“_Resolved_, That the slave system of this country derives its chief and essential support from the nominally free States; and that the citizens of New Hampshire are as deeply implicated in the guilt of slaveholding as those of any other State in the Union. “_Resolved_, That the only way in which the citizens of New Hampshire can exculpate themselves from the guilt of slaveholding, is to countenance and support the Anti-slavery enterprise.” Here it is asserted, that the citizens of New Hampshire are as deeply implicated in the guilt of slaveholding as those of any of the slave States; and that the _only way_ in which they can exculpate themselves from this guilt, “is to countenance and support the Anti-slavery enterprise.” As the guilt of all sin must be removed in the same way--and this is said to be the only way to remove this guilt--it would seem, that all who “countenance and support the Anti-slavery enterprise” are exculpated from the guilt of _all their sins_, as they cannot be exculpated from the guilt of _one_ sin, and not of _all_ sin. I presume that those who adopted this resolution did not reflect, that it would lead to such a conclusion. They probably thought, that the citizens of New Hampshire could not give evidence of sincere repentance, unless they should “countenance and support the Anti-slavery enterprise.” But if this is their _only way_ to afford such evidence, and to be exculpated from this guilt, do not all who “countenance and support the Anti-slavery enterprise” afford such evidence, and thus show that they are exculpated from the guilt of this sin, and consequently, from the guilt of _all_ sin? At the annual meeting of the Merrimack County Anti-Slavery Society, January 14th, 1840, the following resolutions were adopted: “_Resolved_, That the abolition enterprise is the cause of God, and that those professed ministers of the gospel who treat it with opposition or indifference, are recreant to their high trust as ambassadors of Christ--hypocritical in their professions of love to man, and are unworthy the confidence and support of a Christian community. “_Resolved_, That all those who support professed ministers of the gospel who refuse to wield their pulpit influence against the diabolical system of American slavery, are guilty of supporting that system.” At a meeting of “a number of the friends of the slave, from different parts of the State,” at Concord, January 22d--the day after the meeting of the Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers and Churches--the following resolution, among others, was adopted: “_Resolved_, That at the present stage of the Anti-slavery enterprise, those ministers professing to be the ministers of Christ, who do not fearlessly and boldly advocate the immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves of this country, are unworthy the countenance or support of the Christian community.”