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PRESBYTERIAN.
The Convention.—The Presbyter of last
week has the names of twelve more ministers
and twenty-four laymen, mostly Western
men, endorsing Dr. Breckenridge 's call for an
ante-Assembly convention at St. Louis.
Rev. Dr. Eagleton, of Murfreesboro,
Tenn., formerly of our Church, and one of
those making the United Synod schism, has
recently deceased. He was a member of
the Nashville Presbytery, which, not long
since, transferred itself to the 0. S. Assem
bly North, but more recently, by a strong
rally of the •rebel element, returned to its
Southern connection.
Prosßoots of the "Declaration and Tes
timony' Men.—The Presbyter says that the
dominant party in the Louisville Presbytery
expect netting from the 0. S. Assembly to
remove their alleged grievances, but they ex
pect to gain something from the middle party,
provided the Assembly adheres to its action.
The middle party desire modifications and
explanations, so as to retain in our Church
some who they fear will go South, if the As
sembly refuses to disturb its action. The
party, of which Dr. R. J. Breckenridge is a
leader, are willing to lose all.that wish to go
on account of opposition to the acts of the
Assembly.
Wf see that the Louisville Presbytery has
appointed as Commissioners the notorious
Stuart Robinson, recently and for sufficient
cause a fugitive from the country,. and his
colleague, Rev'. Dr. S. R. Wilson, together
with Ruling Elders Hon. C.A. Wickliffe and
Mark Hardin. These appointments bode no
quiet to the Assembly, but they are ipso facto
a defiance which will help to seal the doom of
the Declaration and Testimony, and hasten
that very desirable result, the sloughing off
of its supporters to their own place.
On the other hand, we notice that the Cin
cinnati Presbytery does itself the real honor
of sendin Rev. Dr. Monfort, Rev. W. W.
Colmery,Judge Matthews, and Mr. A. E.
Chamberlain, all trten of pure record and well
committed to the right.
Rev. James G. Hamner, D.D., of Balti
more, has withdrawn from the Presbytery of
Baltimore and the Northern Church, for the
purpose of connecting himself with the Church
in the Southern States.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Ainslie Street
Church, (Rev. J. McDougall, Jr., pastor,)
has been blessed during the winter months
with a visitation of the Spirit. About thirty
have been added to the Church, and a con
siderable number more are expected to come
forward at the next communion. The Frank
lin Avenue Church, of which the Rev. Wil
liam A. Ferguson is pastor, has been blessed
with a gracious outpouring of the Spirit.
Thirty-three persons united with the Church
last Sabbath, twenty-five on profession ; fif
teen of the number on profession were males—
making in all, during the past year, an ac
cession by profession of forty-three persons.
Dr. Leybustn Coming North.—We see ii
Ltated that Dr. Leyburn, former editor of
The Presbyterian, who, on the outbreak of
the war, left the North to take part in the
fortunes of the rebellion, and has since been
something of a magnate in the Southern
Church, is now called to the Independent
Church in Baltimore, formerly Dr. Duncan's,
and will probably come on. It is not stated
whether he expects to bring the Church into
connection with the Southern Assembly, and
thus inaugurate its threatened iffresaion
Northward. If so, it will be another illustra
tion of the power of pro-slaveryism over
all consistency; that Church having for a
generation past taken for its distinctive
principle, a disdain of Presbyterial authority.
Reformed Presbyterians in Tennessee.
—The Rev. David Herron, who has been on a
missionary tour to Tennessee, in order to look
after the remnants of the Old Covenanter
churches in that State, administered the
Lord's Supper to a small congregation in Lin
coln county. Of this, ho says : "To me the
occasion was a solemn and interesting one. I
felt it a privilege and an honor to administer
the sacrament to that little congregation that
had kept up its organization more than fifty
years without a pastor, and had, during that
long period, borne a faithful testimony against
slavery in the midst of slaveholders. Its
building is nearly a ruin. Roof, and walls,
and floor, and doors, and windows, all need
repairs. This state of things was not the re
sult of carelessness, but of a conviction that
the growing hate of slavery would soon drive
them all elsewhere for homes and a sanctuary.
Its members were few. They were the mere
remnant of what they had once, been." Mr.
Herron, in the report of his visit to Tennes
see, says : "No one can travel long in the
South without learning that the rebels' hatred
of our Government is as great as, if not
greater than, it ever was."
Hymns in the Free Church of Scotland.
—By the close vote of 25 to 20 the Presby
tery of Edinburgh agreed to a motion sub
mitted by Dr. Candlish, and supported by
Dr. Guthrie, Sir H. Monorieff, • Rev. Wm.
Arnot and others, to overture the General
Assembly to sanction the use of hymns in
worship. The overture was to the effect that,
as there prevailed among many of the minis
isters and members of the Church a desire to
have hymns introduced, it was expedient that
that desire should be met in a regular way,
and that the Assembly should allow a number
of hymns, not exceeding twenty-five, to be
used.
The Act against Innovations in forms of
worship passed by the, Established Church
Assembly last year 2 is much agitated among
the Presbyteries this spring. Half a dozen or
more of them have overtured for its uncondi
tional repeal. One has overtured against the
repeal, another against repeal but for " such
explanations as shall guard against misrepre
sentation." —The Established Presbytery of
Linlithgow has under consideration an over
ture pointing to the teach in4s of Principal Tul
looh and Dr. Lee in the Universities.—The
Free Gaelic congregation at Saltcoats have re
cently been summarily dispossessed of the
place of worship in which they have worship
ped for thirty years, by the Established Presby
tery of the bounds, in consequence of which
the congregation are obliged to take steps to
erect a new edifice for themselves.---The
contributions of the United Presb. Church
during_the year have been: to Foreign Mis
sions Fund, £24,342 19s. 4d.; Home, £8639
158. 9d. ; Manse, £5504 3s. 2d. ; London
Church Extension Fund, £lO5l 17s. 6d. ;
Church Extension, £628 7s. 2d.
Revivals.—Besides those elsewhere no
ticed, we find in our exchanges accounts of
revivals in Chili, 111. Spring Hills, Ohio; the
Old Paxton Church in the Lebanon Valley,
near Harrisburg; East Liberty, Pa. ; Bridge
water, Pa. ; Dunlap's Creek, Pa,,; Bethel,
Pa.; Mt. Pleasant, Pa. ; and Unity, Pa.
CongregationaL —The libraryry
has secured, by purchases
. ther of the
late Prof. Neidner, the successor of Neander
in the chair of Ecclesiastical History. It
numbers about 4000 volumes, and is regarded
as very valuable.—An Independent Metho
dist Churdh in New York has recently b een
publicly recognized as a Congregational
church, Bev. Dr Thompson, Beecher and
Buddingibn partic s.
ipating in the exercises.
—The conversions at Fitchburg, Mass.,
are now estimated at nearly three hundred,
and quite as many persons in Melrose are
classed as inquirers and converts. —A Second
Congregational Church has been organized in
Detroit, and Rev. S. M. Freeland installed as
its pastor. The First Church is now twenty-one
years old, and has—so says the Congregation
alist—grown to be the largest of all the
Protestant congregations in that city. The
new enterprise goes out from it as a colony.
—Rev. David G-reene,pastor in Westboro,
Mass., and formerly one of the Secretaries of
the American Board, died a few days since
from injuries received from the blasting of a
rock. He was in the 70th year of his age,
and has preserved an unblemished repute
through his long service in the church.—
A new Congregational Church has been
organized in Greenfield on Long Island.
Also the " Church of the Pilgrims," in 48th
Street, New" York. We thought the name
of the latter was the designation of Dr.
Cheever's church. Has that finally give
out?
Baptist—Revivals.—The Examiner and
Chronicle has informotionof about 2850 eon
versions in the single issue of April 19th. At
Petersburg, Va., a minister laboring among
the blacks, says :—" More than five hundred
persons have given evidence of a change of
heart. The schools have shared largely in
this manifestation of grace."A corres
pondent in Michigan writes : ,7 Your weekly
chronicle of revival news brings to mind the
scenes of 1858. It is doubtful if, in the rural
towns, the work at that time equalled the
revival of the present year. It is estimated
that from a thousand to fifteen hundred bap
tisms have occurred in this. State since the
first of January. "—Another says :—" At
Mount Holly, the most remarkable work I
have witnessed is now in progress. Of one
hundred converts, more than half are males.
In one family, both parents and eight chil
dren have been converted within six weeks.
Fifteen husbands of wives who have been
praying from two to twenty-four years for
unconverted husbands, have joined their joy
ful companions in the service of God."
"A friend informs us that the Baptist Church
in Erie, under the pastoral care of Rev. W.
F. Bainbridge, has had an accession of one
hundred and forty-three by baptism within a
few weeks. and that seventy of the number
baptized are young men. This powerful
work of grace is yet in successful progress."
—ln Newark, N. J., the number of bap
tisms to April 15th, is stated to be four hun
dred.—A country church, after eighteen
years of discouragement reports over three
hundred requesting prayers, and many con
versions.—ln this city, more than one hun
dred were baptized week before last.—A
correspondent in a country charge, writes :
" When I came among this people last fall, I
found them heavily in debt. They had just
paid $4OOO toward repairing their house of
worship, but there still remained an incurn
brance of $4300. There was soon a spirit
manifested to sacrifice unto the Lord; and
the offerings were laid upon the altar until
the whole indebtednesg was cancelled. This
was no sooner done than the Lord bean to
to refresh us with spiritual blessings.' '-
The Tennessee Baptist, published in Nash
ville, was among the first of the South
ern papers which were obliged to give way
to the necessities of the war. It has re
cently appeared, a fair and good-sized sheet,
under the new name of The Baptist Witness.
—A correspondent of the National Baptist,
writing from Boston, and speaking of the
state of things in that city and region,
says:—" God is all around us—the Holy
Spirit is in the air. Speak to whatever,
unconverted person you will, andyou will
find the Holy Spirit is before you. We hope
to welcome the Anniversary Meetings in
May,, in the midst of thanksgivings for signal
blessings.yet to be bestowed:"—The Ame
rican Baptist Missionary :Union has just
closed its fiscal year ' with a receipt account of
$175,354 32,and a balance in the treasury of l
$1,869 76. Home Missions have recieved
4
$155,000, which also puts the treasury in good
condition. The Calvary Church, Phila
delphia, received on .the Bth instant twenty
one new members, making an addition of
fifty-two since the first of February. Nine
were baptizd on the 15th instant, in the
Berean Church, West Philadelphia. —A
letter from Dr. Dean, of the Siam Mission,
dated January 1, 1866, contain&the afflictive
intelligence of the death of Mr. Chilcott,
which occurred December 30, 1865, after an
illness of three weeks. His disease was
fphoid fever.—Rev. E. W. Mundy, of th . p
rst Baptist Church, Syracuse, has avowed a
sort of Swedenborgianism and left his charge.
• Episcopal—Bishop Clarkson, of the
Northwest, is about to organize an extensive
scheme of ministerial and episcopal visitation,
whereby religious seed may be sown in the
hearts of every emigrant train passing still
further on toward the setting sun. To this
end, he wakes an earnest appeal to , his East
ern brethren.—Florida was, even before
the war, the feeblest of the Southern Dio
ceses. !The Bishop of that Diocese had a
comfortable private fortune, which has all
been lost. A correspondent of -thti Episco
palian, who has visited Tallahassee, speak
ing of the venerable Bishop, who is also a
parish minister, and of very small and slight
figure, besides being of advanced years and
not of robust health, says, that he found him
ringing, with his own feeble hands, the bell
of his parish church, tolcall the people to the
week-day service.—On Sunday evening,
April 15th, a service was held in St. Mark's
Church, New York, the Rev. Alexander
Vinton, D. D. , rector, in behalf of the Germans.
Dr. Vinton kindly loaned his church for the
purpose; but took no part himself and was
not present. The service was in German,
and was conducted chiefly by the Rev. Dr.
Schaff. It was arcomplete success. The music
being thoronghly. German, was, of course,
fine. Dr. Vinton by .this act throws the
weight of his example in favor of loaning our
churches for other than Episcopal services.
Episcopalian.
Methodist —The Secretary of the Home
Missionary department of the M. E. Church
South has recently reported that the war has
scattered and paralyzed all the missions, and
to-day they are but wrecks. The Secretary,
however, took a hopeful view of the future,
and recommended earnest effort upon the
part of the Conference to resuscitate and
rebuild their waste places- He had the as
surance of the Govet nment Agent of. Indian
Affairs at Washington that the Government
would aid the Church in regtining and carry
ing out the plan of missionary effort proposed
among the Indians. Rev. Dr. Durbin, the
veteran Secretary of the Mission Board of
the M. E. Chtirch is about to make the tour
of its missions in Central and Northern
Europe, and will perhaps extend his visit to
the missions in Bulgarta.-=—Rev. Thomas
H. Pearne, presiding elder of the Knoxville
district, Tennessee annonuces a very gracious
revival in the M_ E. Church, Knoxville, re
sulting thus far in 120 additions to the
Church, and stating that on his district .1600
have professed conversion.
•
German Reformed—The Synod of the Ger
man Reformed Church in the United States
has, for some time past, been corresponding
with Germany, with the view of obtaining some
suitable successor to Dr. P. S c h a ff, for the
German Professorship in their Theologi ca l
Seminary, in Mercersburg. A t a
.apeeitti
meeting of the Synod, held in this city on the
12th instant, a Committee of inquiry pre-
THE AM•ERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.
sented several names recommended from
Germany, but for want of better acquaint
ances, declined nominating any of the per
sons named, and fell back upon a divine now
in the country, Rev. John Lichtenstein of
Cincinnati. The well-known desire of the
Synod was fer the recall of Dr. Schaff to the
Professorship, but it was stated by the Com
mittee that they had been able to obtain from
him no assurance of his acceptance, however
unanimous the call of the Synod might be.
Still the Synod 'declined coming to a vote on
the nomination by the Committee, and ap
pointed a new Committee to confer with Dr.
Schaff and report at the next annual meet
ing.
Moravian.—The statistics of the Churches
and Home Missions of The Northerni4civince
of the -Moravian Church in America for the
year 1865, as published in The Moravian,
give a total of twenty- five churches and seven
teen Home Missions, located in twelve States,
extending from Minnesota to Maryland.
Pennsylvania has the largest number. The
total number of communicants is 4854; in
crease during the year, 144; members of con
gregations, communicants, ,and children in
cluded, 8307 ; Sabbath-school scholars, 4142 ;
teachers, 356.—An effort is in progress for
the erection of buildings for the permanent
establishment of the Freedmen's Mission at
Holly. Springs, Miss.—Forty-two persons
were recently added to the Church in Beth-
ehem, Pa
Unitarian.—Unitarian service has been
established in Vineland, N. J:, a town made
up principally of New Englanders.. On the
sth inst., Rev. Mr. Putnam, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., preached at the dedication of a Hall, of
which the correspondent of the Christian Re
gister Says, that Mr. Brick is the proprietor.
He adds;—" I feel a renewed 'assurance that
at the next annual meeting of the National
Unitarian Conference we shall be able to re
port a strong and prosperous Unitarian So
ciety from this beautiful, New-England-like
town "
Miscellaneous. We have many accounts
of revivals which come properly underno de
nominational heading, the clergy and people
of the different denominations participating
in the public meetings, and sharing in the
fruits. Indeed, these union efforts. may be
set down as a very marked feature in the
general revival now going forward. We have
heretofore mentioned many places in which
revivals of this type have been or are.new in
Danville,
Among the more recent, we notice
Danville, N. Y.; Oneonta, N. Y.; Logan, O.;
Crestline, O.; alesburg, Ill.—We find it ,
our San Francisco exchanges accounts of re
vivals enjoyed by different denominations in
many places on, the Pacific coast.—The
Evangelist says that the Presbyterian, Bap ,
tist, and Methodist churches of Orange, N.
J., are enjoying unusual tokens of the pres
'ence and power of the Holy. Spirit. A daily
morning prayer-meeting has been held for
five weeks in the First Presbyterian Church,
the interest of which lontinues unabated.
, •In all the churches named there are extra
evening services, which are largely attended.
—S. W. 8., writes to the same paper that
for some weeks a number of the churches in
Utica, New York, "have been enjoying
special manifestations of the Divine presence,
.through the diffusion of the• Holy Spirit upon
their members. It is-believed that we may
safely include in this remark all or nearly all,
the ehurches- among us that are of a truly
Evangelical character, not excepting the
German Lutheran, of which there are two,
and some.four or five Welch ehurehes,-Con
giegational, Methodist, and Baptist, ell maid
taming' their religious services in their own
vernacular tongues." —A correspondent
writes to The Presbyterian, that there has
been considerable religious interest in all the
churches - in Columbus, Ohio, for some time
past, and that it appears to increase rather
than diminish.—The religious interest is
increasing in New Haven and Hartford.
The origin of the revival is reported as fol
lows :—" A young man accosted some, gentle
men,
as they were going to their business,
with inquiries about the concerns of his soul.
.He was distressed and said: . 'The minister
is, dead; there is no one to go to; no one to
talk with; I do not know what to do.'
Others in the city were found to be-in the
same state, and two of the pastors were in
duced to appoipt a prayer-meeting in a lec
ture-room.. That place became too small,
and one of the largest churches was opened
for a morning meeting. Then an evening
meeting was required by the clerks and
others who could not attend in the morning,
and another large church was filled at night.
The mothers then begged for their ohihlren,
and Dr. Bacon and Dr. Ludlow appeinted t
weeting for them in the lecture-room, but
were obliged to open the church before the
hour for commencing, and hundreds of chil
dren attend those meetings." --- On Sabbath
evening; the 15th instant a meeting for the
promotion of Christian Union was held in the
Church, in Brooklyn, of which Dr. Rockwell is
pa,tor. The building was entirely filled with
an attentive, intelligent, and interested con
gregation. The Rev. Jonas King, D:D., of
Athens, Greece, presided, and delivered an
addtess, in whicli be regarded love as the one
power which must and would bind together
different portions of the Evangelical Church.
Rev. Dr. Bells then spoke at length upon the
importance . of adopting at this juncture,prac
tical measures, for educing and combining
the feelings and convictions of Christian be
lievers, so that the great idea of this associa
tion might be made operative in all places
where --it receives a v elcome. Rev. Dr.
Waterbury addressed the meeting with much
earnestness, and then o:fered the following
resolution, which was ad.ipted :
" Resolved, That the Clerical Union'be re
quested, if agreeable to their wishes, to, call a
Meeting of clerical and lay delegates from the
various evangelical churches in the city to
consider the feasibility of establishing a
Brooklyn Church Union."
FOREIGN.
H. B. H. Consul in`Rome writes that the
permission granted by the former Governor
of Rome (for Englishmen to bring one Eng
lish Bible and one Italian, provided that the
owner's name is distinctly written in the title
page) has been lately confirmed by the new
Governor, Mgre. Randi.—The Rev. John
!Keble, author of " The Christian Year,
died on the 30th ult. at Boufttemouth. The
deceased, whose well-known poetry secured
for him a world-wide celebrity, attained the
age of seventy-seven. His church at Hurs
ley has been entirely rebuilt in a most costly
manner out of the profits of "The Christian
Year,-"—On Sunday week, says a late Eng
lish paper, the Rev. W. J. Jay, M.A., min
ister of the East India Chapel, Poplar, took
leaVe of the congregation on his presentation
to the Rectory of Elveden, near Thetford,,
Norfolk, by the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
The patronage of this benefice the Maharajah
obtained when purchasing large estates in
Norfolk, and it is an interesting fact that he,
has now presented it to the missionary cler
gyman who converted him many years ago in
ndia.—lt is reported in Paris that the
members of the French Protestant Consistory
r rth a m t e
have decided tu resign in a body if the Min
ister of Education should refuse to sanction
mentions with re
the
th e dismissal of the Rev. Martin Paschoud.
The Pope's Lottery soheme.—A letter
fo e in t , 111)
tihnerethebetbatsg 0
available assets
wherewith to pay the heavy liabilities entail
ed on the apostolic exchequer by the number
of lucky .
ckets drawn at the last lottery, ap
plication was made to the Mont de Piete, but
there being a vacuity in its coffers, the finds
of the Propaganda College have been pressed
into the service. It is fair to add; that the
treasurer would not pay a single dollar out of
that sacred depository for such a purpose
without a positive rescript signed by , the
Sovereign.
The Coleus() Affair.—lt is stated that
Dr. Gray's bishop who is to succeed Dr. Co
lenso in his spiritual jurisdiction, with the
title of Bishop of Maritzburg, will be the
Yen. Hugh Hyndman Jones, Archdeacon of
Demerara, in the diocese of Guiana. This
statement, however, is not to be received
with implicit credence.
HOME MISSIONS.
This committee of Philadelphia Third Pres
bytery on Home Missions,' beg leave to offer
the following report:—
The Church of God never possessed more
wealth and talent, never had opened before it
a larger or more hopeful field of action, than
at this day. Our own branch of the Church is
preeminently blessed with power and opportu
nity to redeem waste places, and to extend
the conquests of the Gospel. We only need
the zeal, the consideration, and the high view of
Christian duty requisite for an unparalleled
advancement of our doctines, and our denom
inational influence, •and more than this, for
the conversion of souls to Christ, and the
multiplying of churches for his glory. Open
ings in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and
Tennessee, and in many other portions of the
South and West, offer peculiar and urgent
motives to the heart and to the Church,
wherein glows•the fervor of missionary love.
And now, it we would contribute to the
social happiness of these States ; if we would
encourage the loyal and the good in their trials,
in their patriotic, humane, and Christian ser
vices; if we would enlighten the ignorant and
win the hostile ;„ if we would fill the mind of
our whole nation with sentiments of love and
brotherhood, stimulate the debased and sin
ful to moral endeafor, and inspire the mil
lions with honey, purity, and religion, we may
do it now ; if we would help the poor to erect
sanctuaries and gather schools,, give consola
tion to those who struggle for social ele
vation, bless the eyes and hearts of thou
sands with the sight of •a messenger of.
God, and with the offers of happiness and
salvation, we may, we must do it now •
if we would keep on the wave of the
vancing population, to control its force and
direct its march; if we would consecrate to
the interests of education and of religion the
Western
mountains and fertile plains of our vast
Western territory; if we would scatter the
seeds of national and moral life, so that they
shall spring up at the close of this century in
the history of ,one hundred millions of intelli
gent and happy people, we must do it now.
And the Church will be wanting in duty,
will be criminal in thesight of heaven, if all
this desired good is not accomplished by her
Wealth and action. If the apostles of our
Lord had turned back from the great work to
which they were sent in their day, even when
the whole world opposed itself—its govern
ments, its philsophers, and its religion to their ,
feeble arms, we would lament now over their
inefficiency and sin. Had Knox, or Huss, or
Luther hesitated, in their days, to consecrate
themselves to'the dangerous and difficult work
of extending'the Gospel, history had not given
them such high places. Shame then be to us,
if we enter not with ardor and resolution and
-faithinto the vineyard of the Lord. We must
'help to bring, the =towns and eities'of lftff
whole country under the sway of the Gospel.
We must endeavor with all constancy to
spread over our territory—more vast and
populous than any ancient kingdom—the
blessed light of the cross. We must labor for
for the consecration of our national enter
prise, mind, wealth, and life, to the King
of kings. A nobler work this than Greece
accomplished by her arts, or Rome by her
laws. Nothing but the Gospel will save this
great people, and we may give it the Gospel
now if wp
W e are happy to report a very large in
crease on . the amount contributed to Home
Missions by our Presbytery last year. ; -
The report for 18651 presents only $3317 40
for -this object, whereas the present year
brings offerings amounting to over $7OOO.
Let this increase go on, in its two-fold ratio
fro& year to year. Let each Presbytery in
our church contribute an equal amount annu
ally, and not many years will pass away be
fore the whole land shall be overspread with
the monuments of Christian culture and hap
.
.pmess. K E...A.DA*s, Chairman.'
THE POPULAR AND RELIGIOUS SEN
TIMENT OF THE NORTH
to,'s g : $ Axe) Fri e, t:Wil 2.00:1004:44411-,11WO
And here let us say, that on no point is the
loyal sentimentot the country deeper, or more
unanimous, than on the duty of protecting
the Freedmen in their newly-acquired liberty,
and, in all their rights as citizens of the
United States. The veto of the Freedmen's
Bureau Bill was not the occasion of so much
surprise and grief because the 'people had set
their heart upon that particular measure;
they were quite' willing to believe that, it
might have defects; and they did not ques
tion the President's right to return it to the
Senate with his objections. What excited
their strong feeling of regret and disappoint
ment was the. impression made by the tone
and reasoning of the veto message, and by
the manner in which it was greeted and in
terpreted by the enemies of emancipation
North and South, that the negro 'was going
to be abandoned by the President and hand
ed over, before long, to the unchecked con
trol of his former masters: - This may have
been altogether a wrong impression; but it
was a real one; nor do we see how any can
did person can read the speech of Senator
Trumbull in review of the veto message,
without admitting that it was quite a natural
impression. And if there is one thing more
than any 'other that the people, who saved
the Union, at, the cost of so much toil, and
blood, and agony, and with so many solemn
vows and prayers to Heaven, have made up
their.mind to resist to the utmost, it is a vio
lation of the pledge made by Abraham Lin
coln, in their name, to the 4,000,000 of ne
groes, when he proclaimed them, henceforth
and forever, American freemen. Language
can scarcelydo justice to the depth and in
tensity of their feelings on'this subject. Es
pecially is this true of the free Christian
Churches of the North. They look with mi
-1 feigned horror upon every suggestion to
violate this pledge; and they believe it were
better for any man in the land, no matter
how high he stands, or what his past' services,
that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and that he were drowned in the depth of
the sea, than that the should do, or consent
to be the instrument of doing, such a thing !
Montesquieu, in his " Considerations on the
Grandeur of the Romans," says : " There
cannot be a more cruel tyranny than that
p r acticed under the shadow of laws and with
the color of justice, when men go to work to
drown the wretched on thevery plank. on which
t h e y were saved."
Myriads of the faithful Christian people of
the North have resolved, upon their knees,
to do their part in preventing such a Heaven
defying crime, and a catastrophe so shame
ful and ruinous to the nation. They have
resolved that by no connivance, or inaction of
theirs, shall this land of the Pilgrims and or
Washington be cursed and deified by a vast
Pariah class of immortal beings, for whom
the Son of God died upon the cross, and
whose despised nature He is still wearing in
glory everlasting ! They mean to stand up
for exact, equal and gospel-like justice to the
negro ; such justice as the New Testament or
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ enjoins,
and the Declaration of Independence declares
to be all men's birthright. They mean, also,
to stand up for their public servants, who
demand and do such justice to the negro.
And the loyal churches of the North form a
large army and wield a good deal of political
influence—to say nothing now of their influ
ence with the .ffigh and Mighty Ruler of the
Universe. There are the Congregationalists,
worthy heirs of the ancestral principles and
Puritan Churches of Neiy England. They
now stretch across the Continent; and the
spirit of Plymouth Rock, of Bunker Hill,
and '76, accompanies them wherever they go.
There are the Methodists; the tearless and
hard-working , pioneer wing of this sacra
mental host ; '—stationed not only all along
the frontiers, but in force in every city and
village of the land. They were only ten
years old when the Declaration of Independ
ence was made ; only twenty-one when the
Constitution of the United States was formed ;
they are just a hundred years old now; but
they are a million strong ; and if they were
a thousand years.old, they could not be better
champions of Christian justice and freedom.
Then there are the Baptists. also potential in
numbers, and character, and zeal ; full, too,
of the same lofty and generous spirit. The
names, which represent their principles and
history to the world, such names as John
Bunyan, Roger Williams, Robert -Hall, and
Franpis Wayland, are symbols of whatever is
most earnest, exalted, and faithful, in devo
tion to the n'ghts and liberty of each indi
vidual man, whatever his condition or the
color of his skin. Then there is our own
branch of the renowned Presbyterian pha
lanx, with a spotless record, and marching
on, elbow touching elbow, in the path of na
de on righteousness and ' universal liberty.
Nor are the sturdy footsteps of " the other
branch" lagging far behind.. Justice is a
word always dear to true Presbyterians ; and
when they have turned their backs upon lib
erty, they have grievously wronged their own
time-honored principles. We,need not stop
to define the position of our Dutch Reformed
brethren; the Church that looks back to glo
rious old Hollaneas her mother, is not likely
to give a divided allegiance to an righteous
cause. If, after the late triennial convention
at Philadelphia, we cannot speak so ef the
Episcopal Church,. yet what elopent and
powerfdl advocates of National justice and
humanity , to the negro, are found in her
ranks I .Nor let it be forgotten what a patri
otic and fervent prayer the whole Church,
bishops, priests, deapons, and laity, offer up
every Sabbath day in behalf of the National
Senate and Representatives in Congress as
sembled; beseeching Almighty God that He
would be "pleased to direct and prosper all
their consultations, to the advancement of
His glory, the good of His Church, the safety,
honor and welfare of His people ; that all
things may be so ordered and settled by their
endeavors upon the best and surest founda
tions, that peace and 'happiness, truth and
justice, religion and piety, may be established
among us for all generations." What friend
of Congress, or of National security, honor
and justice, cannot, with all his heart, say
AMA to that prayer ! No denomination in
the country has bees more faithful to the
claims ot4he negro, or laid costlier sacrifices
upon ,the altar of social justice, than the
Unitarians.; - as....indoed,. was to be expected
of the disciri'les of the illistribuf Clanrung.
As to the connection of Friends, they have
been, for generations, a living, witness-bear
ing,epistle of impartial humanity, known and
read of all men., The other Protestant bodies
are all, so far as we know, on the same side ;
some of them most effectually. Of the po
sition of the Roniish Church we need say
nothing. That, too, is well understood. The
religious sentiment of the North, as repre
sented by the Protestant Churches,, is, then,
we repeat it, overwhelmingly in favor of
equal and exact justice to all men, without
distinction of color • nor will it be satisfied
with anything less. Rev. Dr. Prentiss in the
Am. Pres. and 2heo. Review.
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