New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-07
FROM PHIL ADELPHTd.

PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, July 3 1856.
To understand properly the Hare.up in Dr.. Dad,
ley TynR's Church. tho Epiphany Of this city. no.
ticed in The TRIBUNE of to-day, the autece-
dents of Philadelphia should be- duly weighed. So
far back "a the memory Of man extends this place
has been tavonte residence Of Southern planters.
Hitler have they sent their daughters to be edu.
Gated. and such sweet proximities have resulted in
tho teDderest relations betwixt young citizens here
sugar regions. Especially before Newport was
known as watering place, or rather after it was
known, and bad declined, previous to its recent
resurrection, PHILADELPHIA and its rural vicint es
were literally resOrted to from the South. Before
railroads or canals could carry persons to the nte
ror and to Niagara, old.fashioned planters were
content to get so far North as this place, where
they enjoyed themselves during the Summer SOL
stice, and married and gave in marriage Thes
for nearly century, the medical schools here have
not only been largely attended by Southern stu
dents, but for half century some Of their most
eminent professors have been of Southern birth
having studied abroad and made their residence
here The Jefferson Medical College here is
simply Virginia memento. Then again the
proximity to Delaware and Maryland, and the
trbuted to make it SOuthernlike, and 10 render
our leading fashionable Episcopalian merchants
conservative cOtton.wise. 1t would be easy to
name q number Of families Of wealth, and hence
influence, who pass for Philsdelpbians. but who
are really as devoted to the institution Of Slavery
as the best apostle Of tie system on the floor of
Congress. there are Phiadephians who are i'm
meLsely wealthy, who draw their revenues from
cotton and sugar estates, and of course are az
oh d1.r m horn harm
ers. The fashionable Episcopal Church is in
tensely Pro.SayeIy. Its organ, The Banner Of the
Cross, approved Of the incarceration of PassmOre
williamson. The effect of Mr. Dudley Tyng's
sermon was, it may be conceived with all these
ia cts before us, that Of bomb.shell. PrOpriety
was outraged, it is said and gentlemen who are
opposed to Slavery GO rot approve of it, and tell
me that The church is not the place for political
discussion, and moreover that was not the way in
which the Society of Friends abolished Slavery in
this city. Well, in reply to this it must be OBJ
served first, that Slavery is not political ques
ton primarily, but q moral question, and as such
always and ever the care of the pulpit; and sec
ondly, the Society of Friencs did agitate Slave
ny in their meetpg-Or church and it
was precisely owing to such agitation th.t
Slavery was abolished, and Philadelphia en-
hbled to attain to it's present wealth aud
influence. Indeed, the most cOnsummate ignorance
exists as to the agitation which produced abolition
of old Nothing Of the bear. and.forbear saccha-
rne gentleness inculcated necessary to restrain
Slavery now characterized the means of abOli shng
Slavery in this State. Newspapers then did not
employ reporters to take down speeches or SER
mons, accurate and full details for the historian
having come in with steam-pOwer presses and tine
great oaily newspaper; but we know enough to
know that no reform Is produced without agita-
ton, and that agitation now ID the same as II was
a century ago. Let me cite an example: When
<lan ,,al har haII haUan N IA
doubts about the morality Of go keeping fellow
beings in bondage aud living off their sweat, there
was leading hgtatOr, of course-tbtre always Is
some head apostle. He talked to Friends fairly
and squarely-mind at their meetings or their
church. They did not ask him to resign as the
yestry does Mr. Dudley Tying, but they held on
to the flesh. pots Of Egypt. This was more than
century ago. Well, our Quaker preacher, find
ing that liquid dictiOn did not answer, did this wise
He went to meeting one Sunday; he discoursed
after st. Paul on the common brotherhood of all
n ankiDd On the Sin of Slavery, and suddenly pro.
duced from under his garments q vessel fill I'd
with blood, which no scattered right and left
over the congregation, shouting out, "Thus be the
"bloOd Of your brethren on your heads at Gods
"iudQment day." The effect Of this was positively
shocking. Old brOadbrims, who bought and sold
guinea niggers, started to their feet; sk-bonDeted
matrons gasped. and some OF the most nervous OF
the ladies tainted doubtless, including sOuie pretty
Friends, who in fact lay themselves out on their
eyes, which are often peculiar black, and bear
the same resemblance to Spanish black that the
soft reed of Fox does to the fierce ecstscies OF
10y ola. But this is an esthetic depression. Suf-
fee to say that the Abolition stock after that
"blOOdy business 1t was terrible incarnation
Of friehtful abstraction, and nothing in the way
of modern citation comes up tOit. In this year
of our Lord, therefore, We must not BIO shocked at
Mr. Dudley Tynp's course, when we compare
it to tho religious agitadOn-yes, religious
which mainly led to Abolition in Pennsy lvania.
People who loom so largely on "the curse Of
"mOdern agitation on the Slave question" should
remember that agitation is essential to reform and
that there is nothing new under the sun. Take,
too, in further exeInplifcston of this subject tae
debate on the Federal Constitution in this city.
Read-thOugh doubtless mperfectly az we have 1t
delivered before stenOgraphy was discOvered-the
in mortal speech Of GOuverneur Morris on slavery.
How blasting bis denunciatOn of the system! How
cutting his comparison between the prosperity of
Philadelphia and Virginia and the Carsllnas Aud
the best of oil is, the Southern delegates appeared
TO take the orators views all as matter beyond
dispute. kven Georgia before the Revolution was
not rabid on the Slavery question. OgloshorPe
was its bitterest opponent, and Abolition re-
spoDses from that State came in generous Goa
lescence with the Anti-Slavery document. OF the
Colonial Delegates from the Northern and South
ern States, who Eat in Philadelphia years before
the meeting of the Continental Congress-. So
much for the accuracy Of the immediate denun
Citations of Slavery agitation in the pulpit and OF
Slavery agitation i'll general.
There was q grand turnout OF the friends oil
Willard Fillmore last night banners, Transparent
cies, music, marching shouting, speeches. Mr..
Pollock was elected Governor Of this State BY
80, coo msjority and two years ago this city gave