Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-14
FREE.THISkERS.
Frce.Thinkers Of New York sta,e In Con-
Observation-Disclosures RESOLUTIONS.

ALBANY, N. y, Sept. l3.-The Free
Thinkers convention opened at the lie.
land opera.house this morning. The first
speaker was James Parton OF Massachu-
sets, who gave lecture on Victor Hugo,
dealing with the personal qualities and
literary fame of the great Frenchman
who, he said, had exercised great infu-
ence on free thought.
Mr.. CORTLAND Palmer then read the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were adopted:
The Free-Thinkers of the state OF New
York, in convention assembled, resolve
as follows;
/. That the mother and nurse of
all reforms, social, pollti-
cal and moral, Is universal
mental liberty, and that its general ex-
| tension is the condition of the future
progress of the human race.
2. That taking our stand on the tunda-
mental American doctrine Of the separa-
ton of church and state, we demand in
the interest of liberty equal rights and
secular government, that such separation
of church and state should be completed,
] by the repeal OF all laws exempting church
and ecclesiastical property from taxa
ton by the prohibition by law of the APP
preparation of public moneys for the sup
port of or use by institutions un-
| der the management and in
| tluence of see tartan denominations (;
/ by the repeal of laws compelling the OBJ
seryance of any day as sabbath or
holy day, or enforcing the payment of
/ legislative chaplaincy orof the establishing
of special religious day to be observed
| by public authority.
We, therefore, call upon all of our
fcllow-citizens, irrespective of their re-
/ liglous opinions, to aid MS in obtaining
these requirements of justice.
! 3. That the object of free thought is
to extend the benign influence OF science,
to cultivate the spirit of fraternity, to
aid in the triumph of peace, to
remove brute force and to inauguratc
a government which shall express the
moral power of an enlightened reason.
To these ends we recommend: That lib
eral or secular societies should be formed
! for social education and recitation pur-
poses, that free-thought and secular halls
and library and rcading-rooms should be
built or obtained and that suitable lee
turers and teachers should be employed
wherever possible in the several coun-
ties of our state.
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