Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-01
The New England Anniversaries.

| The New England Anniversaries.
The anniversary meetings of the present
week have been conducted with more than
usual interest Till the last day Or two the
weather was favorable, and the friends of the
various religious, philanthropic aA~ -harltable
institutions in New England have in large
numbers availed themselves of its privileges.
We give brief reference to few of those
which have local as well as general interest.
CHURCH ANTI-sLAvERY SOCIETY.
The old officers of the Church Anti Slavery
| Society were collected at the business meet
ing. The suggestion was made and left in
| the hands of the executive committee that the
society should delegate commission to Great
Britain to inform the Christian public there of
the true sentiment of the American Church
in relation to slavery. Two public meetings
were held in fremont Temple, both very
large and interesting. Rev. Henry 7. Chez
YER secretary, presented an elaborate report re-
! viewing the difficulties and the achievements of
| the society and closing with a series of radi-
cal and Incorporating resolutions, declaring
! the legitimate work OF the society to be to
give expression to the national conscience.
Mr.. Cheever also read letter from Thaddeus
Hyatt, now unjustly in Jail in Washington.
Eloquent addresses were made by DIR. Geo. B.
Cheever, Rev. Daniel Worth, Rev. j. R. w.
Sloane, and others.
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.
The report of the treasurer of the society
shows that the whole number of tracts printed
during the year was 1,129,550; the number of
papers circulated, 2076,000; sales for the
year, S47, 1929. The cash receipts of the
society were SCI 900, and the expenditures
sec, 69806. The board of officers comprise
most of the old names, among which are eX-
Gov. Briggs, president, and Ichabod Wash
burn of the vice presidents. AT the public
meeting, Rev. A. l.. Stone read resolution
which set forth that the society ought to dis
cuss the great evil Of slavery, and said it was
incumbent upon the society, as an institution
for the promotion of strict morality, and the
extinction of evil in all its forms. If there
was an evil under Heaven that required the
interference of societies, and of morality, in
its behalf it was the evil of slavery. Although
much had been done, said and written in re-
gard to this great curse. he was sorry to say
that our moral societies had been silent too
long. Silence, he considered, in reference to
the evils of slavery, partial acknowledgment
that it was no great wrong. The speaker pro-
ceeded at some length, condemnng the sys.
TEN of slavery in the most severe terms. Sew.
eral addresses were made by other speakers
POLITICAL ANTI SLAVERY CONVENTION.
The first meeting of the new political party
aiming at the immediate and entire extinction
of slavery in this country. was held on Mon
day and Tuesday, but the meetings were not
very largely attended. Rev. John Pierpont
was the presiding officer of the convention.
The original movers in the enterprise enter
tanned very wide differences of opinion on
questions of policy, and on the best methods
Of malSinG thpir Ortr ptfnrtunl Mr.
Foster reported platform which represents
that it is the urgent duty of slaves equally with
freemen, to defend their liberty with whatever
means God has placed in their power that
the constitution, fairly construed, is entirely
and unequivocally on the side of freedom, and
invests the general government with ample
power to abolish it wherever found, whether,
under territorial, or state legisation that it is
the right of the people to revise and review the
decisions of the supreme court and to reverse
them for sufficient reasons; pronounces the
imprisonment OF Thaddeus Hyatt an iniqui-
tous act of tyranny, and finally calls upon the
people to unite in forming associations aiming
at a general United States association Of polit-
ica abolitionists. Mr.. Wendell Phillips OPP
posed and discouraged the movement.
During the last evening of the convention,
DR.. Mellen attempted to speak, when Mr.. Fos-
ter objected to his occupying the platform of
this convention he (Mellen) had been pro.
nounced by the civil authorities incompetent
to discuss any political question, and had been
confined in an insane hospital. Mr.. Mellen
replied that he was sent to the hospital by men
who feared he would interfere with some of
their political parties. The platform was
finally adopted, and the convention adjourned
to meet in Worcester sometime during the
summer.
CONVENTION OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER'S.
The annual conventio was held in the Su-
preme Court room, Wednesday forenoon. The
expediency of disseminating the annual Fast
was made the subject OF an elaborate report
presented by Rev. DIR. Blagden. 1t recomy
mends the passage of the following vote =
Voted, That committee of - be appointed by
this convention to present, most respectfully, to His
EXcellency the Governor and the Honorable Coun-
Gil, the appointment OF day for fasting, humiia-
ton and prayer to such special occasions and times
shall generally and deeply impress the good peo
pie Of the commonwealth with the needfulness and
propriety of such solemn acts of religious worship.
And further, tie express to His ExceIlency and the
Honorable Council the disturbances also, that
whenever such times and causes NAV not exist as
may call Immediately for such acts of public fasting
and notwithstanding good people of the state be in
ved to unite in public and special prayers for the
blessing of q cd on the labOrs of the husbandman i'm
the seed time ofthe year. and all the other awtn
occupations of the citizens The time for such pub
lie and special prayer being appointed, His Excel
on some common day Of the week. or on the Lords
Day.
The ministers were not united and the sub
ject was laid over till the next annual meeting.
EMIGRANT AID SOCIETY.
The old board of officers was reelected
John Carter Brown of Providence president.
The company has not been engaged in active
service during the past year. 1t has $4,000
invested in Kansas lands, &C., which are est.
L
directing the operations of the company to.
wards the state of Missouri and also Texas,
was discussed, but the general impression of
the meeting was that quiescent state for the
present is better than one of activity.
HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The annual report of the Massachusetts So
ciety shows that the receipts for the year from
contributions and legacies was $3l, 444.67, of
which 900 was paid to the American Home
Missionary Society. Rev. Dr. Sweetser of
Worcester and Rev. DIR. Hooker of Boston
were chosen delegates to the national gather
ing. The annual address was delivered by
Prof Austin Phelps of Andover, on "rhe Re-
atons OF an Educated Ministry to the Peo-
pie" The affairs Of tile society are in pros
porous condition
THE BAPTIST FESTIVAL.
The Baptists in attendance upon the ami.
versarles, in order to cherish paternal feeling
among the members Of the denomination, and
bring them more closely into contact as fellow
Christians having a common interest in the
week, had a festival at the new and elegant
little ediiice in Bumstead Place. Rev. DR..
Neale made very pleasant speech saying he
felt like the little girl who delivered message
to a friend to come to tea as soon as possible
as her mother wanted it over. He truly spoke,
as he said he would, freely, and carried out his
assertion that good Joke and a hearty laugh