The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1860, Page 2

THE METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE, THE SLAVERY QUESTION, SPICY AND EXCITING DEBATES, Speeches of Rey. Drs. Coombs, Moody, Haven, Durbin and Others. Arrnogements ‘or the Pispasal of the Reports of the Committees Thereon. The Contending Parties in a Quandary, Bay Ree, we EIGHTEENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. SPECIAL REPORT FOR THR SEW YORK HERALD. ‘Burvaro, May 22, 1860. After ube disposal of rom’, wmimportant business, ‘W.O© Sur, of India g, moved that when the Cy- ference take up the repc gy of the Committee’on Slavery, they proceed to vote bY” yes amd nays, without debate, Pervert Coomns, Of ‘philadelphia, took ‘the floor, and said, that to rave tt 4 ‘feclings of the majority, ins most generour end Chr wt'an eptrit, consented to waive the specifications. F fo rgighet to say, that'if a motion of that kind was preee ed, ocran effort made, small or great, to Prevent the m’ nor jty frem being Beard on the ques‘ion, ey should * sot only think it unfair, bat they shoald take the liberty of w.ying eo. (Loud cries of “Amen.”’) A num! jer o'/ delegates simultansously called fer the re- solution “4 be, laid upon the table. Mr. f sem wished to explaim— Vor sereris cries of ‘No, ne.’” Tg retolution ‘was Jaid upea the table by an ovet whelm- %E voto, Mr. Meopy saying, “there let t forever lie, and rurrection.’’ BY merece & re BS ge WWE CONSRRENCE CRERGED WITH APPUYDRC Tu THUID- SCKRW ON BALTIMORE, Mr. Cove, ef Maine, offered a resolation directing the SWowwnitiee on Itineranoy wo ioquire whether the resolu- ‘den paescd by the Baltsmore Conference at ‘\s last session com the subject of slavery was contrary tc the Discipline. ‘Ho eaid Wat the delegates from Maine were instructed make this inquiry. “" Gorpe was in fever of the resolution, bat thought ‘hat the Con‘erence was called upon to consider matiors whietr would be inve!ved im tbe debstc on the slavery .n, of Baltimore, had no objection to the Con- on. There were aspects of this qua” MCh Were ibe The minvier <{ the Ryeceding seetion having deo read | gent. ‘The design of the leaders in this movement is t fo ce Ue ae yoetblo mow. Tooy intend tov'men th ‘and approved : ts” by filling our ith heli Dr. Huxmn, of Va., moy4 $0 suspen,’ the special order, Ritnce, tba tas pre the for greatopand sore for te \urp 80 of vereinding 8 motion of yesterday | deciced acion. ask oa to this question, “Woo ! : willing to receive the pegsent proposition Si hitting the speakers on the slavery question «YY ih this matter?” If fhe question be evaied, | take it for granted. agsin, will wis ac: vate slavery’ There is dot & man ou slis ! rs 7 have 3 result, Ail | Believes © Of the doclara- that is expected from {tis the aave~ > border | ton In tho Nevin, amd this received, We ove |* cnooses with the administration of tha law. | wi a#cipiine be changed, what will be the result? “s |” «t tot seriously disturb peaes of the Church. ig . free States, The reason Dy ah bas one Bored hitherto, He wanted speakers to have time to ' inember of the Committee on Slavery “why pe’.tions wore diecuse the great ierues before them. A motion Ww lr, net cirbulated in his Conference was “.hts very fact. Thoy Vue reeolotion on the table was carried unanimously. ‘vogen, Vat it wes soon found to Ye Ekciy to produce dis- Oa motion of Dr, Ciaxx, the regular sue. 4 ¥? “8 {| weaknete and contention. orde} fepsiow, and they abaadoned U6 design for that cause —— for the purpose of receiving pes peti- 4 < 8. only. Look at the hest of ©/4ctal mon who have sent the act’, Will these men be likely A memorial was received frm Western Virginia, stmt | tw keep quiet if this rerur, bo adopted? Brethren bei jog that s elareholder was ¢!/oted and ordained an Cider, | better be in (ime, or the Chureb in the North will learn wisdom by the ¢Hipgs she will suffer. 1 leave and ing that the matter ‘ve taken into consideration vy Contmiittee on Slavery. this polnt to be amy Jifled by the delegates from free States. A petition, signed by a | eight mintaters of the Geae- | Have wo the right co do this thing? I do not mean the see Conference, togeter with documents reférring to Na- | power, but the 7 4gbt, according to the doctrine of the zaritelsm , caused some dedats, after which it was refer- | majority repor*- <i) ibings whatsoever ye would Ted to the Committee on Ttouerancy. thet men ehald ‘do unto you, do ye even 80 to A memor's! wes sutsnaitted from Dr. Poter Cartwright, | them, for t'ae ts the Law md Prophets.” The the New York book agents | brethren Of the: border did wot bring sta fato referring & complain ¢ against very Lape a the Cburch,, and’are not renguaatils for #. Now, theo, tu reference tothe gmbliehing of bis ‘*Antobiography,”” which was referret; to a commaittes of seven, Je¢ excl *oan tn the majority tato the moral mirror A peiltion was received from the South Third street | which ‘cod Mes hung up before ail hemanity, and ark Methodist Pyieco' al church, Brootlyn, E D., signed by | bimeelf this question, “If I were ‘in the of our Charles Ti. Fellogs and others, to probibit slavebolding in | brethren in:the border, would I bave @ right to desire the chureh. Abat they rbould do un‘o me asl am now trying to do Whilethe various Oonferences were being called, ocee- | unto them’” ‘Will this actionsbe loving their neighbor ac eionally ef srts were made to take up theorder of the | thvreit? i 2. Heve we the right aocording to the law of the YY. 86m of the delegates remarking thet the vast ndance wotild be d ted if the dis. | church? The law of the church ‘requires, before the Se- ners! Geuference can chi tho letter Or meaning, or rol rules, that we shall have the as- ‘li the members of the Anaral Con- esent ond voting. We eo asked ith three diffvrent rules, ene of which is shnilar to the one now pro; and identifisd with the spirit of this new chapter. at ia the result’ The Erie rule has received but 1;795 votes, the Previdence rule only 1,242, and the Cincianati rule but 319, aud this, too, ont of nearly 7,000 men entitied to vote. eral of the Conferences voted for two, and others for three rales, auciesce ip atte: we chsmon ‘were not commenoed, while others contended that EA eb ould first wok after the interests of their members | auy ove of our me. ‘At half past ten, on motion of Dr. Prox, ‘the special order was taken Dr. Kincsuey mbvee that the report of the majority Fp Ae whieh was seconded by P. Coomus, jadelphia. ‘The resolutions only were read, afer whieh Dr. Kivestzy moved the adoption of the firet resolution, ana in doing a0 said he intended to make no argument new on the Feport, aud that himeelf'amd the rest ot the | thus giving two and’ three votes tocach man. Now, it re willing to go to a vote without a single | if we count all the votes for al the rulesas given for one word ate. Though they did not demaud « vove | rule, bey number 556, or jess than one half of the without debate, they were willing that the queatioa should | men entitied to vote. not tbe constitutional law of be debeited if it was insisted upon'by the other side. He | the church forbid any change at the present session? I bad beard complaints that they would be compelled to | conclude, therefore, that this General Conference has lietem for c-week to anti slavery speeches, and he would | po legal oy to make any change in the discipliae, therefore relieve the majority from that responeibility by | Take now membersbip. Oat of nearly 1,000,000 of saying thet they were ready to vote now. They were not | members, but 46,667 have asked fora change of any afraid ef debate, but would not court it. He under- | kind. About: 35,000 of them came from twelve Oonfe- @wod that Mr. Coombs destred to the ‘debate, | rences out of forty-seven. Bu! one out of every twenty- two have atked for achange, and they differ widsly as to the change they desire. Recogniz'ng the rights of the memberehip toa voice in this meatier, can the General Conference claim the right to change the discipline, or can the delegates, as representatives, vote for it? again— Do our enti slavery principles and asa cha give us the moral ao to make this change? We har he declines making ® speech on his own individual re. | tow a law which forbids official members holding slaves, a itity, or whether he expresses the with of the ma- | ¢: tase matter of mecessity. This chapter, proposed jority upon that subject. We have no wish to lead in this | se a #ubstitute, ie sald by iis advocates to be a declara ‘matter if there is any brother on the’majority side of the | tion orly. They say it is notiaw. It will therefore place question that desires to express his sentiments and to ex. | the-chorch in » potition where she hes no law which pro plain definite propositions of that report. If there are | bibits slaveholding by either the ministry or tho official of the question, we are | membership. This is going back from our former poal- nad he boped that he would have tet opportunity. ‘The ‘members of the commitice would bear him ‘Witnere that the utmost Chrietian kindness characterized their deliberations, and he earnestly wished that as they loved God and the church the debate would be con- dvoted with Christian spirit Mr. Coomns said—I wish to ask Dr. Kingsicy whether Mr. none to take the floor on that side ference examining their jouras!- Toey shrunk from | ready to take the floor and defend ives. tion, Instead of advancing. wothiag, but were willing to have # fall Lyn ert ng Dr. Kinceuey replied by saying that the majority were In conclusion, the change proposed by the majority is be wes opposed to being submitted toa trial by that body. | willing that a vote should be taken without a word of de. | opposed to the law laid down in their report, and to the ‘They had no rig: to do that. ‘The views of both sides of the question had been | costitutional law of the church. therefore ure the Mr. Sucen, of East Baltimore, remarked that the sub. | expressed in the reports. words of the chapter, and say—*‘This report is contrary [OF MR. COOMAS, OF PUILADRLPAIA. to the law of God and nature; it is inconsistent witn the referred to the Commitiee on Itinerancy, Jor Aho special instruction was tbe invidious feature of . If the minority were to be subjected to a kind continual torture and Som, S = = tne Lang A jause, wi ppressed ermdane) "When tue Border adhered 10 the Metho- ‘® Bitty roposed to give the what wes.es, be wanted to under. ‘The Baltimore Conference was composed large, ‘State territory, but their people in @ free State y7e State alike stood upon the platform of the Dis- ‘as It is, and, by the help of God, they would main- ‘the interests of the colored people, ‘slaves and free, at bazards. He protested that the whole provedure was z H eer “que Pamiaar—Let us bave the question and not the Brother My. BxxToL proceeded by that there was an w- dtoation of a fear for an tavestization into th: ~appual conference. He claimed that there fmvidious in seeking an examination into such records by “this body, but it was their tneilenad!e right, Dr. Dosw thought that the object of the mover was facoomplithed by cirecting the attention of the committee wadject Oe Bosc delleved that it wae not competent for the ‘Maize Con'erenoe to ait in juigment upon the Baltimore Conference. Mr. Conus, of Maine, denied that they wante! todo what the last speaker had charged them with atempting. ‘The delegates from that Conference were simply oarryiog @ub.the winhee of that body to have the ation of the Ba - Dr. Honeson oT rere oe bi tbere was a little atrempt ‘te apply the gay set 1i as being aa imputation upon the delegate wno re. prevented Maice in the Comtmittes on Itinerancy. Mr. Avvort, of Maine, the delegate referred to, said that he bad been detained from atiending the meelnge of tuo commitise by sickness. Dr. Horcsox moved as an amendment that special io quiry be made in references to the doings of the Maine Sradrence, which was cordially accepted by Mr. Anworr, #ho proceeded wo tay that the Maine Ora- ference hed simply instructed them to make this laquiry ‘without attempting to persecute any confereace. Tuo reason why the matter was introduced at thet time was thai the delegates from Maine had overionke1 the request recorded on the journal aod had not perceived ®& Wl this morning. In reply t the insinue fon that =he owas = atiompting = to y the (hom screw, he appesied to memdere of the Commities or itinerancy to may if be had not sougat to ferences Slaveholding States fair pl every man on that four knew him to apd anu siavery views. be rejected the idea that the maine Conference deeired to provoke the Border breshren ‘Sal! be 4 to vindcate the rights which he claimed the Conference he represented bed, and he would be equally tenacious of the rights of the other oonferenoss. ‘Mr. Coomus moved to further amend the resolution by addieg the Biace River Cooferenos resolution on the sub. jot of slavery, which waa seconded; but, on motion of te RayMoxn, the cor sideratioa of the whole subject wee indefinitely B. F. Cranky, of Minnesota, moved that when the reports Ned for discussion. to the difficulty expertenoed at the lest @enerai Conference ven opamee the delegatea ware deprived of the privi! in conseqaenss of the one hour rule. Be hoped they would adhere to the {if- teen minutes rule apd bet them condense the golt Heway Sucen was in fsvor of giving ths largest liberty tm debates The faculty of condensation was a power with whieh he we# not endowed, for the reason adduced by Jefferson, that “the error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat It.’ De. Doweey and Mesere. Gicorr and P. E Baown spoke the os ce Ane latter remarking that if esc: dele was allowed to speak eS ae 7 hours in the discussion, and would, therefore, sever ome to an end. Dr. “‘Deruxorn—What an arithmetic you have got! i (Great laogbter ) | that no pew rales sbould , the Lomes of thourande a loathsome brothel, unprotected Mr. Coomms wished to say three things: First, he did 6. Their most earnest advice to the minority to “iay | by law from the bratal lust of the lecherous, offering a mot doleve there was « single Me hodist preacher aside all interference with relations authorized and estab. | onus to licentiousness by way o” an increased price te would dare to speak against time, asiotimelet by Dr. | lished by civil law, and apply themeely. its peculiar and high priced stock. It is the embodiment Darbin, secondly, be bad never voted for the epecial Cuvee ofthetr high and boly , and teath and | of unmitigated ana reive selfishness, enacting laws any shape; and thirdly, the loterests at at enforce the moral obligations of the tm all the diffe. | for its cefence and perpetuation, offensive, unjust and wack rn ee aed to | yo oy tine Seeeesct teabeaes aa tan cakes came twenty utes. pred! ference ministry wi vunwarrante! iwterference w: Mr aan a what they —_ on by = the civil py ee} tend to destroy’ om rondertel “affron 4 wery question three, or ive weel fuence ¢ minietry sre garded this advice, and Fe chore’ Na Cacamed. tor ela ee yearend Feapng ibe rere presicte. re pany! oye flew Pome ge gt oy Le age ry - | present rule, it ts said, dose not embody the true out length and breadth of the land. They were not | doctrine of the church on the subject. The de Gongresemen, who thought it necessary to make clare the true doctrine of the churet to be, that A pay in order to make poilitcal eapital, but men slave @ equally criminal with the bu a end ; and he was of the opinion that if they prayed more | subject to the same discrimination. Thie proves that (hose ead Jess upon slavery, they would be doing the | men do not understand the eubject. Let us look at the $ # De. Ontan proposed a further amen’ mont tbat the pre question shall pot be pul during the dedate, whicn ‘was seconded by Dr Hibbard. De. Kivosugy remarked that if the hour ruleand Dr. | ance pot tramtact any ul thac (ie ale. mandate, upon ¢ man. biavery j\aputes very question. He wisbed the Conference to-remener | feprerma’y of od ow aa of dy when Pharaoh retuned Fe. Qrocns’s emendment was laid on tho table | that e vectsten Hols an certnns thea from the gat of Dr. Guarram moved thet the conservative and progres- day _ A few hours before our noble leader went to glory ive sides should eles. two men to represent them, which he (Wealey) wrote a letter to Wilberforce, giving utter- Oe Oe ee ing ly to that which bes become aticestte “with , Curis anid distinguished statesmen wore noted for | that seiling? | the followers of Wesley. “The system of Ameri. making rhort speecher—an assertion which way tenied by | The doctrine the | can slavery a a Mr. who quoted Clay and Calooun as examples | chureh. eutyort better fed crime, the sum of ail villainies.*’ If men are Wat long speeches were the order of the day iethoSevase, | than their so-called “genuine wae,” benoafthey did | pot superior to brutes, if every social duty may be # nul Dr. Catrwevonr took the Soor, Ahamoroursp-soh | not place holding onan equi foting with baying and | lity, if in; ian virtue, if continued robbery is soing, ‘argued in farer of the fifteen minute rule. He beneret — eelitog. If it le replied to . — bmg to others as we would men should do unto us, and thatsvery deiggate had made up his mind how be wo! not is | Christientty iW a fable, then the of American ee thetr votes. Iie mate, | slavery be pursued without wrong; but if the did net believe thet the mental capacity of any mac on of | contrary of this is true, it is evident that ‘no custom ‘the (log was suff.cient to enlightes him furiber upon the . It i | amongst men was ever more impious, since it hes the subject. He was to veto, and had bs Millerie = mad ant. ef cee Jurtice, overriding the principles of rive ready 9 os ‘That \w and government amd the whole doctrine of netaral ‘The then put bgpediinn, ant the vote ro: Feligion and the reveated voice of Ged. In the eulted in (~~ tJ eee Oe ie ‘Of the of land, where I spent maomny, @ been greeted with Ap. 19 “dhe continuance yume by the friende of the measure. If thie rule is steict- as tte origin was adhered te, the diecemsion may be shortened three ia, we may well say, pudlished | tremble for my in view of the , Terns, of Newark, & paper signed by the aa. | slavery, T remember ie just.” In view of outeide pirties, inquiring Hf the disenssten on the slavery to give | twenty.one counts which | make against American: question had marred the bermony, brotherly love aed ements | in thie court of Ghencory, | oust fete See whowe | of the anti. Teport. shall we noe order, anc’ was returned to Mr. Tutsle. ection, or cquivooal sotto, caocurage our sation "te ean: our! iim | the aoweral of atrey. th rade fiery or te mane NINETEENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS, oa.8 re. \ or the our oo ae — very nation Bowaio, May 22, 1360 thts, stropgiing 6 ‘be free or the devotee fins suring oe public opi. | potiem, tam of the Or the fastness of high and | oppreesor,the ot or the barracoon of slavery? vory men. | Our ruler, the Exeoutive of the republic and the mies outaide | gandist of oppresaion? Shall we continae, ty aay Cauve. wrtnin | cai action, to. enegarage our comntry to be the home of theese accusations? | the free or the land of the slave? Shall our shurchea— ibese state. | this church, baptised by JeBoveb at ite organization by disoungon on tne reports of the majority and muporiiy of | the Slavery Commitier, James’ Hal! was dewely crowted at an early hour, both within and without us Dar, by ds- who ape in attendance to witnose the procera @s# rpadious paiblerien were ooonpled by indies and th. mae | Mikeee, Se BYR wha G76 peers 2 in OH | eee Ww | sDape? SPEEC Prxweit Coomes, of Philadelphia, then took the flovr, |. Golden Rule, and with that rule in our discipline which and spoke as we:—Mr. 'President—As you have | requires all who desire to continue among us to ‘do no limited us to thirty minutes, you oan expect no prelimi. | harm, and to avoid evil of every kind.” | therefore af- naries or introduction. 1 propose to ask this General | fectionately admonish all the members of this General Conference the following questions: — 1. What is the question at issue? 2 Who are the parties to the question? assigned ‘The half hour having expired, 3. Whatare the reasons for the change pro- SPEECH OF FRANKLIN MOODY. poeec? Fraxxun Moopvy, of Cincinoati, took the floor and 4 What will be the result of the change, if made? made the follow! ipfammatory speech, which was de- 5. Has the Generai Conference the right to make this | livered at the his voice, accompanied by violent change? SS said—I an surprised to hear from the ‘The question before us to-day is not to decide upon the aker that the question of American siavery in its morality of tbe system of American sia . Thet system | m bearings is not to be considered on this floor. It ie | bas no advocate in the Methodist church, espe- | the moral aes = pat a Ay] a cially on this floor. The practice of mercenary slave x0ld- by lefive my » Jam ia favor img bas no advocates here. ae Soon Pane the majority report, because it is essentially an anti- shall the diestpline of the Methodiet Episcopal church be | Slavery document and proposes to the General Conference #0 changed on the subject of slavery as to make slave- | to change the geperai rule, wo that itshall prohibit the holding s test of membership? The who ad- | buyin or holding of men, women and chil- vocate change, in the Conference as well as out of | dren with ption W enelave them. Now, sir, an against the slavery that existe in this church and in this republic, I with to present twenty couuis—ageinst the ebomipandle system which desclates the hearts ant homes: our fellow creatures. (Loud applause.) Purmprst aaid he hoped such demonstrations ‘wou! d pot take pe im the falure. I: was unbecoming a Christian assem! Mr. Moopy proceeded :—Slavery reduces s man from ‘the condition and ves of @ man to the condition of a thing and makes him but the mer jage of anther deing Covsider the great moral wroug involved } ery. What has one to boy, or sell, o held in las map made by tho same God, fashioned trom the same clay, subject to the same nata- ral laws, governed by the eame conscience, reason and Bible, and bound to the same eternity. I hold my title to my persopal liberty as I understand it, not by any- thing T have Cone, but because Tama man. | hold it not on account of what my fathers dit, not becacse they were strep or virtuous, of wise, but because God gave aman body and’ ® reasonable and reeponsible soal—a nature waich was meic it, were members of the free States; not a single petition in favor of @ change from tanding the subject Se bearing. The only view whion the church el take upon slavery was practical one. ‘The church was not ree) ble for the introduction of siavery intoit—that was done by the fathers. It was of very little rtance when slaveholding was introduceé into the Methodist church. The mere ques- with it now that it is here? iy members of the border ferences were ma of the ma- jority w Jecie, and ther were unhed with delagetes from seven. teen of the free States, who were acquainted with ihe Derder community, ‘There were petitions against = change froin twenty three conferences in free States and feven from slaveholding States, protesting egainst a ebarge of any kind. He put it t the General Cosference #hd to the charch which of these parties upon the for were best abie to judge of the proposed action. The mi | originally in tho image God. And every nority united, bat the other side were divided. Ho | creature poseersing the same ajtriboter bas pre- proposed to esaign the reesone for opposing the majorliy | cisely the eame right to his liberty that I have to mize. report. It wagagterted by them that much of the pre- | Stroug men may indeed rob me o! my personal liberty gent chapter on the subject of slavery has become obso- | as they have done to of men for thouseqds eara and still ave doirg to and‘out of the church—bdut IhefYces cot wipe out my right to my personal liberty Ror alter the everlasting fact Tam entitiod by a caar- Slavery i* an oppression end a grevious wrong, that away from ratioval belogs, from thinking, ret poueible re- fleeting men every right that inheres in their nature and pertains to their perropality as men and makes them bat ‘Unings to be traded in—to de bought aad sold and given away af oxen or horses or dogs or bales of cotloa or chattels |. Am American siave can own or ao Wt be ways “ hands, my bead, ures but a Sgure of speech, for te hime, If an Jete and is practically diaregasded. owing a nrement jaws of tlsee Sinee” De the majorny abso! to ony thas tbe chorch should p'sce herself me pxition of defaace to the State, apd require our members to do what the Jaws will pot permit to be done? If 80, do they expect ‘tbe State to orotect the church in that position’ After the 4th of Jone next the Jaw of Maryland will absolately pro- hibit emancipation It is nearly so now. 'ha\ will you do with Our new rule then? As to this change of the chapter either obevlete or disregarded, so far as mie s If he appropriates his own esrnings to himeeif be i @ thief and a robber, and ts treated ascord ingly. To take himeelf into bis own possession is insur- rection, and ceath is his doom if he peraisis in claiming - | that he bas apy right to himeeif | jects « man to all I 00 drees only recommen | will quote from the same address the united, and binders the exsterce of ity, ba Bish: They sey and advise first the position of the | and permanence conpected with Tawly reloson, Church !s thet of Wesley; rosondly, the rules on slavery | ebipe; Cemies to the wife the of hi in or husband, | should be, ‘due regard to the laws of the Statice, and not nurtare | require em: Nom | Siew any besten: 9 | should not be made e tee been compelled oe ae, their tole ma conviction ip render ng obedience to their parents. ‘Matter in the light of of asiave a > ministerial 1 tion ratiefy most heartily approve of the report before as it pro. py ey nom at thentned wrongs hoary with age. the laogaage of a distin guisbed ) We say, “feli ma not of rights; talk not to me of perty of @ slavehoider ia hig tisves. I deny the right—I acknowiedge noi the property,’’ The principles and the feelings of our common nature rig ii 7, ice Multa Wa shania ner check ome Pouon games ne w,—- se oar best imauinea, App eisai. 2 or Moughts, We shall ° Tt oa soebrived tp high p!xcos or very borom of the church. ine exigencies which 99 ve Fee cideciy sgaines s2> giant wrong a Teer tbat for ty peace has bese “ ‘uitapate rource of internal war. Hed the utteras” vathers of Methodism, from 1784 down, &*, ine clarion notes of a Gruber and his coacjotors, %on heeded, thea slavebolding wou!d not have ¢Msiercned iteelf @0 exien- fively in the Methodist Eptaccpal church, an clement of A continued and increasio Dest fee! in Fen fear to ecw 1p the ‘ot the abhorrence of human corresponding efurta ite bm moral of mercenary some time be told and taught thr jand, apd we venture to say the sooner the Detter. 1 feel devoutly thenkfal to ar, Ged whet be bas by his truth, grace and provi- ackoowledge that Christiaal'y ts the Revorstiosary patriots learned their moral sad Bere. ristianity teaches, with an aut ‘de dieputed, the rights of map—not pot by sceldent of birth or wealth—but the child of God. This glorious truth, enable 7! ‘a! rights of a man becange be is a man, is stoutly denied by the tory of the Old World and mercenary slaveholders of tne New. They hold that there is no such thing as inhe- rent inaliepable rights, that there is no suck thing as equa- Lity of right man, smply #9 man. Bot these are ores ‘g degenerate politician may “glittering generality” or a rhetorical floarieh. These great priveiples are glorious realities, and thelr founda. extirpation, and we slaveboldiog mast ton is m the Bible of the living God, tne glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus rist. There our patrict fathers sew the Divine , ‘Honor all men.’’ This is the Gospel doctrine of the brotherhood of man, warranting the poor slave to say to his master, “(am 1 nota man anda brother?’ God is the Got of li- erty, and the Bible is the magna charter of haman rights. Jesue, the teacher and Saviour, came to preach deliver- ance to the captives and the opening of the prison doors them that are bound. In conclusion he said, we are epcourages to prosecute our glorious task in pleading thd eure of tbe oppressed, and opening our mouth for the dumb We bave been long in tne minority, and the hie- tory of minorities is full of ope to the lanthropiat and Christian. Enoch was in a minority all bis days; Noab deveLa suateriahy nS tabede eaet cars dom; Motes, the divinely comm issioned Seonigeinns wen r, wes vasty in the minorit the laveholter Feypt, when, in the uame iGod Altaigh 7 be evaanaed the immediate emancipation of two of slaves from the brichyards and fields of that ancient ‘whom God tmmerred in vengeful waters whilst te was endes. voring to execute the fugitive slave law of Egypt on the slaves who were fleeing from bis power to Oanata—(up. Toarious Inughter; the speaker meast to say Canaan, and corrected mistake with a good erase) ant who found eeascnable and suffi sient aid when opened the enderground railroad, of which the fiery, cloudy = pene bead light on their enter, to their given rights of life and liberty. ven guided, y pass Cown and ever the untravelled road and gain ther shore; they are ai! up, all out—old ‘Ana now rises the wildest, and song which ever burst from human lips—the song of the S 4 ‘The peeing, vindictive Ss so 1 With rage, thirsting for revenge, with Marshels whom five pieces of silver would bribe ‘f haste to follow on the fugitive’s track inte the sea, when at Jehovah's fist gravi- tation reasgerts ber ancient lav, and the mighty moua- tains of angry waters roll over and the ancient siave- ers, with Pharaoh at tieir head, perish in the midst miracle. beving exerted himeelf Moody resumed bis physically to such tan extent that, before be oonelad- ‘This higher law speech, pillar, becure whieh was tbe Brot gua in tbo coming wi wes ht, was reli highly by ihe colorea breddern present, who were sprin- kled through the vast building. As goon as the speaker took his reat there gens — of maha Ope which were puppreese ter w aA Dumber of speakers took the floor and made ineffectual attempts to speak. There are a number of delegates who are fall to the brim, aad it would be an act of cruelty to prevent them from ob- taining an outlet; indced, if tbe previous question be called for stan early of the discassion, tho couse- quences may be dieastrovs Tho friends of the delegates Dave come hundreds of miles to hear them and their reputation will be sacrificed unless they be permit. ‘ted to let off their gas and help to seve the Union. REMARKS OF NORVAL WILAOM. Norvat Wison, of Baltimore, was the next , Be in calling this 8 discussion after tie exbibi- tion they had seen by the last epeaxer. In this country ‘we were the advocates of free discussion; bu the term es bose See Tt had been turned into idle, thrift lees agitation. discussion on slavery commenced im ‘1886, with Scott, Gorton &Co The jom\ letened to by them wes similar to those made by Scott & Co. Gentiemen alluded to the names of ‘Uberforce and otbers; but oid they take their stand im opposition to the rights of masters? No; they went into the House of Commons, ava ceased not to enter thetr teaimony until succese crowned their efforts. if those gentiomen, who were strorg = antislavery men, who pursued With rutbiers severity these placed under diferent circumstances, if hey settled down with those who had contro! of the slaves, there would be consistency in their movements. He proposed to ask wi C bad been brought forth. After the sudject had been curred for a number of years, he lifted op a New York ‘aper, in to eee if something new had been elicited, wes arebash o° old matter. He preanmed there wr 8 § | id | was ‘Wesleyan Methoaism there as try tat be had ever visited. hd were like a portion of ry the other day againste olde: Pp egaicet Iny delegation, of the diecipline on slavery. The: terse acvice: ‘Don’t mend our Be stood apon the policy of the Chureb, and effirmed that anu slavery doctrines were I i hal < ? Ro H i i i = g | i i f if corperated inte the Discipline, and, like sepsible mea, <> we further, bet, Ubey quickly re. the All attempts the rules on was interested for’ his fraternity. They of the state of the Conferences the immediate neighborhood of Buf. great mary of the arene Other reforms, which resu of the church Bad been diverted by the wild fre Baticiem. ‘“‘Nereratiom’ had the State of New York; nr ured, work; z i Jews a4 et i i ef i 4 fi i 3 | ef if bY I i j i : ges i 47 iE i i I i i fH hE i és 2 36 } iz ii i : t Hf if ig J E i i i E i i ‘4 i qa Uf an #2 ii 3 S. James’ Hotel, and fe paid to have been Jarge and qmucusinstio. ‘They claim tha} they bave a euficient numi*F @f Votes te procure the passage Of the report, and they i5¢) @impepe to give the conser. Yalives ali the time they need to deliver themaclvos of “roewem rue meeting of the cénsary.'6® WA held in Kremlin Hall, but the attendance was email, They 8/89 affirm that tb,» will succeed in defeating we other sidé, ‘the Huth, ‘y that the majority lack about six to secure & + oothird vote, or at Itast these men are wavering; their votes are secured, the reeobutions of the majo” ty r¢. port will be adopted sooner or later. ‘WHAT THB COMMITTEE OF LAY DELEGATIG ARS DoIRG. ‘When the slavery question is dispo'ad of by the Confo- rence, ahother equally interesting and important ous will be taken up, im which the Methodist community are deep- port in favor of establishing another house, to be composed of jaymen. "The ‘‘old fogies,”’ as they are called by those to secure lay representation ia the to the who are Firvgg! councils ef the church, are adopuon of this measure; bat the wiotetry as a general thieg are in ‘Decaure they want to keep the lay: it is from them their Dread informed this morning that ‘hat uplets the Coaference yield to mittipg them to bave a voice ters in which they are vitally connect themselves from the Froterts at Methooust church. A masthe minutes of yead, Dr. Havens made an tain the floor, to speak in favor of the ery. report an The for petitions and perl tor f Was then oopiinued. A cebate eneved upon the presentation of rerolotions ject. It wos understood that the movers of the jations mpathized with the “Nezaritea’’ (a local . Doay who were expelled from the Genesee Conference), and who were excluded frota serving on the committee try cestain appeals which came before tne court for trial. ‘A; halt past ten Dr. Havens renewed bis motion to take up the resolution on slavery, which was carried. SYERCH OF DR HAVENS. Dr. E. O. Havens, of New England, and editor of Zion's Berala, ascenced the platform and spoke as foliows:—Mr. President, on thie very exciting question the inquiry is very natural, Why should we be excited? Why cannot» genera! conference of ministers of the gospel assemble ‘Witbout ctviding themselves into parties and entering into ‘@ lopg Gisoussion on the question of slavery? Why can ‘we not keep this subject out of our eeclestastical conven- tions and our assem! ? Why is lt that at al- most every dioner table from Maine to Oulifornia, earnest nd discussion is held on this subject? of the healthiest symptoms in American . He is @ weak philosopher who can cease until fpike’ fal ofl: Bized bas given us his revelation, in the books, and when he gave us the wrote it with bis own finger commends vs to search the A portion of those four millions are not permitted, moet of them are absolutely forbidden, to learn God requires of us to honor our parents, but the those, when they are chilaren, do not know parents were, or, if they do, they canoo} honor ‘whether they be free or slaves. Is it possible that in this Jepd there should not be an an em between such institution and Christianity? entagoniem is vital; it must exist, and it come on. Either Christianity must degenerate into formaliam like Popery, or into enthusiasm, which some now recommend when they ask us to ‘preach the Gospel without ‘to polities,’’ or 1} must collapse into atheism, | theoret |, Or slavery roust be attacked and Ese ts lis Bot a vestige of it shall with that kind of Christ Again, it wae tp whn our fathers used tbe ii = ‘0 mighty. bondag lave when They dee a scaled child of ; i ai f £438 Siae g it eg i i di He g 3 5 F i 3 E i ! tacking it politically. Clarkson, Wilberforce and others, one, did at the same time atiack ites itt i if i i I i Ht ah 3 H { fi it { E i i i i : Hi Hi i é 4 i 5 3 i i i ; a i i get ride rt : $ 5 i : 3 i = 3 pi Nini ay z g H : i petttas He v3 i 8 Agninet slavery be “are? We have no and the in PROPOSED 1. Weare 'n the p:esence of a very serious question, the settlement of which, in the public jadgment, will exercise ‘@ great influence over our church the commani- ty. 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