 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...  Annual Report and Proceedings - Page 68by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1846Full view - About this book
 | United States. Census Office 11th Census, 1890 - 1892 - 250 pages
...slaves and insisting 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." The board of the Home Mission 8ociety made a similar declaration of policy, and division took place in 1843. The Begular... | |
 | United States. Census Office - 1894 - 906 pages
...slaves and insisting on retaining them as his property, we could not appoint him. One tiling is certain, we can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery." The board of the Home Mission Society made a similar declaration of policy, and division took place in 1845. The Regular... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Codman Potter, Samuel Macauley Jackson - 1894 - 542 pages
...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." This decision of the board led to the formal withdrawal of the various Southern State Conventions and... | |
 | Albert Henry Newman - 1894 - 550 pages
...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." This decision of the board led to the formal withdrawal of the various Southern State Conventions and... | |
 | Leonard Woolsey Bacon - 1897 - 458 pages
...of the Foreign Mission Board was perfectly kind, but, on the main point, perfectly unequivocal : " We can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery." The result had been foreseen. The great denomination was divided between North and South. The Southern... | |
 | United States. Bureau of the Census - 1910 - 682 pages
...claim of anyone, slaveholder or nonslaveholder, to appointment, "one thing was certain, they could never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery." This decision led to formal withdrawal of the various Southern state conventions and auxiliary foreign... | |
 | Mary Burnham Putnam - 1913 - 106 pages
...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." The Board agrees to the independence of churches, it would not interfere with the discipline of any church. The... | |
 | Mary Burnham Putnam - 1913 - 108 pages
...heretofore avowed. This was their meaning in the succeeding sentence: — • One thing is certain we can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery." That is, "as it was never the design of the Acting Board to become an anti-slavery body, no more was... | |
 | Peter George Mode - 1921 - 776 pages
...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'. In your third Resolution you say, that, 'whenever the competency or fitness of an individual to receive... | |
 | Peter George Mode - 1921 - 772 pages
...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 slaveryIn your third Resolution you say, that, ' whenever the competency or fitness of an individual... | |
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