Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-13

a large attendance in spite of the unpropitiou
weather. William Lloyd Garrison, the Pres
ident of the Society, presided
Mr.. Francis Jackson read his report al
Treasurer
Mr. Oliver johnson then read letter from
the Hon. J. R. Giddings. Mr.. Giddingi
writes to Mr.. Garrison that he cannot com,
to the anniversary. He thinks that the cause
! is prospecting In and out of Congress, anC
says that no such demonstration in favor o.
| liberty has been made since 1898. as this las
Winter by Congress in declaring that tn,
| President uttered a fasehoJd when he de.
! clared that Kanzas was as much slave State
as Georgia or South Carolina. he suggests
that suitable addresses be transmitted to thu
Emperor Of Russia and the Government O.
Holland rendering the thanks of the society
for their generous efforts in the cause of civil.
lzation, and he recommends union of phi.
lanthropists in different nations for the more
eitectua awakening of the public mind.
/ he letter was received with Lotto applause
as was the entrance at this time of Mr.. Fred
eriek Douglass.
Mr.. Garrison read three columns of resolu-
tons covering the whole ground OF the Anti
Slavery Society at length. They declare that
while Christianity is against slavery, the
American church ana United States govern.
ment are upholding it by their deliberate con
sent and active cooperation that the bred
Scott decision o1trages the common sense OF
mankind, by denying citizenship to those
whose blood was shed to obtain American
liberty and whose sutfIages among others rat
ihed the constitution that the new traffic in
coolies Is as tad as the old in Africans that
the attitude OF America Is Illuminating, con
trasted with that of Russia, whose emancipa-
ton OF her sers is complimented that the
light against the Lecompton constitution IN
Congress is not conscientious conflict against
sin and injustice, but Tor the mere principle
OF popular sovereignty; that the Republican
party lisa party destitute Of principle, without
consistency or moral efficiency, incapable of
maintaining an Incorporating attitude, and
wholly undeserving of respect or confidence
that the Tract Society, as il has expunged eve
ry tract and volume published by it Of every
word condemnatory to slaveholding, and as
both parties have accepted such an amhigu-
GUS and inefficient repor; OF the Committee of
Investigation, ought not to receive the aid OF
any church or man claiming to be virtuous,
humane, or Christian, &C.
Speeches were then made by Charles Lenox
Remond, Wendell Phillips and Edmund
Quincy.
held its sixth anniversary on Monday even
ing. AT the beginning of the fiscal wear,
May l, 1857, the Association was S22S7 in
debt. This debt had been liquidated and
5527 raised and disbursed during the year.
The Association has had ten daily and even.
ing prayer meetings in operation for the last
four months; seven of them are still in oper-
alton. The committee on devotional meet
ings has published and circulated i've hun
dred and htty-two thousand, six hundred and
fifty pages of religious tracts.
The ladies of Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newly ork
whose Institution is located in the Five
Points, on the site of the famous 9 Old Brew
cry" held their fourteenth anniversary on
Monday evening in the hall of the Union at
the Cooper Institute. The meeting was, in
reality, the dedication of that magnificent
building to the purposes of public meetings.
The thirteth anniversary OF the American
Seamen's Friend Society was held Monday
evening at the Church of the Puritans, VIM.
A. Booth, Esq. President, in the chair. The
Society, Notwithstanding the commercial
troubles, has found no falling off in its re-
ceipts during the past year. Their amount
was $25,SS6 20, exceeding those of last year
81, 423 SO.
ny twenty -uISb anniversary OIL the Union
Theological Seminary was held in Mercer
street Presbyterian Church on Monday even
ing. The order of exercises comprised prayer
by the Rev. Mr.. Whiting of Portsmouth,
music, and addresses by members of the grad
uatiug class.
The ninth anniversary of the American
and Foreign Christian Union, was held at the
Church of the Puritans on Tuesday morning.
The receipts into the treasury have been
$40 03 and the disbursements S79, GOA.
The aggregate expenditure abroad (including
the chapel in Paris) is larger than in any
preceding year
Two Thousand nine hundred and fortv.six
Papsl children have been gathered into Sun.
day week day and industrial schools, and the
number of Romsnists addressed on the sub
ject of religion is not less than fifty thousand.
Two hundred and fifty converts from Roman
ism have been made, while the number intel
lectually convinced of the errors of Popery,
and who consequently hold but a nominal
relation to it, is much greater; hundreds have
renowned 1t altogether. A review of the
foreign field shows that, on the whole, the
power of the Papal See is declining.
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