New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-04

ehveYy tract has caused no esnmchon o. ''e
South; rot ap agent las been driven from any one
Of the fifteen Slave States; not tract e1ciosea'
not Southern officer resigned and 20 well hs Tue
Life of Mrs. Page been received that the socey 10
1856 publsked second edition.
In 1857, while the Tract Society ~ss demon
strating that if they published 'insie tract Oh
Slavery, all their other tracts and 300 colPorteur'
would be excluded from fifteen Slave Sfates' inc
Evangelical knowledge Society had the sudacify 70
issue L" The Life of William WHEREFORE, good
y volume Of 767 pages. In this work the iaoof'
of Wilberforce against the sayetrade and IN favor
Of emancipation are honestly recorded. The letter
of encouragement written by Wesley from bis dying
bed il given in full in which the father OF Meth
oditm eXclams: $50 on in the name OF God, ana
" in the power Of His might, til even Amer
can Slavery, the West that ever saw the sum-
&" shall vanish before ftp. l56. Nor did VII
berforce differ from Wesley in his estimate OF
American Slavery, as he speaks in his diary with
sefreproach of having 80 long postponed efforts TOR
relaxing the yoke of the most degrading and of
" ter bondage that ever ground down the human
species" Notwithstanding the publication OF
these two Anti. Slavery biographies, the Society I'
in full health and yigor-never more prosperous
than at this day; free from debt, with full treas
ury, and without murmur Of dissatisfaction from
the South.
If further demonstration be wanting Of the utter
inability of the Tract Society to publish on
Slavery, it may be found IN the Anti-Siavery
presses in Washington, Kentucky and Missouri,
and particularly in the Anti.Savery addresses de-
yered in the latter State, both in and out of the
Legislature, and in the three recent Anti Slavery
election triumphs in different parts Of the State,
and particularly in st. Louis.
But however ingenious and convenient may be
the new system Of logic adopted by the Tract So
ciety and however powerful may be the demon
STATIONS which accompany it's propositions, it must
be admitted that it has failed to receive "the ap-
probation of all evangelical Christians" The
views and feelings Of very large and daily ncreas-
ing portion of such Christians have been embodied
in protest, made by ten pastors and ministers
"of Congregational churches in Franklin and La
Z" noble Counties, w." on the 4tb Of November
last to the President of the Society, under their
respective signatures. After examining the conduct
of the Society, the protest concludes in the fol-
lowing startling language:
AS now conducted, il the Society has proved m
taiHtuito ITS OmH Constitution 10 the cause Of hu-
manay aud Of God TO tie cause Of truth and Of cram
gelical religion. BY throwing ITSELF as it has done, as
shield between Slavery, and the public sentiment OF
Chrisendom opposed to Slavery ii has become the
enemy Of Liberty, and the bulrark OF oppression. As
thus conducted it is the corrupter Of public lars and
the principles OF morality, and by giving countenance
to the notion that peace and JOY in the Holy Ghost
may be promoted and may exist without practical
righteousness, it becomes mighty corruptCr Of tic
religion Of the GosPcl.'
1t will depend on the action of the Society at its
ensuing anniversary whether the language Of this
protest should in justice be applied only to the
present officers or be righteously extended to the
Corporation itself. Should the present logicans be
continued in Office, then will the American Tract
Society become responsible, before God and man,
both for their logic and their conduct.