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------r THE NATIONAL ERA. G. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR; JOHN G. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR. VOL. IV.?NO. 20. i WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1850. WHOLE NO. 176. The ffatleaal Br* I* FaMUhed Weekly, en InnU Street, sppsaits Odd FeUewrs' Hell. TERMS. Two d >ll*r? per annum, payable in advance. Advertisement* not exceeding ten line* inserted three time* for one dollar; every subsequent laser tion. twenty-fire cents. All communications to the Era, whether on hu8inees of the paper or for publication, should be addressed to G. Bailky, Washington, D. CV BUKLL a BLANCHAED, PK1WTKE8, Slith Uroet, s Urn doors south at Pwasjrtvaali srcana. THE NATIONAL ERA. WASHINGTON, MAY in, ISM _ ~ ~ " j (COPY-BIWHT MVV??V? THE MOTHER-IN-LAW. A STORV OF THE IIUND ERTATE.; By MRS. KMMJt P. T.. SOUTHWORTH. BOOK. klHOND. IX MKS. OKNKK AL NTUAKT-OOKOON AT HOMK. Ob, sweetly Is bedecked hrr bower,and gorgeously h-r hall*; Hert trevln tb? foot nn springing buds, and there on velvet fall* The ui?**y curtain's graceful flow, the T?*e, the j aiming warui, Those household echoes, mirrors bright, revealing lbs fair * form ; kxotics that perfume the air with odor* sweet ami strange, Ami shells that far in foreign climes miJ ocean wonders range, With countless gifts of taste and art, in classic beauty rife, Are laid upon her homestead shrine, and grace her daily life. C. Oilman. It was autumn before the Stuart-Gordons returned to the Isle of Rays. It was impossible to tell which were the prouder?General StuartGordon of his brilliant young bride, or Britannia of her grand old hunhand. She gloried in him ; there is no error upon this subjects-it is the oiijhU,ur,M' and gladdening in her presence?that is another truth. And the Isle of Rays itself flashed, sparkled, and scintillated more splendidly than ever, when illuminated by the presence of Britannia. As fnr I .mi in* vou know she was a ninny, and an for Louis, he was a pale face ; the Island Palaee was (iuite thrown away upon them. They might wander among the groves and arbors, with music and poetry, and such nonsense, all day, but the halls and saloons of the Island Palace were alone fitted for our grand General Stuart-Gordon and our brilliant Britannia. Mrs. Armstrong might say as she pleased, but her downy-hearted little Louise never could hare "done" the Island Palace. For my part, 1 think each pair.was well bestowed, and I sympathize with Brighty and the General?don't you? Mrs. General StuartGordon came home in state, ami astonished the neighborhood with many innovations. A new and splendid carriage was set up?five Arabian horses purchased?servants put in livery?three white domestics engaged, namely, a Parisian girl as lady's maid, an English matron as housekeeper, and a French cook. What was the harm of it ? It was not extravagance. General Stuart-Gordon could well afford twice the expenditure. It made everybody happy, (except Mrs. Armstrong;) it gave people employment, and circulated idle money As lor the darkeys, they were delighted with their new liveries as ever raw recruits with new uniform, or baby boys with their first breeches. The day succeeding the arrival, the two ladies were seated together in the luxurious boudoir of Britannia. "In truth, my dear Louise, you could have done nothing with this establishment without me! You would never have thought of any improvements ! You would have received no suggestion from the gentlemen of the family. Men are apathetic in domestic matters?never think of refining their own comforts, while yet they keenly relish these comforts when quietly falling in their daily life. I admire keen and delicate censes, as an evidence of perfect physical development, but I do not like to see a lofty mind always debased in the service of these senses. I would not have the General thinking always of his dinner, his lounge, and his chibaque, though it gives me i pleasure to see that he enjoys them, when, in the ] slipping off of the hours, they properly succeed J physical or intellectual exertion." Louise was pale, dispirited, disinclined to con- I verse at all, still less to cavil at anything Brit- ' nnnia might say or do. " You are so pensive, Louise?and you always , are, even by the side of Louis. By the way, where . i> the young gentleman this morning?" ' "Gone over to the Crags to see MissSomerville. 1 le seemed very anxious to meet her, and j so he left me immediately after breakfast." ( " I wish he would not go there," Baid Britan- 1 nia; then, immediately repenting her hasty j speech, she paused abruptly. I Louise looked at her with a slightly querulous ] expression upon her pretty features, and asked? ] " B'Ay, Britannia?icAy do you wish Louis 1 would not go there 7" " My love, it is time to dress ; some one will be calling here to-day ; ring for Fleurine." " But, Brighty, why do you wish Louis would not call at the Cragspersisted Louise, glancing keenly bat furtively at Britannia's face. Mrs. Stuart-Gordon turned her eyes full upon the face of Louise, and, looking at her steadily> replied, slowly and gravely? " Because Susan Somerville is a grief-stricken woman, and the visit of a gay young bridegroom may be unwelcome, as unsuitable." Louise dropped her eyes beneath the steady, J >X.L.4 remising g?*e, ??'1 ? Now, Mr?. Louis, will you please to dress for dinner 1" "Oh, Britannia, I will dress, but I want to see my mother so emeh ' "The carriage is at your command. Mrs. Louis." " Oh, Britannia, 1 cannot go alone f The General might not like it?Louis might not" " I hope there is not a negro on this plantation as great a slare as you are, Mrs. Louis. Why should they dislike it 1 Why should they stop you if they did 1 You pay a poor compliment to General and Mrs. Stuart-Gordon. * If they disliked any act of yours, Loolse, beliere me, neither would think of imposing a single restraint upon your actions , and, indeed, I should very much dislike to see them make the attempt. Poor little thing, you hare been confined and fettered so long, that you hare lost the use of yourself. You ask rate! Can I not electrify you with the fact into some life! Pray use your freedom a little. Ring and order your carriage at your own house, and go?try it, to see how it will feel! Heirens, child 1 are you all torpor 7" " Yes! why don't you swagger, Louise! maks a big fuss?sail about the house?order the serrant#?order the horses?order the master himself?make everybody stand around you, or pitch orer each other, in their haste to do your bidding I OhJ you'd ass how Ti do it 1 ftow do you do, Brighty 7" exclaimed the Ger-Kaloon, who had swooped suddenly down Into this soft cushat's asst. " How do you do, Mi? Lion 7 I am plessed to reooiro yon." " Door Gortrudo I what a surprise I Wo did not hoor yon some up!" " How eouU you hear mo run up ou thooe soft woolly carpots 7 Lord 1 I wouldn't lire in this honae for two General 8t?art-Gordona1 I couldn't make noise here, if one shouted, the sound would he smothered in satin and down. What a place!" " Sit down, Gertrude !" "Can't. .Don't like the looks of the plaec; beaidne, I was just going over to the Crags to see poor, dear Susan, and I thought I would not pass jou. I thought ( would joi-t run up and see you, Mrs. Stuart-Gordon. a You pat quite a surprise upon us,'* said Britannia. " A shock, why don't you say ? I 'spose I ought to have rung! Lord ! I never had patience to wait until a servant came to open the door, and a lady oame down. I never indulged Mr*. Armstrong?even her High-loftiness?in such notions. Oh ! have you seen your mother, Louise ? " " Oh, no, dear Gertrude! I have not even that! IIow is she, Gertrude? Can you tell me?" " Mr*. Armstrong keeps very close house?sees no one hut the minister and the doctor"? " The doctor! Is my mother in bad health 7" "Well, ho; I do not think so, but having nothing else (a amuse herself with, aha thinks of? nnlkintv Vats# Kowdalf kor /turn Ktulv anil liot* /iurn IS """ MV'""i - J i ?- ? - soul?which is the reason. I suppose." "Oh Brightj,you hear! My mother in bad health t" "J do not believe it!" a&id Mrs. StuartGordon. " Well, good bye, good bye! I must go, I must go! I should smother in sweets here! " Some love to roam o'er the wi.le sea foam, Where the shrill ?mil.- whistle free, But a ehoeen band in a mountain land, And a home in the wood* for ine! " And, singing and shouting, she ran And bounded down the stairs and out of the house. " Oh, Brighty ! do you mark that! My mother in bad health JM " I do not believe so, Louise. Her minister and physician visit to amuse her, while they eat her dinners." " Oh, Brighty, this family estrangement is killing to me; it is, indeed it is! Pour months I have not heard from my mother! ', her only child, who newer left hrr an hour during sixteen years. Oh, Hrightv! go with me to see her 1" " trtat' L?Oittev, V wlil iAtk?cf! '^tw, lively necessary, but my opinion is that you had better go alone My visit might not be acceptable." " But oh, Brighty! tlo go. Surely you owe that much to my mother ! " " I sent her our cards yesterday, she therefore knows that we are at home! " " That was a proud thing in you to do, Brighty ! " " I was dealing with a proud woman ! " " It would have been more friendly to have driven over to Mont Crystal, this morning)'' " Mrs. Armstrong should call here." "Oh, Britannia! Britannia! do not cherish pride in view of all God's bountiful blessings to you! Go with me to Mont Crystal! Make the first advance yourself; you are the younger. This quarrel must be reconciled! It must! it must! It kills me! Oh, Britannia! I am not strong! I suffer so much ! I eat nothing, scarcely ! I sleep but little, and I am growing so feeble. 1 am sinking unaer it, Britannia! 1 shaH die! Look how thin I am ! " And the poor child turned up her muslin sleeves and held up the two slimmest little white wrists that ever were seen. " Poor little arms ! poor, dear little arms!" said Brighty, taking them and kissing them " Come, sit in my lap, Louise, 1 want to pet you !" And she held out her arms. Louise dropped into them, sobbing. " Louis loves you so much, my dear ! You ought to he happy.'' "Ah! how can I while this estrangement lasts ? Oh ! 1 feel a sense of guilt, of treachery even, in the comfort I receive from Louis's affection !" "Sweet Providence! was there ever such a perverted head! You have been taught from your earliest infancy up, ? a religion, to worship your mother, only her, and have been misled in respect to all your other womanly duties. But, poor thing, I will not distress you ! 1 will go with you!" And touching the bell, "Send Mrs. Louis's maid to her dressing-room," she said to the servant who obeyed the summons. The man bowed and withdrew. "Now, love, go make your toilet." Britannia proceeded to make hers. Tn truth, Britannia herself desired the reconciliation of the families A house divided against itself cannot stand. Britannia knew that the houses of Mont Crystal and of the Isle of Rays were all-powerful united; that, divided, they parted the influence over the neighborhood. Besides, Britannia saw that Gen. Stuart-Gordon, whom she adored, was himself uneaeyat this estrangement, and shewished to see him comfortable. In addition to this, llrighty rather admired Mrs Armstrong in Borne respects?rather sympathized with her pride, and cherished rather pleasant recollections of her late home at Mont Crystal. The reader must have observed one peculiarity of Brighty?namely, the propensity to look on the bright side of every event and the fair side of every character ; thus, though she perceived the darker traits of Mrs Armstrong's character, she never dwelt upon Ihem in her heart; and though she had experienced some disagreeable things at Mont Crystal, die only brought uway with her its pleasant mom)ries. *Ai? was no happy system of philosophy with Brighty ; it was simply her happy nature. /\nd then Britannia sympathized with Louise's torrow, and with Louis, as suffering with Louise, r autl. aI'I riofiOral WiH t.ftft *"*/, "*? ??? , :ordial-hearted*not to like family peace and good 'ellowship. Hut as there is a leaven of unrightemanesa in most human motives, so Brighty took ( i little wicked, womanish pleasure in going in , itate to make, a visit of ceremony at the house , rom which she had been so summarily discharged ] ive months before. Britannia made a grand toiet. Brighty became a rich and tasteful costume | jerfectly. Her appearance was decidedly distinguished There was an air of high-bred refinement in the expression of her elegantly chiselled , profile in repose, and seen beyond the edge of her | white French hat and drooping plumes Never , were satius, velvets, plumes, and cygnet down, , better bestowed than upon Britannia. Taking a , little card case of wrought gold in her hand, Brighty descended the stairs, where she was soon ( joined by Louise. They entered the carriage, and were driven to Mont Crystal. Hopes, fears, and anxieties in regard to her reception tortnring the heart of Louise?a little genial desire for family amity, a little feminine exultation, agitating the bosom of Brighty, as the carriage crossed the bridge between the island and the shore, and wound up the hill, bringing them in sight of the splendid front of Mont Crystal The carriage drew up before the massive iron-bonnd green gate always kept closed. The porter opened it, and the carriage drove up the broad avenue, flanked on each side hv a row of locust trees, and stopped before the door. A footman alighted from behind, and opened the door. The heart of Louise paused in its beatings?she could scarcely ait? she grew pale. Britannia gave her footman her card?Mrs Orn STt'ART-QoRnoa. " Take this to Mrs. Armstrong." The man bowed, and waited to receive that of Mrs. Louis. " Tell mother I'm here, and dying to see her, faltered the half-fainting Louise, The footman went np the broad marble steps, rung, sent in the card. Brighty watched him from the carriage. She smiled to herself, her cheeks flushed, her eyes danced. " Oh 1 she will not receive ur, i know perwi; well, now," said Blighty. Rrighty w?r mistaken "Mm Armstrongs oompliments, and she feels grateful for Mri Gen. Stuart-Gordon's call, and begs that she will alight." Rrigbty's heart smote her for pride, vanity, and injustice, in an instant. " What word did mother send to me?what to me 7" asked Louise, nervously. The footman bowed?" Nothing more, n. ..lam "OhJ Britannia! she is angry with me! why is she angry with me 7" " My lore, there ie some mistake ; your message was not delivered There is some mistake? alight I" They descended from the carriage, and walked np the Stairs, Louisa dinging, half (hinting, to ths arm of Britannia. They were tbown into the west saloon?the crimson drawing-room, and going down its wbolo length, they seated them dree upon the crimson satin sofa in the reoern of tho bay window. The eyee of Brighty sparkled aa she rensembered that just six months before, seated on that very sofa, her eyes had flUed with tsars at receiving offers of hospitality from two poor firla, who pitied her poverty and homelees and friendless condition. What a splendid contrast to that wan her present oooditioo I For Louise?she thought of tho dey when she sat anon that sofa n hnpoy bride?happy In Us love of her .mother and bar husband?happy in the y J fatherly affection of General Stuart-Gordon, and in the friendship of Britannia and her young companions. Who could hare foreseen the blight that fell upon her joy! The door opened, and Mrs. Armstrong sailed in. She always sailed?her stately form, ample i robes, and slow gliding step, forcibly suggested I the idea of a frigate under full sail. Louise arose to meet her, but growing rery weak, she sank again into her seat. Mrs. Armstrong approached, and offering her hand to Britanuia, who rose respectfully to receire her, she said? " I am happy to see you, Mrs. Stuart-Gordon. Permit me to offer you my beat wishes for your happiness in your new position.'' Britannia curtsied, aat down, and said?" I hope you hare been well sfnce 1 had the pleasure of seeing you last, Mrs. Armstrong" "Quite well, I am much obliged to you. Your appearance sires me the necessity of inquiring xrm\t hmioi %r>h ipavm ?>w?mw> of congratulating you upon the subject." Then tumiug to Louise, she said? " Mv daughter!" nintW I" They embraced?Loui.se ?ob!>ed. M u i cannot My Mm same for Mrs Leu is?abe dees nM look well," a?kl Mrs Armstrong, alUiag down in her ctuiy chair. " I am sorry to admit that Mrs. Louis does not enjoy good health. I hare no doubt, however, that meeting with you, madam, will restore her." Mrs. Armstrong looked at her daughter again, and with more scrutiny She was more than ever impressed with the fearful change in Louise's appearance. " Come here, my daughter ! Mrs Stuart-Gordon, will you excuse us ? You will find some admirable prints on yonder table. I would hare un interview with my daughter.'' 1 Oh ! certainly, oertainly, Mrs. Armstrong! I am no stranger at Mont Crystal" Mrs. Armstrong left the room with her daughter. They went up stairs, into her chamber. " Well, my child! you are looking around upon this room?what emotion does the view awaken in your bosom ?" I Oh! mother! mother!" exclaimed Louise, throwing herself upon the boeom of her mother. I They sat down upon a lounge " You are looking very thin and pale, Louise!'' u Oh ? mother, I have so much!" j " is i^ouis kind to you 1 n Yfu ! moWVf;"good wi Yle*?en to-me." " And General Stuart-Gordon?" " Pets roe like a pet kitten, mamma." " And Mrs Stuart-Gordon?" ''Treats me better than she treats herself. Nurses me as though I were her baby, tnamnw " " You are very happy, then ?" " Oh ! no, mamma!' ? Why not?" " Oh ! mamma, this estrangement!" II It is very serious, then, on their part. They speak of me with great aversion !" " Oh, no! dearest mamma! there is no member of the latnily who does not deplore it, I am sure ; who would not do anything to heal the breach." " You are looking very pale, Louisp, but perhaps there is a natural cause for this," said the dowager, taking her hand, and looking in her face. Ma'am ?" Mrs. Armstrong put a question. " Oh ! no, momma; no! no!" replied Louise, Mushing like a peony. No! no, mamma ! nothing of the sort! It was the parting with you, mamma, without taking leave of you. It was the not hearing from you for so long, mamma. And you are looking haggard, mamma ; you hare been sick." " 1 have been sick at heart, Louise!" " My dear mother!" " I have been alone, Louise." " Oh! my dear mother, if you knew how glad I should have been to have had you with ua, or to have been with you !" " But, Louise, are you quite sure of what you tell me?" "Oh! very sure, dear mamma. Please don't ask me," plead Louise, crimsoning with confusion. "We will rejoin Mrs. Stuart-Gordon now. That was all 1 wished to ascertain," said the dowager, with a diabolical smile, which was happily lost upon her daughter. " And, mamma, this misunderstanding shall be reconciled, shall it not ?" " Yes, my daughter, as far as it lies in my power." " Oh! thank you, dear, dear mamma. Now, now I shall be happy again." They went down stairs, and entered the crimson drawing-room. Britannia was standing at the table, looking over some prints. She turned smilingly to meet the mother and daughter. She saw nothing in Mrs. Armstrong's face, always cold and impassible; but she saw in Louise's radiant eyes that peace was al>oat to be proclaimed. " Mrs Stuart-Gordon, have you any engagement for to-morrow?" "None, madam. Mrs. Louis and myself are perfectly at your disposal to-morrow." " Then I will waive ceremony, and dine at the Isle of Rays to-morrow." Britannia curtsied low, in acknowledgment of this grace. Louise caught her mother's hand and raised It to her lips. "We shall be most happy to receive you, madam," said Britannia. "Oh mamma! Louis and the General will be so overjoyed!" Scon after, the ladies took their leave. "A proud, presuming huzzy," exclaimed Mrs. Armstrong, as the carriage rolled away. "How Jare she; after ejecting my daughter from her full position in that family?how dare she come here, with her carriage and liveried servants, to insult me .and to triumph over me ? My ex-governess! I hate her! hate her! She blasts my sight. I wish she were dead I cannot bring stout ker death, but?I will see if she does not tramp from the Isle of Riya I tbiuk I have the lever by which to move her I Yes, my lady llritanuia, yon shall tramp. We want no second brood of children growing up in the Isle of Hays." The carriage of the Stuart-Gordons returned to the Isle of Rays The level beams of the setting sun were gl mcing aslant the island, as the carriage, recrossingthe bridge, wound on between rows of cool shade trees around the circular road that led up to the front entrance of the Island Palace The whole front of crystal windows flushed hack in streams of daxxllng light the very last rays of the level sun, as the carriage paused before the portals. General 8tuart-Gordon was standing, smiling, on the marhle steps, waiting to receive his ladies. He advanoed to meet them as they alighted? u Welcome home, ladies P1 he said, gladly,M he opened his arms, and, receiving them both in one embrace, pressed them together to his bosom. " You are radiating beautv this evening, my lady Britannia!" he exclaimed, as Brighty, just permitting him to touch her brow with his lips, sprung gaily past him Into the house. " And you, also, my little Louise !" he added, detaining her in h'r intended flight " One would say that something highly agreeable had happened to you.'' " Oh ! there has! there has 1 1 have seen mother! d*ar mother I and it is all made op, and she is coming here to-morrow. Are you not glad 1" " You have Just seen 4 mother.1 little darliog 1 Well, then, come and kiss father T 1 Oh, I will! I will! I will give you the kiss mother left upon my lipe at parting. It shall be a peace offering?a love offering, take HI" and Louise clasped her arms around bis neck and nrpHsed her lira fervently to bis. I * " Von are a sweet girl, LouiseP I "But, oh! did you hear me aey that mother I was coming here to morrow P " Yea, lore, I did! and she ahall have such a welcome an Khali mike her forget everything unpleasant that hu p inaed between ua; and now, my dear, I mnat go and thank Brighty for having taken yoo to Mont Cryntal so soon." "lias Louis ret n rued 7" "No, darling, not yet. Now run, and get r*??dy for dinner, or we shall have to dine by oandle-iight. Yen, we positively shall have to do that, any how." Louise hurried of!' to her room. Upon her dressing-table she found a note from Ixauia. Opening it hastily, ahe read "Dkakkxt Sudden and urgent hnsineas calls me to I'eakville. I shall not be able to return tonight. L." [to uk comtinttrd.] MICHIGAN. We peroeive by the last Detroit Pcnmtular FrttmaH that the Free Soil Central Committee have nailed a State Convention, to meet at Marshall oa the Mth Instant, of all who are oppseed to the extension of slavery beyond its proeoat limits, " to deliberate upon the beet means to concentrate the pnhlio sentiment of this State in snob a manner that Ho influence may be felt la settling the questions concerning slavery, which now agt Late the Union " FRO# IOWA. Fosr Madison, April ) isr.t). 7'o the Editor qf the Notional Era : En cloned I Rend you a call for a public meeting, which wan held here last Saturday ; its object you i can examine. In response to the call, the meeting was held, and adopted resolutions and a preamble expressive of its views on the important subjects which it was convened to consider The call is signed by men of all political parties, and, as far as it goes, is a fair expression of the people of this .State on the questions at issue. The resolutions, Ste., adopted at said meeting will be forwarded to you and our Senators and Representatives in Congress, as soon as possible; and let roe add, that meetings of a similar kind are called in other parts of the State, without any concert of action on our part; a meeting which will express almost the same views, was called, to be held at Keokuk, u<j oaiuruay next, lAu Apm, uetorc we msueu our call, or heard of it. Iowa will yet he heard, and the voice of her people, I trust, will have some iun..>v. ii.ii.. .< /" t_ < ... /: II U* UUV IU 1I1C I lftllD VI V/Uil|(l CK), 1U ll'Jf UI lllliut*diateljr granting to the people of California those rights that the Constitution of the Union says new Siai*. sMl hare. Many of the. Wgiants to that region are oar old friends and neighbors, and we know that although most of them go there in order to add to the comforts of those they have left behind, (viz: their families.) still, while there they are American citizens, and are anxious to hare law. order, liberty, prevail in their new home. The remarks of oertain gentlemen of the Disunion school of politics, made this session in Congress in favor of disunion, and the threats they have made in case they are not permitted to extend a system to the Pacific, (over territory now absolutely free by law, as Senator Benton has fully shown.) that is even by themselves admitted to be an evil, and that tends to interfere with and degrade free labor?I say, said remarks acid threats of a violent dissolution of Congress, withdrawing in a body to leave Congress without a quorum, thre itening a refusal to vote the usual appropriations, &c, are all treated with the contempt they merit in this State Yes, sir, Iowa is for Union and the Constitution as it is, and glad we are that our Senators and Representatives arc ready to say so. Let a single traitorous hand be lifted sgainst its well-being, and the remarks made by Senator Houston of Texas, and a distinguished. nw?b*r. oftUa Hou#* from P/?i?ylvnnia, < would he fully realixeu. Yes, in such a owe, there would be " Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute," at the month of the Mississippi, or anywhere else It certainly would be a beautiful sight that this great nation would present to such great lovers of order as Nicholas of Rossis, the crowned head of Austria, &c., if certain renleas spirits in this Republic could suoceed in breaking up the Union, because they are not permitted to r,orfit(nn California ami nbiv the desnnt a little longer, on a smaller scale than their European brethren. I enclose an extract from the H'Atg and Rcfuter, I published at Keokuk, to show you how they feel and speak here; and our Democratic paper here is equally decided in favor of the same positions. I cannot help expressing my thanks to the Senators and Representatives of the North, and some of the South, too, who have taken a stand in favor of Union and Freedom May they long live to enjoy the Ow&fidence and respect of their constituents, and to assist in maintaining this glorious Union, uu? and indivisible. It is due to the Representatives from the State of California that they should know how the people of the North look upon the men who erytfcse their admission, and he prepared to bi?* time; it will boon come, and that as ?' " wafi ^ if, indeed, it has not already, before this is wntten. We are not willing that the unpeighborly way in which California has been treated by some politicians should incline them?and of course Oregon, also?to an independent existence. They have bo me cause to justify such a course of oonduct at present, but the ultimate successful vindication of free principles that they have adopted, 44a?4r evevi -1*1 ?.tuA fvwlWlo. * llWfi Nftfl the general welfare of the U nion. call en them to bear the opposition made against them with patience, as it is evident to all who examine the subject, that said opposition, if not immediately withdrawn, must he overcome, and they admitted to enjoy their rights. Vours, respectfully, W L REMARKS OP MR. BAKER, OP IlHJKHfl. IN THK HOUSE OF RKPKESEftTATIVEA, On the acceptance of Mr. GrinnelPs offer of vessel* for the Sir John Franklin Expedition. Mr. BAKER said : I propose to detain the Houso a few moments, to express my hearty assent to the resolutions under discussion; and I have deemed it proper to say something in their support, because I represent a district very remote from the ocean, yet one whose inhabitants feel a kindly sympathy for the distinguished navigator, for whom I trust renewed search is to be made. It is objected, sir, I t hut this was Hn English expedition, to acoom | plish British purposes From whatever port it may have sailed, and whatever flap it hore, its object was scientific exploration, anil its purpose was one of universal benefit. Sir John Franklin and the gallant men who have shared his perils have gone out upon a voyage of discovery, prompted by noble impulses. With no guide but 4thcir own genius and Providenoe, they hare sought to accomplish results which are to benefit not only Englnnd, but America; not only America, but the world ; not only this generation, but all generations. Sir, I for one acknowledge the obligations such an enterprise imposes upon civilization everywhere, and I think It just ami graceful to stamp the expedition which goes to its relief with a national character. But it is said that the proposed expedition is one of a private nature, by which the gentlemsn who equips it seeks to gain some glory to himself. Sir, I am glad it is so. I will grant aid to Mr. Orinnell now as readily as I would have done to Columbus if I had been a citizen or legislator of Spain in the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. It is this generouslove of glory which I admire; it was this which prompted the "world-seeking Genoeee" to the noblest enterprise of any age, and kept him firm amid terrified mariners, and on an unknown and stormy sea It is this which kindles high hearts to all great enterprises , and, sir, when this love of glory seeks it aooomplishment in noble discovery and princely munificence, I not ooly admire but honor it; and I am honored in being allowed to aid it. But, sir, the whole American people have an interest in these expeditions. It is no longer true of England, that she is the " mistress of the ocean;" we, too, hold our "march upon the mountain-wave"?our keels vex evegy ?ea; and whatever opens new channels of commerce, adds to our wealth and dominion. And yet I am disposed to place the support of this measure upon higher ground It has been said that literature belongs to no age and no country. It may be repealed of discovery and invention, as the benefit is for all ages and all countries?for the world, and for the whole family of man. Ho, I trust, an enlightened statesmanship will send forth, in the name of this great nation, messages of ennscIstion and succor to the absent?not alone to relieve them, hut also to assure all who may succeed thein in the paths of adventurous peril, that they shall neither be neglected nor forgotten. Nor should the sacredneasof miifortnne be overlooked. If these men had sought the northern seas for mere private gain, even then the greatness of their danger would reach the American heart The noble woman who looks out upon the " melancholy main" with eyes shining with hope, yet dimmed with tears, does not and cannot appeal to ns in vain. For one, I shall ^ respond to the o*ll. Here is * publto-M|>mu*<i American merchant, who, with a munificence equalling the merchant prince* of Florence, equips his reaeels and proposes to trarente the unknown regions of the North to restore distinguished men to the world, and husbands and .fathers to their homes. He asks the Protection of our name and our laws. Sir, let him hare them. Let us pot our flag at the mast-head, our laws unon the deck, oar protection around the ship. Itmy be our stars may first gleam npon those watching eyes. Think you, sir, they will not hail them with a wilder joy when they oome to tell them that America conducts the search 7 Bet it is said that this sympathy is fslt for Sir John Franklin bseauss he bears a title. Sir, the title has been sarnsd. It waa earned, I believe, as Sir Jamas Ross and Sir John Parry hate sarnsd theirs?by courage and deration, by snduranee sad skill. The deeds which secure those titles (Its n nobler distinction thna titles eso bestow ; thee lies when titles are forgotten, and the men who perform them are nobles, by " a higher patent and en earlier crealioe." 1 agree, Mr. Speaker, with the honorable gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Ravmt,] that bis eiprsesioo, characterising the proposed expedition as a ' wild goose chase," wu moat unfortunate; Is not worthy of his taste, nor does it do justice to his kindness. Sir, 1 trust these brave men arc yet safe. And if so, the gentleman might have found, in the freshness and variety of his reading, an analogy fhr more correct and no leas elegant than the one with which he has favored us. It is Bryant, I believe, sir, who, in some of the most touching lines he has given the world, describes the solitary way of the wild bird in heaven, though distant and unseen.the lonely not uncared for. Let us hope that, like that bird, these wanderers may be watched by a gracious eye, and by that benignant " fewer whose ear* Teaches their way along that trackless coast, The dwert and illimitable airbone, wandering, but not lost " From the Cincinnati (O.) Uasette?Whig feblHlVR 111.15L Uil III? UI.HrKUfllSE. i The speech of Mr. Chime in the United States | Senate, March !i6th, on Mr. Clay's compromise < resolutions, fills nearly fifteen columns of the Na- j tionnl Intelligencer. It in marked hy Mr.Chase's < 'Characteristic research and ability, snd may be | ranked among the ablest efforts which hate been elicited in the Senate in the protracted debates < upon the subjects of slavery, the Proviso, the ad- ] mission of California, and topics kindred to these. < We nre desirous that Mr. ChaBe should be heard t by our readers, but are obliged to limit ourselves j to a brief synopsis of the points advanced by him. 1 THR VOICE OP MASSACHUSETTS. The following resolves have passed both branch- ' es of the Massachusetts Legislature: Whereas the people of Massachusetts, acting c under a solemn sense of duty, hate deliberately and repeatedly avowed their purpose to resist the 1 extension of slavery into the National Territo- * ries, or the admission of new slate States into the Union, and, for these ends, to apply in every F practical mode the principles of the Ordinance of a 1787, also, to seek the abolition of slavery and a the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and 5 the withdrawal of the power and influence of the 11 General Government from the support of slavery. 11 so far as the same may be constitutionally done; and whereas the important quepfjQns now heforo thedonmry ifiak^irt: desirable lhat'these contic- " tions should he reaffirmed ; Therefore, Resolved\ That the people of Massachusetts earnestly insist upon the application by Congress " of the Ordinance of 1787, with all possible sanctions and solemnities of law, to the territorial pos- v sessions of the Union, in all parts of the con- * tinent, and for all coming time. Rvolvai, That the people of Massachusetts " cherish the Union with unabated attachment; . that they will support the Constitution ; that, appreciating the inestimable benefits flowing from it., they" believe it better for all parties and sections, with reference to any existing evils, to wait and work patiently under and through the Constitution, than to destroy it; ami they have no dnubl that they hold these sentiments in common with overwhelming majorities of the people of these United States ; but, in any event, they will follow their principles, deterred by no threats of disunion and no fear of consequences. Risolrrrt, That the Integrity and permanence of American power on the Pacifio Ocean, the increase of our commeroe and wealth, the extension of our institutions, and the cause of human freedom on this continent, require the immediate admission of California into this Union, with her present Constitution without reference to any other question or measure whatever. Rtsolvnl, That the sentiments of the people of B Massachusetts, as expressed in their legal enact- n ments, in relation to the delivering up of fugitive c slaves, remain unchanged; and inasmuch as the legislation necessary to give effect to the clause of s the Constitution relating to this subject is within 8 the exoluaive jurisdiction of Congress, we hold it r[ to he the duty of that body to pass such laws only (, in regard thereto as ?su i? ?>y m, lio sentiment of the free States, where such laws 1 are to be enforced, and which shall especially se- ' cure to all persons, whose surrender may he ' claimed, as having escaped from labor and service ( in other States, the right of having the validity of such claim determined by a jury in the State j where such claim is made. Reiolved, That the people of Massachusetts, in the maintain ince of these their well-known and invincible principles, expect that all tbeir officers and representatives will adhere to them, at all ^ times, on all occasions, and under all circum- ^ stances. R/soltnl, That his Eicellency the Qovcrnor he requested to transmit a copy of those resolutions ? to each of the Senators and Representatives of Massachusetts, in the Congress of tho United j" States. J For th? National Kra SLAVERY SINFUL I.N ITSELF, AND NON KKI-liOWNHIP OF THOKK PKAWICINU J1 IT THE DUTY OK THE CHRISTIAN CHUKCH. No. 10. ? WliHHM I inllnml ^ loth. Others, again, perverting the design of ,) Scripture, say : " We nmst be subject to the powers that be." What they mean by this man- u gled quotation from Horn, xiii, I, is, that the laws fl| of the land have sanctioned slavery, and we H| Christians must not oppose these laws, but let the relation of master and slave alone until legislators (IJ shall choose to repeal the existing laws. Thisob- C| jection is often raised in our laud. We reply: 1. The laws of Kentucky require no man to buy slaves; nor do they prevent him from emnn- a cipating those he now owns; nor do they forbid 0| liberty of speech and of the press to non-alnveholders and others in opposing slavery; but guar- n, anty to all liberty of speech and the press in the j most explicit terms. 8ee present Constitution, _( article x, section 7. j U. The teif, correctly quoted, was never p, designed to teach that we should refrain from ^ religious doty, because human governments may I(| oppose. On the other hand, the 8oriptures |t plainly teach that we are not to obey human m governments when they conflict, with conscience? |fl when they require acts either impious or immor- t| al. Thus the three Hebrew children refused to bow down to Nebuchadnexxar's golden image, ^ though commanded so to do by the laws of the j,land. Th- Hebrew midwifes refused to put to i/( death the male children, though the King had commanded it. And when theHanhedrim?" the p, powers that be "?commanded I'eter and John to ^ speak no more in the name of Jesus, they replied, (> Whether it be right in the Bight of Ood to q hearken unto you more than onto Ood, judge ye." H| Acts iv, lu The text, then, construed so as to harmonize with other Scriptures, means only that c( we are to be obedient to human governments when they coincide with Divine government? do not interfere with religioua or moral dntiee. To this the context agrees, when it deolaree that rulers are to be a terror to evil doers, and that they are to be the " ministers of good to those who do right." Mee verses fid and 4th. The question to he settled by the Apoetle was not whether we ahould la all cases obey rulers, even when they stood opposed to religious duty, hi This point had been settled But Judaixing A tf*CD*r* naving wugm mm L-nrn-uiinn, uriag in o allegiance to God, ought not to obey heathen or idolatrous government* in any thing, this er- w ror the A poftle corrected, by rnjoining the gen- tu oral principle of ohedienoe, declaring that g?i> rrnttuid ia of Divine appointment; and ruling in fc their appropriate ephere, ruler* are to be obeyed, tl Hut thin obedience to government is not, from m what we have area, to be eo oonetrued aa to hin- p der ua from doing duty to God or to man. at 3. Theae objector* do not suppose that their d obedience "to the power* that be" ia to be so m construed as to prevent them from acting in the b temperance cause and other queationa of reform, el Though dram-selling ia sanctioned by the lawe of w the land, yet they feel that neither individual o: Christiana nor chnrches should sanction the prne- 8 tice We should he (itreful that Inoureagerneen tl to find excuses to^ree ns from aetion and reepon- o sibility, we do not "steal the livery of ileeven to I serve the devil In." o 11 th. Others say, " slavery is a political matter, ? end a* such Christian* have nothing to do with it" We ask? a I. Have not Christians political rights and n political duties ee well aa othar people 1 And if a so, is it not right to talk, write, and read, about II these rights end dutias, ao that wa may aot Intel- t ligrntlr and right 1 i a. Slavery is one of those subjects which v involves both a political and moral er religious 1 question. It ia political beeauae It involves a J fundamental principle in hamen government? i personal liberty j end because governments hav* I legislated upon it. It also involves n moral or t religions question, because it takes away from t man hi* dearest right?his right to personal < ownership ; it Ttolate* a fundamental principle of Uod'g religion, u Lot? to our neighbor a* ourirlve*," an<l it involves a positive duty on our part " Remember those in bonds as bound with them"?Heb xiii, 3. "Do unto others as you would they should do to you;" and at the judgment tiay Christ will say to those who neglect his representatives or his creatures. " Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ray ireaturee, (that is, as the context shows, acts of mercy,) ye did it not to me Depart, ye cursed, into tverlnsting fire, prepared for the devil and his ingels." It is at the peril of oar souls' solvation to neglect to plead and labor for the oppressed. It is a religious duty. " Pure and undefiled religion,'' says James, " is to visit the fatherless and he widow in their affliction, and to keep ourlelves unspotted from the world." Every man tnowe that it is as much our duty to visit the motherless in their affliction, as the fatherless But the design in the terf to take specific caws, the fatherless and the widow, as illustrations >f a general principle?mercy or love?and there... ik.< ? >L: jf mnry to ?mk, mil parity before God, answering to what is taught in other places, that religion ioa?i*ts in loss to God and lore to man To plead for the oppressed f? then a Trillions tfury. 3. Christians do not excuse themselves from luty or responsibility on other questions, merely because they may have also a politionl character >r aspect-. The observance of the Sabhath. dramtelling, adultery, theft, and murder, all these are xtlitical questions?the Legislatures have passed aws concerning them But do Christians and churches plead that they have nothing to do with hese questions, because they are political quesions? Will the preachers be silent, and will he churches refuse discipline on these questions, tecinsethe Legislatures have passed laws conerniDg them ? No! And they would not refuse o speak and act on this question of slavery, were tnot forinterrtt, fear of public sentiment, or, with ome. false notions of religious duty. We have frequently noticed that some of these ireaehers. Christians, and chnrches, do not refuse ction when they have a chance to please pnblio entiment. promote the Interest of the master, nd rivet tighter the chains of the slave. We , wfully fear that some of these Christians are | iot dealing faithfully with their own souls, as > veil as.neglecting God'*poor. i The religion of Christ, as illustrated by him- , itfv <&* .<* it nec -oar sit'T r If* i,- Jkr ther side, as the Prieet and Levitedid, but to go | o the suffering nun, pour in his wounds the oil ] .nd the wioe of cotnfor', place him upon our own east, take him to the inn, a place where his rants e tu be supplied, thrust our hands in our ockets and defray expenses, until the robbed nd bruised man is healed. This is the religion f Christ lath " Well," says another, " I believe slavery , s a great sin, and that the church ought not to . ellowship it, but these divisions and discussions i lause so much fusa and opposition that I think hey do more harm than good?peaoe is best." ( True, peace is best; hut to he lasting, ami ac- ] leptahle to God, it must he on right prinei- < >les. James says,''The wisdom which is from ? bove is first purr, then / wwtAA??full of mncg { ind good frvtis^ without jMirtuilify, and without by- I >ocrisy." James iii, 17. idittoaiiNtatn churches Tact icing or functioning "the moat atrocious of 11 evils," "the Bum of all villanies "?manlealing, extortion, adultery, and fornication?ia his "itkityT" Is this the wisdom sent down rom shore, and recorded in 1 Cor., v, 10, 11, 11, ud 1 Tim, 1, lo? Brother, good as are your intuitions, and much as you think it religion, it is he prompting of selfish ease, the policy that riea, "a little more folding of the hands to leep"?of the sloth that sleeps well fed from the jangled oarcanses of others. Yes, reader, at the present time, in our own itate, and in all the States of the South, the lave-cotHes may be seen marching in sad procesion along our highways. The groans of innoent men and women, sold hy members of our hurohes, may he heard in o?r prisons, and the UnkUig ?f their chains Ui our streets.- Atni you teed but read the journals of the day, or open rour eyes and look arouud you, to be convinced if the fact. And nil this without a single word )f rebuke or admonition from the churohes. Yes, irother, your ease is bought by the smothered groans of fathers, the wailing of mothers, and he shrieks of innocent children?the crushed 'ight* of three millions of slaves, and the damnaion of masters, mistresses, sons, and daughters, ormenting each other with death-groans. Will rou ask for peace upon such conditions 7 And do you expect to expel such an enemy rithout a struggle 7 Can you extract a tooth of aany fangs without pain, or dig up the sturdy uk of the forest without blows ? And when an astitution like American slavery has shot its oota deep, entwined around the Interests and rejudiccs of men, pervading every department of Dciety, entrenched behind law, fcignedly saneioned by religion, and hallowed by timo?are we ) expect such an institution to be removed with- r ut commotion ? Those who do, declare at once c leir own faint hearts, or a want of reflection. ,et not our ecclesiastical bodies any longer boast * r the ease with which they disposed of the claims n r three millions of slaves?of the lullabys they c ing, and the harmony they enjoyed in rejecting v le piteous cry of the poor bondmen. There were those in olden time who cried, E Peace, peace, when there was no peace." And lall a Christian now nsk for peace when the :one out of the wall and the heam out of the " mber is ready to cry out?when the public * lind is surging like a troubled ocean, and the " rash of falling churches, daubed with untem- ' ered mortar, is like the sound of a coming earth- * uake ? He is a faint-hearted physician that * in't nrnbe the wound to the bottom, and bring it the festering cause. p Also, the Saviour has told us that he " oame n ?t to send ftesoe, hut a sword." Math, x, 34 b 'hat is, although the Gospel itself is pure and n ntle in its tendencies, yet those practicing in- e luitouH systems or wrongs of any kind will op- ti ose it, even to the sundering of father and son, s other and daughter. See ver. 37. " And a ( tan's foes shall be they of his own household." i ut mark, "lie that, loveth father or mother i ore thnn me, Is not worthy of me ; and he that i veth son or daughter more than me, is not wor- t iy of me." i And let us consider the example of Christ, who i ft the peace aud glory which he had with the < ather, came down to earth, and in his labors of t tiiu; good, suffered privation, hardship, peraeouon, and shame. Yes " the t/uiiituin?ni of our t face was laid on him " And shall not we, who N ave freely received, freely givs? ( 80 long as we wear the name of Christ, of , histian, let us blush for shame, if we ever again G ik fur peace whilst a single slave piteoualy c roan* )*?neath the galling yoke or the clanking < lain. John G. Kick f Cahrn Cr'fii, K nlutky < (to *k cotmM'CP.] t AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY ' SOCIETY. J The Tenth Anniversary of this Hociety was 4 eld in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, lay 7th, at three o'clock, P. M. Selections of < cripture were read, and prayer offered. ' The following abstract of the Annual Rcpobt 1 as then presented by the Corresponding Hecre- < iry, Lrwi* Tappan : The Report ahowa that the intention of our >refethers in eeteablishlng the great principle of le equality of man baa, tnus far, been moat eigally defeated by an oligarchy of a twenty-fifth art of the legal voter*, who by menace and rategy hare contrived to govern the nation uring tbrea-fonrtha of the timealnee the Governlentwaa organised. It taken notloe of the1 vicioua argain' imputed to the fraaera of the Condtution, and ahowa th at they ax peoted t bat alavery 'onId aoon die oat, and that it existe in deapite ftho spirit of the Declathtlon and Constitution , levrry ban bean prevented from extending to ke Pacific by anti-elavery efforte. and a vigorous ontlnuance of them will save New Meiloo and Ftah from the aocnrsed system, Abolitionista are ailed upon to renew their exertions, and to per vere to the end. The Executive Committee have employed gents to distribute their publications la CallforTa, and have in press an Address to the lahabttnts of New Mexico, both in Spanish and Engish, showing the unprofltableneee of slave labor; hey have incurred considerable expense in I strung and circulating extensively various anti-elaery publications; they have sent circulars la argt numbers Into all the free States on the subset of petitioning Congress, end n very large lumber of petitions have been presented to that Mdy in ooueqaeaoe. The Corresponding 8sorcery, who has devoted the principal part of hie Ime to the eanea the pest year, has kept up an ixtensivs correspondence, both In this and for-' eign countries The meina to carry on the operations of the Society hare been contributed by the members of the Committee and other friends of the cause, and after all the expenditures, there remains in the treasury upwards of two thousand dollars. A surrey of the history of the Anti-Slavery cause for the year is then taken, in relation to the action of Ecclesiastical bodies, of Congress, and State Legislatures, reference is made to the distribution of the Bible among slarea, to the state of religion at the South, to the moral destitution of slare States, to the unequal political power of the North and Sooth, to the Nashville Convention, to theapostacy of Webster, to his new views of the Wilmot Proviso, returning fugitives, and Colonitation Society; to the attempt by Foots nod Clay to compromise between Freedom and Slavery, to the noble effort of Benton, to the moral heroism of the Leonidas band of Free-8oUers in Congress to Seward's high moral position in the Senare, to the question respecting fugitives, to the iniquitous laws and usages respecting people of color, to their improvement in variont ways, to Caste, to the Colonisation Society, to Slavery and the Slave Trade as they now exist in Washington and the slare States, to the arrogance of the slave power, to tbe treatment ot JNotnern oittiens at tbe South, to the violence on the post office in Sooth Carolina, to the moral destitution of the South and the corrupt state of its theology, to the increasing anti-slavery feeling and sentiment st the South, to the free and pro-slavery press at the North, to the state of thing* in the West Indies and other foreign countries, and to the work demanded of all who hate Slavery and love their country. KCCl.KSIASTtCAL ACTION. A review is taken of the doings of the General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church, 0. S. and N. S., and of the American Board of Commission ers for Foreign Missions, and mention is made of the advice to the Utter by the Dutch Reformed Church; the position of the Amerioan Home Missionary Society with regard to slavery is noticed ; and also a statement made of the action of the Genenl Association of Connecticut, Dr. Ra con's Report, Ac, of the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church , of ihe op positon of a Southern association to man's natural rights, and the injurious advice and statements riven by Southern ministers at our theological leminaries and public meetings. of wseoJgKjeigainst slavery by the following ecclesiastical bodies The General Association of Mt?ss. Convention of Congregational ministers of Mass., the Presbyteries of Franklin, O., Ottawa. III., Marion, lo, Indisnapolis, Ind , West Alei*t?d?r, Pa., tho Synod of Illinois, Free Synod of Cincinnati, Reformed Presbyterian Synod of North America, N. Y. Synod of Associate Reformed Church, Iowa State Convention of Universalists, Independent Congregational Church at Brownhclm, O, Central Association of Illinois, the American Baptist Free Mission Society, American Missionary Aslooiafion, Wisconsin Conference of Wosleyan Methodist Connection, the Christian Anti-Slavery Convention at Cincinnati. The latter body relolved unanimously to withdraw from slaveholding ihurches, and churches and ecclesiastical bodies tolding fellowship with slaveholders, and from nissiouary societies having any connection with he ain of slavery. It la stated that the General Assembly, O. 8, /ras memorialized to declare slavery a sin, to prepare a plan of aliolition, and to alter certain terms ind passages In the Act of 1t45, relating to tdarery, and that resolutions were adopted, in reply ? with only one dissenting voice?that the subject belongs to secular rather than eccleswstual legists lures; that the Assembly has said and done all it aan with propriety; that it aims to keep free from r&nuticism, and to enoourage the religious instruction of the slave by the slaveholder and the pastor. Anti-slavery passages have been expunged Yomthe Hymn Hook and " Keith's Evidences," ately published by the Assembly; and its charrnter continues pro-slavery. The deport speaks if the great ;>%rade made by the N. 8 Assembly in styling ?Uv*ry n inn, tte., and Mump who hoM tlaves in the legiu muisc as eitiucis n*.?tuai Uo<t tnd man, while slaveholding ministers are fellowthiped, and no discipline is recommended to the churches; of the attempt made in the Assembly, to prevent nnti-slaverv discussion; and of the treat dissatisfaction which its proceedings have mcasioned, especially at the West. The deport states that the A. B. C. P. M. dieippointrd and grieved the friends of the slave at heir last meeting, that Mr. Treat's highly sat factory letter has been virtually withdrawn, and t? position abandoned , that the Board seems decrmined to allow the admission of slaveholders uto the mission churches. In answer to the docrine that only the abuses of slavery ar? sinful, it s affirmed that the abuses are part and parcel of ho system. The Hoard is oonjured to use its inlucnce legitimately against slavery, for the replication of public sentiment at home, and the pronotion of a higher Christian practice in the harches, inasmuch as the more elevated is the noral sense of the nation, the more abundant rill be the aid afforded In the work of misions; and it is said that no Miaaion Hoard an expect to retain the confidence of Christians rho are opposed to slavery while they refuse to iclude the practice of slaveholding from their nission churches. The prosperous condition and increased re ources of the American Missionary Association is nentioned, which is ascribed, nndcr God, to its trict anti-slavery character, at home and abroad ; ,l*o, the Huocewi* of itM colporteurs in distributing lible* in slave Slates. and of iU missionaries in stahlishing churches that hare no fellowship with laveholders. The Attfriain Ham* Muiionary Socvty is comlainwl of for requiring that the credentials of its lissionarlcs sent into slaveholdlng communities >e acceptable to the ministerial body of their deominatian within whose bounds they are appdlntd to lal>or ; that, according to oomtnon belief, its ifty Missionaries in the slave States all receive laveholders to the communion of the chnrch as Christians in good standing; that its missionaries n the slave States collect funds for the Society, rhlch tiow Into its oomtnon treasury; and It is ihown that the assertion, that no missionary would >e suffered to reside or preach in any slave State, rho should inculcate an anti-slavery Gospel, is noorrect, as missionaries sustained by other solieties do preach such a Gospel, and from such :hurches there. The Report states that the common opinion, hat the M*'hot/iU Kpi.tcojml Church, North, is mti slavery, is a mistake ; that the action of the Jenrral Conference whioh l<d to the separation ra* not against slavery or siaveholding by the rtetnherthifi or ministry, but simply by the Epii Ojwicy, una that not upon principle, urn on tor [round of expediency, brought about bjr the iouthern, anil not by the Northern member*, who lid what they could to prevent it It 1* elated .bat official document* ebow that there are at the jreeent time in the Northern General Conference hi fit annual Conference*, a part of the whole of irhoae territory i* in the *lsveboIding States, and hat it ia computed that there are in that part of he church not lea* than four thouaand *lareholdtre, and twenty-eeTen thouaand slaves. The Report apeak* highly of the thorough antiilavery character of the WetUytn Mnhodut Conuction, which baa eitended ite operation* through ill the free States. ha* twelve yearly Conference*, nore than twenty thouaand communicants, ana not leu* than Are hundred minintere, three of ehoDi are laboring with great ancceea In Virginia ind North Carolina?one of them having been :hree time* put upon hie trial in Virginia on the iccuMtion of violating the slave lawa, but he i? dill at large, preaching an anti-slavery Gospel I'hi* example ia held up for the imitation of be American Home Missionary 8ociety and lindred bodies. coRuaans. The Report givea a general view of the doings n both llooeaa with reference te the obiat gcx?novof the etate of the parties; of the efforts nade for the erection of a portion of Texas and Mew Mexico Into a slave State, to be ealled Jasin to; of the resistance made in the Senate to the reoeption of the resolutions of Vermont, and nu serous anti-slavery petition! that nave dmb Cred into Congrasw from nil porta of the frta ton, and the final abrogation of tba rule of tan jroara' standing in the Senate, by which motions fbr the reception of snoh petitions have been laid upon tba table; of Mr. C Lay's Compromise Rasotlona and tpaaoh , of Mr. Mason's Mil for tha reclamation of fogitive slares; of tha rejection of Mr. Root's resolution for providing "Territorial Governments ? priMntiA# itavery therein ; of the rejeotion of Mr. Giddlap's resolutions, In which ware embraced the cardinal truths of the Declaration of lodependenoe and the Ordinance of 1787; of tha threats of disunjon by theskeeftold log mem bet's, of tha snhnarvienoy of nsveral Northern members; and of tha able speeches made by members of both the Democratic and Whig