Letter From William Slade

FVashington, Juli) 25, 1842. To tlie Editor of tli Voiccof Êrecdom: Your paper ofthe I4th instanf.which I have jnst opencd. brings me an address of a Convention of JUinistcrs and Telégrafos nssemtiJed at Rnndolph, to the Coo-reg;úoiiul Churches n Vcrmont.' on the subject ot'shvery, together with an address of the samo Convcntioií fo tlie Minisiers and Churcios in tlie Üui fcd States fhnt tolérate slavery." Í have read tLeso addresses wiih ünmingled fi-atisfaciion. It is to the Christian religión living ond breathing-, and speaking, and acting ín and through the Church, that we must look, as the great agent for the destruction of slavery. Notliing but the religión óf Jesns, burning in the bosoms of his professing disciples and act ing by lis dif}'usi?e infltience, upon the world, will ever extermínate tbis monster of oppression and seliisbncsa froni tho earVh. The addresses speak in riglit language, amï breathe the true spirit. Tho force of tho trutlis tljey utter is not vveakened, eithor by liarsh and wholesale áenunciation on the one hand, or excuses for injustico and oppression on the other. I cannot sufficiently expresé my gratitude to tlje Christian mïnifitera and laymen who have thus spoken out on this great subject. I hope the examplo will be followed by tho General Convention ofVermont.by the Ecclesiastical Conventions of all the States irj