The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery volume 1
The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery volume 1
James Gillespie Birney
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Laiidards of the churcti. " The minority ol tin- Comiiiittcc, ihr Rovrron. I Messrs. L)ick«*y and Boman, r«p. , rt((l ihc iMJIuuing tesolutions : — Resolved, — 1. •• That the buying, sellinp, or lioldinp « human being as pro- peily. Is in the sicht of (, o«l a heinous sin, and ou/ht to subject the doer ol it to the censures of the church. 2. "Ibat It IS the duly of every one, and e«peci illy of every Christian, who may be involved in this hiii, to free him. Self from Ua erifangleiiient without ...delay. . T •* That It is the duly ol every one. Especially of every Christian, in the meekncsd and tJruine^M of the gospel, lo plead the cause of the 32 poor an. L needy by testifying a-. In. T the principle and praclire of slavehokllnfic ; and to lu^e his best endeavors to dehver the church ot God from the evil ; and to biing about the enuMicipatiun ol Ihu slaves in these United Slates, and throughout the world. " The slaveholding delegates to the number of forty- eight, met apart, and Resolved, — «' That if the General Assembly shall undertake to exercise au- thority on the subject of slaveiy, ^o as to make it an immorality, or shall in any wav dtclare that Chrisnans are crimuial in holding slaves, that a declaration >hall be pre>enled by the southern dele^a- lion, declininor their jurisdiction in the case, and our deU-rmmaiioa not to submit to such deci->ion.
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