Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-11-24
Tract Societies.


Those who have heretofore taken the Amer'-
can Messenger. and Child's Paper, know that
they are in the general excellent little papers.
but most at the North have felt that with all
their excellencies they were defective. Touch
ing that great sin g slavery both these publ
cations have ever been, and are likely to re-
main silent, the Tract Society at N. Y. having
resolved not to speak word for the oppressed
in any way whatever. On thisaccount, mainly.
has the American Tract Society at Boston,
withdrawn itself from the Society at N T.,
and commenced publishing by itself series of
tracts, and an excellent little paper, The Tract
Journal, which is designed to be the organ of
the Society, and to be to it, what the Messen-
ger is to the Society at N. Y. 1t is every way
as good paper as the Messenger, and in at
least one respect much better, for it will tpeak
and speak Alright on slavery. But tho Boston
Society had intended still to supply Juvenile
readers with the" Chid's Paper" as hereto
fore, procuring it of the N. Y. Society. But
what does the N. Y Society do? Why by
way of opposition to the Society at Boston, it
has established in Boston an agency, and said
to the Boston Society, you cannot have our pa
pers at any price. And it has sent its circulars
broad cast all over the country recommending
to the Churches and Sabbath Schools, its Mes
scnger, ChiIds Paper, &c. Who docs not see
that its object is to cut off the Boston Society
from communication with the people, and it.
self to take the ground formerly held by the
Society at Boston, and so to cripple its inhu-
ence? 1t supposes undoubtedly the Churches
and Sabbath Schools which have hitherto taken
its publications of the Boston Society, are so
much in love with them that they will not be
willing on any account to part with them, and
hence that now by refusing to furnish them to
the Boston Society," the N. Y. Society may ride
right in, and occupy the ground hitherto occu-
pied by the Society at Boston.
Now what should the people who love liberty
and hate oppression, do? Is it not their duty
to say to the N. Y. Society, 50 Much as we love
your " Messenger" and your d" Chlds Paper
we will not, under existing circumstances re
ceve them at your hands?" The Boston So
'ciety on being informed that the N. Y. Society
will not any longer furnish them with the
CMids Paper, have resolved themselves to pub
fish, a beautiful little sheet, every way as good
as the +" CMid's Paper" and in one respect bet
ter, 10 be called the 4" Child at Home" Now
should not Ministers, and Sabbath School Su.
perintendents, and others who would be known
as i" Anti Slavery as well as Christians, =
favor the circulation of the Tract Journal
and "Child at Home,' published by the A. 7
Society, % Cornhill, Boston, rather than of the
Messenger and CMH's Paper, published by a
Pro-Slavery Tract Society?
These new papers are to be furnished at the
same, prices as the old. Fifty copies of the
Child at Home can be sent, Post Paid, to any
part of N. E., to one address. for $500, i. e
at the rate Of u cents per copy.
Five dollars will procure 40 copies of the
Tract Journal, but not including postage.
What Church or Sabbath School will, under
existing circumstances, refuse to false the small
sums necessary to procute so copies of the
Child at Home and 40 of the Tract Journal?
J.P. S.