The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1860, Page 4

Would the American slaveholder wish to be & ! THE CHEEVER TROUBLES. cov venttseu tosses Amother Demonstration iu Scotiand— American Slavery Viewed from the Béotch Palpit—What they Think ef mary rd Beecher and American a = mo wore comvineteg OF Woe humbIny proof than the fact that ally—che Amer Church of the Puritans, &ec., dec. ‘The troubles of the Rev. Dr. Cheever are spreading. They form a part of the anxious solicitude of the Sootch ebureh, aad during the last two eveniugs, they have | Gronted the usual excitement in the bosom of the Church of tho Puritans itself, up in Union square. There was @ public meoting in behalf of tho Rev. De. Cheever, im Merchants’ Hall, Glasgow, Soot land, on Monday, March 19. A large aud. tufluemtial fgudionce attended, and was presided over by Baile | aye ‘After the waza) introductory exorcises, and « brief ad- Greas by the Chairman, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, of the Free Chsroh, rose and sald:— SPEECH OP REV. DR, BUCHANAN, ‘The resolution which | have beom requested te sulmit to ibis meeting ts in the folowing lerms:— ‘Thum meeting is solomaly convinced that American lmvery Socie- tleeThe Troubics im the Bosom of the NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1860.—TRIPLH SHERT. beng overyewhero radically the same, like infusness witt give birth to ike’ resnlte all over te wurin Trddence, smprovidence, tm rimunes, erud'y, imp sty, Gte wine (f the rank yrowihs which the sytem foste'a in tne Rear: and iife of tae slavchoider It Lbunts Ol the bebier fetiings of hts noture; tea his moral seme; if drive lamper even wih the integry of the Word of Gd. be tush of (his paio ul Staioment, what could be a it bas oriven is A) VOCaKe and Upholders im Amerios io have recourse W theories, both tn meraleand religion, of the wicrst apc moat exavagapt Kind. Waost ass given cuch power and currepoy there’ to spequistiens cen) tog the anity of the buman race, aad thereby wad verlag (be autner ity @f Scripture, and the whole solome of redemption, but just the dire necewaity of fladiog some plea, bowever desperate, to excuse the enormity of 129 siavebcl ing syetem? What butthe blinding aad cor. Tupaeg foiluence ot that syatem la it which tempis oven the free States of America te go on frem year to yoar, staining all the ghry a Droir noble struggle fo" natioual in: indence, by en and evforciny jtine slave lows sels net be Weveiod én the mows Pincers nations of Dovomests among currence? Why does the white population of the Souk erm States ever and ana Mtaolf to be living as it were in tho crater of a volcano? Thee horribte pants, slavery Is conurery to the word of God, degraces the | and the crucl coercire Daaaura lo sich Hey comanually oral and reiigious principles of the slavebolaer, wrongs ead corrupts the ensaved, ana te tnjarious to.8ll’ the po itioal, social and coonomical interests of the State.’’ Bolore addressing myself te the eurject of the reso. | tution 1 with it to be distin Nlataeel tone Lore not | bere to vilify America. it were the design of this ure the question which has brougut us cocasion for osating stones at 4 grost &nd noble country, 1 could have takea no part in such I admire the ! i moe aad enterprise, and boundless acuvity Bi eaenena tie nations of the earth. (Rene cheers.) Ase Chrisdan mioistor I feel dveply grateful for the invaiuabie services which its press has reaered to almost every branch of theological literature, aud whioh {ts missions have rendered, in aimost every part of th rid, to tho cause of the gospel. Nay, asoas of the ‘Anglo Saxon race—as beidg of the same liacage and Jan- of the Americah people—I have ever beea acous- ftomed to enufy their interests amd their bouor @ita our own. (Cheers) Nothing, therefore, coula be more Strongly opposed to ail the impulses of my heart thea to utter s ingle word Otted to excite harsh thoughts or ua- Kindly feeunge towards America. Isis my deeply eolonn conviction that whatever Dreeus discord betweea Brita and America, breeds danger not only to the best interests of these two mighty empires themselves, but to the bess interests of (reedom, ot Bumanity, of religion, all over the thus presumed to say in the outsst if, Lam well agsurea that [ may, word, What I hay Of this meeting kK oy | wih qual confidence, venture to say for every individual is. (Cheers) Instead of its betag bo- re not Amerioa, it is, Om the very covirary, because we 00 love it, that we are this day to lift ap our most earnes: protest and remonstrance agains} American | slavery. Im uawg that sad expression, “American sia- very,” Lbave specified the subject of my rerolution. It is upon that dark and dictresaing subject that I have now | to epeak. With tus resolution tu my band, I am here in the character of an avovser of American slavery. Tao Tesolution constitutes the indictment which the callers of th's public mecting have deliberately framed agaiost tnas syetem of human Oppression. If Inave had any d@iffoulty in undertaking to plead the case which this in- dictment raiacs, ft bes not been from any coubt as to tae truth of its averments, but solely from the sense 1 have of my incompetency to do justios, and especiatiy wiiula the limits to which I must confine myself, to questions of Buch weight and magnitude as those which my resolatioa embrace. Four separate aud specific charges are here Drought agsinat American tlavery—charges, any one of which were enough conclusively to coadema it, bat which, taken together, cannot be made good without branding it, in the judgment of every diepscsionate mind, with infamy and abhorrence. My resolution aflirms American slavery, first, that it ‘‘te contrary to the word of Ged; second, “that it degrades the moral and religious principles of the siavebolder;"’ third, that ‘‘it wroags and Corrupts the enslaved ;’’ and last, that ‘it is injurious to ‘all the political, and ecosomical interests of the Btate.”” 1 believe it witl meed litte argument or evideace to satisfy this meeting that the Sret of these charges is the fundamental one. Whatever is contrary to God’s word—ooatrary, that is, to the mind and will of that righteous Lord who loveth righteousness and hatoth , Must needs be contrary t0 all the best interestsof man. question is, docs American siavery violate that lew? In otber words, is American gg Hy oppasition essential principles of tl relig' to the great Jeaua Christ? 1 feel] almost asbamea at the very putting of such a question. Cts hear.) It is surely both a bling faot thas it should have to be put stian era, (Cheers.) What Ameri ?—and what, on the other law of the Gcspel of God our Saviour? Place wa side by side, Look now at the one and the other, and say whether reason, conscience, humanity, do not ery aloud that not more opposed is light to darkness—that not more o. law of the basest mi tyre u z i f g E 5 F their parenta’ eyes—which wamples all domestic ties and domestic a , whether conjugal or parental, in the (Choers.) It is an insult equally to reason and to affirm that such a system is or can be othar- | eternally and irreconcilavly opposed to the arty ee For my part I have no patience to i 4 gsea abe as PRFO slavery. And es regards the fuilor and more perfect | God, the Gospel, under which it is our priviloge to live, one knows not how to acal with those who dare Ferr: », 10 drag ft into the Witness box for the purposes of making | gerte:— Ye, “Peak approvingly of a system which its whole gealag “,_ ‘pirit emphatically reprobato and coadema. It is >, “fling with the question to split hair preohd Of ® Greek werd, or to twist and main ci les who might be under the yoke of heat! Prete intos i pole ek ‘tutions, however unjust or oppressive. That would have b ‘sge, for Christianity t More efficacious methou of imculcating principles sd embraced, would in. aod introduce whetber political, social ‘od kingtom which is ness aud peace aad Vine fouader of the hs they ‘wore understoot am * evitably reform those ina, pa im ali the rejations of human fe, os Comentis, the reigu cf that bee. ‘pot meas snd ne Wot te Joy in the Holy Ghost.”’ Christ, the ts ki Gospel, tanght us tho golden Tule of. uo aso na. "Ty bes not been able to eradicate this sentiment from Belial, than the law of the Gospel, which is the @f love, is oppored to the Bis of Aenatioms Seroey, ‘The law of argue oe , With any mae who has the hardinood the contrary proposition. It ta dotog gross in- | lead, tell a tale not to Le misunderitoud as to the sense wh the slaves themselos have of their deep and vilter wronga Bat even if it were other wise—oven if tuey wore as sat- isQed with sheir concitivm a6 the friends of the slave s: tem would have it believed that they are, what would it prove but this, that slavery bad ai longth succeeded, by ite debasing and brutalizing power, in rooting out of them that decpcet, mobieet, instioot of humanity, the sense right, the apirit of imdepeadence, the love of liberty? Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting Ufe ita lustre wad portume, And we are weeds witbout it (Much applause.) Thank Goi that even American sia ® 2 bosom of the negro. (Renewed applause.) Much as it bas done to darken his iateliect aud to deprave bis heart, be still knows and feels that he is a man, aad in the very recoil of bis mature from the yoko that waighs him Gown, there ia the hope and the earnest of that nobler condition to which he shall yet rise, when the day of hig deliverance shall come,aad whea God shall undo his beavy burdens and bid the oppressed go free. (Cheera.) ‘There is still avotber charge against American siavory embraced jo my resolutiou. It proclaims thet system to be “<pjurious to all the political,tccial, and eoonomicel iater. este of the state.”” Oa this branch ot the sudject, how- ever, important and interesting though it be, it is not my intention toeniarge. I most fi miy believe ibatin every one of the departments now specified siavory is workin; deep end deadly mischiof to the American mation au people. At the same timo, what concerns their political, social, and economical i be considered as delen, ing already, however, ceait with thie question, higher grounds of morality apd religion, Iam nx dis- powed to take up the controversy on the lower piatform of these considerations which are of a merely material, social cr political kind This only will I eay—and no intelligent Awerican who is not bimse!f persomally interested im the siave system will deny it—thas slavery ts mot merely there proach ,Lut the p-ril of the American nation It is emphatical- ly the gore piace of their body politic. It endangersand will ocnunue uncessingly to endanger, so long as it is upheld, every great interest of the Siate. It diaurbs the peace of familice, it agitates aud inflames tho public mind, 1 keeps ome-balf of country im Gerce conflict witm the other, is ameetties the very foundations of the repablio ; it ws the most formidable hindrance to the peiens spam Perity in peace, and could mot (sil te prove its doadli enemy in war. Ifwe wished ill to America we should wish nothing so much as thet it should cling to this atrocious institution. Slavery isthe wedge of gold and the Babylonmh garment that is troubling tue whole camp of tho United States; for verily thoro isa God that judgeth im the earth. ‘if thou seest the oppree- the poor sud violent porverting of justice and judgment im @ province, marvel not at ths, for ho that is her tham the highest regardeth, and there be than they.” Those Americans ove the best and trusit friends of their country who spare no arrous om this momentous subject; whe wil neither be bribed nor coerced into silence re- gar it. inetlaos Die ienaaae 208s an tence and Jouhyud men. I have read his book, “ God agi Blavery,’’ and if the powerful and eloquent discourses whieh it contains bea apectmen of his mode of han: this great sul » I camesy nothing less than bid him God speed. Tn’ y are full of “thoughts that breatho and word, that bern.’’ He deserves the sympathy of every crind @f lake minded men. (Groas applause.) STATEMENT OF DB. CUKRVER'S CASE BY RAY, HENRY BATOR- LOR, ‘The Rev. Hevry Ratcurior, Indepeadent church, moved the second resolution, which was to the following effost:— “While appreciating the great service rendered by the ny =r prs 17 niece plicit; Cb ate cal meeting ‘com very, ter of the churetes Mom was to tho following effect: — : With « resolution Like this in my band it would be high- ly improper to pronounce an oration. I confees that the first impulse of every unblinded and unoorrupted heart torrent of wrath on the whole ts to pour a A on susie of slavery. Indeed it is impossible to speak in a direct ad. reas on this subject without to the eloquence of pity and and shame. im the manly ‘and nervous cloquence to which you have listened from my roverend predecessors today. But my rosolution chains me to & speech of facts. resolution expresses * ot reat services rendered by the Am- ‘the common cause of the Gos,el. ee Bachanan it will mot be ne- Cemsary to cnlarge om portion of the r: ex- cept tosay that this statoment wes framed lo faith , and is now reiterated with cordial sin: resolu- oan 31 deeply laments the complicity of, the Amerioan yurches wi very. foliowing are ° de the Trotestan! yal lence :— Amongst 't Epiecopaliaas thi 8 ola awongst the Presbyterians, 77,000; oe Depts, the Methods, i ' Fae ameong't the 9,563; Here you hat a total of 600,568 6080 sarees ve ® gran: van, owned as goods and chattels ty ine wie ae membars of the profe church. Here shouki be mentioned the fact that the following great religious societies refuse to treat slavebolding aa a sin:—The American Board of Commis- stoners for Fore'gn Missions; American Home Missionary Society; American Bible Society; Amorican Biptiat Mia | Slonary Union; American Baptist Some Missionary So- ciety; American Baptist Publication Bible ‘Union; American aad Foreiga Biblo ‘Amt cam Tract Society; American Sua¢ay Sohool n; the Missionary Seolstics of the | Protestant Methodist; to the imperfect economy of Judaism, to Jara to_ mitigate the op- | | ieters, he continues, bout the | eaticls istort the | * mpoatles or cvangélists, adaressed to those ae | innocent and lawful relation, | or he nen Br a fee wife, or avy othor lawful relation | of eociety. that it ts consistent with the most (rater- which, In proportion as | Dal regard for the good of the slave. 3. That masters | ovght not to be dis. Ipline { for aelling slaves without (the | sMipof the church, ‘The Rev. H. W. Beeober, in “his Har. | pers J RermoM, preached ou Ostober’ 30, beta ere # no Church, "that I have ever *mawn in the South that bears KeoNevony against these things 3 min. at-preach liberty to the Gap tive, they oughta; leastto Piteeh tho indispensible no- we. If they ~ili not call upon the masters to set their slaves free, they should at least proclaim Christianity that’ protects women, Divine sanction for that iniquitous system | chijdhood ligiou M the method of the Gaepel directly te | cl 100: apd household. The religious bodies in the South, in conferences, presbyteries and | arcocations bave, in different laces, ven only to create eatite of things | the. following conéluslons: Pal nlavicy Seen ve be possible, In such an under which it woula live. Tho inflaitely wiser aad ‘ which it pursucd was that ‘First, ‘That slavery is an aa much as that of parent slaves’) consent, 4 Thattho right to buy, sell, and hol men for purpescs of gain was given by express permision of Got. 5. That the lawa which forbid the education of he slave are right, and mect the approbation of the re- j¢ { fleeting part of tho Christian community. 6. That tho | fect of slavery is nota question of morals at all, batis | purely one of economy. 7. The right of masters whatsoever we would that others shovlt ‘ilo with al moat do the same unto them. Ia it compa in ianee? | toidlapose of the timo of their elaves bag beon distinctly role to establish and enforce the law of Anses 8 treats his slave?—to be deprived of his civil am liberty—to be driven to his work by the phasem sion of tbe cart whip—to be denied the wages of \ industry—to be lea out to the market, stripped, hm of redrese—would any alaveholier, Task, ventare to firm that in upholding a system which allows all this to | ‘ated as ho \porsonal | ‘That, without a new revelation from heaven, no man is oe | entitled to pronounce siayery wrong. 10. That the sopa- ndied | Sooitauim d by the Creator of ali things. 8. Thatélaver, as it existe {3 he United States, is not moral evil % ration of siaves by sale should be regarded as separation | by death, and toe parties allowed to marr; ll. ase "10 | That the testimony of colored members of | Bern Spa Fheuld not be taken againet @ white person’’—the charch the crimes of the legislature. Finaliy, it is prac- y | tically admitted to be ‘ right and proper to put down all indignisies of the most galling kind without the penvany } . af. inquiry upon this subject by Lynch law.” A minister of the Gospel has been known to exclaim—“ Serve him eht.” ‘These facts aro surely sufficlent to justify that be done to bis slave he is only doirg to others ashe would | ym ¥ gentle word in the resolution, “ crmplicity’’ with wish that others abould do unto him? Tho very suppos!- | bo ups the ‘oli. | niysna of the churches In the free States at this direful fs monstrous. It is an infamous libe} upon the roll- lage TY. The resolution “ ual: ly deplores tho con- of voice but ome of the loudcet and eternest condemns. | lamentable ¢pectacie of progressive submiesion to the gion Christ to allege, or even to fasinuate, that it bas | evil’? The history of the American churches presents & apy tion form system 80 outrsgeously wicked. (Loud ap. | power of slavery. Thaw connivance of tho free States iz plause.) Those who maintain such line of argament are Jeing their best, however blindly, to put «1 the Gospel and to play the game of its bitterest fees. 1) Popery, by corrupting and carica‘uring the Christian reli fiom, has made myriads of $n in the Old World, it t ot less certain that the same deadly evtl ts extensicely vor oug't in the New World by putling upon that religion tre cru't odium of abelting american * » (Hear, hear.) ft concerns our common Christianity that tae American churches should break up at once and forever evon the | very appearance of that shameful and unnatural alliance, by “proclaiaing fearlessly beforc all the worid that, wherever else American slavery Seay hat support or pal Baticn, it finds none in the Word of |. (Sheers.) Bat not only does my resolution say this, but itsays @ groat deal more. It goes on to ‘aifrm that American slavery bee alike injuriously on tho clayeholder and ou the ve. Ithas been truly and beanfifaliy sald of morcy that ft is twice bieseed—‘bleseing both him that givee eviliciently exemplified in the cowering unfaitnfainess of upon | the great religious societics. For years the clergy tn high If | places have been silenced by popular intim‘dation, and in | eome onees bave become te apolog venerable Dr. Samuc) Henson Cox, whose face I well re- member eecing ia this Country sume years ago, is a nota- Die example. Between the f hag 1833-38, New York was | agitated by slavery riots. homorably dratunguished themselves by giving the weight of their public position to the side of freedom. But the prosiavery rhobe smashed thelr church windows, and dragged out the church furniture, and flung it into the iste of slavery. The » Cox and H. G. Ludlow ter. Dr. Cox haa been dumb ever sincs, except as the spologie! of the strong agaipst the woak. The passing of the Fugitive Slave Law im 1859—one of the most daring enactments of slave policy—bas anew stung tho frioads of liberty to exertion. This nefarious measure, which 1 need not stay to describe, was received by the majori | of the clergy in guilty eilence, and by not Ww wih and bim thet takes.” and not lew true ue tt tossy of | more guilty acquicecence. Hear the opinion of Jaige slavery—vwhich is anciher name for apne and crusity— that it és twice cursed, curring, a2 it does, both the uporessor tgnor indeed alite Kuantan nidory and of human nature ho dort mad tne hoe fatabeuch power is both to sis possenors and lo tt victims. In the cate of tt possemore tis oy it to cherish all the worst fe and tasest passions of the human heart. To conceive or sketah the which it seldom fails to produce needs no aid from fancy. Examine the state of society in slavehoiding country, whether of ancient or modern times, and you will flod the picture drawn to States merica present, as all the wold aie ee aes to this’ rule. It is Wapossible it shoald be otherwise. Human nature Jay, one of the few of uncorrupted conscience, on this fece of pro slavery legitlation —“ If you ask my opin- ke ‘of the ' binding force’ of this law, in @ moral sone, I answer that its binding force is precisely the same as was that of the law of Nebucha inezzar, commanding the mul- jen Perches aint Seutam be woe trates to and Pat 8 in the name of Jesus—of the commands ‘of the Roman on the plain of Dura to fall down and worsnip the image—of the decree of Darius, deg prayer Ml Emperors that Christiane should cast incense on the altars of idole—of the edicts of Louis XIV., requiring the Haguo- nots to embrace the faith and practice of the or Rome. Tis accursed statate reqaires us to become ac- tive instruments of tri Se mse and oppression, 0 to the perrecuted but tam ogitive—to set at taught Le law of Johovah, to do jastios and loro meroy—to juDgeoms Ne have , other than bazard our yey nearyrng 2 ai tuce to the requirements of this law.” what buid the clergy of the free States? Afew uttered indic- manttreth. The great majority were silent, Dat some proelsimed what ons cannot read without grief, aud mor- tifcation, amd shame. Bishop Ho, Vormont, 99 serted that slavery is ‘'warranted by the Old Tostamaat,” and ioquired ‘* What effect bad the Gospel ia dolag away with slavery 2 None, whatever.’’ Dr. Taylor, au Kyis- copal clergy man, of New Haven, asks :—‘ Ia taat ariicie in the constitution contrary to the law of nature na- tiene, or tothe will of Ged? Isitso? Is thorea shadow of rearon for saying it? | have net been able te diseovor . Have I sot sno va you it a lawful to deliver sp in compilance with their laws, fugitive slaves, fer tae high, the great, the momentous interests of those (Southera) ‘States t”’ Co you wonder that infidel orgamizations against wavery denounce slay: and the Gospel in the saa breath? Nething but ‘tiraale coal Rev. M._ Rogers, an orthedex minister of Boston, says :— “ Whee the slave asks me to stand between bim and his tion’ ; and T will not doit, because I have a conscience —beoause there isa God.” A conssience | Detioats crea- ture | He continues to affirm, that if resistance to the “« Fogitive Stave law’? should foad the magistracy to call tbe citizens to arms, their duty ia to obey; , “if erder- od to tebe Loman life,” to maintein this uematural enact CNS eS ihe Ore eee from slavery? There is Ly mrhe, CH, wa a the tk tree of byw ‘ork , pro 6 pulpit: —! one preyer could liberate ev slave be world, he woald not dare to offer it.” juisite eonsclentiousmess! A gentle- man in Edinborg was in New York some time and aitended the church of Dr. . The word of God read was Isaiah, Iwill. eu the Dr. came te verge 6, ‘‘Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loote the bands of wickcaness, to undo the heavy bur- dema, aud to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoks?”’ be skipped over it, and did motread it. fhe rensttive piety whi restrained his prayer expurgated the iceptred word of God. Last, and mot least—I cannot tell you with what lamentation I aanouace it—the illus. trious Moses Stuart, of Andover College, declarod that, “though we may pity the Lp mere Mosaic law the rejection of olat does Lot authorize ims of tho slavehoiders to their stolen or strayed property.’’ How came the great Hebraist to confound voluatary, rewarded servitude smongst the Hebrews with American slavery? And bow ceme he to forge: that the runaway servant was forbicden to be delivered to his master by the Mosaic law? Rightly averred Albert Barnes, the commentator, one of the very fow faithful ones, “There is no power out of the Church tbat could sustain slavery an hoar, if it were uct eustained in it.” I think thet this gentle word “connivance” requires to bo strepgthenéd to guilty com- plicity. The resolution ‘‘vory sincerely sympaihises with any miniéters or oburches who may bo resolutely pro testing sgaimst this national sin.” le aresuch. Al. honor to them. The resolution “espeotally rejoices in the Christian, manly aud faithful teatimeny preeented by the Rev. @. B. Cheever, DD’ Tho first ‘hing to be done is to define Dr. Cheever’a position. Ho takes this ground, that slavebolding is contrary to the word of Ged. This is the conclusion of all Brit sh anti- slavery advocates who are unmistified by the direct or Imdirect influences of slavery. lyield my hearty conour- repeo to the nobie and stirring sentiments uttered om this pleviorm. Dr. Cheever, simplo maa, requires that sin thould be treated as sim. d why not? Why should comme) cial dishouesty, drunkenness, unchastity, &c., be treatcd as sing, and not slaveholding, which is worse than any, and often includes and provokes all? Dr. Choever Cemands honest, straight forwarded church actin rog urd- ing this ain. He insists that political action should de as direct and sincere. If we want a Reform bill, er the re- peal of the Corn laws, we have an outspoken aad bi law was |, Dr. Cheever assailod denounced it. When the occurred, sbout 1854, and the slave party wore bent on ob! landmarks of yoked the condemnation of the Word of Dred Scott decision was pronounced, which excluded the testimony of & mau of color from court of justice im the land, anc placed four million of human beings un- der the heel of dominaat population, he lifted up his Yoloe with the same energetic consistency. 43 you would expect, } dissatisfaction was fe't in 1850. As the pas- tor “ful! his course,’’ the grumble of opposition grew louder and louder. In 1855 the discontent broke out ia pul, since 1856, for an honest testimon: They aro tneaee—the evs MD. Coe, umbia; the Rey. Dudley Tyng, charch, Philadephia, for ono sermon against B ick, Presbyterian church, slaves, the or coated, ‘tot by is ‘= javes, rosecut 1g ect on clerical brethrea, 1B; qj tarred an Pailadelpht ley; the Rey. J. B Boardman, for the utterance of free speech, 1866; & young Presbyterian clergyman, last sum- mer, for preaching two sermons on slavery in New York. ‘The last would have stayed and braved opposition, bui his church session, who admitted the righteousness of his », BO thorough anti. slavery ministry oould be sustained in the city of New ? Henry Ward Beccher confesses, in his Harper Fe sermon, October 30, 1859, that ‘the churches in the North,” i. @., the free States, ‘will not, ase body, fake upon themselves the responsibility of bearing wit: ness against the cnormities of slavery,” the Choever demonstration was being teld in Edinvurg, Dr. Cheever was bemg burnt in e! near his own church by a proslavery mob — (Cae, In the fourth place, 1 cannot pass by the question wi Wow ete propused: ‘How is it that Dr. Cheever is so agsailod, and Henry ‘Ward Beachor is so popular?’ Itis an ungracious task to compare the merite of two anti-slavery advocates in Iny Own denomination, and attempt to strike the between their claims, My feelings shrink from the duty, but my conscience demande that it be done. These mi: niters differ in oplaion. I do met find in Mr Beecher’s inions the thorough going anti scripturalazss of slavery, pean tgradical sinfulness of amy such relation amongst du: aifer In The,(2ud applause.) Next, these gentlemen on Bo tic teaching on this question. Mr. cher blazes Cul Rew and then in indignant paragraphs, Preaches a whole discourse agains? Pa Ore oor bee ay ateratically elicited the revealed mind of -Whole length and breadth of the immenso Assia Stee over, Dr. eever watches and criticiees the course of ublic events, anitrics ‘every new legis'ative evil in the Pate nce of inspred truth. “The “Fugitive Slave law,” Kantas movetrositics, Dred Scott decision, &., each in constant sucoersion tins been examined and’ rebuked. tow ine New York paper. that “ar. Beschor had. ‘not reached on siayery for some it October 30, 1859. is exposed, tke eee minal Fogitive Slave law, Kansas, &o. After the of that ruthless statute, the Southern planters resorted to the most unscrupuious measures to silence all opposition About 1852-53 & document was sent from slavemasters requiriug the principal firms in New York to sign an agreement to abstain from anti glayery ‘Agitation, on-pain Of losing their patronage. 1 am informed that only bourses withheld their signatura The terms of the Rope ti play know, have never got into print fe establishment of Bowen & McNamee js bonorabiy mentioned ag having spurned the indignity, retortin, “No, gentemen; we sell our goods, not our Principles? Whether the dissatisfaction which was experienced 2850 by Dr. Cheover was shared by Mr. Beecher I know not, but olear it is, Dr Cheever hovds ou his consistent though troubled way. Mr. Beecher ts thought to be not as Touch given to out spoken denunciation as in 1850, dv, Thave not been able to ascertain that Mr. Boccher cag. vaesed the Drod Scott decizion, but e been assured that he did not. Since the meeting, i have been inform- ed that Mr. Beecher did preach againet the Dred Scott decision, Whether he is unconsciously yielding to the pressure of the slave power time will not be long in tell- ing. Further, these clergymen differ radically in their Ines of practical action. Mr. Beecher demands no tho- rough, direct and immediate astion either in Church oF State for the overthrow of slavery. The Harper Ferry ecrmon igentitled “The right and the wrong way about slavery.” Ishould be sorry to breathe a word against the many wise apd noble ssntimosts, and just and indig nant rebukes, which may be culled from the discourse. But its deficiescies are immense. Mr. Boecher discou- rages, a8 @ ‘wrong way,” the introauction of discontent among the slaves from without. How can we agitate for thetr freedum, not awaken interior discontent? If we cculd, what could te more undesirable? If no discontent could be excited among the negroes, then we had better let them alone. (Cheers.) They must be brutes, not men, and ail anti-slavery effort is nugatory. Our duty is to tell slaveboldore and slaves the right and the wrong of the whole business, and leave the trath to carry out God's laws to all their Divine issues. Mr. Beecher bas six points on the ‘‘right way,” neither of which attempts to plan or ize any practical action against slavery. His terrible afth topic, on the “right of chatlay in the woman, the unblemished household iove, the right ot pa. rents in thelr children,” I dare say has not beoa followed. up by any urging of ecclesiastical or political action. Dr. Cheever 1s not content to delivor his conscience by firiog off one well primed topic on & themo so fearful; and then Jet the audience forget the fash of righteous anger and the thunder of righteous denanciation. (Hear, bear.) Once more, Dr. and Mr. Beecher differ in the societies to,which they give support. Permit me to give yousome account of the American Tract Society at Boston. Ite pricciples are announced in cificial addresses, resolutions, reports and publications. “We are not an antl slavery Pociety.”” “Not to be anjabolition sosiety.”” “Resolved, that the political agpeets of slavery tle entirely without tbe prog er ey bere of this society, and canuot be discunsed i 1 publications; dat those moral daties whisk gor paisenous root of al] the evil fs sot to be touched, but some of the pornivious few es are to be discumed spirit. Imagene a grave eommittce, lay and clorion, du. cursing tho rending asunder of all divine and husan bonds, and the any bearts; bande, and wives, and parents, end children; the ehame- leaw violation of wedded lave; eburch membors\ip and scultery, in a fratermal aad Ohristan selrit, Whas in tho of a Christian Tract Sontety if siavery is to be exciuded from ite rebukec? This trimming and the sloquenoe of ‘world is (he work ? i li Bt & Z i. I rfl 4 i the question of slavery than the aiavery advocate was to the effect, ‘That this chi tribute no more mioney to the American Board,” &c. On the fourth night of the debate, with all bis influence as the partor of the church and his Mr. Beecher mieten © -y of the contribu- ; thas piatently applied these dectrines to missiouar, that its record on this whole subject was clean. Mr. Tilton, one of the members of t! replied in « masteriy address, which must have oocu hours in tho delivery, to Irecommend you that I think the re fae fe fied r sanction it even in appearance.” course, Dr. Cheever’s resolution was lost and Mr. Tilton’s in Plymouth chorch. journals, such as the New York Obscrver and others, tm the evide which thi ae evidence they The pro-slavery joes not hurl the scathing wrath lebrew prophets, except when he Lr their Di & Biavery advoorcy. ‘igcourees on sla ‘are usually, momneed before band. Beventhiy—it Cheever’s own «i for I believe there are have the disposition bat not Western churches generally, the question of slavery, are churches, and largely dependent ‘orthern and Eestern charckes, aud the latter are mainly oopniving or pro-slavery churches. Besides, it be questioned, that acmination stil deeply infected spirit of compromise. afraid that their bonorable diaunction in auti slavery earnestness and oonsisten is thy, I have heard it asked, ‘‘ Why did Dr. Cheever ld sch an expensive church, to be burdened in this manner?”’ eaaily dizcussed in Glasgow. We areal! fondof hand- some and expensive churches. Gentlemen of wealth do well in raising noble structures for the service of God. Meny of us bave heavy ground rent debts, &c., on our Glasgow churches. Suppose some twenty of the most ‘epuleat eupporters of apy Glaago Wives and iamilies, were to withdraw, who amongat vs, cyen if we had @ good congregation remaining, would not be on tho brink of church insolvency? If to dive away such number of our slavery preacting we should have tc appeal to No m bankruptcy. Ninthly, some have been wa church Neher roe) aeeunaneinae gational Union for denom!nati purpeses shanid be go easily embarraased by debt, explanation is easy. The conspirators would not fraction to the dedt in most cases, that lieve the difficulties of the tributed to the Congr: gave readily two hu: bomiraticnal objects, but wonld Other difficulties might be stated have occupied far too much time, I fleld of the world, that nas done little or nothin; some Western churches the ability to help him. The which are the soundest on lpg weak my own de- , and in such a position, w -chtroh, with their aaveral mesons ity dollars each for de- 40 nothing for the debt and answered, but 1 Permit me to say bo- hype a looking ae the ork than to auprort Dr. Cheever in his postion in New to raise five hundred or one thousand portant than now tout we ehceld mak ‘amy AD ¢ ournel; across the water on this question. P ier ate os on Fig lod om smoke which RA 7 jut when you a way out into count w atain dyes the biue aky with Tt will be-of some service for It wast never more People living in a pd fabalisg, look back, the dingy yello the distinctness. Americans to know that we, who live out of the Sa Oe avens. en or, an il odor, which is Breathed from. aay t ring ast year toyear, we become totally unconscio: it Our untainted @enses revolt at the shockin, evils ofsiavery. I fear—but I hope that Tear thas the time for or fystem, seo as gaining « hearing on this quostion im the United States has gone by. In Sousequenos ofa course of siletoe, and compromise, (rectal erg bby Tairs - at in Church and State, they hove arrived af that terrible crisis when truth has become a scorching and and condemnation. The history of a thous: Pemaint to reciyy the inal Lau of God and men judgment, desolation, > The Americans are’ peas he fleeh of oar flesh, and blood of our blood, ‘bound at leasttc bear us. Nay, wous cost, the right to be heard from the terrible iniquity, (Cheers ) and solemn Unless T am totall easiperating gisre of ‘we bought, at an enor- ‘its moral 1 and {appianee.). Leribe thesreve, near ee 2 to the God, open fling the biddon ‘rnicious werm for ever bosom. The "a otleman sat down Mr. McNowAt1. seconded the motion, which was carried Freo St.George’ church, moved that of tho meyers ead. soomders Rev. Dr. Suv, # committes be appointed BOARD OF ALDBEMEN, This Board met Inst evening, Alderman Cornell tn the ‘TH Pree DePARrsemer. Board of Fire Commissioners te Pepert to the Board number of engines, hove, hook and ladder snd ace Companies organized in this olty; the number of active mombers atiaohed to each company, ko; the mumbor of fires (hint have coourred ia exch dlatrtot for the last twelve mentha, with the mumiber of times each engine, &o,, hag Sauinmenmrer 'o Amer! inv fe Brief addresses were made by other reverend gentle men, expreseive of their sympathy im the objects of the eecasion and the mecting them Rey. A Frosum, ef Ewing place church, thea pro- pounced the ben THE MEETING AT ORe CHEEVER?S CHURCH. ‘The lecture reom of the Ohureh of the Puritans was again Giled Jast evening with members of Dr. Cheever’s comyregation. Mr. George H. White in the chair, os on Wednesday evening. ‘The meeting was opened with s short bat cloqueat and taypresaive prayer by the Rev. Mr. Warren. ‘Zhe minutes of the last meeting were then read by Mr. Berry, Seeretary of the Society of the Church of the Pa- ritems. De. Camsvun having the floor at the close of the fast right ia any board of to prohibit such a measure. Aloermap DaRnaga moved as an amendment that the © ‘He said the Trustees of the Church of the Puritans hed no more right to prohibit the pastor and seombors of the sum of $16 COO be inserted instead of $30,000. The amond- of ment was jot. Aciueduot | “alderman Stan moved as an amendment that the Com- bonie drop of rain, and that pastor and mombers of she malisce repers Ge Nis Ceeapercllle the axpenaneerel te COR. appropriating $30, was then adopted. The ielesinn were Appointed as the the pastor and members of the society when ani how bm prepreg Cornell, Bagley, Taomey, Starr, money wooclety. ‘The trustees had taken upon thomselves undue authority | ptr slivowing of 8 great deal of, routine buslasas the whea they undertook to cecsure their pastor and the members of the who have solicited forciga ait. BOARD OF OOUNCILMEN. In the third place, ne right or au in the society ‘This Board met last evening, President Jones in the ces: fenoy. That whem th» resolutions | °>air. ny ee r ta Ragland they ‘The City Inspector was instructed not to lease any more ebaractor and damage the market stands until directed to do so by the Common would the confidence placed in them by the | Counoll charebes in Exgland, where great meetings had been A reselution was offered for the appropriation of taroh of the | $3,625 06 to pay for the paving in fromt of the Post Uilloe, tm | and gavo rise to some debate. De would quit the country, and be content to Councilmen Pivcxwey and Lave objected, on the ground pane es “ ina Meus runt Cee en er On Pipe estantes of tae Councifman Suaw said as they had given their ime, society to arrogate this right ever thechurch isan at- | tet end material, they ought to be pal Cou that the Com; be juested to infc the Beard 38 on appropriate commikise, wperens Une seciety, sub. je ae peep hy for the Oty Ia- ee ‘to the church, and not the oburch te the 4: apeotor in the Daily News Bailcing. 1 te the wildest and mest ridieulous conceit imagined! ‘The Committee on $15,000 for the purpose fer the society to say to the church, you sbali not raise of baving the Metropol Placed upon the tan gas burner gg egies: God deliver us freui such ® | street lamps reported faverably, rope. fo Reverdad gentleman then onid that in his | “Counolimen Precexey aia a Ge jhould fa. aes: Preemaalhgeoi Alpha ene crease the expenses of the oily for tho beaeli of thls gas iscerd vaing every means eompany. drive the pastor to resign, were at perfect liberty to Councilman Luxr said that the better light would be leave, and allow the paster to remain with the majority. ob ROMAN pat TSIEN SME | PR re nent nee ee or members, but on Ine subetation of ‘Mr. Warren’s reno weareen canes yor ara i i s x ; elena An eppeal was mado from the decision of tho Chair, Board concurred to increase and the rev. gentleman allowed to continee his readiag’ | que, board conen apna fap egret ee: He said he had been told by one momber of the ministry | tn, J, oo tAsabectaders to oe ms in cook ward. . that he onght to resign becuse he had allied himeeIt to a ‘The peng = ela the lndorencante of the’ cxated nea pod te in The Now Steam Fire Hagine fer South. Co ee ee Seen wark Company Ne. 38. the slave trade. | His letter to Mr. Spargeoa bed besa | he new steam fire engine bullt by Lee & Larned at Portoalty-of ailing’ ther every werd 1a, saat wine | the Novelty Works, Twolfth street, (oy authority of the ae ee he are Ga rete bole verter ond Common Council, for Southwark Eogine Oompany Wo. 88, congregation, the poor ee peng wen, pos, | located in Ann street, was taken from the manuastarer# geen, he said, a warmer friend than Dr. Hart who had left af his Own church to come to their own amistanco. to the latter place yesterday afternoom, ene mE regent pega repre ‘The event was celebrated with that éclat, regardless of tions read again as he was anxious to speak » | any expense, for which our gallant fremen are famous heo.said it was the right of every organization ef men to ft lay down rules, and that every member to obey | Bamely,® parade, and something goed to eat and drink those rules, tnd ne tingle individual has a rial yf to terminate the proceedings. s ompuch rules, 00 organization can 1 {ear mmssion if thoy allow thelr rulce to be trampled om. | 7° thisend Dodworth’s Band was engeged, and the ‘The Trustees of the had been ted to take Preceeded im a boiy to the Novelty Works, hiiee of the Sone o bat in consequence | where the new machine was placed in thar possession. some rotesures taken march was then taken: tuceting had boon oalled, Ko hoped a Syed dents rapt lesdcaan Bassinets abeent fr eapuerar tasseee Detery Wistats. cnt pan tea Semapecee offloes, seo cited « Fecal chad heme endernnd Sedna, ina parade, and adding new strength to the popular that he loyed and revered poate ee lo of hand cagines were fast F | ; home as alread, thers woule pot bay hatten steam fre engine JNo. 8, done Rie Gieads meet Shecieateeeenn en 2 oe me ‘Was @ much better man he repre.” stroke of piston. The steam is fara! from an aanu- | ER lar boiler which bas 226.feet of fire eurface, The » ‘Besar said though the address which is worked by the caging, le one of Cary’s tmosueng. bet only. teudck ts envelope i Shicas Thscnalee cad eaetage nc nea eee mcoting, ‘Get the pery e sepiaev 22h fath. Tho. eR pega eer me eaid bis; the air chamber on the front of the is elegantly a leas Ne 4 [spree of amin taney. nDeeas Bergeindica home ond paid, eared eae corey air ehinior oa clgaat geld Plated signal Has herr rales; ‘applied lamp, with colored Hass cides, and helps im © gront men- about rules, He hed, as he sai wa teuegr one with gol stripes; picked nee bt to ask for ald in his own mame, iid ional Mel ie aoe yhgno idem te Crs = ec ser tte on the * Common Council voted the sum of $4,600 ws psy for ne ae pad ae Cg rym gy thia engine, but the company has made numerous im. ‘The CuAInAan said be hoped there would not be aay in- toachize enugiy houted pany gave @ odlistion at |, the con; ga a the ¢ Louse, to which they invited a large number of tends. Several well delivered speeches were , be thought, on the occasion in contrasting steam over hand en- struction ‘on both their pastor and their | 50GB, an pihanthonopaetnmeainaaan nt Played Mr, Bunny gaid bo thoaght he conld point out a way | _ Southwark Engine Company is composed of seve by mh the wo parce could harmonize.” Hio mason | St, ander the fxemanani of Goo 1. Alter, and hee ca e (J Thoaght money oy could tro eon “coletod at has hover boea questioned. ‘We wish them success with debt of the church had not been paid off, although he | , The new engine is now ready for duty, and will roll im had not at that time any knowledge of It. Ho thew gare | te Seventh and Eighth districts, an eccount of his own connection with the Society. He Police Inte: Lligence. jog 3 bated bre beat crip ge ag an amendment of the sabatitutes offered by Mr. Warren:— A Dmrrripo w Cusropr.—Joseph MoLain, a Ind abous Resolved, That while this society believes that those J person who originated aud authorized what ie termed | Seventeen years of age, was brought belore Justice Kelly, tive, Yo, ielig thatthe collection of funds Trom auy |'ry and thevotenine to ahoot a paitouns, tae prince, tiver, yet, feeling that 00) yn of funds any | ry and threatening to 8 pol ‘The py rource by pereons connected with this and held < by them independently of sach society and the trustesa, | appears, entered the room of Mrs. Chambers, at No. catensibly for the purpose of defraying the expenses of | ¢46 Hudson téeet, on Monday morning, by moans of false toe ecolety, is a dangerova precedent, aud subversive of | Ke |, and was engs; im packing up eome clothing and our independence as ® congregational body, and there- pid ta when be Str eeicoen Dy one of the Coors fore, ag & society we have notaanctioned, and do not sanc- | of the house. He succeaced in making his escape from pao her jn substance or manner, the appeal made for | the house, but upon reaching ie stow ik ho was mot by . iceman Rickaby, who attom to arrest him. Mo- Resolved, That ia the passage of the above resolution tain intmediately drew a pistol, and ting it at the offi- we intend to express no cleratiefetion with the puipit | cor's heat, so frightened’ the QMolad that fhe ietee. fell ministration of the pastor of the Church of the Puritans, urgiar \- neither Is tt intended ag an entering wedge for his re” back and al rtisos Meare mae Paving to ee moval. opr ehitan “Hartage of Dr, Waxrxn then moved thatthe meeting adjourn until pis Pomel the going ‘The two pint agence Monday evening next st half past seven o’clook. icLain’ down Hndson street for several bleoks, ‘Motion carried unaximously. . and after an exciting chase overhauled the pris- oner. Upon aa rong we. ry jones ee ant Jersey City News. about $10 wort! weiry were found Posses- the as her pro- Fart rrom 4 Buiprxe.— Yesterday forenoon, as a man bon & ee ee Wea the pistal. named Patrick Sheridan was engaged painting ona now | The magistrate committed tho scoused for trial. 235, oy building in Essex street, Jersey City, the scalfulding gave (Caaxcs oF Passe a Wortaiess Cugox —John Atwood, way, precipitating him a distance of thirty fect to the | alias Captain Skidd, was taken Into custody, yosterday, by Le 5 = Ayton! We _ and Fin lad policemen Jequios and Jarboe, of the Seventh precinety jence, No. 7 a and, upon worthiéaa check, with ing called, it was ascertained’ that’ ho bad aumiained a | 02 @ charge of uttering a fatoansononencon fracture of the akull, which may terminate fatally. detieed. The prieceas i to eleess peed aeheck onthe Ixycrsr.—Coroner Gathey beld an inquest at the station | Naspan ane Tor S160 upon thy titer, of Gouverneur house in Jersey City last evening, upon the body of | gooin change. Upon presenting the check at the bank, Georgo Tobias, who died the evening previous while be- | Mr. Utter ascertained that it was entirely worthless, faas- ingconveyed t6 tt hi ‘supposed, ina much as the drawer bad no account with tho institation. sie Abe 'o the station house, as was lon by | Finding that the check was bogus, the groceryman ausod ate of intoxication. ‘The post the lungs | te arrest of the acoused, and had him brougnt before Dre. Quido: and Morris, revealed the fact that Whe 10s | sustice Steers. The magistrate committed tuo captal and heart were very much rye to that effect | for examination. It is supposed that the prisoner hi eet Le aan ae ‘ng pareed a number of similar checks within the past ndered. ten daye. Tum Loxa Dock Gourasre,—The Long Dock Company ere | °* "27" now preparing the siips and dock at the foot of Pavonia ry Court—Special Term. pect: avenue, preparatory to establishing 3 wang that ioc Before Hon. Judge Moncrief. cality. The work on the Bergen tunnel Spproach- Apri. 26.—Turk ve. Herring.—Jadgment and execution letion, and, before the middle of the summor, it ieexpeched thet the New York and Erlo care will pass | Setaside, with $10 costa to plaintit, to be pald by the at- through it torpey for defendant's attorney. Defaulttaken by do- Jendant opened, and plaintiff permitted to prc ceed ai onca . The Alleged Siaver. to trial. of Sex ws. , impleaded. —Judgment for plaintiff on de- UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNBY’S OPFIOR. aubren, wg Aes a jefendant, uj ment of costs, Arn. 26.—The United States vs. he Bark Charlotte B. to withdraw demurrer and pleed over, Lo” spect on .~—Nothing farther has been done in this case. The Jen vs. Martin, implcaded.—Same jaigment. sy have not entered any protest as yet; but Dorrity vs. Russell ct al.—Motion to eet aside execution Messrs. Beebe & Donohue, on the of Mr, Barry, the | being irregularly issued, granted, with $7 costs to de- owner, propose to bond the Deputies Theodore fondants, and Henry Munn, who made the seizure, have the veesel in charg’ Supreme Covat, Crrcurr— Part 1.—Short calendar. a . 116, 4,106, 1,399, 068, 1,048, 4,221, 3, 12, 4,317, Stvaae on a Scrape.~ Up to six o'clock last evening | 4059! 4'090) 4.235, 4,237,'3,085, 264) 11880, A114) ion @ body of the unknown man, who is supposed to have | 4/197, 1/264, 1,260, 2,965, 4/158, 3,386, 31429, 4160; 4's08! commitied micide, by shooting bimoslf at Weehawken, | 2,650 hued not been identified. He is believed to bave besa @ | SUPRRIOR Count —Part 2—Nos. 872, 442, 448, 944, 428, German Jgw and probably belonged in Now York, 278, 400, 408, 490 (482, 483), 454, Court Calendar—This Day.