pension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, as constitutional and in the highest degree proper measures for the suppression of the present insurrection. 7. Resolved, That we will not omit, as becoming our office and work, as preachers of the Gospel, to support the Government in every proper measure, which it may employ for the suppression of the rebellion, and the restoration of peace, and that we earnestly exhort all our members, according to the doctrine of the Bible, and profession of religion, to manifest toward the Government reverence, fidelity, and obedience, and not to neglect to pray for the same and the welfare of our country. 8. Resolved, That we consider the political partisanism, where the interests of the country and religion are made of less importance than party interests, and are sacrificed inconsiderately as entirely unworthy of a Christian citi zen; and therefore urgently admonish our preachers and members to abstain from all such folly. 9. Resolved, That we appreciate the patriotism and bravery of our fellow-citizens, who have sacrificed the comforts of domestic life, and took up arms in defense of their country, and heartily sympathize with them and their families, and remember the sufferings and sacrifices which they have endured for the deliverance of the Union and preservation of the Republic, or may yet endure, that wo will support them with word and deed, and will ever remember them in our prayers. 10. Resolved. That we will not omit to call upon God, to pour out His Spirit in an abundant measure upon the Church of our land, and upon the nation in general, that He will redeem our nation from its sin, eradicate its guilt, and speedily grant us a just and permanent peace. J. J. ESHER, R. DUBS, H. HUELSTER, M. LAUER, J. STOLL, A. STAHLY, J. FUCHS, S. G. RHOADS, Committee. MINORITY REPORT. Whereas the majority report of the Committee on the state of the country contains expressions which we cannot conscientiously endorse; therefore we submit the following: Whereas a wicked and causeless rebellion is still raging over a great part of our country, threatening our civil and religious liberties, imperiling the glorious Union of these states, and aiming, as we believe, at the overthrow of our glorious Republic; and Whereas the Government of the United States, in its efforts to put down this wicked and gigantic insurrection, should have the undivided support of every citizen, who loves his country, and the heaven-born institutions of freedom, bequeathed unto us by our fathers; and Whereas we recognize the hand of God, in the destinies of all the nations of the earth; therefore, Resolved, That while we deeply deplore the existence of this fratricidal strife, and the necessity of bloodshed in the maintenance of the Union, nevertheless we believe it to be the duty of the Government to use every legitimate and constitutional means to suppress the abominable spirit of treason, exterminate rebellion, and, by the blessing of God, restore peace and union to our now distracted country. Resolved, That we conceive it to be the duty of all, especially of every Christian, to sustain the Government in this hour of peril, by prayer, obedience, and every proper means, in its efforts to suppress this cruel rebellion, and to pray that God may grant wisdom to our rulers, and effi ciency to our arms. and assure them of our prayers, while the patriotic dead shall ever live fresh in our memories. Whereas Slavery is a great moral, social, and political evil, one of the primary causes of this unreasonable rebellion; therefore, Resolved, That we disapprove of the entire system of Slavery, and fully endorse the sentiments expressed in our Church Discipline. Whereas much injury has been done in Christian communities by undue participation in political party strife; therefore, Resolved, That we deeply regret that some permit themselves to be carried away by such party strife, and indulge in contemptuous epithets, and thereby ferment discord, and alienate brotherly feeling to such a degree that the interests of religion and the country become secondary matters and we hereby disapprove of such conduct as highly culpable and unworthy a Christian and especially a minister. Whereas in God alone is our help and safety; therefore, Resolved, That we call upon all Christians, everywhere, to unite with us in giving thanks to our great Benefactor for the many tokens of Good, which He in the midst of our calamities manifests unto us, at the same time confessing before God our many national sins, deprecating His wrath, and with us call upon God to give wisdom to our Rulers, and their legal advisers, discretion to our officers, and courage to our soldiers; that He may turn the hearts of the rebels from the errors of their ways; and upon the whole, to direct the course of events that victory may perch upon our banner, the tide of treason may flow backward, rebellion be crushed, and the balmy days of peace and prosperity may soon return and smile upon us again, and the Star Spangled Banner wave over the entire land of the free and home of the brave. JACOB YOUNG. VOTE OF THE CONFERENCE. FOR THE MAJORITY REPORT-Messrs. J. J. Esher, R. Dubs, H. Huelster, M. Lauer, J. Stull, A. Stahly, J. Fuchs, 8. G. Rhoads, S. Neitz, J. Yeakel, J. P. Leib, J. Schell, J. Koehl, G. T. Ílaines, L. Suyder, Fr. Hoffman, F. Krecker, il. Stetzel, E. Kohr, J. M. Young, C. F. Deininger, L. May, C Lindeman, A. Niebel, J. Rank, J. G. Pfeuffer, J. L. W Seibert, S B. Kring, L. Jacoby, J. D. Jenui, M. Lehn, 8. Weber, F Herlan, G. F. Spreng, J. G. Zinser, John Dreis bach, C. M. Reinhold, John Walz, D. Strohman, G. Haley, L. Sheuerman, C. A. Munk, F. Frech, C. Cupp, S. A. Tobias, C. Hummel, C. Shæfle, Chr. Augenstein, E. Mussel man, R. Rohland, Jos. Schneider, J. G. Esher, L. Buehler, C. A. Schuake, S. Dickover, 1. Kuter, J. Keiper, MW. Steffey, Joseph Weber, A. B. Shaefer, G. G. Platz, and M. Hoehn. (2. FOR THE MINORITY REPORT-J. Young, P. Wagner, S. W. Seibert, and M. J. Carothers. 4. CATHOLIC. I have not been able to a certain that any council or body of the Church has made a declaration on the subject. Several of the Bishops have, on sundry occasions. Bishop Hughes undertook a mission to Europe in the interest of the Government. His successor, Bishop McCloskey, at the late thanksgiving for victo ries, ordered a general observance of the day in his diocese, with appropriate services in the churches. Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, issued this paper: To the Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of Philadelphia: Greeting: Resolved, That while we acknowledge God as the Supreme Ruler of the universe, and the Dispenser of the great events of nations, we, at the same time, acknowledge We cheerfully call your attention to the invitation of his these calamities to be a just chastisement for our national Excellency, the President of the United States, who, in a sins, such as ingratitude, Sabbath-desecration, pride, revel-nouncing the recent successes of the Uuion arms, desires ry, profanity, infidelity, slavery, &c., and the present con- that all should unite in thanksgiving, supplications and flict, a struggle between the spirit of liberty and despot- prayers to the Great Ruler of the destinies of nations. ism; therefore we humbly bow to the chastening rod of the Almighty, confess our sins as a nation, praying that lle may in His wrath remember mercy, mitigate the infliction of deserved punishment, and overrule this commotion, that the nation may come forth purified, His name glorified, and His purposes accomplished. Whereas this terrible struggle has been, and still is fraught, with the loss of property, friends, health, life and limb, bringing distress, sorrow, and mourning into many families, while thousands of our brave fellow-citizens are still undergoing the privations of soldier's life, therefore, Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with them in their losses and privations, especially with the sick and wounded, Let us, therefore, send up our thanksgivings to God for the merciful dispositions of His Divine Providence in our regard, and pour forth our earnest supplications that His Divine blessing may descend upon us, and procure for us the inestimable fruit of national harmony and fraternal union. We request the Reverend Pastors to recite for this intention at the last Mass on Sunday, the Litany of the Saints, and to add such devotions as they may deem appropriate to the occasion. Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum. 1864. Archbishop Kenrick, of Baltimore, September | "powers" which the Apostle commands us to obey, and 2, 1861, issued an address to the clergy of the diocese of Baltimore, directing the use "on all Sundays at the parochial Mass," of a prayer for the President of the United States, and for the authorities generally, being th it framed by John Carroll and prescribed in 1791. Archbishop John B. Purcell, of Cincinnati, published this Address on a like occasion: The President of the United States and the Governor of the state of Ohio having, in conformity with a most proper and a time-honored practice, appointed the fourth Thursday of November as a day of devout thanksgiving to the Almighty God for His mercies; of humiliation for our sins; and of supplication for peace; we hereby ordain that the Catholic congregations of this diocese be earnestly exhorted by their pastors to meet in their respective churches on the day above specified, and assist in becoming sentiments of gratitude, penitence and prayer at the great Eucharistic, expiatory and impetratory Sacrifice of the New Law. We, Catholics, have largely shared in the blessings of health, abundant harvests and exemption from the ravages of war which God has granted to the people of the North. Our sins have as largely merited the chastisement which has overtaken our erring brethren of the South, and which has cost the life-blood of so many thousands of our own brave soldiers who left their pleasant homes to check the advance of the foe and confine the deadly strife to the battle fields on which it madly originated. Our hopes of future happiness on earth are vain if the peace, the prosperity, the progress in arts, sciences and religion which have distinguished us among all the nations of the earth for fourscore and eight years, and which, under the Divine blessing, are mainly attributable to our Constitution and Union, be not continued by the maintenance of that Union and the elimination of those defects which Christian civilization and our own experience have shown us the Constitution contained. It therefore becomes our solemn duty to observe with no ordinary fervor the National holiday; and as we cannot enjoy, and should not desire, peace, happiness and independence except in the society of our fellow-citizens, we should pray for and promote, by every means in our power, their welfare as well as our own. We confess that it has greatly pained us to hear that certain rash, irreverent and thoughtless men of our communion have denounced and abused the Government, the Administration, and their abettors. Now, God commands us to bless and curse not. And when bad men cursed the supporters of the Government, did they not reflect that they cursed the more than hundreds of thousands of Catholic voters, and Catholic soldiers of cur army who defend that Government in the field? Did they not reflect that its downfall would be hailed with acclammation by our own hereditary oppressors, across the ocean? Did they reflect that if political salvation is ever to reach a far distant and beloved island, it must come to it from these United States which they would sever? thus presenting an undivided front to the enemy, re-estab lish the Union, without which there can be no panacea, present or prospective, for the ills they suffer. The South beholding us thus of one mind, will, we devoutly trust, hasten to make peace, and we, on our side, will show them that we are ready and willing to make greater sacrifices for peace and union with them than ever we made for war. The Reverend Clergy will please recite the Litany of the Saints, in union with their beloved flock, before Mass, re peating three times the two prayers for peace, and the CINCINNATI, 13th Nov., 1864. FRIEND OR QUAKER. YEARLY MEETING FOR PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JER- This Address was adopted: To the President, Senate and House of Representatives of the At the yearly meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, by adjournment from the twelfth day of the fifth mouth to the sixteenth of the same, inclusive, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, The following minute was read, united with, directed to be signed by the clerks, and forwarded: This meeting has been introduced into a deep concern relative to the present condition of our country. Our minds have been directed to those who preside over our National Government, and gratitude has been felt to the Great Ruler of Nations that he has so far moved the hearts of these that they have decreed the District of Columbia free from slavery. We earnestly desire that the Chief Magistrate of the Nation and our Congress may, in this season of deep trial, humbly seck Divine guidance, that under this influence they may act for the cause of justice and mercy, in that wisdom which is pure, peaceable and profitable to direct, and that the effusion of blood may be stayed. Signed by direction and on behalf of the meeting aforesaid. MARY S. LIPPINCOTT, Clerk of the Women's Meeting. WILLIAM GRISCOM, Clerk of the Men's Meeting. YEARLY MEETING, 1864. The body adopted this address: To the President, Senate and House of Representatives of the We respect, honor and love this Government, which we believe Divine Wisdom has placed over us, and because of this, we desire that it may, in no particular, be found striving against God, or persecuting His children, however hum There is no justifying cause or reason to curse the Government or the Administration. They did not commence this war. They could scarcely bring themselves to believe that it was seriously commenced, even when forts had fallen and the blood of our people was shed by the hands of the South.ble in position or numbers they may be. And when force had to be repelled by force, when armies had to be rised and, therefore, troops to be drafted to raise the blockade of our rivers and stem the tide of aggression, what more did our Government do than was done in the South? Where in the North was the draft, the conscription, enforced as ruthlessly and as indiscriminately as in the South? Where was the citizens' property confiscated without compensation for the alleged uses of the Government, as it was in the South? We have conversed with Irish Catholic refugees from Georgia, from Arkansas, from Alabama and other Southern States, and we know how they were stripped of their money and their clothes, and cast into prison when they refused to go into the ranks of the Confederate army. Many an Irish laborer told us in the hospitals here and elsewhere, that when the war broke out in the South and the public works were suspended, they were either violently conscripted, or had to enlist or Under the present law of Congress, every able-bodied citizen within certain ages, in time of war, is liable to be called upon by the Government to bear arms in its defence. We represent a people who cannot comply with this law without disobeying the command of God to them. starve. We do not adduce these facts to excite unkind feelings against the South, but to put to shame the journalists of the North, especially the Pre man's Journal and the Metropolitan Record, of New York, who instigated our too connding people to evil words and deeds, and the people themselves who patronized such journalists and were duped and deceived by their malignity. It is time, therefore, now that the election is past, that all should return to their sober second thought, and that we should rally round the constituted authorities, the Neither can they furnish a substitute or pay any equivalent or fine imposed for exemption from military service, because in so doing, they feel that they would implicate themselves in a violation of their conscientious scruples in this respect. We hold, that the doctrine that human governments are ordained of God, does not imply the infallibility of those who administer them, and gives them no right to require us to violate our allegiance to the Almighty, who is sovereign Lord of conscience, and whose right it is to rule and reign in the hearts of His children. For more than two hundred years our Society has held the doctrine, that all wars and fightings were forbidden to them, as followers of Christ-differing in this respect from nearly all other associations of men claiming the Christian name. For asserting and maintaining this, and other testimonies of the "Truth as it is in Jesus," they were brought under cruel persecution, enduring the despoiling of their estates, incarceration in prisons and loathsome dungeons, and death. Through this long season of darkness, their dependence was upon Divine Power, under which, their patient suffer We their descendants, now approach you, not alone with a view to shield ourselves from suffering, but under a sense of duty to God, to assert the sacred rights of conscience, to raise the standard of the Prince of Peace before the nation, and in His name to ask you to so modify the law, that it shall not require those who administer it, to bring der persecution innocent men for obeying His commands-"Yo are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.""Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye." We In thus defining our position, we enter not into judgment or condemnation of those who differ from us. appreciate the difficulties that surround those upon whom rests the responsibility of guiding the nation through the awful perils of civil war. We appeal to you under a sense of suffering-afflictions and mourning surround us, and sorrow hath filled our hearts. Many of our young men, overcome by the spirit of war, have rushed into the conflict, where some of them have found an early death; some have purchased their release from the draft by the payment of money, others have remained steadfast to their faith in the hour of trial, thereby subjecting themselves to the penalty for desertion. Trusting in the mercy of our Heavenly Father, we desire that He may so touch your hearts and understandings with His wisdom, that you may grant our petition. Signed by the direction, and on behalf of the Committee. SAMUEL PARRY, Clerk. PHILADELPHIA, 1st mo. 22d, 1864. UNITARIAN. CONFERENCE OF THE WESTERN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, HELD AT TOLEDO, OHIO, JUNE, 1863. June-The body met at Toledo, Ohio, and adopted the following resolutions: Whereas our allegiance to the kingdom of God requires of us loyalty to every righteous authority on earth; therefore, Resolved, That we give to the President of the United States, and to all who are charged with the guidance and defence of our nation in its present terrible struggle for the preservation of liberty, public order, and Christian civilization, against the powerful wickedness of treason and rebellion, the assurance of our cordial sympathy and steady support, and that we will cheerfully continue to share any and all needful burdens and sacrifices in the holy cause of our country. 2. That we hail with gratitude and hope the rapidly growing conviction among the loyal masses of our countrymen that the existence of human slavery is inconsistent with the national safety and honor, as it is inconsistent with natural right and justice, and that we ask the Government a thorough and vigorous enforcement of the policy of emancipation, as necessary alike to military success, to lasting peace, and to the just supremacy of the Constitution over all the land. These resolutions are in harmony with the tone of Sermons, Addresses, and Discussions, at all the Annual and Semi-annual meetings of the Unitarians, since the war began. The central body-the "American Unitarian Association,"by rule and established practice, abstain santly and uncompromisingly advocated the cause of Union and Freedom throughout the Republic. One of their ministers-Rev. William Henry Channing-is Chaplain of the present House of Representatives, 38th Congress. For the subjoined interesting facts I am indebted to Rev. A. Woodbury, of Providence, R. I.: One minister of the Unitarian Church has been a colonel of a colored regiment; one a lieutenant colonel of the same; one a captain aide-de-camp; two lieutenants in the line, one of whom was killed in battle; one a corporal and two privates. The Church has furnished forty (40) chaplains, two of whom have been killed in action, and one died in the service. One minister is a secretary in the office of the New England Educational Commission. Three have been engaged in teaching the freedmen of South Carolina and Mississippi, one of whom contracted a fatal disease in the course of his labors. The Presidents of the United States Sanitary Commission and the Western Sanitary Commis son are ministers of the Unitarian church. One is asso ciate secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission; another is secretary of the Western Sanitary Commission. and a considerable number have been engaged in missionary and sanitary labors at different times during the progress of the war. Since the commencement of the struggle nineteen tracts have been published, entitled as follows: The Soldier's Companion (a book of songs and tunes;) The Man and the Soldier; The Soldier of the Good Cross; The Home to Camp and the Field; The Home to the Hospital; a Letter the Camp; Liberty and Law, a poem for the hour; The to a Sick Soldier; An Enemy Within the Lines; Wound: d and in the Hands of the Enemy; Traitors in Camp; A Change of Base; On Picket; The Rebel; To the Color; The Recruit; A Few Words with the Convalescent: The Reconnoissance, and The Reveille. Twelve of these were written by Rev. J. F. W. Ware, and the residue by Rev. Dr. Geo. Putnam, Rev. Messrs. Woodbury, Collyer and Winkley, and Messrs. Charles E. Norton and Elbridge J. Cutler. Of these no less than 496,000 copies had been distributed up to July, 1864, at an expense of about $8,000. The Association has also sent out one missionary to the Army of the Potomac, who was taken prisoner in the performance of his duty, and, after two months' confinement, was released on his parole. Other ministers have visited the camps and the hospitals at different times, and have done a faithful missionary work as opportunity and strength were given them. Arrangements have recently been made for the more extensive distribution of Unitarian publications among the armies of the Republic. To the amount of work performed by the ministers of the Unitarian Church are to be ad led the toils and sacrifices of the laymen. The members of the Church are to be found in all grades of the army, from the and sailors of the navy of the United States. drummer-boy to the major general, and among the officers EAST UNITED BRETHREN. PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE OF UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, 1863. March-The body adopted these resolutions: Whereas our beloved and prosperous country, by the hellish intrigues of designing aspirants after power and gain, is now deluged by one of the most unholy and diabol ical rebellions that ever cursed our world, thereby endangering the great, good principles of the Government, and threatening to overthrow our free institutions, and the de struction of our blood-purchased and heaven-sanctified liberties: And whereas there appears no honorable or righteous element of power in our hands to put in force to subdue treason and crush rebellion but a resort to arms; and whereas an enlightened and christianized people may employ physical force, even to the destroying of human life, for the protection and preservation of its subjects and the perpetuation of its own existence, as we have in the following quotation from the Scripture of Truth: "For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God. from organized ecclesiastical action. The general position of the denomination, however, is well known. With marked unanimity, its leading societies and ministers have "Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the powers resisteth the given their earnest support to the policy of the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive unto National Government respecting Union, Eman- themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good cipation, and Permanent Peace. The accred-works but to the evil."***"For he is the minister of God to those for good. But if thou do that which is evil be ited organs of the denomin tion-the Christian afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the Examiner, a bi-monthly, the Monthly Journal, minister of God, a revenger to execute vengeance upon him the Religious Miscellany, the Christian Regis- that doeth evil." Therefore, ter, and the Christian Inquirer-have inces Resolved, 1. That we look upon the action of the sonamed "Southern Confederacy," from first to last, as ■ record of the most hellish inhumanity, unrighteousness 2. That we look upon the efforts of Northern Copperheads man. to aid Southern miscreants in their nefarious work to over- 4. That our devout sympathies are with the thousands of 5. That we believe God, in his divine providence, has put 6. That we continue to offer to God our sincere prayers hand. 7. That we believe that the deep-seated, unnatural, in- September 17-Mr. Dennis reported the fol- Whereas our country is still afflicted by the bloody strife Resolved, That while in our judgment, we must accept Resolved, That we gratefully record our appreciation of Resolved, That we have occasion, amidst the events 9. That we approve heartily the course of Governor Cur- duing the present cursed rebellion, and in his efforts to 10. That a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolu- UNIVERSALIST. GENERAL CONVENTION OF UNIVERSALISTS, 1861. Whereas, Our country is now unfortunately involved in 2. That we, as a denomination, pledge our earnest labors, A resolution offered by Rev. G. L. Demarest His law, nor hope to escape from the inexorable ordinance, Afternoon Session-Rev. T. T. Goodrich, of On motion of Mr. L. J. Fletcher, the report Whereas our beloved country is still afflicted with a Resolved, That we re-affirm our devotion to the cause of gard as second only to the cross of Christ the glorious banner of the country; that we look on it, in this strife, as Resolved, In the words of Washington, "That the unity pillar of our political independence and that the union of Resolved, That we tender to the President of the United Resolved, That we implore the blessing of Almighty God GENERAL CONVENTION OF UNIVERSALISTS, 1862. the adoption of the preamble and first reso- ness. Hon. G. I. Parsons of Michigan moved to terday's report; which was agreed to-yeas GENERAL CONVENTION OF UNIVERSALISTS, 1864. 26, nays 9, as follows: YEAS-Clerical: A. W. Bruce of Massachusetts, C. H. Fay of Rhode Island, E. G. Brooks of New York, G. W. Montgomery of New York, D. Bacon of Pennsylvania, Marion Crosley of Ohio, W. J. Chaplin of Indiana, H. F. Miller of Indiana, A. G. Hibbard of Illinois, James Gorton of Michigan, J. S. Dennis of Iowa, G. W. Lawrence of Wisconsin-12. Lay: Dennis Britain of Vermont, J. W. Fairbanks of Massachusetts J. A. Darling of Rhode Island, Isaac Tinkey of New York, Aaron D Miller of Indiana, John Heuston of Indiana, Paul B. Ring of Illinois. Hon. Alfred Knowles of Illinois, A. G. Throop of Illinois, Hon. G. 1. Parsons of Michig..n, Hon. W. A. Robinson of Michigan, C. II. Wright of lowa, H. M. Euttles of Wisconsin, N. H. Hemiup of Minnesot.-14. Total, 26. NAY-Clerical: L. I. Fletcher of Massachusetts, C W. Biddle of New Jersey, George Messenger of Ohio, J. P. Weston of Illinois, J. T. Goodrich of New York-5. Lay: Benjamin Kelley of aine. Minot Tirrell of Massachusetts, John Osborn of Massachusetts, P. P. Demarest of New York-4. Total, 9. The report of 17th made by Mr. Dennis, was then adopted, as substituted, yeas 28, nays 7. Same as before, except that Revs. Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Weston changed from nay to aye. GENERAL CONVENTION OF UNIVERSALISTS, 1863. September 15-The body met in Portland, Maine. September 17-The Business Committee Revs. J. G. Bartholomew, H. R. Walworth, and A. Battles-reported these resolutions: Whereas the General Convention of Universalists in the United States of America, has ever been distinguished for its loyalty to Government and its devotion to the principles of freedom and humanity; therefore, Resolved, That in this time of national peril, when the wicked hands of a blood-thirsty rebellion have been raised to strike a death-blow at the Constitution and the laws of the land, and overthrow the liberties of every citizen, we recognize the merciful hand of Providence in the constant and zealous loyalty of the great majority of our people, as well as in the victories which have recently crowned our arms; and while we still appeal to our rulers and the people not to abate their vigor in prosecuting the war until the rebellion is effectually subdued, we yet feel that our trust must be in God, who alone can give us permanent triumph. September 20-The body met in Concord, N. H. September 21-The report of the Committee on the State of the Country-J. V. Wilson of Coun., P. B. Ring of Ill. and Revs. M. Goodrich of R. 1., Richard Eddy of Penn.. L J. Fletcher of N. Y, and J. M. Usher of M.88.,was unanimous y adopted, as follows: fore Whereas the fearful war with which our nation has been scourged for years still continues, and makes additional demands on our courage, energy, patience and faith; thereResolved, That we recognize in it the punishment of our people for their persistent arrogance and oppression. We can not therefore hope for the return of peace through efforts to rivet anew the chains of the bondman, or to per petuate the former glaring inconsistencies between our professions of love for liberty and the support of slavery. 2. That while we deplore the bloodshed, costliness and agonies of war, and earnestly pray for peace, we yet deem a cessation of hostilities which leaves it unsettled whether treason is to be rebuked or petted and fondled, a delusion and a snare. If followed by attempts to bribe traitors to return to a nominal allegiance by the promise of surrendering to their vengeance two hundred thousand colored men, who are now bravely battling in our armies for Union and order, it would show such dastardly perfidy in our Govern ment, as would call down on our nation the stern dieplessure of a righteous God, and condemnation from all good men; such attempts would sound the knell of our Union, the shipwreck of our country. 3. That while we gratefully accord the meed of praise to Grant, Sherman, and their brave associates in command on the land, and to Farragut, Stringham, Porter, and the other noble commanders on the sea, for their valor and skill, we desire to place on record our admiration for and gratitude to the common soldiers and sailors, who, with little hope of distinction and fame, have cheerfully periled their lives for country and humanity. While so many are found ready to serve, as well as to be served, to follow as well as to lead, we will not despair of the Republic. 4. That while we recollect that it was not alone by the sword of Joshua, but also by the uplifted arm of Moses, that Israel prevailed over Amalek of old, we recognize the power of earnest, trustful prayer. Most reverently, there fore, will we continue to supplicate the God of Sabtaoth, that justice and equity may be done in our land; that ab archy and misrule may be checked; that righteousness may triumph, and peace speedily return; and that the Lord God may lift his face upon us and bless us. ATIONS. 2. That we renew our expressions of Christian fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and reaffirm our confidence YOUNG MENS' CHRISTIAN ASSOCI in our Chief Magistrate, whose honesty of purpose stands unimpeached; and that we recognize in his Proclamation of January 1st, 1863, a carrying out of the injunction of Scripture to "break every yoke and let the oppressed go free." 3. That we recognize the wisdom which prompted our fathers in their struggle for National Independence to arm the negro in securing our freedom, and are sanguine in the belief that a similar policy adopted at this time, which shall call the blacks to share with the whites in the perils and sacrifices of our present struggle, and secure to them the blessings of a common freedom, will be equally effectual in re-establishing order among us, and striking at the root of this cruel rebellion, so that when peace comes, it will come so as to stay, and be a peace worth having.” 4. That he President of this Courcil be instructed to forward to the President of the United States a copy of these resolutions. The first resolution was adopted. On the second, the vote was: NATIONAL CONVENTION OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRIS- May-The body met in Chicago. Delegates were present from most of the Northern States, the District of Columbia, Canada and England. The Association was presided o er by George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, and passed the following resolutions: Resolved, That we hereby reaffirm our unconditional loy alty to the Government of the United States, and our de termination to afford every required and Christian aid for the suppression of the infamous rebellion. Resolved, That we are gratified by the steps already taken by the Administration for the removal of the great sin of slavery" the sum of all villanies"-and must express our candid conviction that the war will last so long as its cause morally exists, and that when we as a nation do fully right, God will not delay to give success to our arms. Resolved. That it is no time to confound liberty with law lous vigilance, but remember that true freedom can only continue under restraints, and exist at all as guarded by YEAS-Clerical: A. Battles, F. A. Hodsdon, B. F. Bowles, The remaining resolutions were adopted without division. law. Resolved, That neither is this a time for doubtful, timid measures. The counsels of time-serving, self-ceking, inconsistent politicians are not to be heeded; but the lood voice of the loyal people, the heroic demands of ur terming volunteers, and the vigorous measures of unselfish and uncompromising generals are to be respected by those whe rule over us. |