The following resolution was adopted by the Vermont ASS: “That those ministers who, with all the light they now enjoy in regard to the sinfullness of the slaveholder, and the suffering of the slave, oppose the cause of emancipation , or remain silent on the subject, are unworthy of support or of confidence as religious guides and teachers.”

The editor tells of his visit to the state where “we commenced our public advocacy of the Anti-Slavery cause, through the medium of the Journal of the Times, in Bennington…” Then he tells of visits during eleven days, when he spoke at eighteen meetings.

S. M. Seaver, writes from Vermont, proud that “passage of the Personal Liberty Bill by our Legislature must be hailed by every friend of freedom….as an unmistakable sign of the times.”

This letter to Garrison, comes from William Wells Brown, who has been in Vermont for four weeks. He comments that the fact that Republicans control the elections, “should not be taken as evidence that the people are right on the great question…. As in every State, the most illiterate and ignorant portion are found in the Democratic party, and amongst them nothing is too bad to be said of the ‘niggers’….” Brown goes on to tell of meetings in Topsham, Peacham, South Ryegate, and Bradford. In one place he says that the minister in charge, “gave the meeting a poor reception, and me a worse name when the lecture was over.” He tells of one town where he could not find a hotel in which he could stay. “Still, there are many warm hearts in the Green Mountain State, who are anxious to have the American Anti-Slavery Society send in an agent or two, to lecture in all the towns. Vermont is certainly a good field for missionary labor.”