Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-05-16

urallv tends To overlook the power OF the :
religious sentiment would be the extiemest iol- I
". WHY, that little knot of infdes who are 9
now counseng in the obscure places OF the
CITY how to beat il out Of the human soul, {
might as well consult how to strike the sun from
the heavens The glorious Creator OF that beau
tful mechanism, the human soul, placed 1t al !
the fountain head of every thing beautiful, no.
bic. impusive, or powerful. There never was
vet people who were not religious, in Their
sense of religion. But thai religious sentiment
NAV be far other than Christian. u Is so here.
The religious movement of the present time
is moi animated BY a spirit akin To that of the
Master. When he.descends and knocks at the
door Of his prolessed people requiring them TO go
down TO the depths Of human misery and degra-
,ation, and offer one hand TO the drunkard and
the other TO the slave and when response to
that knock is the voice Of curses within when
every movement at which the heart Of humans
~ leaps for Joy, comes moi from the church, but
out of the church, whatever others may do,
will seek for my representations %! Christianity |
in those meeting, or those places, or those men
and women from whom bubbles up the puresi
EXPRESSION of that feeling which animated the |
Master,in his career Of mercy, and which most
resembles those eternal principles OF charity, OF
right and lnve which find response IN the UNI
versal human heart. II is by these principles
that the church must be judged. IL il be de-
fcient in these great characteristics, which
mainly distinguished the Redeemer; II II be
rccreani to The work which il was the business
of his life and death to promote, we must write
Icabod upon its gates.
He proceeded in a similar strain Of finely exprcsse
and eloquent periods to show the obstacles presented
emancipation by political organizations, and depicted
in glowing colors the overshadowng ovepowerng in
fuenco of slavery and the hopeessncss of combining or
destroying its power by party organizations.
al dod for lis
eloquence, and Indignation at its sentiments.
He was followed by Miss Jane Hitchcock, who, in an
earnest and thrilling address, poured TRADE of the
most bitter nyectve against the Constitution and its
ever-reyered founders. We give the following as a
specimen:
There was, indeed, hesitation about the
adoption of the articles which So firmly Tivit
the chains of the slave. There was hesitation
about signing the compact: there was heslta-
ton about pedging the entire military strength
Of the nation. They hesitated again and again
in regard to the article giving increased polit-
cal power to him who should hold slaves as
chaitels: but they hesitated as the thief hesi-
tales when he is about to plumber his brother
as the murderer hesitaies when he is about TO
thrust the dagger into the bosom ofhs friend
ave, friend. The trainers knew full well that
the slaves were their friends. They knew
that they would help them fight their battles,
and obtain liberty. But they had not power
TO enter into the compact; what was to be
| done! Benjamin Franklin proposed prayer.
| To whom did they pray: Certainly not to God;
for God had not single attribute which could
take part with the oppressor. They prayed 10
Satan, the father of lies, and fumes from the
bottomless pill enveoped them in their deliber-
atoms. But however dark and fendish the
spirit which then reigned, this people at the
| present day are far more guilty, because they
! sin against greater Tight
Mr. Bell, Of Lexington, Ky, made few remarks ex
prossve of his belief that slavery would not long b,
| tolerated in Kentucky.
| MIR Frederick Douglass, slave, then followed in
speech characterized with eloquence and manly energy
Mr. Garrison, the President, closed the meeting b.
declaring the object of the Society to be revolutionary
and that intended TO overthrow the Constitution.
CHRISTIAN ALLIAScE.-we have read with grea
interest the speeches made BY Bishop James, of the
F.. Church. and the Rev. Doctors Bacon, Kirk and Coz
the meeting of this Society, and regret that can
give them to readers but any attempt of
compress them would do great injustice TO them and
the subject The Christian Alliance is formed to "car
ry the into Africa TO promulgate Protestantsr
and spiritual liberty in the very den Of the Pope With
the very walls OF Rome. II has already excited the in
dignation OF His Holiness who has issued Bull agaus
it,
DIR. Kirk said that $1,000 would establish PIoesta1
press at Paris, whose productions should penetrate Ita
ly to its utmost confines. note Immediately ser
up, offering $500 of the sum. Other donations wcr
then made, and the sum is doubtless secured.
The Journal of Commerce says of Dr. Coxs speech
DR.. Cox then proceeded for nearly an hour
in speech of extraordinary brilliancy, varie
by wi, and logic, by appeals, arguments and 1
lustralions drawn from many regions OF III
cTeation--sketched the character Of Rome i
colors that would have terrified, even in
dream, the whole conclave of Cardinals--an
by thoughts and imaginings equally oigina
and magnificent, threw 10 The close, the nfu
ence Of his enchantment over the vast assembly
We shall look for terrible Bull from Rome.
SEAMEN's FRIEND SocIErY.-The meeting of th
most useful Society of interest.
survey of the field occupied by this Socie
/, ty, showed delightful progress in the moral i'm
provemcnt both of these employed in naviga
ting our inland waters, and those who go dow
TO the sea in ships. Along the whole OF on
J, seaboard, Mariners churches, and Temper
aDce boarding houses for seamen, are fast il
: creasng OF the latter there are now abou
fifty. The "Sailor's Home" in New Yorl
has had within the past year 39l6 boarder,
:, and in three years II ,00S. The several MI
rine Temperance Societies on our coast nun
, Der about 40, 900 members; and the number b,
longing to the New York Marine Temperate
= Society is 1883. Out of $50 on board OF
. flag ship in the Mediterranean, AS are repor
y ed as having stopped their greg; and 500 o,
. of sos on board another ship.
= In the Seamen's Saving Bank IN New Yor
= within l6 years, there have been deposilt
more than nineteen hundred thousand dollar