Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-28
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLIES
Poor LO linden Especial Consideration
at Saratoga.

SARATOGA, n. Y, May 26.-The Presbv.
terian General Assembly spent its first
hour this morning in thanksgiving and
prayer, led by Rev. DR.. w. c. Young. OF
Louisville, for the complete establishment
of fraternal relations between the North
ern and Southern churches. Rev. DR.,
Herrick johnson presented the report of
the Committee on Bills and Overtures.
The assembly adopted an overture from
Cayuga Presbytery, recommending that
the Presbyterian Episcopal Society and
General Synod and the Presbyteries take
measures to observe the four hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther.
An overture from EmpOria (Neb. Pres
bytery, asking President Arthur and Sec
retary Lincoln to grant the petition from
$50 Presbyterian members of Chief Jos
eph's band of the Nez Perces Indians. in
Indlan Territory, to return that band to
the NeZ PercRS reservation in Idaho. Rev.
u. l.. Spinning, in stating the Injustice of
the United States to the NeZ Perces tribe.
sad that as a tribe they never took a
white scalp, and never raised their arm
TIL driven from their lands in violation
Of the treaty.
An overture was presented from several
Presbyteries in regard to the Indian poll
cy OF the government, recommending that
citizenship be conferred on all who ask
for lands to be held in sew
crafty, that intruders be kept
from Indian territory and reservations.
and that inyiOlable faith be kept with the
Indians in every respect. Rev. DR.. john
son explained that the report was in
unison with the action of the Episcopal
General Convention and the Methodist
NTenRfAI ('0ntnrnnRn q
Dr.. Crosby the subject was referred
back to the Committee on Overtures.
An overture from the Newcastle (DeI. \
Presbytery asking the sanction of the as
sembly for a fund for providing for a
memorial of Rev. Francis Mackenzie, the
first Presbyterian pastor in the United
states, who came in 1858, drew forth the
statement from DR.: Oakley, Secre-
tary of the Historical Society,
that the Rev. Richard Denten
was a pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Hampstead, l.. l., at an earlier date.
Inc matter was indefinitely postponed by
consent.
Captain r. IL. Pratt, of the United
states army, introduced six Indian stu |
dents from the Carlisle, Pa, school. There |
were two Creeks and a Comancbe. a |
hlOWa, an ArapahOe and a Navaioe re- |
SpectiVelY.
Robert Stewart, a Greek, made brief |
address, asking why they could not live |
here and work at the trades they had |
learned, he being a printer, instead of |
being forced back to the reservations
and their demOralizing influences, when |
coIored men and European immigrants |
could live where they please.
A motion to take the report of the
committee on the book of dis
;ipline and to continue it until
inished was carried. The work accord
ngly proceeded. The most important of
he amendments adopted were that min
sters, elders and deacOns suspended for
conduct shall not be restored,
md that Withdrawing members Joining
mother church shall be dropped from the
oils without action, unless charges have
'een presented and then prosecuted.
LEXINGTON, KY, May 26.-The South
'rn Presbyterian General Assembly ad-
ourned to-day at u O'Clock, after har
nOniOus and profitable sitting of ten days.