Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-10-09
Mass Meeting.

The Wisconsin Baptist State Conven-
ton met at East Troy on the 18th and
18th inst. On the evening of the 18th,
the Convention resolved itselfinto a Mass
Meeting on the Political aspect Of the
country.
Rev. G. w. Gates, of East Troy, was
appointed Chairman of the meeting, and
Rev. j. L. Westover, of Fox Lake.
Secretary. Rev. L. Church, Editor of
"Christian Times" of Chicago, offered
prayer.
On motion, Revs. NJ. ID. Miller, o. o
Stearns, and j. H. Dudley were appoint
ed Committee of Arrangements, and
Oh Resolutions.
While the Committee retired for con-
sultation, the choir entertained the
audience with national hymn, after
which the committee reported the follow
ing Resolutions:
l. ResOlred, That we, christians and Ministers
of Baptist churches in Wisconsin, take occasion
to pronounce our unqualified condemnation of
American Slavery as evil and only evil and in
its character and fruits, contrary to christian
principle and human welfare, and an unmitgated
shame on eur professions of liberty and Democ-
racy.
9. Resoired, That in its enlarging and imperi.
Gus demands. not upon the only which it
snslaves. but upon the Territory, the COnstitu-
ton, the Liberties of the Republic, its disturb
ing influence in all our public affairs, civil and
| reiigious, we see new and clearer developments
OF its evil nature as we'll As stronger reasons for
stfectual resistance to its aggressions
s. Resoirsd, That We, here and now, as Bap-
t,sts who hold Liberty as religious rite, as
Americans who have received it as a blood
bought heritage. as men claiming it for all man
kind, sorrOwfully, and yet sternly, recent and
condemn the recent brutal outrage upon Uni
ted States Senator, and the past and continued
violations of liberty in Kansas.
| 4. Resolred, That i'll the present crisis, we be-
lieye every christian should ardenty pray to
Him who alone can control the destinies OF Ma
tons, and use the elective franchise to secure as
our Chief Magistrate, John Charles Fremont
whose election we should regard as tho greatest
triumph in behalf of Liberty since the days Of
Martin Luther.
! 5. Res0tUed, That whatever may be the result
| of the approaching election, we here solemEl y
iconsecratc our lives and fortunes to the work Of
making our country asylum for the Cypress
ed-and will never cease in our prayers and
tolls until America shall be free.
6. Resoired. That while we will use only the
moral and religious power at our command to
secure liberty i'll the slaveholding States
yet to nationslizs it in the Territories and States
moo consecrated to Freedom, we will sympathiz.
,cih and pray for those who are making Violsn,
resistance; and whenever we shall Judge the
cxigenciss of tho case demand it, will ourselves
resist the aggressions of this monster evil by
every means at our command, appealing to God
for the justice Of our cause.
These were responded to by Revs.
Whitman, Dudley, Stearns, Miller, Fish
and Westover, of Wisconsin,; Rev. j.
c. Burroughs, of Chicago, and Rev. DIR.
Warren, Corresponding Secretary OF
American Baptist Missionary Union,
Boston, Mass, after which they were
unanimously adopted.
I Voted, That these proceedings be pub
lished i'll the Milwaukee Sentinel, anC
such other papers as the Secretary shall
direct.
Benediction by the Moderator
Adjourned.
G. w. GATES, Moderator.
J. T. MISSIONER, Secretary.
East Troy, Sept. Is, 1856.