The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1845, Page 9

—_—_—_—_———— eur fidelity to Protestantism, our love of li- berty, of wi and Christ-like charity—our love of spiritual liberty and our hatred of despotism. <=, It means to put in sppropriate action the members of the Alliance and all Christians against spiritual despotism in its spirit and origin, its outward m: tion and conse- quences. ‘There are three forms of spiritual despoti toleration, arrogance, and uhity. ‘Toleration is ae. What do you mean by toleration? Why, to t you think. Let me think? f may, my Lord Bishop of London—I shall think. I abhor the spirit that lets me hip God in a dissenting chapel. ( tism to talk of toleration in religious affairs, and we have embodied our views in this youn; and flourishing institution; because, if right, it will stan —if not, let it go to the winds. The same we say of ar- ance. This Christian says, ‘we have ecclesiastical authority, or better men than you.” One says they ere of the apostolic succession—one prides himself on bay tiem ; but the freeman will as soon go to the conventicle as to the Cathedral. We abhor arrogance in any man or body of men ; and we abhor too, Sir, the boasted unity of the church. The perversion of that sweet and ble name is one of the crying sins of theage. What is the church ? It is the fullness of him that filleth all the earth, How do you, a man, belong to the church? Get inside his heartand then you can tell. The moment grace divine grafts one of those branches into the living vine— not before—it is of the church, and it is despotism to bring aman into the church in any other but the simple way—that is in accordance with the word of God. I am in danger of trespassing to-night, for in order to give my thoughts more forcible utterance, I have written them down, and nay as well avow it, Inevercame toa meeting with such feelings of awe and deep seriousness, The gentlemen who are ritting at these tables arg giving our speeches a mighty magnitude. 1 want them to do it; it is a great thing to make specches, and it is agreat thing to report them. {often thought that if the Christian Al- liance talked to the Pope, he would come down aud join them. Mr. K. continued at great length to animadvert in strong terms on the efforts iow making by the Court of Rome to spread his dominion over this country, and to contrast the genius and social influence of that with Pro- testantism. Rey. Dr. Cox followed, and the sum of his address, which was extremely well received, was that the Pope was an old woman in petticoats—popery a quidity of non- entity—Rome the mother of harlots—her organization, framed upon the military plan of Pagan Rome, the Pope corsesponding with the Dux or leader—but he begged of them to understand that by Dux he didn’t meana certain atic animal. Inconclision Dr. C. paraphrased the filth chapter of the Apocalypse,which he concurred with Newton in regarding as applicable to papal Rome; he be- lieved that all the vials of w.ath were not yot to be pour- d out—was certain the Pope, not Mahomet, was anti oe and the great battle of Armegeddonas nigh at an > 3 & After the address, the meeting closed with prayer. Meeting in Behalf of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at the Broadway Tabernacle, May 0th. This meeting was called by the board of direc- tion, for the purpose of improving the opportunity, which the large number of the clergy and laity from abroad, in attendance on the various anniversaries, presented of circulating through the country mis- sionary intelligence,.and of awakening in the com" munity, an interest jn the affairs of the society. The Tabernacle was well filled, and the audience ap- peared to take a lively interest in the proceedings. At 10 o’clock, A. M., the Hon. Theodore Fre- linghuysen, President of the Board, took the chair; and the exercises commenced with prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Beecher, of Cincinatti. The Rev. Dr. Armsrrona, one of the Secretaries, then read a statemeat of the operations of the Board during the last year. The past year, said the Secre- tary, has been an eventful one in the history of our missions in Western Asia; the opposition which has been manifested by the Turkish government; the many obstacles it has thrown in the way of a dis- semmination of the gospel truth, Have been, to a reat extent, withdrawn. The Sultan has destroyed, A his religious toleration, the fundamental maxim of the Koran. We have now facilities there for building up the waste places, which, with the bless- ing of God, we are determined to improve. The mission to the Nestorians is abandoned. Dr. Grant, the intrepid pioneer of the mission, died of fever, in 1844; he had labored long and faithfully, and now is enjoying an exceeding great reward, We had to centend with fearful odds in our mission to that peo- le. The Greek Patriarch and his brothers, with the Catholic priesthood, backed by the political influence of France, at the Persian Court, were all marshalled against our missionaries. In Syria, there’ has not been muchdone, Our missionaries, however, are preaching, and the people learning that the truth as itis in Jesus, will set the nations free. The mission at Jerusalem has been transferred to Beyrooth. We have eyery reason to be satisfied with the fruits of this mission; whole Greek families, in the face of the bitterest persecutions, liave embraced Protestant- ism, and I rejoice to say, remain faithful to theirpro- fession. The most bitter antipathy seems to exist in the minds of the unconverted Greeks against the Protestant doctrine. The Bible is not allowed to be read, and in many ways the Greek Church shows it- self a fitting coadjutor with the papal hierarchy in the work of oppression. ‘I'he spiritual existence of the Armenian Chureh ig not healthy—we have, how- ever, some native teachers there, who are effecting much good, and the demand for the Bible is increas: ing, in face of the most determined opposition. In Constantinople, so many uttend the mission church that the edifice can scarcely hold them, and once a week prayer meetings are eld in the city proper, by native teachers, and this is in Constanti- nople, the metropolis of the Moslem world. The mission on Jabon river, in West Aftica, is a most fruitful field of Christian labor, and soon an avenue- will be opened to the dark and almost most unknown region in the centre of Africa, where Christians will have an opportunity of extend- ing the blessings of religion. This mission has sus- tained a serious loss in the death of Mr. Griswold. ‘There was nothing of importance from South Africa. The Secretary then went into a detail of the opera- tions of the Board in Hindostan, showing the pros- perous condition of the missions there, and observ- ing, in conclusion, that their agencies there should be increased at least an hundred fold. In Ceylon, the indication of the downfal! of idolatry is becoming more and more distinct from month to month, Our missionaries there are sending home loud cries for help, and the prudential committee earnestly desires to answer the ery. Nothing particularly interesting has been received from Siam. The unfriendly aspect which the loca! authorities of Borneo wore to- wards the missionaries is entirely changed. This is owing to the interposition of the home government. It affords us much pleasure to state that the Dyak mission is in a most begat condition, The Chinese want books sent, and the word taught, far beyond our ability to supply. We have two mission- aries in Hong Kong, and one in Amoy; the last is of the Reformed Dutch Church, and labored formerly with great faithfulness in Borneo. The Board strong- desire to form a third mission on the Northern Coast, and we ought to send out at least twenty more missionaries. In the pastoral care of large churches, the missionaries have to depend ma- terially upon the native assistants; they have proven themselves, faithful and competent. In many of the villages, the converted Chinese are building eubstantial school houses, and some of them support their own churches, One of the churches raised for that purpose $125, the very first quarter they met. No iatetligence of moment has reached us from the Oregon mission. The aspect of the mis- sions among the aborigines of our country generally is most favorable. ‘The great difficulty missionaries find in incwlating the truth, is the avarice and wick- edness among professing Christians. He would say, injustice to the Indian character, that the Che- ‘okees and the Choctaws in point of morality, &e., compare favorably with Americans in their neigh- borhood. mission to the Oybbeway Indians has beenestablished and is atfecting much. An¢ although we have done all we could do, and we hav eflected much,how many have gone without warning to the land of silence znd darkness, and passed un- sanctified to the bar of God and the retributions of eternity! Jf we look only at what has been done, we wee much to call for tr giving and praise—but if we consider what hus been left undone, we feel that we have searcely entered on the mighty work; that we are not half awake to its vastness end its anv ing importance. Tn the domestic department of the operation of the Board, there are indications of an increase of the missionary spirit in the Christian community for which it acis. ‘The numbers of young men in our Theological Seminaries, who protess to have consecrated tieir lives to the publication of the gospel among the heathen, is much larger than it was twelve months ago, and the prospect of obtain- an adequate supply’ of laborers for the foreign field, is. fe than ii has been any previous time since the faltering of the churches, in 1837, exerted 80 disatrous an iniluence on those who were look- mag forward to this work. ‘The finarices of the Board are more prosperous than they were lust year. The receipts of nine months of the finencia r, commencing on th Ast of Aust, 1544, and ¢ on the 30th of Ap 1845, were $155,000, exci se of the corres. ponding period last year, $2 . ‘The amount thus received in the nine months thet have elapsed, is less by $18,000 than the appropriations for the same pe- riod. If the remaining quarter of the annual year shall show an inerease on the corresponding quarter of last year in the ratio that has been realized thus far, the Board will be free from debt at the close of its financial year on the Blet of July. In order to accomplish this, the receipts of the remaining qu ter must average iM) per month, The Board has now under its enre 23 missions, I We with 500 laborers, imemdiog native teachers. have 95 missionury stations, aid 689 free schools, containing ahout 80,000 pupils, and some boarding » Fchools at pia ties Mt tishing condition ~ » We he 15 pri establishments, which have printed about fity ioulions of pages indi languages, i uot ineludiy vaiish, wud there are twenty-six churches of converted heathen with 26,000 members in full communion, wucerthe superatendance of the yet, | THE HOLY ANNUAL HERALD. Missionaries sent out by the Board. te Dr. De Wirr then addressed the meeting instead of Dr. Wyckotf of Albany, who had been invited to dress the meeting, but did not attend. His re- marks had reference to the necessity of action, Xe. pmong the Christian churches. He was followe: . Hutemes, of the mission at Madras, who, alluding to the many trials, &c., which await the missionary in the field of his labors, said that the missionary receives a call from Christ to go and preach the gospel, and he goes forth nothing doubting, with perils by land and perils by sea before him, an though the heathen harden his heart and perish re- fusing the tender of sulvation, he knows that he has discharged his duty and will receive his reward.— Immediate success is not the expectation of the. missionary ; he is content to labor in the hope ultimately seeing his exertions blessed to the salva- tion of the perishing heathen. A missionary who. has labored for thirty years among the destitute of foreign countries, has said that he considered him- self amply repaid if he had only a hearing at first. If the missionary leaves his home, his friends, his early associations, and all that isnear and dear to him, to labor in the pestilential clime of Indis—to work himself out, he surely his aright to expect that you will sustain him with your prayers and preperty —that in the morning you will sow your seed and in the evening you will not withhold yourhand. At first the Hindoos would not listen to the word of God; now they pay for Christian teaching, and many of them are training their children in the wy they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it, Is not this success?” The Brahmin priests wield an iron sceptre over the people, in one district, containing a population of one million, there are 16,000 Brahmins, 500 attend- ant Brahmins, and 2,000 bayaderes, engaged in their religious ceremonies. The amount expended by Christians for secular purposes,is altogether too dis- proportioned to the amount given to promote the cause of Christianity. That is not the case with the Hindoo; they give paste their effects to advance the cause of ‘their god. It is a common occurrence to see $2,000 spent in celebrating an ordinary festi- val; and it is said that one million of dollars was expended in the erection of a Hindoo temple. One man in Hindostan gave one million and a half of dollars to spread Brahmanism. Ihave myself seen between thirty and forty cart-loads of money pass through the street on its way to support heathenism. In short, when I look at the small number in the field—the cold support given them—the want of spirit amoug Christians, and the nature of the ob- stacles with which we have to contend, I almost wonder how we have effected so much. Aftersome further remarks, Mr. Hutching’s called upon the Church to arise and take possession of the land in the name of their King—to give liberally, as God may have prospered them—and_ idolatry’ would be abolished, and God’s name Rieated among men. After the singing of the following hymn in which the whole audience joined— Behold, the mountain of the Lord In latter days shall rise ; Shall tow’r above the meaner hills, And draw the wonc’ring eyes. To this the joyful nations round And distant tribes shall flow ; “Ascend the hill of God,” they ery, And to his temple go. The beams that shine on Zion's hill Shall lighten every land ; ‘The King that reigns in Zion’s tow’rs, Shall all the world command. Come then, O come from every land ‘To worship at his shrine ; And walking in the light of God, In holy beauty shine. Rev. J. Topp, of Pittsfield, Mass., addressed the meet- img, and offered a resolution on the subject of the reci- procating influence that Foreign and Home Missions had on one another. He was, he eaid, sure the audience would be sorry to sce him at this time, when they knew that he was taking the place of Dr. Beecher, who was not able to address them in consequence of his being ina weak state. (Here Dr. Beecher arose and said, he pre- sumed there was some mistake on the subject, as it was the first he knew of it, but he presumed it was all right.) Mr, Todd continued, by saying, that he hoped the time might come when he should be too old to officiate, if with that time his absence should be regrette| as his venera- ble friend’s was, and his place honored as his was. ‘The compliment of calling on him was paid to Massachusetts, and not to him. The State had reason to be proud, for various things, and he hoped that they would he inereas- ed. ‘The position of the gentleman at home was peculiar to the region where he dwelt. The audience were doubt- less aware that Berkshire contained the highest land in Massachusetts, and the iron horse had to climb 1200 feet before reaching the altitude from whence they imagined they could see a great way, and they could see the beau- tiful mountains and valleys, and the pure streams, and hale the fresh air. Sometimes it was interesting to trace out the spot where individuals were born, and mark the eculiarities of their early days; and old Berkshire has hree children whom she foves as much as heart can love, and the first of them was the Home Missions; thi: oldest chill, was born there; and before any other organized in the land, and there it still exists, and even occasionally sends down its tribute here ; the'second was the oldest Bible Soviety in the land; it was born there and there it still exists, and it also sends its tribute here. But the brightest of all was the Foreign Mission Society, and since the time 19. J. Mills consecrated himself beside the Hoosack river, and by |:'s jiovement gave rise to the Berkshire Association of Ministers, which in turn gave rise toa more general association of ministers and to this Board, (and he may be excused, perhaps,forjlooking down from his heights,) and feeling that.God has especially honored them—they dwell alone amidst their hills and waters, but they are emblems of the water of life. We claim not to be thanked; to God be all the thanks; we are honored enough in laboring for him. He was not surprised that a spirit of love and honor for Missionary enterprise should be developed in Massachusetts—in that State there were, he was going to say thousands, but there are scores praying mothors and pious fathers, who have consecra- ted their sons, and also their daughters, to the work of preaching Christ to the heathen. Ceylon, Bombay, Siam, Africa, the prairies and log-cabins of our own far West, bore testimony to the work of sons reared with prayers and tears, There were widowed mother: lassachu- setts, who have had their beloved sons slain in the exe: cise of their calling;slaughtered by disgusting cannibal and yet those same mothers have daily prayed for the mercy of God to be extended to the benighted heathen In his own congregation he had, mothers who had sons in various parts of the world,and in our western prairies, and daugiters also,and looking abroad to China and India to the many uils there, wandering in the ways of darkness,though they maybe allowed to feel thatilome and Foreign Missions were the same in love. Still we must consecrate all we can have to Foreign Missions.— Drs. Beecher and brethzen, from the West, gave account j of a young giant in its Cradle, and one which promises to increase in strength every year. They said they wanted the New England Primer aid School Instructora;that the Romish faith is there, and that its threatenings will soon be heard in tones of thunder not to be mistaken. These point out that we must sustain Home Missions,and while we love both home and foreign, we wish wo had one hundred fold more assistance to bestow on them. The Home Missions we are anxious to main- tain for three reasons ; our kindred have gone west, and are increasing every year in their removals to ‘that part, and we want the Home Missionary to preach Christ | to them. Secondly, we w of the Gospel of Christ, which can save it, to extend salvation to the country. ‘Thirdly, we want the whole country and the strength of the nation to engage in the he as perform our task, ‘which we cannot do, unless the whole country is baptized in Christ. A stranger voice yester- day sald, that they were not Saxons, Woe claim to be Saxons, and there was a great destiny marked out for us; time was when Caucasus contained the Saxon race, and when they came down and thundered at the gates of Rome, the Roman Senate looked in their maps for the it, Still, insignificant as they thought them, they hurled the proud Romans from their place of powet and empir tnd procecded in their march of tyranny and rapine t umphantly. ‘Their gods were idols, ‘Thor and Woden, from whose names are derived our’ words Thunder and War. Those were their gods, but on the advent of Chris tianity, they became people of the Lord, and their habi- tation ‘has’ become one of the brightest spots in the world. He would wish the stranger to go home, and say that we too are Saxons, and that our only rivalship with our mother country which shall ‘carry the Cross furthest into the dark recesses of heathen lands. He had heard the variety of sect talked of; but wo be- long to one church, thai ef the living God. ’ Our race is Saxon, and our only weapons truth and love, which us to embrace the whole family and bring them to So long as we are engoyed as we ae, tl ¢ iference between home and foreign their objects are reciprocated, end we must be engaged in both. Whoever thought that when the Apostles were despatched on their missions,that they loved Judes less ? Who ever heard thot enlarging the heart contracted the soul. He wished his friends from the country when the: returned, not to say merely, that they had aitended auch and such meetings. They ‘must go and feel they had been near the Saviour anil his Cross; that from this da henceforth, they bad assumed a heavy responsibilit they must go and inscribe on the family altar, that none liveth for himself alone,” and henceforth adopt the sentiment of living for Christ only. Dr. Beecuen, of Cincinnati, rose and said, thet Gods Ways were not those of men, but they never failed, always in the end showed that they were what true losophy would have taught 19 as the true ways, but no subject has shown us more the supremacy of God, thin the order in which he has opened the dispensation. of missions and revivals in religion, Ho recollected the | ll these concentra: he world, He is old now, of his hope a origin of all these dispensations, of tions of God's views towards t and in his day, perhaps, m not be constimmated. When the sub J Missions lod to the organization of this* board, t mon sentiment was, charity must by they could not, under pressiire of tho new tries, and their own vacancies in the ¢ Send out ministers; but had they followe they would have been mist to see why the dispensation of God's P menced with foreign missions; it rem! anecdote of Columbus breaking the egg courtiers. The reverend gentleman went o aspirit of familiarity with sacred things, ¢ their being treated With contempt, and that the hu: id while ongrossed with 1 things, wanted on orb to arry up souls out of the familiar daily observati All the great institutions of modern days, were elamen tary parts of God's plan, originated in spirit, inspired by w Foreign Missions, The shock first struck in for land, and he remembers of the tidings awakening such thrilling feolings, that every heart responded to them; having got the fire awakened up, then came out the sa: tellites of the Bible and other societies, shot from the Greater body, as tho Jntidels my the oarth was shot out, in at home; that settled coun , afford te | va Rooms, for the purpose of dise | ishment being fully aroused on the subject. frou tie aameac Christ | the andience we noticed several of the persons who work of salvation, and we must have it to enable us to | region whence came these invaders, but could not flad | 5 and made God’s plan perfect. Respecting the endangering of the church at home, he ciently in God’s plan, to think it the wisest. Ata speech made by him at a convention he attended in England, in favor of sustaining the western colloges which had fall en into difficulties, he had reprobated the idea of aban- doning Foreign Missions. He insisted God's plan was wisost to take care of thom, and if they think they can't the feeling of trusted su: afford to contribute to Home Missions, they must keep | them where they are; the Foreign Missions have made, and are making, the church a millennial church, we fear not the west will be behind hand in Mei them with zeal, If we get enough to keep our we shall be enabled to shout our victories to the whole world. Mr. Sravipixe, a missionary from Ceylon, said that when he came this morning he had been asked what he was going to say He answered, whatever the rest'left un- said; but they had left nothing; and that as they had men- tioned the world, his theme should be the world. He was most happy to find the Foreign Missionary Society the sun in the moral world, and for it he praised the Lord, and if they all felt as he did, he would, with pleasure, take the next ship and go back to his work. ‘The com: mand of Christ, “ Go teach all nations,” first moved him to the work, and every man in the Chureh enters under the positive command of Christ to evangelise all nations, and that was the confession of faith inold times. He would like all ministers to preach from these words in the Bible, viz: the UF licating prayer of Christ to re- member his little flock, ‘as thou hast sent me into the world so have I sent them.” The gentleman then wenton to refer to the immense field for missionary labor, and where they would be as safe in exercising théir calling as here, viz: British India; and recommended it to the students that he sawin the assembly. God has placed this enterprise before you ant expressly says, “ Go teach all nations,” and who will be responsible if these are left for another generation to attend to. Fathers and mothe if they pray to the Lord to send forth Iaborers,must raise | sons and daughters in that idea, and place them on this al- tar to be consecrated. ‘I'he gentleman continued at some Jength ina most excellent address, and was followed b; ‘Tho Rev. Mr. Tuomrson, who said: With mmngfed feelings of embarrassment and pleasure I rise to pecuby this position at this meeting. Most gladly would I sit here, sir, to receive the counsels and instruction of those honored fathers. I cannot have any thing to say to them, or to this audience in their presence, which should claim your attention; and yet, sir, it affords me some re- lief to'reflect, that though ties¢ fathers may not be in- structed by the words o! outh, they may be gratified to learn that some of the spirit that has burned and glow- ed in their breasts for halfa century, has been transmit- ted to those of the second and third generation. It was my satisfaction, sir, a few evenings ago, to address the American Home Missionary Society in this house, and the venerable father from the West, who has spoken this morning, was pleased to say, that although he desired to enter into his rest as soon as God called him, yet, when he saw the spirit that showed in young men, he felt young again, and desired to live a little longer to mingle in their labor. He knew not why that spirit of renewed youth came over him. Twelve years ago there was a revival of religion in the Fifth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, where I, along with some other young men, became a hopeful subject of the grace of God. At that time this honored father was on his way to the West, and came to tell us that he had taken farewell of all his peo- ple and brethren, and was going to lay his bones on the other side of the mountains in the service of his Master. I felt then that he wes entitled to his rest, but I thank God he has not gone yet. I thought of the inspiration that led him—of the heavenly breath that he breathed, and it was his own breath and spirit I inhaled, that I breathed the other night, and I thank God that I’ have another oppor- tunity this taomming to catch another spark of that divine fire, and wish myself, and aspire to the honor of another satellite, to roll round that glorious ball. Sir, young men cherish these institutions, and will take care ofthem. Our Berkshire brethren shall not be neglected in thiscity ; we will take care of them, and as many more as you choose to send us. It was suggested, at the closing of the anniversary week last year, that the clos- ing of these meetings should be of a character tender and solemn ; that we should not go as from a political assem- bly, butas under the eye and inthe presence of heaven. It is desirable for the churches in which these fathers minister over tlie lengfh and breadth of the land; and now, ina few words, | will strive to describe a fow of the thoughts that have occurred tome here. My thoughts have arisen from this assembly to another, of far greater interest than the objects that surround us here. When have we most of the spirit of heaven, if not when we draw nearest to God, in the closet? ‘This work can be Rerfected only by heavenly agency. | must say was Gelighted with tive idea of the last brother, who spoke of a heavenly telegraph, by which we make the most direct and rapid communication between that other world and this. No sooner the Christian missionary, in the midst of his trials and troubles, prays to heayen for relief—no sooner js it uttered, than it is heard in heaven and an an- swer onits way back. In this cause we are in communi- cation with the heavenly world. The head of all is living, and controlling all for the promotion of His cause. Think, too, of the vast body of the blessed that are in | sympathy with us in that world. We have heard to-day | of the death of our beloved missionary ; and does his soul not glow with more Selestial fireas he contemplates the cause from those loftier heights, and sees all its trials and disappointments until the end? We have learned that the beloved Dr. Grant was called away since our last meeting. When he was last among us, I was de- | lighted with a remark he made tome. When! observed | to him that he would stop and give us an account of th vast and strange field he had been laboring in—“ O, no,’ said he, “I cannot take time for that—I must begin again in my field, and take my station on those mountains, and linmy voice and ery for help; and if I find you don't then help me, and come to me, I will come to you.” He went back to see his beloved flock devoured with raven- ous wolves, and to find his own grave at the back of those mountains. Yet he has redeemed his pledge. 1 remem- ber the words of the patriot— My country is lost—m: people are gone !” And Dr. Graut is gone. Yet he is not. I see him in those blissful regions where his visage shines with clearer radiance—where his eyes see us with the clearer sight of an angel. Oh, the sympathy th rings through the heavenly world, Fesponsive to the as rations of eur hearts in such an assembly as this, linking | us with heaven in its restlts! We aro told in the | report of revivals in the East, in this State and ¢nai, ot | anxious minds, enquiriug hearts, of rejoicing souls. What is all this but the work of heaven in sympathy with tus—of our prayers in our houses, in our fainilies, in our churches. 1 was much affected the other morning when the Chinese youth was introduced and endeavored to | speak tous through an interpreter, Ho said “we were | talking in a language he did not understand, and yet he | knew we were talking of the father and ‘of his king- | dom. My heartis superlatively happy, and I niore than half persuade myself fam in heaven.”’ My heart leap- ed when | heard this language from the’ youtl. Lan- guage was'too weak a vehicle to convey my feelings that Sought utterance in some other manner, and 1 longed for the day when the redeemed and glorified assembly would join and sing “Glory to the Lamb that was slain, forhe has redeemed us with his blood out of every na- tion, and kindred, and tongue and people.” The Rey. Hexny Witkes, of Montreal, was the next | speaker, and Dr. Beecher conciuded with a few remarks | that he had forgotton to make before; after which, the | assembly separated. | Meeting for Conslderation ofthe Propricty of Abolishing Capital Punishment, Last night there was a meeting held at the Miner- sing the question of the propriety of this mode of punishment, and the right that man has to take the life of his fellow be- ings. The occasion was peculiarly fitting, after the execution inthe Tombs in the morning,and the feel- ings of those who are opposed to this mode of pun- Among have been assisting at the Anti-Slavery Convention that has just concluded its session,and the attendance generally was made up of the country visitors, who have been for the last week attending the anni ries; but stll, as faras the room would allow, it was | well attended. } Atabout 8 o'clock the meeting was add v Shancellor MeCoun, who opened pr by afew remarks, stating that 4] been disgraced by the execution of another fellow | being, and it had been deemed a fit time for the} friends of the cause to assemble, and he stated that several gentlemen would address the meeti J. L, O'SeLrivaN, Esq., Editor of the “Morning N then introduced a series of resolutions, which recom- mended the substitution of perpetual imprisonment for the punishment of death, and resolved the formation of a National Society for the abolition of the punishment of |death, to meet once a year in Philadelphia—the first | mecting to be on the Ist Wednesday in October next. | The following gentlemen to be the officers of the So-| edings ciet President—Gronar United States. Vice Presidents—The Presidente of all State Societic those now existing being—Ronenr Rawrout, Jr., of B ton; Viee Chancellor Wm. 'T. MeCoux, of New York: Professor Hinny 8. Parrexson, of Philadelphia, | Seeretary—Professor Henny 5. Pavrenson, of Philadel- phi P Corresponding Committee-—Job R. ; Profes-| sor Charles D. Meigs; the Rov. Rufus W. Griswold; Dr.| Henry 8. Gibbons—with power to add to their own} number. Dautas, Viee President of the W.H. Cuanee rose to second the pression to the feelings whic ) Sc the tragedy which ha been acted in our midst. morning’s sun rose bright on many happy homes, but to | how many young hearts came the sad information that a| sllow being was to he ushered into eternity, his soul (o | ep 1 from his body in a violent and ervel manner, sowing the first venge, and res} | venge eanctioned by Jaw and admitted as. a’ standing institution,offsocial life ; it shocked them to think so bad, | asa deed could be committed. Allow me to il- | | life ofa fellow being, earts whole, ; whom and under which it was given, it must be con: rity had again | and we offer in our justification the commandment, that’ life shall be coed If you cannot prove that commandment, then this is a social’crime. Let us look. God’s command's must come to us either through theprophets or from the dictates ofthe heart. This custom, 8o revolting to the human soul,to our vetter nature, is der ved from one text, and the best Hebrew scholars consider it of doubtful interpretation, but suppose it to Seas clear as if we heard it from Heaven. Was it local or wast intend- ed to be universal in its application. Allthe commenta- tors combined can find no proof that it is universal. Con- sidering the time, the people, and the slroumstances, to ler- ed as local. But supposing it to be both clearand univer sal, andthe command binding on society, then society to- day has, by its acts, disobeyed the command. ‘The com- mand says, whocver commits murder must be killed—not by society but as suddenly and revoltingly as the murder committed; this was the practice in the days in which the commandment was given to the people; they made no dis- tinction, as they do now, between murder, manslaughter and homicide. “I ask this, does the change of time and circumstance warrant a change inthe mode of excuting the command? If it does, then the command also changes, and it is for you to prove that man is not commanded to to make a total change. Now, if there is no basis as coming from prophets or human promptings, then there is no right in the present form of society to en- force the text. — Will any man say that James KE: ger’s death was necessary to Society—i could have beenconfined and society would have been safe. In savage, turbulent times ef ps there were no laws—when every man’s hand was against his neighbor, and his neighbor's against him, it might have been ne- cessary ; but certainly not now. They say it was ne- cessary for example. What has been the example? We say it was to arouse evil passions ; it was to say to the rude, passionate, and ungoverued, man’s life is not ine violate. Can any man deny this to be the example to- day? The second example is that life can be taken not only when the better man is hushed, when the passions are’aroused, but cally, cooly, and’ deliberately ; and, therefore, life instead of being held sacred is looked up- on as a light matter. There is another example, and one which will not be forgotten. If life can be taken—thus solemnly and deliberately taken—the man of bad pas- sions will say, why then, I can take life, and this is my justification. The fourth example, and the most terrible of all is, that life can be taken amid so much levity, Did not Eager know that this city was going on as usual ; that the gay would laugh, and the solemn brood of care and plod on when he was in the agonies of dissolution? He felt that he was desolate and lonely—the examile that was taught so painfully to him, was taught to all.— ‘The newsboys who hawked the account of his death through the streets, what was the example to him !— It could not be worse. By many, the justification of the punishment of death is based on its necessity to the safe- ty of society. ‘They say that this kind of punishment is necessary, and must be tolerated. I deny the justice; it is not a fitting punishment to the crime, because it makes society commit the same crime, for it punishes the crimi- nal. lt is a perversion of justice. The mind that is not familiar with the gallows is struck with abhorrence at its brutality and injustice. When the missionarios angliciz. ed the savages ‘and erected a gallows to punish a man, the men of nature were amazed—what, said they, com: mit murder for murder? It is unjust, not because it is not the extreme punishment that society can inflict, but because it takes from the hands of God what is his right, and his only. The greatest punishment that can be in- flicted, is in my opinion, utter seclusion from society.— ‘To mingle with society, to enjoy the converse of friends, the delights of home, is the life of man, and the depri tion of which he feels to be the greatest punishment. To exclude a man from all the ties of humanity is the true— the just and proper punishment. By giving him the means of reformation, you may litt him trom degradation to occupy the high and holy sphere he was made for.— Show him when shut out from society, a friendly face to waken in his heart his better nature, and it willbe at once a punishment and a blessing,—the crime done to- day, to-morrow passes away and is forgotten, and socie- ty takes not even a passing notice of the eddying whirl Where a fellow creature sank, but3consign him to a moral death, and he stands a lesson against the crime—it teaches was not so—he all hearts. Such cases are remedial, and should be al- lowed a chance. There is also danger of taking inno- cent life. Mr. Channing then related several instances of the kind, and closed with this remark: when a man shows a better nature, new principles, you have God’s example to treat him as a man. Mr. Crarr, of Boston, rose in the name of religion, to bear testimony against capital punishment, though he despaired of uttering his thoughts to the full extent. Every one whose heart has not been hardened by the action of the day, must have responded to the remarks of the eloquent Channing, that life is violable, and that we take the life of a fellow being. Our ob- ention of crime, and the exorcision of the ‘spirit of murder. Seeing the secular and religious press look on this subject so lightly, what is the lesson that. is taught by them? By the tsking of life, which is the sa- credest of things, men all around us are taught by the example to foster a spirit of revenge, and are tempted every day to exercise that spirit, and the fact that they do so litife resist that temptation, proves that they need the lesson more and more every day that human life is most sacred, and has that lesson been taught? No. day we have seen that life is violable, and that certain circumstances, that the blotting out of life is re- cognizable. This question is one so plain, that from its very simplicity it is passed by; things that involve a most iutricate course of reasoning and argument are ge- nerally understood, but things so plain as this, we can scarcely force into the tortuous mind of the publi . To- under his day he had conyersed with one whom, he was sorry to say, was a minister of the ‘Gos. pel—that “Gospel that teaches to overcome _ evil with good, not the gibbet. The clergyman argued that the community of evil and depraved beings required the gibbet as an object of terror, that they might know that fife could not be taken—but is this true philosophy.— In the New Orleans Picayune he had read that great ef- forts had lately been mete to give up the wearing of deadly weapons, and it had been proved satistactorily that reveals saree the terror this custom inspired that increased rather than diminished the tendency to com- | mit murder. In New Orleans and Vicksburg, though the code of honor so called, was in operation, though it was well understood that no man could commit the slightest offence towards his fellowman without running the risk of being cloven to the ground. What has this system of terror done? Has it increased the safety of man life? No. In proportion to the number of assaults he insecurity of life increased. No man is so liable to insult as he who goes armed at all times to repel in- sult. It is not true, in fact that men are deterred from evil doing by terrorof the law, if terror is to be the punishment, how comes it that so great an improve- ment in the discipline and arrangement which he see with much pleasure, but if he believed the gibbet | ish crime he was required to ‘pu would and wage war aga these prison i Societies. that go in any way for i hort all to quit from being kind to the sinning child; but the sinner might think crime a good and unpunishnbdle thing. A clergyman this day had said to him that it was dangerous for a marderer even to remain in prison. Sir, said I, eighteen hundred years ago @ character worse than’ a! brought to the Saviour for condemnation, what was hi reply? “Go, and sin no more.” And he was wiser than we are of what was for the interests of the sinner and community at large. The clergyman repled, Sir, reason of this reply was that she had not been tried and found guilty regulor tribunal! And if she had, he would have joined in her punishment! ! Would ‘the Saviour have carried this doctrine out ? Imagine to-day when James Eager was taken from the Tombs for exe- cution, person who killed him was pure and peaceful; if Jesus Christ would have assisted at it— Such an idea seems horrible (and he did not wish to shock anybody in the room.) but unless you believe that he could have done it you are unjust, and defame his holy memory in_ oss it with the gibi is said that the gibbet is necessary to inspire terror in the hearts of the community ; then why t not allowed to witness the ennobling and erali- ing sight? Why not select’ some noble amphitreatre and there calling together the men, and children of this city, egecute your man, and it t a wholesome terror, let them witness life is so g@red, and its taking is so solemn, why not choose a day when men could take advantage of it? He was struck With the r rk of Mr. Channing, that there punishment, and’ would o had been no feeling exhibited on this day. Han were necessary, why not tak When community were reaily to listen to it?) Had it been done on the Sab- bath day, and in presence of children, and the execution: er been a clergyman, th to it, but the fe But the law has je shall be performed secretly, so that no dvantage of it. Among the crowd ass ity of the prison and endeavoring to ob a glance at the dreadful scene might pe ed, What feeling was predominant? That of feeling No, the reverse, He went on to allude to the visit of Gough, and the Hutchiasons to the State prisous, and the force of their kindness to the prisoners, as a proof of their openness to reasoning; and concluded with asevere no tice of those clergy who maintain the doctrine of hangi amidst some applause. Mr. Bet, of Kentucky, b and Gentlemen :—I shoald be of the remarks made by th me were true, and that i3, th faith in christianity. 1 de ject t ng called upon, said, Ladies ‘orry—very sorry—if one who preceded the people are losing t Delieve it be fe four 5 i nize, in the repudiati Nothing, sir, in my visit to your city, affords me greatet pleasure than my dance at this meeting to-night, No subject appears to me more clear and satisfactory than the proposition that in the iniliction of capital punish- ment we outrage all the instincts, the sympatiues, the charities of our nature, Why, wh the subject, it flashed on my mind like a flo Everything charitabl \ t | how young minds can b | » years ago, a scene similar cked us to day, occurred in our city, On the morn-| ay of execution, « child was seen in tear we Was I; Lam afraid, said the child, | don't love the poor man ‘enough to wish to be killed in | his place; this was the pure instinet of a pure unsulli Jhwartit wae @ shook of surprise to a moral nature Hut to pass from the scene which has transpired in th | city today, Ewill ask if there is any man here, who ha | not t hed atthe levity which has been manifest od. for trivo hange workshop t ) onnd of aman ora’, and this indit forence to hun i ~ mimoed by this eu If the gallows had newer been hoant of, and had i | suid to day, a sowlt © battered out, eve y man Would have vs 4; no einiling faces would hay A HOON, KOH Wok horror of the tragedy; every feo wou j and all would have saul, thore swall for this day at lea beasabbath, It woul! o@ this edvot, But th lw bo mode in which itcan be looked at, unless it is com plete, Acrime has been committed, and wo destroy the d sys riinst i the pla pleat. thing | It is not because the peop vg faith in ity, but because they have them- selves to think. pursuits, that it will not allow itself any sensible, honest man, to sit down and re | howr on the subject, v s that capital “punishment individum charac , in you, living in Ke y and bowie knives are as common’ & the stadents at Transylvania College, carry pistols quite commonly, [look apon ft as an insult to this audience capital punishment i aggrey sand customste ¢ an of ether crimes? was | - “Wild in woods the noble savage ran. fence to the audience to reasen upon it. If society has a | right to take life, so have 1; and nothing struck me with | more horror than the sentiments I heard from pro- fessing Christians. Vengeance is mine saith the | Lord.” In the name of truth, Mr. Chairman, what [more is wanted than thiv? It is not’ worth my while to talk of the effects of hanging. I could not | begin to talk of the harm done among those who are left behind the victim, To fling from the gallows into eter- nity the erring victim, one would suppose enough to end this law, but the effects on the poor wife and motherless children are such as to baille description, What becomes £ the wif the manly sons, the virtuous daughters of hima who A foes to the gallows? Where can they fly for refuge? No State—no city—no foothold in the land will receive them and there is not a place on this earth where they can find protection. My friends, for such hapless outcasts there is nn aid; shame is their portion, and this fact is enough to warrant the abolition of hang: ing. And now,sir, | will not detain this audience further than to say, I shall be happy to have my name entered as @ member of your society, and I beg to propose this reso jution— _ Resolved, That chr in its most ma tions—that every fact in nature that snrrounds us—that human experience in all times—that reason and common | Sense, all directly prove that the object of human punish- ment is. and ought to be reformed. Mr. Evauisw next addressed the meeting. He observed that there was much error in thinking that he was op- pout to the law for punishing crime ; it was quite true he was opposed to hanging, but his views were much op- posed to those he heard to-night from the gentleman who had spoken, He did not care a crack of his finger as to | the result of this question in reference to ity bearing on human life abstractly, He did not look upon hum life as of any value, if it were necessary to take it for the good of society. If the public safety required the j sacriti » he looked upon life as worth nothing, per sé. But experience had taught that this capital punishment was productive of no good object, nor deterred from crime, and that it would be goo. policy to abolish it a gether. I do not ask myself what are the dogmas of th sect or that—although I profess myself a Christian : this | isa plain matter ofgovernment ; it is a question of law — of simple municipal law, and nothing else. It preseuts itself to us as citizens of the republic, and nothing else. What are the ends of law? Are the nge? [fthey are, do not know a single commentator or legislator who understands the spirit of our laws. The object of law is to deter from crime ; and to deter, they must be terrible. How are they tobe terrible? I tell'you, if you make them sanguinary—if you scatter blood like water through the land, the inward sympathy that lives in the breasts of men will not let them execute your law—will prevent them. The terror of the law, I say, is its cer- tainty. If laws are not certain, they’ are not terrible ; and if they are not terrible, they are good for nothing. Law can be evaded. Some observant author has sai that all laws were like a net, in which the strong pa: through and the weaker are caught. And why Why is it that the poor man is caught, and the rich, who has money to bribe the executive, or to ride on popular favor, escapes? How would such law deter individuals from committing crime? How do they benefit the com- munity? [have heard it here a‘: itted this very evening that capital punishment was an ordinance of wise men, originally devised to prevent crime. It was no such thing. In the early times of society, when the man with strong arm and coat of mail, and dexterous sword, prevailed against his antagonist, the friends of the latter were obliged to take up his quarrel and have vengeance, and so it was transmitted from one to another and society kept continually ina turmoil. At last it was determined to transfer this vengeance taking from the hands of individuals—this was not done to pre- vent hanging, but to confer the power on the State that was before held by individuals. And yet they tell you the law has no feelings of revenge. ‘Neither has it if properly executed ; but] say the origin of law is in re- venge the most he! (Applause) The efticiency of laws is their certainty. Now, how many criminals, ac- cording to the records of our Courts, are convicted in the course of a year, in proportion to,those who escape! Is this right?” Is this conscientious? Is this the spirit of justice, that one man is punished and another escapes ? In Philadelphia, whence I have returned to-day, they have for years been prosecuting and convicting crimi- nals for murders, time after time, and I have just learned that at last they have got the length of executing one poor negro, Mr. E.’s remarks were directed to show that a modified and softened criminal code would prevent crime more effectually than the present, if the penalties were certain and inevitable—but so long as the law existed as it is, he would not oppose its enactments. Acollection was taken up to defray the expenses of the room and the meeting adjourned after a couple of flourishes in the defence of the clergy by David Hale. The Abolitionists gave themselves full play Tues- day, and their antics made up the chief feature of the day’s proceedings. We give interesting sketches of their meetings, both in the forenoon and evening, which will be read with interest by all classes of readers. In agreeable contrast, however, to the melancholy exhibition of human extravagance and weaknes forded by the Abolitionists, we have the pleasing celebration of the Sabbath School Society. This is one of the few associations whose anniversaries are celebrated about these days, which really deserves the sympathy, admiration and love of all intelligent friends of virtue and religion. The Sabbath Schools of America are among its noblest and most valuable institutions. Like the gentle dews of heaven, their genial influence descends in peace and silence all over the land, and almost imperceptibly its blessed results are scattered far and wide. In this city im- mense numbers of poor,miserable neglected little out- eusts are collected together, instructed and clothed by the munificent, but simple instrumentality of the Sun. day School. Devoted women, whose hearts have in- deed been warmed by the charity that cometh down from heaven, are the chief laborers in this great field of Christian exertion, and in their own quiet, | unostentatious way, they are, Sabbath after Sabbath, | eflecting an amount of practical good which cannot be calculated. ‘They are, in truth, doing morejthan the pulpit itself to advance the cause of true reli- gion and the best interests of the human race. Ve- | ry often, whilst sectarian bigotry or a cold and pro- fitless dogmatic theology is thundering from the pulpit of the church, the humble Sabbath School teacher in | the basement blow is to be found redeeming the sanc- tuary from the indignant rebuke of heaven, by do- ing its work; and we therefore record with the greatest satisfaction, the continued and growing prosperity of the Sunday School Society, and most heartily bid it God-speed in its pure and elevated j career, ; The abolition fanatics are, it will be seen, more | noisy, virulent, vindictive and unreasonable than ever. Nothing appears likely to satisfy them but a dissolution of the Union. ‘To effect that they bend all their energies. And nothing dis- | covers more intelligibly the hypocrisy and hollow- heartednees of these men, than the ruthless violence | with which they assail the integrity of the Union. | | Justice—trath—peace—their country—all are as no- thing in the eyes of these fanatics, when compared with their own selfish and designing movements.— Look at the intemperance, the violence, the blasphe- mies—the ruthless denunciations of all that is dear to the christian or the patriot, which characterize these abolition meetings, and then judge of the iims of these men to the name of philanthropists. ‘The poison thus seems to carry with it the antidote. Allmen of sobriety and intel nee turn aside in | utter disgust at these exhibitions of raving fanati- cism. | The meeting of the ional Reformers,” a re- | port of which we also give in this day’s paper, pre- | sents many interesting points. It will be seen that anti-rentism entered largely into the proceedings.— ‘That spirit of rebellion against the law, had, indeed, | a good right to be represented in the assembly of | the new reformers, for by them it has been most af- | fectionately sustained. ‘The first steps in the reform | of society, according to these philosophers, should be the distribution of the public lands to all who are | without land—as soon on of all rente—a general repudiation of all leases and title deed»—a perfect restoration, so far as respects individual rights to land or water, of that primitive social organization which prevailed when— an abo as possibl It is, however, curious toremark, by what a mise- | rable faction, after all, these ultraisms—abolition A jew thou. —men, women, chil | and “nat sands are all they can muste | dren and cattle. They do not so much as raise a ripple on the great tide of practical sense and sound reform”—are supported. intelligence, which year after year sweeps over the | land. The crowd, as it rushes on, pauses occ {ally to be amused by the capers and vagaries of these fanatics, knaves or fools, as the case may be, nt never for a moment with common sense a but the great social mov f civiliz 1 from these interrap- of a mig city from and Judy i Ispann R - Boston train ov Long Island 1 ved last ev nine hours forty-two min m Di » With a arge number of pas ence The running wa | done in eight hours and filly-eight minutes. and preferment—and laymen whose vanity, ambition The Philosophy of the Recent Anniversaries, ‘The numerous anniversaries—amounting to about thirty in all—which have been held in this city du; ring the week, suggest a great deal of interesting, and not altogether profitless speculation and reflee- tion, They are so many indices of the movemenw and workings of the popular mind in religion, morals, civilization and philosophy—annual reports of hu- man progress, which no intelligent and thoughtful observer can allow to pass unstudied. Let us look at them in this aspect. Two thirds of these meetings are of a purely re- ligious and moral character. And one remarkable teature which distinguishes all, is high toned Pro- testantism. A strong and decided sectarijani marks every one of them. The circulation @f the Protestant Bible—the dissemination of Protestant tracts—the sending forth of Protestant mipsion- aries—the support of Protestant colleges—the Vindi- cation and propagation of Protestant doctrines,—are the great objects of these associations. The des- truction of Popery 1s the grand and avowed aim of all their efforts. This is the fa- vorite theme of the orators. The movement of these societies then cannot be strictly regarded as a putting forth of the energies of the Christian world for the evangelization of the nations—it is part end parcel of the great antagonistic effort which thé one great sect has been engaged in ever since the Refor- mation. Catholicism meanwhile isnot idle. Itis ever active, but its mighty machinery moves silently and without public appeals and public parade. Its thou- sands of missionaries are every where at work. It is planting churches and colleges, and convents, and seminaries all over the continent. Thus with ite policy changed and conformed to the spirit of the age, the church of the seven hills still presents ite front, massive, extended and unbroken, to the ad- vancing forces of Protestantism. One third of these associations are philosophical, Fourierite, Abolition, and Infidel. They constitute a most singular and interesting part of this intellec- tual movement. Some of them are directly opposed to Christianity—they denounce all the religious movements as the work of priestcraft and inimical to human liberty and happiness. Others affect to be purely philosophical, announce new theories of 80- ciety and seek to regenerate the world by upset! the present organization of society and substituting the system of Fourier, or Owen, or some other socia! reformer. The number of persons directly engaged in all these movements is very inconsiderable—much more so than many at first sight would imagine And very little influence is exerted on the great masses of the people by these associations, notwitl- standing all the eff’ ct and noise which mark their operations. Prohably not more than from five to ten thousand individuals, two thirds of them females, take any direct interest in the religious societies. The clergy—young aspirants for clerical notoriety for display in the only field open to them, and, per- haps, pious feelings, are thus gratified—are the chief conductors of these movements. The great mass of business men—the active members of the community, who control the great tide of social progress—do not take any part in these associations. The infidel and philosophical movements have still fewer supporters. Not more than one thousand individuals—one-third of them females, few of them young and most of them old and ugly—unite in these efforts to revolu- tionize society and public opinion. The philosophers too, are men who have little personal influence in society. They are dreamy wild, and visionary enthusiasts, unfit forthe practi- cal business of the world, who are jostled aside in the movement of the crowd of the active and indus-, trious millions, and who wander away and are lost in the wilderness of abstraction and impracticability. All this curious, varied, and original machinery— moral, religious, and philosophical of all kinds, can- net be set in motion without money. How much money, then, do these associations collect? Where does it come from? The religious societies do not collect more than between three and four hundred thousand dollars annually. Little of this iscollec- ed in New York. The great bulk of contributions comes from the country—from the pious, quiet, re- ligious, Popery-hating rural districts. The philoso- phers get very little money—probably not more thax. between three and four thousand dollars a year. It is a remarkable trait in the character of these phi- losophers, that they will give youa greatdeal of talk, but very little money. They have, indeed, something of a contempt for money. Industry is contemptible according to them, when its object ts the dirty dross called money. Pure philosophy should, they think, serve mankind for meat, drink, and lodgings. A few, however, do manage to make their philosophy ‘ pay.” Afterall, then, the influence of all these movements on the masses is very slight. The masses are practical masses—they are common sense masses—they are money-making masses, They are masses that love the ‘almighty dollar” more than they love Almighty God. And yet, these proceedings, year after year, these movements—religious, morai, philosophical, infidel, Fourierite, social, and all—are not without certain results—results in a greater or less degre@-* beneficial. The religious movements on the one hand, representing the strong sectarian feelings and prejudices of the past—and the philosophical move- ments on the other, representing the ultraism of the age, groping its way into the mists and darkness of the future, are like the two opposing forces of electricity, operating on the intellect and opinion of the time. The results must be satisfactory. The spirit of free inquiry is encouraged. The public mind is excited to new and useful courses of investigajon. Foolish theories are seen in all their extravagance and im- practicability. Genuine religion comes out pure and attractive, as ever from the conflict with infidelity Infidelity itself, allowed perfect freedom, becomes more moderate and less blasphemous. The TReTE is all the time widening its dominion ; and slowly, but surely, amid all the dust, and turmoil, and noise, and extravagance which mark its career, the mighty progressive movement of the human mind goes on ; the race, ever marching onward to the highest point of perfection, which it is destined to attain in philo. sophy, religion, science and civilization. New York Historical Society The regular monthly meeting of the New York torical, Society was held at its rooms, in the on Tuesday evening | ‘There was a full attendance, as a discussion on the report of committee to give a name to the country was antici pated. After some routine business, inthe course a letter was presented from Henry O'R: Albany,. corresponding mem! account of his res hich iVing An interesting ‘ches into the early history of this State, especially in the Indian deparime the order of business on the report of the committee was taker up. The Secrerary announced that_a variety of com munications had been received, from societies anc from distinguished individuals, exp! pesin opinion on the proposed change of the natic Amongst those letters were communications from torical Societies of New Hampshir 2 8, Maryland, and Nev rsey, e trully ion of the qu read from Chane M. Van Buren. ‘The former disse from the view of the Commit dent, with characteristic caution present, cireur nee proposing the consic Letters were al. entertain t haps it was,after al inexpedient any change It then i that Mr. Gris the Rev of Phil n wa wold d for that purpo: ion followed, and finally ry disew vorp then read his paper. The subject teyature of the United States.” The ather prosy. Mr, Griswold partments, the literature of or to that of the oid world \ vot iven to Mr. Griswold, and