Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-06-01

before you, living witness of the good effects Of
Grahamism or rather OF moderation OF diet, drink,
SC | feel now able to enter into the subject
with a two-f0ld energy and since God has been SO
good as to restore me to health mean to manifest
nv gratitude far in me lies by devoting the
mainder of nv days to his service, by promoting
moral purity.
she was the Oldest present, and she wanted to give
her testimony to the good effects of plain food and
bathing. She said that fer upwards of 20 years she
had made a practice of bathing every morning in
| cold water in all that time she never had cold
nor davis sickness. She had also made il prac-
tce with her children; and her children did the
same with their children /; and consequently bad
health is, with the blessing of God, stranger in
my family, or the families ofmy children.
Here lady arose, who was the finest specimen Of
healthy old age that Many of our
young American beauties, reared in the lap of luXu-
ry, and subject to all the evils consequent upon
life of surfeiting and ideness might envy her the
ruddy glow of health playing upon her checks; and
such flow of animal spirits lighting up her aged fea-
lures; filling her bright beamng eye with animation
she arose to testify to the good effects of long
life of temperance, devoted to useful employment Is
very rarely seen.
She said, " l bless God for his manifold goodness
to me in permitting me once more to come anon 6
you, and give il my testimony for the cause al my
Saviour and moral purity. have numbered three
score and ten summers and yet, by Heavens bless
ing am here and what is more, am In perfect
health. Yes, have seen the youag buds put forth
in the spring, the fields covered with the green vel
of nature, and the birds beginning to tune their
little threats with harmony and pour forth songs of
praises to Natures God and then again have
the buds open, the trees of the field put forth all
their vigor and the flowers of the garden stand
ing their beautiful heads to the SUM- if looking to
him the author of their being, and invoking him
to continue their short lives by the influence of his
beams and then again have seen the flowers droop,
the leaves and grass turn yellow under the scOrching
influence OF The autumnal sun, the fruit ripen on the
trees and even the voices little birds seem more
feeble in accordance with the angor OF nature; and
yet again the changes when winter hs icy
hand comes, and with the wand of a magician,
strikes chill the beautiful face of nature, the
harmony with which the air was filled is stopped,
the little streamst hat wont to flow among the,
hills and in the vallies watering the earth and max
it beautiful are frozen over, and nature is changed
from fruitfel field to barren desert. All this
have seen Yes, and have seen my children, and
my chiidren's children, and my childrens children
children rise up; md some, too, have sank before
me into the grave. And yet i, in my 10th year, am
allowed to stand with you this day, advocate of
| moral reform. May the blessing Of God attend all
your endeavors and may the cause of moral reform
go on and spread and continue to spread, until pollu
ton is blotted out of the land, and vice and nfamy is
remembered only in name
Here the old lady seemed to be exhausted, and sat
down.
After this the resolutions read and the meet
ing closed by prayers from three ladies.
Break up of the ionists--Cccession of
the Moderate--The Emancipator and MIR.
Lcavitt denounced--Projcct of a new Abo-
lition Paper In this city.
The denouement of the abolition game which has
been playing here during the past week, was exhi-
bited in the church at the corner Of Madison and
Catherine street yesterday.
The seeds Of the difficulty among these patriotic,
dispterested and philanthrepic people, which have
now Terminated in a disruption and dispersion OF
the whole concern, have been terminating for long
time. Garrison and his coadjutors, anxious only for
notoriety, aud reckless of the Of attaining it,
have stimulated the more inconsiderate of their
followers ultra and odous measures, in the hope
of driving off all sober of discretion, and thus
gaining undis puted control Of the means and in
| fuence of the society.
| The purpose Of forcing, by the power Of numbers
| females on the committees, was matured in Boston
and carried into effect here with full knowledg,
Of its consequences. The ultras with Garrison al
their head, held their final meeting yesterday in Ca
| Uterine street.
| Lewis Tappan, and the more moderate of the sect
convened at Macdsugal street.
| The Catherine street cabal, a motley collec
ton OF old and young, men and women black, white
yellow, and particoored. The desk was crowded
with orators black and white, the body Of the
| Church with men and women, black, white and
yellow, impartially, beautifully mingled and inter.
mixed, and the gallery was devoted almost exclusi
vely TO genteel niger company.
Mr.. John A. Collins was OF the principal
speakers. He desired the society to set to work
and see IL they could not galvanze the country. He
though the times very hard and he doubted whethe
all the laborers in the project of mixing milk and
molasses In old Massachusetts could raise 5000 II
| they were 10 go to the devil.
Brother Garrison Of opinion that Mr.. Collins
looked too nuch at the dark side. The great strug
gle between secarian abolition and general abolition
| was now 10 come of, and money must be had
The meeting was here interrupted by a noise IN
the gallery. IL appeared, on examination, that one
| OF the white brethren doing the agreeable TO q
yellow sister with such assiduty and success q
excite great appreheRsions in the bosom Of her black
I lover.
Mr.. Benson, Of Come cticut followed Mr.. Garrison
in pathetic aBd effective speech, bat he was inter
| rupted IN fine burst Of eloquence by call foi
tina previous question. The call was not heeded by
the President, and MIR. Russell, Of Indiana, said
the abo toDists in his Sta were poor in purse per-
| son and mind. There was abolition matter there
| however, and he hoped the Society would galvnnse
| Previous question: was here yelled all the
house. David Lee Child, OF Boston, said he had a
word to say. The President inquired whether the
previous que stion withdrawn A great greasy
negro, with pair Of sperm oil lips, and his tee; h
protruding from his mouth in every direction,
rose, and very graciously withdrew the call
| Mr.. CHILD then proceeded to laud the Liberator,
Of vtuperaton, he interrupted by a call for the
previous question. A RESOLUTION then proposed,
that ithe Emancpator could not be recovered from
| the New York City Anti Slavery Association, a
| new paper should be established here TO send n
stream Of light aud truth through the world This
| was pronounced irrelevant, and various points of
order raised by the BRETHREN black and white.
| One Of the sisters, an old mummy, who looked az
| II she had escaped from a dissecting room, then
| mn I'D a., L. fh.. luf.a, tho talI al