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The War on the American Tract Sosistv.

anniversary week-the American Tract
Society. ifthe Now York Indie pc ndent.
and the Tribune, have their way, is TO be
converted into an Anti South America
Tract Society. To serve God as they
reason, The North must cut off the South
tract reading so it seems to us
poor laymen. il the S,u,herners are such
sinners as is alledged Of them. the more
tracts they read. the more hope of getting
the Puganism out Of them.
This onset upon the American Tract
Society comes mainly from the Newlight
the Shsrp's Rife
of the church Miitant-but
Satan gives them lift--among all out
siders--Io whom the negro is everything,
and the white man nothing. Having
succeeded. few years, in Hartford. in
splitting up and nearly destroying the
American Board OF ,mmissioLers for
Foreign Missions. by depriving Southern
sinners Of Northern missions--they nov
are about TO rush in here TO seize hold OF
the American Tract Society. aud 10 break
that up. under the pretence Of its beinga
pro- slavery concern as was siiedged of
the North Missionaries among the Creeks
ard Cherokees OF the Southwest.
Blu, such is the inevitable. irresistible
sequence Of what calls itself Republican
ism. 1t is no, only no'one country, one
constitution. one destiny'--but not one
God. not one Church. not one Bible
The North and the South must be rent
- - I.~h
ing societies. in their religious organiza-
tinns-in that community and brother
hood that make ell look up to one God.
one Bible; and then comes Northernpar.
ties and Southern parties. dis. United
States--E pluribus. but no Unum. Be
ware, Beware!. The Father of his coun-
try foresaw and warned us from al such
schemes, aud oil such men.
Ntp Fork Express.
THE OTHER SIDE.
The Tract Society is in confusion.
Slavery has thrust itself into the anniver.
sary meeting. Ofsll sperturbed spirits.
that The Shareholders is the most restless
aud unoppeasable. He thrus. himself in
to de bate; demands guarantees OF every
Society; quarrels with ever robber,
however remote from him. or discon-
nected with him. All political discus
sions only lead with him to the inevita
BILE question OF slavery. All religious
creeds are tried BY him only by their
influence on Slavery. Peace. war, com
merce. education. trade. and fashion.
even. arc with him nothing but phases of
the Slavery question. He sees every
thing through black spectocles. The
whole purpose Of his public life is to bend
men. S,a;es and institutions TO an &C.
acknowledgement, and support Of the
righteousness per Sc OF Slavery.
Ii is not enough to promiss TO ignore
Slavery. 1t is not enough to agree keep
still about it. 1t ia not even enough to
scquiesce, in it. Fall down and wor-
ship me- is It's demand necessarily made
and necessarily repeated. Nothing less
will satisfy the devil, either at jerusalem
or in America.
The whig party, organized solely with
referance to matters OF finance and COM
merce. WAS dissolved into thin air. be.
cause some of its members insisted on
making il the tool of Slavery. The
Democratic party is split into dozen
waring factions by the vexed question OF
Slavery. The American party. profess
ing to deal only with questions of birth
and religion. fell headlong. at Philadel-
phis, into'a trap laid for il. by Sla"ery.
Slavery has divided Methodist Church.
1t has divided The presbyterian Church.
1t is perpetual theme of wrangling in
the Babtist church and disturber of the
peace Of the Dutch Reformed and the
Congregational. Even the college boys
of Yale, and German turner's cannot
pursue their gymnastics without being
arrayed into hostile parties by demand
first promise that you will uphold Slave
ry.'
Now is the. turn of the Tract Society.
The Bible must not teach the press must
not move. the colperleur must not start
or his round. until it is first of all form
ally agreed and settled, that it shall nil
be done only when, where and how the
STAKEHOLDER is graciously pleased to die
tate.-Albany Journal.
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