Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-29
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.

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At the recent State Convention Of the Baptist
Ministers of Connecticut, the following report
and resolutions were made, and unanimously
adopted:
Alfred Day, ESQ.,, chairman Of the Commit
tee to whom was referred the Slavery question,
reported the following resolutions which were
adopted after a full and free discussion
Whereas, 1t is the privilege of American cit
liens, whether as individuals or in II collective
capacity, to express their opinions of the acts of
the government under which they live, and
Whereas we believe it to be the duty of chris
tians to protest against and resist, by all lawful
MEANS the commission of moral wrong: there
fore,
Resolved, That we, as citizens of the State of
Connecticut, and especially as representatives of
the Baptist churches therein, in convention as
sembled, regarding involuntary servitude, ex-
cept for crime and evil, condemned alike by the
principles of American Independence and the
Gospel of Jesus Christ an evil which Christian
men everywhere, by virtue Of their profession,
are bound, by all legitimate measures, to limit
its influence, and to seek to exterminate lido
earnestly protest against the act of our National
Legislature establishing territorial governments
in Kansas and Nebraska, repeating the Missouri
Compromise, thus opening to the blight of sa-
very territory consecrated to freedom, in def
ance of numerous petitions addressed to Congress
on the subject, in contempt of the will of the
people as expressed in public assemblies, and by
the press, in perfdious and palpabe violation
of plighted faith, tending to destroy confidence
in the integrity of our government, and to gen.
eral public Generalization.
Resolved, That we perceive in this act the de-
termined purpose of the Slave Power to achieve
supremacy in the confederation, even though at
the sacrifice of personal, sectional and national
honor. That we regard it as one, and not the
first, of series of measures tending to this end
measures to which men may not submit with
out an abjugation of their manhood nor patri-
OTIS without forgetfulness of the price and ma
ture of their liberties nor Christians without
ignoring the obrations of their faith.
Resolred That the contempt with which the
respectful remonstrance of the New England cler-
gy against the commission of the Nebraska iniqui-
ty was rejected by the Congress of the United
States, was violation of the chartered right OF
petition.
Resolped, That, regarding the present as q
crisis in the affairs of our country, involving its
position among the nations Of the world, for
justice honor, and integrity, and as involving
not only the future of now unpeopled soltudes,
but the true freedom of free men on free soil.
we, as pastors and representatives of the Baptist
Churches in the State of Connecticut, fell call
ed upon to use all constitutional means to pre-
vent the spread of Slavery in all the territory
of the United States.
AT a meeting of the Methodist clergymen Of
Boston and vicinity, on Monday, resolutions
were adopted thanking R. II. Dana, Jr., and
G. M. Ellis, Esq, for their defence of Anthony
Barns; also, thanking the Hon. Charles Sum
ner for his protest against the Nebraska bill
and his able and eloquent defence Of New Eng
land. A Committee of FIVE was also appointed
4 on tho confora,oa Of o1arrv,,,.,, L,ll II m