The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-16

not publicly make itself felt in Oppo,it :
to such monstrous wickeduess as M
need net hope to accomplish much am,
people who read and think. These
olutions are said to have been drawn
and read by Rev. II. I. Cheever, of q
nectieut. We commend them IA h.
careful attention of all our readers u
especially to protesting christians:
Whereas, Thirteen Christina fanR.:
being the associates and co-laborers Of n
Rev. Mcssrs. Fee and Rogers, miS,io'
ries Of the American Missionary ASH
tion in Madison County, KY, and nj
bcring IN all thirty eight or forty per,n.
have been forcibly expelled from 4. !.
homes in Berea, and have been c6mpeh !
to quit the State, not for any ofs
charged upon them, but only because
the language of the Committee of Ei
tuckians that expelled them, "their r 4
ciples could not be tolerated ia III
tucky;"
d" And Fherees. The Rev. Messrs. G
dee and Kendrick, and Mr. Robert Jon.
missionaries of the American Mission
Association in Laurel County, Ky, We,
recently, when preaching in that con
seized, shaven, and covered with tar. i,
cause they were known to be in priuc,
opposed to Slavery;
" A,m yEhere0S, The Rev. DAM.
Worth, devoted Wesleyan Mcthel
minister Of the Gospel, aad missiorpi
of the Americ9p Missionary Associatj
in North Carolina, Las been thrown M
prison at Grecnsborough, and placed n
der bonds of $4,000, for the aled,i
ofTense OF preaching sentiments hostaet /
Slavery, anJ Of circulating an Anti-SIarI
ry book, and is now in danger of his N,
from the wrath of his prosecutors;
Aud IFIereaS, Deacon Reuben 81
lsbury of the Baptist Church in the Coa
ty Of Prince George, Va, and divers o
er Christian brethren of different rehgial
denominations, in ether parts of the SouAl
have been treated with great indgnn,
and forced to leave with the sacrifice
their property, because they were deem,
to be opposed to Slavery: Therefore
"ReSoiccd, l That we sympatLii
deeply with those Christian brethren a,t
their suffering families, and that we 4
in the outrages to which they are sd,
iecfcd the inbcrn and incradicablc spn'
of Slavery, which Will brook no deniaI
its law wfulncss.
-. That in the wicked persecutt
when is now carried on against Chisl.
ministers and teachers in the South, v
see new reason 70 rcaffirm the judgug'
expressed by the Church Anti Sayel
Society, at its anniversary meeting
May last, viz: that in the judgment !
this Society, American Slavery, ifnI
speedily arrested in its usurping and n
moraiizing course, by the deliberate a,
tion of American Churches, wiii paray'
aud heathenizc the Church of Chma
the Slaveholding States, and will DIN,
its witnessing members 'to caves and dai
ot the earth,' and over 4 PROSTATE 40,
servile Church, it will proceed to the ui
Of our national Liberties, by an oIgara,
Of Slavehoiding Aristocrats, or by a N
ltary D6spotism in the interest Of 9iave''
%. That, in the judgment Of ID.
meeting, il is The manifest duty Of Il
President Of the United States to in.e,
pose with authority for tie protection
those Christian citizeus in the SouI
whose lives, liberties, properties, and pa
sons are violated, and themselves banHi
ed IN open violation Of the Bill of Rigl-
guaranteed by the Constitution to 4
American citizens, ard WITHOUT ID
PROCESS CT LAW.
t, That as a part of the people off
United States, to whom an appeal b
been made by ten of the exiles Of Kgl
tucky over their own signatures, weH
srond to their cali, and that we will,
once proceed, as by them entreated !,
do our du:y, that lost privileges may
secured to them, freedom TO the sh1E
security to the master, and prospert!
all, and We would recommend that Chn1
ian people in all parts Of the country
likewise by public meetings for symPa!-rr
and succor to those injured exile8.
80. That COPY Of these reSolun1
be transmitted to tie President Of O
United States, and to the Governors
Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolin',
faE~ Horace Greeley & Co, have put
Iished the first of their proposed series
campaign documents in pamphlet fora
The one now issued is d6-page pamP-
let, containing Senator Sc wards "lrf