The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-16

Petition Of Squire Marcy and 81 other
citizens Of lIartland.
Petition Of J. ID. Wheat and other cit
IL ms OF putncy.
The ANNIVERSARIES at New York
The New York American tract society
held It's iOrty-iirst annual meeting at the
Reformed Dutch church, Wednesday,
The receipts Of the last year were S437,-
G39i expenditures, Sl3S, 9GG. Tie
gratuitous distributions OF the year
amounted to so, 953. One hundred and
ciglty.cight colportcurs were employed.
who visited 200, 1874 families. Rev. DR..
Schcnck and Rev. DR.. Anderson made
speeches. The former officers were re-
elected, with the exception that Jane,
Brown Of New York and X. s. Fellows
Of New Haven were elected vice presi-
dents in place of Rev. Dr. Wuyland OF
Providence and Judge Green of Tcnncs-
see' deceased.
The American Home Missionary So
cieiy received daring the year S221, 1872
and expended S2uS,Sll. The present
liabilities are 10000, 10 meet which
there is :90,9jj in the treasury. The
society had SIS ministers in lis service
during the year. -Four missionaries have
preached 10 congregations of colorcd poo
pie, and 20 in foreign languagcs-l3 to
German congregations, and 3 to congrc-
cations Of llolanders and Frcnchmen.
The number of congregations and mission
AIRY stations supplied, in whole or in part,
is 1911 The aggregate of ministerial
labor performed Is cqtai to 63l years.
The number Of pupils in Sabbath schools
is Gl,200. Forty-fvc churches have
been organized during the year, and y
have become self-suPporting. Twenty
two houses of worship have been COM
plctcd, 70 repaired, and - others are in
process of erection. Addresses were de-
livcred by Rev, George Magoun, D. d.,
president of Ohio college, anl Rev. Sam
ucl Wolcott, ID. d., Of Cleveland, Ohio
The national temperance society had
its first annual meeting in Cooper Insti-
tute. Dr.. Charles Jewctt, Mai. Gen
Howard and Rev. Henry Ward Beccher
were the speakers
Wendell Phillips Anti-Slavcry society
continued It's sessions through two days,
closing on Wednesday evening. There
wac but a small audience, but the fun
was great Tho ball was opened on
Wednesday by Mr. Calvin Pepper, lately
banished from Virginia for taking posses
sion Of the irccdmcn's funds without Sc
cnri;y. As might be expected, he
pitched into the lroedmcn's bureau, de-
claring It's officers corrupt, and saying
they are doing more harm to the negro
than the state authorities possibly can.
After rejoicing President Phillips and
tie o:Lcr officers, an attempt was made
to thank Congress for the civil rights bill,
but Mrs. Sadly Stanton could see 10 rca-
son to DO thankful; the bill was not
worth ftp Slang for five cent picce)
without suffrage, Mr.. Parker Pillsbury
denounced the civil rights bill rs a vii
lainous compromise, got up to defraud the
negro Of the right OF suffrage. Robert
Puryis of Philadelphia thought the
same, AMI remarked incidentally that
Horace Greeley, Robert Dale Owen. IL.
Ward Beccher and Carl Schuz are the
uglicst quartetlc he knows of. Phillips
thought Congress should be praised for
the civil rights bill, but censurcd for the
utterly unjust and inadequate scheme Of
the reconstruction committee Theodore
Tilton went i'll for thanks for civil rights
Mrs. Stanton was tired of this halfway
talk about suffrage, She wanted the
word male, as well as the word white
abolished Mrs. Abby Kelley Foster
Mrs. Stanton for introducing
this fifcbrand into the convention. Mr..
Abby Kelly Foster took Mrs Stanton's
part, and declared this society cannot
maintain useful existence unless it goes
for suffrage for women rs well as men.
Wendell Philips tried to stop this Discus
sion ms out of order, but could not do it,
Ills disciples liked it all the better be-
cause it was not in order, and were not
going to have their natural rights re-
strained by anybody's rules. Mr.. Foster
said he never would 90 to the ballot box
till he could 90 with his wife in his arms
the votes of women government
is rash despotism, On motion of Calvin
Pepper it was voted to organize a new
political party, pledged to vote for no
man who is not for negro suffrage. The
The subject of women suffrage was drop
ped out Mrs. Susan Il. Anthony re-
grettcd that she had not heard Charles !
sumner denounced in the convention. |
Ie ought to be he is the most dangerous
man in the nation, We fear him more
than we do johnson, for we can get /
along with an out-and-out traitor Don't .
you laugh mt me, Theodore Triton, for ,
you know | am right Mr.. Triton ex,
olained that he laughed when Mrs. An
.honV said tLot fhp sOripfv was oointr ia