Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-29
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I'm. eral Assembly.
ST. CHARLEs HOTEL,
PrrrsRuRGH, May 26, lS60.(

minutes OF InuTSuby WcIc iCou ny A'0''DA.
Schenck, the Permanent Clerk, when they
were corrected and approved.
Rev. DIR. Perkins, Chairman Of the Special
Committee On the Judicial Case of the Sew
enth Presby teran Church of Cincinnati,
presented the Report Of the Committee,
sustaining in part the decision of the Synod
of Cincinnati, as against the Session, on the
ground that the suspension OF the ladies
who were on trial was too severe penalty.
The Session Is accordingly required TO
revoke the suspension and be content with
admonishing the parties. The Report was
adopted. ...
Rev. DR.. Wood, from the Committee on
Bills and Overtures, reported on Overture
No. /, which is request from several Pres
b, byteries that the Board of Education have
its Office removed to Pittsburgh, and that
the Office of the Board Of Domestic Missions
be removed to Cincinnati. 1t was, on mo-
tlon, decided to defer action on this subject
until the next General Assembly shall con-
vene.
Rev. DR.. Barnard, Chairman Of the Com
! mittee on the Board OF Foreign Missions,
Q then submitted the Report of that Commit
tee, which concludes with the following
Resolutions: ..t
Z I. The work of Foreign Missions calls for
expansion. 1t should have more laborers
and larger expenditures. The fields are
white to harvest, and God says, 90 forward.
2. AS during the last year the church has
contributed abundant resources, 80 God has
fulfilled His promise, and is now encourage
ing the church.
g. The General Assembly is impressed
with the vital necessity Of tervent ana con,
tinued prayer. We have schools, bibles and
ministers. What we need is Gods Holy
Spirit. For this we must pray. H"
Upon this Report, speeches were made by
Rev. d.. Barnard, Rev. DR.. Lowrie, (the
Moderator, and Secretary of the Board Of
Foreign Missions), Rev. Mr.. Wright, Rev.
DR.. Dundas, Rev. Mr.. Nevius, missionary in
China), Rev. Thomas S. Vail, Rev. DIR.
House, missionary in Siam), and Rev. Mr..
Buell., OF California. These speeches occu-
pied the time OF the Assembly until the
hour for the noon recess had arrived. The
Committees Report was adopted.
The first business in the afternoon was
the hearing of Reports from Committees on
Synodical Records. They were all adopted.
Among them was one from the Committee
on the Records of the Synod OF New jersey,
In which it is stated that member of the
West Jersey Presbytery is recorded as hav-
ing been dismissed to Congregational
Association-a body not Evangelical. The
Committee regard this as equivalent to dis
missing member to the World.
The Committee on Mileage presented its
Report, through Elder Crosby, which was
adopted. ..
The following Resolution, from the Com
mittee on the Board of Domestic Missions,
then came up for consideration:
Resolped, That no missionaries be ap-
pointed by the Board except those giving
satisfactory evidence of loyalty to the Ma
tional Government, and OF cordial sympa-
thy with the Presbyterian Church in her
testimony on doctrine, loyalty and freedom.
The Rev. Robert Morrison, OF the Pres
bytery of Louisville, Kentucky, delivered
an able and conclusive speech against this
Resolution. In the course of his remarks,
he inquired, whether the recommendations
of the several Presbyteries were no longer
to be regarded and honored by the Board,
when selecting Missionaries; and whether
this College of Cardinals in Philadelphia
should be empowered to set up standard
or test of "loyalty" according to its own
notion of what "loyalty" is. He showed
conclusively, that President Lincoln had
often pronounced men apd women as being
.'loyal," whom Satraps Or Committees'like
this Board, had adjudged as being "traitors"
or "disloyal persons" He was unwilling
to give the Board of Domestic Missions any
such power, as it was understood this Res
olution confers. His speech was effective,
and evidently made an impression upon the
Assembly. s'N.l
Rev. r. Fl. Allen, of the Presbytery of
Nashville-whose intense "loyalty" is in
dorsed by the Philadelphia Board, and
causes him to be lionized here in this AS
sembly--was put forward to speak in reply
to Rev. Mr.. Morrison. His speech was
TRADE of invective and billingsgate, which
would not have been heard with any de-
gree of patience outside Of this body. He
denounced and stigmatized "Copperheads'
as glibly and fiercely as ever Republican
editors have done; he seemed to be far
more concerned. about the politics of the
Missionaries that are to 20 South, than he
was about their pietyl This may be ac-
counted for in this way: A Conservative
and truly pious man will not consent to take
away the Church Property from the South
ern Christians, for he regards 1t as being
akin to the crime that is defined, as stalking
that which belongs to another" Hewill new
er become the instrument of Committee or
a Board, to seize the Church Property of an
entire State or District, through Provost
Marshal or anybody else, as was done by
an Agent sent South by the Eastern Com
mittee for the Education of the Freedmen
according to statement made on the floor
of this General Assembly by Rev. Samuel
r. Colt, the Secretary of that Committee.
After Allen had subsidized, DR.. Lord, OF
Buffalo, mounted the. platform and ranted
in the same way. Hyena-like, he made
another assault over the grave of the la
mented DIR. Thornwell, Of South Carolina,
one of the ablest and most gifted Presby-
terian Divines that this country has ever
produced; and then hypocritically claimed