The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1853, Page 7

ANNIVERSARY WEEK. ‘The Proceedings of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, the American Bible focicty, the Institution for the Deaf and Bomb, the World’s Temperance Con- vention, and the Association for the Suppression of Gambling, Another Amalgamation Abolition Meeting. UNCLE TOM STOWE. Opposition to Dogs in Omnibuses. TROUBLE OF THE BLOOMERS IN THD TEMPERANCE CONVENTION, &e., de, kes MRS. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society at the Tabernacle, ‘The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society held their arniversary meoting on Wednesday evening, at the Sabernacle, Broadway. The odifice was completely filled, and amongst the auditory, as well as on the platform, there was a strong gathering of people of eolor. There were also a great number of well-dressed and good looking mulatto females present. ARTHUR TaPPan, Esq., presided. The exercises were commenced at half-past seven e’closk, by a voluntary on the organ. ‘Tho Rev. Mr. Frew, (colored clergyman,) of Brook- yn, read selections from Seripture, and delivered an ap- propriate prayer. Laswis Tarran, Esq., Secretary, them came forward and read afew of the prominent topics in the annual report, of which we give the following abstract. The allusious te the inimitable “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “tho sinfulness ef American slavery,” and to “the unconquerable and unbhung John P. Hale,” were followed by applause Several other passages of the report were also received with approbation. ABSTRACT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT. ‘The report states, that agitation on the subject of American slavery will not cease until it is abolished ; ‘that politicians who aim to suppress inquiry, and divines who form an unholy alliance with then, are ejually short-sighted on the subj and that nature cries sloud against the inhumanities of slavery, while free Gemocracy abjures the betefel system, wad ‘true Chris- tianity recoils from its leprous touch. ‘Indifferent as a majority of the American people are atthe present time, to tie claiins of justice, honor, au humanity, and apostate au we fiud a large proportion of Politicians, mintatera and church mombera, from tho prineiples of republicanism and Christianity, with re renee to the pecnle of color, the report states that it is @ cause of profound gratizude that a multitude has been raised up to wrestle against principalities and xpiritual wickedness, and that ac mueh suceess has attended their labors. The anti-slavery cause, aroidst discouragemeats and obstacles, and retarded as it is by the machinations of its enemies and the support slavery gains from both political and ecclesiastical bodies, steadily puraues its course towards a glorious consummation. God will break the red of the oppressor. The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. The slaves will be brought ont of the ‘furnace of affliction.” ‘The repert enumerates the acts of the eommittee dur- ing the past year, alludes to the conventions and meet- imge that have been attended by delegates from their body, the success of their anti-slavery depository of pub- licatlons, the pamphlets, &c., that have been written by Members of the committeo, the large quantities of books and pamphlets that have been circulated, and the cor- ice carried on at home and abroad. It alludes to the success of the National Era, o paper established by the committee, and to the fact that ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was originally published in its columns; and also ‘te the success of the American Missionary Association, a hae Baier principally by the active members of this ty, with its hundred missionaries and teachers, in the Western free States and in the slaye States, and in_fereign pountries, all preaching and ineulcating the principles of emancipation. Ln ahr and peace. Tho ‘eommitiee mention particularly the publication of Goodell’s American Slave Code, published by them, a se- eond edition of which has already been called for, and an edition lately issued from the press in London; and allude te a work in baimbrbeape by the committee on the expur- gations and mutilations of foreign and American publi: eations by publishers, and by the American Tract So- eiety and the American Sunday School Union, in order to Please slave holding communities. A review is taken of the progress of the cause the past ear—of the political and. Christian Anti-Slavery Conven- hee that have been held in different parts of the coun- try—of the spirited resoluticus and addresses that have been adopted—and of the elevated tone that has charac- terized these proceedings. The report states that anti- slavery religious bodies have taken higher ground, and that political conventions have adopted sounder princl- ples. Nominations by the free demoeracy have been made im all the free and several of the slave States. Eneouraging statements are made respecting the cause of free missions and of the formation of a new book and tract society; of the increase of anti-slavery newspapers; of the fact that while the secular press ia becoming more and more out-epoken on the subject of emancipation, the proslavery, religious and secular press of the North ceincide, more than heretofore, with the Southern papers that defend slavery as a Bible institution. It is enid that ® vast amount of anti-slavory matter ia contsinod at the present time in many of tho leading newspapers of the @euntry, and that there has been a very great increase of readers of anti-slavery litereture, There are indica- tions of a more reasonable spirit in several Southern Rewspapers, & greater disposition to discuss the subjeet of slavery in them in its oconomical and moral bearings, and a willingness to make admissions favorable to anti-slavery aide of the question. The able advocacy of right principles by anti-slavery woembers of Congress is spoken of with high satisfaction. ‘The speeches made by them are mentioned as among the most able and unanswerable delivered during the session, and as having been widely circulated. That the anti- slavery members of Congress have done no mere the past session has been owing to the fact that their constituents | have not been more active in petitioning Congross to take ‘thorough ond consistent action on the subject of slavery. expressed that the abolitionists of the country a Lap lee will \ceforth agitate the country with reterence to this | matter, more than has been done of late, that the ani- mated discussions that took place in the national legiale- ture, when the revered John Quincy Adams had a seat ia the national councils inay be revived. ‘The report states that only about fifty fugitive slaves Ihave been arrested and conveyed back to slavery under the Fugitive Slave act, and that, in addition to the heavy expenditures by government, the expense to claimants has been so great that few slaveholders will probably hereafter venture to engage in such pursuits, or to ineur the danger of such enterprises. Large ions of the eommunity despise and execrate the act and those who attempt toenforce it. Since its passage the number of alaves who successfully Cog ie said to be greatly in- @reased. Government has most signally defeated 1m its attempta to procure the convictions of those alleged to be concerned in aiding the escape of persons arrested as fugitive slaves. Mueh sympathy is expressed for the free people of eclor, on account of the eruel enactments in several of ‘the free States as well as in the slave States, with a view to expatriate them from the country of their birth and their cheice. They are exhorted to firmness and pa- tienes, and trust in the promises of God and a change of sentiment in the community. A belief is exprosned that th cre of casteand persecution derive much of their aid from the coercive features of the Coloniza- tion Society, that looks upon abolition and the free people of color as nuisances, and is willing that the vic- tims of prejudice be made uneasy and miserable here that they may consent to go to Liberia. It ia considered @ matter of deep regret that so many of the leading religious societies and ecclosiastical bodies, inst of aiding to circulate anti-slavery truth ‘and disfellowship slaveholders, countenance them in their unehristian conduct; and a belief is expresqed that ‘Abey will continue to do so until Loon ia generally con- sidered a sin, and al] who are connected with it unworthy @f the Christian name. ‘The increased feeling manifested in Great Britain and Canada in favor of emancipation in this country, and bo, Eympothy Tor ihe oppressed, ant faithfal exportu: ig. Sym for the opp: and faithfal expostu- ith oppeensors, are becoming in those who, having freed themseives from the contaminations cf slavery, @esire to ree freedom universally enjoyed. The philan- ‘threpic men and women of Great Britain and Canada, whe memorialized the people of this country on the sub- Jeet of slavery, look at home as well as abroad, and ex- ert themselves to effect salutary reforms in their own eountrics while they exhort their Christian brethren in the United States to follow their example in giving liberty to the enslaved. ‘Faithful are the wounds of a friend.” The report has reference to the slave trave carried on with unabated spirit betwoon the slave States of this Union ard the not more piratical trade in human flesh Between the coast of Afriea and Cuba; and » hope is expressed that ere long euch disgraceful ic will como toanend, While it is proper for the people in other countries to remonstrate against the Darbaritien of the American slave trade, it would be equally proper for citi- gens of this country to remonstrate with the people of England for allowing slaves to bo stolen from Africa and earried to Brazil or Cuba, and not requiring the imme- iste emancipation of ail slaves introduced into Cuba since 1820, contrary te express treaty stipulations, It is stated that churches gathered in forei lands, f American missionsries, mani. ‘under the ministrations feat deep feeling with regard to the existence and tolera- ton of slavery in this country; that some of them have eontributed money for prize essays on the sinfulness of ‘the system, and its being an obetacle to the conversion of the world. Some of tho missionaries themselves evince more interest on the subject thangheretofore. ‘The reportalludes to the committal of #0 many olergy- Men and men in public life to non-interference with anti- slavery, and exprors the conviction that anti-slavery of- forts should be directed m-re than heretofore to the rising generation, whose instincts are in favor of liberty Porat ‘are uncommitted to political and ecclesiaationl ies. Enlarged and more energotic anti-slavery action is strongly reoommended. The great bedy of the people, it is represented, have been deceived and misled by ban ey slavery men in Church and State—thore to whom have y' their confidence—and it is believed that when once undeceived they will arise in the mi of a free le, come out on the side of universal maintain the doctrines of poet ee the Poitier cas ri dance, consign to deserved century headers who bave imposed eredulity, fostered Aheir prejudices, and'induoes them Yo lend thet rultreges | te support a system st war with mational happiness and Prosperity. ‘The rej alludes to an outline of anti-slavery effort peeves yy the committee. and to be subsaitied to the aa- nual batiness ‘meeting of the Society. It In not proposed to interfere with any existing organizations, the object of which is the immediate and complete abolition of slavery, ae they wil! pursue their work in thelr own wav, bu! to carry en the operstioas of the Society upon strictly Christian principles, by Christian means, and in a Chris- tian spirit. The committee to spend no time in contro- yernles, except with slavebolders, thelr abettors and apo- logista, but to direct ol) their resources and energies in dependence upon the Divine blessing. to the accomplish- ment of the great and eppropriste work on hand the Society seek to move the church, the ministry, eccleias- tical bodies, benevolent and religious societies, to do their duty and purify themselves from the taint of slavery, or from giving it, either directly or indirectly, their support; to stimulate pelitical parties to right aelion, and more particularly give its influence and aid to avy party which reeks, by legitimate means, and upon right principles, the the abolition of slavery. The outline recommends that. while promoting the anti-slavery cause in its moral and political bearings, the committee leave each member of the society io the enjoyment of his private opinion and rule of action in all matters, provided the constitution of the society, in all its integrity, be accepted. The Secretary then read the following resolutions, which were adopted : RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE PUBLIC MEETING OF TRE AMERICAN AND FOREICN ANTI-SLAVERY 80- CIETY. 1. Resolved, That it is subject of congratulation and thanke to God, thet, notwithstanding the lukewarmness and opposition the anti-slavery cause has received from large portions of our countrymen, it has been widely ex- tended and prospered until it is now the theme of general inquiry, consideration and solicitude throughout the country and the world, and, in the opinion not only of its friends, but of many of its enemies, destined to cer- tain and complete triumph. 2. Resolved, That the destruction of American slavery is retarded Ly political parties, who, in their strife for the spoila of office, repudiats the principles upon which the government was established; by religious parties, who, for the sake of proselytism and the favor of the world, set aside the first lesvons of Christianity and the claims of humanity; by eemmercial men, who, in their eager pursuit of wealth, trample upon both tables of the law of God; and by slaveholders, who, in their wilful ignorance of political economy, their disregard of the rights of the enslayed, and their audacious attempts to usurp the prerogatives of tho Almighty, rum ‘‘upon the thick bosses of his buekler;” and that wo uwe it to these misguided men, ax well as 'to the victims of their injus- ce, ice, to per in our efforts with unabated zeal and eficieney. 8. Resolved, That while it ia perfectly consistent with the diabolical pelicy of the slave States to attempt the prolongation of slavery by maintaining a rigorous slave code, trampling upen the rights of tho free people of color, and endeavoring te drive them from their native land, the subserviency of iho free States to the slave power in the enactment of oppreanive, unrighteous nd unconstitutional statutes, designed to harass and expel this clase of citizens from their limits, merits the con- temptand execration of every friend of humanity. 4. Resolver, That the eruelties inflicted upon the peo- ple of color, the attempts to disfranchise them, the nu- they suffer, and the untold preju- which surround them, are chiefly owing to the spirit of caste which obstructs their eleva- tion, and conirols the policy of the Colonization Sosiety in driving them toa foreign shore, as a choice of evils: and that while we sympathise with our insulted an deeply-wronged brethren, we would encourage them to hope that an impartial and just God will bring them out of the furmace of affliction, and get them praite and fame in the land where they bi been put to shame. 6. Resolved, That while it is nots matter of surprise that editors of veval presses pander to the slave power, or that those ‘merchants whose god in macimen and whose Pible is their ledger bow down and lick the feet of Southern customers, or that servile authors, publishers, and bookeeliers tremble beneath the frown of Southern despots, it is a cause of grief and astonishment that the American Tract Seciety and American Sunday School Union persist in refusing to publish @ sentence on the sinfulness of slavery, while they expurgate foreign publications of sentiments favorable to emancipation be- fore they dare issue them for circulation in the slave- holding State; 6. Resolved, That we deplore the fact that the Ameri- can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and the American Home Missionary Society continue in missionaries who gather churches eomposed in part of slaveholders, who are admitted and treated aa Chris- tians in good and regular standing, and that the Gen Astomblies of the Presbyterian Charch, the Baptist Churches, the Episcopal Church, &e., invite slavehoiders to their membership, hold them eligible to all offi nd appointments in their itt, delieving, as we do, fraternization of men denounced in Scripture as and deemed by a large portion of the true Church ef Christ to be unwerthy of Christian fellew:bip, is am obstacle to the prevalence of sound piety and ihe conversion of the world. 72. Resolved, That in the opinien ef intelligent patriots and Christians, the advance of freedom, the spread of pepetiiees sentiments, and the diffusion of Christian principles are greatly retarded by the fact that in this * model republic’ upwards of three millions of the peo- ple are beid in ignominious bondage, in defiance of the Jerious truths taken from the Bible and put forth in the claration of Independeuce, that all men are made of one blood, and are created equal, being endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights—among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiners, 8. Resolved, That notwithstanding the diseouragements and obstacles that lie in our path, we have unabated confidence in the promises of God, in the efficacy of pray: er, in the ultimate co-operation of the wise and good, im the intelligence of the masses in Church and State, and believe that when once undeceived as to the character and devigns of those who bave misled them they wil! be true to the instincts of humanity, the principles of re- ublicanism, and the precepts of Christianity, and evince Their change of feeling and sentiment by discarding the leaders and teachers who will have proved themaelyes to be unprincipled demagogues and false prophets. 9. Kesolved, That we evidenee of an approach. ing change in the masses of religious and political men; in the formation and prosperity of auti-siavery mission: ‘ary book and tract socicties; in the more frequent and out- nee rentiments of the religious and secular prese; in the muitiplication of newspapers devoted to free demo- cracy;in the discussion of anti slavery topics in name- rous independent papers; in the rapidly increasing de- mand for anti-slavery publications, greatiy stimulated by the perusal, by 0 many ioiliions, of “Unele Tom's Cabin,’’ and their inspection of the ‘‘Key’’ to the Ameri- can Bastile; in the labors, praycrs and remonatranses of our Canadian and British brethren; in the attention id to free labor sugar and cotion; in the beneficial f emancipation wherever it has been accompa- appropriate aids; in the increased number of educated and talented persons of color; and especially in the power of truti, which is mighty, and, with God's blessing, will prevail. 10, Resolved, That our strongholds, under God, are the Bible, thre divine charter of civil and religious free- dom, and the constitution of the United States, which contains a recegnition by our fathers of the same prin- ciples—the first teaching that the Creator “hath made of one bicod all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,” that He is no rexpeeter of persons, and that He will break the rod of the oppressor; and the second enunciating the glorious fact that it was formed to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, pro- vide for the common defence, promote the general wel- fore, and recure the blessings of liberty to ourselyos and our posterity.’ - 11. Resolved, That the thanks of American patriots are due to the champions of freedom in both Houses of Congresa, for all tile f@ KO nobly done in aefence of the rights of man and tl ‘inciples of true democracy; and that their intrepidity and patriotism will live in history in striking contrast with the abject and reprehensible conduct of those who have ed political elevation, and maintained it by sacrifices of xelf respect, the true inter- ests of the peo; and the just renown of their country. 12. Resolyed, That we trample, as we have heretofore done, upon the execrable fugitive slave act, which is alike wicked and unconstitutional, that we refuse all obe- dience to ita requirements, and will do all we consistently can to protect and defend our fellow-men when arrested on the charge of stealing themselves, and leave to public scorn and contempt Northern minions who, for the sake of political advancement or a paltry bribe, seek to deprive men of their unalienable rights. 13. Resolved, That slavery and the slavetrade (both foreign and. domestic) being unchristian, inhuman aad ratical, it is manifestly absurd and preposterous for ¢ friends of Christianity to hold religious fellowship with those who are guilty of such enorioities, or for the friends of their country to recognize the validity of their acts or practices. 14. Resolved, That the desperate efforts of Kuropean despots to smother the rising spirit of liberty in the Old World, have their counterpart in those of American des- pots to quench the flame of freedom in the New ; that the atriiggle is the sameia both hemispheres; revealing the course of axi tuder current already felt and des! ere Wey to defy comtroi. 16. Resolved, That we invite the aetive eo-operatior of the friends of liberty in the it work of redeeming ‘the country from the crime and .nfamy of slavery—es- cially do we entreat ministers of the gonpel, ecelesias- ical bodies, members of colleges and theelogical semi- naries, home and foreign talssionatioy, teachers of youth, women \in every condition of life, and all who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows, beseeching them te remember slavery degrades honest labor, and ever has been and murt be the exemy of thrift, purity, cdu- cation. republicanism and religion. 16. Resolved, That it be recommended to abolitionists throughout the country to revive anti-slavery effort, from auti-slavery societies and associations, clreniaie, _ sad wide, var slavery are Cae ea meet in anti- slavery concerts of prayer, petition State Legislaturesand the Congress of the United States for a redress of griev- ances, vote only for true-hearted frienda of liberty, an in all legitimate ways agitate the country, East a West, North and South, until the principles of the De- claration of Independence and the precepts of Christ shall be re ized and Cathey and this nation be, what our forefathers designed it to be, an asylum for the oppres- ed and a beacon light for people of all lands suffering under tyranny, aud panting for personal, civil and re- ligious liberty. The Rev. Mr. Boynton, of Cincinnati, was expected to deliver an address, but not being present the chairman called upon the company to join in the following hymn : PRAYER FOR THE SLAVE. Ob, lot the prisoner's mournful sighs As incense in thy aight appear | Their humble wailings pierce the skiex, If baply they may feel thee near. ‘The captive exiles make their moans, From sin impatient to be free; Z Call home, call home thy banished ones! Lepd captive their captivity | Out of th regard their cries ; ‘The fallen raise, tho mourners cheer : Oh, son of righteousness, arise, And soatter all their doubts and fear, Stand by them in the flery hour; Their feeblenens of mind defends es And in their weakness show ‘And make them patient to the end.” Answer cur "ne And break the yoke #0 meekly borne ! Faxpenicx Dovcises (colored) then came forward, and maid that the «abject upon which be proposed to offer « few remarks, respects the present condition and future ror pects of the colored population of the United States. le felt a diffidence in undertakivg the consideration of a subject so vast—first, because of a waut of ability to do {t juntics, and secondly, beeaure of the peculiar relation existing between himrelf and the audience. I am a colored man, said he, and this is » white audieuce, aad no colcred man with avy nervous sensibility can stand before an American audience without feeliag deeply im- a with the immense disadvantage under which he bors. The grou id which # colored man occupies in the street or on the platform, is diaputed ineh by inch by @ co'd, flinty-hearted aud unceasing prejudioe color. Were Ia white man—and I am about bait of it— Inughter and cheers)! should have # smooth sea aod fir wind. Here, the Hungsriau, the Irishman, the Italian, the Frenchman, the Jew aud the Gentile tind a home, and when any of them desire to speak. they are greeted with warm bearts, wilting ears, and open hands— for them Americans have priuciples of justice, maxims of mercy, sentiments of religion, and the feolings of brotherhvod in abundance; but fer iny poor ruined race they have neither feelings of justios, or merey, or,religion, ‘They have no sealerin which to welgh our wrongs; they Dave no standard by which to measure our rights, fais ia moy embarrassment when I attempt to bring before my countrymen the wrongs of the colored race. If 1 under- stand the feeling of the American people, it is that they wish to bave nothing to do with the colored people, un- Jess it is to coin blood out of their wrongs. ‘spoke not for aby auti-slavery cociety; he spoke as a colored man, and for the colored people be spoke before that audience. ‘Their position was an anomalous one, wuequalled and ex- traordipary, te which they can only look with deep con- cern; but they ‘are a hopeful people, and it is fortu- nate they are #o, or long ere the present hour they ahould have sunk down in despair. k at their condition, Here they were in # Jand which has known them two cen- turies, among a people who did not watt fer the negroes to seek them out, but who sought them to partake of its sorrows though not of its joys, « people in whose conflicts the rable and Cae tales of the colored race kave been used—people from whom they had reason to expeet at last feeling and gratitude. but slieas are they in the land of their birth. The fundamental principles ia the conatitu- tion are deemed inapplicable to them; the glorious doc- trines of the revolutionary fathrs, and the stili more glorious doctrine of the Sep of God, are construed against them; they plead for their rights, and the multitude an- swer them with little better than curses; they aro seourged beyond the rauge of authorities human and di- vine. In running hither for protection, he (the speaker) but thought be left @ cold and corrupt world to take refuge in a hollow and hypocritical eburch—from the hungry bluodhounds to the angry wolt—from the agonien vf earth to tho flames of hell It in known to you that I as alike familiar with the lash, with the whip, and with the chains of slavery, and with the lash and sting of public neglect aud seorn. My neok has known the weight of one waster, and that of many wasters. ibove been a slave. My carlivat rucollections are connected with the thought ef being a slave for life. How that thought wrung my poor heart, [ chal! never be able to tell. ‘wenty years of my life were passed in sla- very; fifteen years have been passed in nominal freedom, and were my woids never #0 bitter, they would be less Pitter than ‘the bittermers of that experience. Give me leave, then, to utter my theughts respecting the condi- tion of the people I bave Ido not propose, this evering, to go into a detai the wrongs and eruelties of slavery. Thore wrongs, thank God, are becoming known. They are too horrible, too shocking to fix the mind upon for any length of time. The colored people of these States are rapidly moving, tothe number of four millions; they are becoming a nation within a natian. ‘They area people capable of love and hate, friendship and enmity, and it behooves the American people to know it, for the time may come when the friendship of even these people may not be amiss to this republic. Whatever capacity may be arcribed to this raee, I am not ashamed to bepumbered with them, (Cheers.) Wi aw net ashamed to be calleda negro. I utterly abhor and spurn with ineffable contempt, the cowardly meanness of a colored man who, at any time, regards himeelf os dis- tinguished from the slaves of the United States. A crisia hae_ arrived with our colored fellow citizens; triala and hardships await the colored mau, that will tost his adhesion to humanity, to his home, to this soil here, which he did not seek, but which was forced upon him; but the soil has been mingled with his blood. Yet men sre now endeavoring to “shovel” him out of the coun- try. The speaker then went on to explain some ideaa which he said he bad already given expression to, at an- other meeting that morning. 1t is evident that there is s purely slavery perty in this country party which exists for no other purpove but to promote slavery. It is knows by no particular name, but ix sometimes whig and sometimes democratic. What their policy is, it be- comes us as abolitionists te understand. Here is my version of it—not original, but mine becanse I hold it tobetrue. They are, the complete suppression of all anti-slavery discussion; the expatriation of the entire free people of color from the United States; the unend- ing perpetuation of slavi = in this ropublic; the na- tionalization cf slavery, to the extent of making slavery respected.in every State in the Union; the extension of slavery over Mexico and the entire ef South America. The last sepemereirn of the slavery party in politics at present ia the demosratic party. The head of the slavery erty is the present President of the United States. me said that at the recent elaction the whig party was utterly annihilated ; the last 1 heard of it was around atable, where I met with s few iriends to got a com: munication from its departed spirit. (Laughter.) But no sooner did the ¢emocratis party rise to power—no sooner éid|President Pierce take his seat, and assume the government, than he declares to the slaveholders of the South that every feeling of his whele life was in favor of the slave law. ‘The Irieh people, generous aad warm- hearted as he knew them to be in their country, were taught to bate the eolored people when they came here— they were taught to believe that the biacks were rating the bread that they ought to have ; therefore they un- derwork the blacks. He loved the Irish, but he hated the lie that is palmed off upon them. In their attempt: h tho negroes out of mexial employments en, for one day they will assume our degradation and will be the future slaves of the United States before long, if they do net mind. He raw that white men were becoming waiters, coachmen, &e, ; he was glad of that, for it shows that if colored men can’t become whites, white men can descend to be negroes, (Cheers and laughter.) Having alluded to the American colonization society, formed formed for the purpose of hunting the negroes out of the country but in which they would be disappointed, he said he would look tothe bright side of the picture, and declared that never war he mere detor- mined to wage war against slavery. Had they succeed- ed in puiting down agitation? Did that audience look like it ? Look at home, look abroad, look at England, what are they ell doing} Reading “ Uncle 4 Cabin,” (Cheers); and when they read that, they will look for the *: Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” (Laughter.) He (the speaker) had hed the slaveholder look into his eye to sce if the devil wasin it; be would tell them what the devil is to the slaveholder—liberty. (Cheers.) The is a man, and must desire to be free—he can’t nelp i There are upwards of twelve millions of negroes on this continent and its neighborhood. He found, by the report of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Soeiety, that there were upwards of twelve millions of negroes in the United States and neighboring countries:--There are in the United States, 3,650,000; Brazil, 4,050,000; Spanish colonies, 1,470,000; South American republics, 1,130,000; British colonies, 750,000; Hayti, 850,000; French cote: nier, 270,000; Dutch’ colonies, 60,000; Danish colonies, 45,000; Mexico, 70,000; Cannda, 26, hich makes 2 total of twelve millions, three hundred and seventy thou- sand. They need not go to Africa—all the Oaribean Isles and British Guiana would weleome them, and ask them to go tbere and erect a paticnality of their own; but he did not mean to go out of this country, (Laughter). But if he éid go he would go no farther than eireumstances require ‘The speaker continued for some time to addross the audience, after whieh another song was sung, and the assembly separated to meet again next morning. Extraordinary Medley of Philanthropists— Missionaries from the Sandwich Islands to Christianize America—Mrs. Stowe Voted as well-intentioned by the Colored Folks--The Emperor of Russia=—Chas. O’Conor—The Sixth Avenue Ratlroad—Dogs in Omnibuses Kidnapping = Liberia — Agitation—Insuring of Episcopal Souls, &c. A meeting of the members of the above Society was held im the lecture room of the Tabernacle yesterday, for the transaction of business and the discussion of impor- tant matters connected withthe anti-slavery cause. The meeting was called for nine o'clock im the morning, aud ourreporter attended a little before that hour. Descend- jo the reom indicated, he found six gentlemen pre- }, three of whom were reading the New York Hurst, ‘d two looking over the Tribune, whilst the other, drens- ed Quaker, appeared as if he were, like Mahomet’ pasrive indifference, caused, no doubt, by the counter- acting effect of tho literary bane and its powerful anti- dots which were being circulated so nearto him, In a short time a very large colored woman came in. She took a seat at the extreme end of the room. Then came Arthur and Lewis Tappan, followed by a widow, (white,) and a nice girl, (also white,) dressed in ianocent looking lilac. When the door opened again, we saw a retiring quadroon lady, a very black little girl, Geo. K. Downing, the Rev. Mr. Pennington, (colored,) Arnold Buffurn, (white,) Doctor McCune Smith, (heavy yel- low), Reverend Mr. Jocelyn, (white,) and many others. ‘When about fifty persons of every hue and color entered, the meeting was called to order. ' The honorable W. Jack- son, of Massachusetts was called to tho chair, and Doc. tor Smith acted as secretary. Dr. Sarrm gaid that the President, Mr. Tappan, was un- avoldably absent at this stage of the meeting, and hence the honorable Mr. Jackson had consented to take the chair, Mr. Jackson returned thanks for the high honor conferred upon him, Tho Rev. Hxnry Bripen offered up a fervent prayer, be seeching of Almighty Ged to bless the cause in which they were engaged, the membors, the blacks, aud all per- sons affected influenced by slavery. ‘The Sucrerany read the minutes of the meeting held on May 12th, which were approved. (Here the President, Arthur Tappan, entered the room, and after some delicate hesitation, took the chair.] Doctor SmitH moved the appointing of a nominating committee, for the purpose of naming officers for the en- suing year. The Rey. Mr. Johnson, Rev. Mr. Shebanand Mr. Samuel Lees were appointed by the chair for this purport Mr, ARTHUR Tarpan (white) said:—Mr. President, in ooking over the deaths which have occurred amongst our friends during the past year, I notice with regret that of the Reverend Dr. Canova, an eminent professor of the of a of an essay upon the subject of sla which was gratefully roceived by the lends of the auii-slavory onuse, and the cause of freg- coffin, hovering between earth and heaven in a sort of | dom tm every clime. ‘active member of this society, has been unavoidably de- tained at home, im order to attend s meeting of a peace tociety. Ihave received ger yet from our friends io various parte of the wor! every district of the United States. and from the Sandwich Islands, The Rev. Mr. Greeve bas remitted four hundred do!lars, to be appropriated as @ prize for the best exssy upon the subject of American slavery. It was eollected in two churches, and ins short time. The people in the Sand- wich Islands communicate to us that they will remit soon, oxe thourand dollars, to be applied for the extiac Vion of slavery, and say that they are surprised at the amount of heathevism whieh exists in America; sad we aye aneured that they will soon send missionaries from the Fancwich Islands to combat this heathesism upon our soil, and convert the American peopie to Christiaui- ty. (Applause ) (Here the dropsical woman was much affected, the iittle black ebild looked very glad at hearing of the money, and | the girl m lilae bluabéd at ber unreBesting barbarian, } The Kev. Dr. Peswinctow (black) said :—Sir, baving heard mention of the name of our deceased corresponding member, Dr. Canova, Ideem it my duty to say @ few worda regarding him. ‘The doctor was an eminent profes- | sor in the College of Heidelberg, and Thad the honor and pleasure of his acquaintance. 1 met him at the great Penee Congress in Tmet him in Brusells, in the i= of 1840, and agein at the Peace Convention held in don. He was a man of the largest Catholic affections towards the slave, and I shall never forget the avidity with which bis great mind spedathe subject of Ame- rican slavery, #« 1 explaii its horrors to him in Paris. When ! met him in it waa all frevh in his mind. When I met him Brusaelli had the benefit of hi: priceless advocacy of the cause of the slave, and that « some personal risk, for the pro-tlavery party are strong there. However, we determined to agitate our causo; we did agitate it in’ Belgium, and I tell you, with effect. 1 , Lhuew the doctor well, and a warmer friend of ve did not exist on the other side of the Atlantic, and it is with deep that 7 hear his name mea- tioned in the list of the deceased members. (Sighs.) [Little black girl almost eried, dropsical women rocked to and fro, and the widow solaced herself in hugging her weeds closer. and thinking of her domestic niet Mr. L. Tappan (white) moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Abbott for bi ices as # musician im the Chinese Aa- sembly, Rooms, at a previous meeting. Resolution adopted. [There was a man present witha brass pandean pipos upon his breast. Dropsical woman roused herself, as if in expectation of “Old Auat Sally.” The mau did net play.J My. Tarran (white) would move @ resolution of sym- pats: with the fauwily and reivtives of the late Doctor nova. Rev. Dr. PENsINGTON, (colored.)—He was a bacheler, and he had no family, of course. Mr. Tarran, (white.)—He had friends and relatives, I am sure, and such a resolution addressed to them from such a body as this, must be agreeable, ‘he resolution was pagsea, and recorded upon the minutes. (The widow, the girl in lilac, and the quadroon girl, seemed to wendet at the Malthusian ideas of the late doctor, The little black girl and dropsioal woman appeat- ed iucifferent, from the youth of the one and the intrmi- ty of the other Mr. Tapran, (white,) would relate the case ofa oler- gyman, ina far off State, who was asked by some rich members of his congregation to desist froun his advocacy of anti-slavery prin He replied that be sould not do £0; that if the congregation ingisted upon his doing 60, he would resign bis pastoral eharge—it was worth a | thourand dollars a year—and travel as 8 eolporteur to | ebe out ®& subsistence for himeelf and fatally, His church be would give up, the anti slavery cause mover, (Cheers.) Well, some four or Sve members of his congre- tion—very rich men—withdrew from his clerical charge; but he was sustained by the majority in his living. If clergymen acied inthis mauner, they would show, by then Grusrces, that they were sincere, ‘and the numerical force of the people would be ranged, in the end, upon their side. I bavo now ‘to allude to the csse of a man who bas just arrived from Cincinnati in order to recover, if possible, his child, who wad Fidnapped at two thousand miles distance from New York, carried to this city, and is here detained. The pro-rlavery prese has taken upa strong ground in denying the fact of the kidnapping, bat the father of the intant will show you the falsity of their objections. (Cheers.) | The case has been before Judge Duer, upon s writ of haleas corpus, in the Superior Court, where tho validity of the civil action on kidnapping will bo tried, and the criminal bearings of it will be investigated in the Police Court before Justice Stewart. The father, who has arrived after the receipt of a telegraphic meseage forwarded to him by this society—brings pe ra from individuals of high ‘character, attesting his honesty and probity. Judge oer has told me himeelf that if be really under- stcod the case fully, he would not have granted the writ atall. So then, we could deal with Mrs. Rose Porter in the Criminal Court for the State prison offence of kid- papping. Mrs. Rose Porter told me that she was 3 woman of large beart. (Laughter Mr. Tarpan continued.—You will now be good enough to attend to the statement of Mr. Charles Trainor. Mr. C. Trainor, a tall, thin, curly-headed, gentecl- looking specimen of the African snob, here walked for- ward, and was received with much speaaie, He carried aJarge portfolio under his arm, and appeared as if de- termined to remain some time amongst us, discussing his right to the heritage of two suits at law. Mr. Trarnon—Mr. President, iadies aud gentlemen—The mother ot the child, Rose Trainar, was born in slavery, and sold tothe woman in whose possession the infant now is. She went from Mobile (Ala.) to California, some time since, leaving the child behind her. Iam its father, and limmedi- ately went to the woman, Rose Porter, and offered her four hundred dollars for the child, but she would not give it to me. This woman, Roee Porter, came from innati to Mobile. and from Mobile to New York; I followed her with the money, but could not prevail upon her to give me my child. ve child whieh I wish to remove from her is my flesh and blood. She denies that I was married to the mother of it, The laws of Alabama de not per- mit persons of color to get married in any legal form, but I know, my heart me, end God knows, that we were legally married in his sight and before him. (Loud applause, the ladies expressing decided apprebation of the new matrimonial ceremony which set at maught the laws of Alabama.) Mr. Tarpan (white) sald—I have spoken, as I men tioned to you before, with this Mrs. Porter, or Cooper, and she says that the child does not belong to Mr Trainor lawfully ; that it was her property, but is now free, and remains freely with her. She would now give the child to me, but | do not want it, as J wish to havo her punt for the state prison offence of kidnapping, sending her into confinement for ten years. bail de- manded was very small, and ouly for my exertion she would psy the three or four hundzed dollars, and go away. A member of the poliss, office told me that many fine ae respectable men came te visit her when under arrest. Mr. Tarray continued ~She has plonty of frieads, and, although she resides in Mercer street, the pro-wlavery press . of New York have taken up the matter, and represent the child as not being kidnapped at all, the woman havin, ‘iven it its freedom. Although persoas are daily arrested here ppon receipt of a telegraphic message, when she went to the Court her lawyer took s police justice aside, and after speaking with him, the case was about to be eee indefinitely I supposed, but for our exertions. me part will be for trial to-morrow (Friday), and the other, criminal charge, in a few days. ‘Mr. Tappan bere read letters of recommendation given to Mr. Trainor by Mr. William Henry Brisbane, Cineinan- ti, the Mayor ot Mobile, and others. The ladies looked very kindly towards Messrs. Tappan (white) and Trainor, (colored,) and wore evidently en- tertained with the history of the parentage of the darkey child, the state of morals in Alabama, Centre street, Mo- bile, and Mercer street.] ‘A resolution, pledging’ the Society to co-operate with Mr. Trainor, was curried. Doctor Jamas McCown Emrrn (colored) said—In the ab- acence of the Nominating Committee, I will, sir, offe resolution to the efiect that it {s just and right that the free colored people of tyis and other States should seek by Jaw for a full recognfion of their rights in the public hools, colleges, medical schools, public conveyances, a other citizen comforts of the States. It reads as loliows — Resolved, That we recommend to the free colored peo- ple of the free States, that they shall peacefully. and by means of the law, seek their personal rights in schools, academies, corporate institutions, public conveyances, and all other public advantages in the States in which they dwell ; and that the friends of freedom be requested to aid them in counsel and funds in accomplishing these Purpores, Ihave no doubt, sir, but the friends of freedom will assist us; for in what are termed “free States,” the men of color are yet partial slaves, except in the one—called ty Fred Douglass—‘“old and’ glorious Massachusetts.’ (Cheers.) In the other States there is always a draw- back, which spreads the foul breath of slavery upon the polished mirror of freedom. Mauy colored persona have not been bern in New York, but I know the mind of this city better, and my feelings of instinet as a black man are to ret it right upon the subject of our degradation. Sixteen years ago I said in this building that one of the effects of our freedom thould be to become really free, Worn Weare fetyet. (Cheers.) See, sir, how we stand; we pay nixteen or seventeen thourend dollars a year in sehool taxes, upon nearly two millions of dollars worth of property. Inthe year of 1842. Board of Education (so ber poly elected by the peeple, and spent s and a half of dollars in erecting palace rehool houses in this city, but never expended a single dollar or cent to provide a decent xchool for the children of twenty thou- sand of the colored popuiatton. (Cheers.) [The little black girl seemed to approve of the odium of the Board, and the dropsical old woman did not seem in- in the education question. } or SurTH continued—I have weekly, monthly, and yearly lacey ah the subject to their notice; but for so far, this Board hae only given us a poor littie shanty ia Tho- mas atrect,adirty basement in Harlem, and sort of house at Yorkville. We will go peacefully to work, until our children enter the priace schools, and are taught there to speak something better than broken Eng- lish, fier Qaadroon girl pleared at the idea of a nice address, withont any yah, yah’s!.) If peaceable means do not affect the Board of Education, we will try the virtue of the law, and show onr Jegal right to entry. Why, sir, the South, with all its inhumanity, barbarity, and Anglo.Saxon cruelty, does afford education, and al- though they do not think !t cruel to shoot down » man in the street, they will teach his children at their homes, In Jamaiea, L. 5., one bundred colored children are run- ning idly throngh tho streets, and will not be admitted into the schools, With regard to our higher oe cant there are three medical colleges in this city, and aver here, from my own knowledge, that in 1837, id aince, they would not allow colored students to tend their lecturer, Since then they have, in the re- finement of cruel exclusion, resolved that no person of African descent ever shall enter their doors. This out- Herod’s Herod, for in the South a man seven-eighths ro- moved from colored descent cean bea ; but the negro: medical colleges of New York—the beggars of the State, who pocket the binck’ man’s taxes—eay thet if your fs s grandfather's great grandfather wos a negro, . (Cheer gil 5 red afraid of the white doe- tors, and the ical old woman looked trochars at their very name. y core continued—As to our public con oon, at & late hour of the night a colored man may enter them un- moored beth tanetaieek in the ‘morning he may walk | mai in the stage” | the first we the ti on hallowed th the Jaceson, (white, pleaded pub- The . ) ond Mr. Leavrer, [icp sepperted the motion, but did not eta it eom- Pprebesnive enoug! ‘Was altered and adoy . [The colored ladies appeared picased at the ides of riding in all the cars.) ‘The Rev. Dr. Pewmnaton, (colored).—Str, I may men- tion in connection with this subject, that a short time since, after crosting the Youth ferry’ from Brooklyn, I saw an cmpibus standing at the pier. “It was perfectly unoc- cupied and I went in and aatdown, Presently I saw man’s eye rcanning me through a little hole in the top, aud bye and bye Le applied his mouth aud cried out, like ‘a stentoriun Hibernian, the following salutation: Now right look bere, old darkey, you, get out of that “b away.” (Laught 3 did wet mind him, and he again accosted me with y the devil, old fellow, do you stop my "bust replied, | 141 am not ' sopping your ‘bus, sir.” He then descended and o} ibe door, saying, “Now you know devilish well, oli fellow, that it can’t be allowed, and won’t be permitted So get out, or I'll call an officer.”” I told him to do so at once, as I wished it; and at this moment the sgent of the roprietor eaine up. He took bis seat beside me calmly, Bue in sueb a position that J could receive a complimen- tary shove, if refractory. (laughter) He said, “Now, we don’t want a ‘muss’ here. you know you can’t re Tasked him for nis rules and regu- lations to that effect, but he had none to show. How. ever, I found that although he could not get me out by fair means, he could detain the ’bus all the dey. SoI got out, a dollar and # half for a carriage, and went fo my office in Prince street. (Gries of “Shatue, sbawe.”) In a short time after, 1 met the agent, how do kee sly white man he says,’Well, pape you get slong?) He appesred ashamed of the act, and told me lie had been a Philadelphia Quaker. I made him feel humiliated, by telling him that » Philadelphia Quaker first sbeltered’ me, first taught me to read, amd first learned me to cast up figures; and he ackaowledged that it was an absurd result of # foolish opinion which caused my annoyance, I have calculated every year one hundred and fifty-six hours, in going to my ofica, wear out a pair of boots in a couple of months; have to tramp through mud, sand, and wet, and rive from my bed with aching limbs, in consequence of this ndiculous public opinion. But, sir, I'll commence— wo will all commence—and make s terrible fuss hero in New York upon that question. We have powerful friends, and we must and shall beheard. (Cheers-) The girl in lilac and black child seemed afraid, and “The Friend” groaned out ‘ Nay, pay, peace.’” Rev, ARNOLD Burro (white)—Why, sir, dogs will be taken up in a Proadway omnibus uncharged for, but a fellow man and ministet of God is excluded by public opinion. I have, sir, seen large dogs in them; and no re- mark ever made. (Bbame.) ‘A white member said that he saw a white gentleman, in the Harlem large cars, sbake hands with a negro gentle- man and his son and. daughter at Croton Fails a fow days ago. This was ebeering. (Applause. {The quadroon girl seemed to like this demonstration in favor of the amalgamation of races. Shaking handy even was good ] The Honorable Mr. Jackson (white), said that in in the New England Siates, the colored people could ride now in‘all second class cara. Rey. Mr. Bepow (white)—Sir, I understand that inthe Sixty avenue cars colored man or woman cannot be taken, unless a white person is in their eompany. This ought to be remedied. (Cheers, ‘‘and it must be re- medied.” i he ee had better look out !] uMi8 TarPan (white) said that the Committee of No. toination bad made the following report of officers for next year m= PrisvienteArthur Tappan. * Vice Presidents—F. Julms Lemoyne and William Jay. Corresponding Secreary—Le wis Tappan. Recording Secretary-—dames McCune Smith, M. D. Treasurer—Wiliam E. Whiting. 3 Corresponditig Aenbers—Joseph Sturge, George William Alexander, Samuel Bowley, Thomas Harvey, Enqs., Rev. James Carlisle, D. D., Rey. J. Howard Hiaton, and Rev. John Galloway, England; Professor Ackeradyke, Utrecht, Holland; M, Yambert, Paris; M. D’Instant, Hayt; W. W...Anderson, Esq., Jamaica: J, H, Collins, Eaq., Mlinois; Hon, §. C. Stevens, Indiana; Hon. §. . Chase, Ohio; Prof: C.D, Cleveland, Pennsylvania; Frederic Douglass, Ni York; Rev. G.’W. Perkins, Connecticut: i Cheney, Maine; Joha G. Whittier, Massachusetts; Rev, Dr. Willis, Toronto ; John Scoble, Canada ; Thomas Jones, Eeq., Barbadoes; Rev. Jonathan §, Green, and Rey. }. Baldwin, Sandwich Islands, ‘The report was accepted. Lewis aera read @ copy of a report adopted by the society yesterday, and circulated only amongst w. It contained a lengthy outline of a renewed system of agitation against slavery, to be commenced when forty thousand dollars had been subscribed. The plan of action :—By the circulation of anti- slavery literature, translating of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Pench, German, and Ttallan, « colporteur system, punishing of kidnappers, engaging ministers of piety and good address, the establishment of anti-slavery nowspa- pers, &c , were embraced in twenty-one clauses, and much applauded. ir. phe ieee aces half of the forty thousand dollars is now subscribed. (Cheers. ‘The Rev. Mr. Jocertyn (white) and Dr. MoCuxs Sura (colored) spoke in its support, and congratulated the so- ciety upon the spread of anti-slavery ee fe Rev. Mr. GODDELL (white)—Sir, the Emperor Nicho- las of Russia is au absolute sovereign, and thinks he can oppress his subjects by rule. You and I, sir, are each a sovereign of the United States, and we decree that no man or woman shall be oppressed, and with God's blessing they sball not, for agitation, of which we have not had sear enough, soon sot all free. (Cheers. c Dr. Sarre, (envied is pleasing to observe our ogress. Dr. Pennington, whom no person can mistake Er & white man, has been lately elected chairman of the largest Presbytery in New York, and when the oppressors of the slave go into the courts, they ean hardly get a lawyer such as Charles O’Conor to plead their cause. Eyen at the height of the lateelection, a fugitive slave arrived at arich lawyer's residence near Fort Washing- ton, with a letter from @ friend, requesting of the lawyer to assist the poor slave, Well, sir, the colored man got there late at night, and had a first-rate supper and good bed. the morning & he saw the lawyer—a candiate for a high office, in his garden, and banded him the letter. Well, sir, he did not send for an officer toarrest and chain but he only stamped his foot and said: “Begone, sir, begone.” ‘The lawyer was immensely rich, but Ido not say that he was Charles 0'Cono1 ‘Cheers and laughter. Rey. Mr. Gravam (white and ‘Will Baptist) said, that the members of his denomination in the States were sixty thousand, and they had washed their hands of elavery. The clergy would not admit a contaminated slaveholder as a communicant, and if any did, they would burn a mark deeper than Cain’s upon his brow. {The black child looked around as if expecting to nee Cain. Me! L. Tasean (white) introduced Mr. F. Smith, of Washington City, who was.about to establish a thorough- going anti-slavery German paper there, which he trusted Soult bave the whole sup of the association. Mr. Sarna explained his plan of action. Rev. Mr. Ray (colored) called the attention of the meet- ing to the taste of Mrs. H. B. Stowe, in locating Geo: Harris in Liberia. It savored of an ides of driving the celored mer. to that republic, which was not a whit more free than the South. (Hear, hear.) He considered Mrs. Stowe honest in her intent, but rather ignorant in her arrangement in tbat particular. Mr. Guorce K. Downie (colored), with Mr. Ray. The colored man had no hope of elevation in Libe- ria under a mock republic. Harris should have been cated somewhere else. (rod should, and cheers.’’) Mr. Tappan and Mr. Bacon defended the ion of Mra. Stowe. She wished to elevate the race, Place Li- beria side by side with the haughty Sexon monarchies of Europe. If she had the book to write » the location of Harris would be altered. (Cheers.) You all agree that Mrs. Stowe is honest. (Cries from the colored folk, of “oh, you, yes.””) ‘After some remarks from Dr. Surry, relative to an Epis- copal clergyman, whom he said should have his soul in- sured, the old woman hobbled ont, the little girl ran away, the lilac drean disappeared, and our reporter on- caped half carbonized, from the fact of being ‘ Cabined, cribbed, and confined,” for five hours, THE BIBLE SOCIETY. Rrrrrrmrrrmrrrrrse Thirty-seventh Anniversary of the American ii Bible Society. The thirty-seventh anniversary of this society was oe- lebrated yesterday morning, at Metropolitan Hall, in the presence of an immense and highly respectable audience. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jewey presiding. ‘The platform was occupied by several rev gentle. amen, and other members of the society. ‘The exercises were commenced by Rey. Mr. Bedell, of Constantinople, reading the seventy-seoond psalm, and offering a prayer, imploring the Almighty to pour out his blessings upon the work of this society. ‘The Presrornt then came forward, and delivered the following address:— ‘We can never adequately estimate the value or trace he relations of the family to the State, and of the Bible to both. the family forma the basis of the social community, and effectively reaches the larger spheres of the govern. ment and the State. When pure, it is the cepious foun- tain of all that is good and hopefal, as it is, when cor- rupt, the fatal source of all that is pernicious and de- tive. The recollections of childhood, the father’s hp y thoughts of bereavement and the wastes of the grave, meet and glow together in manhood, to exalt the agenoy coming from the family, among the most eventful on the ter and destiny of man, T acious observer of men and influenee, who deemed the ballads of s pastoral people of so mueh mo- ment, could, with more trath, have said, allow me the open way to the family—grant me to upon the heusehold, at the fireside, at the social table, at tho home coming of lsbor from its toils, the light and power Imay bring, to shape the mind, to mould the willand guide the thought; and, under God, I will hold the reins of public sentiment, and fix the standard of ebaracter, and the law of conduct. Yes, he might add, with fearful truthfulness, I will make or unmake any people by such permitted agencies. It was of the Divine purpose to clothe the family with energies of peculiar power, and that it should be, sts all time, the germ of rocial existence and character. He well knew how soon the ceeds sown there would spring up to life, and how fruitfully the blossom would ripen to the harvest. He constituted this domestic relation on the yery first days of creation, while Eden still bloomed in all ite Tamoeen . “[ will make him @ help meet for him, and they shall be one flesh, For this cause shall s man leave his father and mother, — sball beta vial ieee ‘They shall be one {n joy, sorrow, Teikougut, and purpore, and counsel, And with it the Bible holds insepara' in God’s word that can candition. All bis that can bind tery to Forty-second ‘and no hos- | green ai 1 apot, where childhood and pitable div dare hold up the finger* of invitation to | so freely to first imi At night bis color is seem, but no word of femon- | man and the strance ia In the aes ceneaien and no or of egal or ate weed toh acommodation. | well it we expect grapes re} Cerity Sudge Sned s driver for ejecting as volored gen: | ‘“Whateoever » man poweth that ahall he also reap""=the universal law, and svar and lawless ehildren will grow snd at last overthrow Pek aye Pad raived by ‘ly is benignantl; of virtue, and to jp the ily, The authority of God, word and spirit must fence around ainst hostile intrusions. and eorry ¢ charities of home must be w the doctrines and precepts of the Bible. There can be BO stronger plea for the Bible, cially here, with our free iustitutions, the heaven of our hands, and with laws, the fruit of lation. We must have the Bible, te vlorified course, bearing Tght and purit, every cottage and neighborbood and éwel tides of evil that threaten us will very volumes of overwhelming Bible Society is honored by this blessed God in his merciful p ovidence has raised up tion for these great ends and we would E ledge the goodness whiet. given to it so mueh nd crowned it with so many tokens of 2 The enenie e report was tb eq., general agent, ond assistant treasurer, manag ra’ report by Reverend Dr. Brigham aad Reverend Dr. Holdich, corresponding scerctaries, an abstract both of which ix as follows :— In course of the past year, three of the Vieo-Presidents have been removed by death, the Hon. James Whiteomb, of Indiana, Hubert Van Ws m, Esq., of Poshkoupeio, N. ¥., acd Hon. Duncan Cameron, of North Two of the m = James W. Dominick and Samuel 8. Howland, have also dsceased. AS Reverend os, Bpeel retary South has resigned, and re centered the pastoral Mie, and Rev. ae okibes: of North Carolina, has been appointed shistant Secretary: Sixty five life directors, and 1,816 life members have been constituted duzing the year. Sixty seven mew suxiliary societies bave been formed, mest of them in the - new States and territories. The entire reseipts of the year have beem $346,642 62, an increase of $37,797 61 over those fafa cab Guach ol The number of Bibles and Testaments issued has 769,870, being an increase ef 133,856 eoples ever issues of the previous year, aud making an 9,088,352 since the formation of the soelet: issues of the year, 63.772 bave been as goes very many ot sold, to be paid for when by nee tata, fave esd ta eeradi eh see irty-two agents have service, two Rey. Dr. Bond, of Missouri, aad Rey. Mr. Pollock, of Ala- bama. bave died much lamented. Of the books sent forth, more or lesa have gene to every State and territory, to the West Indies, te Brasil, to all the republics cf Spanis Ameriea aad Turkey, India, China and to several islands of the Paeitic. Grants of money have been made towards printing and circulating the scriptures in’ France and Russia, and at telve foreign missionary stations, to the amoust ef $24,000. On the whole, the past year has beenfone of prosperity to the society. Much more has been accomplished in preparing and circulating the Scriptures than i vious year; yet the managers are deeply 0 t the society iz by no means meeting the Billiea! wamte of cur own or of foreign countries. ‘The limited seeomme- dations of their former house for printing and binding, have tendea of late to curtafl the sosiety’s operations. Dut now all impediment of this kind is removed. can be made in the new house to almost any extent whieh may be called for. Rey. Mr. Lixcoin, of Boston, offered the folowing rese- lution :— Resolved, That the report, an abstract of which has been read, be privted and circulated under the direstion of the Board of Managers. re CHAIRMAN put the question, and the reselution was adopted, Hon. Judge Sxmyer, of Pennsylvania, offered the fol- lowing resolution :-— Resolved, That our free institutions, and these mord enterprises designed to improve the condition of the racq sprung from the Bible, snd without ite in@uemeo the cannot be sustained, The influence of the Bible, said he, upon the eonditiet of man as @ social being, and the tendencies of ite teach ings to instruct him in relation to bis responnibilitieg and to prepare him to understamd and to sustain asa alae in a free goverument, is a tepie net an of consideration upon an occasion like this, and io view it may not be uninteresti or unprofitable te to the history of ovr own free inatitut! and tothe causes which have mp) and thas far sustained them, for the p' se of illustrating this subject. I refer not now, sir, to that noble vy: the sights ef man to which our fathers pl their fortunes, and their sacred r, mor to that lutionary struggle which gave us « the Tutions of toe earth, for these, with elf the. blood and Treasure which they cost, would have been a unavailable more recent struggles for liberty, but for that for the Bible — ite sanction Ria PT er rhoeieed ite movemevts. The deep convictions, and uncompromising principles ofethe Puritan fathers, whioh indueed thera te eneounter persecution and banishment, and every for the rights of Son nace and the freedom of ini ad frit of in in relation to the natare of go" ment and bythe ty of popa- lar liberty, which prepared them to com| to \prehend assert that new and startlieg truth, that the will of the people is the only true foundation of civil goverament. prusces) ‘the early settlers of this eountry were en judents of the Bibie, and were deeply imbued with the doctrine of the gospel. Before the ast settle- ment at Jamestown or Plymouth, the present trans- lation bad been completed and generally circulated, and all its teaehings were familiar to those Paritana who acknowledged no authority but the bible, and would al- low ro priest, nor parliament, nor king, nor hierachy, to interpret it. ‘(Loud applauee’) The venerable in his last words to the embarking as if anima- ted with » perfect view of the future destiny ef his flock, and with deep earnestness and emotion, prono thet welemred ant hy eneed angela, thas yo be propared 10 before God and his a y receive wherever the truth shall be made known to you in the written word of God,’”? (Applause.) It was in the cabin of the Mayflower, on the late coast of New England, apd before » foot- that shore, that that memorable instrument of govern- ment was framed and signed by every adult male of which a distinguished historian has the birth of popular constitutional Mber! humanity reeovered its rights,avd government upon the basis of equal laws for tl this period, the mass of mankind kne‘ such as was wrung from the grasp of itary ’ They looked to royal charters for the measure their rights, and the rule of theinduties. But these piigrime, who had been nurtured in the school of intolerance in the eentiments of Luther and Calvin, searshed the era- cles of the living God as the only standard of duty and the only arbiter of their rights. (Greatappleuse.) But, str, ‘we mast look at the commencement of the Christian The blind see, the lame w: poor the gospel is preached, were the lessons which he put forth in the miasion ef his celts Philosophers theories had and sages bad stood and tangs, butall reference to the sof the high-born Vary a oor put enforced aby, ous; but it was Jesus ist of Nazareth that forth the claims of a common biotherhood, and np the poor, and the neglected, Sel ae reed justice and po) i wi eat re te “Puriane, and the declaration of jence the revolutionary fathers. (Applaase. Yoo, ifr Preside regard for the Stole aad 166 mmetions has characterized every period of our etly was in the darkest hour of our revolution, antdat dangers of that fearful condict, that Congress, just Selene: they were driven from Philadelphia, entertained » \< sition to furnish the country with Bibles, ands ‘Was passed to import 20,000 copies at the publie ex; be ‘Applaure.) Yes, Mr. ‘President, while revolu ‘rance rejected the Bible and its authors, abolished the Sabbath, and wrote u; the very gate to the grave, “ Death is an eternal Sia hers prized this ed volume above ite! 16°, and inscribed wpon it these words which Constantine is said to have seen Crone bung from the skies, ‘4m hoc wince.” at a tater ne riod in our history, after the struggle was over, and was restored, when the conventiun assembled for pone of framing a Constitution to secure the that contest to us, and to these whe after us—when, sir, m the local interests, such the conflict of ems ous were the theories putforth upen the momentous objects of that yes of being lost—then the venerable Franklin, not generally associated with the strictest distant from the rock upon which they the spot which was consecrated by their ings, rose and delivered a speech whieb I to you, as beautiful illustration of the characterized those times, and of\ the contained in that resolution:—‘‘Sir, in ginning of the contest with Britain were sensible of danger, we had daily this room for the divine protection, beard, and they were graciousy engaged in the str nt instances of # superintending favor. To that kind providence we? oe eereree portunity of consulting im peace, means ishing our future national ‘and fe that erful friend ? er his assistance ? time, and the longer I live, the more see of this truth, that God governs in and if a sparrow cannot fall without his bable that an empire can rise without been assured, sir, in the sacred wri i ty bee St a it.” 1 Grml ieve his concurring sid, we shall succeed in building no better than the builders of Babel, ‘be di by our little local interesta; our jects will be confounded, and we, ourselves, will become reproach and a bye ward down te future {w worse, mankind may hereafter, from thi inetance, of establishing by buman wisdom, and leave it to chamoe, war. and conquest, therefore, Teave to movo, that henceforth Prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and tte ings on our Se tae Sein - this mbly every mo , before we This tic, in the spirit of those {ethers that the blessed constitution under which we live. This and its precepts and truths, was the rock whieh built this fabric, that we trust will survive until the wreck of time; and if we can thus trace our imetito tena te the influence of the Bible and its Let Naat tras Stree wee merour i “ fect we requve—every poh be virtue cherished.