The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-05-26
Correspondence Of the Lancaster Ledger.
NEw YORK, Nav 30. 1919

mere on The second week in May 10 com.
pare notes, hear reports of committees. Iuv
plans for future operations, discuss WAYS
and means and go into little harmless
mutual admiration generally
bnt which of the many anniversaries
shall attend Where shall 60 to pick
up the most interesting Incidents for your
readers l am attracted most where there
Ia strife, agitation, commuiion where there
is c"mbut between opinion, struppl. of
ideas against IDEAS, contention anon" intel.
iectual giants. That place. pre- emin.n,
over all others this time. is the anniversary
meeting at the American Tract Suciety.-
There mighty question is under d scus
sl"n-slnll the Society publish a trar,
against Slavery ?-and the cohorts of ,.i.
ther host have mustered from nil ports or
The country TO mingle in the combat Frc-
teen hundred clcrgvmer and Iavmcn filled
one OF our commodiuus churches at o in
the morning and DR.. Adams. Chairman o;
the Publishing Committee, read 4 we'll ur
gned and temperate report, setting forth
the difficulties which had arisen unevpr,.
tedly during the year to prevent the pnbli
Gallon of the anti SLAYER, tract, and stated
that the committee had simply della, ed It's
issue To confer farther with the entire So
cietv- Then Bishop McIlvaine of Ohio
and DR.. Tying of this city followed the
one in enthusiastic support of the commit
tee, and the other in nm able and well con.
sidrred speech, also supporting the com
mittee, but closing with motion to in
strnet the committee TO publish the ,rac,
ourng the coming year or as soon rs prac-
heable. DIR. Tyng's motion was voted
down. Then came other similar proposi.
uons and along with them scene of con.
fusion, noise and disorder seldom Witness
ed in church. Cries of "oncstinn," "or-
der" "Mr. President" laughter applause
and misses resounded from time 10 tim.
through the house, and for many minutes at
time, DR.. De Witt, pastor of the church.
had repeatedly TO appeal to members to
"preseIv" the sanrtty of This house" The
occasion was certainly the rarcst specimen
Of "church militant" that ever came under
my observation. DIR. Betlune of Brook
iyn, DR.. Bacon Of New llnven and DIR. |
Thompson, editor of the independent, we're |
the principal sladiators who cont-ud.d in |
'he arena and commanded hearing in spi,e |
OF disturbance, and they made wretcbed
hnvor with each others positions.
AS an impartial observer should say
much OF the confusion arose from the ama.
BILE ineihciency of the President OF the n.
semby. In his rndvavor 10 hear n! sides
and respond to every call on "Mr. Presi.
dent" he failed to protect a speaker
after he had ass igned him the floor, and SO
the audience fell into confusion from sheer
lack OF skilIfui government, rather than
from any special pronrnrss to DISORDER ar
determination on the part of the members
to create Confusion. After contest of six
hours the report was adopted and the con.-
mittee sustained by reelection, which il
taken TO he All Indication that no tract
against slavery will he issued for some ,ime
10 come.
The next meeting where passion ran high
and the clash Of arguInentive arms r.y,r-
otra'ea 10 The echo. was the Garri,onian
Abolition and Disunion Society. There
the flag of the Union was torn To tat;r,s.
the church denounced AS the .BuIwark Of
American Slavery" the late revival of r.
hgion characterized rs spurious. Russia pat.
Ted Oh The back for emancipation of her
Serfs' and all our p"Iitica! parties, Demo
Gratis, Americans and Republicans were con.
signed to one common infamy as alike re-
creant to freedom. Here also sharply de.
hned anagonisms jutted out prominently,
iuckless opponents were merciIcssly impal
ed on the spears Of warriors MADE skiI.fuI
by the drill and practice of years in ,he
arena OF debate, and who, despsng carnal
weapons, make all the more trenchant use
OF the sword of the spirit and here too
the cheers Of the faithful and hisscs or
those who were "sound on the goose" eve.
ry where prevailed.
Our Bible, Missionary. Sunday Schools,
Temperance and other Societies held their
anniversaries according to the usnals pro.
grHmhe, and were troubled with no bick.r-
ings nor bomb shells. There has been n
slight falling off in the general funds, but
that, 1t is thought, will be more than made
up tins year by the recent additions every.
where made 10 the church.
From the strong meat of old folks let me
pass on to milk for babes. The slaughter
OF our innocents by the pntridity known as
"swfll milk" though long ago detected, is
at last overthrown. There has hitherto
been money enough in the pockets of dis.
tillers TO buy impunity of the corporations
nnd'c0urts of all this cluster cf cities, but
the monster shrnks into the earth in pres.
ence Of the light thrown on its crimes by
one single, determined, unpurchasable press.
Frank Leslie, for fortnight past, has been
tracking the concernaIl along its milky way
and publishing the street and numb, o. all