The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1867, Page 8

8 RECONSTRUCTION. SENATOR WILSON’S SOUTHERN TOUR. He is Met at Montgomery, Ala., by Southern Speakers. Vote of the Negroes Taken at he Close of the Debate. Whey Declare Unanimously for the Republican Party. JUDGE KELLEY IN NEW ORLEANS. We Addresses a Grand Mass Meeting of Unionists in Lafayette Square, TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE PRESENT. &e do. k& . SENATOR WILS TOUR. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Morraowsrry, Ala, May 12, 1867. x ‘RIP FROM ATLANTA TO MONTGOMERY, On the trip from Atlanta to Moutgomery on Friday Senator Wilson had the opportunity of looking into the faces of white audiences. If nota relief to the sight it ‘was a pleasant variation, The trains stopped for two hoary at West Point, on the Chattahoochoe river, which has become historical as the place where the last en- ggement in the Iate war was tought The earthworks wore carried by General Woson’s cavairy after Leo's sur- render. When the presence of Senator Wilson became known the uaual request for aspeech was made and Mr, Wilson ‘sseated, for he rarely refuses such a request, Ho was conducted to a loft alternately used for cotton storing ‘and travelling theatricals, and there he held out fer an hour to about two hundred whites and some dozen blac Re was catechised somewhat about anti-nogro laws and customs in the North, Ho Admitted there wero such, but promised reform, Nothing effensive was said or done on either side, and the threat ‘of conditional confiscation was not hinted at, ARKIVAL AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. ©n his arrival in Montgomery, accompanied by Gen- eral Swayne, military commandant, ye was escorted to the hotel by a procession of negroos, with music and forenlights Yesterday hepddressed tho people here from the east- ern portico of the State House. Tho negroes were pros. ent m urge numbers, The colored women seem as mueh interested in pol as the meu, and always at tend these mestings; so do the children, all the way Bp from habyheod, Thers were probably one hundred whites prosent, They came generally through curtoaity 0 °e aud hear Wi Tho black# cxns a3 asort of . him as one of their apostles, meet ng took place in th Gbadow of the Capitol, where it Was comparatively coo’, Mr, Wilson was [introduced by General Swayne and spoxe for neariy two houre, during which time be made Ro reference to couiseation MK, WILON'S SPRECH During the past two yours, he said, tho people of the foyal States, who poured out their money and the blood of their chi.dren like autumnal rains for the preserva- tion of the life of the nation, menaced by a gigantic Febellion, had sought, not to humiliate, not to dishonor Bro people of the rebel! States who had fought for four Years with a valor and persistency that commanded their Fespeet, but to make secure the rights and prvileves ot lions made free, Abraham Lincoin, the dearest Bme in the nineteenth century, in bis fmmortal pro- elamation of emancipation bad pledged be tions of the earth and the God of heaven the the liberties of these emancipated 1 be maintained by the authority of th Untied States. That piedge, made in tof the country’s history, registered angel, lived im the heaits of the e the repubi They resolved, come what might to them, they would struggle on. Let who: ever mignt be fal-e and reer to duty, antil they bad @etiled it forever, that slavery and everything belon; r pertaning toil bad di-appeared forever,an@ that the freed men in fact, as weil a8 ia name Were pat in fuil possession of the rights and privileges of citizens of theUnited States, In obedience to the publc will Congress bad framed © Conmitut onal amendment, but these Staies foltowing the fatal policy of t t have scornfully rejected that amendment pores Wad then laid mn the and conditions of reconstruction and giveo the subsequent act it pro The terms and con- the plan devised to into effect were before ie of Alabama He trasted they would be accep aod he had no doubt they would be, Ho trusced thet Alabama would put ber government in the Dan's of men who would vutid apon the policy adopted by Congress, and that she would sead into the mationa counclis mn who would feel, speak and vote with ch men who bad saved theircountey and mado that couatry fecover a free country, He uid not speak merely as a Pevean, Ye velieved that patriotista required that the ple of the States lately iu rebellion should take their aces with one or the other of she groat uational polit). 2! orgauyzations of the cowntry, and that sectional rties, #e¢'tooal objects and purposes, should disap wrever, The great Uni publican party accepting te subli eod of human equality, was the party of patriotism, of equal liber: f educa tion, of material intellect and moral development Du- ring the twelve years of its existence it had been the champion of & avited republic. It bad carried the flag an. kept step to the music of the Union. It came iato Deis g to preserve the vast territories of the Republic free, @nst i: made the whole country free, It had lifted the country vp so huh in power, in bonor and glory, that it ‘comma ded the respect aod admiration of the mations, and the lovers of republican hiberty all over the globe ‘were quoting and commending her example. Whaiever had no doubt that the men who bud carried the country through the last six years would hore: fier for years to come control the policy and direct 4a, councils of the republic, Tho men who had fovght against the country to maintain slavery and Bympathized with those who fonght against the country could not expect hervafier to control country they had struggled to desiroy. The p of tho Southern States uad passed away wich fdeax, § The Government of the country was pass- iuz rapidly from the people of the Attanvic Stau and South to the people west of the Alleghany moun- tains who were radical radicals He th that within two of three years these States Invely in re. Detiion would be the most radical States of the Union. The needs of States require many clanges and much radica! legislation, There would be here a radical pro- gre sive party and a reactionary that would linger avong the recollections of the past, Tt required bat little foresight to eee that the progressive r reformatory men of the iate slave holding Sta @ ald contro: the fature, There wore thought that the Government of the United Stares aud the people of the North wers imposing hard cunditions upon these States, Never since the morn- ing stars sang together had there been government or a people ko merciful, so liberal, #0 gener ows, 60 magnanimous Without a cause they led the country into a civil war. Nota man, woman or child of £5e South had bean injured by the goverament of the ‘United States or by the poople of the North. fhey went into the rebellion avd exbaustedl their resources of men ead money, forced the loyal people w incur a debt of vsand millions of dollars to croate raise vast ames. More than three bundred sand men of the Joyal States sank into soldiers’ Graves to cave their country: and emancipate the @laves. Sorrow sic ujwm the Learthsiones of bun- dreds of thousands of Joyal people, For all the ted, for «Wt the blood shed, for all soflering and sorrow the febcilion had airy, kWtoue map hed been tried, jor treason. No government, Bo peopl in the history of hitmanity ever bave been #0 forbearing and tender wowara® those Who bare raised Sheir bands against ine country, But now, after all the Josses and soderng, the people .Wnd the government had Sought only to * y for he country and for the peopie made tre by a the South accented in. itnposed bY the rovercn dhat their delepation, civilw.vr. Bat if the people of th th 9 terms and condivions ouy."as would s0@ to it sir Mepresentatives and ime enw are .samitted into Con, { 0 require that @il the peopie of Ahe States shou fair vote and shat each voter 9 deposit b atiot without fear or molestation. He trusted in God that the people of all these Siates lately in rebellion would strive to bury the Bitder Memories of the past conf cle, enter yp von a new system, turn their backs upon tueir (aiai poi, vies of the and move on in barineny with the peop. of the States, and that the men of the North, ana’ of the East and of the Wee, burying out c¥ sight the prejudices and passions engendered by the “irre. of every race, peo} slavery was gone, that rebellion slave, He reminded them that he iu the theatre at Montgomery, advocated and the enlisting aad arming Of the slaves. T' from Massachusetts had told them they owed ther liberty to the armiss of the North; but that was untrue Yours aftr the commencement of the war President iumeoin had off'red to the Confederate States (hat they would come back into the Union slavery be disturbed in the Statea, Would the Senator deny that? rebels had then gone back into the Union, as Preal- dem Liveoin wanted the South would he slaves to-day; they therolore dit not owe their liberties to the republicans or to the reb Is, but to God, the giver of all good and tPious exclamations by the blacks) heart he (Clanton) had never fired a gun for slavery, and never would. He rejoiced in their liberty. their labor he bad been educated, and he prayed w God he might live to pay back the debt with com m educating the black. tho men who He could now colored men of As God knew his und interest, He had tollowed the old fag from Vera Cruz to Mexico, and the saddest day of his ‘ile was when he bad to turn against it, He always opposed se ined hes people, becatse be But he had never dred a the Senator bad ne God who gave them their freedom, and Him alone should they thank for it, He thanked’ God that they were trea, and declured that the man who would propose to remit them to slavery would He reviewed the history of slave country, to prove that Lhe English Arst, and the aiterwards, wore respousiole for its estabiisoment, He imerests consisted in athering to the white people in the communities where they They would all have to live tegetber and be buried together, and therefore he who would stir up po- Ltieal or other dissens-ons between them was the direct enemy of both races. He reminded them that the North was execting a heavy tax ou their indus tax, ana thal in the Northern tates where their race had been free for generations, colored people were sub- Jected to all sorts of political and social disabilities, Those politicians from the North were trying to deceive the colored peopie and would desert them when the danger came as they had done in New Orleans, where sixty blacks were kilied by the mob, them to vote for those men whom they knew to be honest, and who had proved themselves their friends, and ot to be led astray by political adventurers from (Suoute for the Union ) people beard “Clanton” with patience, but his arguments had evidently no effet upen them; {ney couatuntiy broke ont inte snouts for the “Union, MR. WILSON’S REPLY, Then Senator Wilson replied to Generat Clanton, speaking for nearly another hour, recounting the vari- tuo Slavery agitation, and remarking in regard to each that he had never known the gentieman, Clanton, to bave taken the side of treedom, These bits were much relished by the colored people, who laughed, cheered and encouraged the speaker, Mi, PELDEV'S BPRECH, Then A. ©. Felder, formerly a judge and afterwards 9 colonel in the confederate army, but who since voted in the Alabama Senate for the constitutional amendment, and who is thoroughly identified with the Union cause, gotachance of replying to Cianton, who had in the course of bis speech indulged in a fling against him, turned the laugh against Clanton by declaring that bad thoaght he was not tightng for slavery during the war, he (Felder) was certain that ho It Clauton was in favor of emancipation why bad he not emancipated hia own slaves, He (Felder) bad held on to bis as long as be could, bat the federal gov- ernment had given them th nothing now tor sensible men here to do bat to conform to the new state of things and range themselv.s with the party of frevdern, VORs TAKEN AMONG THE COLORED PROFLE. Tt was between five and six o'clock when the meeting commenced, but the sun had sunk om the west and the moon had béen looking down on the econe for over two ue announced the meeting ad- 418 Of the colored people as to who were for and who against ‘the republicad party, the showed that all were for it and none against, The meet ng then broke up with cheers for Wilse Swayne, the republican party uad the ‘“Union.”? the Union hi:neelf. cession, but afterwarts thought it pis duty t gnn for the sake of slavery, fired one against it wld them their true In conclusion he urged hours befory Gene al Swa journed, first takmg the An Old Southern Planter to Senator Wilson-— What the Northern Political Crasude in the South is Lending to. [From to Charleston News, May 9.) The eubjoined letter was sent to Senator W.lzon while It was written by one of our old time gentlemen and we bave no doubt will be read with much interest -— ho was in our city, CuARtestox, May 4, 1867, To the Hon, Hever Witsox, of Massachusetts: Six—Tho aceident which occasioned your detention in ity to-day enadles me to address you a few words iu reiation to your harangue delivered yesterday, to observe that you did pot deal so fairly with the people of South Curoliia as you are reported to bave done w the people of Virginia and Svates, om the several occasions when you addressed the ‘cgatherings.”” @ ciizen was permitted to reply to yo and the poison was (hus neutralized, Here you have ae- of being announced iorth Carviina. In ti “ia compliance with way, aud by these means, you secured yourse'f from an would have exposed you as an emrssary of the New England anti-free trade protective tarid’ cou solidation interest, whe subserved by dividing the votes of tue South, words, by arraigning the negro against the Southern wh tes, aud on the side of factarors as their special Criends, You would have don» no more than sheer justice to be heard; aod yua wonld tment of your eolored dus to show them how Jirectiy antagonistic the taterests of New England ar cn itaral pursuits, and how impe: ks and whites in the Soucy ti iv hug’ of New England on us for their benefit, and to be united an together in demanding that the fruit of our labo: not be pocketed by Lowell, Lyon and Boston, In the plenitade, too, of your conse entiousness and candor, I pray you, in your hext address, enter a litue into the history of the slave trade and tli your anditors the truth—tbat your ancestors of Massachusetts, Rode Connecticut, New York and broaght to toi couutry all the Africans who ever e: ‘and they sold them to the people of tne & That they bad ai! tae slips and sailors and the Sou That the trade was profitable to New Eng- the North and that the money derived from it ed (hem to outstrip the Souch in wealth and od then turn to the descendants of those «i say to them, “The South is innocent of the you. Yankee cupaity conceived, d the diabolical work.'* 18 will be more usefal in reconciling these freedsnen to their “former masiers,”’ if that were your purpose, than all your advice to them to go to ‘Work and raise cotton for the benefit of New Eogiand, to voto on the side of justice and right, which you interpret to be the Yankee side of every question, again, sir, be just to yourself aud your past record, and say out Doldiy to these people that they never would have been hberated by the North if the South could have been vanquished witbout it, It was to overcome the South by-the use of a couple of hundred the of their bodies as breastworks (when the South had not that number ail jn all) that they were promised liverty, This too, will help thom to understand the kind of friendship you people have for Iw li ask you, in conciasion, to invi'e discussion before the freedmen, and in your presence, that they may hear bot sides, avd you may have full opportunity to y one Who may see fit to answer you. Ihave honor to be yours, Ww. JUPCE KELLEY IN NEW ORLEANS. is can ony be & a a SO the New England mana- 1 had offered to let have contributed to the en: it is upon both Pepnsvivania, plaoned and ex: S I and have now received it SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. New Ontmaxa, May 12, 1867. New York could hardly have made a finor display Bpon any loyal occasion than this lately rebel city did last night at the mass meeting in Lafayette square to hear Congressman Kelley, of Penneylvania, Since the bloody riots of July, 1866, there was never such an assernblage in the streets, Fully ten thousand persons were present They came in ward clubs by the hundreds aod thousands from all quarters of the city, with fiage, transparencies and banda The platform was decorated all round with United States flags, in silk and bonting, and lanterns banging between them, The front was festooned with wreaths, With magnolia blossoms which filled the air with per- fame, About four hundred persons occupied the plat- form, embracing many of the leading citizens aod several ladies. Rockets and other fire works in showers cleaved the sky, Iittup by ® calm Southern moon. The scone was grand in the exireme, and to those who remember the stormy condition of eocie\y hore a year ago, it must have been witnessed with surpries and gratitude, Mayor Heath introutuced Judge Kelley in # highly patriotic speech, Jodge Kelley thanked them forthe invitation ten- dered bim by the Governor and Mayor, and rejoiced that he wae at last able to visit New Orleans and all other portions of his native land, themeectves, was now free to carry his conscience and convictions whither he pleased as a citizen of the United Staion Hoe could now call all the country his home, The peculiar aysten of labor in the South bed contracted her civilization, She bad shat ont friends who would delight to visit and sit with ber citizons at their hearth. stones, She bad discouraged immigration, refused recess to the inventions tn science and art of which the North availed itself, The North bad many grest two of them | | Patriotism, justice and burmanity wil! biess euch et mn cLaNTon’® era50R eee it lawyer of thie city | ‘Then J. A. Clanton, Ves ‘and formerly General in Confederate army, accepted | m, He vmid be | men, bot without | ie Many of the things uttered by the Senaior | Acmitted were trne, but he had incinuaced many | vat were untrue He (Cipnton) bad been aiwaye | the general challenge offered by Mr. Wi ame at the request of several colored CoLALUNtOD of NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1867. man, without regard to voter in every State save South Caroling, ferriog to the fact that until Calhoun broached the heresy in 1847 tuat slavery m the terntories was not @ subject of Congressional Jegisiation, be traced the slavery agitation to the Kansas ‘troubles, and be recalled the vote upon Yancey’s motion ju the Baltimore Convention of 1848, which was similar to that of Calhoun’s in 1847, a’ vole of 246 nays to 36 yeas What a ae during the tweive a u vow ihe demo. cratic ieaders of the North assured you that if you would strike for ae ss rights tney would stavd by zou on the field, How were their pledges kept? ‘The whole North gave you these sodicrs whose uames are known, Gastavus W, Smith and Mansticid Lovell, They gave you pesides what the jiile girl pro- board to give the missionary cause, thoir ye tI ey ever praye? for you. Still the million of graves tilled by the best and bravest of b are chargeable to the South for submilting the question to the arbitrament of wer. He had seen a leiler from Franklin Pierce declanug if you seceded there would be no war, or that if there was it would be coextensive with the country, and that biog would Gow in every village, town ant cily of the North and West. How were hig pledges kept? In what city of the North did blood flow? Betwe u tne citizens of which Northern States was there armed coilision, aud from which of the Northern States did meo swarm to swell the ranks of your armies? <o far Listory will hold the North, especially the democratic party the responsible tor the war. The Sunth, too, was responsi for opening the way to rebellion, It had kept the mass of her peepie in profound A degrading ignorance, The laws of each Stale prohibited by penal Stituce the education of the slave population inevitable. Tuteliigence and culture are term pati with slavery; the absence of schools, the want of general fieids of employment degraded the non siavolwiding Whites of the country, aud the icast enterprising of them left the land of their birth to tind happier homes elsewhere, showing that since 1850 over 160,00) people had left the nine planting States to go to nviana, Te nots and other agricuiiural and grazing States 1 the North. Ho continued:—‘Do you reproach ine and ochers of the North that we did pot cowe im those days and lay these arguments before you? Ab, my friends, you forgoy the terrivie despotiam that you vstabiished over yourselves. You raised the cry of avolitionists again4t Northern men, and with treats and blood- hounds pursued thom to death, You trated (iv duiler- ence of opinion as the most heinous ot crimes; bat I come not to vandy orimination or recrimivaion with you, ‘There ia ample roo for that between you and tue loaders of the democra:te party of the North; but tor sayself and the republican party I may say sbaxe not your gory locks at us, for you cannot say we aid it. Hav- pity these things belong to the past, In ail ths broad iand no man owns his brother mao, You meu of cvlor, citizens of Louisiana, wno wear the Ivory of Africa’s burnished sun, givelthanks unto God .hat He has turned and overturned unts! the bumbiest among you stands erect in majesty of freemanhood, the equtl of your fellow man before the laws of your coun- try as you are before the beneficent Father of ail He guided the pen of Abranam Lincoln while writing the proctamation of emaucipaion, and they wuo enacted the Civil Rignts bill, and the Mi bill tw secure the enforcement of is ‘s went reverently to Him for counsel and reco nized iis sovere gn presence in their midst My whie fellow citizens, let me say to you that you are charged with a duty grander than is oiten confided to a g-neration of men. You are ty unite with those whom through tife you bave been taugut to despise as an inferior race; in Orgavizing @ parry in Louisiana in harmony wito the great republican party of the North. As an evidence of the fouy of endeavoring io cut themselves olf from navonal goverumert, he pointed to the ruined levees: and the desiruction spread over the Jand, The repars of levece was a nutivual question, Neither the people hor the State kept them in good order, One Svate 1 good levee iaws and otbers made vad ones, Uve Kept them in good order, others did not; and tne neiect of one brought desiruction on the wale, He pledged himself to use his iniluence in Congress to obtain an appropriation for the repair of jevees, provided they carried out the reconstruction law 1m good iaita aud did justice to the negro. Afier a tew remarks as vo the cer tala pr-sperity of New Orleans, the speaker concluded thns—MRest not your experiment upon the embodimeut fn the consutation or iaw of abstract prin iples, but seo to it that they are embodied practicaily, Lf you rise vo the prompt accomplisament of this grat work the day of unio will have: pused and, the Amer .con eword may be beaven wto a ploughéuare, and @ nacion tout in ie mfaney put rato the ted anu kept thers for four yeurs, during whicn the bivodiest aud best tested ba.ties of kistory were foughi, armies each uum bering more thay “s miilloa men, need fear no foreign war. Let us, then, pot grieve over the Past, but, Dating no job of heart or hope, move onward in our " great work, and ue straggling miilions of Europe will find encouragement ju our favors, and inuumerable posterity will rise Wo re- vere our country’s flag, to bail those who feit martyrs 1a {ts maintenance and (hove who through the civil surife compietad ther work, blessed among men,” (Long aud continued applause.) Kesulutions were adopted charging Andrew Johnson with (he responsivility of the Jviy rivts, favorug im- Ppeachment, and hearily endorsing tho course of Goneral Sueriuan, Ree, Mr, Conway made a stirring speceh, and one of the iargest and most orderly ta-etugs ever bed in New Orleans dispersed without tbe slightest coniarivn or dis- turvauce, te clubs marching off pact tae repablican newspaper offices and St, Charles Hot, where Juuge Keiey 18 stopping, cheeriag tustily and waving to Unied States ilaga, ‘There wers » t.ousaads of egroes al the mect’ng, some of Whom WED slavery was mentioned eried out, “Give to hi bara! bit bina again, Alasea Kelley!” GEVERAL SICALES’ DISTRICT. Ocder fram the Commanding General in Re- to Sequestration of Property by the —The South Carolina Re- congregnt RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Rev. Dr. Cheever’s Closing Sabbath Discourse in the Church of the Puritans, Rey. Dr. Cheever, pastor of the Church of the Puri- tans, last evening delivered a closing discourse, ‘“‘com- memorative, historical and thanksgiving,’ on occasion of ‘the anniversary of the Church Anti-Slavery Society. AS it was known that this would b@ the last occasion Dr. Cheever would oceupy the pulpit, and the last Sabbath that religious services would be held in the church, there was a large congregation present, The preacher took as his text tho Lord executeth righteousness aud judgment for ali that are oppressed,” th verse of the 1034 palm, “The —We have long waited for the fulfiiment of these words of the psalm; but God having emaucipated the slaves without our consent and against our protesta- tion, we enter the court room and claim to be ourselves the emanctpators, We put our names to Ue paper, arro- gating to oursolves that we drow it up when the very watermark proves it a forgery, Wo were compelled to pay it by God’s omnipotence, Had we been stronger than God, not one solitary sinve would have been eman- cipated to-day, The Chief Justice, Governors, Senators and Representatives giving their advesiou, tho Chief dingistrate refused his signature to the grandest of all the measures of freedom ever attempted, on the ground of a doubt whether Congress possessed the power to abolish slavery in the rebel States by law, The rule of the consti'ution and the interpretation of all law ts and shail be liberty and justice, To say that the act of emancipa- tion’ was assertion of fraud against man- kind, depr ving the whole race of one of the mo=t glorious: and instructive exhibitions of human depravity and of Divine mercy ever develeped. It was noi the sponta neous work of the government, but an absolute and uli- mate necessity, It was not the natural impulse and working of the government producing and establishmg miversul liberty, but @ necessity to save the life of tue avion itself, Five years ago the Luciler of tue rebeilo said, “I will exalt my throne above tue stars of God. Ob, how tue great Lucifer bas fallen. Iwill act on the mount of the cougregation on the sides of the North and IT will cail the roi of our siaves on Bunker Hill, Now, by the privilege of the babexs corpus act, be is brought cout for wial for treason against the United States. Wf for ten years the balf of every Saobath bad been devoted ‘by every chu: 0° that ope theme— emancipation, the country might have been saved with- out bloodshed, and slavery bave been peacefully ab ‘ished, Eight thousand mibious of property might have Jen preserved Lo the country, and upwards a: two mil- lions of lives rescued from destruction. The estabtish- mentof the Anti-ciavery Society arose in order to save the church from the charge that it was in the interest of slavery, We commenced the movement waen there was no sign Of secession, when we had reason to believe that there were years of labor before us, and when the cua: ge wes brought against the pastor of this church that he was insane, aud Ue conservative churches were united in bitterness against those engaged in the movement. Bat God in one year did the cvurch’s work with the aword, But sm our eburch in ihe past we would not keep silent on the great ine of duty, We ‘appealed to truth in every way aod iu every avenue; we prepared memorials to Congress; wo made appeals to the Presideut and addressed the people in public. asso diages with ail the fkh and earnestness that bel Christan body fp the land wo truth to the Presiden’, Winter aiter Wint F this cuureh hada place in Wasuington, aad bocame a power, vot only im Unis couutry, but toroaguoat Earope, ‘The church, by Divine ' power, was supported for the yast twenty-one years; twe've of which we have heen invoivea in the whiriwhind of tue con- Mice against eluvery, Not ouly bavo we worked on the Sabbath, but we have lectured, day alter day on justice, and on the timits of exped tt) Justice and liberty. We teciured i 2 the soundvess of law and (he ity of lawyers, and the eacroduess and responsi? a of the war power, and the n.cessi'y justice to blacks ‘and whites alise, crite to vo ug aelberat We announced it the ducy of eas, by the Constitution, to shigid the poor and dotencetess. We always demanded equal justice for bia aud whe and spoke aainst tho prejudicies against Cotor, a8 Mean, cruel and despicable. When Senator Lane’ addressed Cooper lu-iitute during the early part of the war, he as-ured the people tbat if the merchants of New York rausiied the President that stocks would not go dowa, be wonld issuo a prociamation of emanc ¥ the peopie of New York in the nis "Was expedioucy, Expediency! Was auythiug uined by the delay? We sought the good fight uo Il Luese years when it was considered treason to be da sep- ‘selves sealed up in it, We aught have been enormously ry AB & COP oration, hike the favored Dutch Oburch, and Trinity. Toe weirs of Aoneke Jans i they cot their property might bod the chareh, or ten churches, but noc we, It ida Jeeson not to bond om jeased ground, out to hoid God's acre in fee simple. $10,000 a yeur ior grouud is too much for us io meet; thay ie the reason why we relinquish tos bandin, not becaus® wo could put otherwi-e hold it Wo w git have held it bad we been uuder the wing of a +o would give ua the publ.c property as asite fora cutbedral, and give up Uuion square tor funds to sustain it, No wonder a church should sustun jselt in tbat way. But we had no such resort, nor do wed sire it, We have jus: right to be proud of sact pried the app jostice aud trate against the ruling sim of the couuiry, tough it feat us all ¢ publican State Convention. aside frou Cranusstox, & C., May 12, 1867. General Sickles has issued an order requiring all per- sons concerned in the seizure of any kiud of real or abolitioniae was to be aud destructionsia, God bas compelled Lhe nation, by a succession of necos- sites, t0 give the bidcks (he suffrage, aud it is to be hoped that Congress wilh be restrained from over au- personal property sequestrated by the Confederate gov- ernment, to report in writing to bis headquarters the amount and kind of property sequestrated, the time and plice of sequestration, with the names of the origiaal owners ond the presont holders Tue Repabdlican State Convention has adjourned to meet im Columbia, July 24. A platform was adopted arming their adbesson to the republican party of the North. Orgno of the Colored People of North Carotinn. Wacntsatos, May 12, 1867. A freedmen’s paper, egtitled the Monitor, has made its appearance at Lincolnton, N, C., for circulation among the colored population. The name of the editor is with- held for the present until it is determined whether the Monit'r will bo sustained, Ite object is stated to be to harmonizo and encourage a friendly reorganization, to impress upon ail the necessity as well as the duty of ox- hitting a reciprocity in sentiment and union ro.arding the interest of both races Under the new system. A Soath Carolina paper says that foor-titths of the people in that Stale approve the stay aw enacted by General Sickles. POLICE INTELLIGEN )%. Autroxn BURGLARY.—Mary Murtha, 161 East Twenty- first street, appeared before Justice Ledwith yesterday and charged Henry Adams with having entered her room and attempted to steal an overcoat valued at $25, When complainant wont into her apartment sho dis- covered Adama, who, om finding himself detectod, dropped an overcoat, which beiouged to complainant, "4 attempted flight, but not, however, without throat ing to shoot Mary if she made any nowe. The pris- over bails from Canada, siates he has no permaneat being in the room, bat repadixies tie idea of bis having unlocked the door. He was cominitied by Jumice Ledwith yesterday, with- ont bail, ALLEGED Pitot SHoorix. —Gotheb Ottingen, residing at 31 Cornelia street, made complaint against Jobn Lim- bach, a German bartender, whom he charges with hav- fog, on the evening of the 11th inst, red « pistol at him, the bal! from which grazed deponent’s head, Lim- bach denies all Knowledge of the (ransaction, and siates he had no pistol sbouhim at the time. He was held in the sam of $1,000 bail to answer by Justice Ledwith, at tne Jeiferson Market Police Court yesterday. Atteoen Lancexy.—Jobn Hoffinan was arraigned yes- torday at (he Essex Market Polico Court, charged with the larceny of a chost of tea, valued at $45, from the store of Jobo Doscher, 692 Second street. The officer by whom Hoffman was arrested stated that he had ob- served the accused, in company with two others, make noveral attempts to gain possession of the chost of tea, which was in an exposed place in the berg | and when they had dnaily succecde! he then secured Hoffinan, but the others managed to depape, Justice Mansfieid held the prisoner in $500 to answer, Trove Brrwexs Panrtxens.—-Emille Kubely and Louis P. Grifiths were formerly partners fa a whol drag business in this city, Reoontly they dissolved their connection, Grifiths continuing the business In his own On the Saturday before inst Kubely called upon bis late partner to examine into some old account, ‘when, It is said, Griffiths assaulted him and put bim out of the store. Ap examination was had in the matter before Justice Mansfield at the Essex Market Police oc yesterday, which resulted ia Griffithe being held Attscep Disorperty Hovewa—The several alleged Proprietors of the houses Nos. 42, 44 and 46 Canal atreet, who wore arrested on Saturday night by the police of the Tenth precinct, as war stated in 's Hema, were arraigned at the Essex Market Police Sais Mansfield and wo terday morning before Justice answer. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Speaker Schuyler Colfax, of the House of Reprasenta- tives, is stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Ex-President Fi Banke, of ranklin Mere General F, MoCondrte, M. Livingston : thor rel ston hare He Mar Paap W. G. Brown, of lndiana, and G, Ricker, of i are sopping at the Hofman House, Maiev W. C Idee, Colonel B. K, Roberts and Captain D. & Heomond, he U1 Staves Army, stop. eiropolitan Hotel as nouncing the ssct that the amendment giving to exch State the right to disfranchise such of its citizens ax it pleases for any eause but that of crime. God bad eon peled the granting of the franchise to the Diacks through ad behavior of the South and the conduct of we resident. ‘Therefore, we aro under ere gations to God, In addition to thw fact that wo are manifesily thrown upon God—ihat “we are under greaer obiivations tuan any otver nation tn the world, and under a more solemn covenant wil Him through’ His mercies, hereafter to mae it grand rale of our government and peopie—to do to love mercy, and walk humbiy with our God, ward to ourselves #8 a charch, as 1 have seen it in- tumaced in some paragraphs, that we had, after making this noble and maguiile ehdowment, and tue pay- ment of all the debts of tue society pussed from the Led, a9 (hough we had doue our work, and bad nothiug more 10 accomplish, or auy sphere of duty to fulfil, We are going ‘on by God's biesting und mercy, by the providence and perwission and susiaining goodaess of God to ouiid a din this city. Our ple, But forthe present we shall worsvip on the Saboath mornings in our lecture room, and we after what i called the suaumer rectly upon the work of building tue gospel, and worsbipping im it ad inviting all with us that are disposed, and depend upon it by God's help we shall make it as true as this has been in the past to freedom and tue divine truth as we can possibly make it, and we will welcome wichout money aud without price, ail of overy class and de bation to come and receive the wine and milk of the Gospel through our instrumentality. Witi these re- marks I close, casting ourselves on the country and tho world with a full belief that we are on the eve of ex- periencing and witnessing @ manifestation of God's providence aud mercy, in connection with which he Hight that will be seen and knowe will bo as ihe | ghs of the sun aimost, in comparison with that of the stars at midnilt Casting Ourselves and the nation and the world on God, le: us-hope to have the kingdom of God come to our own hearts beiore we attempt to pe promi- nent or dream of being successful in the movement of advancing His kingdom on earto, y and St. Albuns. Yesterday was areal Sunday, It veridiod Moerbert’s exquisite deseripiion— Syreet day, #9 coe), #0 ©1!m, #0 br! ‘The bridal of the earth and sky, Even Superiniendent Kennedy did not farbid the hans. The sun shone without aeking whether “Little Fuss and Feathers’ would allow it and the milkmen to make their wonted rounds. The rutnor that Kennedy intended to close even the charches on the Sabbath, happily Proved untrue, All the churches were open and crowded, as well as tho Park. The Henaup bad announced that the Blue law edicts of the Superintendent were revoked, and the fountain on Washington Parade ground played as merrily as usual, Unique among the churches of New York is St, Alban’s, On Forty-soventh strest, opposite a long Duilding which Is not a railway depot, bat looks like one outside, stands another tong building, which is nota Roman Caitbotic church, but looks like one inside, This ie St Alban's. High church as it is, its low roof often causes it to be passed by worshippers who mistake for it the tall spire of Dr. Chapin’s. Ite external appearance fe plain and unatiractive, It ta built of brick and etone, fo the carly English style, with a modest little porch and # sharp roof surmounted by a belfry and 9 eros. Within the body of the eburch Is but slightly orrd- mented, The seats are plain benches rathor than and are free to al! comers—a bappy innovation ihe country, But those who oceupy the benctes are x- pected to contribute according to their respective means: to the support of the establishment, and printed pla- Pin F i 3 Speciators enough #8 = stance, which decorate M. Pagin’sjchapel at Claphat has nevertheless gone far enough to make a goodly show in the way of stained glass, illuminated screens, in- scriptions in old English eeclesiasdcal text, to read than Latin,” far cards, an tall lighted candies, ng the corporal, such as a burse for bo! ed with a veil, the color of which varies with the season of the ecclesiastical year; a big book on & movable credence table with asiiver paten, on whic the wafer bread for communion, with cru of wine and water, a lecturn, railings, cathe- dral stalls, an organ, white sarplipes, black cassocks and red Cagsoeks, the green stole and the green maniple, and the chasnoie of the priest—tae back with something like the letter Y—the deacon’s stole, worn over the left shoulder, etc, On specially ie used at St Alban’s, and various Ceremonies are borrowed from the Catholic nble marked on the solma occasions incense But afterail the genuflections, and intoning, and el tion of the chalice, and the rest, it must be adi that to the Catholic eye the # with the part of Hamlet omitted; and the Protestant who is not initiated into the mysteries of modera ritual- must be siinply bewildered by it. In this country, however, as ia England, ivn sets strongly in this direction. urch in New York where ritualistic prac- Antiphonal chaning and bom inations” have been iniroduced, we id, into sober old Trintey itself, uatism ‘here, as well os in England, is not altogether diculing ag “‘a mere sysiem of eccivsiastical millinery, born of the sick braons of fool- dau and lancifal young curates,”’ but it fsa genuine ex- pression of a respectable minority of the Protestant laity. In the United states its progress may be favored sume- what by our national love of novelty and showy specta- cles. But, merely copying the forms and ceremoni vestures, the incense and the chants <y, withont conforming to the doctrines which these observances are intended to symbolize, 1 not «sign of so prodigious and radical a revolution as at first glance it might seem. ‘The Catholic may not estapt need not fear that such signs id general conversion Church of Rome. They ipectacle seems like Hamlet: Undoubtediy, rit what Punch is fond of primitive litur hope and the Pi of the times indie of the American peopte to th only iitustrate the fact that in our country Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile equally enjoy freedom to worship God according to the dictates of each indi- vidual eonscieuce. i St. Bridget’s Roman Catholic Church, St. Bridget’s Catholic church was yesterday (he scene of most interesting di votional exercises. The pastor, Father Mooney (who, in company with Bishops Purcell and Loughiin, and the Rey, Father Starrs, will leave New York next week for a tour through Barope), had arranged that the members of tho Tota! Abstinence and Benevolent Societies connected with the church should comply with their religious duties befors bis departure, Accordingiy, at (ho balt-past tem A, M. mass yesterday, between four and five hundred of the memoers of those xocieties raceived holy communion, A solemn high Mooney being celebrant, Fathor Farrelly, of St, James’, deacon, and Father Fitzsimons sub-deacon. municants, wearing the badges of their respoctive socie- tes, wivanced two and two through of the church to the altar, r d filing to the rignt and lett knelt at tho raits, where the eacharist was administered Tae scene was solemn and im- posing a8 this lane number of nen advanced to their places, their faces beaming with religious devotion. Dourmg this ceremony the silence which reigned in the sacred edifice was only broken by the lew tones of the Bishop Aniat, of Los Angelos, occupied a posi- tion within tue sauctuary duriug the celebration of the was ‘The organist, Mr. James Caulfield, performed Mo- was very creditably executed. épiayod the qualiuies of the nuble instrument (0 loists were Mme. Reville, ceprayo; Langeubach, wenor, aud Mr. Santa Marie,” by Mme Ke- finely cultivated voice, was pleas- iwely sung; aud the duet, “ Salutaris,”” by the same lady and Mine, Avscuutz, aso deserved commendation, ‘A sermon was preached by Bishop Aniat, from St. Jotun, xvi, 19. Ater the termination of the mass Father Mooney Tread a ctreutar from the Archbishop of New York direct- ing a eoliection to be taken up text sunday in aid of bis He (Father Mooney) also declared ntention of making sowe farewell remarks to U congregation at the baif-past tea A M. mass on next to them by the pastor. zart’s Twelfth Mass, w Mme, Av-chatz, Ville, Who possess Holiness the Pope. Lessons for Young Men. Rev. Dr. Adams delivered the anviversary sermon of the Young Men’s Christian Association last evening in the Madivon Square Presbyterian church, taking for his suhject “(Some lessons for young men, drawn from the life and character of the late Dr, Goode! ceas ip life was not a piece of good luck or the result of The lawe of Providence im regard to success wgro rigid and inflexible, and just so much of solid toil as'a man put into the work of life, just so much of real honor aud reward would he reap, As a striking example of real success, be suid be should sketch Goodell, a missionary of the American Society in Constantinople, had recently passed of seventy-tiv history ef Dr, circumstances, acquired an education at the expense of a great deal of hardship and privation, At the age of thirty years be went to Turkey, and im that country forty years in the service of Curit. himeelt familiar with severai of the Oriental languaces used in the Ottoman Empire, he evtered upon the great labor of his !fe—cie transiation of the entire bible out of the origina! Hebrew and Greek into the Turkish Jan- guage. Dr. Adams gave an interesting closing passages in Dr. Godell’s life, and impressed upon the younger part of the cengrevation the lesson that real Success, though not perhaps pecuniary pros- perlty or temporal honors, are the invariable resuit of ‘an Loneat devotion to duty, “pt more than javing rendered accoaut of the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cherch. Last evening the apostolic rite of confirmation was administered by Bishop Potter at the French church, in, Twenty second street, where the congregation of St, Stephen's churei now assemble. The gathering was very large, and the quartetie choir, which bas been re- cently organized, gave some very excellent renderings, ne voice was remarkably good in the There was no sermon, but after the imposition of hande the bishop addressed those confirmed in a most He said—This is too important a moment in your lives, too critical a period in the era of your salvation, to pass it by without comment and with- out thought, J need hardly mention the great privilege which you now enjoy. You have been really made the children of Christ, and hi flesh and biveod, in whieh the barit impressive manner, been baptized with hi? now entitled to re. coive the sactament‘of the Holy Eucharist. Doubtless you bave gone through the preliminary ordeal of serious thougbt, sincere prayer, and judicious imstruction, be- fore coming here to be enrolied as the children of God in word and deed, as you have been already christened ‘Your feet are now firmly set weil within that ‘h can only lead (o Heaven, and let me implore I do not say that ited to salvation ; you never to stray youare polig dBm but you now recognize wor born, Go home to-aight with this earnest are declared to be Hi od jureh, help if you only wateb and pray. accepts your sacrifice, It is & great privilege, a great Diesaing to which you have been admitted ia being made acquainted with your Father which is in Heaven | a be trae soldiers of the crosa Be (hi, as it were, and jvies to which you dtence ast all the trial e Tue detenee ‘nd sorrows of this mortal and we all have, is the may be vouchsafed to uty to God, and I entreat He will ard and God regularly and Many come to His ‘who are still in the paths of sin; but with God all things are possible, and He will convert even the hardest sinners to a perfect knowledge of Bi ways He that spared not Hie own Son, but delivered cross for your sakes, will surely not desert you if you pray to Him You are the Un the one side of you ovtl epirit and the things of evil, an other Diessed spirit and the cross of Christ, hich side to ally yourselves, tly that you are th on our daily exercises reat attributes we in the atonement of Christ, You are all to Him, and with Go re the Bove of You to give it comfort you, perform the services you owe Him, heave, no dow! Him up to th your own desinies Toy very sad dwelling, tion by ® very large congregation. After the asual im MntnelenyaneTiows anh. Cpasingiog of the hymn God, yo servants, that attend, the Rev. gentleman anaounced bis text from the 12tb “There is but one law. ” The preacher traced the origin of lew, man’s obligatios nto it, and ils unity with Christian mor- ality, Individual obligations and social rights were both Tespected when law was rightly admistered, Man, ac- cording to the Greck sage, is but a political animal, and it was the duty of eye man to obey was his duty to surron. all personal ne ik prejudices, that the peace of society might be main- tained, @ conscience of man and the rights have relati iy the author of ail law. The right of cons , does not deny the right of Moralit) are one in their source, but they differ tn their ‘Law aims at discipline, it seeks to reform fender ; not to ignore the rights of society, reverend gentieman then referred to the great catalogue of vices not yet reached by legisiation, aud cailed the attention of the class to the great Prepac | in social circles, the stupendous swindles that the law of trade protects, where the lesser lights of crime are panished. Much eomplaiat, he said, existed in the country relative to the grea’ corruption among our rulers and law makers, and asked by what means do the keepers of gambling helis and monte banks represent great interests in hails of legMatiou? If party bides such moral leprosy it ought to die and it will die, Whatever its foundation, whatso- ever its rights, nothing can save it from @ moral tomb. ‘He assured the class chat theirs was the noblest of all * sindies; that their profession furnished the men who ruled the affairs of the nation, made our statesmen, and eutreated them to become more than mere “hucksters,’” and by all their power.endeavor to stem the tide of cor- ruption in these debasing times, the corruption that threatens 10 undermine the social world, An appro- priate hymn being sung, the congregation were dis- missed by the benediction. Laying ef the Coruer Stone of a Catholic Church near Baltimore. Batrntons, May 12, 1867. To-day a large procession, comprising some thirty so- cleties, with banners and music, marched to the village — of Woodbury, two and 4 half miles from the city, near Druid Hill Park, to participate in laying the corner stone of tue new Catholic church at that place, The cere- monies were very interesting and orderly, ‘The Anniversaries nt Memphis. Memvas, May 12, 1867. ‘The Baptist Convention yesterday adopted a resolu- | tion making its sessions hereafter annual, instead of bi- euniai, and appointing Baltimore ax the place for the next session in May, 188, The Indian Mission has re- Ported that but little progress was made during the past year. A resolution was adopted, urging the Church to = and labor more faithfully for the conversion of the jews. The Episcopal Convention assembles here next Tues- day, amt the General Assembly of the combined Pres by-erian Chureh will meet on Wednesday next, The Millerites of this city yesterday predicted that, to-day would be the Day of Judgment, and several | merchants in consequence closed their stores and settled, | up ther accounts during the day in preparation for’ their final doom. ce ‘ WASHINGTON. Wasuixctos, May 12, 1867. 3 The Impeachment Question. The Judicisry Committee in pursuit of impeachment, are endeavoring to unearth some dreadful secrets rela~ tive to President Johnson's exercise of the pardoning power, It is said that a cortain Mr. Speed, of Virginia, | could give some interesting points on this subject were | he to be summoned by the committee, Movements of General Banks, General Banks left bere for New York last evening, Before leaving Washington he visited Madame Juarez, at the Mexican legation. Affairs nt the South. A locai colored preacher, of the Methodist Episcopal church, was recently shot and mortally wounded by « white man named Morriss, in Sumter district, 8. 0, The preacher had participated as speaker at several recent meetings of the colored. people at that place, and it is said that the shooting wee occasioned by remarks made on those oceasions. The affair produced much excite- mont, and it is boped will receive the attention it de- mands on the part of the authorities, Intelligence from Rome, Ga,, states Lieutenant Camp- | bell, who was acting officer of the day in thatcity) hearing that there was @ company of colored militia being organized, went to their place of rendezvous and ordered them to discontinue their operations at once, assuring them it the military sheuld get a knowledge of any further operat.ons of the kind, ai) parties engaged in it would be immediately arresied and put in jail. This action of Lieutenant Campbell was approved by }f Colonel! Ritter, Commander of the post, A report says that General Pope offered to make Mr.” i James L. Seward Governor of Georgia, in place of Gov- ernor Jenkins, aud that he declined the honor for very politic reasons. Mr. Seward is a prominent citizen of Thomasville, Georgia, The reported execution of two Union soldiers in Edgefield district, South Carolina, ty a posse of citl- zens, ia found, on investigation, to be untrue, Arrest of the President and Director of the | Bank of Lexington, N. C., on a Embezzlement. W. B. Marsh, President of the Bank of Rexington, N.C,, and ED, Hampton, one of the Directors, were taken to,Salisbary on Tuesday, by order of General Sickles, under the charge ot embezzling the specie of the bank, about the time of the surrender of the rebel General Johnston. The complaint was made by J. W. Thomas and others. The parties have had a hearing, and the evidence has been forwarded to General Sickles. The accused will remain in custody of the military until the General is heard from. American Colonists at Jaffa Returning to the ted States. The Department of State has received information from the Agent and Consul General of the Uni- ted States at Alexandria, Egypt, that six of the discontented members of the American colony near Jaffa, Mr. Kelly and Mr, Tibbets, with their families, arrived at Alexandria on the 6th of April, ‘on their way home to the United States. Every neces- sary assistance was given them by our Consul General,‘ and through his tntervention arrangements were made for the passage of the party thence to Marseilles, in a French steamer, leaving om the 14th of April. PROBABLE MURDER IN PHILADELPHIA. house, He will probably die. Weaver not yet been arrested. poe wife habitually dresses clothes, and several voyages a8 ® commgn sailor from ths port. MISCELLANEOUS. J. 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