, 1869-01-15

1He Ne0ueBdaYo session OF Inc NAl".
taAn Convention, held In tho Second
Presbyterian Church, WAS devoted to two
taptca-how to Induce the. uu1utudea OF
poc-chu1ch people 70 attend church,
prayer meetings and other means Of grace;
ard 10 closing The saloons and bszs on
Sunday in this city, now kept open In
violation Of municipal oriiuauce. TIE |
convention came to no copclus on a. to
tho drst proposition, as no practical
scheme could be devised; but as TO the |
second they wtro more decided and def.
mite. a strong Committee wA appointed
to wait On the Mayor, consisting Of Rev.
Robert Patterson, .. D., Deacon E. 8.
Albfo, Tutht1t Ktng, Esq, Rev, Mr.
Bolles, Rev. Charles E. Cheney, and T.
ii. Avery. The duty Of the committee
is to insist that the Mayor shall close up
the ta1oons on Sunday. In case OF his re-
iussi 10 set in the premises no provision
wss made, although 1t was intimRted
That the mem bers OF the Chrlstiau UnI on
were sble to put the thing through At tho
balfot-bex. Rev. Dr. Bsylezs wished the
meeting 70 nominate Mr. Tuth,ll King II
Mayor; he would enforce the law II
elected. Rev. Robert Patterson, D. D., re-
marked: "a
"Thls law haa hecn IL existence for eight
Je9ry, hut 10 bbsolsts. It Wal onee enfofced.
c1a.e ID foreign population Is 80 great Tneir
ststttccs. howcrat. ase vrpnG.i Ther+~ are about
se1euty sen per cent Of Americans to tw1uty.
iaes Of Tho grit Of Ame1icans."
The reverend gentleman Ia altogether
mistaken asto The per cent Of natives
and foreigners in this city. 90 far as
numbers 60 Chicago Is An overwhe1m.
irg]y foreign city. TAKE the adult pppu-
lation, hoth males and feualea-alt those
over The age OF eightesn-and mora than
tWo-thl1ds arc foreign born. Ofthe yo-
ters Of Chicago lass than forty In hun
dred are natives, and not to exceed twelve
voters In hundred are members OF all
the political orthodox churches In this
city. II 1t IL seriously contemplated by
the Christian Union to employ Do
iistcal coercion against the liquor traffic,
and for The religious Observance OF Sun,
day In Chicago, the very first thing to be
done u 10 secure 8 perfect unloE OF al
Christian denominations, and more e.
pecially the hearty cooperation Of The
orthodox Catholic clergy and laisy, fol
they represent more vosers twice oTel
than I'LL the o1thedox Protestant Churche
IN the city, for the reason that nearly al
| Catholics are church members, whi!
only an inconsiderable minority o
Protestant voters In Chicago are com
Il municants CT orthodox Protestan
Churches. We do not SEQ how any pyoc
| ttedi hcsdway eau be made against th
, "Wo1td, the flesh and the devil" by th
memhesRof the Christian Union alon.
+ So long as tho voters of the powerft
Catholic Church, ard the M
/ nitrous voters Of the Ge.ms
Lutheran and Reformed Churches; Ii
. Episcopsliaus, headed by their Bishop
tie Qunkers. tho Jews, the Universa
q isss, Uuitarians, 6wedenborgIans Al
? spift,ua!!s.s, are all either neutral OF 0,
d posed 10 pohHcA coercion In respect
Sunday laws, who, with the worlds PEI
a pie. constitute about ninesy-tour p,
4 cent Of the legal yo,e4s OF this city, ho
= is 1t possible to elect such gentlemsn
10 Tuthili King on the platform Of prob
i. billion and Sunday observance: