New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-11

Rev Mr.. BuLLARD, agcnt for this city, stated that at
the start they did not make much Roadway, because
they did not know how to take hold, ouI tnas now
tbey were doing very prosperousy, and were helped
even by shareholders themselves for such There were
in the tity of New York who confessed that they ad
Ebored under great misapprehension IA 10 ther DO
cicty enormously thinking that they were DONG an
immense deal Of mischief. ,..,. -
Boston society aud stated that il simply had lts charter
there: otherwise ii national society," ana coiSo
quently held its anniversaries at central point
After the singing of an excellent hymn by the cnoi
and congregation the Rev. DIR. TYING, the prlhcipa
speaker of the OCCASION was introduced. lie began by
stating that this of the most interesting anu
important meetings which assembled IN the cry OF
New-York during the present season. Tie couiu nos
but congratulate this the parent Tract society OF Tue
United States the mother of us ALL like the Jerusalem
above that was free, in its meeting this morning win
all the circumstances Of the divine benedctlon resting
from above all the happiness OF Christian reclproca
ton arising from beneath. awhile the management
of the Tract Society had been in the hands OF Jnnior
branch or clique who plotted by another pilot,
and who coursed another sea- than that which the
Society intended; now they had separated, and dis,
owned the same because they found themselves carried
upon a voyage they had never bargained for.
They the Society," were on voyage OF discovery,
but homeward bonnd and already, the dsowned craft
was dragging behind them like log through the sea-
They had found themselves to be coolies to be sold m
voluntarily az slaves and forced into the servude OF
system against which their consciences reyolted. They
here because this was the Lord appointed place
for them, to fulfill His appointed will and were blessed
with oup0uring and outbreathIng spirit thit many
other assemblies have desired IN VAN to lind, ana mat
no other had experienced the present week. Lo' the
Winter was past the flowers appeared on the earth,
the time of the singing of the birds was me- ana the
voice of the turtle was heard IN the land III u was
time that the fox threatened and atem ted 10 break
down their stone wall they could reply, we will take
the little foxes that try to steal our grapes. This So
cety was unwilling to stand at the byways and cross
ngs of this great city, watching parties up ana parties
down. and asking permission of them what we should
do.
We stand upon tie ground that the living God has
given us, and a ground that we challenge the living
devil to take away from us. Applause we are
here in the consciousness of our right; we breathe
freely. am happy we are in this house, the Church
of the Puritans. lApplause.l am an Episcopalian,
because ON Puritan. Laughter We have no
necessity of choking of debate by an adjournment nor
of calling in the Simpsons Of the Law to choke the
feeble Apostles of the Gospel. We have no necessity
of hanging by series of false excuses because we are
afraid 70 confess the deeds we are doing. What we
do we do openly excuse me, my friend, Tor tIeadin8
on your toes we are where every must take care
of his toes. Under such circumstances we breathe
freely. Applause If men say we are fanaca be
it 70; am fanatic, and exceeding fanatical when
think am right. -
We stand here with perfect mutual confidence, with
no apprehC nsion of power behind MS; we stand here
mutually to sustain each other. DO they ask to-day
what il our platform, answer, the Bible, the Word
v,
only upon it's right foundation, but everything in its
right place. Ours is society that does not feel at
liberty to cut out anything because there are people
who affect to be disgusted We take no such ground
was taken in the gentleman sprayer who suppicueo
very earnestly for blessings but then courteously
closed Lord, do not mean TO dictate but an answer
to these petitions will crafty this whole community.
The speaker read but Yesterday, that what had sePa-
rated them from the other Society, was miserable
abstraction" wedge was miserable abstraction,
which, if driven into log as to separate IT, would
make two other miserable distractions laughter, but
there comes time when miserable distractions become
pOnderous realities II such questions were miserable
distractions then the whole Gospel and the cleansing
blood of Jesus were miserable distractions.
This Society had an unrestricted held AT last there
was a Society that not restricted to tobacco and
dancing "A dirty mans mouth and "A silly woman's
skirts. We believe the oppression of man to be sin
against God and the selling of him 10 be an enormiy
in the sight of Him who made him in His own image
breathed into him His own spirit, and said unto him.
no South no East, no West. We have no Mason and
Dixon's line, where ask whether we shall pitch
colportcur over naked with his saddlebags. II
they fitch his papers and burn them, they are like the
ashes of Whiteied. Your report tells you that two
coporeurs in the Southern States; it does not tel
YOU that there and Of letters coming
rom Christian families there asking for whit we only
an rive them. Where can such families get pubca-
ons inculcatng that the chastity of the fe male slave is
as sacred ar the cllasty,of her mistress.
DIR. TYING quoted the rhyme IN WI ich the word
" men" is substituted for thieves in " the African
Servant" He continued: When, in l'57 a Commit
ee of fifteen made unanimous report that the vices
onnected with Slavery could and ougto be discussed
nthe publications of tract society, was the province
fseryans of that society to shut up dis usson, and to
defeat the wishes of their soveregns 1t was miser
able abstraction we were obliged to make of ourselves.
Some of our ladies here would be very poorly satisfied
with the treatment of being locked mp in closet by
their servants, though they might put up with it, The
speaker concluded with eloquent ausion to the fu-
tire that lay in store for benevolent society that was
built so manestly upona foundation ofruth and justice
as the one he was addressing.
Addresses appropriate to the occasion were subse-
Quenty delivered by the Rev. A. L. PRATT, NJ d.,
of the Armenian Mission in Turkey; the Rev. ID. {.
EDDY, ID. d., of Boston, and the Rev. f. n. KIRK,
of New-York and the meeting adjourned, with singing
and benedction, after having been in session for
more than three hours.
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