New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-11

The resolutions adopted at the late meeting of
the American Tract Society, Notwithstanding the
extreme caution with which they were wOrded, do
not seem to be altogether to the taste of certain
number of evangelical slavehOders-or, as they
insist upon calling themselves Evangelical Chris
tans." at the Virginia Baptist Association now in
session at Richmond, DR.. Burrows of that city
offered the following resolutions:
"Uhercas, The American Tract Society has, by its
Constitution limited its issues to such calculated
TO receive the appreciation of all Evangelical Chris
fans and qrheredS resolutions adopted at the recent
anniversaries of the Society look to the publication of
,reatises the subject of Slavery; and phcreas, the
sub;ec sc Slavery, Ike that of Masonry Church Gov
ernment, Infant nsniism, etc., is one in relation to
which Evangelical Christians, ~ ."t pgieei therefore,
"hsolrCd, That as Evangelical C"..5,'"S We
do not approve Of the publication of any tract on trea
tse by the American Tract Society on the subject Of
Slavery either favorable unfavorabe t. the insti-
tuition that deem the Society estopped by it, own
constitutional prov sOns from issuing such publications;
and that from the time at which such publications
issued we can regard that Society simply as sec
tona and not as national institution whose issues
are calculated 10 receive the appreciation OF all Evan
Gecal Christians. ~
On the motion Of the Rev. y. NJ. POindexter, the
resolution was referred to a committee Of five. Ii
appears from an article in Tie South, that on the
debate which preceded the reference some members
of the Association manifested disposition, not in
deed to sustain the action Of the Tract Society bat
still to apologize for it. At this The South is very
much ostonishtd, but is inclined TO let off these per-
sons for the moment on the ground of ignorance,
fully expecting, however, that after having been
duly enlightened-to which task The South ad
dresses itself in the artice-as to the course OF
the Tract Society and their own duties in the mat
ter, these gentlemen will be ready to sustain the
resolutions of the Rev. Dr. Burrows If not indeed
to propose something stronger
The operation at the South Of the resolutions
Of the Tract Society does certainly go to show
that, however it may be in medicine, IN morals
and religion infntesimal doses do sometimes
produce all the effects of the most generous ex-
hibtions. The slavery Incorporated INTO there's
olutions of the American Tract Society was, to our
perhaps somewhat bunted powers of discernment,
wholly imperceptible; but upon Southern evaugeli-
cal Shareholders, it seems TO have produced all the
effects Of full dose. The South denounces these
resolutions, with all their " elaborate antiquities,
as no better than sort of theological niue, carried
forward underground by engineers who mask
themselves from view-experts, perhaps, supplied
from the bureau Of the Underground Railroad
and intended, when it is sprung some day, to blow
up the whole savehOlding system Inc South,
accordingly, sets down these resolutions as plainly
equivalent to declaration of war against
Slavery" il being 1.-The merest ahcctatlon TO
pretend TO regard them in any other aspect
Nor il TIL. view of the case at all conhaed to The
South. "Net voice has been raised IN defense Of
the Society" so that paper declares, "frOm Mary
Gland to Texas. Not a single Southern journal
has ventured to offer anything in Its JuStihcauca
The religious papers of this city have denounced
- its apostasy with an energetic inVectlve which
"excites the envy Of their less modera'e eoten-
"porares Of the political press. AUD certainly,
anything Of this sort which excies the envy OF the
Richmond political journals, must be pretty rich,
and already the first opportunity is taken by the
Virginia Baptsts to purge themselves OF all conDec
ton with so dangerous and wicked an association.
The worship Of the demon of Slavery, the priests
and rulers taking the lead, is evidently last super
sfdpp throughout the South that Christian religion
which 7, CARDS all men as brethren, and OF which the
great precept is TO do unto others you would that
others should do unto you. There Is much instruc-
ton in the case Of the young man who went away
sorrow full because be had great possessions New
ertheless, we trust that remnant VIII be found
resdy. like Daniel 10 worship God even in the
hons den. Much stubbe must be burnt up. and
COED many bsIren hg trees will take IRE and be
consumed; yet some sturdy roots viii survive, able