New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-21
THE TRACT SOCIETY.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.

HARTFORD, Coss., Jan. 10, 1858.
Not seeing in The TMBvsE any repor: of the la.e
meeting at Hartford 10 hear the Tract Society," ex-
panaOn Of the non-An Slavery action OF Their Pub.
LEGATION Committee and knowing that your able Occa-
sional Correspondent from this section being good
Democrat, as he ha- often said would not like 10 VEN
tilae anything smelling strongly Of Slavery both
pro and anti; and knowing also, that he would
usraly be tender about treating the tobacco question,
there touched upon, and thinking you would like to
know how old liartfordone OF the stronghods of the
Tract Society well of shad consei affirm, money,
pety and everything else that's gooi-fet about the
Aforesaid explanations, for all these reasons deere,
as your semi-Occasional correspondent, TO do-and
magnfy-the office Of the delinquent Granger.
The Tract Society hos usually sent two of s Score
anes to the yearly meeting of its auxiliary, the Hart
ford Tract Society, to encourage IN good works.
Now, the pastors Of Hartford, some time since, TO-
gether with some of their right-hand men, met and
resolved that considering what the parent Society had
done and had not DONE the annual meeting had better
not be held-that is that no public aid and comfort
should be given to MONA Slavery Christianity IN
Hartford. say 1.-THE pastors but the Rev. Messrs
Cbds Presb.) and Beadle Pearl street Cong.) voted
in the negative that resolution, and Mr. Beadle
allowed that the Tract Society should have hes
church if they wanted il, anyhow.
But as the time drew nesr, Mr.. y. found out
that if he should do it, he immediately wOaidnt
hare any church whereupon he had business in
Boston and became absent during all the proceedings.
on the principle that if he fought and away, hed
live 10 fight anotherd day.
Well; perhaps much TO smooth things over, a.
for anything it finally concluded that the annual
meeting might be held in Dr. IIawes's church; but
ths the Slavery business should be treated if at ALL
not there, but at another meeting. This other meet
ing it is whose history MIR. Bancroft remarked
of that of the United States, " l write 1t was
held with almost no notice, Monday, Jan. II p. M.
in Dr. Hawes's lecture-room. Only about hundred
and fifty persons were there but they were, like the
people in the poem, fierce, though few" and they
were of the cream of the old city.
The Rev. Walter Clark tPro-Iractl nominated
Judge Williams president of the Tract Society for
Chairman, and he was chosen. DR.. II believed Clark
then went on TO take the helm of he meetng-l might
say to twist it, if he could into pro-tract-ed meeting
by stating the situation of the Tract Society and the
complaints against them. When he was through, the
Rev. Mr.. Stephenson, the junior of the two Secreta-
res of the parent Society, who had been noting points
on the blank leaf of old Tract Socety's annual
report, rose according to programme, quoted DIR.
Clarks questions, and proceeded to answer them in
smooth and dexterqus manner substantially as fol-
lows: That the question was, Why the Tract
Society had not published the tract against Slavery
which they had been instructed by the Society to
publish 7" To this he replied, that the Society had
long desired to present the truth against slavery;
had taken oil the trouble to get matter for tract
places % sound on the goose" but, mind you, not
from those who had erperieneed Slavery the niggers
themselves although you will agree with me that
one called The Duties of Masters and-hdd not
published ii. That they had published one, however,
called Sambo and TOney' Il see that had care
essly written il so that you would read II TOucy
and, on the whole, think Sambo and Toucey would
make good team for tract; and that this said
nothing about Slavery except at the end in some
instruction from white minister; that at the ami
= IL a ~
versaIy meeting in May last, the lnvestgatlng Com
mittee did as is well known; that the Publication
Committee, on examining the first aforementioned
tract answered in the affirmative the first OF their
usual questions: Whether the tract is calculated to
Here Mr.. s. depressed to call himself true-born
ntSlavery man. and to say that he did not approve
of the same tract because it recognized Slavery But
this depression not in the BILL and one man asked
him II Sambo and Toney did not also recognize
Slavery He answered, Yes; that it bade the servants
obey their masters in all things as the Bible does
Another asked why they did not join with it the
condition which the Bible does join that the masters
shall deal justly with their servants He said that
this WOuid appear some'chere else ~
And having got tired of his depression, he slid back
to the programme, and described the whirwind OF
wrath that went up all over the South when The
IdepeRdcnt proclaimed that the Tract Society was at
last forced do right, by adopting the Investigating
Committees resolution that the tract in question
should be published Chat !ndePendent has no onsl,
ness to make the Tract Society do just as it says)
In view of this whirlwind the Publication Committee
determined that they would not publish. $50
There odd description of the way in which
the tract had been sent all the South TO see II 1t
wouldn't dislike it, which caused nearer to suggest
that protest had been invited against the tract from
that quarter.
acid questions at the Secretary, among which he
lodged as well as he could like Andrew Fairserylce
when Rob Roy's men pointed guns at nm. lac
queerest of his answers were to the Rev. Messrs.
Clark and Bullard who asked what he would do If
the Consolation Of Connecticut should protest against
a tract on the evils Of tobacco! To this MIR. ). an,
swered that he didn't think they would But, sad
Air. b., we are supposng they should Well sara
Mr.. S., should think there was mistake about 1t.
But, said the relentless B., We are supposng not.
Well, said the unhappy Secretary, should think 1t
was hoax. But, said MIR. b. again, we are supPosing
not Having further squirm left in him, Mr.. s. at
last replied boldly-as boldly As raj IN corner
that he would not publish it.
Here everybody fairly boiled over; the Anti-Iract
men with longsuppresscd anger, and the FRO tract
men with veXaton at their roasting; the most FRO.
Tracted II will the pun only this once being that
immense long man, the Rev. Mr. circuit the Connecti,
cut ageneof the American Colonization Society; and
there was quite gale OF rather disorderly proceed
ings which was ended by Calvin Day, esq, who
called upon Dr. Halves to give his views Of the mat
ter remarkipg also, that after trying an hour and
half the Secretary had not said anything to the point
DR.. Halves, one of the Investigating Committee,
L. as YOU well know, man Of high position and great
influence hereabOut even so far, that ll-disposed
persons have nck-named him "the Pope of Hartford
County" He is naturally q conservative and consci-
entous man. but when Right is in danger, he can
draw the sword and throw away the scabbard, and
Law on blows both thick and heavy, with the very
foremost. He said, in substance That years ago,
the Tract Socetys managers had been notified that if
they did not discuss Slavery in good time, they wou
have trouble about it; that last year, when the crsi
came, the Investigating. Committee was procured wit
great difficulty, and appointed substantially by tn
Publication Committee; thatit had discussed ia
questions before it most fully, and had acted after FL