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17 1 From the Emniptor. HOW MINISTERS OFTIIE GOSPEL TREAT THEIR SLAVES. We plead the necessity of the case for the following disclosures. Were it a matter of coaimoii concernment, we would not allow ourselves to publish the statements' of a Iran stent and imknow person, to the disparage ment of a minister ot the go pel, or of anv man. Cut in regard to the sin of slavery, is no secret that ministers ot the gospel are as much implicated as any other class of men.

It is, moreover, true that the masters and their white friends, have alwnyj claimed the right to tell their otcn story, and have it bilicrcd as the tcholt truth in the case. We think it is time to hear the other side the story of the slave. If in the following there should be any thing incorrect, the persons concerned will have the liberty to make full correction in our columns, ami for the sake of fair play the paper which contains this will be sent to them. A young man ot black complexion lately called at the Anti-Slaver office, to whom we put questions pn received answers sub-j as follows q. What is your name A.

It is sir. Is that tin name vou have always had? A. No sir. I used to be called Den. I my name when I left mymaster.

Who was your master i7--p. Stephen C. King. Where does he reside In Glynn county, Georgia. Doc that county lie near the sea No, it is more than one hundred miles a.

A. from tlie sea. (The maters must teach their slave Geography lo sun their own convenience iir Glynu couu- ty lie on the sea sliore.) O. Was vou raised by him .7. A.

es. 1 was raised on Lis plantation. Where does that lie On Turtle River. Do you know a Creek called Buffalo Creek? A. 1 es.

Q. Where does it empty A. It empties into Turtle River. q. What is the nearest large town to Mr.

King's plantation? A. St. Mary's. Q. How many slaves has he A.

I don't know-how many he owns, but be has 200 on tlie plantation. Q. Does he buy and sell them A. Not many. He has bought -a few since I can remember.

q. Does he sell any A. He has sold some when he pot vtxtd with them. q. What crops does Mr.

King raise A. Cotton and sugar but most of cotton. q. Does he treat hi slaves kindly A. He is good enough himself, but then he isn't on tlie plantation much.

His overseer take's the whole care of the slaves. q. What is the name of his overseer A. Hill Paine the one he has now. q.

Is he kind to the slaves 'A. Not he! Wilh an expression of surprise at the simplicity ot tilt? jiielion. q. Mr. King has had other overseers were they any better A.

Some were better than others, but any of them bad enough. Q. Are Mr. Kind's overseers any'better than those of the planters that live about him who are not ministers? .1. N.

(With an arch look, that indicated a consciousness of the discrepancy between the professions a preacher and the practice of a slaveholder.) q. Does the overseer carry a WHIP A. Yes, always. q. What sort of a whip is it A.

Like that yonder. Pointing lo a loaded, elastic whip covered with lUck and while leather, which lay in the Aiiti-Slaveiy oifice, where the conversation occurred. This whip had been procured as a Sduipl of the overer's whips inanulHctupd l.y a linn ot saddlers in LIBERTY street IN THIS CITY!) q. Dues the overseer ever use his whip A. That he does.

And he has two black drivers under him with "whips. Sometimes the overseer strikes a slave and sometimes he tells the driver to do it. Q. Are they whipped as they stand, with their clothes on No, thy are always stripped naked and generally tied down upon a log or something of the kind. q.

Are women whipped in this manner? A. They are stripped only to the waist and are flogged upon the bare back and shoulder. What are floggings usually given for Sometimes for coming late to work, anil whenever they do not work to suit the overseer. q. Which is the hardest crop for the slaves, the sugar or the cotton A.

The cotton on the whole so much care has to be taken in hoeing. q. Is not some of the work in making sugar harder than hoeing cotton. A. Yes the grinding.

q. What makes that so hard A. Thy must keep it agoing night and dsy, thos that work till twelve o'clock at niht, have to be at it ag iin before light the next morning. And if they are not tnere in season they have to be rlored. q.

Tne xcomen as well hs the men A. Yes the drivers make no difference. q. What allowance of provisions is made for each slave A. .1 Pick of corn a iceek, and meal at Chnstnia- and New-Year's.

q. Is one peck of corn a week sufficient to nch person A. They generally make it last, but if not, they speak to the overseer and he usually increases the allowance till it is enough. q. Do not the slaves have patches of ground to cultivate for themselves A.

Yes. q. What time is allowed them to cultivate these A. They may work on them after they get their tasks done. Sometimes they can get done by twelve o'clock, unc times not till night.

This is according to the task. q. What do the slaves do on Sundays Thv hold their meetings, and do pretty much what they have a mind to. q. la Mr.

King particular not to weri done on S.uiday A. Yes. He never has any work on the plantation except hen is pressing and the crop would spoil. have done very Q. Does Mr.

King preach to his slaves .7. Ye, sorntimes when he happens on the plantation on Sunday. q. Does not Mr. King to his laves A.

Yes, sometime when he hippens on the plantation on Sunday. q. What does he preach about A. he tells them they must obey their mist-r and be quiet, and all that sort of thing. q.

Do th slaves like to heir Liu: J. No. q. Why not? A. Why they say they know that already.

Thev must work, and there is no help for it. q. Are the slaves contented A. They know they can't get away, and they try to be as happy as they can. q.

Do they ever run away? A. Yes, some of them, when they get flogged too much but they don't get tar. q. What is done with them when they come back A. The overseer flogs thern and makes them work.

q. Does he ever put irons on them A. Yes. q. What sort of irons .7.

He puts on the collar. q. What is that A. II is an iron that goes round the nerfc icith three prone: sticking out. so that tne person cannut lie ilcicn.

q. How uoes lie sleep men .7. lie slaps sitting vp. (). Can von name an instance in which this was used on Mr.

King's plantation? A. Yes, about five ytars ago he had a man by the name of Jem', who ran away for three months, and when he was brought back, the overseer made him wear the collar a month. Q. Did Mr. King know this I.

i cs. lie directed Vie overseer lo put it ov, A. a A. What became of Jerry He was sold to the oiersecr. Where is lie now Living with the overseer on his farm.

Tney say he is about as well cfF as his master. q. What is the name of this overseer A. From tlie pronunciation it was impossible to catch the spelling. q.

Hew many slaves does he own A. Three or lour. q. How does the overseer treat these slaves of his A. Very well.

He lets them work a good deal for themselves. q. But if the slaves get property of their own; can't the master take it away whenever he pleases A. He is not the kind of man to do that. q.

But how happens it that this Mr. L. is so kind to his own slaves, when he was so cruel to those of Mr. King A. A man ivon't do on his oim Utile farm what he will on the plantation of some rich man.

(This is worthy of remark. It may help to strike uie naiinice in weigiiuig tlie cruelty ot the overseer against that tt the master. The necessity of the system demands severity. Two hundred human tieings who have no motive to industry but the LAS1I, CANNOT he made to toil profitably unless that motive is sternly applied.) Q. Does Mr.

King have his slaves in structed taught to read and writa A. No. He does not allow them to be taught. q. Why? Does he give any reason? A.

No. But I suppose he thinks they would know too much. q. Do any of them have the Bible? .7. No.

There are none that can read except some cf the house servants who have got their learning by stealing it. q. Does Mr. King have prayers in his family A. yes.

q. Does he require his servants to attend? A. They are allowed to be in, and most of them are. q. Do they think him sincere in his prayers? A.

Some do, and some don't. q. Is Mr. King a native of Georgia? A. No ho was born at the North, and has a brother living here.

q. How did he come by his slaves? A. Tliey belonged to his icife, tvho suckled the same breast that I did. My mother was her nurse. q.

How came you to leave your master? He has been at the springs this summer and I drove his carriage. The nettings of the horses were left one day, and he threatened me a hundred lashes when we got home though it as not my fault. Bye and bye something else was left. I did not wait to be scolded again, but was The reason why the things were left was, that Mr. King kept me with him, while he directed the men at the stable to get up the horses, instead of me.

q. Did you ever hear Mr. King say any thing about emancipating his slaves? A. Yes, some time ago, when Mr. King and Mr.

Stiles, the Presbyterian minister at Darien, were riding together, they talked it over. Mr. Stiles said that he could not keep his slaves, and he thought of selling them. Mr. King told him that it would be as had to sell them as to keep thi-m.

Mr. Stiles allowed it was so, and spoke of taking them away somewhere and making them free. Mr. King said he did not think it right to set them free and quoted Scripture. q.

Has Mr. Stiles freed his yet? A. I believe not, but it is said that he means to. q. What do j'on suppose is the reason he wishes to free his slaves? A.

4 Why it is rather a botheration for a man to have slaves and preach q. Would the slaves be glad to have their liberty on Mr. King's plantation? A. Tinit they would. The precise language cf the fugitive has been preserved as far as consistent ith the necessary brevity, and the above has been read to hint, and pronounced by him correct.

We shall wait tor a reply from Mr. Kiogi if he does not choose to give one, our readers will judge, tor themselves what American slavery must be in the mass, from this specimen of it as administered by an accredited preacher of the gospel of Jesus tlie testimony of this witness passing for what it is worth. 'Political A cti Some excellent men would str.nd aloof from Anti-Slavery Societies, and particularly would exclude their agents from their pulpits because they fear that the abolition eiibrt will ever.tu tllv become a political one. Th rule is applied, by the editor of the Lhnaneipntor, to tiie col-unizat on project in the following happy manner. 4 Nothing political must br admitted in- the ery well.

The agents of tiio t.ojoni.ation Society are treely admitted into the pulpits. But hat is the colonization effort, if it be not a political one The settling of a colony, and the administration of its government, is a political transaction itself, on the face of it. The Board of Managers of the Colonization Society act as legislators, and wield a political government themselves. And the donations solicited from the 'pulpit enabled them to do this. So far as the colony is concerned, its government is an union of Church and State: that is, if there be any foundation for the claims of the tablishment as missionary institution.

The President of the Society, THE BE 11 A TO James Madison, and other of its leao'ing friends, have recommended an application to Congress in favor of its funds, and even an alteration of the U. S. Constitution to enable Congress to grant the petition. Is there nothinrr Dolitical' in this? The state of Virginia has actually legislated in favor of the "sir iety, and the society lias ac ted in connection with the legislature, by receiving its funds, and its emigrants. I he Maryland Colonization Society claims to be Millie else than the creature of the Maryland Legisla ture.

The operations of the society and of the state are closely connected parts of the same political system. The. support of colo nization is constantly urged tn the pulpits or. political grounds. To 'get rid of the to 4 preserve the to prevent a black emnire in the south these poiu ical' objects, forsooth, can be prescnpd in our mil nits, from ine to time, without the least complaint of impropriety.

But if a word is said about the repeal of oppressive laws, of undoing the heavy burdens, of breaking every yoke of letting the oppressed go free, of ceasing to frame iniquity by a law, and turning- a way the slravgtrfrom his rights Alas! Alas! the profanation of introducing 'political' subjects in the ptpitj" From the Emancipator. LANE SEMINARY, OHIO. We learn that nearly all the students have taken dismissions from this 1 neological bem-inary, in consequence of the promulgation of the arbitrary enactments of the Board ot Trustees. It seems that the Board met early in the present month and adopted the 4 Re port ot the Lxecutive Committee, thus, ot course, making sentiments not omy or the resolutions, but of the Preamble (as obnoxious as anv part) their own. Besides this, they passed an 'Order giving power to the Executive Committee to expel any student from the Seminary 4 whenever thev shall think it necessary so to do thus making expulsion not consequent upon the violation of law, not a legal penalty but the exercise of arbitrary power, dictated by the caprice of a body of men who have no intercourse with the students.

By this order, authority was iiiven to stab in the dark whom they list, without a previous warning, without an assignment of reasons, and utterly without even the form of trial. The mere pas-1 sage of a resolution by the Executive Committee, therefore, that such a one be expelled, begins and finislies the business. In order to smooth down the law, the Board say, but not officially, it was made for an 4 extreme On the loth instant the laws were promulgated. Tlie principal, part of the students who were on the ground, immediately waited upon the Faculty, and respectfully asked for regular dismissions from the Seminary. Those who were absent during the vacation, as last as they returned, did likewise.

The proposed laws having been extensively published, some weeks previous, the students, wherever dispersed, had opportunity to read them. Most of them indulged the hope that the Faculty, especially the veheratcd head of the institution, Dr. Beecher, would be able to arrest these laws, arid prevent their being carried into effect. But finding that Prof. Stowe, on his return, had acquiesced in the decision of the Board, that the Trustees had refused to await the return of President Beecher, and that tin laws were formally promulgated, ihey with one consent aUL-'st, resolved on retiring from an institution that had enacted such arbitrary and oppresMve statutes.

Though a large number of them were separated from each other, and were without any knowledge of the course which other members of the Seminary would pursue, each member of the Anti-Slavery Society had come deliberately to the solemn determination not to surrender a tittle of his principle, but. to leave the Seminary however great the amount of personal sacrifice. And to many tlie sacrifice is indeed great nearly or quite out of funds in some enses, considerably in debt in others, forced to borrow, obliged lo sacrifice their furniture, there being no students to buy it, and between forty and fifty of them from four to eight hundred miles from thei- homes. Sixteen students had already arrived to enter the next theological class. Ot" these eight have refused to enter and will leave.

Six have entered, two of them being sons of the President. Besides these, it is know that a large number who were expecting to join the class, have been prevented by the obnoxious laws from going to the Seminary. How many of the students will stay is not yet determined. The theological class last year consisted of forty. Only lico of these had entered this term, the fourth day after its commencement.

Toe literary department Just year consisted ot' atuut sixty. Of these only fee had entered. A committee of the students has been Appointed to prepare an expose of the whole matter, and present it to the- public. It will contain a history of abolition movements in Lane Seminary at length of the operation of the students in Cincinnati and elsewhere a statement ri reasons for leaving, and an argument upon the right of free discussion, iSic. We do not see how the students, under the circumstances, could have conducted otherwise, and sustained their repututioti as friends of human rights, and freemen in Christ Jesus.

They have acted kindly, deliberately, and respectfully towards the Trustees und the Faculty, but with firmness, independence, and wisdom. We know that their course is npproved by abolitionists, and we doubt not they will ever have he approbation of their conscience for this act, and ultimately the judgment of the wise and considerate of all their teilow Christians. May. the Lord give them wisdom, discretion, meekness, and the opportunity of exteusive usefulness. Oue of the memhers is a member of the Colonization Society.

He Ms. It is not luiouu Ihai the action ot any oilier meniSer of the Society in tliis matter has not been such as becomes au LANE SEMINARY AGAIN. We learn that Mr. Theodore Weld wns aimed at particularly by the Order' of the Board of Trustees, giving power to the Executive Committee to expel any sthdeut fn tiic Seminary whenever they "shall think it necessary so to It is said that as soon as the Executive Committee were clothed with this new and extraordinary power, thev called a meeting, and one of them (who was unfl lately a resident in Georgia) movrd that Mr. Weld be expelled from Lane Seminary The preamble to the resolution stated that I.e had introduced abolition into the Seminary, had been the moving cause of the incendiary movements, and that the existence of the Seminary would be hazarded by his continuing fa member! This motion was opposed with great firmness by the minority of the Board, and the majority were entreated to suspend action on the case until Dr.

Beecher's return. So they adjourned for tbreo met ngrui, and again djonrned to the 20th for final nction. No breach of law was aHeired against Mr. Weld, no dis respect of the faculty, nor any thing calling iu uuestion his mora'l character except the mere motion to expel. After the promulgation of tlie laws, and the students had deter mined on asking for dismission, Mr.

Weld aited upon the Faculty and informed them that as he stood charccd wiui a ftigt ntiui mear.or before the highest judicature to which as a student he a3 amenable, he t-hould not of course be guilty of such indecorum 'as to ii lor a dismission uciore ia tuuri i.uu taken final action on the case, and thus avoid ip-r exnulsion bv skulking out unuer cover of a regular and" honorable dismission while the Board had measures in progress whic aimed allhrv.sliitg him out, branded with dis "race. So he was permitted to remain member of the Seminary, though excused by the Faculty from its duties and exempted from the action of its laws Afterwards the Board had a meeting, retreated from their ground, and of course left Mr. Weld without impeachment and in fair and honorable stand ing. As soon as the result as commum cated to him, he applied for and received an honorable dismission It is already known to our readers that this frentlenian hai been nDDoir.ted an atrent ot the American 'Anti-Slavery Society, to labor lor the present in Ohio. He has, with char acteristic disinterestedness, accepted tin agency at one half the salary he was offered by another institution.

The high handed measures of the Board of Trustees of Lnne Seminary, in depriving that institution of the moral influence exerted by Mr. will not render him less acceptable to an mtel.i gent community, nor make the Seminary more inviting to young men who aim to qual ify themselves to be preachers of the gospel loung men, throughout the country, will now learn the tenure upon winch education is to be obtained atone, and possibly other seminaries and the affluent, who are not dis posed to the knee to Baal, will sec the necessity of making other channels, tlimiigh which knowledge and piety can flow without such hindrances as have attempted at an institution around which have clustered the hopes and prayers of many in various parts of our country, From the Maine Free l'rcss. 'The Aire Anti-Starery Courudion Thompson the Augusta alias As to the Convention we have only one word to say, and that will be only repeating a sentiment expressed last week. It'is, that as a body of men, we have never seen one assembled on any occasion who manifested more intelligence, a belter spirit, or who had less of harshness, or unkindness, in their proceedings than this body, as their proceedings will abundantly show, and as all candid men who attended their meetirg will testify. Let the editor of the Age put his finger on a single sentence advanced by that body, if he can, that will justify him in ap plying the epithets he has to them.

He can not do it. He may deal in general denunciation, he may continue to misrepresent them, or may still labor in what appears his chosen vocation of raising mobs to silence them, but we opine ho will be very cautious how he meets them in tair and candid argument. Let him try that issue if he wishes, and we dare say he will find customers to heart's Inni aj hr. iigq mnh frr his weapon, he ill have the ground to himself, abohtionist3 resort to no such arguments. Mr.

Thompson, a gentleman from England, who was present and by invitation, has corne in for a large share of the abuse and condemnation of the Age and its pinions. This distinguished English philanthropist, who has probably done more to bring about the abolition of slavery in fhe British colonies than any other man Jiving, is now on a visit to this country, to plead in behalf of the oppressed African, in ouryree land. When he lauded in New-York he as obliged-to leave his boarding house, because, forsooth, some Southern gentlemen who lodged in the same house could not breathe under the same roof with a man who is distinguished for his affable and gentlemanly bearing, because he believes that negroes are men, and entitled to the treatment of men. Tiiis liberality of sentiment on the part of a few southern gentlemen, was sufficient authority for the imitative editor of the Age, to commence an attack upon Mr. Thompson, which appeared in the Age on the day of the sitting of the Convention.

In the evening Mr. Thompson is said to have taken occasion to allude to this article, and also to the article referred to above, relative to slavery in general, in the course of which he exhibited the editor in no very enviable light, and convinced the audience that although a foreigner, he still knew more about our institutions than the writer of that article. This boldness on the part of Mr. Thompson called into action the fire and fury of a certain clan commonly denominated (how justly we know not,) the Augusta aristocracy, but we should think more justly, mobocracy. During the night, the windows of the house of Rev.

Mr. Tap-pan, here Mr. Thompson lodged, were broken in, and in tiie morning a convention of the offended dignitaries was assembled, "and a eemmittee chosen to inform Mr. Thompson that it was the wish of said dignified body that he should leave town forthwith, and he was also given to understand that if he attempted to enter the Convention in the afternoon, he would be mobbed. The names of this committee of mobecruts is published in the Age, which however omit to mention, believing that they ill soon themselves be ashamed of the part they took in this foolish and most degrading transaction.

The Age says that a force as actually assembled to prevent his attending the Convention, Some of his friends ascertaining what was going on, advised him not to put himself in their way, thereby depriving these insubordinate spirits of the happiness and honor of mobbing a gentleman strar.ger in the peaceable village of Augusta at noon day! From the turbulence" of these riotous dis turbers, many members of the Convention- supposed that body in danger, and a motion was accordingly made for the Convention to rejourn to this town. But inasmuch as the business of the Convention was nearly finished, and believing that the large and more respectable portion of the people of Augusta did not countenance such conduct, and being unwilling thus to stigmatize th town, they concluded to finislf their business there, trusting to the good sense of the people of that village to prctect them from further outrage. Notice had previously been given that Mr. Thompson would give a lecture op the subject of slavery in this village, on "Thursday evening. It was confidently predicted in Augusta, that there would be" a row at Hal-lowell on the occasion.

At the appointed hour very lare audience assembled at the Bapiist church to hear among the rest a select band of the Augusta gentry who evidently cime prepared, for a riot. But they were very coldly received by our citizens, and probable taking counsel cf their fears, they remained quiet during the exer- cises. Mr. Thompson delivered an elegant l.i and hichly interesting address, in the course of which he passed high and just encomiums upon our political and civil institutions, and that unrivalled document, the Declaration of Independence. He said t.iat silvery was the only blot on the fair character of our nation, a blot which showed more prominent in consequence of our declarations of the eqiriliry and the inalienable rights of man.

lie depicted the horrors of slavery when it existed even in its mildest form, nnd showed from facts and arguments, that immediate emancipation was not only practicable, but the safest, best and easiest mode of riddii.g ourselves of this evil. His manner was conciliatory and conrteons such as to disarm even prejudice of its hate towards him and his cause, nnd "we believe his audience separated highly gratified with the performance, and would gladly spend another evening in listening to his eloquence on tlie same thril-ing subject. In conclusion, wc have only to add, that if any thing we may have said in these remarks, which may reflect with severity on the citizens of Augusta, wc do not intend to include the sober, the discreet, the large majority of the citizens of that respectable town. We have occasion to know that by a very large proportion ol the people ol that u.age. these disgraceful proceedings were pointedly con demned and deeply regretted.

It was only to few hairbrained individuals that these dis orders are to be attributed. The people of Augusta have enough of liberality of feeling not to attack and insult strangers who visit iheir town for the prosecution of business, ejk-en though they may not agree with them in prmcip.c. have also one word more, for those ho mv wish to visit "our village for the purpose of making disturbance. It is this. We can raise our own mobs and riots full as often as we have occasion for them, without the assistance of other people.

therefore wish our neighbors slay at home and not offer us any assistance in this line until they are called for, as it is much more pleasant having this business done, if done it must be, bv our own citizens. We also think we can determine when a stranger ought to be mobbed without the advice of our neighbors. BAPTIST MISSION. The London Baptist Magazine contains a sketch of the highly interesting proceedings of a recent an-nual meeting of the Baptist Missionary Association in England, from which we copy the following re-remarks of Messrs. Burchell and Knihb, whose names and suffering? in the cause of truth and humanity are widely known in this country The Rev.

T. Burchell seconded the mo tion. He said that the society had been in operation in the West Indies 20 years, eleven of which he had been engaged there. His course, and that of his brethren, id been checked by the boisterous elements of slav ery. 1 heir characters had been assailed, and they had been imprisoned and persecuted, but yet possessed a conscience void of offence towards God and man.

They thanked God that they had been permitted to labor in the land of the negroes' bondage, and counted the day they landed on its shores as one of the happiest of their lives, and esteemed it no small honor to bo ac counted worthy to suffer for the cause -of Christ. They did not expect a life of ease and pleasure, recollecting the declaration of Christ to his disciples 44 Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves and trusting in the promises of a faithful God, they found that not one good tiling had failed them. The amount of success however far outweighed the amount of toil and suffering. There were now 24 churches in Jamaica, and the conduct of the negroes belonging to them, during tlie late disturbances, gave a testimony to the purity of their faith for he never heard one of them throughout the whole use a harsh expression respecting their persecutors. Whenever they spoke of them, they did so in terms of compassion and pity, and they piayed heartily for tlie forgiveness of those who were hunting them to death.

Their sympathy for their minis ters were so intense that they quite forgot themselves. During his incarceration he was allowed to walk for an hour each day in the prison-yard for air, under the restric tion that he should not speak to any of the imprisoned negroes. A man 0 years of age, one of the eleven that formed the first church at Montego Bay in the year 18 4, called to him from the grating of his cell, but remembering tlie restriction, he took no notice, and this wns continued Xor three days. On the fourth day he was determined at at all risks to speak to this old disciple, and he proceeded to the cell, but he was not there. He called him, he heard the clanking of his chains, and in an instant he came to the grating, and with tears in his eyes said, "Minister, what make me feel is to see minister in trouble me can bear it myself; me willing to suffer what God see fit; but when me see my minister, birn leave father and mother and him country to come teach me, it be more than me pan bear.

Never mind, masa, bear up, keep good heart, you know me Saviour suffer more than we suffer." He little expected such an interview, but on the contrary, that the poor man would apply to him for nword of On his liberation they crowded around him, and his feelings were overpowered with their sympathy. They said in reference to ther persecutors, We know they wicked, but we must pray for them." Did not this remind them of the prayer of the Saviour for his murderers A black cloud indeed then hung over the church; but though christians were alarmed, the church was safe, for it was founded on a rock, and the gates of hell could not prevail against it. Slavery raised the arm of persecution against Christianity, but hen it demolished tlie temples of the living God, it inflicted on itself a mortal wound and though for mordhs that monster writhed in anguish, it now laid powerless. and in a few days it would give up the ghost.1 let tne tnumpn was not complete, their joy was far from being unmingled for where was the sanctuary of the living God They had been burnt with fire, and levelled 'to the ground and their ashes were now trodden under foot by the adversary. Thirteen of them were in ruins, and nearly 20,000 negroes were deprived of a place in which to meet and worship God.

Should this desolation be allowed to continue Were those churches to be scattered abroad for want of a place of rest? Should those thousands, the gathering of whom consumed so much time, labor, expense, and life, be suffered to remain disconsolate, as sheep having no shepherd Were they to be left at the mercy of those who hated the religion of Jesus Christ? Surely not. Where then were they to look for help Were he and his brethren to be told to go back" to their congregations? They wanted to go lack-but it was in vain to look to them, for they had lost their little all and while their masters were to be compensated liberally for letting them go, they were to have no compensation for all tlie misery, spoliation, and persecution they had endured. Was it said, Look to the gove mment Government had promised to do something, but thev expected more 10 ue none. iicre was out one la resource, and if they failed there, there was no help, and their prosperous and interestinir missions would be blasted, nnd that too in the very vigor of their days. Their last appeal was to the British Christian public, and never had that been applied to in vain in any cause worthy of its support.

That public must determine whether they should go forward or give up the cause. He appealed to them in behalf of thirteen scattered churches, comprising 5,000 members and 10,000 inquirers, and in behalf pf thousands of perishing negroes. The 1st of August was approacliing. Let not then the shorts of the hberated negroes be mingled wkb th lamen'ntions of 20,000 of their number over the ruirs of their chapels. Let not the joyful train of the conqueror be brought up by thousands in the rear refusing to be comforted for Zion lying waste.

Let the approach-" ing dav of jubilee bo one of holy festivh and urmfiled joy not a tear be 6hed. not sigh be heard and let the chain, the whii and the whole paraphernalia of bondae be burnt with f.re, while angels renew the song, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men," and we join in singing 44. Unto the Lord who hath triumphed gloriously, sing, Thy right hand, Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right band, Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. Who is like thee, Iiord, among the gods? Who is like thee; glorious in holiness, fearful in prais.es, doing wonders The Resolution was then unanimously adopted. The Secretary read a letter from T.

F. Buxton, expressing his admiration of the conduct of the missionaries in the cause of negro emancipation, and enclosing a. cheque for 20. Some other donations were also announced. The Rev.

W. Knibb proposed the third. Resolution That government having consent-ed to recommend to Parliament a sum of 5310, to meet existing liabilities on Chapels and other property belonging to this Society, destroyed in Jamaica and confident hope be ing entertained that it this Society ill raise Gli5, being one half the remaining amount of damages incurred in consequence of the outrages incuned in that Island, his Majesty's Ministers will also recommend to Parliament to grant an equal sum this meetirg deems it most important to make an immediate appeal to the friends of religion to realize the desired amount, and thereby reinstate the negro population in the possession of the religious privileges which they so-justly prize, and also lay the foundation for more vigorous and extensive operarions. He was confident that, at this particular juncture.thc society would gather round it the-sympathies of tlie different sections of the christian church, and he trusted that no one present would be he provided at least ono brick towards those chapels which were to be erected as the monuments of the triumph of liberty. He had been try ing at other places, to awaken the spirit of benevolence, and though he was late in tlie field, he succeeded pretty well, and he now came to try how he could succeed here-Some j-ears ago, an old negro came to him, a distance of forty-five miles, for a Bible; but, understanding tlie old man could not read, he said tlie book would be of no more use to him than a "bit of wood.

The negro replied, "Massa, me tink you wrong for once suppose me have a friend that can read, which be most use a Bible, or a bit of wood?" He admitted the force of the ar- trnmnnl onil irnru Kii-i, TViKIn Kut tnlil liinv 1 l.b, I 111 I 1 I VI ..111. flint if ov(r hf rmiht nftirt it tip n-inv3t nnv for it, while he felt thankful that he had a. copy of the Scriptures. to give him and he now blessed God for the Bible Society, hich had determined upon presenting every negro with a New Testament and a copy of the Psalms on the day of Jubilee. The old negro returned in few months, bringing six shillings.

lie was asked how he procured the money The old man replied, Massa we make a proscription on the estate. ow ii uie meeting wouiu pr scrme ior mm after the same manner, he would gladly take the dose, however large it might be. The first of August was coming roll on, time, iv i t' r. i oiiu umi il idsi. nit; niMui iiic prestiiu race of kings ascended the throne on the first of August, and it would be rendered a more uugosi uay oy mis nooie event, ana ne who was crowned a king of slaves would die a king of freemen On that delightful morning the mother, for the first tune, would take her child her own, and tlie British missionary would stand forth in all the digniiy of his office, to proclaim Him who came to secure liberty for the captive.

In the distrcit which he occupied CO prayer-houses were demolished, and in Mr. Burch-ell's no lsss than 100. These places were built by the voluntary efforts of the poorest classes of Christians, but they were now without the means of rebuilding them, and must be assist ed. The governor of Jamaica had gone around himself, not intrusting the business to other hands, and explained to the assembled negroes the naiure of the bill and on the very spot where loO negroes suffered on the gallows, he proclaimed, "On the first of August, you, your wives, and children will all be free!" The question now was, Should he bid them farewell, and go to those interestincr and anxious people, or not? It remained or the assembly to answer the question and he promised them that if they did answer it to the purpose, they should see his face no more. From the PorOaud Daily Advertiser.

ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. The friends of this Society have, during tne past weeK, oeen noiaing various puouc meetings in this city, which have "been addressed by several gentlemen of its members, and among others, by Messrs. Phelps of Boston, and Thompson of England. The evils of Slavery and the objects of this association have been set forth in a very powerful and eloquent manner, and even those who are not wholly believers in the of immediate emancipation, have, we doubt not, been forced to think more favorably of it; for men need only be enlightened upon the subject need only understand the true des igns ot ttie feociety order to De convinced at least, that it is not that frightful monster which its enemies represent it and that al though its principles may not seem expedi-eut, they are yet founded on the Eternal basis of Justice and Truth. It cannot certainly be objected to the friends of the cause,.