The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-30

, Boston Is self.renowned Cor III exquisite
taste in literature and high Art, not to
sneak Of its pure and rsverential gospel
spirit, customs, and doctrines.
The Boston Baptist Association, North,
held its annivcrsarya week or two since,
and the committee on the estate OF the
country" reported series Of resolutions.
written with that elegant taste and lofty
evangelical spirit for the almost exclusive
possession Of which Bostonians so enthusi-
astically congratulate themselves, and for
the want Of which they so feelingly pity
and condole with the rest of mankind.
Perhaps some OF our young clerical friends
who are striving toward perfection in lite
rary composition and in general aesthetic
culture, and who hope some day to be
placed on committees to draft resolutions,
would like to see "ho,o they do these things
in Boston,"
First of all, you must memorize some
scraps Of sacred poetry-any common
hymn-book will furnish the material
write down . couple Of lines, and then ill
in the prose part over them according to
your own taste and the exigencies Of the
! times. Do not DO troubled with any old
fashioned reverence for sacred associations,
but apply your selected hymnology to any
secular, or political, or denunciatory theme
that may be In question.
The writer Of the Boston resolutions had
in mind three couplets. They were these
"The morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears"
"sound the loud timbrel DER Egypt's dark sea.
Jehovah has triumphed, his people are free.
ely swiftly round, We wheels Of time,
And bring the welcome day"
Now, notice and admire the surprising
tact. taste, and generation with which the
compiler interweaves these stores Of me-
mory into his resolutions on "the state of
the country" And the Boston Association
adopted them, poetry and all, "with only
one dissenting voice." We do not believe
that any ecclesiastical association in Virgi-
MIA is capable of anything Of this sort,
either in spirit or in taste.
RESOLVED, That while as denomination
we are opposed to all union Of Church and
State, yet as the cry is raised, /" Watch
man, what of the night p the representa-
tives Of thirty-two Baptist churches, at the
heart of New England, reiisserting the
principlessof 'souli liberty and the fright
of the majority to rule in civil matters
with praise to Almighty God gladly reply ::
The morning light is breaking,
Resolved, That while there is much in
the movements of parties, in the conduct
of so-called leaders of the people, in the
condition of the negro. made intolerable
by the merciless tyranny Of their persecu-
tors, suited to depress the heart, yet in the
fact that the eyes of the nation have been
opened, that the loyalists Of the Gulf
States have united with the loyalists of the
North in demanding the ballot of the ne
gro for the protection of those liberties
which his bullet helped secure, in the re-
suits won by freedom of speech and free
dom Of the press, We discover evidences of
that same supreme power of control which
enabled Israel in the past, and permits us
to-day, to say:
'SOund the lOuQ umOr6i D OF nBypL eod,
Jehovah has triumphed, his people are free'
Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, taken
from among the stuff of slavery to the
neglect Of Hannibal Hamln, who, like
Samuel of old, remains true to the people,
Z has thrown away the golden opportunity
which Gods mysterious providence at
fordcd, for which his past life seemed to
have fitted him and having descended
from that elevated plane whereon Abra-
ham Lincoln died, he has been rejected of
God as leader, and to-day, like Saul, who
refused to punish Agag, is the object of
the pity more than the Sc0rn of the loyal
people, and is tolerated for his Office sake
rather than for his own and now that, in
thunder tones, Vermont and Maine have
given the assurance he can do little harm,
we shall patiently wait the expiration OF
his term Of Office, praying,
Fly swift around ye wheels OF time,
And bring the welcome day"
The only parallel case which memory
somewhat abused in earlier days just now
reproduces of the felicitous quotation OF
the line of hymn, to exc out an authors
inspiration, is this:
: IAN old bay horse lay In the road,
And on his hip bone Sal . tosd, . aroun8.