The Baptists and Slavery, 1840-1845, Issues 2-3 |
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Page 54 - If, however, any one should offer himself as a missionary, having slaves, and should insist on retaining them as his property, we could not appoint him. One thing is certain, we can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery'.
Page 52 - ... the distinct, explicit avowal that slaveholders are eligible and entitled equally with non-slaveholders to all the privileges and immunities of their several unions, and especially to receive any agency or mission or other appointment which may run with the scope of their operations or duties.
Page 36 - Resolved, That, in cooperating together as members of this Convention in the work of Foreign Missions, we disclaim all sanction, either expressed or implied, whether of slavery or of antislavery...
Page 11 - I am the more inclined, because unwilling to appear in any controversy, which can, even by implication, place me in a false and odious attitude, representing me as the eulogist and abettor of slavery, and not as simply the apologist of an institution transmitted to us by former generations, the existence of which I lament; for the commencement of which I am not at all responsible ; for the extinction of which I am willing to make greater sacrifices than any abolitionist has made or would make, if...
Page 53 - If our brethren in Alabama, with this exposition of our principles and feelings, can cooperate with us, we shall be happy to receive their aid. If they cannot, painful to us as will be their withdrawal, yet we shall submit to it, as neither sought nor caused by us. There are sentiments avowed in this communication, which, although held temperately and kindly, and with all due esteem and Christian regard for...
Page 73 - That such persons only, as are in full communion with some regular church of our denomination, and who furnish satisfactory evidence of .genuine piety, good talents, and fervent zeal for the Redeemer's cause, are to be employed as missionaries.
Page 10 - Resolved, That slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature and inconsistent with a republican government, and therefore recommend it to our brethren to make use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrid evil from the land; and pray Almighty God that our honorable Legislature may have it in their power to proclaim the great Jubilee, consistent with the principles of \ good policy.
Page 15 - I go still further. I hold that a compact is binding, in its spirit as well as in its letter. The spirit of the compact, I suppose, imposes upon me the obligation not to do any thing for the purpose of changing the relation of master and slave, except with the consent of the master. I have no right to declare the abolition of slavery in another state ; I have conceded that this is to be left to the free choice of the citizens of that state. I have no right to do any thing to interfere with that free...