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CHURCH ACTION.

mos, unanimously, by the Church and Society
under nv pastoral care. Your subscribers
here would be glad to have them inserted in
your paper, as an example to other religious
bodies Yours, truly, HoRArIo ALGER.
Resolutions of the Church and Society of the
.Secolsd Parish IA Marlborough.
The Committee chosen July 2, 1854, to pre-
pare something expressive of the feelings of
this Church against the system of American
Slavery, ask leave to present the following pre-
amble and resolutions:
Whereas Slavery, as it exists in this country,
Is wholly at war with every principle of justice
and humanity, direct violation of the precepts
and doctrines of Jesus Christ, and a heinous
sin in the sight of God; andswhereas, upon
fair examination, we are convinced that the
American Church, as at present constituted, is
It's greatest safeguard and defence, without
whose support it must inevitably fall to atoms,
and disappear from our land and whereas
continuance of union and fellowship with the
individual churches of our country, without dis
elimination, involves us in the guilt of being
participators in this national wrong: There
fora,
Resolred, That we deem it the imperative
duty Of Christians, both az individuals and in
their churches, to bear their decided and en-
phatic testimony against IT, and in all ustifable
and Christian ways 10 exert their influence for
its destruction.
ResoEred. That we do not recognise as a
Christian, the stakeholder, or the apologist or
defender of Slavery as it exists in our land
and that we decidedly protest against the adj
mission of any one to our pulpit, excepting
those who at all times set Gods law above hui
man enactments, and who have voice to lift
MP boldly in behalf of universal freedom, peace,
and temperance, as well as the other moral and
religious interests of man.
ReS0lred, That we decline all such connection
with other churches, calling themselves Chris
tian az shall mpeaie in any degree OF in
any way in the guilt of upholdng and perpetu-
ating Slavery. A. W. RrcE,
s. PHELPS,
DENNIS WITHERBER
Committee Of the Church IN the Second
Parish, Marlborough.
The above preamble and resolutions were
adopted by the church in September last, and
ON the 18th of March last, at the annual parish
meeting, 10y the whole parish.
NATIVE AMERICANISM, NOT REPUBLICANISM.
CAsrISE, MAINE, Ap,R 10, 1885.
Enclosed you will find All editorial, cut from
the last number of the Ellsworth american, the
"organ Of the American party of this county.
Please notice it. If you think proper. The SEN
portion of its party here how large portion,
II is of course impossible for outsider to
state-but unless | am mistaken, not of the
qchole
Mr. CLANCY the editor, who to-day is so siren
nous for pure Americanism no longer ago
than last August was President of our Anti Ne
braska county convention, and was one of the
committee which called the Anti Nebraska con-
vention Of our Congressional district, held at
Elachias, the first Tuesday of September, where
Rev. James A. Milliken was nominated for
Congress.
The call for the Republican State Convention,
10 which he refers. was signed by almost every
member Of our State Senate, and by a very
large number Of the Anti-Administration MEM
bersof our House of Representatives. major
ity Of whom are supposed TO belong to the
Know Nothing Order. Among the purposes
specified by the call was the considering the
expediency of nominating candidate for Gov
ernor." hope that the American party in our
State and county viii not adopt the course rec
commended in the extract i send you. Unless
false or unauthorized statements were made by
some of the speakers at our Republican State
Convention, it viii not. If it does, our Free
Democratic friends, (sOme of them veterans in
the AntiSavery cause,) who have Joined the
Secret Order pretty extensively, will be compel
led either to leave it, 10 forget the lessons Of
nncompromising hostility TO the slave power,
which they have been repeating for 50 many
years to us, their younger brethren.
Yours, truly, GEORGE III. WITHERLEE.
From the Ellsworth CsIe) American, April g.
The Republican Party
As far as we are able to ascertain, every pm
per in this State, protesting friendship for the
American party, also Processes friendship for
the selfstyled Republican party. We have been
observing for months past-and it has with been
keen regret-that some who assume TO the die
tatorship in the American ranks are not only
committing adultery NTH this dcfor1ned monde
script, bm are e1idedroring 10 tempt d,coy others
also. We have forborne TO cry ont against this
evil because we had hoped the transgressors
would see the of their ways, and return
again, humbled and penitent, to recline once
more upon the bosom of their first love-the
American party.
The trick succeeded To a charm, and finally
resulted IN the issuing of call, largely signed
by wellknown Native Americans, for Repub
hcsn Convention, 10 assemble in Augusta, on
the I'D of February, merely for the purpose OF
"orgsnizingr State Republican party. Az
was calculated by the arch conspirators, but
few comparatively of the American party at
tended that Convention, which afforded then
an opportunity TO rush in their Falstaff legion:
and control the Convention, thus using the
Americans who uISted with them as mere cats
paws and stool pigeons.
Ii is not necessary to here repeat the doing,
of that Convention. One act alone stamps il
with the disapproyal of the American party
To the surprise and modification of many who
had been humbugged into signing the call,
the Convention nominated n candidate for Gov
ernor, selecting for that Office the man whom
they had once foisted upon the American par
ty-the nam who has been false 10 that part
IN Hancock county, hoping again to make u
swallow him.
But il is not necessary here TO inquire int
the fitness Of Arson p. Morrill, 10 be again mad
the recipient Of American votes. The rery fac
ofhis haring accepted the nomination Of a par
IT, other than The American, must, as IRE Unde'
stand tie principles Of the party, be a bar TO Ia
reaOminafion' by them.
We cannot better close this article--whieh
already much longer than we at first Intended
than BY copying the following from the Amer
can Patriot, than which there is not publishes
a paper more true to the American party:
:. The efforts that are being made to amalga
mate the American party with the other polit
calisms in various sections OF the country, ar
proving but too successful. In Maine, we nc
tice by q late number of the Kennebec JO,yna
the American party has already become lost t
a great degree in the mazes of Old Line par
tyism. That paper heads the recent municipa
triumphs in that State, of the American party
Republican triumphs,' and says those election
shage generally gone in favor of Temperance
and Freedom leaving Americanism entirel