Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-20
THE GOLD SCHOOL BAPTISTsn


A friend has furnished us with the following ex-
tract from the Minutes of the " Delaware River As
ISOLATION of the "Oid School Baptist Church,
showing the soundness of that Church on the sub
ject of slavery. It is due as simple matter JUS
tice to the members of this Church North that their
course on the subject of abolition should be known
to their Southern friends Other religious denomr
nations have divided on this absorbing question;
but the "Old School Baptists" have always stood
firmly by the Constitutional rights of the Southern
people, and insisted upon justice and right as be-
tween contending sections. We make no invidouS
comprehensive assail no other Church in award
ing praise to the ''Old School Baptsts" in this re-
spect; in referring to them as entitled, on the
great question of the day, to the respect and tine
confidence of all good in all portions of the
country.
The 'Old School Baptists, we may add, have al
ways been strongly opposed to the doctrines OF the
Roman Catholic Church !; and many supposed that
a large number of them would be caught by the Sc
cret Order of Know Nothings. This calculation has
failed They are maintaining their consistency aSa
denomination, as. aforetime, as the advocates Of
the largest civil ard religious liberty consistent with
the Constitution and the peace and order of society;
and they are opposed to any union of Church and
State, or to any movement that tends to proscr'Oe
men for worshipping God as they may choose. 1ne
extract referred to is as follows:
" Extract from the Minutes Of the DedacGTe htoer
Baptist association, held acith the second HGpe-
aoeU Church, Mercer County, Neoo Jersey, My
81, and June l and 2, 1854"
16. On motion, it unanimously resolved tha'
we concur with the Baltimore and Delaware Assn
Citations in the following preamble and resolutions
WHEREAS, Three thousand clergy of New Eng,
land for whom it is claimed that they embrace Tut
Gospel Ministers nf all the religious sectS and de
nominations of our country, have in the name u
Almighty God, protested against the passage .,
what is called the Nebraska bill, by the Senate anu
House of Representatives, and threatened Congress
with the vengeance of God, if they should pass 'h'
said bill, therefore,
hesolced, That we consider it due to the Church;
es and Ministers of this Association, to the ou
School Baptist Denomination" of profesSed CniI5
tians and to the cause of God and Truth, in winch
We deeply interested, to disclaim in the Nus
unequivocal and emphatic manner all, or any, pa pa
ticpation in, or fellowship for, the said protest lI
while we wish not religious association, to nS
die with the political bearings of this or any QUE
subject before Con gress we cannot withhold uor
ded disapproval of he presumptuous, and Ill o
Judgment, blasphemous assumption and deSecrs'i.VIH
of the sacred name and divine pregrogatVe Oh ~
mighty God by the selfstyed clergy ofour counH1
ReS03ced, That copy of our Minutes contaInlo
this preamble and resolut.'rG be sent to the
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the House u Nv
The catfish are dying in great numbers in the NM
sissipp river. In the neighborhood OF Natons
large quantities of dead fish have been washed aSO
Fay. Argaa
Bad news for the K Ms. What will they DO III
native oilg Every thing they take liking to seen.
doomed. We suggest to them the oil OF olacA '"
as suitable for their dark lanterns.
The Wing press has generally stood aloOf from ' de-
new order Know Misunderstanding fur tne,,,
yeopments f"y' ny hon
oh. Cameron Cameron! How often hast tnOu
been cbastised for thy besetting sin, and suli ~
cleayes to thee. It's a bad habit, Cameron-qui''"