The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-05-19
THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY

The twenty-eighth annual meeting OF this
body took place this forenoon at Metropolitan
Hall, Chief Justice Williams, of Connecticut
President, in the chair. After prayer by the
Rev. Thomas De Witt of New York. the Treas
urers report and an abstract Of the annual
report were read, from which are selected the
following statistical results Of the year past
Ne,r Publications. 1877, in ten languages, Of
which % are volumes; total publications, 1892,
including S74 volumes; total approved for cir
culation abroad, in about 1l9 languages and
dialects 2SOl. OF the American Messenger.
over 200, 900 are issued monthly German Mes
senger, $4,000 Child's Paper, about $50 900
Illustrated Christian Almanac for 1853,
$50 600; Christian Almanac in German, 80 600.
Circulated during the year, Glib $40 publ.
cations including SSl,766 volumes, and en-
bracing 26S 902,3l5 pages Total since the
formation OF the society, 1877 1913 4SO publica-
tons, including 4l6, $50 volumes.
GratuitouS Distribution for the year, in five
thousand and thirty-six distinct grants by the
committee, 63,9S9,976 pages, besides 8, 234, sos
to life directors and life members; value over
S4S 600.
ReestPts, IN donations, including Sl7,967 81
in legacies, Sl47374 ga for sales, including
periodicals., 1927, 252 81 total, $685., 2S6.68.
Expenditures, for publishing books and peri
odicals, 1923 lI2s; for colportage, SIS, 7ll.29;
cash RENTED to foreign and pagan lands,
$40, 900 total expended, S385,075.07. Due for
printing paper, Sl6,67O29: due on the socie-
tvs house, S43,192 81.
COtPortage.-Whole number of colporteurs
who have labored the whole or part of the year,
642, OF whom II were devoted chiefly to the
German and other foreign population, and 1876
were students from colleges and seminaries. Of
these, Al labored in New England 1875 in the
Middle States, 395 in the Southern and West
ern and / in Canada. Families visited dur
ing the year, 530,75S; conversed or prayed
with, 260,4l4; found destitute of all religious
books except the Bible, 81 900 destitute of tho
Bible 2S243; Roman Catholic families visited,
| 43,S24. Total families visited by the society's
colporteurs, 3252,0s9.
Foreign and Pagan Lands-The $50 900
RENTED in cash has been distributed TO thirty
nine missions and stations, as needed, to meet
the wants of the ensuing year $4,000 to con-
tinental Europe; s. 800 for countries on the
Mediterranean SO 800 for Southern India :;
$4,000 for Northern India; 81, 600 for Burmah,
Assam, SIAM and China and So 500 for the
Sandwich Islands, Africa, and our own Abort
gines.
The speakers announced were, Rev Richard
Deering, Methodist Episcopal Church. Louis
vile, Ky. Rev. R. s. KILN, Protestant Episco-
pal Church, Baltimore Rev Thomas Smyth,
d. d., Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S. c. ;
Rev. E. N Kirk, Congregational Church, Bos-
ton; Rev A. Rauschenbusch, Assistant Secre-
tary for the Germans; Rev. J. G. Oncken,
Hamburg, Germany; and Rev. ]. p Revel,
Moderator of the Waldensian Church, Pied
mont
The Board of Directors then met for the cleo
ton, by ballot of an Executive Committee for
the ensuing year.
THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
This Society held its anniversary this morn
ing at the Chinese Building, before thronged
house. On the platform were a number of the
veterans in the Anti. Slavery cause, apparently
in high spirits, this being the first time they
have been permitted to hold meeting in New
York, since the disturbance of their assemblage
by Capt. Rynders and others, in 1880 Among
them, we noticed Wendell Phillips, Edmund
Quincy and Francis Jackson, from Boston.
Mr.. Garrison introduced the services by
reading selections from the Bible, and then ex-
| tended an invitation to any one, 80 disposed, to
indulge in vocal prayer.
Mr.. Garrison was the first speaker. He has
lately visited the West and has improved in
consequence. His remarks were decidedly
mere liberal in tone, and on a more encourage
ing key than formerly.
He alluded to the riots which had broken up
their last meeting in New York, and warmly
eulogized the people of Syracuse and Roches-
ter, who had welcomed them after their ex-
pulsion from the great metropolis 3" Here we
are, said he "again, ready to protest with
more vigor against the slave system, but where
are our enemies Where is the Union Safety
Committee? God only knows"
This facetious allusion to defunct organi-
cation was received with great merriment. The
three chief upholders Of slavery, Calhoun, Clay
and Webster, had gone to their final account
the nt.Slavery star was in the ascendant
The Baltimore platform, to be sure, had been
formed during the two years since we have mel
here but what then
The King of France with twenty thousand men
Marched up the hill, and then marched down again
The Fugitive Slave Law had passed, but, ex
oept in New York, it could not be executed in
the face of day and in presence of the people
Slaves now run away as fast as ever.
We owe to this enactment Uncle Toms
Cabin, and the late petition of half o million
English women, in behalf of the slaves
Mr.. Garrison, in concluding, quoted, as a
progressing encroachments of freedom on the
peculiar institution, an article in the Charles
ton Mercury, in reply to the Evening Post, and
alludiDg to the signs of decline in the nstitu-
ton.
He was followed by Edmund Quincy Lucy
Stone, and Wendell Phillips.
AMERICAN FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY,
AND HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
The nineteenth annual meeting of this Socie-
ty was held at the Church of the Puritans,
Union square, TO- day, at halfpast 10 A. NJ
There was very fair attendance. The chill
dren of the Home present numbered something
less than fifty.
Rev. DIR. Ferris occupied the chair.
The proceedings were commenced by pray
er The next exercise was singing by the
children The Treasurer's report was read
The society is pecuniarily in a fourshing con.
dition having balance in Treasurer's hands
Of $i,93494. The whole amount received for
the year has been $l2,77237
The statistics of the Home for the Friend
less are as follows: a
The whole number of inmates admitted since
the institution was opened, in ls47, has been
3,493.
Received the past year--adults, 37o chill
dren, 1877; total, 557.
A larger number Of children have been
transferred to worthy families within the last
than in any preceding year. The various
poets of the work are encouraging.
Brief addresses were then made by the Rev.
DR.. Kennedy, Kew MIR. Taggart and Rev. DIR.
Cheeyer.
THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI
SLAVERY SOCIETY
This Society held its anniversary at the Broad
way Tabernacle on the evening of May 18th.
The chairman, Mr.. Arthur Tappan, called the
meeting to order, and introduced the Rev. Mr..
Freeman, of Brooklyn, who offered a prayer.
The secretary. Mr. Lewis Tappan. then read