Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-10-04
ORRESPONDENCE.
Written for the " Smyrna Times"
Philadelphia Correspondence.
THE DEPOSITORY.

THE DEPOSlIOkIs
DEAR TIMEs:-W. Fl. B. "hopes this will !
end the matter" We do not wonder. And
as hope deferred msketh the heart SICK" we
will relieve him immed lately, lest he may have
need of the doctor. HeNreters me to Webster.
answer, that Webster is The latest and stand
ard authority, and by reference to him he will
discover that just as much means something
as we'll as "private." We deny, however,
that our argument turned upon such bubble.
and inform him that he evades the very point
at issue, and assumes TO answer what has never
been controverted. The difference between
the private enterprise defined by Webster and
the Tract Depository is this. In the former
case the company holds and enjoys all the rev.
enues in their own right, but the Managers of
the Depository receive nothing-no, not so
much as a remuneration for their services. -
The Moors have maxim that he who travels
through the country of the blind should be blind
himself" but alas for the man who is in such
a country. w. II. B., We perceive, is capable
of mistake. The Conference, at its last ses-
sion-for the first time, and at the instance Of
private friend-dld pass recOmmendatory
resolution of the bookstore OF Perkinpine &
Higgins, but he ought TO know that such an
establishment az Higgins g. Perkinpine no
! longer exists. May we attribute thus "e r.
ror" to "honor " or "ignorGnce, or was it
brought about by some "remGrkGJle prori.
dence?" Who can tell Tins" however,
l. ~ n
the other hand, the Conference, as we have
shown, does endorse the " dUings and " man
agenent Of it's Tract Society, which =" do
ings" and management are known and IN
derstood to embrace the DEPOSITORY.
By it's first resolution the Conference re.
CARDS /" the dissemination Of sshcilfied liters-
Iure by colportuers and otherwise as an lmpor.
taDt, aud, ct this time, Indispensable auxiliary
10 the promotion of Gods cause" aud Man
ships Dictionary will Inform him that other.
t0ise" here means Depository.
tie concludes that " this Society is indepen.
dent of and beyond the control OF the Confer.
ence" because " incorporated by the State. "
The Missionary Society is Incorporate; is il
troll of the Conference These two Societei
! sustain to the conference precisely the same
relation. Why, then, withhold not our mill
ions from the Missionary Treasury "Thing
/ which are equal 10 the same things are equa
, to one another"
L He concludes the Society is not beuevoIen
because it is commercial. The Union Bonevo
lent Society, Of PhiIadel phia. ia commercial
having connected with it, as part of its ope
rations," furnishing store for the replenish
ing OF its treasury. Is it therefore not benev
client! Let the poor of our city answer hi
question.
a The injurious imputation couchod in the il
videous expressions, almost anything 10 III
y book line" and suppressed plays OF Shak'
es speare" are entirely without foundation, an
=, - would be sdjudged as lbelous at law. Sue
ie literature has never. at any time, been ke
or or sold at that DEPOSITORY No works are to
or had there but such as may be endorsed by OF
nd "best Philadelphia lay brethren" and mini
is tiers, but that this, as an auxiliary society,
DIS restricted TO Methodist publications, is entire
he incorrect. But on that ground can be urI
the uncOnstitutionGlity of this Society if CO
nected with neither the Church nor the Co
- ference? With what is it unconslituliona
With itself! If so, we imagine It can mind
-. own business. Haman could go forth from /
he kings presence "joyful and with glad hear
e eid could talk 10 his friends of the glory of
NC riches, and the multitude of his children,'a
for Of the things wherein be hud been promote
eat aud how be had advanced above oil the prime
yes aud servants of the king. /" YETI said
4 ell this ayaileih me nothing, so long as 4
= Nordecai, the Jew, sitting at the kings gzt