New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-22

against il. II Or. Smith were 10 come 10 Mississippi
ana announce that be abboued Slavery, be would be
calico an Aooitlonkt and would cut Of bis prospects
Of being useful there. They did not desire
10 discuss the subject They had never sent up me-
mortal upon the subject from their Presbytery because
they believed that by 30 doing they should impsir
their influence They had never sent threa. of sepa
ratic-, end II this subject continued To be dis.
cussed they must abandon the subject or abandon th
General Assembly What practicable plan hsd ever
been prtseIted FOR emancipation which would bspeas
the black population without operating subversively
10 the waite He believed that in the Providence
of God Slavery would be done away wah.
Public opinion had changed in the South,
and had been driven back. He reoeleeted
Years since when there were great many ministsrs
and laymen who were not only in favor Of emsnGpe-
tor but immediate emancipation But the agnstions
the subject at the North bad caused public opinion
70 charge there. In the South they admRted that
Slavery was an evil; but he drew distinction BE-
tween an evil and Gin. II he understood the senti
ments of the drawer of the Detroit resolutions rightly
those resolutions hold that slavery was sin.
d. NIssER remarked that he regarded the system
Of Slavery as Sin.
Mr. WooDs gave an account of the purchase h,
made Of black servant. II woman. lie had
peytr owned slave, but one day he was called out
OF HE house and found black woman and a boy tied
in q North Carolina cart. This manner of treating q
human beirg however, they were not responsible for,
as lhe civil laws were not chargeable 10 the brethren
Of the South. Preachers not the lawmakers.
He therefore would not bold the Christian min.
sters of New.lOrk responsible for a fact which
be had witnessed in the streets here for the
first time-a woman hItched TO q cart, be-
tween two dogs-a thing unknown in Mississippi.
He did not blame the Moderator nor the General A.
sembly nor the brethren here If the municipal regu-
lstions permitted such things. To return ths woman
whom be found tied in this cart told him that she had
been sold at Sher's sale, ard was about 20 be CON
yeyed 10 the western part OF the State, away from her
husband and children, unless he would buy her, which
she beseeched him to do, and he finally consented and
be had treated her ever since with greater kindness
i III L.fx tfhaxh had
at the South who were Abolitions,s, but they
generally those who were unable to buy negroes
They were not all 20, however. There werJ many in-
stances where men had manumrted their slaves. Dr:
Breckenridge was one They of the South now wished
to know whether the Genei al Assembly desired them
to leave the body, or whether through this report
It was the wish to gradually e1scnd them.
How was the General Assembly to separate the
SQUAD from the unsonndl He had once heard OF
two men who were boasting Of the merits OF
their respective steam doctors. One told what hls
could do. The other said that was nothing TO what
his could do. Why, said the FIRST what can he do
more extraordinary than that The second replied,
that if had eaten bacon and cabbage Tor dinner,
his doctor could give him something to make him throw
up the cabbage AMI leave the bacon tLaughterl II,
then they had such theological doctor as that 10
separate the sound from the unsound there would bo
nOdticuliy II Slavery be sin per Sc, the AbohtonstS
were consistent and he did not want the general
Assembly 10 remain inconsistent any longer. IL they
did not consider sn per then he and those OF the
South wanted to know II. IL had been oftcn matter
of pquiry if the School Assembly cut them OF
where they would go. Some had suggested-go to the
Old School He thought they would die ecceslaticaly
before they would make Convention on the basis OF
1897 and 1889. The South had had no Moderator and
no permanent Clerk since 1887, but they did not find
fault. But what he desied to let those Southern
brethren who are turning their eyes to the Old School
General Assembly have that body. Mr.. Wood then
read extracts from the writings of old School Dvines,
South and North-the Rev. DR.. Breckenridge of Ken
tucky, President Young OF Kentucky, the Rev. DIR.
Rice Of Missouri and Others going TO show that they
held strong AntSlayery ideas
Judge JEssUP raid il was the desire of this Assembly
aid Of all previous assemblies, to do that which would
ncrta the usefulness of the ministers and OF the
church North and South. He did not propose 10 dis
cuss whether the Detroit resolutions were right or not.
The minority report seemed to represent the feelings
of their Southern brethren. But there differ
eDce between them. A few principles laid at the
bottom of the whole of it. Here is what the ma
joiity ray: -
the called present their views Of the moral chat
slavery 10 reargue the question wh.ter slave
holdn is any dcipnabe Oasnso. They do not
suppose they appointed with reference that question
1t hoCoshy discussed in The 9 lsSo snS TIE
cordOp Of Slavery except in those where ansyo
The demands Of hun ant,, Odense in The proper
port that used in the Book Of Discipline chapter
msnner .. other oGsn.ss Hi. opinion has ssea
% a & s6 % ss &
any considerable portion Of the present Assembly will either
krsde course"
Then the majority says:
THE unnersigned likewise conc the sentiment which he
ads implied the second resolution adopted BY
Assembly in Detroit and which he he's the s the
no. m eI &c and cannot thereore on this sroapd be- made
subject Of discipline The undersigned also readily admits
that s.yehoaing ike every other relation in life h sin Ia
the sight Of God when with the demand, Of
humaLay."
Now, he would ask, where was the difference be.
tween them! He looked for il rather in word than
in sentiment. II saveholdng was consistent with the
obligations Of Christianity and with humanity it had
never been affirmed in the General Assembly that It
was sin. Ii they cODtrovened these obligations they
were accountable TO the Church Thus they were
agreCO upon the two great conservative principles of
their constitution, upon the strict construction OF their
constitution regards the granting or assumption Of
powers by the General Assembly. The majority as-
sumed that the General Assembly had disciplinary
power over a brother who was holding his ser.
want by those great principles of humanity. A
brother TO be reached through his
Preebytery, ard nowhere else. But let some cayn-
say is all wrong and bring il up this body by
cue course OF appeal and they would say to the
brotheI-"h you see woman dragged of from her
husband and family her in order that she may
not be thus separated" Was not that the doctrine
Of the Detroit resolution If il could be shown that
me nber of the Presbyterian Church was holding
slaves, not for humanitsTy purpose, but TO sell
them he could be excOmmuDcated, and II be appealed
to thr body Il would confirm the judgment. The next
General Assembly might adopt principles different
from those contained in this majority report. but he
believed il would be wisdom for this Assembly to
adopt what seemed TO have been the concurrent opn-
ion Of a the different Assemblies of the Church IN the
pust. That report SAID that c0gnizaBce cOaId be
taken u Slavery for violating the laws of humanity
uDe II was brought before tbemin n legitimate way.
DR.. Ross Of Tenn.-Under the Detroit resoutions, %
can hr. Aiken of South Carolina bold 3, 900 slayesl
Judge JEssUP-l would ask him t0 eInaDoioala
them; think that 3 000 persoDs could not be held n
tie light If Christianity mselves and children 70
duceo to hopeless and inteInnabe bondage upon any
claim cf guaIdianshiper humanity