Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-22
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| UT. IdAW.--Iu your paper OF LnlS morning
| observe the following item:
SALEM STREET CHURcH.-At a meeting of
Salem street church, last evening, the resolu.
tons offered a week since viz: Chat we take
up no more collections and make no more con
tributions as a church for the support of the
A. B. T. 4. NJ, until that Board shall cease to
sustain a proslavery attitude; also that this
church send at an early day to each of the
evangelical churches in New England a circu-
lar letter containing copy of the anti-slavery
resolutions il has adopted, and inviting coop
GRAFTON in the anti-slayery cause" were indef-
nitely postponed byav OF Is to-
1t is but proper that an explanation of the
circumstances under which this vote was
passed should also be made to correct misap-
prehension.
LIST. They were not resolutions
I'd. Mr.. Sprague one week ago Wednesday
evening gdve notice that he should introduce
at some future meeting, perhaps on the next
week, the two motions whose substance has
been reported, 6H did not then more them
I'd. Mr.. Sprague having been entreated by
both friends and opponents of the movement
not to call up this subject for action at the
Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, consent
ed to let the matter rest quiet until the regular
business meeting of the church, and it was SO
understood.
most ardent friends of the measure, including
Mr. Sprague himself, being absent, at the very
hour when the meeting usually adjourns, a
| gentleman moved that the resolutions f?). a
copy OF which has been left with the clerk for
reference, be taken up and discussed, and the
opponents of the measure, Notwithstanding
they were repeatedly implored to let Mr..
oprague make his own motions, proceeded to
discuss, and finally indefinitely postponed
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notice df an intention 10 make t1cO motions for the
motions themselves have never been made at
any meeting, and cannot therefore have been
acted upon.
Query first Is parliamentary or even party
fairness, to say nothing of Christian courtesy,
even, if the motions had been made, for any
gentleman 10 appropriate them in the movers
absence, and without his consent?
Query second. Leaving out of mind the
Golden Rule, was it in accordance with the
worldly rule of doing to others as you have
been done by, to crowd this matter through by
means which are in fact the gagging of discus
sion after the other side, on a recent occasion.
nad generously adjourned two meetings, on
either OF which their triumph was sure, at the
request of the opposition, for the very purpose
OF giving that opposition an opportunity to
present their case i'll as favorable light as
possible
query InHu. Nmcn course evidences the
greatest fear of discussion?
Finally, this er pdrte action is not settle
ment of the matter in the Salem street Church.
They have not so soon eaten their own words.
@. WA.
NoTE.-We counsel our Salem street friends
to keep cool and feel happy, this warm wealth
er. Under such circumstances, everything
good and useful depends on GOODNESS and cir
cumspection. We suggest also whether it will
not be wiser to settle the matter deliberately in
such manner as the carefully considered and
final judgment Of the church will approve, be-
lore it is again brought before the public We
no not believe that swift blood and hasty words
among the members ofthat church would serve
any good purpose whatever; and therefore we
presume they will be very carefully avoided.
HoLDEN.-James ID w. e ttt.:.