The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-13

During the first and second week in May, and
almost before the Lares and Pendtes have comfort
ably accommodated themselves to their new do
nestle altars-for the Knickerbockers still keep up
the custom of annual f1ittings-the Anniversaries
take temporary possession of New York. Twenty
FIVE different societies at this time either ac-
tuallv holding their annual meetings in that city,
or are preparing to do so. The flowers of May and
the flowers of Rhetoric blossom together. The
rath primrose and the sweet-scented violet of Chris
tan charity, are strangely blended with the deadly
nghtshade and the henbane of unchristian fanati-
cism. Bible, and Tract, and Foreign and Domestic
Missionary Societies; Temperance Unions, and
National Reormatory Conventions, are counter
balanced by rival Abolition Associations, and by
the National Convention for the assertion of
Womans' Rights. OF all these the American
Anti-Slavery Society has, thus far occupied, dur
ing the present week, drum-like the
largest space, and has made the most noise, by
reason of the lightness of the materials of which
it is composed, and of its internal hollow
ness. That the combination of infdelity
and pure radicalism, which distinguishes
the GGrriS0nidn faction of Abolitionists from
the Church Anti-Slavery Society of Dr..
CHEEvRR does not now flourish with its earlier Wig
or, may assume to be the fact, from the extraor-
binary pains which the speakers have taken to i'm
press upon their auditors the prosperous condition
of the Association, and from the unsparing denun-
Citations which were launched against CHEEvER and
HENRY WARD BEEcHER. The orators of the Anti
Slavery Society, moreover consisted entirely of the
old knot of fanatics-of GARRISON, and PARKER
PILLsBuRY, and WENDELL PHILLIPS, and OLIVER
JOHNSON, and a few others of a similar kidney
Among the resolutions introduced was one by
GARRISON, calling upon the people of the North "to
proclaim the unnatural and guilty compact be-
tween the Free States and the Slave States at an
lend, and to take such measures for the formation
''of Northern Union as shall be in accordance
with the principles of justice" PnLsBURY offer
ed another, denouncing 'the Republican party
the Boston American Tract Society-the
recently formed New England and New
"York Church Anti-Slavery Society''-(Dr.
''CHEEvER's and the Independent, 'with its ar
Tray of clerical editors and contributors that
'are still in governmental, or ecclesiastical
union with slavery and shareholders" Upon
this text the gentle PILLsBURy proceeded to diate.
He denounced the pro-slavery character of the
Northern churches, and Indignantly charged that
CHEEvER and BEECHER were false to their profess
sions-for that, whilst they repudiated slavery,
they were in fellowship with shareholders, "whose
"damnabe depravity," said the irate PILLsBURY,
would be sufficient to dash the fabric to pieces,
were it not for the lightning rods erected fol-
their protection by such men as Dr. CHEEvEF
land HENRY WARD BEEcHER. Where oh where, u
he asked, despairingly, twas HENRY WAR;
''BEECHER to-day? Where will he be tomorrow
"Athough entreated and beseeched TO come an,
"gve his testimony in behalf of the anti-slaver,
movement, he has not been forthcoming. Blu
'when the positively criminal Tract Society in
'syites him, he hastens to attend" wendell
PHILLIPS next follow ed in the same strain H
was rather pleased than otherwise, that the Churc
should denounce the ultra abolitonists as inf
dels and was quite certain that DR.. CHEEyER ha
no personal sacredneSs of character that excludes
him from the criticism of the Society. There wa
no impudence, in his opinion, like the impudenc
of an American Church member. When WAR
BEEcHER undertook to defend himself ''his defenc
''ran over with impudence-the impudence @
Thoroughbred orthodoxy" And, as to DR.
CHEEvER, che stands now manufacturing drugs
Sand administering opiates to the moral sense Q
''the people. 1t was the duty of the members O
'the anti-slavery Society to measure off the fdel
city of men, and of Churches, even though tn
linen be the half-born Dr. CHEEvER, struggling
'1ike MILLIONS lion, with the earth. from which
che was not yet wholly free. They said that th
"negro was man-and being a man. if he Gu
'hs masters throat he would be WALLAcp-h
ewould be TELL-he would he a WAsB,sGro,
IAN hundred-fold" We are not at all surprise,
to learn that this truculent avowal created SOM
sensation even among the deaf old ladies will
ear-trumpets who were present, or that the morn
ing session brought to a close soon after
wards. We do not propose to follow these peopl
any further. Our object is simply to point on
two facts in connection with the present meetn,
in New York. The first is, that the deartb r
speakers indicates that the influence formerly ex
erted by this Association at the North is rapidl
declining; and the second, that the quarrel which
now exists between the American Ant-Slavar,
Society and the Church Anti-Slavery Society. ba
its origin in the notifications which public opin
ion has recently undergone both in regard to tn
institution of slavery as established at the Soutb
and to Southern shareholders generally.