New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07

| The Rev. Harvey Wood Of Mississippi followed
lie said this Society had brought great encourage
mert tsthe Aearts ofthe people Of the South Thi,
We can readily believe. Having found the North u
hong patient purveyor for their carnal seeessaes
paying their postage bills and furnishing them with
the necessaries Of Life, with only an occasional
general bankruptcy to square accounts Il Is per
fecty natural that they should relish the idea o
getting their preaching out Of it for nothing beside
Mr.. Woods own experience had not been very
encouraging, it must be owned. BE had been
preaching every Sunday for tweny-six years, and
\ ad not received more than $500 year on an
average. 1t is highly honorable to the Christian
economy of this brother that, under such circun.
stances, he should have been able TO buy slave
He stated the fact rather apologetically; but,
surely, without reason. TWAS the necessary black
seal of his spoeteshp ss essential to his commii-
sion q the signature of the Presbytery or what
ever body was bis authentic indorser. II was 4
indispensable to his reception preacher Of pure
and unquestiOnable religion as BiIdotreedom Sswin
perceived il to be for his qualification As candi.
date for tho Presidency. Only, We are afraid thst
the Volunteer into Mississippi can only have az
forded what the Volunteer into Mexico proposed
to have bought for him-to wit, ca low priced
baby"
This good man bore a touching testimony to tho
efficacy of Slavery and religion, mixed 10 proper
proportions, on Southern constitutions. The late
Lord Byron OF 90 stated that nothing caims tho
spirit like um and true religion But We
think that sSQdtion of Slavery aad religion must
be even fuller of spiritual comfort.-st least in
those latitudes He modesty says, "bstter men
/" than be owned slaver, and great many worse
men did not own them. The elders Of his church,
good aud pious men, were shareholders. He
knew elders that would either buy sell or hire
" slaves, to accommodate the slaves themselves
Merely to accommodate the slaves, be it Observed,
And it is pi)us, benevolent mea ike these that
Emisrant Aid Societies would keep from planting
the institution In Kansas He went on to say that
the Slavery "agitation had so sgitated the South.
" ern mind that it was hardly safe to attempt tho
L" smelioration of the condition of the slaves"
And in almost the next sentence he adds that "it
is for the nters ct Of the shareholders to have
severe laws against the abuse of slaves, az "a
pua,d against that strong Indignation their wrongs
" might e1eite." The apparent inconsequence Of
these consecutive sentences is. doubtless, to be
found in the fact that the happiness of the cOndl
ton of the slaves is so great as to be incapable Of
amt elioration. With csndor truly Christian how.
ever, he admitted that "bad laws might exist in
the South, and co." he goes on, "they do in
Z" India; but we send missionaries there, and why
:" not to the South" For no reason that We can
conceive, except that the whole need not physl.
clan.
TIE Rev. DR.. Joel Parker, Of this city cams
next. He stated tha. this Society had been formed
in conseouence of the Home Missionary Society
having virtually withdrawn from the Southern
field, lest it should seem to sanction Slavery
"But," as he went on to say, "it will not DO 70
"keep the Gospel away from the South because
"there are difficulties there" DR.. Parker ga'es
new view of the claims Of the Society," which add
ed fresh weight to them. He said that "uodef
"GoJ. this Society had already done something
.to save the Union" When the salvation
of the Union can be promoted mt the same time
with the salvation of souls, what intelligent pa
triot can refuse to help forward a mission thus
doubly blest1 DR.. Nehemiah Adams. in his
ofiic of mediator between the North and South,
ftly wound up the charm. He rejoiced in the
effect of this work in softening sectional AMI
mosties "The South was jealous of the Home
Missionary Society lest its agents were the ennis
",aries of evil But this Society was pledgedb
"be in coincidence with the Christian feeling Of
"tbe Southern brethren, prOfering help, spx!
"from interference. He looked upon it {" The
"oliye. branch brought by the dove, telling Of the
"subsidence of the Flood" We agree in the 'er'
timent and, more than that, We look upoa TIE
Doctor as the dove that brought it. But boz
different the reception Of our messenger bird o.
innocence and peace from that Of tho days d
Flood! Is there any reason to believe that Ssss
pucked and roasted the "lOvely carrier Of Ne
skies that brought him healing on its wing
Surely not But ours, within three days sx
this gentle cooling, was roughly seized, strpp~s
its downy plumage, and, after being bsrbs'ss
roasted, was kicked out of the Tract Society ~
the street! And we talk Of the age Of martyrs
being past! We submit that 1t behooVa
southern Christians rather, to organize os'"'
for the conversion of these Northern barbsnS@