Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-28


APoLIs, Hclneya'ay, May 2l.-The subject OF
anti-slavery tracts coming up, the following res
Olution was offered by Mr.. Smith, of New Hamp-
shire Conference.
( ReU{ce3 That the Committee on the Tract
Cause, having had under consideration the pub
4 the Tract Society to publish such tracts on the
subject as the sin of slavery may demand, inclu-
/ ding Mr.. Wesley's Thoughts on Slavery.
I This seemed not quite strong enough for some.
and little too strong for Others.
\ DIR. Jesse I. Peck opposed it. He said men
were fond of crying out Fiat justitia T,lat c0c-
4 lunr but they knew all the while that there was
! no danger of the heavens falling. He thought
I doing right must include results He knew the
I effect of publishing anti-Savcry tracts would be
( fatal to the Society. ltwould strike down-he
would not say nine-tenths-but two thirds of the
| support of the cause. There were men who did
not live in the South either-who regarded such
Literature as they did the incendiary midnight
assassin.
After further discussion the subject was laid
over.
Mr.. Raymond, Chairman of the committee on
slavery, then announced that he was ready TO
report. The hall was Immediately 50 still that
that the least foot-step on the carpet was audi
bic.
DIR. Durbin announced that the minority, he
believed was not quito ready with their report.
He was ready, but some of the members had,
within an hour, expressed n desire to review it
before it was offered.
AIR. Raymond then read the report,
The committee, after suitable preamble,
recommended the passage of the following res
olutions:
Rcsolre8, By the delegates in general confer
cnce assembled. that nc recommend othe AN
nual Conferences the alteration of the discipline
in regard to the general rules on slavery, so as
to read
THE buying and selling or holding human
being in bondage"
Resoired, That we recommend as a substitute
for the 9TH chapter of the Book of Discipline,
the following:
What shall be done for the extirpation of the
evil Of slavery?
Answer l. We declare that we are as much as
ever convinced Of the great evil Of slavery. We
believe that all men, by nature, have equal right
to freedom, and that no man has a moral right to
hold fellow being as property. Therefore, no
STAKEHOLDER shall be eligible TO membership in
our church hereafter, where emancipation can
be effected without injury TO the slave. But in
asmuCh as persons may be brought into the le-
gal relation of shareholders, Involuntary or vol
unfairly, by purchasing slaves in order to free
them, therefore, the merely legal relation shall
not be considered of itself sufficient to exclude
a person who may thus sustain It from the fell
lowship of the church,.
Answer 2. Whenever member of our
church, by any means, becomes the owner of a
slave, il shall be the duty Of the preacher in
charge to call together 4 committee Of at least
three mCmbers @Io shall investigate the case,
and determine the time ia which such slave shall
DC feed; and on his refusal OF neglect 70 abide
BY the decision Of aid committee, he shall ~
.dmlt with aefI e1se Of immortality
Aps8er O. itshail 81 tie duty 81 gu our igeids
has sed mo iqnpls gio nay snstAip tie lsg,f