slave
was in the hands Of that unlmpeached NJ.
f. brother Reese, l6Il Sharp Street, in
Baltimore, and others in the same State,
where was New England Methodlsm, and
anttslayeryl And palsy struck them,
that they could nat speak, like Zachaas
in the Temple? Here they stood between
Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill-upon
freedoms battle ground their chosen New
England, and yet with the exception Of
one incidental reference to the subject, the
silance of death reigns in tie house of the
prophets The slave lies crushed for four
years more of necessity, and probably four
times four, if his salvation depends upon
this religious body What an opportunity,
and yet how neglected " Let that day be
darkness; let not Godregard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it, Let
darkness and the shadow of death stain it !;
let cloud dwell upon it; let the bIackness
of the day terrify it. As for that NIGHT,
let darkness seize upon it; let it not be
Joined unto the days Of the year; let it not
come into the number Of the months !"
Hope had turned towards New England,
bat hope and heart are now sick. If New
, England was dumb at home, what will she
be in pro slavery Indiana, in four years
, hence? The truth that Orange Scott Of
ten uttered in his day, is being demen-
strated /" That there were hope that the
NJ i. Church would get rid Of slavery, as
long as it existed in the nation"
And yet every body whose consciences
are awake to the enormities Of this great
sin, are pointed to General Conferences, as
the time and occasions, when the sanctu-
arvf il to- pe yTeuHsxsss e
aaactnat Is 10 be done And yet, not an
, official sentiment has been uttered in re-
Iation 40 this sin since 1886. And the fact
is now acknowledged that ask to Join US,
| and claim that the Discipline is on our side,
t &c" This is progress, it must be con.
( fessed but it is progress in the deepening
= heathenism of American slavery, "the
$ viiest that ever saw the sun" But the
r hopeless slave is not the alone sufferer in
r thus passing him by con the other side. "
: Our common Christianity is made to con.
= form to the most vilaHioUs class that dis
5 grace our age! We are nobIy aiming to
evangeize the beathern; but this dandIng
e of " men SteateS and trafckerS in human
5 blOod," is making more lnfdeIs at home,
, than we can convert abroad, with all our
i funds and men. There is something SO
e shocking and devilish in American slavery,
r that men Of reflection cannot be converted
i to a Christianity that gives to it toleration
. And hence, it is confidently expected by
: some Of the best minds of the land, that
. a crisis is approaching to Christianity in
. this country, that will compel US to fight
. over the battles of its truthfuIness, in CD.
| position to inGdelity Could any Other
result be looked for, when the worst torn
. of heatheuism is openly tolerated, in the
great religious bodies in our day? T(
a practice heathenism, will much more thar
nutraiize the influence of all our theur
ziug
? Mr. Editor, hope your columns viii
continue as they have done, to speak it
a the spirit of feariessness, in indicating
. Christianity from the libelous stigma of ex
tending its sufferance to a practice tha
mocks all the elements of natural Justice
c. PRlNDLE.
o Leoni, Mich, June II, 1852.
But these resolutions suppressed No mention
An. Conference record Is my thor demanded ED.
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