The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1859, Page 10

Ew Y( YRK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 12, e66 vitality 203 powers A terrible fellany provaits to Peete ay by regard 2's de irve ponte and booa aries of Chrvwan prodeca, Ib w generally saactved wpa PY iy to suppress Abe wu, even imp por at wat, if on the whole, ta bis @uacyetion, De Feeme it be ace of he durch or Sbe b\goett a¢ 09 of ibe Coz And, jo hike manger, be way 6 pd aloo! from aa importans Cbrisian wader Jabig, H pe tipae that ip Bome ober leBs dikagreeabie wey bv Fouy do sie indieckiy Wo furtbor tue object, Taix is & Dot dangerovs Deresy, We have wo more right to #u’yhoid tre tends from mea thaa we bave to intercept tbe Vgueor the ar. Trash ia the tio af the soul, and our ia) ent duty and privilege bere 18 to diffuse sud extend tt. Tyas, though a tee ciged swe % bie false pradence won the churas of Me glory io shis lant, aod dew pach depths of Ordaremen M, ever since the founderion aeing ike & pr we VioTN Hel ¥en free Seolug to He arid Lhe se poet or @ Om lang, timo ere passing Te Bw teen GebDeraiey Coxe @ivottieg W apply te po 9 A ane Bewetews Ui We BaLEsuary, & Cbd ob Mguely io oape! to the supp hed, 1a order We Jag 0p0n Go resirreiion oF ibe - —ae wuthority because tbey bave paved Naoto law, aod 07m | red ®te ihe Supreme Cours, aod declared te OG" ayy Sona? Becavee tbe brick Was aparently FU00%NN 4, way the Jorgery agcepied Dy Ove Eevee Ia, does "ge wll | more OF Ve gui w Ibe second, ABO io Loe rent washed white and conRecraw a6 @ porfect Fate Beeaneo ibis mass of moe", oRitiVs 18 very dilflouls | to be got ‘of, ib im geclured t be & religious covservalive expediency ¥, rewive Ik mt the Curisues | church; Obristian divWOr, Jo nOkNERitale tO aoced® toe po ryatem a8 16 bt, #od wo aksert for it & divine antno: y Over Loe COvEe'W gors OF Te is Conseuded baat, | nab Ww the b quity agelost God sad mea, pogeestion (OF ge ony es@blisnes ae Ine feasible Lith p qUAliLy Bod essence, so thet w OC eet was wroog Wate & ried Mhava er Lb, committed agMiNst Oae human Dewy o 0) ¥ was-d MID, Whe practised aguiast four ul Hons wi Homan beiegs, aud & d to bo prantwel fur ever on ail weir becomes a system of portent #iRdOW aod piety, 1201 epOdem ag anys oY Cov froote with the aw of Goo ip regard wo it aut aomitod aad acovp oreo ADI8 T poet horninie bY tbe very party ela TMORLEORILY 16 piog to be ary We ps weapons with hid gloves, What wo wast to see lo ven degnoed Will SWoed Bnd powder, losing oad fing juvt a8 7apdly 48 tbe guns wil bear, almoss Luib be Gf ko Bre of BOOS word Bas ¥ed Ulezed torun. Tt hat beep avcwistered m Netie Bqaibbs touched of at ek bgilb— BO fA" DURC, WO CAFOe Htorgs, LO eMart D ibe way of conno'idatiow, Yat bo bud yeb to learn tbat ‘he mere mositer of dollars and centa oF proparty snouwid bole thew back. The quotation a8 to edesvite postponement of tue reso INE OD Was thew Dror ght up, abo &® ForDY Of max oovfa von folowed. i Ne ing mporBinle to get at tne feeling of wore cr Gon Tele ur'y and BO CO.Biituto of Une Uuitos | the meeting; DUbon a geond tml we “nose” were Oe Bteies pontically wre tbo upper aud nether milieones oa- | elarea to have fare which this wqoty CoD be ground to powder Bub bave Been long ebd fearfully parverted, We have rf sp pS from the Baud of dhe eosmy won adverted to 129 IWeOMpetinll ty of Abe Tirwge iwewtutiod WIRD eavery, Kt slavery was 1 by God MerTyRe WOH HOC Phe famny rela Loe vung Slaves Wab HOI VUES Dreeding factory ior Abe wraith apd ab the pleature Of the wager, Marriage © 8 iaspossidle ‘The CHAIM/.N wiehed that on order contd be preserved wormby the praviy of the ooveron He trusted wat Ourne "DS remawcer of the Convention none of these WADI CE Lope Of sppiaure Wou'd Lake place, WhO were WOW EY table to pobti a! aod ober aaeembbes, Mr. Wisecorr sad, if the American und Poreiga Bible ech y Were done awoy with, tea the Baptisw would yo %oe Amer cen Abie Bocety, Tow oontribut ope ovals to reapore ‘Be spew Aw the lave wes & jrurat 8 UbAs of Lo» iwrhed wto any Ober Chanvel, eud coasequeay Per, Thuk, theo, of & mwister Of the gospel, sin toe | (ie destrvcurn would he a great bone, ais co Deore DIS eyeB, CeNMerately declaring cual Borer BRicur thougbt bet the amendments of Uber & CHUALAD AEE DO FElEMOA OOald DECoDE Wot op ea tb @e @ feveradle to salvation than thatof siavery! The sori tured njyoekoos 1 FelereDe” LO ge duties of hin 10 ebildres Were & Perfect mockery to Haves Save mother over ought of bring wy ber chitd ww racreo Couseerabod t Got, when peroaps Dahers J fheye and Caldwell went from one exireme W ibe" said, letus keep orb Societies in ext ce, and the other wai let us anniovats the fBinle So: ty. He wee averrs to this aon biation, apd would go ihe union of the Lwo Societies, wad might toe biwesiug Of God reat op Loere apps, uf bia brethren oa ya without rebuke; & ot 10 Opposing bay sin, Jenouses > very Daiwark uf Gm vey mawral eur 20 peeves 16 D-giowivg so tranrigare the gor of ali vill yet of Mehwousaeds aod a Jonery ip: biLucor ave) Boalt renouBce bois | truth without fear Derevyool eape cow) SD 48 Dw @ compromine ‘ r nm ev. M FRamcn (formeriy of Onto, now of tars cily), Brat ao resse wmrcnby, He ea tbat oa comps ap Reve re Lua gern the Drove eriad Beatue ef Wasi tun pointing ip tbe airectiva 3 CBUTED ter @8 i awbiie Pe coul! Eee Hotumg to which Wasi sbouxd poiat bere. Bat atver pe had came in b deasd the rewarks of 18 President, aod ba du wemury toe seraoa sfier sermon that bad wired frem this pul o tthe wavee of despou Be woot it was peseouy pluiu—Washingt pouting iowards ihe rgat place. (Appiause ) @perton cawe vp: wh ald be o Beeeneasy to dO ony ibing—to have apy erganizision, Mowalt that was the ovly way wo su cVeod Wend up to avtiond, and got there a *'3eul Hdolewy, and of course Dai W take s nm wy pri ale view’ of Juduism, and con he cowli eas wid Ps gens; Dut af ‘ Jown, tracked 0 Peter, found ous *hat bo bad beea dug aod remstes him fo sLe face. Peter od his fault, and was never found ooing it the second time. Now, if our friends wao ave taken “South se Views of savery” will give the fame evidence of rept ntavce from their faults, by dy ivg at lost with their beads downwards, we will forgive them. Dow, iv regard to tue stand takea here, shall it og Zeugh ove, or merely @ conserva ive ove. 5 Aportie bad recommended us to commend oarselves ge all men. Now, bow shall we comawad oureeives 4e siavebolcers? A siaveholder once came to Ohiv to free Dro sinve girls, After having done 80 be spent some days fw Cvownati, and ib conversation etated that he had been Joking around for ap avoltion’st apd an opportasity to Bear some abolitionisia. @f Northern abolitionists; but, mstead of giants, found :bem nothing but pigmies He said the Beurh they kuew what slavery was; it was like the cater- ilar and the caokerworm, that bad passe! thoy eth and breadth of the Jand and een up every Wing in Comestic society; and they Yern whoapo ogized for slavery and j from 1b9 Now, if I wanted to commend myself to slave. nd 19 the females of toe South as a ¢ 2 hed Bmineter of God, 1 would take the gro} 9 @urch Anu slavery Soiety had Bndertaken to get up in Ohio & univer edaca ties of the colored man on a basis road avd buman, such He bas beard wonderful swries | im the | com, equal rigats wud wy, The ws on af Governor Wise that laspy of time fa Fiven 10 sleweholcert as perfect a Utle to weir slaver os err other goo Is aud CGett ia adapted to be K000, Ko img. Woen s avery brat beg 1 wan ci yon FoMe hows smls, tere | wis tome propriety in queshonsmg It, and to lav 01 GOd tu FelaueD to It; bat Dow that tbe sunie be cruelty ond crime beve grown to be four mil ioas, it is 0 MFLIUHON Ef eOoleLY NO Minger to be denovec i rebuked asa sim, but adantte into the Chretao 5 mol) fied and inp red Wid grace, and sive 1b caitoo cust Ontas a devil, instalied eh Workmipped as 4 aan'. When each ef there foar millions is worth to the owner & hourwnd coliars, and every two are she guaranwe OF ia tae claws of claim creasing thousands from year tw yo property become #0 vast that the sie of such a eutirely dwappears, and Goa’s law ts pub qui our 0: oounte 108 DEB! i as an mverioper aad s0d90r, Lae becom) & Vass veolol right, c y dave pot ote an? whicd itis | tbe eUtY ef Christian couses vatiew bo prowet | of jroperty m ope Duman beme may be by thw law of od aso worthy of death; but when the claim ef pro riy comes to be the tof 300,000 ko tae © #LersaIp OF F milous, these sinfut Clatms become @ meas OF ves wel te pore sacred than apy otder rigute ov earth, to be protected with tbe whow power Of tbs geverpment, An» cn we vnderwke 10 proviaita, in God's name, tbe dary of sbolebipg the wicheapess, abd settiog free too mil Hows alrcuoy its Veet we are apewered thet une | wickedbers ita vested right—a right of popular and Seate | fovereguty where it now exisia, With which We Muse oOs | imteriere. All that Dey wid eoustiiuwoual | law. will permit us to d oly lo oppose itd exten | territory pow fee. We ae warned justi that apy eltort for tbe abolition of élavery will injure the prospects of te polikveal party tbat hopes to ride iso polities] power eb the ground f being opposed to slavery, Rue at the same tine pledged to support the vestet rights Of perpetgal property in the fur miiioos already on slaved, No political Rarey cap place one foot on the Deck Of ope of these Fteeds aud tbe otber out oa the Dack of the | ox ‘J in riding to toe Preskieatial boage tw Wass (Applause) It would be a compact with coprcience on te oue baud abd Sava on the otaer, vever before attempted On 20 grand @ Scaic, and Dever yet Buc | cessful ois considercd, aud inasmuch as po Vitwal dex uot attemp’ to rido these Lwo steeds bare back, the platform ig to be laid across their gad tiea, and a driver's seat contrived in the middle poiat between two, so that, they being well bitohed togother lithe dnver, with reins in both haods, beading now to the eve Side and now to the otber, as occasiou demanes, may seem to be managing the party now witb { one set of priuciptes, and pow With the ober; now witu AD apreal fo conscience, Dow an appeal to the sacredness | of vested nigbte; now invoking God, and now Mammon; | pow a crack of tbe whip with & saapper from the Bivie, | now a thrast as wich Lataris’ pike sail agaiast aboliuoa fee met all hie wacte, and they bad taken the palform of | ism—the whole machine and juggernaut of party beine wanted it to com them sscieaces of colored men. No | @iesivction bas-d upon color w+8 ever to be allowed | ameog the trustees, professors or p And they bad done what bas vever been dove in America before, taken four colored men inthe Be Traswes, They bad from 90 to 100 colored students, aud abou 80 emancipated slaves doing a great work to roli on the great case of emancipation, Tis eriety bad taken We igh ound—tike the subd-soil plough in a teld whose surface Deen plovgbed and cross pioughed uotil the soil was axbausted. Tais Church Aati Siavery Society had got Deed Of the anti siavery sub-soit ploagh, and were setting | 8 iz the earth beam ceep, a bivesed and glorioas | €rop would be the result cf ite work | Kow ako Gitbenr, the Seoretary of the New York branch weciely, Lext add g Re said be was a, man of expediency ey, sod would Lot have en. fered into this movemout if be had not supposed it would Bucreed. There Was a distinction to be made in the use of the term expediency. [be expesievcy of the hour was this society becavee We Selves to the hearts ant mean and coutempubdle, but a broad and extended expe. @eney was just as good as principle; ind: was prin, weple. Be explained al some tengtn what he considered to De the necessity of Buc a society as this, notwithswnding Me existence of so mepy anti slavery societies. troth that the worrt enemies of t Were to be found in the bosom of the church, iu those ministers of the gospel and ovuers who were w Appear ap apologists aud Jefenders of slavery. ely by achurch enti slavery society that 7e to be met ana cooquered, Rev, Gxo, B, Curkver then addressed the meeting es fellows —I am glad to bear the remarks made here about Dolcing on to the constitution and the church, and all the nbs exabrined in them. Now, our greater: evemies are Brafeseed Christians themscives. Tho inevitable conse- Qeence of this is thut the contest azuiant this wiked- pers must de carried oa by true Curissians. We will eariy it on if we aro euch: 1 not, then God will raiso up Otbers to contend agginst those woo are falae, Now, ia presenting some of the F Ki was a | canse of liderty | 86 CDemes | sous which imoel us to this | present orgen zation, I donot epeak of the inconsistencies | | driven at a fierce gallop, in Kay sate, Ores, the groaning, bi eding forme, annibilated right# aad enslaved famiues of the jour miihoos Bew ww bendage. If there be pot a cracking of gear,a snorting and rearing, @ partiog of tue barness, and a complete sommerset of Unis political fadric before it res up at the capitol, then “e wholly ms take the signs of the people ‘ana the times, Tavro must be but one steed, one set of cousziea tous principles, ope steadfast reprerestaive podged to them io order to secure the people, We, as Cnristnaus, CAULOL, at avy rate, affurd w Waste our strength or tacow away our votes in aby otver way. AS to pledgiog ourselves to let slavery a’one, to give up all invevtien aud etfurt for its abouition, or to respect, a8 a vested right, of waich we promite to be the conservative party, the privilege of Loiding four mihous ©; our fellow beings and their pos: rity, to the end of time, in abject bondage, a: prsperty, wen a pledge would be the laying dowa of our oa nevis vpon the rail track of this iniquity, and cars woa! thunder over our own liberties. Such @ pledge wo: be bo'h a political and religious perdiuon. N the question is, what are weapons, are the cunditions of the fight? tare alone can fulthf and sieer | ground only of the authority of mission of bia rightousness aud love? ja plain that such ow apd wast Avo wey sich ag Cars y tee, and oa Hod’s word, and the co If they are, tuea it 1 Organization ax we are Low forumiaz is absolutely necessary, and we must have oar colors aud | drums and recruiting regiments allover the counuy are those who are mad and foolish enough to tida aud curse both the Bible and ibe coustiution be ame the r giaveocracy pervert aud clain thea both ae their ailies. But we are not golug tag vo cut our | Own throats, or betake ourselves to suca cursing. Tue koidiers at Valley Forge, when without food, cothiog, shoes, kbapsacas, poweer and ball, migbt just as weil bave proclaimed wh independence of ull kuch material reliances, in'gbt just as wel dave fallen to cursing every regimoa that etood in shoes, every company tuat coald uot do Wi hout rations, and every battle that could pot be fouga | Without powder and bail. Fisti-culls agaiust bayoucts and empty famishing stomachs agawst fal frames and curees, instead of bullew, are not tne thing— aod shame indescribable io the coosuct of divines woo san write yolumes on the sacredvess of infant bapism apd the grace and power of that ordinauce, and “a iwvaluable worth and biessedness w all believing parevts, and at the very same time write volumes Gerending as an ordinance ani gift of Divine provitenc system Of slavery and chattoiem which excludes slave parents from this Christan daty aad siave cuudren from She Chrietinn rite. Savery cag vever be broken up aud destroyed +s Jong as its support 1s not ce. ‘wab the profession of Christianity, not incongruous with the most eievuted Christian experience. If mea ure taught by their religion that they can eerve boto God ant mam. men, they will Goro. The piety ab make imerchaa dive of en, and then saxctimouiously call upon us to adore the mysterious ways of G t eban alee for tne © that can wai God bax appointed slavery and ranc tneans of holmese ond glory—wiil never 1 > privilege of | Puch instrumentality. Rays the Re Or, A Such have been the marvellous acts of Diviae the Africans in bringing them, throogh the and finfuiness of men, to this Country, aud great multitudes of them, that it requires eit er sirong faith nor force to suppose’ that Lhis work may still go on im the form of an interchange of biacks Africa and the Southern States.” “The South bas learned w be to be, the protector and tho friend of the Asrioan;”’ and ogain says a priest at the altar of the m> @ern Mcloch of eociety," Of all the situations in which Inman beings can be placed favorable for the salvation of their ronl, under faithful «forts on the part of teachers, it fe dittioult to concetve of one better suited to this end, aod in fact more succcesful, than the relation of the slavoe aad Goeir Chrigtian masters.” It is not ouly asserted by this writer, in direct contradiction to’ the test. mony of divine revelution, that the relation of sl. very is favorable for the cooversion of the soul, bat it is even intimated that the African trade can be renewed vpon Christian principles, A Christian mis- sion sry in Western africa informs ue thas mong the peo- ple there no child can be born a slave; that bath father nd mother may be slaves, yet their childrea are freo. Bat in America, the parents for whom slavery bas stood am is fitied godfather to bring thom into the Christian ciiureh, eojoy ‘Une joeflable bappiese of knowing that their children caa- not ereape the same colertial care and guardianship, This relaton, £0 favorable to salvation, assumes tl a2 its heirs (rom birth; they never can be anything but siav amu Lever can be snatched away by Satan from that reja tion Which @ Christian divine has pronounced to be of al! thers the moet favorable to thesalvaton of Whairgou's Can anything acd to the a:rocity of such sentiments aa thea Tt baci been my intention on this oce: somewhat lengthened examination of the case of Bulay versus Poindexter’s Executors, receotly decided tn tne Supreme Court of Appesis in Virginia, but I will defer it | hi to some other occasion. The point of the case is simply e jaws, slave jurisprudence, slave justice, ty, denies to the slave, ag a buman belisg of volition, except solely, eupremoly, aad Ible cages for the benedt of his maser. The the will of tho master manim't ting him, can choose hisfreedom, and be must be oou- Snuca as a wave forever and ever, bots bimesif and ail his josterity. The argoment of the counsel at ths freedom of the siavea rivala in the shamel segoes4 and of its the viea of Chief Jui Proposition that “black men hte that w litte men are bound to respect.” There is rothing that r: terribly demoastransa tac matore of flavery in ite ersonce than ‘this destruction of the pereouality of a bumin being, as to lis owne ead enjoyment of it, and ws conversion into mercbat lise tae violent abstraction of it from hima:lf, and the traus, for of it, 80 stolen, to the pose vaion of the maser aa ba property. Ilse « Vving, lasting, contiquous e-ime confined to one uct of crucity and miscrmancy, duced, reduplicuted, 5 perpetual piracy, ar dois ed a8 boman life in its renewal. Tue daggor uf derer cannot etrike through the life of th. murd: Auto the life of another yeveration; but the iaw of a): after the first blow, the firet asearsioation, renews tik vietim. The first man may he struok dow without law bot tbe eecond vad every Victim after ia struck dowa by the law self; the whole community where It @ tolerated becoming he fact to the fret traneyras- sion, securing it cvpetition and its prodt by municipal This & crime perpetrated aguiost two | istons forcver. Eaman hetags to day, repeated by the law of the aysiem agaicet five cr ton wore in the next tea years, and @rough those five or tex againet twenty Sve or iy more within the neat tweaty yeers theresfior, Tas essence and bre espe of the crivae ta the geserntion by whom 4 is legalized, onmiets in thir: thai Ht creates the per petui pe ity Of crime sn fastens + ga a hereditary plague, 92- cepted. fomtercd and dofendat by one race, wad endured fmanisery by another, The comparison sometimes inati- tuted betwera slavery Ant iotemperance fwla, pecaise shoetamina & drunkards becomes destroyed, and itis @ law that three euccessive geuerationg of drankardy dave no issue. Buteiaves multiply, aod that te ue chieg ino of consieration jn the value of tho Finite pr: ductiveness by natural propagation making it @ ductive beyond all example of rivai yiities, Bo Diinding is tbe power of interac ani | enstom against the sense of that it la only the firs theft that is supposed to be sinful, aly tha frar e againet Got and man that coets the Cone ence 0° tho com Mmunity aqualm. Aili the successive steps ure by force of Jaw tranemuted into dutiee, and the whole «ysera into a work of nutional expediency. The sin, the orice, tin @utrage against God and maa, @re every year increa and epreading, while the aente of ectae i$ a! the wh. @iminibing. Yo tt to be ‘naaghned foat because mon case vp Gerime, and pat it ioto the form and oategory of a law, they, therefore, get the apper bead of the Almoighiy, #od consiraix Him to eudorga shee ugarpsiion of bie own & iaconaistent | toat | ion to go into a | sre not 106 be relied vpon.’ Moreover, the wea: pons of our warfare are pot carnal, though mighty throogh God, to the pulling down of rtropgholds, Moa time We shall keep aud use the Vantage ground God nas given, Of Whaiever kigd; and neither tbe constitution, as a | free Cocument, nor tbe Bible, as @ righteous and divine power, sball ever be wrested from us or carried over iato ihe poreesrion of onr enemies. The astertion thattbe B.bi Suuctiors siuvery ie a master lie of the tatuer o Hes and the murderer from the beginoing—(aoplagee)—and the | infamous cit of w place for alavery in our cousutation, under jrekenoe of service due, ja 80 vile, go piratical, thut | ail iltusteation of this treachory i8 inadequate, The gigaa and subiime pettifoggery and forgery that on toe phrase of “service due?” could build the diabolical sye ‘tem of American slavery, beats all the feats of rope | 8, W Ltamers and jug How can the patient, how can the church be silent, how cau y forbear under such @ construction, suca a creation ef crusty out of equity, of falsehood out of truth, of da: kuves out of light, of forgery out of honesty man Blealing ont of “service duc?? It is as it, db pg by covenant the right to navigate tne North river for & certam period, you had built all the wey up fom New York to Albany a of vuildiag of giuve ships, constru and pers on land made for tois ver} wharves for the making of which land you bave put dur pose jader Culuiva: | tioe for ycurg ail the dirs carté aud scavengers of the cme, ail the rweepings of your courts and streets. Thus it toat in thie vacant water lot of the constitution, ail Uh apolog sts for s avery, all the moral eeavengers of uaprin cipled religious aud “political parties, dump weir rico aud fragrant cartionds. All slave courts’ and administer deposit the feculence of tacit cruelties, their slave prudence, their precedents of injustice, their Dret Soou decisions, their unguinly cabs and imps of lyiog, foevered civilized bed seent c by Christian judges into fasbisaani Candy trutlt— ber oppressive, oute.geous osiracisma, fives, babisiiun4'e, social and ‘civil disabilities aud ior tares of the colo.ed race. The sun uever whitened ao enormous 4 frauc,*o malignant a cruelty, perpetrated ia the name of constitutions! justice, It makes one’s ieoi- ings curl iu agony, to tuink of a professecly free, pioue ana Christian people, permitting such 4a atrocity ‘ag th travemutstion of tue cbiidreu of four miliious of ham doings into merekandise, under the worda “service due. when God bas forbidden the buying or selling even of th parents themscives, on pain of deatn. (appiauge.) constitutional mint for counterfe:t © money, on tbe ground of a provision for coluing silver, and gold would be nothing compared to such wickedness. | Now, we bardly know what to gay as to the maduess | thor , professing to be the frieuds of freedom mal the slave,a’mit such fies and usorpations fn and by the ou. #tirotion, and on that admiesion fall to cursing and raving | agalnat it, Some men tn this conflict act like taieves aud i cakcre in case of fire; instead of helping to exua 1 the flames they scatter shavings, rosia and tur through epartments, by watch the fire may run throvgh apd cnyelope the whole building. They pour nis of turpeutive into the fre bucketa; and thes you nay see them throwing costiy mirrors out of the wis Jows aud briz Drage undizons in their bands carefully (Langhier.) 14 is for tne church to raacue word of Gov and tae Christianity of ee Cross from th fable reproach of sanctioning such wickodners. We may, perhaps, hope that we Lave gous to tae bottom of | #uch debauchery aud hypocrisy, and inay now bogin to | dulld up. Churches of every d. somination, tract & Uee end missionary rocicties bave futiea down and wo- Hopped the dragon, and Ineo doiug have ieut to the enemy of the Nedeemer the power of eupposed prety to betray and diabonor his vame betore @ ratiog and biaspheming communis The venerated American ouru | of Comsmissiogers for Forelga Missions, by the very pysi ion to which the Divine bieaslng has Glevated tt, Birtkos £0 much the cradiier # blow st tae interosts of Cliristian’ Wy, sud is guilsy of so much the tore glaring betrayal of | the cause of Curist, when it eadures for eas momant no | Wiquity #6 palpable within aoy of the churches under ts } Ceré And cortrci, auc much more wheo it receives tie ini. | auity into the bosom of buf developed, half taughi Churebes, tod defends ttihere. Iustead of hearmg aud | cbeying Divine voice, “Artae, shine, for thy light 1 come, aid ihe glory of the Lord {s rigen upon thoe; pat on thy beautiful garments, for there shail uo more iotraue | jon thee the unciean,”’ that pesoctation Seema to aave | beard aoa obeyed @ mandate from the mother of harlot | Rud abcmigetione—Go down from thy throwe of Ligat, | Putasise thy beactiful garments aud waslow fa the mire he heaton thal: admire thy darkoosa and dexpous corn6 to the gloom of thy setting sun, to gO eby Ceeper than to eémit atayel tent with the rougion ef the Cross. An! now the cb iteo's, by a mighty reaction and reeurreouion eithia | Inuet repel taié cost iniquitous reproach ant . The catopalte of Satanic, infidel wal rl stouee as big 95 mountane ayalusl Wh.5 the church, but without the eng! effet, acies: fram within @ puritylog power 6 used to cast ont tus devil Thotr railings will Rave vo mere eloor than ihe bias phemies of Rababakeh. Balvation siuet come from witn- in—frem the word hidden in the beart— Christ, from the Holy Spirit, wita the fame o } nreting forth af Jength from an egoised con om Io thy,” Way will God send forth jutamont to victory, cauee to bo again bonged and his ordinances to be to thelr purity that have been blu paeaed among by the ecdursnee of thig gin. Tug churci nas trata: © bot. Traitors withty tbe charch lave epiked ana WE are compelled to drill thea out agaus or new; Lut when that i dvae ail Uaet te " Ag vias wily conftot—art Jot not one ningls handle ther a chur Fede Cay ube, oUrFOERdED by ber emidern, 1 Who w Ne faber? Nas to be, a8 was givod % 2” To covelusinn, tue speaker . # united agaust slavery could arive y eeege ePupee Paleo wish @ power tuat would ep is Tiober Sin, of the PDiladelph'a Publication Soolety, | C0 VOL meRD any OisreBprEs to brother Brgos, bas bis | yor Wes soo Dard for tbe ublily of the Mea © be kuock- ed pm Hy other Stimson paid thet if Philadelpbia were pot to- ary proveh y simy Mo tO, Cub & down as WO @ | ¢) bed tore erive tbe Soomsy, toe Wert was They wanted Bey ho, sno emeep away as WKH Lia, Too des | Were the old bochelur apd waid marrweo, awa bry Could evi ihe county are at tbe Commaod of the cuurcd | waecare of trem ip tbo Western pravcies, The Amer When thy oppreste2 #60 fet free and every yoke broken, | car Publiceben Somety was not condned to Phiatelpors. fey wre OO WH De Teo RCD @ Peghte as the wor | He belonged to M1, bUL he did Dos Deioug wo Poialelpy ae bos ever yet withers d. Toe will wildeuty b by virat dea), He moved thas ibe substitute aud jorred, hep will ibere be DO More CoudL aa taibe plenary | var n6 ment be law op the table. Brother Sa shed to be woderatood as rpeaking for bm self, for Philadelpbin or apy Socrery. Hrotbey Jeo rikye argued that if the Bide Society were to De «ltecbed © the Fublicavion Jociety, there should bo op ae divenar Deome. Feoiter Davis, tom the Committee on Credentials, re- ported Fo7 delegates, Ipsieaa Of BAT as reporued Bae pre- veun day 1k wae Fore euppested snd carried thatepeeckes ahouid be} mited v0 five minutes hioher Banyan moved an amendment to the resolu Hepiration OF God or the -elflomey of Co wsaury as are er, Thep 190 musees of houghifar mea tbat relling Io darkne® will be deawa nowarde veo Of tbe alr from the wotien of tbo radiaot chariot of Goo's tucaraate love, aad wit fod thease) rs wicged Wik Thi, Bpontapeously whirling oawasos wit> gratetul balleluiws, 13 the tao of the Redeewer of op pressed men, Tuen thorsands Whom a traitorous eta) cd 8 #avchodng Cdr BuMwoy base ke zed, ovod ‘brow Wo the tou’ of Buraa Ww 9e let caprve bie wai), will reynico to find their owa bon iags sormiog b | | | | | Jon | | | | | | | coking 8S the Wwuch of this celeaual tis | tien. whieh would peter the subject to the scenes, and | of } ey, a6 flax Defore the dre (toplaise) | Mf they Cecucad ib advisuble, then a uniow to ve toe ther J.C. Wansrer, President of he Navousivborca | revit, Abb y Sook ly, View addreneeo tye mectiog. Ue Brower Cucxcn thought that by a little moderation we ferred boeily 10 tbe Orgapwation of hs society at Morera. | inet tceme tw me sued amicable uuderstsaung ter, @ [eW merks pipee, and said tbat he rejoiced ia (ed to eur0y BebiG iw Now York, He hud ovners eleownere, v6 be uiyeo upon all present, ben they returned vo thew feepr chive homes to asrive for the or guvasutivg of 8tmi Jar associations khere, apd Bee Loa Wey seus delegations the meeting Of the parent society, to be buid ia Boston on the 240 Wee Ivy. bxeny I. Comever then gubmitted tha following reto viloos, which were adople: Resolved, That this society regards with groat interes: the overture trem tbe 8y104 of tue Free Presb) termn Rrotber SHAW, of Fulop, N B., Dot only deleved wo ou; L840 Lave a Bible vistributing Booiety, Dut also a A die publiebng tocwty, and Was tberelore in favor of the ong bal resorvbhow, Broher Conway, of Staten Island, spoke ip favor of miTeInK We Foceties ink One, a’ CoAdUE¥e Lo Lhe good ot them bow, A vole wag then taken ag to whether Brother Ban- varii's substitute smould be received as tho fuurta reso Jutien, aud i war carried, Ite as follows:— Birolved, That, in the opinion of this Couveation, the L membersdip was a dition! for Osnmber of years, and wis supped Lo bave been Auled at Troy, but bad bvoome wosettied within a year two poet, He believed mm the principle of reprenentation —ihe bread principle, But the brethren, im tiscussiog | the subject, Jost sight almost evtirely of tue real distiuc- | ton existing between legislative and executive represen tation, He went on at length to show that no body of de- | Jegates have power to represent, legislatively, the Baptist Chured, por bad ony Laptiet churcd power to legislate, T. wan #mply exeCUdve Teor: seDteLion, and Ubi, he Con- tenced, Dad always been a Bap ist priveiple, | Brother Weta looked upon it as a very difficult ques: tion, whep placed tp ite fan bearing, Mother GLENVILE spoke eloquently In favor of indivi- diya! represeptavon, ax the only true represen tatio: Rroner Wareroort said much bad been written and sald ab utehused sepreseptation, bot be bad pover heard a more extensive ape nerd explagavon than that this evaa- dew (Broth ft 8). Bot be dio pot re-olleet ever hear ing Detove that C@legates or mesaenvers from a church seat tee courell, convention OF sasemoly of God's people, @rre able to bind the churetes which kent them, Tt mbt de #o, but be dia not kuow at. What be wanted to oy Wae, that if the deiegates sent by a church to a mia- Pronary copvention Were to be understood to have the power to pind the church which get them, the courches vould be exceedingly caretul pot esly who tney sent, pybody, He urged siroogly nts option in favor of indivi: Dut wbetber tbey sent these views, and expresse du») repre sentetion Hyon er Puxcan, of Mase., was of opinion that the pro gent bags ofthe wiseiovary Union was one of the best JOFING 10 promote the interes a of the mivsions, and ho therefore thought they should hesitate vefore chang tog it Trother Conver epoke atrenuons gent havie, and marmtaiped bis wews at length, Poker Brektanp swa thet this was the most rodiea) qnertion mm the Jong digcusrion before them Tre object wae to change our missionary and be Hevolent organ zations Io Dadies composed by delog wee from the edurcher. The be met trow hfe J vot hold on the m nos of thore who wieh to carry the radicel movemeot throvgh. They shou'd do all in their power to oppose fuch @ resolution, which ho stigmatized as tyrannical, apd preceeded to offer the following substitute, which feewed to bim the only one which could be offered:— Resolved, That iv the judgment of the Convection the priveyple of sppnaily elected membership, which is nsed Lere as #} nopy mons with unnuel delegation, from enpport ipg churches, should be carried ont as far as can be con- fistently done with our general organtzations Home fortber discussion took place on thi in "he conrse of whicb Brewer Bricir Soubt the prirciple of annual delegation would sweep away eniirely the life membership principie; it was only a question of time. He preferred the resolution as original Jy offered, but of it were preferred as amended by Brotaer Bocriond be would not object. The voto was teken, when the reeolation was carried, in favor of the pre church of the United Beates, upon tae sun) of com MvL OD witb slaveholders, addreésed to the General As sembly of the Presbyterian cburch of the United xy soon to be convened at Wilmington, Delaware, aud we wait with deep avxiety the action of the Genoral assembly Upon that emmently Cbrisuan remonstrance, urging, as it Coes, a ceclaratory avbouvcement ibat bereafter slave holoirg shal bea bar to Christe communion ia their branch of the Preebytermn ebarch, Rreolved, Tost in tbe judgment of this cburch anti slevery s ciety, this is the specific action demanded by var commen Cbristiapny f om ail brapchee of the Coristiao ‘eburch wp our lend, and that to the lang uage of the important and able overture referred to iw the foregoiry resoiutiog, “tho performupce of this great duty at tbis line woaid tend greatly to 6 down the flood gates of ooe of the moet dangerous forms of wf elity which the world bas ever eeen—an wflvrlicy which Dumane and hherty jovtog men paturally fad tuto when they sve the vierble churc® wp league with asystem of oppression which their con- seit bees and ComMOD se. fe condemn. weaived furtber, That in the judgement of this society American slavery, if pot apeedily arrested in ita aaurpiog and demoranz Dg course by the deiiberats action of Aa ean churches, wil! paraly ze and beathenizo the Church of Chrvt ip the slave owing States, aud drive ite witorseiug members ipto the caves aud deus of the earth; aud o 78 prostra e and servile church 1t wilt proceed to the ruts of vpiep of be Americav and For ign Bible Society aud toe 4mrrican Baptist Puolcation Society, unser tbe direction of a boare of mupagera, to be located in Philadeipma, would be pro: uctive of eflicieney wad ecouomy tp the 1828 aud Ostrbution of the Sriptures and other eraaveiival pedi canons, and we recommend to these societies (9 coa- tider the quision of sich union, apd i, upon mature cope eration, tbe found practicable, that we do most carcesily advise tbe some. Aftcr prayer by Brother Post, the meeting took a recess sil 2 o'clock. AFTERNOON CONVENTION The Convention beng caiied to order at two o'clock, and prayer offered by Bro. Parker, Judge Curva made a motion to reconsider the fourth resolunon, It had been voted upow at the conclusion of a long and romewhat exeiting debate aud in a moment of much contusion, He alladed to the beautiful symmetry of the original resolubons, the character of which wouvd be utterly and entirely changed by taking out the fourth. Ge earnestly contended that the matter sboald be recon- sidered, It seemed to be imagined that the orject of the Convention was to kill ove or ather of tha pocieties; but tbo rea! object was to diminsh whe friction and increase the power. Bro Frarcee in opposition. Ho did not think ita fair hour to apyeal from the docision whieh had been a. rived at, and thus open the whole matter egam to debate, Bro. Cuvwen vio spoke against tt Bro Corny thongbt tbat the true voice of the Conven toy uren tbe real matter at issue had not been got, and wf they could be ali Seeembied together again, as th were When it Wostaken, he thongbt it woutd ve Very well to receneiser jt, but not as matters now stood, Ae thonght three fourths of the people would rejoice in u union if tt coutd Ne carried out, Brother ¥CCLay cousicered the resolution definite, and tbat it sbou'd not be reconsidered; i was the best mode Of Tr eetDg the w sbes of the Convention. Prot ber Tay Lox said the resolution could be nothing but milk ond water when it met the approval of uch men as ‘howe who met tis question with such bitterness at every | ont gf ae ee himrelf impeached, and the Cbair called Brotber Taylor to order, whea be apolog'zed, and contnved bis argument in favor of a reconsideratioa of the resolution cr LUNean said there were many brothers from down East who bad not the priviege of the five minutes’ | Fyoch, and he hoped the resolution would be recaa- | aicered Brotber Hacre wanted to koow what power bebiad ths it was that would be injured if this resolution pagetd. To whem were they to be abswerable for disturbing the Fyunetry of the Neolutions. He wonld crumble plece | by piece before he recognized any euch aectarian iotluence, | Ie would be witlng wth the principles on which this | Convention was founded to agsent to reconsider this Low The motion to corres without ¢ Bro her TayLok then moved an amendment to the re- goluvion. ‘Ibe (Hatem An eaid that no part of the amendment that bod been agreed to iw the fourth resolution could be strvck ont, but it could be added to, H This difficulty wus overcome by the amendment being Withdrawn, abd alter some further discussion tt was agreed to Jay the iatter part of the fourth resolution on the table. ‘The fifth resolution was then taken up, and spokev upon | by B other Jervneyvs, who thonght tteboutd be carefuily | considered before adopted. I the colportorage were to be vaneferred tothe Home Missionary Sociery, couid ‘hey perform eatisinctoriiy their own 1abors in conjuns ton With that of the colporterage. * He contended that bry could pot. Be went into an estimate of the labors | per ainizgto both missions, the amouat of labor per- Jormep, wba the expepoiteres of acu, showing that the Bapust colporuters accompliehed perbaps more than the Howe Mission at a cost of over a thousand dollars less. Ho thought that theee facts should be known before the question was met, Dr, Li, Secreiary of the Home Mission Society, rose to correct what mignt become a false impreseog. The tittionaries do a great ceat of work not ieluded in toe reports, and amongst these was the distribution of tracts ane regoua books, andeach book and tract distributor “as entitied to at least five thousand papers and tracts, a year from the American Tract Society, and most of ‘hem obtained them. ‘ibe religious books they obtained where they chore, but they dit obtain und distributed them A'l thege labors wore not recorded, as it was not required tbat they should be. our patoval hderties, by an oligarchy of slavenoidiog aristocrats, or by @ miliary detpotism io the service of slavery. Mr nvm etated that only a president and secretary yet been chosen for this arauch eociety It wa od at once to tbe oiect on of # trea #n execunve committee, Be would vow'n W Dg Dees pessous respectively for those o! Treasurer—Evgar Ketchum, Bq. Execuirve teemJobn Jay, Eeq, Avdrew, Morgan, Esq , Rov. Geld Freueby Dexter’ Fairbank, Bog yacd Lbmis W. Pap- pan, Esq The necting was then adjourned with a bened'ction. CONSOLIDATION CONVENTION OF BAPTisi SOCIETIFS. SECOND DaY 8 PROCEEDINGS. The proceedicgs were opened dy prayer by Rev. Dr. Cor- VER, after which the minutes of the firatday’s proceadings baying been read, the questioa on the fourth resoluuen Was taken up. Brother Avery, of North Cambridge, moved that the speeches should be limited to ten minutes’ duratioa, which Was unsnimonsiy carried. Rev. L Witper hoped that in its present form the amendment would not pass. He coogidered the ares mo tion more acceptable, If the American and Foreign By Society {8 to be married to the Pubhebiog Society, t seemed better to have an honorable marriage thua that it should go limb and limb to is Jover, He beheved the best proposition to unite it with the Publication Society; a8 to tho question of enlargement, it shouia be loft with the society. It might be necessary to baye two offisces— one here and one in Philadelpbia—yet they should bo.t be one society, He thought the two societies united, ander an efficient corps of managers, could carry on their work, Brother Eppy, of the First charch of this city, cxme bere with his miod uatramme'ed, although he be'leved be was more ip favor of unitiog two or more of the so- cleties, if 1t could be done with a view to economy bere: ter, Eeonomy tn the management was the o yject to b aimed at. If the American and Foreiga Bidie Society had no position they should not burthen it upoa another aoctety But was this the case? Who ever thonght of putting two bankrupt societies together, or of burthoning a gosod society with a bankrupt ose? Such a thing was never heard of in the common traasactions of hfe. fne only way be Baw to gevover it was, to say to the American ‘and Foreign Bible society—"Unlese you can manage the business as cheaply as individuals would, we cannot give you our support. We are wulng to let yoa alone, Ir ou can live as youare doing, do go; if not, why, then and let your piace be taken by somo one else.” Tae tet Baptist charch do not wish to spond one doliar for the uke of eayimg anoder, Brother GLaNviie urged that the idea of the two socie- ties being distin: was crroneous. He went om to show nsider was then put to the vote and oaition | i that they were Dot 80 in avy respect. Bother Buck Lann paid that the regolution recommend Brother Coss eid tuat bo hat retired from ail coonce. | ‘4 ¥as a ximple imporeibikty. Tho york. of evangeliza- Gon could not all be submitted to the Missiovary Uaioa. there were foreign porta which that Society could not ¢1 ter—such as Sweden. If the work is committed to tho Miseionery Umon, tt fs committed to a dungeon, and ho protested sgainst it. A Derecare said he imagined that other societios could ged their colpertenrs to sweden. i Brother Bucktaxp—If there is apy mistake, it is better to ascertain it before parging the resolution. | Rev. Dr. Pacx wished tocommunicate what he always understood to be the fact on this subject. He had not un- til yesterday beard that there was apy obatruction ia the Woy of the Missionary Union sending colporteurs to Swo. den and Norway. They bad had difiicuities in Germany | and Depinark as great agin Sweden and Norway. Ha- ving accomplishea #hat had been accompliehed, he knew tion with the aworican and Foreign Bible Boclety whea he Jouna that it com sixty-five cents to giveaway a doliar The Society was bora m a tempest, lived in a storm, end would pass away ia nstorm, but be nopea for@ great calm after it, Abe question was whether the agcieties should be united, and the almost unanimous reepouse Would be, Yes, let the two be one. “Whom God hath joined, lev no man put asunder.” Dr, Hayyn opposed the amendment and would fall back on the substituie, The sphere of each Soctety was dit- ferent, snd the American and Foreign Bible Society would ive in spite of all 0 the contrary, It should be gustainod as Dearing ihe very signature of God, * Brother Fretoy, of Oho, said that Gol never ex- pected that the Bible could not weather a storm, ard in the West it not only weathered the storm, t broke comm, tho widlcrness and reared. a | D0 Teason why the Miszionary Union cannot doso now. | pathway for God to walk ‘on, The object in coming | , Brother Beextann apked if some of the labors of thors | Ture was to invigorate the’ Bible, hot to, destrog. | Dtetbren thus sent forth had not been in contravention of | it, The Bible Society bad been flattering; is was dead | the laws of the iand. slready; not because it bad no friends, Das because the | _. DF. PkCK replied that although thelr brethren were ro- stricted from doing apy eervice inSwecen and Norway, | and obliged to reure or be imprisoned, it was not becaure | they were members of the Missionary Union. Brother Buexiasy—It was because the law of the land | was vgainst them, { ir, Prck—1 suppose it was not becavee they were | domg the work, but that they did not belong to the La. | theran church, } Tiother Swni deprecated the idea entertained by brother Buckiand, Brother Post ofiered an amendmont uniting the Misaion. | ary Union and the American Free Missionary society. | Ae alluded to the names of honore¢ men members of the | latter pociety, ue Beccher, Rose, Harris, Vinton, aud | ovbere. Tho rerolution made invidious distinctions be: twecn a rocicty etrictly speaking belonging to the de- nomination, and also fasied to exproes (he true basia oa viuch the’ Baptist mission organizations ought to bo | founded. Is tecmed to tum that the time had come when | the Baptists should Jet the world koow what they believe | op the subject of slavery, clearly and distinetly. | Brother Courcs taid, if it were possible for the Roptist , Genemination wo together in religion, none wouid ro- Joice more thon himself, and be did not'think thore was | anything to keep them apart; but his friend, brother | Post, might be inclised to puta little more anti alavery wto the matter than be would with ina miselo Boci- ty, He eympathized, however, with the idea, | © Rey. Brother Hina remarked that hore in the North | there wore two missionary rocieties trying to do in some menner the same work. “He was opposed to part of tho resolution, a# {t ignored tho best Baptist missionar: cociety now nnder the broad canopy of hoaven; he al: luded’to the Free Missionary xociety. He hoped it would het fo out that they thus ignored every other society. Hi Brother Bvcctann wowd move 28 an amendment, that | the work ehould be pertormed ag a8 practicable by | ono goclety. | osvenor then offered a tong preamble and } eburca of God throughout the extent of the world bad determine’ there must be a change, and toat it ean be as well united with the Publication Society as to be a distinct rociety. When thie was carried out the brethren through- ont the land would bo satiaded, but not before, Brether Cusnman thougbt that under ths excitoment they might do taat which y could not review with composure, The tife of toe Society was a fact, and be coulended that it would pot die. ‘He did not think the Soc ty should be dissolved tor a slight peocadiilo or even ra Krave fault in its adtinietration. Were this allowed to be the case, the Baptist principle will be brought dowa to @ ting which can soon be aot as: Under these cir- cumstances a far scoing poly should guide their course. There were wo many dividing opixions sireaty among them, He regirced the attachment of coiportage to the ¥ #8 An iDnOvation On the grounds & other gocietios, aod be would wish that it should condze itself to its own individual Beid. Trosident ANpmson, of Rochester University, moved a resolution in place of the fourth, setting forth wnat as there wae a lrgal difficuny preventing the merging, and ‘bat 8 ia the opiaton of the managers of the Publication ety, such a traosfer or removal would be injarious to both, the reeolution proposing the transfer should be Giemvaecd. He alluded to the value of the proporty of the reciely, Bud said that accordimg to the records it had cost & litle over $149,000, and that one gentleman had ao rn of $160,L00 a it. Ht ot viber Trion protested against the charge of apy coutermpletion of annihilating tho society. Brother H. C. Frit, of Newark, had malatained ellence Bp to tb'a polntin the hope of obtaining zome light, He had ‘been ptrongly iaviined for consolidation, and would go for it W Coorg wore certain coud: Lona. If it were shown that the Pubbcation Society would recerve the Bible Society with Open artis, be woul. give bis ald to the undertaking. The Bible Society bad beea doweribed as dofanct, a dead car- cane, which did no’ speak much tor the sy pathy it would receive {row the Publication Society; aad in this vlow, if (hore be even colapegs on the part of the Publication So- ciety, be would provst acuinst the marriags, ff it waa inteaied Wo kill Lhe Society, co it fuiriy—do it fairly, and Brother G rogolntion, which wee not accepted, Brother Convex objected to the amendmont of brother | Port, and spoke at length in dlafavor of tt. { ‘The © xth resolution was then passed with the araend- bot like a phako in the grou. if, undor tae present ma. | ment of brother Buckland and a etight amendment in the | paceman hk 92 ead, why 2 pak ara | ee a ae as coated thw, sgh | H Tab ih be Toad she ag sizozed. : Feconstrueted, bub not da |, cenement to ie opening ater whoa | + was offered by brouber tion | ovrned, pr hraseo! Borne, and tho Cony EVENING SESSIO 3 | 7c Convention assembled nt half past seven », Mf, and | after prayer by Brother Smith, the seventh resolution was ogain taken up. Brother Buckranp, called attention toa discrepancy tu the series Of resolutions, it rceming to him. that tho oventh was in direct conflict with the second, Fyotber Post said he bad something to say on the sub- ject of representation, which he presumed this resolution prolved. She wubjcct bad beon discussed, more or has, Brotur Bowwoaru, of Malve, enough cf perecnal matter, amd it were Drought 1 the weue. Tiotber Utmewny, of Puiledelphia, caid that the interosis lavolved were gimve god (ar rcacuing, and he thought none of the pubetituies Ww the regolulion would moet the case, Flo thought there migut bo a united or- gouivation without the anuidilatioa of either. The Boord of Publication kiood ready to do we feevic® A the brethren as tar ag they could, and when they condd not do #0, bo wbdteate Uae pinces. | (ay mproma Mf apniause ) He repetied the idea of wishing to do away wilt {Ge Americna Sibie Society; on tbe contrary, Uiey wiobed 1 prererve them as an origwas organtzabon, Mr, Angerson'g Yervintion placed ipeuperable pbjechoos ght wo bad bad ao time our minds the substitute being lost. Brotner Jerrreys then read the eight! ation, and mace sp amenoment to strike ont the tist clauses, which wos carried, and the retolution passed as followe:— Reeoived, That im the opinion of this society special care should be taken to encourage the churenes to adopt aystemiatic and ober meusures of collection, so a8 to giudvally, aud at length wholly, supersede the empioy- ment of collecting agente. ‘The Dipth reaviution was then read, when it was moved to rubsutute the word “weekly” instead of “monthly,” (relerripg to a miesionery publication,) and after some Giecutsion the resolution was |#id on iho tabie. The tenth retoluion was passed, with an amendment thata delegation of three be appointed to communicate toe resolutions to the American Foreign Bible Society, the Amerian Baptist Home Mission Society, the American Baptist Publication Society, and the AmerianjBaptuist Mis- siopary Union. Brother Post offered @ rerolution that the members of the Convention should express their opinion and that of their chosches ppon the anti-slavery question, which ro- solution was tabled Brother Jxvrueys moved the following resolution, — Resolved, That we cordielly commend the effort of the Awerican Baptist Publication Society, or of the American Foreign Bible and Podlication Society—should the union be formed—to gecore such an eplarged capital, for pub. hebeng purpores as wail enable them to provide a Bapust Iitera1ure, such in variety and quantity as this great and growing Cepominstion demand Sang some discuseion and offers of amendment this was tabled. A vote of thanks to the Oliver street church for the vee of its rooms, and aleo to tho chairman and other officers, were passed, and after some other minor regolu- tione were laid on the tables, the minutes were read over aud the Convention declarea at an end, UNIVERSALIST SUNDAY SCHOOL UELEBRA- TION— POSTPONEMENT. The celebration of tho Universaliat Sunday Schoo's of New York and vicinity, which was to bave taken place at Dr. Chapin’s church yesterday afternoon, at half past two o'clock, was postponed oa accountof the rain. It will take place the firet pleasant day- REPORTS OF ANNIVERSARIES DEFERRED. Owing to the press of matter upon our columns we are compelled to defer the publication of in- teresting reports of the proceedings of the Ameri- can Temperance Union, the American Home Missionary Society, the Young Men’s Christian Union, the Associated Alumni of the Union Theolo” gical Seminary of New York, the American Society for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews, the National Reformatory Convention, the African | Civilization Society, and the American Baptist | Mariners’ Society. PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK. Tuurspay, May bz. American Bille Sucuty —Anniversary inthe Academy of music, at 10 o'clock AM. The meeting for the transac ‘on of business will be bel2 in the Bible House at 9 o'clock | aM American Tract Society of Boston —Church of the Puri- | taps, Luion equare, ut 10 o’ciock A. M. New York Inswtuom for the Deaf and Dumb.—Exhibi- | binon im the Ackdemy of Music, at 4 o'clock P. M. Five Pounts House of Industry (afr, Pease’s).—Acadomy Of Muric, at 745 o'clock P. bt. American Congregaswonal Union Collation.—City Arsem- bly Koome, roadway, av 73; o'clock P. M. National Weman’s Lights Convention.—Mozart Hall, Browaway, at73, P.M. American Foreign Bible Society —South Baptist church, Twenty fitih street, near Kigith avenue, at 10 A. M.; the tunval sermon at 74, P. BL. Young Men's Christian Union —Church of the Meesiah, 728 Broadway. Fray, May 13. American Board of Ovmmissioners for Foreign Mis- sions.—Al the Academy of Biusic, at 10 A. M. Young Sten’s Christian Union Coliaion.—at Dodworth’s Ball, evening. Bopliss Home Mission Society Calvary church, Twon- ty-third strect, between Pith and Sixth avenues, at 103, A.M. To continue threo days. Sarvnnay, May 14, e Roptist Historical Society.—Lavernacle church, Second Avenne, at 7 P.M. Monpay, May 16. Baptist Publication Socwty.—abernacie ckurch. Busi Ress meeting, at 10 A. M, . Turspay, May 17. Board of Manoyurs of the Baptist Missionary Union.—- First Baptist church, Broome airest, at 10 A. Sl. 4 is Prgpgeicnrsl May 10. mer ican Mist Missionary Union.—Firet Bay chureb, at 1035 A. M. 4 iS Colvred Home.— At the chapel of the instiintion ib Sixty- | ith street, near First avenue, THvRsDAy, May 26, Piles Colored Friends —At the institution in Simty-fifth Ceroners’ Inquesta. Tue Bucpe ar mk Larancs Hovsg.—An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Jackman upon tho body of Benjamin Simmons, the young man who comm.tted sui- | cide at the Lafarge House, ae announced in yesterday’s Heratp. Deeensed, it appeared, had recently returned from the South, where ho had been acting in the capacity Of travelling agent for his brother, Mr. Josoph Simmons, of this city, On Tuesday deceneod complained of being unwell, avd requested the proprietor of tbe hotel to have his meals eent to his room. Deceased’s brother vicited him that evening, aod converged with him on business matters until haif past ten o’ciock. The next morning deceased war found dead in his bed. A post mortem examination of the body, made .°Y Dra, Boueh aud Eilis, thowed that death had been caus by taking laudaunm, and a verdict to that effect was rendered by the jury Simmons was twenty years of age, and was a native of England. No cause, save ili health, could be ascribed for the commission of the razh act, Svrresxp Invanncipe.—Corover Jackman also held an inquest at No. 206 Fast Thirty-fiith street, upon tho body ofa mate infant, which was found dead in the privy at- tached to the above premises. Tho child appoarod to have been about two months old, but decomposition had | advanced so far that the doctors wore unable to say Whether death had been the result of violeuce or not. The jury, however, wore inclined to believe that violence had been resorted te, and rendered the following verdict accordingly :—‘‘Death from causes unknown, but we be- jeve from suffocation.” Fouxn Dnowsxp.—The body of an unknown woman, in 4 decomposed condition, was found flouting in tho Hast river, near pior 19, yesterday. Coroner O'Keefo held an iLqueet upon the body, and sent it up to the Bellevuc dead house for identification, ‘United States Commisstoncr’s Court. Before Keanoth G. White, Baq. THE LATE POST OFFICE ROBBERY. Mar ll.—The United States vs. John Henry.—Th3 de- fendant is the young man who was arrested by tho ’em Office Agent on a charge of stealing Jetters containing erafte, & Ho is very respeotably connected. By the advieo of his counsel the aocused waived examination, and was beld to bail in the eum of $2,600. Betore Joseph Bridgham, Faq. The United States vs. James Pelliter and fire others.— The deferdants wore Feataed on boardah'p Weather Gago, and wero sent hotoe from Pernambuco by the Araerivan Consul, charged with sn attempt to revolt and routiny, After exatninetion the Comasiesioner committed thein for trial. St a For Piry’s Peax.—On the 26th and 27th of Aprit, over ope bundred wasors leit Omaya Cty, Nebrae- ka, en voute for Pike's Peat, and two hundrad ana thitty one camps were lelt Dehiud, ty jyroceed at w later day, Commissioness of Eanigration, The regular meeting of ibe Comm ssiovers of Emigra- tion was held last evening at Castle Garten, Tho weekly return ebowed the number of em'grants lonoed during the week to be 4,007, making the number since January 1, 16,201, The overdraft has been reduced to $11,400, Ap invitation wes received from Captain Pillsbury in- viting the Commissioners vo bold thar next meeting at | Ward's Island, and it was accepted, ‘Ihe form Of the contract for the renting of Castle Gardew by the New York and Erie and the New York Centra? Rail | voads, at 41,000 per month, was subm ted to the Board. and died, | Commissioner JELINGHAUS presented bia moinority report | Of the committes approved to conser the sonjedt of tne | lanoing of emgeane ato He ovates hie | rebeors Jor QseeDtRg WALD the views of the other maar | bekor the commmee to be that their report did not | rerder the Commissioners responsible Tor ths oxegage Of emerente While 1b Wak under Loeir charge, although I Ceprived the emigrant of wf control over Ik, and that JE 010 LOL go a BiDEIe Keep Lowards Dresking mp toe boo. Ie FYelew Carried ON 10 sO Ereat an exient by the New York avd Erie and the New York Central Railroads, Tbe by b bot system Is Khown 10 be a DOIReHOF, FUNDONB YO he emigrant, und disapproved of by Various governments Of Europe, ano ail Who Kew 1a operavoa fae report secod MeBOEd that tbe wa seoners shoal bold bben~ Be Ves FeRpODSIDIC Lo Lhe am untor $90 for every truck | whic wat mr8i0g While under Abel care, provided the | topk was worth tbat mace or more — It also condemned | the majonty’s report ior enverog into coutranta for for- | woroig cwigrante to the country wita the New York and | Je apd the New York Cebtral rastroasa, thereby endors+ | ing, ietend of concemping, the thro | (muoton, ihe re War places on che minutes, ihe Jollowmpg resolution authorizing the Viee President: fihe Bouro w call upon tho Quaranune Comnmesioners,, a Urge them 10 AOL early Measures as wonld make | bem prepared te receive yellow lever patients, was offer 10 and adopted. Resolved, Toat in view of the approsebing season for the appearance of yellow fever ot Quarantice, usaally japded from vessels arriving trom tbe West lodes aod South american ports, thet the View President be reqieet- | e0 10 cal! on the Quarantine Commmasioners and urge upon bem the importance of making early preparanons tw receive Ech Classes of patient ‘The subjoped resoiuuon was also adopted, after which, the Boaro udjourned. Resorved, That tbe Superintendent of the Emigraut Depot be airected vo is#ve Douce to the Copsigaces OF pas- SeDger Vessels &8 LO Ihe provisions of Kection 8, Of CbapLer 414, of tbe by-laws of 1005, a8 amended by the 6th Bec- top of chapter 579 of the laws of 1857, will be enforced |} Ov ovo after the 15th ipst., 80 that the expense incurred im Jendiwe emigrant persengers und rue persoaal bag- eRe AL the Jandiwg depot sbali be borne by we vessel having such peasengers on bosrd, ‘The meetpg of the Commissioners was totally void of debate ou aby question. Opening of the Meoragua Route—The Cali fornia Mast Services [From the Washington Star, May 10.) ‘Tbe Caliornia occsnwasd mail contract was declared of yesteraay afternoon to Daniel F. Johoson, of New York. Tiis bid Jor the nine months’ semi-montnly ser- ¥ce to be contracted for was $162 0V0—being a saving at the sate of $679,187 40 for a hike period of time, whon compared with the rates now being puid for a sunilar ser- vice by the Panama route, ‘The coLvsummMation Of Wis contract reflects great credit on the bead of the department. We bave compiied tbe following synopsis of the bids offered for this service from iuformauon derived from va- T10U6 BOUrces, Principaily trom New Yorkers, whence atl | the tencers were made. The bids were all for seat- monthly wipe, both waye:— By Wm. OC, Barney—Krom New York, New Orleans and Sevepoab, via Bavena, $237 600. Fiom Kew York and New Orleans, via Key West, $215 0.0. Frou New York avd New Or'eans direct, $268,200, ii Frem New York and New Orleans, via Havana, $143, 00, All the above bids contemplate running by the Nicara- gua route, ‘orpehus Vanderbilt is believed to bave bid—from Now Ori ens via Panama (exclusive of the lethmus transit) tur $155, 00; and from New York via Panama (exciusive of tbe Issbmus transit) for $37,600, 1s 18 said that he coupico these iis With 2 Cunduion that if opening the Nicaragua route bimeeif, be sboula bave tue privilege of persor ining the ker vice over it; and in case bis New York. bid should be accepted, then be was to receive $37,000 adoitional for the Jstbinus trapeit, He asked mothing ad- ition! Jor that transit Ber Vice in case of Lae acceptance Of bis New Orleans bid. Tbe Louis'ana Tehuantepec Company are said to have bico—From New Orieaps to Ventosa bay, $210,000; from New Orleens to Acapuico, $420 000, Mr. Daviet F. Jobueon, of New York, bid—From New ‘York ana New Orlcaos, via Key Weat, 6162,000, Toe Panoma Railroad Company and tbe Pacific Mail Steamshiv Company are faid to bave bd copjondy—From New York t San Francisco via Panama, $119,000, It is algo Ftated tbat in the bic of the Tebountepec Com. Pedy it Was understood that the Pacifs Mat Siamsnip Company were to trapeport the mails euber trom Acapuloo ‘or Ventosa, without charge to the government, receiving their pay 110m the company. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. AMERICAN ATLANTIC AND Pactric SinP OaNAL COMPANY. New York, May. 11, 1859. An article having appeared in this moroing’s Heri, setting torth that * the contract for carrying the maa fermi monthly, between New York and San Francisco aod New Orleans and Sun Francieco, for a porod of nine mouths, from the Ist October tothe Ist July next, bag been awardred by the Post Office Departinent to Me, Danel H. Joboson, of this city—who represents the Nica- Togua Tetbmve route interest.” C have coemed it my duty publicly to announce that as far as this Company is concerned no offer or bid has been tmace directly or ind rectly by its authority or with its knowledge of coasent for the seid mail eervice, aud that tne said Jobnsoa haa 2O connection whatever with this Company nor any authority derived from . YELVERTON, President. JOH. Army Tnteliye: ‘The following wasiguments to duty of offivers of the Medical Depariment have been directed by the Secretary of War:— 1, Surgeon W.S. King, to be retieved from duty inthe Department of Texas, and directed to proveed to the headquarters of the Department of Uiab, via Fort Loa Venworth, for service a8 Medical Diroowr, Assistant Surgeon KE. J. Bailey, uow on duty at Fort Columbus, N. Y,, is directed to proceed witn tne reoruita Gettined for New Mexico. 3. Surgeon D.C. Deleon, now on duty in the Denart- ment of New Mexico, wiil repair to the Gty of New York and report by letter to tbe Surgeou General. 4, Astistant Surgeon G. Taylor, now on leave of ab- sence, to accompany recruits to be gent to te Depart- menie of the Plate and Utan, f Aseietant Surgeon W. JL. Engle, néw on duty at Fort Moultrie, $. C., to report for duty to the commanding ofiicer of the depariment of Texas, A‘sistont Surgeon J. Letterman, now on duty at Fort Monroe, Va., to report in person to the Surgeou General at Warhington city. A Pourd of offivers ig ordered by the War Department to convene at the Wasbingion arsenal, District Columbia, for the purpose of examining a firearm invented by Mr. Alexander LeMat, the Hoard copsinting of the foliewing: officers :—-Tieut. Col. J. E. Johneov, First cavairy; Brevet Major G. D. Remeay und Captam '¥. 'f, § Lesley, Orde nance Departroent. They will make % report on the merits of this weapon, Brevet Msjor Belger, Quartermaster’s Department, has: been relected by tho War Department for the purpose of purchasing horses for the mounted servi A cetail of four lieuvcpauts, four sery ean's, foar y= rals and one bundred privat to be equally divided into four detacbments, will be selected, by tbe General com- manding toe Department of Texas, Trom tuo Second regi- ment of Cavalry for this purpose, and will be ordered to proceed to Fort Smith, Arkansas, bere to await further instructions. The recruits which leave here jo a fow days will num- ber nearly pine hundred men, and wiil be conducted by sixty two commissiones officers. They will rendezvous as Fort Columbus, Carlisie and Newport Barracks, and concentrate al Fort Leavenworth by tho 0h of Jay next, when the several detactments will take up ther lina march for their reapective regiments now serving in the far Weet. A leave of absence for eieht months has been granted tw Colonel G. Loomis, Fifth tufantry, b DOK ny By ave, which Was very voluminous, City Inteligenes. Tox Wearuen.--The weather continued quite cool and stormy throughout yesterday, the wind blowing a stroag gale from tho northeast during thattims. Tae rain wag welcome, however, ar it washed away t Rome extent tha accumulations of filth and stagnant water from oar streets, and did more actual good in twonty-four hours than the whole City Inspector's department had done tor the past year. The nostheast wind apd the rain combined. cauted the river to rise to an unusual height, and the cel- larg on Wert and South sireets were overtiowed, and Frome couside) able damage was the result. EXCATE OF CNAUNCEY JoUNSON FROM SING SING Prisoy.— Late last evening Acting General Superiatendeut Carpenter reesived a deepatch from Sing Sing, stating that the noto- riovs Chauncey Johnson bad made his e&cape from the. Blato prison about dark, and wus presumed w be on ba way to this city. The police were notified, and it is pro- sumed be will soon be captured. Johnson is well knowa ag 8 bank robber, and was serving out 4 Lerm of five years. p burglary jbaving grr ee a yes in Chambers strovt,, when ho was captur, just as was making off with. about $6,000 worth of silks. ° - PaRave oF THe SkvaNTY Huet Recinet.—Tho Seventy ~ firat regiment, Americam Guard, Colonel A. 8. Voaburgh, wil parade today in fatigue drees, and ft to thi Elyelan Ficlde, Hoboken, for tleld exercicns Tne ting wile be formed in Broome strcot at eight o' slosk. Dearr or Miss Frutatan,—The youog lady, Miss Fres- man, who was stabbod a few daya ago by her lover, named John Joyce, in the Fourth ward, died about seven. o'clock last evening at the New York Mospital. Joven, it. wil) be reruembored, became enregod because the mother cf Mies Freeman retared to permit bim to wed hor Cavphter, snd in revenge eeizod a pait of scissors and stabbed stirs Freeman several times in tho broast. She was itnmediately conveyel to the ‘eine tel whore sho has been et until last evening, when death put an end to her sufferings. Joyoe has been locked up m the | Tombs ever since. An Snqnest will be hold to-day, | Fue wy Lavras Sruexr.—About nine o’clook last night | 4 fire broke out in the frame dwelling bonse, 177 Laurens: street, ocenpied by Joreph Read. The fire originated in | the bedroom, and before the flames ware extioguished the entire contente of the room were destroyed, The Joss will ‘be about $250; no insurance. Tae building is owned bY Wiutisre Comphell: it 1s damaged about $50, and it insured in the Colon bia Ineurance Company for ® Tha in- | s.roneo patrol found a gold watch and chain among tho ) buraed bedding, and restored it to Mrs. Reod, the owner. qpieiemeeneieermineeet everen