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

s.,nte ara vkss DNbbestSs On II ~ siect ssH ~
iseoed in conformity viii ne Ccnsrut,sh '-iAd-
| oress Of the three SecretAres, Sept 20 1857.
The demonstration Of this proposition is found in
the past very CONSTANT and constitutional action Of
the Society. So long as the great questions" Of
| the lawfulness Of war, Of moderate drinking, Of
novel reading, Of dancing Of using tobacco &C.,
were "heN in dispute the Society of course
maintained profound silence respecting these i'm
noralitiss. But no sooner did all evangelical Chris
tians agree substantially in their views" on these
mbjects-no sooner did they oil withdraw from the
army, put away their wine decanters, shut up their
novels, abandon the bal room, and east aside their
cigars and tobsccoboxes than the Society fesr'essy
and zeaousy rebuked the niGuities thus reln-
| pushed So, when our evangelical brethren--the
Stringellow., the Atchisons, the Ketts the Masohs
| the Hunters with Northern doughfaces and cotton
divines, and especially the Rev. Nehemiah Adams,
| ID. d., Pro Slavery guardian Of the Tract press-
| shall with one voice eIecrate and denounce Amer-
can Slavery and when in consequence of this
mighty change of sentiment Slavery is at it's last
gasp then the Society will valisntly give the dying
monster parting and constitutional kick; but 30
| iODR 90 NC IN otiSbS ohu '6OiV"ei O~eNA6 NV
ravsges and destroying the souls and bodies Of null
titudes, 90 long the Society will not hurt hair Of
his head; will not lay straw in bis way; will not
even deny that be is chosen and authorized agent
| of Almighty God
Proposition-Any publication by the Society on the
subject Of Slavery will exclude all is tracts and agents
| from fifteen Ststee.
"Apy publication Of our press ION Slavery, eyen
houghof Southern authorshtp, could have no other
result than precpitating the entire withdrawal OF the
| South from cooperation with the Society The new
works would find no gate OF access, and the separation
would henceforh exclude even our older issues. =
| Address of Publishing Distributing and Financial
| Committees, Sept. 10, 1851.
| "The Issue of a single book upon that subject
Slavery now would instantly drive out OF the Shoe
South our nearly 300 coporteurs, aud
agents exclude our laborers and volumes from the
seren or eigM millions, who are neither shareholders
nor responsible for the system, and ccctRay close up
the ten thousand channels through which
now flowing Address OF the three Secretaries
Sept. %, 1857.
The officers having neglected to support this
proposition with demonstration, we will supply
the omission, and in accordance with their system
of logic Yet it scarcely be necessary to prove
what is SO intuitivey evident, that $780, slave
holders have such despotic control over the re-
heious reading of seven or eight MILLIONS of non
shareholders rs to prevent them from receiving or
perusDg any of the SOciety's $50 millions of publ
cations containing, as Mr.. Kennedy cetifes, mot
one word on the subject Of Slavery" and that if
one tract on Slavery issues from the Tract House,
300 colporteurs will instanter be expelled from the
Slave States. Nevertheless we will proceed with
our supererogatve demonstration.
1.-The American Missionary Association" is an
Ant-Savery Society of very decided character, and
all its missionaries and coporteurs are uncompro-
missing opponents Of the "pecuiar institution" Its
operations are both foreign and domestic, and ct
present include Kentucky and North Carolina. In
the last report Of the Society October 1857 it is
stated: "In Kentucky We have nine Anti.Slavery
" churches; in North Carolina eight churches; all
60 of them refuse to fellowship shareholders.
{" In Kentucky, this year has been one of unusual
interest and success. Our missionaries and COL
"porteurs have enlightened the public mind on the
subject of Slavery by their preaching, and by the
publications circulated by them."-[p Is.
missionary in Kentucky writes: 1.-THE Anti-Ssvery
cause is going forward The Kentucky Netos OF
Newport, daily and weekly, is giving expression
&" to the strong hatred of Slavery felt by many IN
:. our State, and their love Of Freedom. Up. "a.
a colporteur in the some State writes Kentucky
"is now, with slight exceptions, accessible to that
" truth. and should be occupied Immediately.
The friends of a pure gospel have now, after
long struggle, an open field in kentucky. In a
Z. great portion of the State especially the noun.
tain portion of it, most of the people are not only
willing TO hear and read on the subject of Slavery
and of other SINS but are anxious to receive in-
Z. struction. We want in Kentucky some
.. fifteen preachers and many colPorteurs.
Up. &c.
The Evangelical knowledge Society" is an
Episcopal Tract Association, with Southern
Bishop for its President, and three other Southern
Bishops among its Vice Presidents It's Board OF
Directors numbers sixteen clerical and fifteen lay
members from the Slave States. The editor, whose
Office it is to revise the tracts before they are pub
lshed, is Vlrginian clergyman. Yet marvellous
az it may seem to the Tract Society Committee,
this same Association controlled as it is by South
ern evangelical Christians" have issued the b.
ography of pious Vireinian Anti'Slavery lady,
Mrs. Ann r. Page was the wife of a Virginia
planter owning more than 900 slaves. Her letters
her diary and her written prayers, all bear test
mony to her adherence of Slavery, and her deep
sense of her own responsibility for her conduct to
sthe Lords poor" as she called her slaves. From
one of her prayers we extract the following:
Regard in mercy, o God the whole sad scene
which thou hast caused me in mercy for so many years
70 mourn over and bring before thee by night on my
often sleepless bed-seepless from pressing thoughts
for evils which continue because, alas they not
considered. Thy Word is not made known to the
Sa - ;nbs HI. the smoky hints and till our fields.