Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-15
RELIGInN- NORTH AND SOnTH-

The following striking appeal to the Christian
charity and sober sense Of the Clergy of the North
ern Methodist Church, forms part of letter from
the Editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate to
Bishop Morris, of OHIO. 1t should be observed
that in his statistics of the ColO;el church member
ship in Charleston, be confines himself to those of
the Methodist den Ominstion. Had he embraced
those of other churches he would at least have
doubled the number, Iudeed, in proportion to
their numbers, there IS no population in Chrsten-
dom which exhibits greater list of those who ara
hsbitusY under the Influence of religious instruc-
ton, than the c0lored people Of Charleston. But,
to the extract from the letter of the Nashville
Christian AdU0cGte'
@Wil you reverend air, lit rpose2 Will you and
your colleagues throw oil upon the troubed va
tiers, and strive to calm and quiet the preudices Of
such of your preachers and people as are warning
against the interests of the Church Of Christi They
know not whereof they affirm. They do not know
the condition of the South; they are uuscgusinted
with the elements of Southern Soeety. Thou
sands of the citizens of the North are mised by
designing men, who cater to their passions and
prejudices They judge Of slavery by the repre-
sensations of irresponsible writer's who csIicature
Southern institutions and SANDER Southern Chris
tisns Will they be persuaded to let US alone p
We are doing great work We preach Christ,
and not pohtics. We are looking alter the sheep
10 the wilderness, not as wolves, to scatter, tear
the flock of Christ. You have full enough to en-
pIoY all your men and your means in instructing
the horde of ignorant and Dfdel men who thro1g
your cities skirt your praires dwell upon your sea
aud lake shores, build your railroads, dig your
bitches, and serve as meniss in the houses and on
the farms of your wealthy citizens.
"Whst is your Church doing for the free blacks
at the NOrth2 Sir was surprised when l looked
at the statistics of your Cincinnati Conference
The returns show Il at you have in the bounds of
that Conference ninery-eight colored members!-
Ny dear sir, how many thousands Of colOred people
live in your great Queen City, to say nothing Of
the country around and with all the sympathy Of
your preachers and people for the black man you
have less than one hundred members in your whole
Conference. Compare Cincinnati with the City of
Charleston, a city with perhaps a population not
one third so great IS yours, and there you find
colored membership in the Methodist Church of
not less than five thousand In the South Carolina
Conference alone there are not less than forty five
thousand COlOred people IN communion with the
Church. Well may l ask, who cares for the soul
of the negro2 All, sirl it is easy to say, be ye
warm, and be ye fed; but the good Samaritan min
listers to the wants OF the suffering. Say TO your
brethren, Let them alone; they are following the
example Of Jesus, and the instructions of the IL
spred apostles. Let them slOnel and go and preach
the gospel to your own poor. Charleston Mercury.
REPORT OF THE New YORK SUPERINTENDENT OF
BANKs.-The new York Courier las an abstract
of the report of the Superintendent of the Bank
ing Department of that State, from which we
gather the following:
1.-THE report states that the additional bank
capital in the State since the publication of the
prior report, is ST $4,000, making the present
aggregate very nearly one hundred millions of
dollars employed as banking capital OF this New
York city employs about three-ffths, CT nearly
sixty millions of dollars.
1.-THE present paper circulation, as bank notes
merely, of this State, may be set down at thirty
one millions of dollars. To meet this the depart.
ment holds as collateral, New York State stocks
and United States stocks, and bonds and mort
cages, ell of which will serve to secure the bill
holders against any eventual loss The extinction
of the numerous bank charters this year, and in
the coming ten years, will require prompt action
on the part Of the Legislature to provide further
basis Of bank issues. Railroad bonds may, as a
whole, be considered IS unsafe, although there
are companies whose bonds bear in the market a
value showing great confidence in such securi-
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