A history of Methodism in the United States . l urged the General Confer-ence to expunge from the General Rules the following, towit, The buying and selling of men, women, and childrenwith an intention to enslave them, and had requestedthe bishops to pass the resolution around to all the An-nual Conferences. This had been done, with the resultthat 1160 had voted to concur, and 311 not to do was therefore a surplus over the constitutional ma-jority of three fourths; but three of the conferences, thePacific, Kansas Mission, and Indian Mission, had had noopportunity of voting on the reso
A history of Methodism in the United States . l urged the General Confer-ence to expunge from the General Rules the following, towit, The buying and selling of men, women, and childrenwith an intention to enslave them, and had requestedthe bishops to pass the resolution around to all the An-nual Conferences. This had been done, with the resultthat 1160 had voted to concur, and 311 not to do was therefore a surplus over the constitutional ma-jority of three fourths; but three of the conferences, thePacific, Kansas Mission, and Indian Mission, had had noopportunity of voting on the resolution. This occasionedmuch debate, as some wished to proceed without regardto this informality. After the committee to which thesubject was referred had reported, a special committee ofsix was ordered, to which the resolutions, amendments,and the entire question were committed. The report ofthat committee, as adopted on a vote of one hundred andforty-one yeas to seven nays, is as follows: 1 Journal of the General Conference of 1858, p. EXPUNGING GENERAL RULE ON SLAVERY. 349 The committee appointed to report a preamble andresolutions in regard to the expunction of the rule in theGeneral Rules forbidding the buying and selling of men,women, and children with an intention to enslave them,beg leave to report the following as the result of theirdeliberations: Whereas, The rule in the General Rules of theMethodist Episcopal Church, South, forbidding the buy-ing and selling of men, women, and children with an in-tention to enslave them is ambiguous in its phraseologyand liable to be construed as antagonistic to the institu-tion of slavery, in regard to which the church has no rightto meddle, except in enforcing the duties of masters andservants as set forth in the Holy Scriptures; and WHERE-AS, A strong desire for the expunction of said rule hasbeen expressed in nearly all parts of our ecclesiasticalconnection; therefore, Resolved, I. By the delegates of the Annual Confer-ences
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