that the writers, so far from having grounds for their surmises, had only occasions of thankfulness to him, and of affectionate confidence in him, for his disinterested and generous attempts to do them kindness. The mistakes and impressions wrongful to himself he allowed to pass, partly because time would correct them, and partly because the needful steps for justifying himself would have brought out private affairs, which would have embroiled the very complainants with their parishioners in tenfold degree. No human being can know, till all secrets shall be disclosed, in how many ways of personal sacrifice, and of pecuniary contribution, he has ministered to the benefit of many, and among them not a few who, through mistake, have been prejudiced against him. In this connection I may remark on his expenditures for the benefit of others and for charity. No man, of whom I have knowledge, gave away so much money as he did, for religious and benevolent purposes. I never knew him to be lacking money for charity. Some one who was astonished at his liberality, inquired of his father-in-law, (the late Philip Nelson, Esq.,) whence he derived the means of such largeness of charity. 'I do not know,' was the answer, 'except from his refusal to expend money on himself.' Indeed, his disregard of himself sometimes annoyed his friends, who thought that the plainness of his garments, and of his house and furniture, exceeded the limits of due regard to his social and public position. Withal, his house was opened to unmeasured hospitality, and none were excluded for want of room.

“If I should speak in full of his religious history and character, I should draw my letter to an unreasonable length. His domestic and social affinity with some of the wealthiest and most elevated families of Virginia did not, in his early years, aid him in his religious views. Skepticism or sheer worldliness prevailed in the higher classes of the people of the State. By the grace of God he was what he was. His religious convictions had cost him much, and having found the truth at cost, he could value it. He gave to it his whole mind, and devoted to it his entire life. He travelled and preached, and wrote, and consulted for the cause of evangelical truth, for more than fifty years, with a singleness of aim, industry, courage, and disinterestedness, which no man in this country ever exceeded. No one man in America was so associated and identified with the revival of the power of godliness in the Protestant Episcopal Church as he was for a full half century. Whatever he deemed of moment to the cause of truth, godliness and charity, he engaged in heartily. He was one of the earliest and most active friends of the American Colonization Society. He manumitted, more than forty years ago, all the slaves he had inherited-colonized them, under his own eye, in Ohio, and never owned a slave afterwards. To advance the cause of colonization, he travelled through the United States from end to end, preached and otherwise exerted himself for the cause.

"He was a disciple of temperance years before a temperance society was ever thought of. From the time of his marriage he excluded ardent spirits from his table, as not suited to the life and habits of a clergyman, who should be an example to others in all things. At an early stage of the temperance movement, he accepted an invitation to attend a public meeting in behalf of the cause, but when he found the form of the pledge allowed

moderation in drinking, he declined a part in the association, because, he said, to bind himself to moderate use of spirits would be, for him, a backward movement, his practice being against drinking at all.

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His preaching, when in his prime, produced an effect in Virginia, never equalled by that of any other man. It was distinguished by the most distinct and unflinching utterance of evangelical truth, by great simplicity of style and force of manner. His voice was naturally agreeable. But the true secret of his power in preaching, was his speaking in the spirit of a witness to the gospel. I inquired of a distinguished layman how he explained Bishop Meade's power as a preacher. His reply was, he leaves on the mind of every hearer an impression of thorough honesty and earnestness. Every one is convinced that he means what he says.

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'Bishop Meade's influence on leading minds in Virginia was beyond that of any other clergyman. This is seen in the regard paid him by the late Hon. John Randolph, and in the profound respect accorded to him by the most distinguished men of all shades of political opinion. That respect none could withhold. I have only touched the topics of this letter, but I must hasten to an end.

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Of the latest important act of the Bishop's life, his support of the political and ecclesiastical secession of Virginia, I have nothing to say. My communication from him since then has been limited to a single canonical document. Of his reasonings on the matter which has convulsed our country, I know nothing beyond what has been read in the newspapers."

HON. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, LL. D.

For more than thirty years we have watched and admired the eminent virtues of this pure patriot and blameless Christian statesman, who in all private and public virtues leaves, perhaps, no superior among the distinguished men of our country. What distress has he not sought to alleviate, what great objects of charity and religion did he not find it his happiness to promote! On how many occasions has he raised his eloquent voice for the cause of education, of the Bible, of Missions, Temperance, and of Africa!

We find the following brief and pertinent notice in the National Intelligencer:

We regret to announce the death of the Christian scholar and statesman, the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen. He died at Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, the 12th instant, after a lingering illness, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Born at Millstone, in Somerset county, New Jersey, Mr. Frelinghuysen was admitted to the practice of the law in the year 1808. He immediately gained a high reputation at the bar. In the war of 1812 he took part as a captain of a company of volunteers. In 1817 he was chosen Attorney General of the State. In 1826 he was transferred to the United States Sen

ate, of which body he was at once an ornament and a leading member in the day when Calhoun, Clay, and Webster participated in its discussions. After his retirement from the Senate, in 1835, the State of New York, alive to his learning, his piety, and his noble character, made him Chancellor of her University. In 1844 the Whig National Convention at Baltimore nominated him for Vice President and Henry Clay for President. In 1850 Mr. Frelinghuysen gave up his Chancellorship and became President of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. During his whole life he was active in his connection with religious bodies, in the distribution of the Scriptures and of religious and moral works.

For many years this excellent old man [says the Presbyterian] has been the model held up to public men by religious people. Whenever the possibility of being at once devout and politically successful has been broached-among Presbyterians at least-his name was mentioned. He has probably been president of more religious and benevolent institutions than any other man in the country. A favorite sketch in religious papers has been that of the noble old man acting as United States Senator through the week, and teaching Sabbath school on Sunday.

The influence of this unique character on college students was very great. Vast numbers of our prominent men can trace the final fixing of their noblest principles to the time when his low, earnest, pleading, almost mournful tones fell on their ears in words of admonition, as they sat in the chapels and grand halls of the New York University. On Saturdays he used to gather such as chose to come for a prayer-meeting. He was exceedingly beloved by the young men under his care. His death will produce a more thoughtful sorrow among many classes of our countrymen than that of any other public man who has died since the great Henry Clay himself.

REV. DR. WHEELER.

The excellent Dr. WHEELER, whose decease, with those of our other eminent friends, we now lament, owing to his declining health was unable to attend the last meeting of the Vermont State Colonization Society; and we are glad to observe that the Society noticed his illness and commemorated his virtues by the following just resolutions:

Resolved, That the Society learns with great regret that the present state of the health of its honored President, Rev. John Wheeler, is such as to lead him to tender his resignation of the office which he has so long and so worthily filled.

Resolved, That the thanks of the Society are due and are hereby tendered to him for his efficient and constant services in its behalf-for the unflagging

interest with which he has always sustained its operations, and for the signal ability he has arought to its management and direction.

Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to convey a copy of these resolutions to Dr. Wheeler, and our sympathy with him in his illness, and our earnest wishes for his speedy recovery.

FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VERMONT COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

PRESENTED AT MONTPELIER ON THE 17TH OCTOBER, 1861.

This meeting was held on the 17th of October. The 15th chapter of DEUTERONOMY was read by the Rev. Leland Howard, Chaplain of the Senate, and the services opened by prayer, the Hon. Samuel Kellogg, one of the Vice Presidents, having taken the chair. note to the Secretary, the Hon. Carlos Coolidge, the first Vice President, expressed regret at being absent, and full confidence in the great philanthropy of the cause. The following note was received and read to the meeting, from the Rev. Dr. Wheeler, the President of the Society:

Rev. F. BUTLER,

BURLINGTON, October 15, 1861.

My Dear Sir:-I cannot meet with the Colonization Society this year, but my thoughts and sympathies will be with you.

I must beg you to express to the Society my gratitude and thanks for the confidence reposed in me, during the successive years in which they have been pleased to elect me their President. I hope a better and abler man may henceforth fill that office.

With best wishes and earnest prayers for your prosperity and ultimate success, I am, my dear sir, very cordially yours,

JOHN WHEELER.

The Treasurer, George W. Scott, Esq., read his report, by which it appeared that more than one thousand dollars had been paid during the year into the treasury of the Parent Society.

The Rev. J. B. Pinney, LL. D., then made an interesting address of more than an hour.

The Rev. J. K. Converse, D. D., the Secretary of the Society, read parts of the annual report, stating the labors of the Rev. Franklin Butler in that and the adjoining States. In a brief report, Mr. Butler alluded to the annual meeting of the Parent Society in Washington-to the efforts that had been made for the establishment of the recaptured Africans in Liberia—to the completion of the commodious building of the Society, and to the calamities in which the

present civil war had involved our country, "quickening the national mind, however, in its duties toward Africa and the black race."

The Report states that-

"The Secretary has spent one month in the service of the Society, chiefly since the 4th of July: as constituting a part of this month, he has devoted twelve Sabbaths to the presentation of the subject in Chittenden and Franklin counties, and has collected about two hundred dollars."

"While our Society has gained new friends, during the year now closing, it has been called to mourn the loss of some of its early and stedfast patrons, who have ceas el from their labors and gone to their reward. Among these is numbered the Hon. E. A. Higely, of Castleton. Judge Higely was a good man. He loved God's poor in the earth, and was, we learn, a liberal patron of all the benevolent enterprises of the age.

"We have also to record the death of the Hon. Samuel Clark, of West Brattleboro'. Mr. Clark was an earnest friend and regular contributor to your Society for many years, and in his death, he did not forget the wants of Africa, but in his will, we are informed, he has left to our Society a legacy of $1,000."

"At our Fortieth Anniversary, Henry Stevens, Esq., and the Secretary were appoined a committee to correspond with President Benson, of Liberia, for the purpose of ascertaining the facts as to the extent of the mechanical and manufacturing interests of the Republic. Your committee addressed a letter to Mr. Benson, containing specific inquiries on the subject proposed, and, in December last, they received his answers which, with our questions, are herewith communicated:

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

Monrovia, November 17, 1860.

TO HENRY STEVENS Esq., and Rev. J. K. CONVERSE,

Burlington, Vermont, U. S. A.: DEAR SIRS: I have the pleasure of acknowledging your letter of January 9th last, in which, conformably to a resolution passed at the Anniversary of the Vermont Colonization Society, you solicit of me information on various subjects pertaining to Liberia. In the order of the questions proposed by you, I beg to make the following replies:

Question 1st. Have you beds or mines of Iron Ore? Do you manufacture Iron from the Ore, and have you a sufficient number of Blacksmiths to make and repair the necessary agricultural and mechanical instruments?

Ans. There are in Liberia beds of Iron ore, and this ore has a large per centage of pure iron-especially that found in the interior of Grand Bassa county, that in many cases it is manufactured in its natural state by the natives. Much of the iron ore found in Liberia is not difficult to reach, being in some parts extensively spread over the tops and sides of hills, and in many places upon the surfaces of the ground. There are, as yet, no iron founderies in Liberia, and