The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1853, Page 2

- THE CHRISTIAN UNION. Substance of the Remarks of Rev. §. Robin son, at the romani, eed the American and Foreign Chitstian Union, in Metropolitan Hall, May 10, 1853. Mr. Robinson offered the following resolution — Resolved, That the recent indications of a revival of the worst forms of Popery—as seen ia the late reaction. Bry movements toward despotism im Europe, in the bd eret plotting and the open struggle of the Papacy for tical ascendency, and the consequeat renewal of re- # persecutions—as seen also in the kindred 1m we- ments of the Romi-h priesthood in the United States, wicely coneenled and under foreign dictation, for the overthrow of our free systems of education, aud for the subversion of the civil and religious policy of the Ameri- ep ‘ay seen still more remarkably in the extra- erdivary course of the pelitico- religious journals of Ro- mavism in our country, which are foun pocksising foc su and defending persecating tyrants, vilifyin ing victims of their opprestions. and assailing with ma- ‘at rancor ail, whether im Chureb or State, who 4 forth in defence «f tae great principle of freedom ef religion and worship, and in sympathy with the tut fering victims of these outrages upon the rights and the | reason of mankind; which are found, furthermore, opealy asserting and defending the dogma of the temporal as ‘wellas the spiritual supremacy of the Pope, and the competence of civil government to control matters of re- figious worsbip, and assailing those great priacipies of | ‘the popular sovereignty and of religious freedom which are fundamental in the constitution of bag State ofthe Union—all cajl loudly upon American Christians for their prayers and sympathies in behalf of Christ's suffer- ‘members and for their liberal aid in sustaining the in Papal lands; for renewed zeal and energy z Teaerpoaiiscn el defecos of the doctrives of religloes freedom at home, and securing for those doctrines, in every proper and legitimate way, the due respect and | e@onsideration of all nations. In the very brief limit of the few minutes which I may properly oceupy on this occasion, it will be impossible to speak in detail to the several points brought out in this resolution. Many of these points, however, need Yittle illustration, being a simple statement of facts which have become notorious as a part of the | current history of the times, That there has deen a remarkable reactionary movement aguinst Wiberty in Europe during the past three years—that prominent among the causes of this reaction have been | the seeret machinations of Jesuitism and the open efforts ‘of the Papacy to regain its ascendancy in the politics of | Europe; and that one great feature of this reaction has | Been a revival of the spirit of persecution on account of yeligion, are facta which no one kas yet to be info-med | ef who has paid any attention to the public journals on | the subject of foreign affairs. That keeping pace with | this movement of Romaniem abroad, there has bees a | corresponding boldness and activity of movement in the | United States against the educational policy of the coun- try, as well as the generally received notions of religious | liberty in this country, is equally notorious aa part of | the current history of the times. it is obvious, in short, | that an active and energetic young Rome has come into existence, which utterly ignores the quiet and lideral Romanism lately fashiouable—a High Chureh Romanism | —whieb, with boldness, an ac ivity, and an intolerence | unknown for a century past, is boldly aiming to restore ‘the worst forms of the Papacy of the middle ages; to pat | again around the nects of the people the yoke of priestly | authorities; to restore in all their hideousness the legen- | dary and superstitious dogmas of faith and practice | whieh have for two centuries past hid themselves from public view in the more enlightened portions of Christen- dom ; and to reassert for the Pope and the Romish Chureh, in all their extent, those claims to civil and po: | Btieal authorities, which have been held by all free peo- | ple for three hundred years, to be utterly repugnant to | the rights, the liberties, and the happiness of mankind. | It is, indeed, dificult to persuade ourselves that claims | #0 preposterous acd dogmas so absurd, can ever gain | eurreney in the world again. We smile at the ridiculous | absurdity of these fanatical devotees of Rome. And, ia- | trinsieally, there new ravings are of little moment. But | the very fact that they dare to promulgate them, is, | itself, of immense significance, It indicates some: | thing in the spirit of the times that alls | for our most earnest attention. We may smile | im derision, or in di-gust, at the vision in Macbeth’ of the toothless, drivelling bags, dancing and | ebaunting their “Bubble, bubble” around the boiling | eau'dron, but we feel like anything else than derision as | the spirits evoked by them rise from the flames to pro- | nounce the fate of men and nations. And s0, however | lightly we may treat the drivelling mumblings of afwaati- | eal priesthood, it is altogether another question when ve eonsider the spirit whieh their incantations may etoke from the dark depths of adepraved buman nature. All | hhistory shows that once the generations of men submit in | quietness to these incantations, the spirit will come forth; | and human nature has not changed since the days ante. | rior toLuther. Let any man contrast the spirit and logic of | Bomanism in the contest forCatholie emancipation in Eng land twenty-five years ago with the spirit and logic of Ro- maniem in the contest against the Ecclesiastical titles bill | during the past two years, and he can but be amazed at the | advanee made in arrogance and presumption, Then Ro: | amanism was the most liberal of liberal religions, vieing | with the boundless liberalism of Brougham, Jetfrey, Ma: | esuley, and others of the Edinburg Keview. The learned | octors of the church solemnly swore their disbelief in | the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, and the Popish | tician readily agreed to swear at the table of Parlia. | ent, * I wili never exei i | am or may become entitled to disturb or weaken the J’re. | testant religion or Protestant government in the Unitod m.”” (Quoted from the oath appointed to Roman | lie members, by act of 1629.) But bebold ia twea- | ty-five years the change. Dr. Wiseman is appointed to | govern the counties of Middlesex, &o., and publishes him- | welf as ‘Nicholas, by the divine mercy cf the Holy Ro- man Church, Archbishop of Westminster.”’ John, Arch. Dishop of Tuam, writes to the Prime Minister of England, | reminding him that fifty Romish members of Parliament are lected from Ireland; that the days of the ‘‘ Moloch of the establishment are numbered;”’ that its fands “fortunately remain for the endowment of Catholic schools and the build- ing of Cathelic churehes, and an ovtit for the purchase of Catholic Glebes’’'! Yetthesefifty mea must, under the | act of 182%, swear “ they will not disturb or endanger the Protestant eburch as mow by In r establisued.”” And now mark the cool effrontery of the great Roman Catholi: organ of the United States. ‘I speak of it as such becaace it has the endorsement of all the bishops on its back—and its editor boasta of his secvility in never daring to write but | under is bishop’s approbation. Io speaking of the ox'hs | thus taken by Romish members of the British Parliament, and the solemn denial ofithe l’ope’s temporal sovereigaty, | by the British Catholics in 1820, he says, “ft is not oar Jrovines to criticise the declarations and oaths cited by reviewer. We presume them to be such as a Catholic can take without heresy or schism, otherwise they would have been condemned by authority ; but we sny for our- wolves personally, that we wonld be hung, drawn und juartered, before we would subscribe to them’ !!* *# Bown to the period of the Cathullc emancipstion English Catholies generally asserted the independance of sempora! sovereigns ; and in the spirit of a miserable Gallicauisin, which as we have elxewhere shown, conceals the germs ‘of political atheism, they drew up and xccepted the decla ration and osth cited by the Quarierly Heview © a+ the gondition on which the Catholic seliet bill * jament which England or lreland to day would accept with tant modifications. English and Irish Catholics hare | turned with renewed affection to Rome, and have drawn loser the bands which bind them to the chair of Peter. The Foye is not for them now a foreiga Potentate: he ia tlueir ebief, their loving father,” &o., * * © There are in Bocland and Ireland, nd doubt, as well asin this couctry, soma | timid Catholics, who retain their old prejudi-es, aad #ho would feel themvelves ineulted if called Papiats”’ | &e. Bromzon’s Quarterly Review of January, 155% pages 121, 125, 125, Here, sir, is a ap ‘of ‘‘progress”’ in'the infallible church in th» last five years, well worthy “ young Rome,” and you w: in the same article and same connection a ‘spe ethical reasoning to ju i thus forswearing themselves, worthy the palm! . dSesuitism. This ‘change’ (the rancorous warfare against | the chns¢h of England) ‘does not, in tho least, violace the | conditions on which the Citholis Relief bill was passed,” | (namely, the oath above cited, now te-disturb or endanger the Protestant Charch as by law astublished,) * for it nuat ‘be presumed to have been a contingeney foreseen and accepted by the government. The government may have hop ven believed, that Feglish ant Icish Catholics won'd, as a matter of fact, remain (allicun, bot itknew that noither it nor any declarations of Log fish or Irish bishops could bind them to remain so, be- cause it knew that the ultimate authority in the case in Rome—not the national bishops; and that no declaration of the latter could bind against the approbation or even mission of the Roman pontiff.” Here isethie: for you. , sir, I am not now dragging out to light obeo- lete dicta of Jesuit doctors of the times of Pascal. bat | quoting the number for January, 1853, of the great orga of Ameriean Romanists, Brownson's Review, endor: ed the whole Roman Catholic hierarchy of the United Sta You will observe, sir, that the resolution gives special Prominence, above al! other indioations, of the revival of the worst spirit of Popery to the peenliar tone and = of the Romish politico religious press of the United tes. It is becoming a pecuilar feature of the system im the United States to bring into play the power of the Fiete,2.§ manner unknown to any other party, either po- "al or religious in thiscountry. Fach bishop seems to have a press under bis control, which is both an ecclosiasti- al organ and a political journal. Sach are the Freeman's Journal, of New York: the Celt, wife Lule, ko. There soni ‘ , Lonia, ke. “These papers huve ail the authority of ecclesiastical organs, and, at the same time, ali the as. [min | of partizen political jourmals. At the hoad of all | others of the rume stamp and character’ | sathor of the letter aforesaid, written in the I | order to show how entirely the Grand Duke would, | Fillmore and Mr. | simple hostility to religious freedom ; bi | leant to dex tothe tone and rpirit of this of the American press to which the resolution ta special attention. And bere is to be found ove ofthe most significant of al! ‘the signs of the times—that men ia the circumstancss of Ro Catholics in this country should, in face of the privileges they enjoy under the free insti- tutions of the openly scoff at and revile religious li- berty, is startling enough. European persecutions are but secondary grounds of concern to the triends of religious liberty. “Nay, even the settled and determined purpose of despotism te rebstablinh the political and social Ptole- system of the middie ages—with a terrine popedom for its centre, with God, the great sun, and the universe of consciences and souls cirenlating around it—are but in- cidental and secondary grounds of concern to American friends of religious freedom. But the resolution asserts the peculiar and extraordinary tone of a portion of the American free press as the particular ground of concern tous. Itis no new and unusual thing for tyrants to per- God’s children, in fuseany or elsewhere, evea in face of the remonstrance of Protestant Christians. It is not a very starting thing tv be told that despotism hay- ing once more regained its power, should, in spite of all the lessons it has bad, once more make its vain effort to crush the eternal principles of truth and liberty. Bat, sir, it is rather a new and startling thing to fied in the middle of the nineteenth century an obviously combined and concerted effort on the part of any portion of the free American press to apologise for, ¢efend.and justify these tyran's and despots—to vilify slander and curse the mar- tyrs suffering for the cause of civil and rel’gious freedom, wand jeer and mock at their groans;—to fawn upon, Girgusting +yeophaney, the diseased and bloated careass of a lustful, political end ecclesiastical domination, which is now suffered, ip the mysterious dispensation of God, to gain a temporary ascendancy over the liberties of Eu- rope. This isa new and starting thing. But is it not et still more amazing to fod a portion of the American e press undertaking to mystify, befog the views, and impair the contidence of the American people, in the very principles of civil and religious liberty, which are the pe- culiar glory and distinction of the whole American sys- tem? To find that press calling in question, nay de- mouncirg, as atheistical and godless, the great political ‘truth that ‘all power is vested im the peo- ple,’ and the other great truth that liberty to wor- ship God, according to the dictates of his own con- sctenee, is the inherent and inalienable right of every man. 1am fuily aware, sir, that these are very grave charges; but I make them on uo slight ground. The proofs are at hand, and in the course of what I have to tay I shall produce them—not by showing from her au- thorized ancient standards that Rome is the eremy of liberty— not by inferences ingeniously drawn from her articles and the teachings of the doctrisae—my proofsshall be the direct assertions of her popular defeuders, and what has been said aod written by them in the past year or two, The course of the Romanist press in this country, touching the recent persec in Tuscany, affords & striking specimen of the spirit and principles of its con- ductors and their masters, the ecclesins With what furious zeal have they stood forth in defence of the Duke of Tuscany against the indignation of outraged Christ- And how remarkably true to the cursing and With endon? intolerant spirit of the Papacy in its worst eays? the main facts relating to the imprisonment, trial, concemration of the Mudia’ $ notorious as the fa ed with the rise to power’of Napoleon in France — | facts brought to light by the Protestant and Romish of Europe alike—/acts, the subject of formal diplo~ egotiation—their jourzals teemed with evasions and devices, and insolent denunciations, and special pleadings innumersble. Against every one, whether high or low, who uttered a word of sympathy for the persecuted and eppressed, there went forth the most rancorous anathemas Witness the language of these presses toward the mea who met ia this very bull to ex- press their sympathy and friends of the religious liberty set forth in the American constitution. A meeting, I venture to «ay, sur- passed in dignity and elevation of sentiment by no popular assemblage cver held on the continent. ‘et, the Freeman’s Journel, the ssme paper that spoke of the ‘mean and unprincipied trick” of the chaplain of the American Chargé, at Rome, preaching in Mr. Cass? own house, and who exulted in the thought, that i¢ he made a single convert by his preaching, Mr. Hastings ‘would be kicked out of Rome, though Mr. Cass should bundle up his traps aod follow him’—this very tolerant and liberty loving journal, in its notice of that great meet- ing in this Hall, denounced “the u*ter ecurrility, and low, vulgar bulloonery the ribald jest and mockery of Baird and Cox, and Nicholas, Murray, and Bethune, and ‘And the hue and cry wasraised threughout the whole Catholic press ogainst the ‘ congress of white cravats”’ and the ‘sym- Fathizing parsons.’” And even a letter, formaily signed, *+ (Cross) ¢ John, Archbishop of New York,” ia all due formality, and in the dignified and loving tone of one who declares he writes ‘‘ not in any spirit of controversy, but in the spirit ef peace and of truth,”’ kindly suggests in ex- planation of the meeting, that “‘ whatever becomes popu- far among a certain clase of the English nobility and gen- try, is sure to be imitated on this side of the ocean. In this way we can account for the convocation of the Ma- diai sympathy meeting in Metropolitan Hall,” of which the exercises “comprised a scurrilous denuceiation of the Grand Duke of Tuscany,” &c. Such are the terms in which even the spirit of truth and peace, in the personification of Popery, speaks of the Christian freemen whe dared to meet and protest against religious persecution. This in- tolerant and rancorous spirit, however, did not confine its ma ions to‘ parsons,’”” against whom it might be pres there would be peculiar hostility. The states- nen and public men of the country were assailed. The Mayor of New York was reminded by the Boston Pilo', | very significantly, that “Catholics would remember him,” evenfor presiding at that meeting. Gen. Cass, for inak- ing a shert speech in the United States Senate, in which he advocated unrestrie‘ed liberty of religious worship in all countries slike—whether Papal or Protestint—was assailed in all fastions by these Romunist papers. truth and of peace,” kindly commiserated the “confusion of ideas,” and fears his *¢ pleadiog on this subject will be treated as drivelling by foreign states.” enc that if his advice be taken, the - United states will expo-e themselves to ridicule.” Mr. Secretary Kverett addsessed a friendly letter on the subject to the Grend Duke of Tuscany, and fer this the amiable and illustrious archbishop, in that sane letter, itten in the epirit of peace and of truth,” insiau- na most affectionate and brotherly way,that by his s0 doing “ the country has lowered iteel¢ iv dignity, if the President, throuch Secretary Everett, has beeome a peti- tioaer, side by side with Lord Roden, and taken his place of expectation and hope in the anticbamber of the Grand Duke of Tuscany,” ard by a remarkable stretch of feoagination transfers bis own wonderful logical m rery for @ moment into the person of the Grand Dubs, in ter the Sceratic fashion of reasoning—use up the American Secretary. But the undisgaised ani pure ‘“epirit of peace ard of truth” toward the and Secretary thas shows itself iv am editorial cf the Archbishop's organ, the Freeman's Journal : THE DUKE OF TUSC. MR. FILLMORR'S EX- PARSON SECRET, Y OF STATE. The Univers makes ivelf werry over the idea of Mr. i + with the anti- n polices, De La- s well as many roche Hexon, to whose pen the Uni other papers, owes deep obligation es the cause of com mesense against theeOnitarian “kx-«’’ It does not the independent judgment of the Univers that the admi now liapplly has been as bigoted as it has been imbecile It + the blunder | of the ge country where ail religions are on an equ ing the izans of so conteimpti elical League, as Mr. Fillmore his friends have done in (ois instance and ia that of *he would besrocelyting chapel in Mr. Cass’s house in Rome, to go no farther. The Univers’ conc van for Presideat, and ex preacher, late Secretary pulpit to proclaim that Jesus not God, and Mr. Fillmore himself to become once more a vill-ge lawyer. These sir, ares few specimens out ofa multitude of cases of the rancorous spirit of this American liberal Popery toward men who have been guilty of no other offence than sytaking in favor of the religious liberty wet forth in our Bill of Kights. Had it been confi to Protestant minis- ters, we might account for it ou some other score than to men of every rank and of both political parties. Nay, in many cases it extends even to Koman Catholics of the «| more liberal sort—Catholics who glorify Lord Baltimore | caliing for special attention, for his toleration, and still hold to the ‘old fozy’? Ameri- ean Popery, which used to speak in a kind way of all re- | ligions, nud denounce persecution by any sect. Those whom the High Church organ fasetiously denounces as “Custom, Tou! holics’"—as implying that they cater for popularity Mice, and the votes of Vrotestanta, Ei the [rich patriot, Meagher, b causes be could not coment to ble same breath—and, after denon: oppretsion of Papal Ireland, wou logy of Papal Austria and defend her int aut Eogland’s ind up wita » eu- pression of 2 Hungery—is marked ag an insidious enewy, a hful aré warned aga'nst him. nents and grounds of ¢ of the perseeu rope not lesa clegrly indieste the api ‘ational Democrat of this city soagh' the suffering Mudiai ly fornyi ously that Rose been “an Eoglish woman’s waiting maid; American Ceit, another dem eratic papor, Madame the waiting maid's Singular enough. truly, tentant ’ in ad envess evangelical love lett Fr % democratic jourual —a waiting maid! I had thought, etr, thm’, according at je de ne, ‘a woman sa wounay for a’ that;’’ that, in the view of true democrney, the pers eution and oppression of w “waiting maid’ was as really and truly unighteous es the perreention of & peeress. Not less singular is the plea put in to break the force of the public indignation at the imprisonment of the ‘waitingte aid” for porweasing and reading the Serip tures: to wit—that she mot only read the Scriptures, but engeged in prepayanda—that is, in plain English, she talked to others of the doctrines of the xeriptures. Thin Plea might seem natural to a Tuscan, out it is surely out of place somewhat in the mouth of an American to justify the imprisonment of » woman for talking. Ac cording to American notions is not this her icalienable right? Why, sir, in Kentucky, for the last re: years, 1 Go not remember more than a single tastance of the | imprisonment of s woman in the S'ate prison: end that was @ woman imprisoned for ruaning off slaves, and though in the intensest state of publie excitement on the subject of slavery, the care was «o anomalous that the whoie Legistature went to see the woman—and she talked well, and wrote a few verses aboat her New Ei land home, and such was the effect, that almost to # man they went to the Governor, and asked him to turn the woman out; and he did to at once. Yet, im phia country it is held an all sufficient reason for the impri ronment of a woman in Tuscany, that sho talked about the Bible. Itis not loss remarkable, that mort of the denunciation the formal quarterly at Boston, ealled, indeed, | of the sympathy expressed for the sufferers in Tuse: Brownsen's Quarterly, but bearing on ite back the fer: | was founded: in the assumption that Protostant Christi 4) ‘mally certified “approbation and influence of the hier | in other countries have no claim upon the sym eS er e editor's eyed deed in defence | pathies of Christians in this country. “Why all of the faith,” signed by two Archbishops and twenty. | this ado,” they say, “abont these foreignors— subjects ef the Duke of Tuscany?” ‘three of the United States, their names ox: pen: fy due form. Itis therefore to be ‘ately | @aken as of the highest anthority. This review is also as well as theological, and is evidently tbe prime source of most of the new politisal and theo- | Jogical ideas which are found in the nawspapers, | eurrent among the more intelligent ef the priestnood, great advantage of this peculiar arrangement of the press ia, that ition) the religious P; aot aia allow tel Inert thas Spore te pace | on the other band, tay ogg ious press of the country not feel at ia coctroversy with them, Now'it is sir, that it was a universal natural interest In bvery other disel Christ. 1 received understanding of the Gospel that each ox of Chriat’s true disciples feels a called to suffer for It is not a mere spirit of in ing that stirs up this sympathy. Here, sir, ia Rose Madisi’s claims to our sympathy—a draft’ that will not be dishonored herever a true Christian is found in the eiroult of this ol ped her letter from the Bagello prison to her jus band -— “You know that I have always loved you; how mach more ought [10 love you now that we have been toge'her in the battle of the great King, *#** J hope ‘tbrougb ntter their testimony as | President | sratulating the United | enee ivextends | Erea | Lt of | the merits ef Jesus Christ, God our father cepted our testimony.” Here, sir, is the evidence of her be exercised in her service and under her direction! | + « * We meet with not afew calling themselves oreners with us aud the true diseiplos of Christ; bound to | Cathelies who regaid the conduct of there Popes towards us, mot indeed by any external tie, but by the bond that unites all his Becple FA Christ, and ia Him to one another— a bond stronger than all the cords of your external and visible hierarchy—woven by that Holy syirit, whose movements upon the fallen rouls of our race are ever weaving them into thet infinite web, whose centre is the mediatorical throne of Christ, acd its circumference the wide circuit of moral existences, and so sensitive and de- Tate in its structure, tbat the blow struck upon a single mesh of it shall vibrate into the centre snd back to the cireumferenee—'For what is done to the least of them is done unto me,” and “there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over oue Such @ bond of union can, of course, be little uncer- stood under the teachings of @ formalism that knows nothing of religion but in its external forms of pompous ceremotial worship; yet it is the real principle which binds together “all God’s people, of every name and nation, and makes them more truly one than the boasted unity which seeks, through merely external and visible forms and governmeat, to keep the Churet together. This principle held that Church together of which we have just heard, from its representative now present, (Rev. G. P. Reval, of the aynod of the Walden. ses,) and its bands were too strong to be broken by all the power of Rome: as in its suffering it kept the fire of true religion burning on its altara while strange fire was offered on all the altars of Europe. No, sir; until this great first truth of the Gospel—the union of all Christ's people to themselves, and in Him to one another—-be utterly forgotten, Christians of every nation will sympa- thise with suffering Christians of every other nation—so T answer the question, Why this concern for the subjects of Tuscany? And now will these American devotees of popery answer my question: Why ail this rage and zeal ‘on your part, for the nonee, of the Duke of Tuscany aad other foreign despots? Why so flerce and hard against your own countrymen and neighbors, because, forsooth, ihey say hard things of him?” Is he's brother of yours? —one of the tame spirit—of like views and feelings with yourselves ? [fear it is s0, though you yenture not to sey it. Indeed your great orgav, as I shall show most abundantly, does say, though the ‘author of that famous Ieiter, in the “spirit of peace and of truth,” seems to devy it. Tray seems to deny it ; for once grant the two riicipies laid down in that letter aud boldly advocated Wall these journals—irst, that religious faith and wor- ship is a question of police: and secoud, tat religion has two distinct ports, internal and external, to the former of which alone ean apply the principle of liberty of con soience, and you bave exactly the creed of all persecutors The recent egitation fof the ques'ion of liberty of con- science has introduced a new, and hitherto in America unknown, mode of reasoning touching the nature and extent of Christian liberty. European writers on the laws of ature and of nations had indeed before dozma- tized of religion as an affair of State and a question of police It was bot to be expected that writers trained up in countries having a State religion should do otherwise. Vattell, in bis chapter “on Piety and Religion,” after showing that every nation ought to be careful ‘to know and establish the best religion,” and that the reli- gion ‘which shall have the approbation of the majority tball be received,” very consistently deelires that re- Kigion, so far as it fs seated in his heart, is anatfair of couselence, in which every one onght tobe directed by his own understanding, but so far as it is external and ubliely established iv isan altuir of Sta Vattell, w of Nations, chap. 12, sec. 127.) All this ix perfectly consistent in a writer who teaches that ‘the e:tablich- meut of religion by law and its public exercise are mat- ters of State,” © # ® “to te nation it belongs to de termine what religion she will follow,” &e. (Chap. 12, sec 129.) Eut itis somewhat remarkable to find the pa- triotie Archbishop of New York, who professes to glory in the American doctrine of the separation of Churet and precisely a similar distinevion between ig is an affair of conscience, and ex- ternal arts of religion, which are an affair of State. Nay. in the abundance of kindaess, he seeks to clear up for General Cass his confusion of ideas on this subject, and explains to the Senator what his own words in the Senate—liberty of ecnscience probably—mean, viz., liber- ty of external religion --which is very absurd. And yet, sir, all this in the face of the palpable and direct deiini- tion in the Bill of Rights of nearly evecy State in the Union, of right of consciesee and liberty of conscience, as being “the free exercise of religious worship.” (Con- stitution of Delaware.) ‘As it is the duty of every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks most ac- ceptable to him, all persons are equally entitled to 1e- Vigious liberty .”' (See constitution of Maryland ) The well-ettled definition of liberty of coneience, in American sense, recognizes no such distinction as internal religion, which alone is on affair of conselence, and exter- pal religionan afiair of Stave. The framers of the Bills of Rights never intended thus in solemn farce to proclaim asa great importaut law of human society merely the stale truism that human power cunnot control the in- ward movings of conscience. And what is more, sir, the true religion of Jesus Christ recognizes no such’ idea as an internal religion that has no external manifestation inacts of worship and obedience. And yet the whole ar- gument of the American papal press in the recent dis- cussion assumes the right of governmert to make reli- ious worship a matter of police. The whole ery has Seen “police.” Once grant them. this point, and they have no trouble to justify persecution, These papal ed- itors, sir, are great logicians on questions of police. Let them reduce the great question ofhuman rights of con- science to a question of police, and they ate unanswera- ble. To bocrow the story ofa political friend in Ken- tucky, who tells of a calling in a “tits doctor” on one treat a case of fever: After drenching his lady patient for a time with strange doves, her husband veutured te nuggost, most modestly—"Why, doctor, I never saw that tredicine given for fever before’ * Lknow you cidn’t,”” wes the cool reply; ‘I know nothing about curivg fever, and sm giving this mediciveto change the disease into fits; once I get it turned into fits, I sha! eno trouble to cure the la¢y—tor I am death onfits.” Just +o with these papal logicians and the question of religious free- lice, and they are safe—for they are death on questions of police. On this sumption, of internu! religion ouly as an alfair of conscience, is founded the bold assertion of the Ainerican papists: that rights of conscience are already fully enjoyed by Americans in foreign countries; and that therefore the demand of the American people fur freedom of worship for our citizens travelling, or re in foreign countries, 1 unnecessary. They may hold thei private opinions u.aisturbed. How consiverate and kind | | A friend, who spent some time in Genoa afew yeare | snee, teil, me that in going out onthe Sabbath to | lock for a pleee of English Protestant service, be fond ina rayrow filthy lane, acd in the third story, a handful | of people, to whom an’ English clergyman réad the ser- and preached without any sicging or praiee atall. was informed that. asa special privilege. this place had been selected by the government of Genoa, and per. mission given to the English to worship there, on ¢on- | dition, however, that no Genoese be allowed to enter the | hall, and no singing or other noise be made which might | beheard im the street. Here, sir, is a besutiful specimen of the liberality of Popery in Europe. Thisiva sort of iberal construction of the priociple of ‘“intermal re | ligion without external manifestation of it;? but yet | hardy liberal enzugh to tuit the American notions of re- | ligion. I remember a case in point, in the region where I | couunenced my ininistry, illustrative of an American de- cirion on the Vattal principle I> was the case of an ex- | cellent old German woman, who presented heraelf for nd- m to the Presbyterian church, the leading elde: of which was also a German, and one of tae most excellent men Tever knew. After some couyersation on the sub- | ject, and the arrangement fcr ber reception was about | to be made. the old lady raizcd this difficulty: “But, sir, sinner that repenteth.” | cceasion, in the absence of the regular physicians, to | dom—once let them reduce it (oa mere question 0” po- | | Lowes, | what will Ido among the Presbyterians about this thing, | I'm bound, if I get happy, to holler in meeting.” “Way | wait until'you go home, then holler as much as you leare.”” “No, but when I feel the glory ic my heart them 'm bound to holier.”’ “Well, then, I suppose you'll have toheller; we can’t keep peeple away from the Lord's table because they have a weakners of hollering.” Here, | | sir, is the trae philosophy. If the internal re- n will haye its external manifestation, the American doctrine is, “Let them ,holler.”” Now, air, the measure of liberty of worship which the Papist | thinks yo literal, even if it might suit the Cuurch of England people, or ar phlegmatic Presbyterians, will not suit all our citizens. What would some of our fiery- hearted, hollering Methodists de upin that third story in Genoa, fcrbidéen to make any noise to be heard ia! | streety But I hasten to notice the main charge ag | Aweriesn Papal press, which the resolutioa recites as wit : of openly asserting the temporal as well as the spiritual supremacy of the Vope—of aseuil'pg the fundamental doctrine of the Bill of rights, touching the popular sovereignty, and the other | great principle of the fill of Rights concerning religious | freedom. As these are very grave charges, sir, I shall ask the liberty of quoting at some length from thase journals, | letting them speak for themselves. As to the authority | of the Pope over American affsira, I quote first from & recent number of the Zubiet, published at Cuicago, | touching the common school q: ion :— | “If apy Catho'ic, bicherto ignorant of duty in the mat- | s to know whether he cva with a geod con- | science patronize infidel schools, he need say only os0 | word to his pastor, ond he will be informed that the voice of Peter las been heard again, and in thunder | tones, condemning, denouncing and aoathemizing the | whole scheme of mixed or Godiess education, and its au- thors aud abottors There is no mistaxe about this, The | trumpet ¢f the Vatican gives no uncertain sounds, and | the Prince of the Apostles speaks with no double stam | mering tongue. Peter has spoken: aad that voice of solicitude, vigilance and authority, has flown across | the loud sounding waves of ‘seas fand oceans, | und been echoed beartily by the assembled | hierarchy of the United States, as well as by the bishops ‘individually from the pulpit and through the | precs. Catholic bishops, pastors, journalists writiog | with the peneral a; probation of bishops, have agitated the question trom one end of the land to the ozher, until now there is hardly an excuse for ignorance on the sunject, | Ifyoursonor daughter is attending a State sehool you | may be as certain that you are violating your Catholic parent, and conducing to the everlasting anguteh and denpaic of your child, as if you would take your oath of it!’ Here, sir, is the style in which * Young Rome? addresres ‘the faithful’ among American citizens! The Pope commands—Peter thunders at you, and anath- ematives your Godless American system. “And do not su pose for @ moment that this is the mere excited ebuli- | tion of a newspaper editor, after defeat wt the polls. Let | me give you some extracta from the great organ, endorsed by the two a: chbishops and twenty-three bishsps, touch- ing the Pope’s temporal supremacy:—'- Mr, Artaud {« not precisely rapist after our own heart. § * We fiad no wherein his pages a distinct denial of the fire: and most objectionable, (proposition,) the one which denies the Chureb all temporal, and asserts the independence of sovereigns in temporal,’’ &e. _(Brownson’s Keo, Jan., 1853, P 28) Again—‘ We regard this question an to the relation of the two powers to each other as one of no little practical importance at the present time and even in our country * * It ia qaite the fa-hion, even for Ca‘ ho'ie politicians, to asvert that though the Church is supreme in spirituals, the Siate in tempocala is abso- lately independent of her authority. * * Searesly » Catholic amongst us engaged in politica cin open his mouth without uttering this doctrine. * * * Whoo ventures to ep it is stared at ae the ghost of some dreaming old monk of the datk ages, Let us hen be allowed to examine it”—(Ibid page 34) Then, after an ai ent of some twenty odd pages, we learn, on page 57, this conelasion :—-': We most deny their premices, and this we eannot do without aerertin; the supremacy of the Church, as guardian and judge ot the law of God, over both sovereigns and subjec: tem- ~— hey ora i uglier * A ‘iets page 0:—'She (the Church, in person . bears by divine right both swords, but she exereixes mie temporal sword by the hand of the prince or magistrate. The temporal sovereign holds it pubjeet to her order, to the secular power as tobe apologized for. * * “The Popes have hee wronged by tienid or ¢ime-secving Catholics,” &e., (page ye The same doctrine you will find in almost every page of this organ, and I need quote little more on this topic. On page 151 of the asine num ber you will énd it eaid:—The struggle in France, if we understand it, is, as everywhere else, between Catholicit: in its genuine Roman sense—the Catholicity of the Dar! Ages, if you wili—which asserts the supremacy of the epiritual order, and the obligation of bois sovereigns and subjects to obey in all things the law of God, as inter- reted by the Ronen Cataolie Church,” &c. So in his evuw for January, 1852, on page 36:—‘The real test of # man’s Catholicity, the criterion by which to determine whether be is a true Christian, or at best following hea- then tendencies, is his poritien in regard to the Pope or the Papacy. Where Peter is there is the Church, and where the Church is there is God our Re- deem Whoso disregards the Papacy, or stints his love and revererce for the Pope, has little reason to count himself one of the elect of God.’ I might mul: ply such quotations ad libitum from these pages, Ameri- can citigens boldly and openly avow the principle, against which ‘the very const'tution of the country is a standing protest. But, sic, do not suppose this doctrine of the supremacy of the Chureh is with thema mere abstraction. Far from it, This journal is intensely political, and keeps a close watch on the everyday affairs Of the world. I quote you now an extract or iwo to show the practical effect of this doctrine on their political views of the affairs of nations. In an article to prove that Protestanism is heathenism, for January 1852, pp. 31-82, you havea spectmen of Popish American pa- triotism which speaks volu i—** Speaking with apey: to the immediate future, th re but three great Pow: the first order in the world—the United States, Russia and Austria. These are three great representa- tive nations, each representing a distinct and peculiar system * These two absolutisms, thus re- presented and supported, the Russian and the American are the two aggressive Powers of the age, and they threaten to meet ere long, in China or India, ‘and on the plains of that old Asiatic continent to disputo the empire of the world, and the triumph of either ‘will be the triumph of heathenism” and the oppression of the Chareh of God, Between the success of one or other of there two absolutisms, or despotisms, stands ‘* Austria, with the other Catholic States of Europe,” and ths hope of social order and of Christian freedom, ‘under God and the Church, rests now on saving her from throwing her- self into the arms of either despotism, and of so strength- ening ber by union within andulliances without that she can resist and repel both the American absolutism and the Russian, * * Such an alliance would secure to social order and Catholic freedom the firm sup 2ort of both the Spanish and Itulian peninsulas, aud put a stop to the further advance of despotism in'either of its forms. It would protect Austria and the other German States—it would neutralize the demagogical influence which the United States and Great Britain might attempt to exert oa continental affairs. ** Where, if not in Austria, is under God axd bis Chureh, the hope of the Christian freegaan? Here, sir, is the patriotism of American “Young Iomy” —this the spirit to be infused into our common schools, and the polities to be taught the youth of the cointry— that Austria ! the land of Haynau and woman whipping, is the hope of freemen! Nor suppose for a moment, that only questions of foreign policy are thus discussed by this greut organ, with all the bishops at ita back. In the number for last Gctober, on the eve of the Presiden- tial election, you will find an article on politics and poli- tical parties, in review of the platform of the Democratic Conyention, which most elaborately aims to undermine the attachment of the Roman Catholic democracy to their party, declaring the ‘Demoerats radical from instinct, and the whigs only from policy,” in order tooutbid the demo- crats, and therefore, insinuating that all good Catholics ought to vote with the whigs, since Gen. Pieree “has given in his adhesion to the Baltimcre platform, which, so far as itisavything but abstract nonsense, or unnecessary declamation, every American citizen should abominate, We fear that his administration will accept the policy usged upon us by Ludwig Kossuth, alias Alexander Smith, the Vice President of the American Bible Society” —pege 616. I shall not multiply illustrations turtker on this point. Running your eye over this same number for October, 1852, just before the great Presidential con- test, you will gather from page 554 to 658: “No one of the politicians who publicly sympathized with Kons has been able even to obtain a nomination for the Pro- sidency.” * * * “Mr, Webster owes his failure to the Hukemann letter and his after-dinner speech and tuaet at the Kossuth banquet.” * * * “When such a man as Mr. Webster courts the mob he is sure to fail.” * * * “Gen, Cass we have been glad to ace laid upon the shelf, for we can never support a man who turns radical ‘only in bis old age.” * * * “Moreover, an Anglo axon alliance would be an alliance our government has no right to form, for it is not a Pre- testant government, aud is bound to reepeet our religion and refialn from ail acts prejudicial to it. It caunot make war on the Catholic religion in Europe without making war on the religion of every Catholic in this country, and giving every Catholic citizen the right to resist it.” * * “I have full right to resist the State when it makes war on my religion.” * * ‘Our politicians would do well pot to take the the Shieldes, the Mallorys, and certain custom house Catholics, as representatives of the Catholic voters in the Urited States.” * * ‘The sor- rieat sight to us is 2 Catholie in this country throwing up his cap and shouting, ‘All hail, democracy.” * * ‘We want uo Catholic radicals, Catholic liberalists, to extend efficial sympathies to the men banded together for the destruction of our holy religion as well as the peace and order of society. Over such Catholics angels weep and ugh. ‘Politicians must not judge the great body of American Catholics, whether of Celtic or Teutonic descent, vative born, of emigrants from Ireland, France, or Germany, by there office holding ard custom house Catholics; for once Jet us see tbat a policy is really hoa- tile to cur religion and we «il! die w thousand deaths racher than support it.”’ cieasing, and the time isnot far distant when our influence will be incompsrably greater. We must look not to the popular sentineut of the souctry, but to our holy reli- gion, to learn «n what side we are to cast our influence,” &e, ’ But I forb Ihave cited enough to justify fully the charges recited in the resolution. Jadd ‘one or two more quotations, by way of illustrating the iatolerant gyitit avd principles of the Rows Chureh in Ameriea, ‘ou will find in the organ for April, 1862, an acticla in | defence of the porition, “thet Protestantiom is atheisti ca}; end another in the number for Jacuary, 1852, in cetence of the yorition that ‘Protestantism is civilized Leatherism.’’ I would commend these articles of the Review to the considcraticn of Arckbishop Hughes, by way of key to the interpretation of some of the liberal things in bir letter. With such opinions of Protestantism you will not be surprised to find the doctrine of religious persecution openly advocated. I quote, finally, one or two extracts illustrative of the spirit of the Catholic press touching persecution. And first, from the Shepherd of the Valley, early in 1852, the organ of Rt. Rev. Archbishop Keprick:—‘‘The Church, we admit, is, of necessity, in- tolerant. Her intolerarce follows necersarily from her infallibility. She alone has the righ: to be intolerant. Herery she incerts in her eatalogue of mortal sins. She endures it when and where she must; but she hates it, and directs a)l ber energies to effect its destruction. If the Catholics ever gain—which they surely will do, theugh at a distant ¢ay—an immense numerical majori- ty, religious freedom in this country is at an end. So say our enemies—to we believe. We have said that we are not advocates of religious freedom, and we repeat it, we are not. Ibe liberty to believe contrary to the teachings of the Church is the liberty to believe a lie. The liberty to think otherwise than che permits ix the liberty to abuse the wind and pollute the imagination. From such liberty may we, and those we love, be at all served.” from Brownson's Review, January, two more passages:—*‘The first duty of every civil govern- ment is to protect the Church and maintain the freedom of religion—the freedom of religion, we suy, not of heresy ond infidelity, which, as far as we could ever learn, have not, and never hi d never can have, any rights, be- ing, as they unc ly are, contrary to the Jaw of God.” (Jan 1863, page 26.) ‘And therefore we lose all the breath we expend in declaiming against bigotry and in- tolerance, and in favor of religious liberty, or the right of any men’ to be of any religion or no feligion, as best pleases him, which some two or thiee of our journalists in persuade the world is Catholic doctrine "*(p. G4.) ‘The Freeman's Journal wakes the following candid ad- mission as to the inherent intolerance of Popery:—“I would conclude by obrerving that itis easy to show that, while the Catholic government of the entirely Catholic communion is not bound, in order to be consistent to its »rinciples, to tolerate aby otner rel’gious teaching, the Protestant State, though having no Catholics estab- lihed in ite realms, could not, without denying the essential principles of Protestanti-m, oppess the introduction of Catholicity, or any other religion.” Let there suffice, sir, as specimens, I might mul- tiply them indefinitely, but need bere only quote enough to justify the grave recital of charges in my re-o- lution. This, I conceive, has been done avundantly. One great advantage of this new tone of Popery is, that we may bring on a direct issue on the merits cf the question. No longer de our adversaries skulk and bide themselves under evasions, devices, and special pleadings. They are boldly out with all the arrogant. c'aims or the ajsters Thaye epace to add but e word or two, in conclusion, touching the duties and obligitions imposed wy thia state of things. Our brecbren in Europe ure cailed to suffer for Christ while we are still free, Surely it is a stall requirement of us that we should succor them, and fornish the means of sustaining the Gospel in the strongholds of the enemy. As tothe other duty sug- geited—that of engaging with renewed zeal aad eneryy in cefence of our free institutions at home —I truat Luved not saya word. Every obligation of citizenship, as «cll as cyery obligation to Christ aud his Gospel, demand it of us. Ag to the last thing svggested—the duty of laboring to have the great principles of religious freedom respect: ed abroad as well as at home—I have no time now to enter upon this wide field, yet cannot pass it without a word ortwo. On this point we shall meet with mach cpporition by reason of the very indistinct notions prevalent in thin country on thin subject—a state of things which hes arisen partly from the divcretions of some friends of but much mo: fort of the in- liberty in Europe, largély from the settled and concerted ef iste tocow our public men on the sub- ject, and w pervert public opinion by their outery of radicalism avd filibuste:isim. When, however, I fiad such men as Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, Mr. Cas id Mr. Everets, declared to be the advocates of filibusteriem, as you will find they are throughout ail the rages of the great quar- terly organ of Romanism, I feel less concerned at that cry. To those whe would silence all discussion on this subject of rights of eenscience for Americans in foreign countries, by the nsual ery of police, aud ths authority of the law of nations, we have the very obvious reply, What ie the aw off tations? Your naadard. waiters 49 not yet agree among themselves touel its very ground and vbli tion. One saye it is the ‘aw of ature; apeth- er, the law established by custom and acqiescenee; a third, the law of might and power, as ordained by the strongest. Now. if the law of nature, then our claim to free- dom of wershipping God is an inherent and essential righ ¢ of everyman. That cannot be a law of nature, there- fore, which denies or restrainn this right. If, again, the Jaw ef rations bas its authority in custom and usage, the American people have been no party to the engago- ment ia settling such enstoms; nor can they be to this custom, since it is directly subversive of their first prin. ciples of government. If, lastly, the law of nations be the law of have the pow And in what copservaticm when re suggest the ides of a more liberal policy smong all nations as they closely in contact. Your conservatism is not s mere pur. blind hooting owlet, screaming at the stirring epirit of the age; but the spirit that ie to contro] and guide the * % “Oar numberd are daily in- . movement whieh no human can stay. Theeon- servatiem which the High ‘Church presses upon the world seeks not only todraw up but to turn back the current of human tains, The editor of the great orgen boldly denies any advance of moderm society, eulo- gises the Dark Ages, and rails without measure {he stir and movement of human affairs. Some men from natural constitution, others from affectation, seem to have a passion for Sighting sgainst gnd turning back hu- man pro ress. So shall you see, sir, 98 you are borne along on that great modern invention, the rsilrond—for it is a very common sight—as the iron horse rushes on as winged wi h the winds, blackening the very heavens with his breath, and waking the mountains echo with his snorting. and the earth tremble under the clatter of his hoofs, behold some little dog rushing forth from a cottage by the way, full bent on stopping the neisy monster—how he first strains every nerve in the vain attem t to outrun and head him, till, weary of the chase. he stands poratebiog. and barking with rege as though his little heart woul burst its woolly casement, and then turns back curling his little tail into such a knot as though he would twist it off in ineffable contempt ! Not an unapt symbol this of of the newly awakened monkery which in the middle of this nineteenth century sets ‘itself to drive the world back to the spirit and niodes of thought of the thirteenth century. Yet we should remember that human nature is much the same as in the thirteenth century, aud much evil may result from the effort, foolish as it is, unless met with zeal and energy by Christian frecinen, who realize the grandeur of the mission to which God has called the American people. BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES IN ALBANY, American and Foreign Bible Society. The Society met on the 16th inst., im the Lecture Room of the North Pearl street Baptist Church, in Albany, Dr. Welch in the Chair, for the transaction of business. A committee for tre nomination of officers and managers of the society was appointed, consisting of Mesers. Winter: ton, Goodne and Germond, of N. ¥.; Wilson, N. J.; Ton” kin, N. H.; Raymond, Ill; Shepherdson, Ohio; Porter, Mass; Kilpatrick, Me.; Griggs, Vt.; Chase, Willet, Conn.; Watsen, Pa., and Cheshire, R. I. ‘The following resolutions were presented by the Cor- responding Secretary, according to the directions of the Board, and its recommendations were unanimously adopted: 1. Resolved, That tho restrictivo resolutions passed at the anniversary of this society in 1850, ag a substitute for the original resolves of 1885, on the same subject, which had the previous year been modified, be and are hereby repe: for the express purpose of substituting again the ori; Teatrictions of 18s, whieh arc hereby reatirmed in the nal words, x : 2. Reselved, That these original resolves of 1853, reported then by a large and judicious committee, and unanimously adopted by the society, be and are hereby incorporated an fddition to the second article of the coustitution as part of the same, to the intent they may be promiaently be- fore the society, its managers and all its friends. ‘The adéition'propo-ed by these resolutions makes the second article as follows:— ‘Art II. It shall be the oliject of the society to aid in the wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures in all lands. In Carrying into effect this article of the constitution, the So- ciety will expect the most sedulous care in patronising such versions ovly of the Sacred Scriptures into the langangos of the heathen as have been or may be faithfully made, aud are approved by competent examiners; and that in the dis- tribution of the Scriptures in the English lancu Will use the commonly received version until oth the society. ted ren. Piatr, ‘Treasurer, made the annual report, of | which the following is an abstract:— {HE AMERICAN AND ForetGN Bipte Socrery iv AccousT wita Natuan ©. PLarr, TREASURER, Creditor. Balance in the treasury at the com- mencement of the year,.....+0+. Received from churches, associations $629 27 Cash received, being interest on bond ‘and mortgage .... ‘Total amount received. Balance due the Treasurer Total...sscsrerecseveeesese Debtor, Cach paid out as follows:— To the American Baptist Missionary viz :—For Karen Bible. $3, For Chinese Scriptures For Telogoo Scriptures. For Assamese Seriptures. For Burman £cripture: For French Scriptures . For Missionaries in Germany. Total to the Missionary Union. Rey. J. G. Oncken for Germany . Rey, Amos Sutton for Orissa... ‘To the Calcutta Baptist Mission sooo eee + $45,280 35 ‘To aid Italian Bible operations ..... 245 56 Rey. I. J. Roberts for Chinese Scrip- tures eeereessee 250 00 German colpo: in Canada, 176 42 Dr. Devan in France... * 80 City Bible Society for German end Irish colportage in New York city 2,094 34 Total amount of appropriations .. —— 24,218 18 For books 5,426 63 For avpu 821 69 For incidental expenses in publishing and ral department 462 12 For incidental ment .......- 818 47 For insurance and repairs, 98 01 For anniversary expenses 100 00 For diacount and ex chang y 98 71 For settling wills by an attorney .. 86 32 For services of Secretary and depository agent. 2,760 08 For¢fficers’ travelling expense: 267 66 For salaries of agent 6,854 24 For agents’ expentes...... + 2,116 87 Rey, C, A. Clark for expenses due him for pre- viouk y€ars 4... 289 75 For rent of rooms 1,068 76 Cath returned, sent by misiske....: 25 For protested note, recorded as cash inst year. 218 46 jen amount of disbursements.............$45,230 35 April 20, to balance treasury overdrawn...... $385 24 ‘The report was accepted and ordered to be published. ‘The Rey. Dr. Baucock, Recording Secretary, read his report, of which the following is an abstract:— ingled emotions are awaker.ed in view of the events of the year. On the one hand it has proved to be a period of unusual prosperity. Objects of interest and import- ance, long contemplated as desirable, have been entered upon successfully; while, on the other hand, for the first time in the history of this organization, one of its execu- tive officers has been called away by death, in the midst of his usefulness, aud surrounded by all the affecting me- mentoes of his irtense interest in the work we are now provecutin . Our beloved brother and associate, Morgan . Rhees, D. D., one of the Secretaries of this institution, oth by his life and death has furnished the most power- ful appeal to all of us who reraain to do with our might what our hand findeth and what our heact pur- poseth. Other deaths, among directors, members, and supporters of the society, eche the same solemn lesson. otwithstanding conricerable embarrassment and hin- drance inthe perlormance of our accustomed duties by the necessity of removal from our place of busines to premi-es temporarily occupied, more than an average amount of prosperity has been experienced duricg the year. The sales ot bibles acd Testaments, for the reas ust adverted to, have been less than in some former yea: egacies, also, avery uncertain and widely varying sow of iucome, have been less than the preceding year by more than $0,000; while the same tendencies in regard to receipts from auxiliary roc! except the few engaged in Scripture distribution, commented on at some length ip cur last report, have still operated to nearly the same extent as in the preceding year. Hence the augmented amount received from churches and individual contributors—viz. : $27,005, or about $5,000 more than in any previous year from this source— is a most cheering and satisfactory proof of the eontiaued and increasing conficence of the constituency of this in- stitution. It also shows the fidelity and perseverance of the egents of the society, Total disbursements, $45,280 35. In dispensing the bounty comprised in these contri. butions, en unusually large number—cf interestiog cases, 1©o-- have received requisite supplies of the Divine Wor In the home work, not less than sixty distinct grants have been made, besides’ what has been done by the thou- savé Gistributors among our life members and directors. ‘The aggregate number of volumes of the word of life thus dispersed reaches nea:ly 10.000, at the cont ef about £8,000. How widely these rills from the life-giving foun- ta'p have watered and blessed the waste places of our land, etervity only can disclore. United Stutes troops in remote cantonmenta, the keepers of light-houses and lig ht shipe on @ portion ot our seacoast, the degraded in our great cities, the emigrants to Liberia,.and the large colored settlements in Canada, an well asthe awacms of German, Irish, and other immigrants just reaching our shores fiom the Gid Werld, have shared largely in these Venefaciions. So have the young both in the city and the wilderness, wherever Sunday Schools for the desti- tute are required, in which they may be taught to read tnd understand the inspired Guide Book. § The foreign ap- yropriat , however, remain now, asx they have been from the begixning, the grand feature of interest and im- Fortence in our operations. In other do; re helpera and pants with of t nnd good work, where, in somo ca: t, theirs is the lead'ng and ours « subsidiary ins mentality. But wherever we have been required to make versions into the languages of the heathen, from the days of Dr. Carey and his associates to this hour, all Baptist translators bave found themselves constrained by an im- tense and uniformly operating severity of conviction that they must uncompromisingly give the full import of di- vine revelation to those receiving the oracles of God at their bonds. If others stand aloof and refuse their ald, we must we have done, perform this work without their help. Hence the burden, or the honor and privilege rather, of this vast and momentous service which God’s providence bas thrown on us. In India an¢ China, some six or ight of the missiona- ries, are the whole or principal part of their time engrossed with the work of translating, revising, and publishing the Scripture versions required at their hands, and of course their eupport to just this extent is made @ charge upon our appropriations. Them besides this, the entire oust of paper, printing, binding, and distributing these versions is sustained iv us. The expense varies from year to year, and by the wide door opening in Barmah, as weil as among the Kerens and Tegcans, the prospects are, that very Jargtly increased demand upon this department must im- mediately be met. As we look over the sppropristions of wo $262, past years, sinonnting in the aggregate 833 for the Fore spanner of our work alone, w greatly evcourged. If, moreover, we regard the large increase of late in these operations, the view is atill more cheering. In 1848, before any note of schism in our ranks had been rounded, the foreign appropriations for the year reached only $10,180, and for that, and the two preceding years, were $26,280, ‘They have since rapidl; inecsoent, and for the Iast thrté years bave smounted to more $67,000. And why PT eion Meme increase in @ similer ratio in years to come? demand warrants it, and the meat which a favoring Providence tas put in hands of those among us who desire to be faithful stewards for God, is amply eufficient te meet euch a requisition. 2 ——<—$ 44,215 84 | 885 24 | required for procuring a Bible House, left the ht’. foreign appropriations for the year just closed have To Missionary Union®..........+++0+-+++ $10,500 Fer fcripture distribution and evangelising pur- ‘poses in Germany, by Mr. Oncken. . 8372 Southern France, by Mr. Devan.. . 80 Orissa, by Rev. Dr. Sutton....... > 1,000 Italian Scriptures, through Rey. Dr. Winslow..., 245 Per 6erman Colporteur in Canada... . 16 For Chinese Scripture distribution in Canton - 500 Baptist Mi sioneries in Calcutta, for Scriptures in Bengali and Sancerit......... erenecece + 1,500 Additional to Rey. J, G. Oncken, for Germaay,... 1,000 Total........cccssrcoccssesveretrenscssese vo S20,872 Rey. F. Mason, the translator of the entire Bible into: the Keren language, is now calling earnestly for eolpor- teur labor throughout Burmah and Siam. Dr. Sutton is adopting it, and very soen the services of hamble Bible Teacers and distributors will be required wherever & thorough svasealiaitg process is attempted. It has beem tried with unequalled benefit by Brother Oneken, in Ger- many, and the Board now feel that a vigorous systems- tie effort must be put in operation for the oy French, ard for the Spanish residents in New Mexico. Arrangements for entering vigorou ly on this work. must task the powers of th ond the ennentive o> cers. This, as well as the extra duties this year #0 ly no slternative in regard to renewing the appointment of & eneral agent and financial secretary, who, for two clos- ing months of the year, has given himeelf to these im- aoe awoner division of labor between the correspond By a proper division of lal ween 5 fae mane end the general agent, greatly enhanced benefits are antieipated, with but little inecense of ex- pence. Tux Brote Houst —The measure set on foot at the special meeting of the society in Hope Chapel, ipod procuring permanent accommodations fo: the ity, rent free for ever, has been the object of eugronsiog at- tention for a large portion of the year. Not loss than @ dczen different positions were examined, and more or leew thoroughiy canvassed In the end, with una- nimity, the premises 116 Naseau streot were purchased. bject aimed at has been to secure am~- ligible accommodation of ali our co-ope- rating denominational societies of a general eharacter, 80 that proximity and mutual convenience for them all ines 2 be promoted. A proffer of advantages of occupancy simi- Jar to our own has therefore been tendered to them, which they can accept if they choose. Nearly two-thirds of the Purchase mocey for there valuable premises has been pledged, and most of it actually paid, chiefly in New York and vicinity. Nor can it be doubted that the entire amount at an early day will be obtained, thus placing the society on a basis of permancy, and securing for it ad- vantages and convenfences which have been earnestly de- sired from the beginning of its career. ‘The entire review of the events of the year is well adapt- ed to constrain all the friends of this institution to thank God and take courage. ‘The following resolutions were afterwards adopted :— Resolved, ‘That the thanks of this society are ce as tendered to the committee on the purchase of a Bil House, and to the gentlemen associated with donore, who, by teks sound infgment fnsselsl Mal sae practical benevolence, have secured the possession of the Property now occupied by the society in Nassau street, im the ci'y of New York. Resolved, ‘That this Society regards the full payment of. the purchase money at an early day, as a most desirable consummation, aud commends this object to the con- sideration and liberality of the friends of the Bible cause. Board of Managers of the American Baptist. Missionary Union. This organization convened in the Pearl street Baptist church, Albany, on the 16th inst., Judge Ira Harris, chairmein, presiding. After prayer by Rev. Dr. Beecher, The CnairMAN remarked that itwas his painfal duty to an= nounce to the board that their secretary was not here. Dr. Rhees is dead. In this death the board has sustained: no ordinary loss. He was every inch a man. He may have had his foibles, for who has not? But they were as few and slight as ever fall to the lot of humanity. They were £0 few and so slight that they were lost sight of in the brightness of his virtues and the richness of nis gifts. He was man of various excellencies, and those who- knew him best loved him most. He died in the midst of life and usefulness; but not too soon te be crowned with the laurels of victory. He had devoted himself to the: cause of his Redeemer—to tasks of glory and of good, The sunset glory of his example still shines upon us. we follow him as he followed Christ. He died in the tri- umphs of faith. It is fit such » man should gie thus— that the memory of his bright life migh: live undimmed among us. The key. Sewell S. Cutting, of Mass., was then appoint- ed Secretary. Richard & Eddy, Eeq., Treasurer, made his annual red rt, as follows :— PENDITURES OF THB ae ee ‘Year Exping Mano ’ Maulmain Mission. + $22,036 15 Tavoy Mission. 8,993 40 Arracan Mission: et 8E. 13,968 5& 2,602 64 2/390 8¢ 5,869 06 3,908 TE 2.859 68 Mistion to France. 8,268 20 Mission to Germany, 6,049 62 Cherokee Mission. + 3,226 08 Shawanoe Mission 1,864 45. Deputation to Asiatic Missions. 2,600 08 Agencies. . 8,282 6% Publications... 9,900 6 Becretaries’ Departments 2,500 00 Treasurer's Department 1,464 00 Miscellaneous Expenses. 3,182 78. Total expenditures of the Union. - $114,598 66 Balance for which the Union was in 1, 1861 in Reekford, M....... seeeeecs Interest on fund for native preach- ———— $113,306 55 Balance for which the Union is in debt April Total..... i $134,408 18 Southern Baptist Convention. [From the Baltimore Patriot, May 17.) This body continued its session in the Rev. Dr. Fuller's church during the whole of yesterday. During the morning the committee on the subject of Gi pata with the Northern Baptist Convention in the labog of dowestic missions, presented their report, which was ac- cepted The Committee on Afri missions also pre- sented their report, which was likewise accepted. After the reading of this report, » returned mi:sionary from Africa, Rey. T. s. Bowen, delivered an interesting address on the subject of missions in Central Africa. A resolu- tion proposinz to change the time of holding the sessions of the convention from annually to biewnially was offered, and alter considerable discassion was voted down. The report of the Committee on the New Orleans Mis- sion was read. It states thet New O:leans. a3 a mission post, canrot be too strongly recommended to the people of the South ; that a bold and vigorous effort should be made to establish a miseien in New Orleans, and that the ministers of the convention be requested to preach ser- mons recorinendatory of the project to their respective charges. It proposes to raise the sum of $25,000, and strorgly recommends Dr. Fuller as particularly calou- lated for the mission. At the afternoon session Rev. George F. Adams offered a rercluticn providing for the appointment of « com- mittee of five to consider the sul ect of memorializing the tieaty making authorities of the United States for the purpose of securing to American citizens in foreign lards the same religious liberty there which is accorded to all people in this country. ‘The resolution was adopted and the committee appointed. ‘The committee on the distribution cf the Bible in fo- reign countries, made a report which was adopted, re- commerding that measures be taken for an extended dis tribution of the Holy Scriptures. The committee on California also presen‘ed a very in- teresting report, in which they urge on the convention the fwpertence of establishing missions in that country. The committee on the Bible Board presented a report, in which they suggest plans for future operations in the Southern Stutea. The committee on the time and place of the next meeting reported that they recommend the second Fri- day in Mey, 1558, in the Baptist Church cf Aiontgomery, Alabama, as the time and place for holding the next con- vention, nnd Rey. William Hooker, of North Carolina, reach the conventional sermor, the Rey. A. D. Sears, of ‘eptucky, elterrate. Adopted. The remainder of the session was occupied with dis. custion on the report of the committee on the Board of Foreign Missions. Objection was made to that part of the report relating to the missionary action in Burmah, After considerable debate it was stricken ont and the balance of the report adopted. The convention then ad- journed until this morning. Iearian Colony. (From the Nauvoo Tribune, May 7.] Seven Icariaps, who lett Havreon the 20th of February; have just reached the Icarian colony at Nanvoo~ Others who left on the 12th of March are still en route. Two marriages have been celebrated during this month, ‘The colony has lost ene of its members, whose death war the result of former fatigues and privations to which: he had been condemned, as are all the workmen in the ‘world, by a detestable social organization The Jast musical and theatrical soirées have been par- ticularly interesting; the instrumental music, executed by @ bond of twenty-three mnsicians, fables declaimed by the little girls, airs obaunted in solos by men and women, a choir oomposed of tweaty men and children, openly the German choir, composed of six Germans and of one of them, and, finally, the theatrical ei oie have produced agreeable distraction to the labora the Icarian family, te which also the spring time haa brought its pleasures, the sports upom the Temple square, promenades, ke. The ten Icarinns who left Nauvoo last autumn for the south of Iowa, have there founda suitable lo arable land and timber npen a small stream. Five other loari- ane—Krisinger amongst them—have just left to jola them, with wagons carrying sions and utensils. Another company will leave ia Jun saw and grist mill, A Neeig a Mt vs. His cae Ae mocl erezt waa commence: lore eo ouFriday, In the Sepreme Courtet Plymouth. Rev. Benj. Whitmore aues the Fourth Cmgregation: $500—one year’s palary. The defence ix that the ears’’ has rendered himself incompetent ister, Mr. W. is an eloquent and eeeen- tric clergyman, who has served his extensive pariah for thirty-six years, in whieh bis ehurch incressed from twelve to two handred members. He was very popular, and greatly beloved, antil hin ony in 1 tbe will raised np eremies, sines whieh time rumor has beem Dnay with te pame. The Court Honso is erowded with friends and foes of the venerable plaintiff, who has nearly reached ene three seore and ten, Boston Trans- wript, May Vi.