Year: 1860

spirited woman, with young child in her arms
glides into seat The conductor looks at her !
perceives that her face is as dark as mahogony
and exclaims, Negroes ore not allowed in this
car; you must wait for the next" So she stepped
out to fold her babe as we'll as may be from the
pouring rain, till another car shall pass In which
she will not be contraband. Of course you ask
you cannot help asking-'Are they Christians
who made the rule which thus drives out this
modern Hagsr! Is this the net result of two cen
turies of Christian inculeation in a city whose
spires now count by hundreds.


You step into an Ecclesiastical Convention, and
hear youngish layman attempt to speak, amid q
perfect tempest of hostile motions and exclams-
tions. He is trying to show-and wouId show if
they would hear hm-that the African Slave
Trade which is piracy by our laws and the Law
Of Nations, is now very active, and thriving-that
it hes been largely extended within the last few
years-that this city is the great outftting entire
port of this detestable murderous trafhc--that it
has thus suddenly sprung into importance through
the guilty purchased connivance of our funetiona-
ries who are paid and sworn to supprees it-that
o corrupt debauched public sentiment which re-
CARDS Profit us God, has largely conduoed to pass
this disgraceful prostitution of the mpunity de-
manded for and accorded to our National flag
and that the Christian Church has been passively,
culpably standing by and cousentng like Saul to
the stoning of Stephen, throughout the develope
ment and growth of this great National crime and
shame-and that it is the urgent duty of the
Church to protest against this gigantic sin, and
emphatioally purge herself from all completely in


its continuance lie pauses at length, and this
venerated Council of the Church, at once nails his
proposition to the table by vote Of l0S to II, and
betakes itself to its pr" yer er' genu1exons. Does
not God say to this convocation by the mouth of
His holy prophet, Your assemblies are an abom-
natiOn to me-


The People Of the State OF New York are legally
summoned to vote, at their approaching election,
Yea or Nay on the queston-'Shall poverty de-
prive black man of the Elective Franchise while
poor white man is subjected TO no such individi-
GUS disqualification p They are not to say that
negroes shall shall not vote-for part oi
them will vote at any rate-but whether Poverty
shall dsfranchise though color does not. a negro
or m1latto, who owns $3.50 worth of the soil o
our State will in any case be still yoter-so tba
tho lsa that negroes not human is etfectually
, barred-the only question open being as the efec
of Poverty in depriving portion of our people oi
a voice in making and modifying the laws by
which they are ruled. Is there, or is there not a


Christian side to this question, also' What say
the five hundred churches in this city and its su-
berbss What say the Religious Press Of the Com
mercal Emporium?


If there be any who suppose the respective
spheres of Religion aud Politics entirely distinct
and remote they are requested to ponder the scope
of the Redeemer's rebuke and admonition 'Wo
unto you, Scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites,
for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
and forget the wpghtier matters of the law, jud
ment, mercy, and faith. These ought ye to have
done, and rot to leave the other undone.'