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GENESEE EVANGELIST.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1882
ZORN W. MEARS,
OUR VOLUNTEBE rum
.MITION OF THE SYNOD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Resolved that the proposal to supply the vol
unteers from our churches and congregations
regularly with the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN,
is regarded with great favor by the Synod, not
only' as a kindly and patriotic act, but as calcu
lated to promote the spiritual interests of the
volunteers, and as foiming a channel of sympa
thy and a bond of union between them and the
churches at home.
.Resolved, that it be recommended to every
church within our bounds to take up a collec
tion, or otherwise to contribute to the expenses
of the undertaking.
RECEIPTS.
North Broad street Churoh, .
THANKSGIVING DAY IN PENNOYANIA.
Barri/bum Oct. 21.—The Governor has is
sued the following proclamation :
In the name and by the authority of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, Andrew G. Curtin,
Governor of the said Commonwealth.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, It is a good thing to render thanks
unto God for all his matey and loving kindness;
therefore.
I, Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, do recommend that
Thursday, the 27th day of November neat, be set
apart by the people of this Commonwealth as a
day of solemn Prayer and Thanksgiving to the
Almighty—giving him humble thanks that he
has been graciogsly pleased to protect our free
institutions and. Government, and to keep us from
sickness and pestilence ; and to cause the earth,
to bring forth her increase, so that our garners
are choked with the harvest ; and to look so
favorably on the toil of his children, that indus
try has thriven among us and labor has its reward;
and also that he has delivered us from the hands
of our enemies, and filled our officers and men 'in
the field with a loyal and intrepid spirit, and giv
en them victory; and that he has poured out
Upon us (albeit unworthy) other great and mani
fold blessings.
Briseeehing him to help and govern us in.his
steadfast fear and love; and to putinto Our minds
good desires, so that by his continual help we,
may have a right judgment in all things; and
especially praying him to give to Christian
Churches grace to hate the thing which is evil
and to utter the teachings of truth and righteous
ness, declaring openly the whole counsel of God;
and most heartily entreating him to bestow upon
our civil rulers wisdom and earnestness in
council, and upon our military leaders zeal and
vigor in action, that the fires of rebellion may be
quenched; that we, being armed with his defericey
may be preserved from all perils, and that here
after our people, living in peace and quietness,
may from generation to generation, reap the
abundant fruits of his mercy, and with joy
and thankfulness praise and magnify his holy
name.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the
State, at Harrisburg, this twentieth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the
Commonwealth the eighty-seventh.
By the Governor.
ELI SLIFER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
BEV. HENRY BUDGE OF BEVERLY, N. J.
[it affords us sincere pleasure to transfer to our
columns the following resolutions from the
ortlsom Journal of Watertown, N. Y. Our ac
quaintance with the Churches of Greig and Port
Leyden; with the gentlemen who have signed
these reselutions ; and, with the labors of the
Riv. Itrr. Budge, in that vicinity, deepens our
interest in his welfare and usefulness.]
Rev. Henry Badge, of Lyon's Falls, having
received and accepted a 'unanimous call to the
Rresbyterian Church of Beverly, N. J., near
Philadelphia, and connoted with the Presbytery
of that city, the following, resolutions were unan
imously passed by the two churches of which he
'has had the care for the past three years.
l at a meeting of the Presbyterian Church and
"SoCiety of Greig, Lewis County, held on the
25th day. of May 1862, it being represented that
their pastor the Rev. Henry Budge, had accept,
Aod Call from another church, and had request
the coneent of,this church and society;to the
- dissolution of ecclesiastical connection with them,
it was •
Resokedi unanintausly, That we consent to
the wishes Of the Rev. Mr. Budge solely and
only on his own account, and not at all because
or any desire or even inclination on our part to
leg' his ministrations in the Gospet--ButAn
linCring that'the contemplated change wouldW
terl,4ly promote his happiness and usefulness, we
deem it, our duty to interpose no obstacle in the
;way of his removal.
Besolved unanimously That we cordially recom
mend the Rev. H. Budge to the churches as a
humble and devoted Christian s a faithful and ac
ceptable Preacher of the gospel, an active Pastor,
well adapted tobuilding up the ehurch,through Di
vine grace, and an able-friend of every good work:
and it is our prayer that the great Head of the
Church will bless his ministrations, hereafter to
the conversion of sinners, and the honor of
Christ's name.
EDWARD HoLooms, Mod.
C. W. PJtATT, Clerk.
At a meeting of the Congregational Church
and Society of Port Leyden, Lewis Co., held on
The 25th day of May 1862, the foregoing resolu
tions of the'Church and Society of G-reig were
read, whereupon it was.
Revived unanimously, That we heartily and
fully concur in the same, and while we deeply
regret the separation which is contemplated be
tween Mr. Budge and this church and Society,
to whom he has ministered one half of his time,
We most affectionately bid him God speed in his
labors for Christ: hoping when life's struggles
shall have been ended and its trials overcome,
we may meet again "where the wicked cease
frpp troubling, and where the weary are at
art.
ALANSON MERVIN, Mod.
OM W. HOLCOMB, Clerk. *
Editor.
ANDREW G. CURTIN.
A TEXT FROM GER, BUTLER,
Glancing over the w'hole,subjitgated ;region of
the South, we find scarcely more than 'one pro
minent United States official on the field who
has seemed thoroughly to comprehend his posi
sition as the representative of law and justice -
among rebels, and who has drawn the line be
tween the two, with bold and unfaltering hand.
We refer to Gen. Butler,nt New Orleans. Much
as we respect our President, We are compelled to
believe that Gen. Butler's course has done more
to keep alive in men's minds a sense of the broad
distinction between treason and 14alty;ind of
the criminality of the former, than the milder ~
and seemingly hesitating `Course of the President.
Certainly Mr. Lincoln has acted with a quiet
dignity, a conscientiousness and a cautiousness in
his most trying position, which• hai`e wcin' him
.the confidence, the esteem and the affection of all
right thinking men. Yetthere,has been a want of
boldness‘in the announcement of his policy, and
a failure to make vigorous application of its prin
ciples to traitors and to 'imbeciles within his
reach, that we think hat sometimes discouraged
the good, and emboldened the bad, and at least
partially dampened:the enthusiasm of the masses,
and thus facilitated the work of reactienaries, of
late so successful at the north.
Gen. Butler has, been guilty of no act of inhu
manity ; on • the contrary, he has fed the starving
familial of soldiers in arms against the govern- -
meat; he has.preserved the city, which lay utter
ly at his mercy, from the slightest injury ;
has punished his own marauding, soldiers with
death ; all the insulting of females or unprotect
•
ed persons has been done by them, not to them;
and the condition of the city of New Orleans,
moral' and sanitary, is far above what it perhaps
ever was before. But no' man, woman, or ,child
in New Orleans, is in the slightest degree of ob
seuration as to the difference between loyalty and
treason to our government; no one has failed to
receive a deep impression as, to the utterly op
posite moral and legal character of they two sen
timents'ai viewed by Gen. Butler. The majesty
of government * , the sacredness of law, and the
sinfulness of rebellion are recognized under his
wholesome—may, we not say heroic—administra
tion, as they arc;.perhapsin no other spot in the
United States.
We are brought surprisingly close to deep
moral truths 'by such a policy. We gain a van
tage ground, from which some of the 'most so
ber`and severe postulates of Biangelical Preach
ing are seen in aiiew - and vivid light. - Is Gene
ral Butler justified in dealingthus stringentlywith
rebels agninst;hunian government? Do our hearts
and consciences, from their deepest, receases, in
stinctively respond to these acts of prompt and un
compromising retribution .towards rebels,: whom
kindness and forbearanceleaveineorrigible? Then
what inconceivably higher grounds has God for
dealing stringently with man in rebellion against
his - infinite, glorious, and Perfectly good gOvern
ment I Then What upright soul shall fail to re
cognize the supreme justice of that final doom
which the Judge of all the earth shall; ronounce
against the finally unpenitent; or in fact shall
not feel a thrill of holy satisfaction and acquies
cence from the deepest centre of his moral being,
at the 'execution of the righteous sentence?
We are all familiar with the plea of the uncon
verted; who can appeal to their fellow men as to
their atneral good character.. They 'expect to
escape the rigors of the divine administration as
set forth in evangelical teaching, by making the
plea of the young man who came running to
Christ, and who boldly declared that he had kept
the entire second table of the law from his youth
up. But he lacked one essential thing, and that
deficiency rendered nugatory : all his other good
deeds, and virtues, even if admitted to be genii
ins in themselves. It is exceedingly difficplt to
get self-satisfied moralists to recognize their own
position; and their own condemnation in this, di
vinely recorded example. They obstinately. per
sist in forgetting that nothing is acceptable and
that nothing can save ,thern while their hearts
are in rebellion against Go/ Yet precisely this
moral status, under a human government, is
promptly appreciated and set forth, in its true
merits; by. Gen. Butler, in one of his,recentspicy
bits of, correspondence,* and recognized with
applause by the public, including; denlitless,
multitudes of these very moralists who are con
demned by it in a much higher sphere of char
acter tend of duty, than is the gentlemanly, and
amiable rebel of New , Orleans. W.e quotethe,
concluding sentences of Gen. Butler's letter
Dr. Mercer, a gentleman 'of character,' wealth
and position in New orleins,' Who expecte—
poor sinner ".—for these erniSideratinne,. to be
treated with leniency,lhongii he refuses to take
the oath of allegiance, Wishinc , to be regarded is'
a
nd'atral.„ Says the General in reply to his ap
plication :
„I am glad to aelcnfiowlelge your long , and
right life as a man, ,our former' se t ryiegs as an
officer of the Governinent, and:the high respect
I entertain for your personal character and moral'
worth, but I am dealing with your duty as a
tizem of the United' States. All thes!zilloble
ities r as well as Spur -high social position, reiuler
your example all the more influential 'and :perm,
emus, and I Arieve ,to iadd, in my opinion; more
dangerous to the .inter6st,s of the United States
than if, a younger man, yoti had shouldered
your musleet and marched to the field in, the array
of the, rebellion. •
ati, very reqectfully, your obedieneiaervint,
The better the man, says our stern General,
the • worse and more pernicious the rebellion.
Your good charaeter,ao far from being regarded
a 4 an apology, is an,uggravation. You are less
excusable for the part you are taking, than if
you mingled with the undistinguished mass of
criminals and opposers. You have helped large:.
ly to give a', 'color of respectability to the rebel
,.
lion, to deaden and to reconcile men's better in
stincts to its enormity, and to give the fuoye
meet its necessary moral background. .;`
We call the attention of moralists and of
such as have to deal with them, to this perfect
parallel to their case, under, a human, government,
and we freely neknowledge our indebtedness to
the stern General, whose inflexible fidelity to the
responsibilities of his position has illustrated
many important principles, but none more inter
esting to the religious teacher than this.
EYES AND EARS.- Mr. Beecher, (fl W.) ,
has redeemed a number Of his delightful, cheery,
witty essays from their doubtful associations iii
the New York Ledger, and brought them to;
gether in book form under the above title. They
are published in the usual good style of Messrs,
Ticknor & Field and we need only say to .our
readers that they are on every variety of topicsi
seasonable—o r made soliy Mr. Beecher's genius
—brief, redolent of: rural freshuCtia; embodying
fine moral lefuns, and in Mr. 'B's - best' vein.:
Philada. J. B. Lippincott & Co. " '
aintriran ptobtterian and 07ventort trauttliot
r, • ,
THE SYNOD OP PENNSYLVANIA.
T=r meeting of this body which took place in
the Central church, Wilmington, last week, was
one of unusual. interest. Providence seemed to
•
smile upon the session, through the fine uutumn .
Westl4i; the hospitlitY of the WilMingicin peo
ple was most abundant and delightfully cordial
many pleasant and cheering associations were de
rived from the chrirCh itself, so recently - the
scene of the Holy Spirit's special influence ; the
brethren from the 'PresbYtery of the District of
Columbia met with the Synod for , the first time ,
and gate a 'peculiar interest to the occasion; and
the pimp responsibilities of .the times through
which we are passing, Combined ~to „render the
session a memorable one in the. - history of
knad. : .;
~ T he opening. 'Serum:ln n by leev. P. Robinson,
on the' place al feeling in vegii,Citi, Wair admitted
on all' hands to be an able full ~.and discrimina
ting presentation of
,the . important theme,
,in
which great beauti of language was united with
earnestness and force of arammentation and apt
nessof illustration, leaving a deep and edifying
impressioir upon the heareiv.
Rev. John C. Smith, D.D., of Washington City,
Was ebieted'Modeiatok "and in'a neat address ac
knowledged the act as a recognition of the fidel
ity of his kresbyterY to the Church and country
in time of trial. He, especially referred' to the
attempts made in censequence of the Cleveland.
secession of 1857 to " capture f,Washington,"
whieh,were frustrated,by the firmness ef himself
and his co-Presbyters, and the conspirators com
pelled to go to , Richmoncl, (which Might be called
" their own place") and to hold their'schismatic,
convention there. It gave us Unfeigned pleasure
to' see this veteran and standard.lbearer filling the:
ocleia'tor's chair of `the S'ynod, whose duties he
discharnd with perfect ease, courtesy and , grace-,
fulness.
,An unflagging interest was vtaintained, in the
proceedings
, of the Synod throughout. Admira
ble addresses were 'delivered upon tie- topics as
signed. to different brethren.- Saban of these it
Was not our privilege to hear; hut'we can speak
of the address of 'Rev. E. E.`Adains," On The
:place of courage airong the Christian, ?irtues, as
a timely, noble and stirring performance,
Written in even more .than the usual glowing
genial, and, captivating style, of the author. Its
publication would undoubtedly be a great good
at, this time: - , .
'An appropriate - minute on the death -of our
deeply-lamented brother Wltraca was-adopted,
the Synod expressing:itragard for his Memory
by a rising vote. ' It zs t iif tit* meetings of our
judicatories that.we begin to realize how great is
our loss in. his death.. •
Rev. Secretary Mills, of .the ,Assembly's Edu
pation Committee, was ptesent, and, was'heard in
behalf of -the. Committee in,an earnest and stir
ring address.. He plead especially for our church
es at the West, and -presented' the , - view of the
committee as a tie of great strength and limper
`fence, binding them with the churches of the
tast, and as apledge that these stronger church
es Will see to it that they are provided -with. The
needed supply of ministers. Dr. Mills contend
.,
ed, that the question whether .there were not
erirritgli, or even too manY ministers,• was'not: one
forms to decide. It was our simple` duty to in*
quire whether the candidates have a divine call
to the work, and if 'so, to see that they are fitted
Tor it. He:: also combatted the idea, apt to he
exel - naively held of Educational efforts, that they
are in aid of young men seeking to enter the
=
ministry. They are rather the efforts •of the
church to supply herself with the great . necessity
of an educated ministry. Dr. M. reported the
universal adoptiOnof the Asiembly's plan by the
Synods. A resolution was •adopted looking to
7 ti*fullest co-oPeration on the part of the Syned
of Pennsylvania.
Rev. George W. Coan and Rev. A2H.Wright,
4,11,`0f the Nestorian Mission, were present
with Synod and Wednesday evening was devo
ted to, the hearing of a full and valuable'report
of the Synod's Committee'on Foreign Missions,
Rev:4ohn McLeod, Chairman, and of addresses
by the missionary brethten. Mt. McLeod reed
a complete statement of the contributions of the
churches in the bounds of the Synod .`to' the
cause of Foreign Missions during:thb Year, which
presented encouraging features; while not a,feW
'of the ehirrehes fail to make any contributions.
":Wilmington" was .stated to. be , the banner
Presbytery in respect to the numbers of churches
-contributing (all but four). This'must be attri
buted, in no' small degree, to - the energy of'the
Committee-for Wilmington Presbytety, Rev. H.
J. GsylOrd! His heart was in the work, and by
personal visitation of churches arid other means,,
he sueeeeded in keeping. it =before the minds of
the: people, That end
~irecured,',Rentributions,
follow asu. matter of course. It would ,be well,
for the canseuf Home Missions in our bounds,
if a similar Synodical committee were raised to .
take it in charge, and to 'make *port of Contii
bations or of delinquencies, at every meeting of
Syncid.,' This has become the more 'needfed
for us, since the death of the Speretary, v Dr.Wal-,
have not space to repott the addresses of
=the missionaries upon the great wetk=ef,God in
the old Chaldean, church of the Nestorians; ;;; It
is. within,the pale of this ; church ; that their work
is ; parried en, as
.a work-of revival iand -reforma
tion. The native .pastors which therareinstru
niental in raising up, are pastors bfittis church'
Mr. Coan was espeeially anxious thafthe obser-
Vince of the monthly eoneereShould - ba kept up
by the'ehurches at hcirrie. He feared it Was' fat
ing into neglect in some quarters.
About six thousand dollars were raised within
the bounds of the Synod, during the' financial
year of the Board just closed. It'ought to be
innde ten thousand for the . ensuing' yhat. Can
we not reach this sum ? A single individual iri
one of our churches in New York MAY; Mr. Wm'.
R.' Dodge, proposes to give this
,nuaCairit. A
WhOle Synod, With a "proper amount of zeal '
would surely Match it.
The yroposal to supply the " Soldiers of the
Synod " with the AMERICAN PAEBBYTARIAN
was received with favor, and resolutions were
unanimously adopted, recommending - the plan to
the liberality of the churches.
It appearing from examination of the recurdh;
that the name of Anima Converse remained on
the roll of one of the Presbyteries,. Synod, direc
ted the Presbytery' to inquire into the expedien
cy of striking it from the roll, as common fame
accused the individual of aiding and abetting the
rebellion, and as he had placed himself lxtyond
the reach of regUlar disciplinary proceas.
ACTION ON THE STATE OFTHE
A, body of such unquestionable loyalty and
heartyllevotion :to , the principles foitwhich oux
Government is contending, might not, ordinarily,
be expected to renew their pledges, of fidelity
from year, to year. Yet not'only true that
out of the abundance O the heart the mouth
speaketh, but there was a thneliness in the testi_
mony borne, by the Synad:at -this meetingivhichs
willrenderr it, peculiarly gratefulto the friends
of the Government and of hunianity. The .iceo-L,
lotions which we give below. were pre,
pared and offered by , -Dr.:,Brainerd, andwere se
conded by Rev. Charles • Brown. No speeches
were necessary, to recommend them; they :were
adoptCh unanimously with a rising vote, in which
the entire audience, at the invitation of, the. Mo
derator,, united., Thubrethren from , W.ashington
City were appointed a:committee to present them
to the Presidatt. ,
Wrixamks," the Synod 'is called °nen-more to
meet in the midst of, a civil. conflict which has
carried desohition -and suffering through Wide
district of country ; therefore :
:Resokeck 1. That we render devout thanks::
givipgs to almighty God for that measure of and-%
eess which has hitheito attended ,our. arms; that'
We humble oniselies, I.fid acknCiledie the jus
tice our, Heavenly ',Father,' _Wherein he
,has
.
seen good to nffliet.,us r that we rejOiee‘ in the' in
teiTity, the patriotie* and 'the firmnesi:6l ;Our
distinguished- chid *nitrate; that we 'record
with lively satisfaction his avowal of ,nritpbse
to protect the unity of these States, and the na
tionality of our GoVeritinenfitTeinly expense of
treasure, and 'of bloo)1 1 , and that he has reeently,
by his repeated prodamations,.expressed his de
,
termination to 'subordinate every local interest
and institution to the, great cause of American
freedom, of good. government, and of the univer
sal and permanent safety and. prosperity of his
native land.. '
2. That the Synod express its highest appro
bation of the brave„ . faithful, and triie-hearted men
who Iniye voluntneredlfor their' country's:Protec
tion; that we sympathize with 'them in all• their
hardships and twfferings; that we give them the
assurance of our daily and fervent prayera for
their triumph-in the day of battle, for their con
solation if east down Wounded, for their comfort
in the hospital and their support in sickness and
in death.
3. That in the bloody martyrdoms; of :.this.
wicked rebellion, we recognize new motives to
abhor the,Crime of treason against laze , z„lika'new
inducements to conoemn and
.abrogate, that sys
temof:oppression which has not only ' suggested
treason, but the Most Jruel and bloody :Methods
of puttingit into pr and 'we - urged upon
all loYal people to iiAlk with their 'complete 'ab
horrence, all who resist the effortsref 'the Govern
ment for its suppression. ." ° •
, .
4. That - in the labors of our ministers and
people for-the benefit of the sick and whiincled.
. soldiers'; in the reaclinesi!of parents, iviveb;'sis-'
' tern and friends; to sntrender, their objects of
dearest affection — to the peril& of war ; - in the
.large contributions.&,money ind goods made to
the government' to aid in suppressink the unho
ly- rebellion ; in the ,:patient,endurance with
which our people have borne themselves in sea,-
sons of social bereavement and nationaldisester;
.we recognize a,blessed revival , of patriotism,,hu
manity and Christian - devotion ,to the.pure, the
neble, the right. ' -
1 Upon the meeting of the Synod, and tlese.re
.
solutiona especially, the Delaware' ifouinal_ anti
Statesman, the leading journal . of the S'tatei has
the following complimentary remarks :
.
"As might have teen elpeeted, a lively inter
est
was' manifested our people in the, business
of the Synod, _ anti upon no topic was that lute
rest so all-pervadin and intense as on that which
related to-purNatienal affairs. This Church has
alreadygiven so many decided expressions of its
mnalterable loyalty. to the Government of the Uni
ted States; that one might suppose no additional
declarations'would be expeeted of it. - But not
so. The popular heart beats high for the salita
tion of the Republic, and with a natural eonfi
&nee it turns for succor and symyithY to thtMe
.
who; in all emergencies and 'under all circum
stances, have 'firrelindhered - 6'i4 glorious, old
flag and government of the Christiaupieneers of
American liberty. ileum onr people looked to
;:the Synod of Pennsylvania_while, in session here,'
to'give out once more its patriotic utterances of
pro
claim
to the Government, and' to pro
claim and re-proclaini its devotion to the Union
of 'the States, until treason shall - be wiped out of
the land and every form of oppression which it
engenders and fosters shall pale and diSappear
before the gorgeoui shrine, of universal Free
;dom. Nor were tlpe,?on*us . -; multitude -disarr x
pointed ; for at aniarly hour yesterday, morning
,after the Synod had ,been called to order,"the
:following 'pointed and spirited resolutions were
read'and passed without a &minting voicegfrhe
audience rose to theirvfeet upon the questidnini
`lug taken, and therelaY evinced' their hearty ifs
,
probation and concurrence in the sentiments 'of
the Synod. ** `, `God Mess the sYnotl of - Penn
sylvania. By, the passnge of these xesolUtions .
they ; have hondiedtherns4ves, ily ? ir Country and
the Church. - Yea,,they have honored Ged2-',..,'.,: ,
AN , ENGLISH 'VIEW' AND AIIIGHT ONE.
The 'Weekly Reviews Peter`-Bayne'/;excellent
paper recently started'in Louden:, exhibits a cor
iliac an 4 gratifyirio sympathy with our cause, and
ajupt appreciation of the falsity of its, ehiefiiia.
igner *Europe, the Times ;.. ,as mill,be seen •by
the following: rticle' from theisane , bf, October
4thi heided,i ,f' Oontiaerate Defeats."
" If thole jou sts wlies;"timilathies are
dth the Northiste abides in 'their 'struggle; for
conatatntionalJSnght fuid the restriction of slilv'er
not seek to htde their exultation et the defeat
Of the Confederates in Maryland, ranch , of the
toppof.trielaphm44„kta4cril 3 ecl Y.th9 manner
in which the supporteris:!if the rebel, slaveholders
crowed over the iiii;pbsed total .'defeat of the
Feder*. A stranger Who had arrived from the
'Aftiiiindes, who Was not'arre of the nature of
the,,Ambriean struggle, but wh4had heard' of the
strong British ; feeling against : wotild at
once ccinelnde, oli'resdAng.oe. »tea and other
less conspicuous °Too, Olathe:Northern ,arroies
were hordes .of miscireants f . the supporters ,of
slavery, ILO' all - that was:viliOrho had made war
upon .. .their• inoffensive Southern brethren froth'
the basat of motives e and whose defeat would be
the ,trinilph of humanity. NOt an oilpoitnuity,4l
lost; from the ihind'pring of the editor
Pe,rti4ei,.0004444-liner; throw gis:444
upon the cause *dem, while the speoiti,l,4T 7
respondent a t Neygorkdoes not deem it beneath
the'-',;dignity of .hitv-pottition to rake from the
filthiest pools of. Nt"iiir York scandal, and to repro
duce, in a leading jotirnal, such an accusation as
that Mis. Lincoln is a traitress. The Northern
armies have Occasionally been defeated--never,
except at 'Bull Run,in the very commencement
of the war, have their defeats been disgraceful:
The soldieri have fought with courage and devo
titin:; the bravery , they , displayed the
mote didlhe . IVWAiit deem it necessary to ridicule
aridliihult 'hold i ng up' lidore the' wo'rldthe
Anglo-Saxon race in the Free States of America
as the most conspicuous specimens of cowardly
imbecility. No later thar i i Thnrsday wlaeu
desirous to lessen, if possible; the effect of the
Northern successes, it had the audacity to assert
that up to , the beginning of last month every t
pitched battle bad' been more or less in favour of
the Confederates. This is simply an untruth, and
we cariecarcely believe the_writerwas so ignorant w
as not teknew he was stating what , was - untrue.
A short year. ago of Mis
„ the great- Territories
souri, Kentucky, Tennesee, and Western:Virginia, .
with the'important city of New Orleanit which
commanded the Mississippi, were in the hands of
the rebels. These territories have been wrenched
from the Confederates
,by Federal victories in
pitched battles. It is only necessary to mention
Fort Donelson, where a Confederate army of 15,-
000 men serreade-red, the: remainder flying
total, rout—Pea-Ridge,. where after , three daya,,.'
hard ; fighting, the Confederate armies of Price
and M'Culloch were totally, discomfited and , dis
persed, so that Arkansas' and Missduri have since
been only- troubled by wandering bands gue
rillas-New Orleani, where after a most gallant
naval- fight the rebel forts were silenced, the-army
driven out, and the. Federal flag raised once more
over the:Crescent City,---rand Shiloh or Corinth,
where at the end:of two days' fighting the Con
federates retired 'to their entrenchments, and
immediately thereafter executed a masterly retreat
into spice, -neither army nor General having
thereafter been heard of as;in existence. We are
told in the same article thatiVPClellan never won
a"victory before his rodent 'Maryland successes.
That also is untrue, for M'Clellau was selected
because he had driven the rebels frem,We.stern
;Virginia. Moreover, 'he. won at Williamsburg
when the Confederates fled, into Richmond; he
won at Fairoaks, when after, a two days' battle
'the Confederates retreated behind their entrench
'meets without nompellinghim then -to raise the
siege as they had and he won at Malvern
Hill 'when his wearied soldiers haVin - reached
, the ,James River, were attacked by the whole
massed forces , of the Confederates in.the• hope of
driving them into the river.; Instead of, the
enemy gaining this,coniummation, , , , they were
;defeated with:very great slaughter; What good
, can any , journal expect to'f gain by,- thushiding
"the truth ? &just/Cause does , not reqnire" to be
backed up by misrepresentation, and whenever
misrepresentation is resorted to as an prdmary
weapon we may well question alike the justice of
the cause and*, sincerity of the supporter.
After ,having treated its readers to, the strongest
possible doses of this nature, the Rides , finds it
rather & difficult task to:account for M'Cleflan's
recent successes in Maryland. The' special cart
e
'respondent had-exhibited the Federal army as in
such astate ofdetrieralisation that it could scarcely
be said to be an army, and the colours had been
'laid in yet more thickly in the editorial columns.
'Before these descriptions Could reach Ainerica
the Confederates, who' had invaded
„Maryland
with so much pretensidu, have been bund)ed out
in ten days bi'M'Clellin;,with the seine army
which the Times represented as utterly rented, •
broken and - demoralised. .Need wewonder, then,
at such sentences as the followinv----” It is, a
my,stery -*ere M'Clellan got the troops for such
a work. The description .given of the Federal
army as it fled from the extras of lee'and Jack
son was too natural to be doubted.' . • . 'Our
own correspondent reported the tendition of the
Southern army before the ,fighting corninenced as
efficient if the extreme' . . Probably
the best may,-in - the best. condition';' 'Which the
'Confederates hive ever arrayed on a,'field of bat
. ,
tie stood last menth-on thesoil of Maryland, and
yet it was worsted by an-army of which :we can,
give no =eating, commanded by a general who had
never won a victory before." There would have
been no mystery about the matter, and the account
could have been very easily given, if "'Our Own
Correspondent" had only been a 'little moretruth-
Itif with regard to thecondition of both armies.
The Federals were undubtedly worsted on the
second day at the second battle of Bull Run, and
we formerly'fully explained the reason for the.
discomfiture ; but -the army; although beaten,.
Was not deraoralisecl It hadheen outnumbered;
and fell back with heavy loss ; still, not only was
there 40,000 out' of the 50,000' engaged under
PoPe to be counted, on ; but M'Clellan,'s divisions
had only been.partially engaged, andooner
.no sooner'
did he re-assume the command,- to the undisguised•
,delight of the army, than he had underlim pro
-bably 100,000 veteran soldiers, who had gone
:through the trying campaigns of the Virginian
peninsula. Leaving a portion to defend' Wash
and selecting for reinforeemenia someif
the best regiments of the new leiiea which had
arrived in Washington; he „hurried through
Maryland after the adiancing i Confederates; and
drove them out., There .was, a pitched :battle pp„
Sunday, the 14th, on the roall, : to Hagerstown,'
the Confederates being admirably posted on hills
on both sides of the road._- 7 31' , Clellan at once
began an attack, and by night-fall had driven the
- *link Confederate artily down' the opiogite side
of the range of hills; and' away from Hagerstown
road; by which they expected tn.:reach-Pennsyl
vania. Fallowing theni in their retrograde
d'
movement to :the , -Potorciac, -another an 'more
determined battle took plaCe .on Wednesday, the
17th, the Confederates ''haiting been reinforced
by " Stonewall" Jackson's army which had come
from the capture of 'Harper's Ferry, and fighting
with the energy of . despair *prevent themselves
being .driven lute the, river._ The conflict lasted
from dawn- till dusk,' ,the : , Federal' having been ,
able to drive back theleftwing andthe centre of '
their opponents; hut the right wing—the portion.
neateit'the river remained initrio'vable 'in spite
Of the most gallant efforts
„ef, the Federals "to
make
ake their victory complete. `The Confederatee,
howea s e;, had suffered so 'ranch 'that next day
the*- t collected their wounded and , at night
~
began quintirto Tel!qp .river, a
,movement
which ‘theyokillftilly, masked and successfully
executed. :41overing for a day on the , Virginian
side of the IPotomac, we get the last glimpse of
their columns on the way to Winchester, while
McClellan's army is busy crossing the 'river iii
pursuit. So . ends•the inglori?us invasion of Ma
gland. the Southern' leaders expectc.d . syMiN,
thy they found none ; they were eadly in nee4
of supplies, and they, have not, got time i t o
comfortable meal;. they spoke of dictating terms
of peace to the North on Northern:soil.,And they
have been ejected from it more snannariiy Shan ,
any invading army ever was.; Sedsiiirlitt witier
men, the rebel leaders are for Ced ee 7 iljtti i ) ;4li
the desolate fields of Northern Virginia: 'A,ll~thie
is a mystery •to the .Tivnea. Its favOrites have
not won, and, instead of frankly adiniiwredging
that its slaveholding clients have-been defeated;
it speaks of ' the victory, Duch as. it' Was,' an d .
ascribes it not to the valor,* Vorthern,tiOldiers
. .
but to the definite ascendaney of McClellan,':
whatever that, may mean, since - the writer does'
not intend to apply tire phrase:to his' ascendancy
over the rebel army. He adds that 4 it still re
mains to be seen what effect, if any, this sudden
- development}inilitary Capacities mayhave
the great issues of the contest,' although only a.
few sentences before, he had written we do not
consider that-the - mime of-the North has been:
advanced a single step
,hy,thcs,e unexpected vic
tories.' :Most peoplehelieve that - war is termi
nated hy victories on one side or the other, and
we would; just , remind: thet,writer that in the na..;
tare of.things a defeat to, a shoeless, half-starved
army, as the Southerners were'when they invaded
MarSiland, with scarcelyany reserves to fall back
upon, must be a Muchmore serious
_thing than a
defeat would have been ;to the North, with new
levies of 600,000 men coming rapidly in, and
With abundance of every supply which can keep
the;fighting men in goodhe.art and strength"
HARRIBBURTPRESNYTERY ON TER WAR.
R.E SOLUTION E *ASSET , ' Ait•T THE LATE. MEETING
,
,1 •
AT, DAUPHIN ,
I. That while the Presbytery' deeply mourns
the continuance of 'the unhappy war in ihich
oar - involied, we see to other path of
duty for the Government and the loyal. people of
the land to walk in, than a vigorenaprosecution
oft, with all tbe means that God has placed, in
•
our power and that humanity will approve, until
the Union of the States is"restored, and the 46.1i
tbority of the Constitution is everywhere• tie
kuowleged. i
`ll.. That recognizing the good providence of
God wiiich has hiiherto been with us to encou
rage Us in the days , of , our country's deepest.ha
miliation and grant many signal victories, and
realizing that ultimate success must come, from
God alone, we humbly pray that he would guide
the counsels and the armies of the Government
to a 'speedy and happy - issue of all our troubles:
• .
111. That We regard the late Proclamation of
Prnsident Lineole;which, after the first ofJann
ary 1863, confers 'emancipation upon the slaves
of all who shall:then be found in rebellion to the
Government as most, just and necessary mea
sure.in securing the speedy termination of the
war, and as an auspicious providentialsopening,
for the final deliverance of the country from that
system of iniquity which in the chief cause of
our national wars.
IV.' That recognizing• the hand and the Power
of God in that Government which we hive. or
dained over us, We view
, with abhorrene,e and
call upen all loyal peopletto therk with their corn
plete diaapprebation,"all -efforts, WhereVer made
to impair .the, confidence of the : people in the
government or to resist by word or deed the'exe,
entimA of the laws.,
V.-That we urge upon all Christian" people
while confessinain deep humiliation their`own
stns and the sin of the nation, to cease not, inthe
Weekly assemblages of the House of God; at theh.
family altars, atilt in the place 'of secret prayer,
to beseech God for his, blessing upon the Gov
ernment the Army and the .Navy,—for the sup
pression of rebellion and for the speedy" restora
tion of a righteous and a permanent peao
VI That in Tie* of the great demand which
is laid'opon the pmeticaf beneficence . of 'the
countr in behalf of the sick and,wounded std..
diers of the army, 'we urge upon our congrega
tions and upon, the patriot everywhere to repay
thek debt of gratitude to these brave- and.,noble
-m - en by all possible care for their health
comfort.
'll. , otc,..flilititkilo'";l*il.'l. - ,-: - ,,:• - •. - .:.. - :•.,:i"
REvrvers.—The reports eomineiip the
•
Synods which have recently convened;. show
the presence of the spirit and an [ mien - waging
state of thinis in many of our Churehes: At
the.: meeting of the Synod of Michigan, inter
eating revivals of religion were reported from
the, Churches at lonia, Ann Arbor, Hillsdale,
Bay City, Goodland, Manchester, .Dover,
field, and La Salle. The churches are gene
rally 'supplied,. with ministers, and some here
toforeaided by missionary funds, are advanc
ing to . calfsuppert. There has been an advace
in bentributicns for the various Church causes.
Nev Churches have been built at Anu'Aiber,
Holly, * and Erin. The Sabbatli."SchOcil.applais
to kave received more attention; than previously,
fr '
tho past year,,and is becoming a leadingiuttre#
wAthet,hern.
.The only report from the Prey,-*
tasks especially discouraging is the one , from tie
Presbytery of Lake Superior, whose.. Chilreites
seem To be sinking under a depressing influonini,
In the Sytul/1 ef,:indisee two places in the
Presbytery of . Indianapolis . 'were mentioned as .
•having enjoyed revivals. One of these was. tin- '
-dirrithe labors of' Rev: .Mr. Winn, a refugee for
'country's ands conscience's sake froin•Tennessee.
brother . J3evin, the travelling. MiSsion
ul of the Saler!! Presbytery, spoke eriCouraging
leaf Hawks gave an account of
' ' Rockville, which thrilling
and,reyiy
an d lilt many' eyes ppisteneti. , „ ,
.
MOCirizn. and the'Vhuraii! it
'lnd. A writer in the Dud ela
apealung of the late meeting of the Oytkod TtilL,
diana
Our Church is under the pastoral care of. Rev.
,
Wm.MeCarer, who came hither from West;
chester, Penn., thirteen years ago. Previous to
that — time, Rev. - Albert:Barnes spent a Sibhath
hire and was the means of :sending the "present
pastor, 'under whose careful labor andatiraetive
preaching, the 41#bit. has hesome.onf: of the
most
,virorous in thesynod:: i , Pastor he
seems te,know everyhedy by name, and his cornt
ing here is likely to be marked as &turning point
in-the =history of 'this. interesting `eongregationt
The Sibbath ,Sehool; . the eloir, , the people the;
.
church edifice with its fine arrangements',.- aH
showthat this• ehureh,lh hundred miles frein the
nearest SphoolkehUreb, is not the least in
our, Israel.
MISSIONARY Bitanta - mi.--We are pleased to
notice the care extended by one, of, our Synods
(Utica) over the Missionariesconnected with its:
Presbyteries. The retort in the Evangelist says ;
Rai , : 'Dr. Dwight read letters !rani Revs.' H;
H. Cobb H. N. Barnum brethren
in the - foreign missionary field. The Syriod ex
pressed by resolution its gratification with' the
fraternal sympathy and interesting e detaile of in
formation contained in,theee letters, and recipro
cated the desire Of.thel , viters for a continuation'
of the .correspondence s - Dr., Night Was reap:.
pointed:, to conduct the `Same on liehalf the
coM_ . 1.6,1
in g Year . 44
HOME MlssioNs.—Secretary Kendall has
been visiting a number of the Synods recently to
,present the interests of the cause and the neces
sities of the Committee of Home Missions. At
the Synod of Michigan he is reported to have
thi Committee was in debt over $7,000
atld that it bad not -received, since the first of
last May, more than a hundred dollars from West
'ofthe'StiCte'Of 'NeW-Tork.
In the Synod ofPeeria, the response was made
to his appeal by Atte re - Solution to raise at least
an average of fifty pouts per
,member of the
churches for ;the 'of-'the . - H. M. Com
mittee.
Nov (-__itillicatititto.
THE BlBLlonrzcA. SivaßA for October, opens
with defence of Dr. Beman on the Atonement,
by Dr. Pond, i of Bangor Seniinary. Del P. after
panting out . infelicities, of expression leading_ to
misrepresentation of the author's real views, pro
ceeds seaionsly to combat the Prineeton objec
tions to the book, found in 'Vollmer of the
" Biblical Repertory." In answer to, the objec
tion that Dr.-tenian r s 'View of the'Atonement
has done more to corrupt religion and promote
Socinianism than,. any_ether,el,,,thp, vaunted
improvements in American theology," Dr. P.
boldly Militia be --"historically certain and
susceptible of the fullest proof, that what of Uni
tarianism.` there in New England came in upon
us not from our particu/ar
. explanations' the
established /with:, bat from:a pernerfed view and
applicat‘ - OliP'SchOolCaliin iim,;"—Dr. John
J. Owen, of the Free Abadmiy, N. Y., gives an
article on " The Apostolic Salutations and Bene
dietions." E. Schuyler :11.,D.,-of New Haven:
" Wedgwood nn .English:Ntyrnology " ; Prof.
Barrows, the second of ;his 'exceedingly valuable
articles oreSlaVery:' "The Stat4ind Slavery";
Rev B. W.: licriolit`LLD Of Clinton N.Y.,
" English Etymology as adapted. to,popular use "
—second article. The full and very able litera
ry articles, k on recent German and English works
and Egyptelog,y, contain a repetition of some fea
tures in this joirnal which already have impress
ed nnfavorably. 7 .D: Ma.urice'n , treatise on the
Apocalypse,= i'l;...tepplandedlit subb T a way as to
leave a most favorfible - geriehil inineession -of the
author—who isoin full - sympathy; with the " Fs
says and Reviews " movement, in England (pp.
878, 879); and a "rationaLand moderating faith"
is offered he interposed " between, the extremes
of historical Skrziptieisixt represented by Bunsen
and [G. Cornwall] Lewis". .Now ) , as, the upshot
of Lewis' "'ike p tk:itt/ t ,3 in b ac k
to
Biblical Chronol6gy, (see Edinburg _Review for
July) and that of Ronson. to, east, Rib,le.chrono
logy.and History.to the,winds,- and to make the
race twenty ihOnSand year! , old, it, is manifest
that a prpposal ." - ;to mediate "between, them may
itself folk under a suspicion of unevangelical
beraktp:'
TEE AmmucAN.4TuwowercAt. REVIEW con-
R s ;i1 Wt e ' °l !, ( 4 / °llFPOlYltro..nolotea from
„..
the French ; " The Rational
Philosophy and its Vindicators," by Prof. Hall,
oritibiirnivreartiele to which we design giving
Careful lattentibie; " Thelteligierifof the Ameri
can Indians" by J. N. Tan Heivel, of Ogderis
'litirg,.isf:Yifs4ThO''Heketical 'Gnosis," frouithe
-German, Of B:Bixraitin r "Place of Man in a
Natural Systemof 2 , ;elob : '" hi Professor 'Dewey
of loelrestei' "The National Crisis ; " Dr. Fren
ti before: the Phi Beta, Kappa .of
_Dartrouth a noble. production, „breathing the
most q Wholesome and, stirring ,sentlinents, exactly
such as-we wish. to see ,addressedto the youth of
ortri 4 Arnerieari:Collegis. - Theological and Ilite
4rOntelligerie4,(#4 Literary and' Critical No
'tices- of BOok4 complete the nuMber. New
Tork : W.' H. Bißivelt.s Malian street. For
sale in. this city by
f smith, English At Co.
O. W. -lliirlitt's' PnEsts.—Dr.;Hohnes pow-
Sri as 'it have beati commended to the:gen
eral inainlithrough' the , pages of the
~Atlantic Monthly, tholigh he had'producea,not a
hale of real merit, fecognifed t in his Own more
inimediate circle,' long before. '''But stih pieces
as the Wonderful. One This Shay," "The
;Opening of " The Crooked Foot.
'Path } ? The, Army Hymn" and others that
have appeared:in the- Atlantii, have made his
:name. an; Imisehold Word .withins. Messrs. Tick-
nor4Tields'haYe fluids real addition to their
choice Blue and G 014" series by including Dr.
pl1:1 'as "tVgi ilikte just done. For Sale by
1 4PPiartt; AAR!
Co Fez litirlint:f.l6l:;%viricater,
,contains a-. d varied bst,as . The po
licy of . the.,,:qmasice ; is, declared to be in part
political aod :favorable : gradual emancipation
~ Ri_Fa c .tiOnt4cm• 7 6 Wker and P.
I ), .:E4sAton,iboth forsn,e,rly•Pcvernorr, of Kansas Tenitorz; will control its I,Political idefirtanent,
and'..V4arles..G. Leland, of/ Bostoii, and Edmund
- Itkeriittlicir . Of i 4 Ainoni.tli i eTinear the lite
rtiii,,--Altkiliks* able iiiiitribiitoTs.; We
See Oi! eWas 'he lliceen
terlii):.*Aipeap*le (A4l4' Nerii
c
Tim NATIONAL 'PittAcKsn for October, con
tains 'a. Sermon b on Piety ` compittible'with the'rni
litarY lift;:byltev. Robert Daiideii, D.D.. Also
a petlion by.Presideut Aldezi, of iTelfeTion Col-
Nge„and the=ust' variety of,origtnil.and selec
ted, 'under the head of the Prayer:pe,etin g. New
York .; ,. W.
Mr. Bidniell,mteisliii:Emecitio monthlysma
gazine tiv• nrifiniters rfor7s4% 7 8416.1% the . BOLZCTIC
and NATiONAII PRILLORNIt -*Aker for $6 per
an i li ne. I* Tr: . •
.':.n;;.F .:,,:1.;;..f,:;
~; Liwzr.ll6 LIVING AGE for: oe,tober 25, .con
tains' - ant Orinadair lmtiber of brief articles; the
serial articles "f* Abe iqesent being completed
with one - Science, Politics "'and Lite
ia:turCarC:,jiblioiOnaly combined in the'selection.
ZitteJl, ion - Ai Co Boston.
Nrivir Yoxim •TEA.ortpt: for October, corn
‘d.
iargt an. in
dr.r;sa: It,is the eft - dint organ-of the State Teach
era!'-'*aanciatinn;, and of 'the Department of Pub
-Ikinatt:netion, and it `_has "been adopted by the
`Assndiation of Sphool ,Officers. James Cruik
abank,loL.D., Ed it6i. Albany J. Mansell, Pub-
P 1 a" Year, in ,advance.
AHE 2 4.FAV - oltt MUSICAL 'PIONEER Coinmen
cePa'Eighth/tiotuste on the - Ist of the month
(P gvery othnr week, at 50 cents per
? This 4s to bis)••••i:1 , heft' ten ; to see Him that
kilted tiiider theertioil fOr me. •
OCT. 30,