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Freewill Baptists

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
October
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dr. Mariis said, - Before the risc of the Uii-Slavery Suciety, the Freewill Bapisls held in fellowship two associationa of Jhurchestn the slavehuldmg state, conaining aboul four thousand nember&- L'hey clave to slavery and discontinuad h e Morning Star bccftuee it testified arairiat ihe wicked eystem thoy supported. j'ellowship was withümwn from them,an(l jy theaction of our General Conferenco he rccorü cf t!;eo c-jftHfs was ordered o bc struck t'rurnour minvüea. At our last General Conference Dr. Huusley, n slavsholuing minister irom Kentucky, wished to be receivod among us, 6a.id the re vrt as many as 20,000 Clirietians in hit región of country, liolding tlia peculiar lenots of ourdenominalion, wbo vi.-he:l to conneci with us provjdcd we Toukl sny n;hing Ui them nbout shivery. II was given to unuerstani that no 8ucii comproniiae could be made, neiiher could, he nor they be received without em:ncipatin iheir slaves and washing their bands fiool the ein of elavery.The state oí things et the approaching aession of Congress wiMbe extraordinsry and exciting. The eevtrance of old poiiiical frienda will créate a fearfui var of wGrds- and, probably, i!ie Bowie knife will ba brouglit ia aid of liie arguement. - That is tbc opinión gitcn, ia the late debate in the iiouse on ilit last r eek's riof, by Mr. Warren of Georgia, and oiher res pectable members. The aboliiion queslion vvbich must be met al the opening of Congress. and is the first Ihing to come up will add much lo the general excitemont and confusión. He re is anoiher noble testimony from a elaveJwlder, ono of whoee human chattel, ie escoped, and arrived ia Nswark N. J. a few dayn sinci :- - sHe who earna the money,who digs it out of the earth with the eweat of his brorr has a just tille to itagainstthe Universa. No ono hr.s a right to touch it without hU consent, except the Gorernment, and it only to the exlent of ils legitímate wants