New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-08

The slaveholdlng portion of the New-SchOOl
Presbyterian Church-that is, the portion which
holds to Slavery as ntrinscaily right-bas seeded
from the General Assembly We believe the Pres
byterian Church Of Missouri with some portions
in other Slave States do not follow this lead of the
Rev Dr. Ross, but will retain their connection
with the thus purified body.
We hold to the right OF secession from any &C.
elesiastca organization, and disposed neither to
complain Of Dor exult over this movement. The
immense majority took the ground and proclaimed
the views which their understandings and con-
sciences told them were right, While they would
gladly have been spared the necessity Of parting
company with those whom they personally esteemed
and doctrnally fraternized with. Every impulse
but that Of conscience cOunseled the suppression
Of their convictions and the maintenance Of the
union with their Southern brethren. They had
nothing to gain by a rupture, while cherished assO-
Citations and tender ties were broken by it. In
view Of these Obvious facts no one can seriously
doubt that they have discharged a painful but i'm
peratiye duty.
The seeding manifesto Of the Rev. DR.. Ross aud
his associates, which we publish, seems to us de-
fectiye in these respects: /. 1t steadily assumes
the novelty Of the position taken and principles
ayOwed by the vast majority, while in fact they are
but the timely aud needed iteration Of welknown
declarati, Ms If the Presbyterian Church. DR.. Ross
himself has melted this reassertiOn, by treating
those declarations as at ambiguous and practl-
caly obsolete, and in effect daring the General As
sembly, if they regarded them rs all Antl-Slayery
Church. to place her fairly on the record as such.
,. The PIo-Slavery minority, having thus dis
paraled the ancient landmarks and challenged their
revival now turn short corner, and inyegh
against "the agitation Of the Slavery question,
consequence Of political agitation &c,
Sc, as if the majority, and not they, had
| provoked and melted this rupture. 3. They ac-
cuse the majority Of declaring that the relation OF
master and serrant is sin against God when
the majority never imagined anything like this.
Not the relation Of master and servant, but tae es-
tablsbment and maintenance of that relation, in
certain cases, through force and fraud on the one
side ignorance and weakness on the other, is pro-
nOuDced essentially sinful by another. TIE mis-
representation is here as fragrant as though, the
majority having pronounced robbery an oifense, the
minority had declared this equivalent to an asser-
| ton that the transfer of money from one mar
| possession to anOther's is necessarily sin.
The minority invite all New-School Presby-
| terians WhO wish to unite with them in general
organization tr Assembly which shall ignore the
subject Of Slavery, to meet them in Convention al
Washington City on the 9th day of August next.
Why this call should be thus limited, does not
seem clear. Ifthose Presbyteri in creed, who
incline to POlysamy, to DuelDg, to Horse-Racing,
to Sabbath.breaking, to Rumseling, were seyeraly
invited, the assemblage might doubtless be in
creased These would not ask any direct ayow Al
in favor of their respective peculiarites-it would
doubtless suffice them that d" the subject IN which
they cherished Il special interest " should not be
introduced But how many such Assemblies
would convert the world to practical Christianity