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Massachusetts A. S. Society,--the Difference

Massachusetts A. S. Society,--the Difference image
Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
April
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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In Massachusetts are two State Anti.slav ery societies - Tmowntbere bythc appellation of old and new organizations. The members of the latler are generally attached to the Liberty Party, and aro consistent po litical abolitionists. The Liberty Party in that State gave upwards ofSOOO votes at the last e!ection,und holds on its courso without falte ring. Uut the members of the old organization, are generally, míd have beea from (he begin niog, opposed to the formalion of the Liberty Party, although they refusa to vote for pro-slavery candidates. Their ranks emirace a great variety of combinations of sentiment, 6uch as Non-Resist;uice, Womeu's Righte,No Human Government, Tranecen deutalism, Anti Church, Anti Sabbath, Anti Ministry, and olhers too numerous to menlion.By confounding the doings of this latta society with the former, sorne persons hav been led to think that the Liberty Party i that State ure renounciag their politica principies. Nothing can be more erroneous The doings of the ttvo bodies are totally di tinct, and in many pointa as wide asunder a the polee. The old organizationists have peculiar faculty of abusing, by whole sale large bodies of men, to wbich the Liberty Party cannot, in all cases, subscribe. Th last Liberator bringa us tho doings of lh Essex Counly A. S. Society of which Eli za J. Kenny was President. This society is a constituent part of the Massachusetts A S society, and the following resolution were unanimously adopled, which we extrae for a sample: Resolved, That tho great body of the Northern clergy, a few individuals only excepted, by their conlinued silence 01 the wrongs oftwo and a half millions o slaves, their malignant and persevering O position totheAnii Slavery enterprise,ani their manifest determinution to fellowship southern man-stealers as Christians and christian minis'ers, have proved themselves, b)' their own professiona, a rea brotherhood ofthieves: and, instend ol 'be ing" supported as the jninisters of righteousness, should be held (on their own principies) in execration ond abhorren.ee by the whole human race. Resolved, That the sedarían corporations,and oiher bodies caüed churches in our country, - that not on!y refuse to bear a faithful testimony against slavery, but recognize as Christians, Tsouthern menstealers and adulterers, and in many instances have excommunicated for their fidelity to the slave, those who dare not te partakers in their sins, - have shown :hemselves to be like Baby Ion, in apocavptic visión, the habitation of devüa, the hold of every foul spi;-it, and a enge of every unciean and hateful bird; and that it s the imperious duty of every abolitionist tocóme out ofthem, that they be not parakers of their sins, and that they receive not of their plagues. Two other resolutions were laid over for discussion, declaring that the doctrine that 'we are required to belong lo some organiz2(1 body calling itself a Christian churek, is not from heaven, but of men;" and that tbe revalence of this doctrine is chargeable to a corrupt sectarian priesthood.The following on politics was adopted,and is in keeping .vith the olhers: Resolved, That the threeorganized poütical parties are giving most undoubied evidencg thut, as parties, ihey are destitute of moral principie, and are not the genuine friends oflibertv; and we would soletnnly warn all true abolitionists against wasting their politica! influence in iheir support. Resoluüons similar to the last hare been adopted by the State society. Frotn the tenor of the last resolution, the State Journal will eee, that couldail the Liberty men of the State be converted to the doctrines of the oW society of Massachusetts, the M?hig vote would not be increased m the least, because the whige, in common with the other parties, are here declared to be "de6titute of cnoral principie," and unworthy of support. Consequently,the'uiminishing of the whigs,' which the Journal yiaüy lamente as a necessary consequence of the existence oftlie Liberty party, would be in no degree abatedby the application of the remedy it bas proposed. The Journal must find some other panacea for the disease.