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PITTS'B'URGH, WEDNESDAY, HOST 19, 1813.
Washington Collogo.—Persons interested
will please look at our Special Notices.
The Annual Catalogue of the College is
issued. The attendance marked was, Se
niors, 32; Juniors, 26; Sophomores, 24;
Freshmen, 22 ; Preparatory, 31. Total,
135.
TEE RATIONAL BENEVOLENT ORGANIZA.
TIONS.
We are requested to say, and we do so
with pleasure, that, " In view of the great
number of sick and wounded men who are
now lying and suffering under a burning
Southern sun, afar from home and friends,
everything connected with efforts for their
relief is of interest to all true friends of
humanity and of our country. Two great
Commissions are in the field ministering to
the spiritual and temporal wants of the
soldiers. While active support for each is
so urgently solicited, it is truly gratifying
to know that such a kind and cordial spirit
exists between the two, as is manifested by
the folloiiing interesting letter from the
head of the one Commission , in the West to
the head of the other :"
U. S. CHRISTIAN COMMISSION,
Branch Office, Nashville, July 23.
Dr. J. S. Newberry, Secretary Western
Department U. S. Sanitary Commission:
MY DEAk SIR :—I desire, on behalf of
the Christian Commission, to render grate
ful acknowledgment for the uniform, gen
erous and cordial aoliperation
.of yourself
and the agents of your Commission in our
work of bringing spiritual comforts and
blessings to the soldiers. But for your
assistance at the first, and its continuance
all along, our work would have been
greatly impeded in the Army of the Cum
berland.
'Also, in my recent trip to Vickiburg, in
the Service of the Christian Commission, I
was at'all points kindly received and mate
rially aided by the Sanitary Commission.
My own feelings that the work of both
Commissions, though wrought in different
departments, should be entirely - coopera
tive, were f ully reciprocated by your agents
at Cairo, Memphis, and on the Barge on
Yazoo River.
My observations of your work on that
Barge were very pleasant. I saw stores
dispensed to needy applicants most freely
and in surprising quantity and variety, and
when I got back on the Bluffs, I found at
the Division Hospitals, when the sick and
wounded were coming in, bedding with
your mark, and dried and canned fruit, and
lemons and chickens, which could have been
furnished from no other source. 1 know,
that without the timely help of the Sani
tary Commission, there would have been
destitution and consequent suffering in
many of those hospitals.
I want to bear testimony to the noble
Christian philanthropy of the men in
charge of your Commission in that depart
ment. lam persuaded they could not do
that work from unworthy motives. Money
cannot procure such services as you are re
ceiving, for instance, from Dr. Waniner, at
Vicksburg.
Every •week's experience in my army
work, bringing•me among the camps and
through the hospitals, and giving an op
portunity, which I always improve, to look
in at the different quarters of your Com
mission, leads me to a continually higher
estimate of the work you have on hand. I
am satisfied that your system of distribu
ting 'hospital stores is the correct one.
Such large contributions'as the people are
making, cannot be handed over to the army
on any volunteer system, unless it be for a
few days, amid the , emergencies of a severe
battle. A business involving such expen
ditures would be entrusted by a business
maw only to permanent and responsible ,
agents. . .
`That among all your employees, there
should be no unworthy man, is more than a
reasonable mind can ask. The Christian
CommissiOn and the 'Christian Church
wduld go down under that test.
Let me close this letter of thanks, my
dear brother, with my daily prayer, a
prayer which I learned in the " Soldier's
Home," in Louisville, and have often re
peated since in the " Soldier's Rest," at
Memphis, on the "'Barge" in Yazoo river,
in the'division hospitals Under the guns of
Vicksburg, in the Nashville "Home" and
store-room, and in the camps and hospitals'
at 'l4lurfreeaboroa prayer fresh on my
lips, as have just come from seeing
wounded and typhoid patients at Tullahoma
and Winchester, lifted from rough blan
kets, and undressad from the soiled clothes
of march and battle, and laid in your clean
sheets and shirts, upon your comfortable
quilts and pillows--a prayer in which every
Christian heart in the land will yet join—
" God bless the Sanitary Commission 1"
Most cordially, yenta,
EDWARD P. SMITH,
Field Agent U. S. Christian, Commission.
ECCLESIASTICAL
Rev. I,OBN •KELLY, having been released
.from the churches of Salt Creek and
Duncan's Falls, and installed pastor of
the church- of MeConnellsville his Post
Office address is changed from dhandlers-
Yale, Muskingum County, Ohio, to Mc-
Connellsville, Morgan Co. Ohio. Cor
reapondents will please address him at
the latter. place.
Mr...lintri H. SCOFIELD has been ordained
and installed, by the Presbytery of North
River, at New Hamburg, N. Y.
Ref, B. E. LANE has received and accept
ed a call to
• Carmel, Putnam County,
New-York, and has entered on his charge.
Rev. E. D. YEOMANS has•accepted a call to
St. Peter's Presbyterian church, Roches
ter, N. Y.
Per the Presbyterian Banner.
Thanksgiving at' Towanda.
The 6th of August was observed by the
people of Towanda, Pa., as a day of thanks
giving and, prayer, with commendable loy
alty. A union prayer-meeting was held in
the tdetbodist church in the- morning at
half-past eight, and a sermon was preached
at half-past ten in the Presbyterian, and
else in the Episcopal church. Stores were
014;0in ,the meantime, and ordinary bus-
Lusa_ generally suspended.
pollqation was taken up in behalf of
our,suffering soldiers, which is expected to
rem* them tbrongh the,;(lbristian Com
-9 Fit •
gile us a - . heart: as a natiottirtio7to"
hir his chastisement that it mayiplease.
P.r
5a - la speedily tput an end to this att`eTut.,Ut.'
EASTERN SUMMARY.
NE W..ENGLAND.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Christian,
..ifirror, in an account of the closing exer
cises of the late term at Bangor Theological
Seminary, remarks :
" The examination of the three classes
gave ample testimony to the faithfulness
and success of their instructors ; particu
larly was it manifest that the study of the
Hebrew had been a critical one during the
year. Nowhere else in the land can a
knowledge of the mother tongue of the
Bible be more completely secured than at
the feet of our Gamaliel. And it was a
source of special gratifiCation to perceive
that the great doctrines of the Bible had
been received with a support as unshaken
as the bill where they are taught ; certain
ly in these days, when some even in our
churches arc loosing their grasp upon the
inspired idea of God's penalty against sin.
The class in Theology testified without a
dissenting voice to their belief in those doc
trines, and to the propriety of preaching
them."
THE BOSTON Traveller says, in regard
to the Faculty of Andover Theological Sem
inary
" Prof. Edwards A. Park is absent on the
way to Europe; Prof. Calvin E. Stowe will
leave in the Spring, and the Trustees will
probably soon nominate some onelo supply
the vacancy occasioned by his retirement.
Prof. Smyth, from Bowdoin College, will,
in the Fall term, enter upon his duties as
Brown Professor of Ecclesiastical History
and Pastoral Theology, formerly held by
Ralph Emerson, D. D., deceased. Prof.
Austin Phelps, who has been called away
because of ill health, will resume his labors
in the Fall."
THE INTERESTS of institutions of learn
ing seem to receive the consideration of the
wealthy and of the friends of educatfon
generally to a far greater extent in the
Eastern than in the Middle and Western
States. We have several times of late had
occasion to notice the liberal donations made
in behalf of New-England Colleges. We
take from an exchange an additional in
stance of this praise-worthy liberality :
" Wesleyan'University, at Middletown,
Conn., has just received an addition to its
endowment of nearly $BO,OOO. Oliver
Cutts, Esq., of New-Rochelle, gave $25,000
for the support of a Professorship of Greek
and Modern Languages; Isaac Rich, Esq.
of Boston, also gave $25,000 for the sup
port of a Professorship of .Rhetoric and
English Literature. This last is to be
called the Olin Professorship. Upon this
the Alumni became incited to start a fund
for the support of the library. It is in
tended to raise $25,000; over $6,000 has
already been. subscribed- Two or three
thousand dollars have also been pledged to
ward a gymnasium."
Contributions to our Western Institu
tions may be reasonably expected to be on
a smaller scale than those noted in the
East, but they doubtless might and should
be far more numerous and bountiful than
they are.
AT AN INEIDEL meeeting lately held in
Boston, one of the speakers, in advocating
the resolution that "Infidelity is not always
Atheism," asserted that Infidels, as an asso
ciation, numbered "as many shades of opin
ion as any other church." -
He said : "We are Unitarians, Trinita
rians, Deists, Pantheists, Atheists, Spirit
ualists, and divers other ists and urns—in
truth, we are all things but Plenary Inspi
rationists." According to the "Report of
the Treasurer of the Infidel Association of
America," we should judge the financial
affairs of the body to be in anything but a
flourishing condition. This Report ac
knowledges " contributions received during
the year, seven dollars and fifty cents," and
" cash received for sales of pamphlets, six,
dollars and ninety-five cents!"
; REV. R. ! T. BRECIKINRIDGE, D. D., hay
in'g received an invitation through Hon.
Robert C. Winthrop, to attend the late.
commencement at Harvard University,
pays, in his response, quite - a tribute of eti
logy to New-England. He says : _
"It may be the will of God that the
most dreadful changes await our country.
It the-very -worst comes, I :look-that . true
and regulated .> liberty will perish last in
New-England. In past years I have spo
ken freely in of 'much that
has been.felt as an evil influence from New
England, as it appeared to me. But I
never doubted—and now less than ever—
that the roots of whatever produces free
dom, equality, and high civilization, are
more deeply set in New-England, than in
any equal population on the face "of the
earth.' /
WE TAKE from an exchange the follow
ing interesting intelligence respecting the
encouragement of wool-growing in the
State of Vermont :
"In 1787 the General Assembly of Ver
mont, encouraged by suitable enactments,
the growth of weal, and the returns of each
successive census show a gradual increase,
until in 1860 the annual product was 2,-
975,544 pounds. 'For many years it might'
well have been said of Vermont, AB the
women that were wise-hearted did spin
with their hands,' and during the non-in
tercourse with Great Britain the General
Assembly passed a joint resolution, saying
that it would be considered ungentlemanly
for a member of the House or of the Coun
cil to appear in-his seat other than clad in
the growth, production and manufacture of
the State."
EX-PRESIDENT DAY, of Yale College
has pule .completed his ninetieth year.
CYRUS NOIXTHICUP, of the New-Haven
Palladium, 1 been elected to the chair
of English Literature in Yale College.
MORE THAN H„..N..T.F the young men who
have been exarainett as candidates for the
Newport Naval AcadCmy have been reject
ed, most of them on' account of physical
disabilities rather than ‘3
want of a suffi
cient ameunt of knowledge.
Miss MARY P.mßai reoently 'died at
New Haven, Conn., leaviag abllut $120,-
000 as the result of industriois ,echool
teaching and judicious inveatme,nt. ,90n
neetieut people of , a former generatiow .re
member her as proprietress of a YOU4+7
Ladies' Seminary at Litchfield.
OF SEVERAL HUNDRED men who were
drafted recently in Providence, R. 1., but
one, it is,aaid, has thus far, been <mustered
in. 411 the rest -paid the exemption fee of
$BOO anil,got,off. e,", e t • :
Orattermx'm leVerrriont' wholiattrieeerl
;‘,:s ons.that. llama nni ./.'6..."1"!*
PRESBYTERIAN BANNER.---WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1863.
complaint of the grand juror; and to a fine
not exceedinn. SIOO ; and to make sure
that the grand juror shall not neglect to
indict them, he is made liable to a fine for
every omission to do his duty in that re
gard.
Tun New-York Herald says a large sum
is being raised in New Hampshire for the
purpose of settling a handsome annuity on
Dr. Lord, the late president of Dartmouth
college. '
AT A RECENT meeting of the Board of
Education of the City of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., adplication was made for a share of
the public school funds to pay the teachers
of the Roman Catholic Schools. The
question having been laid before the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, it
was declared in reply that the Board had
no power to dispose of the school moneys
except that derived from the statute. The
Deputy Superintendent adds in his reply
" This [the statute] restricts the peyinent
of the public money to teachers 'of com
mon schools qualified according to law.
The Catholic schools are not common
schools,' for the reason that they are not
under the control and direction of the com
mon school authoritieS, and because they
are essentially restricted in their sphere
and character.
"Their teachers may. or may not be
qualified for holding certificates:Tiom the
proper officers. If they do not,lhit `atone
would exclude them,'and if they do t , still
they are not employed by nor in any way
amenable to the Board of Education; and
hence to vote the public money into: their
hands would be without law without pre
cedent, and in the face of the decisions - Of
the SupreMe Court on a similar'question..
" It seems to me that .no detailed argu
ment can be required to show that .the
Board of Education have no power, to ap
ply the public money of the State in the
manner solicited. - They have as much
power to apply: it to any private •school in
the city as to those established under Cath
olic auspices." ..
AN ARMY TEMPERANCE MEETING}' Was
held at Saratoga on . .the 4th inst. a was
stated at• the meeting that a *million of
Temperance tracts had been circulated In
the army and navy, chiefly through the
contributions of• 800 Sabbath Schools.
THE CHURCH JOERNAL, an organ of the
Episcopal Church, days of Rev. Dr. C. C.
Moore, who died recently in his .84th year,
that to his munificence the General Theo
logical Seminary is indebted for the,whole
of its landed estate in New-York city.: And
it further adds
" Perhaps, next after a singular liberal
ity, large even in proportion to his large
wealth, no part of his character was more
lovely than its gentle, sweet, childlike hu
mility and simplicity, which could not fail
to win every one who has ever seen 'or
known him."
IF Tun Springfield Republican is accu
rate in its statements, some of the distin
guished clergymen 'of New-York are cer
tainly in easy circumstances so far as this
world's goods are concerned. It says
" Bishop Hughes. is worth his million :
Rev. J. W. Geissenbeiner, of the Lutheran
Church, is worth a quarter, of a million;
Rev. A. R. Van Nest is reckoned at $200,-
000, and , half a , million more in prospect;
Rev. Dr. Spring has $lOO,OOO, and his
young bride three times as much more;
Rev. Dr. Adams is worth $100,000; Rev.
Dr. Potts sso,ooo;Bishop Janes about
$100,000; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher-and .
Dr. R. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, are set down
at about $30 , 000 each." •
IN THE LAST IndepenUent, we find the
following sprightly_ editorial
"Oar editor-in-chief, who is now in
Switzerland, writes us a private letter, 'in
which he says : 'I have sat in Calvin's
chair and in his pulpit; now look out for
sound dectrine! We pluck this remark
out of its privacy for .the comfort of those
friends of ours who think that the iermons
printed in this paper might perhaps be..a
little better if they were not quite snood."
As it is notorious that Calvin's ortho
doxy has not saved the church in 4hich
preached from the heresy'of the -Soninian
and the Rationalist,_We may . rfairly prestime
that no proximity to places hallowed by
the memory of the Genevan-Reformer will
have much to do with the theological views
of the famous Brooklyn preacher.
AMERICAN GOLD COIN was quoted on,
Saturday at 125®1251. /Superfine State,.
and Western Fleur sold .tit $3.90@)4.50,
and Extra State at - $4.65,W.35 per bbl.
PHILADELPHIA.
THE NEw-YonK correspondent of the'
Boston Journal; in alluding' to the late
Archbishop Keuriek, Makes the 'following
statement in regard to the praiseworthy
kindness shown to this Rothish prelate by
Rev. Dr..Tyng. 'He says
• - i•
" At time of Tatholie riots at •
pliia, BishOp Kenriek. lived there - .
life was in danger. No place was :safe'
He was hunted from place to place. - Rev
Dr. Tyng then lived in Philadelphia.
Offered the fugitive bishop a refuge. In
disguise he entered, tbe" open doors of the
catholiC Episcopalian, and lived there, in
safetY till the storm was over." ' ' ' "
Tun Philadelphia -Inquirer, , in an article:
outhe. increased mortality of. the city: for
some weeks past, says`: -
The total deaths,diiring the past thirty
days were two thousand one hundred and
sixty-six. * We doubt :whether the records
of the Health,Office can shol such u*tOr
rible list of mortality in the same space' of
time in any year, the absence of. an ix=
knowledied'epiderhic."-'
The alarming increase „of deaths
tributed by the inquirer to, the uncleanly
condition of the streetti. _
Eldersciige...-Seldiers' Aid- Society.
WISHES. EDITORS : —Enclosed • plelse
find the Quarterly Report of the Mere.:
ridge Soldiers' Aid Society, which
for publication. During our teat quarter
we. have contributed in money fiftY-one
dollars and Seventy-six cents; of whieirthir.
ty dollars were a donatiOn to the Society.
I In • hospital stores , welave: contributed AR
allows r 29i lbs. dried, fruit; 147.periodi;4
\l as and tracts; .s,packages lint; 2 pack
ogee). sage ;'1 package worn muslins.; 3.
p a ltkeges corn starch ;.16 pillows; "16
lowlips; 2 -'l,-aeker'obiefsl; 8 , toiveli;.
leaf fail.; , ) ;?btrxr
S`v-•
NEW-YORK.
For the Presbyterian Banner.
Kentucky Religions Literature,
A CIIOICE SPECIMEN.
MESSRS. EDITORS : —Besides all the oth
er woes which loyal Kentuckians suffer
from the rebellion, by the raids of Morgan,
Pegram and otheys, .we have a peculiar and
blasting affliction in one department of our
"religious literature "; peculiar, for I think
the world may be challenged for a parallel;
blasting, because it produces shame and
mortification in the hearts of good men for
some who call themselves Christians, and
must surely result in ,a harvest of sneers
and contempt among infidels, for our com
mon .Christianity.
I allude to the paper published at Louis
ville, called The True. PreskOterfam, with
the names of " Rev. Stuart Robinson and
Rev. Robert Morrison, Editors," at its
head. -
Your readers have heard of this paper
before. It. was first issued in the month
of April, 1862, and continued to: appear
weekly until September lash • Since then,
three or four numbers have appeared, at
long intervals. < The last- basjust come to
hand, issued iTaly.3o, 1863.
The public know the radical principle
on - which this eiw candidate' for public
favor started' out: It regarded all other
papers ifi =our Chureh essentially' apos
tate, 'asireligious journals;beeause they up
held- the `Goveimmetit Ili its
and
to
crush an ungodly, rebellion,''and because
they, gave news items-on' the progress . of
the war. The True Presbyterian declared
this i; political," ' - and Wrong. Its platform
was'one Purely re,ligions, eminently spirit
ual, wholly Christian in its' matter and
temper. 4.-
.
The public also know something of, the
manner in which these fair promises of a
higher spirituality in its new-born life have
been fulfilled in months past. The True
Presbyterian has abused, in the most vitu
perative language, every religious journal
of our Church, and many of other Churches
.and has - been the preftinent vilifier of
men 'whose praise is in all the( - iliturches.
The 'Presbyterian, Areilf-York - , ObServer,
Banner, -Standard, 'Presbyter, and other
papers, with their respective 'editors, have
beefir held up by-name. to public scorn,:
along with-the Repertory, Danville Review,
and other Quarterlies; and Drs. Spring,
Hodge, Breckinridge, Boardman, and many'
other. eminent men, have been singled out-
as arch-apostates, leading tbe Church away
from its allegiance to Christ; while this
True 'Presbyterian claimi for .itself 'the
honor of standing, single-banded, against
this wholesale defection. As above stated,
the offence of the men r jonrnals, and Church
Courty„so roundly abused, is their adhering
to the. Government of their country against
rebellion, and speaking and acting accord
ingly. . ,
s , I wish to, give the religious public,
through your paper, a, sample ,of this re
ligi9us literature, from- the last issue of
The Prue Presbyterian. An apology might
seem to be due for - asking your columns for;
the introduction of such matter. I have
three reasons for it: first, that the people
of God, as,widely as possible, may see to
what a humiliating depth sympathy with
thesebellion may plunge an eminent min
ister of our Church, having his domicil in
a loyal State—one claiming, too, for his
paper, special, spirituality----for it will ap
pear, in the sequel, that this sympathy is
the real animus =of the whole matter • sec
ond, that the people of, God,;. elsewhere,
may know something of the weight of the
curse of this rebellion which loyal Kentuck
ians have to bear, when, in,addition to in
vasion by rebel_ armies, they must endure
such a, periodical infliction as. The True.
Presbyterian ; and thusi,ertable. the Lord's
people_ to fulfill the Apostolic, injunction,
"Bear ye'-one another's burdens; and so: , ,
fulfill the law: of, Christ"; and thirdly, to'
show to loyal Kentuckians, ,if: this part• of
the curse must be endured, as seems to he
the Divine will, that they should soon seek ,
to establish, if they value their true inter
este justly,,a .loyal , , and religious paper in
their midst. For -these- reasons I seek a
space.in your columns- T .-perhaps _rather .a
large one—and Ifor , these reasons, I propose
to send this article to some other religious
journals.'
The number of the - paper referred to,
cept , a condensed 'report' Of the' proceedings
of the General , Assembly, and seine minor
articles, is7well fillecl• with abuse, of - the
character spokety of, -All its editorials,
covering nearly the`iyhole of - the two inside
pages, are a tissue of-Misrepresentation and
vituperation. We will confine ourselves,
in: this article, chiefly-to a notice'Of 'its ed
itorial - More-`than four column's;
upon the late .General AsseMbly: There
seems to have been nothing done, or left
uadone, by that- venerable 'court, which
pleased thi:s spiritualsluMinary. -Its criti
cisms-upon its proceedings; and even upon.
its members , by name, could De passed - by
unnotice.ksif.regard.were had to common
deeency; but there is a total disregard of
this quality, both in the matter and style.
I seriously doubt whether the-Hew-York
Herald, or the Police. Gazette,. has at any.
time surpassed The True Presbyterian, if
they have, indeed. ever equalled it, .in the
rancor, vilification, misrepresentation,' and
imputation,of base:: motives, which they
have' poured-forth:in the heat of political
partisanship, or in,panderinglo vice; when
we compare tliom with what this.paper says
of work Of Sur: last General-Assembly,
its,leading men,,and the majority of that
Look" at''. a:sample its 'epithetd and,
aide, .In its introduction it says,: " We .
are free - to= say' that our chief comfort' in
reading them, (the proceedings - 0 has arisen
from the reflection "that ; in this Assembly;
the Presbyterian aurch must have, reached
her lowest point of himiliation,,and there=
fore Amity beexpected-that froiii this time'
she . Must begirt 'to ascend , to higher ' arid
more Scriptural
,vieiel--that is, if the Lod,
in his anger; has not given her over to irre-:
deemable apostacy." It speaks of two pre:
viOuti Assemblies, (1861-2;)' as " dragoon
ing timid men:of tender consciences "; and
of " the free use of the thumb-screw' and
the iron boot!: upon* the 'refractory, who
dared to.have an opinion and a conscience;
by-the ecolesitistical ' , demagogues who , had
the lead" Then;, of the last 'Asseriably
"The deliverances 'oeimpoitant subjects,
by:the' AsitemblY of 1863 make the impres
sion- on' in honest Mind,' of having been
Conceived in that spirit of low cunning;
and: eipressed' in 'that style of double
tongued, " since it , 11* be.
come the fashion to shape all utterances
with , ' reference, not- to what is true,- but
what it may be politiolto 'say,- The resem
blance in style. to the ambiguous utterances
of tthe ancient-'heathen Oracles," &e
epeiiks ,4,..:tne' of the Assembly's' deliver
ances, as'" the miserable hybrid, begotten
of al Compromise: bettreeb' thelesire to Say
much 'more and the'desire to say pcithing ; . 1 `
of fatecither; • its- k-c cionferininK-fte action'
thist'eatlentoitli . other ffiti fig . ..faced • Otsi;;"";,:lf
.. 1 *cited with the-ino
t'Frtru YEP - 114 - "-
Meet toward iefinion" with the - ' ew,
iiehool body, and of the inoiives proMpting
See• ► 1
For the Prtstlteriau Banner
it, as " the substitution of the abolition
theory for Christ's truth as the doctrinal
b Isis of Church communion, and mere sec
ular patriotism for practical piety, as the
evidence of fellowship;" of another case,
as " the ' dodge' so skilfully practised ;"
and much more to the same effect.
It is more scurrilous in its abuse of cer
tain men of the Assembly, than of its meas
ures. It speaks contemptuously of " such
leaders as Nevin, Delaney, F. T. Brown,
Hays, and Wines! Among the Ruling
Eiders," it continues, "we presume there
may have been a fair average of good sense
and real Christian worth. Whether the
name of Judge Leavitt adds any thing to
their reputation since his Janus-faced re
port on> the Breckinridge and Robinson
memorials last year, and his recent re
markable opinion in the Vallandigham . ha
beas corpus case; is a question about which
men probably would differ."
A thought occurs here. I. Any one
who refers to Judge Leavitt's " report,"
will find it anything but Janus-faced."
It is a straight-forward document, fully
sustaining the course of Dr. Breekinridge,
which Dr. Robinson had condemned; even
comumnding his course in this explicit lan
guage : " And that, in their (the Assem
bly's) judgment, his late and patriotic
stand, in reference to the great conflict new
in progress, entitles hint to the gratitude of
the •Church and the country." .How con
trarythis to the impression 'sought to be
'madel' }line ills; lachrynuel 2. The
- abuse'OfJudge Leavitt by, The True _Pres
byterian redounds to the praise of that em
inent jurist and Christian gentleman. 3.
But is not that sheet out of its chosen ele
ment—in danger,of becoming " political ?"
It calls Judge LIS decision, in the Vallan
digham case a "remarkable opinion "
that is, an erroneous - opinion ; else why,
in this connexion, "remarkable ?" This
shows the
~true. sympathies of that sheet
with the, rebellion and its apologists. But
more on this point hereafter. •
We present further choice epithets, and
pointed' vilification of good men. The re
tiring Moderator, Dr: Beatty, does not es
cape. It says-: " The opening sermon was
such as might have been anticipated from
the character and position of its author.
Its chief excellence is negative in that it
ignored the current civil and political - ex
citements, and eschewed all the common
pulpit hobbies of, the day—whether the
Negro, the Star-Spangled -Banner, or the
Union."
This "negative" merit failed to please.
May we infer, then, that if it had possessed
the positive " excellence" of treating any
of the subjects "ignored," the sermon
would have been commended? We have
thp best reasons for knowing, that if it had
toueled,any of these topics—if it had said
anything about upholding the Government
in, this time of rebellion; and being subject
to "the powers that be"—Dr. Beatty would
have been torn asunder by this self-ap
pointed censor of the whole Church, and
defamer of good men
.But the language we have - quoted is
courteous and polished, compared with
what is to come. This, paper calls certain
leading men of this : and
the
previous
Assemblies, embracing the majority of the
last,. Assembly, " the Mediocrats in the
Church,;" also, " the Mediocratic mob;"
and " the evangelical bloodhounds " of the
Church!
It characterizes the venerable editor of
The presbyterian thus : " Poor Dr: En
gles .!----the.dignided, scholarly conservative
of The Presbyterian, that was r—who, ex
bibits 4 4 the folly of,• sacrificing self-respect
and conseience in attempting to court a
miserablefaction ofehurch Jacobi ns, whom
a little manly, outspoken boldness, (like
that of the True Presbyterian for.example,)
at the proper time, would.have kept. whin
ing in their kennels;" And, he further
speaks of Dr.,E. as 4 f letting Th,e" Presbyte
rian stoop:front its lofty and,Churchly dig
nity to become the vehicle of the ecelesias
ticorpolitical type of piety, in the: vainhope
of leading and controlling the evangelical
bloodhounds!" The purport and bearing
of all this will be, plainly seen in the light
of a short extract from another article in
this, same number, thus '
:;.." Will not• for
eign Christians be . likely to conclude that.
4 ,o,tithern rebellion ' IIIIIEIbt have carried off
with it, sppiehow, the greater part of the'
Christiart i manliness dignity, • courtesy, and
genius, that,once adorned. the Presbyterian
Church ? 'What an unintended compli-. 1
Input .
,to John Leyburn 1, How different,
the„ present...as compared with, the former
Presbyter,iani",,
All• this is from a paper claiming special
consideration' and patronage for eminent
spirituality,• in eschewing 'all - that is secular
and political and exhibiting. what is wor 7
thy of all'imitation We should not cite
these extracts: abusing eminent men, were
it not for- the reasons given for penning:.
this article at all, and for thelurther reason
that :abuse from such a quarter- is their
higheat
The vilifiCation of Dr. Engles is caliptied
by that of Dr. Tustin. His speech as our
representative to the New School 'body in
Philadelphia, (as the Assembly at Peoria,
and the previous one at Columbits, had
“alloived'itte handcuffs to be put on," in
entering into that- correspondence,) is spo
ken of as " the highly'rbetorical and mock
sentimental` fionrisli"niade, in 'the name of
the Old 'School, befbie the AsseniblY
Philadelphia:" Passing by some
which for. reasons of personal' sliante this
vilifier should , have withheld , ---if that sus
, ceptibility has pot utterly died out in his
soul- 22 -he speaks of Dr. Tustin as " a man
who - for forty years`has la t een a hanger-on
about 'the 'thinistry. of the Church ' —" a
elerieil'eourtier 'end- toady "--‘‘ a man ut
terly incapable 'by nature -Of appreciating
the "spirit' of the men of '37, and . equally
incapable by' - education' and habits of
thought; - of'eonaprehending the principles
for which they struggleclHan Old School
man, therefore, simply for the respectabil
ity of the thing,' and as ready to: be a Ncir
School min Tashidu should elia.nge
iri that direction
,; such a- man, of all the
thoustindeof Israel; was the ft represen
tative of - the spirit of the Assembly at - Pe-'
origy to: the Assembly at Philadelphia
Elsewhere he says: seems - lo us pre
cisely in accordance With the eternal fit
'ness of things,' that Iniehin 'Assembly' as
we - have described that of 1863 to be,
have selected Re*--Septiintts Tus
tin; D..D.," as representative;
•' =
NO*, this ia well' understood, He is
utterly:opposed' to everi''a correspondeice
with e',New , School bo'dy; and: heriaele
'seeks to cast‘centerapt'-upiiii•the AiOriabry
of 1862 for "'initiating," and that of'lB63'
for consummating, the correspondence and.
hence" he slanders the Assetibly, in Dr.
Tustin,' its representative. -But why is he
" opposed toiliiefraternal correspondence;
which' Christian . ' men rejoice ? This,
iti' - understoe'd. - - Dr. R. S. , Bfeekin
ridge, in the Assembly of 1882,1frOientett
the minuteoperiing the way: for this 'eer:J.
respondence. - 1 : 154_1,
hie t hrethreT l OA l 44int a deep,oisa, 7 '
Teveaii the 'persona/
gro!nd of ottoititinn; His paper from
which these quotations are made, exhibits '
further reasons. Hear him : " Manifestly,
the solitary reason that exists now for a
re-union that has not existed since 1837,
is the sympathy between the reactionary
party in the Old School, with the New
School, in their common fanaticism on the
slavery question, and the corresponding
tendency to prostitute the Church to the
unholy purposes of political partisanship.
The proposed re-union is simply a project
for the reconstruction of the Church, pal
pably on the basis of ignoring the previous
doctrinal testimonies of the Old School
against the heresies of semi-Pelagianism
and no-Churchism."
The drift of all this is now manifest to
the most stolid. This " solitary reason,"
when analyzed, points rebellion-ward with
unmistakable plainness. 1. Incidentally,
it should be noticed, that "re-union" was.
not. the "project" the Assembly adopted,
but only a correspondence. 2. The attempt
to get up an alarm, evidently for home con
sumption in Kentucky, out of the " slavery
question," and about " ignoring the previ
ous doctrinal testimonies," &c., charging
the terrible consequences which are to oc
cur upon " the reactionary party in the
Old School," will be duly appreciated, and
indeed is decidedly rich, and abundantly
amusing to us here in Kentucky, when it
is remembered that Dr. Breckinridge " pro
posed " this correspondence, and also that
he presented the paper in 1862, stigmatized
as ",prostituting the Church to the unholy
purposes of' political partisanship," and
may therefore be deemed the head of this
'reactionary party ;" and when it is .re
membered, moreover, that this same Dr,
Breckinridge, was one of the leaders in
1837, and was the. author of the famous
"Act and Testimony I" Will not every
body be alarmed• now at " the proposed re
union !" Perhaps even this alarmist would
admit that at least Dr. Breckinridge knows
something about " the spirit of the men of
'37," and about " the principles for which
they struggled," even if Dr. Tustin does
not. Nay—verily ! It is a heart, all of
whose pulsations beat in deep sympathy
with the-rebellion, that is at the bottom of
all this abuse of eminent men, and this
trumpeted fear of a "proposed re-union."
That we are right in, detecting the ard
nsus of all this vituperation, appears fur
ther in the fact that he charges Dr. Tustin
with deliberate falsehood for saying that he
had heard Mr. Calhoun, in his place in the
Senate, express his "gratification at see
ing the churches dividing; which report,"
continues The True Presbyterian, " is in
itself so preposterous, and so manifestly, a
fiction of Dr. Tustin's creative imagina
tion, that no intelligent man, of any party,
whoever read a speech of Mr. Calhoun,
will credit it until Dr. Tustin shall favor
the world with the extracts," &c. Dr.
Tustin is eminently able to settle this ques
tion of veracity, and we leave it entirely
with him.
We have now given citations sufficient
for our purpose, though we have scarcely,
touched a tithe of the scandalous :matter,
and style of this article: Elsew,here, this
paper, as from its first number onward,
abuses by name each and every, one, of the
several religious newspapers mentioned
above; and also the Repertory.; and, after
reading the extracts given, it would be ex
ceedingly amusing, did it not involve mat
ters so serious, to find The True Presbyte,..
rian, even, this very number, censuring the
aforesaid journals, and venting its objurga,
Lions in this characteristic ami comely man
ner : That such spirits as find utterance
in the Presbyter, the Standard, the Ob
server, or even the Banner, should echo
the cry for blood, under the pressure of the
low popular passions to which they pander,
is, not surprising; but when we find the
Repertory and the. Presbyterian stooping
to the level of popular demagogues,. and.
indulging in the fierce billingsgate of pas
,
sion, we are profoundly impressed with the
extent to which the apostacy of the. Church.
has gone." , -
To change a single word of Holy . Writ—
" Surely, secession maketh ; a wise man
mad r—when The True Presbyterian can ;
charge the Repertory and the Presbyterian
with uttering." fierce billingsgate 1" This
is enough to excite the derision, of the
veriest fishwoman of the London market I
A Man must surely be demented who ean.
seriously make such a charge, and in the,.
same paper pour forth such a mass of the
foulest vituperation upon the supreme ju
dicatory of the church which he is a
minister, and upon so many;of, the, promi- •
pent men of this s church r as the foregoing
extracts show.
.
Tiro points , more will embrace all we
hav .et ,present to say. What- is, the ;
aitiptus .of these utterances; and whais
s
thew riter
I have already said their animus: is sym
pathy with the rebellion. The proof of
this is found in each and every ntimher of
this paper. The last issue shows it, in al
most every article. It is found , pervading
that, on the General Assembly„, as I have
incidentally shown. It is seen rather in
inuendo,
,sneer, and insinuation, ~than in
outspoken and ,manly utterance of what is
Manifestly felt and desired. <., This is all
the more dishonorable , when we know the
writer. " .'",
Yet. example, he speaks of the. Assem
blY'S proceedings on " the ,
state`. of the-
Church and the country ,- as action, Sup,
pert of , very, questionable .
doctrines and measures; as "'flag idolatry,'"
just as the rebels in the South talk; as the
" tendency to prostitute the Church to the
unholy 'purposes of political partisanship ;"
as a'" SUbtititAtiOn of mere , secular patriot-,
is ii practical piety ;" as " the .
Gaspe! aceording,to Spring, Beecher, and,
Breckinridge ;" and, using again - the, ,pre
else style of the rebel Press in the South ;
he speaks' of !! therdevasta.tion, : pillage, and
plunder, eanetione.o„and : even encouraged,
by their . Christian brethren at the North ;"
with any reasonablequantity of the • same
flows' quality. All this Man heartfelt sym
pathy with thee rebellion again the very
life of that Government'whieh proteetithe'
pemthe Writer . wields. '
But'thiels neittill. He berates 'the AS
sembly for what . it di no t do, not that he
would have' approved the doing of that'for
the , omissiOn of which ' he complains; liut
the non-performance- takes from, him, the
opporinnity he sought - for special! Wand
higher abuse Hence his nioanini 'And i
yet-lie makes this omission the:,cees s l' o i of
as much abuse as possible ;'alr*hich'points
to his-SympathY With' the - nbellion. Hear
him—the italics' are his "Now frOm the
general tone of Presbyterian organs, 'Pres- 1
byteries' wna Siiods;for a, year vest, no in"-
ellikent man can doubt that-a majority or
'the' Assembly= and perhaps' of the Chinch
approves of the Emancipation Prodlaina
titin, and holds' theililly dogina—alikgrefee'
in its premise a'nd' logically absurd
conclusion ; that ‘ statiery is the cause rif
war, Onii'therejOra'filust be U6oUshedt, dr
there' ea* be no veace Why n o t then` m
soikOldly ni pn the New School Aeaemb,
I 41 b./4%1 4 4 --Epserahle-sneakni. 6s
ing and dodging ?"
We think it is mirw an evident, "that he
may run that readeth it," that what prompts
this vilifier of our highest Church court,
and eminent and good men, is that his
heart is with the rebels—just where, if he
bad ordinary manliness, his body would be.
All this will be fully confirmed when it
is stated that the writer is STUART ROB
INSON, the senior editor of The True Pres
byterian. We well know in Kentucky that
be is a "secessionist," as Dr. Breckinridge
long ago publicly branded him, and that he
has said and done too much to escape being
truly characterized as at heart, and by word
and deed, with the rebels; all which will be
confirmed and illustrated by a simple nar
rative of facts. He is now an exile from
Kentucky, living at Toronto, Canada. And
why is he there, while still editinga paper,
appearing " semi•occasionally," in Louis
ville ? He was. pastor, (and is still, in
form,) of the Second , Bresbyterian church,
in Louisville. His exile began voluntarily,
but it is well knownto be continued invol
untarily. That is to say—about a year ago
he was absent from Louisville on a visit.
This was just after the first Morgan raid
into Kentucky. The excitement consequent
on Morgan's pillaging and murderous tour
beino. °
great, and Dr. Robinson's sympathies
with the rebellion being well known, his
friends, the elders of his church, advised
him not to return. He has not since been
in Kentucky—at ]east, not openly. We
presume be betook himself to Canada
for safer keeping, or because he could find
congenial spirits, sympathetic with the re
bellion,
under the protection of the British
lion. How long he will remain there, may
depend on one or more of several things:
whether the Nation,
or the Rebellion, shall
' triumph whether. Kentucky will remain
true to the Union, of which we do not
doubt, so long as the Union shall be pre
served, and of which we have recent and
conclusive evidence in the State election
just held, being the third or fourth time .
since the - war began in which Kentucky has
cast her vote overwhelmingly for the Union
and against secession, this being the direct
issue in each case we believe but the last,
and in the last both parties claiming to be
for the Union ; whether Dr. Robinson is
willing, or will be hereafter at any time
and in any issue of events, to take the
oath of allegiance to. the United States,
concerning which we have heard one of his
best friends in Kentucky say that he is not
willing, and that he did not believe he ever
would take the oath;. and, finally, whether
a man of his antecedents will be allowed to
return to Kentucky, or to any part of the
United States, without taking such oath.
Touching the last point, while General
Boyle, a Kentuckian, a Presbyterian, and a
Christian gentleman of the highest order—
and also one of Dr. Robinson's former
friends and admirers—remains in command
at Louisville, we have not the least idea
that he will be permitted to =return to
Kentucky without taking the oath. This
is the very least that should be accepted
froln one whose efforts to distract the
Church and to paralyze the arm of the
Government in its contest with an unholy
_rebellion are so. well understood in Ken
tucky. - ,
I leave the case now with the reader,
and submit whether my reasons for pre
senting •it are not sustained—that these
things should be kcown to all the Lord's
people, painful and humiliating as the dis
closure, may be, concerning one' who has
been honored with pastorates in Baltimore,
in Frankfort, and in Louisville, and with a
professorship in Danville .Theological Sem
inary, in order that the weight of the
curse of such a publication may be appre
ciated; and whether the loyal. Presbyte
rians of Kentucky should not, if they
would be true to the interests of their
Church, establish at once an organ to coun
teract, openly and boldly, the influence of
this palpable and dembralizing misnomer,
".The True _Presbyterian."
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.' the First Tuesday of Septem
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Tnesday.(the Bth day) of September next.
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.
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- , -
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ginning on Tfturs,day , the 10th day of September,
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lowa,, on the Second Tneq d ay,of September next,
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stands adjourned, to meet in' the 4 yestminster -
Presbyterian, church of Lenveirworth City, on
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Sewre
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.
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