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MILLEDGEYILLE, GEORGIA,. TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1864
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PRESIDE XT’S MESSAGE.
To the Smote and House oj Rcprcsenta-
timof the Confederate States of Ameri
ca:
lou arc assembled under circum
stances of deep interest to your coun
try; and it is fortunate that, coming,
as you do, newly elected by the peo
ple, and familiar with the condition of
the various localities, you will be the
belter able to devise measures adapted
to meet the wants of the public service,
without imposing unnecessary burthens
on the citizen. The brief period which
has elapsed since the last adjournment
ofCongiess has not afforded sufficient
opportunity to lest the efficacy of the
most.important laws tl^en enacted, nor
have (he events occuring in the inter
val been such as materially to change
the state of the country.
1 he unjust war commenced against
in violation of the rights of the
CTdtcCj uiJti If! USUl^dulitju
delegated to the Government of the
United Stales, is still characterized by
I he barbarism with which it has here
tofore been conducted by the enemy.
Aged men, helpless women and chil
dren appeal in vain to the humanity
which should be inspired by their con-
dition, for immunity from arrest, incar
ceration or banishmpnt from • their
bon.c-s. Plunder anil devastation of
ihe properly of non-combatants, des-
buciiu!) ot priva.te dwellings and even
of edifices devoted to the worship of
(, oi!, expeditions organized for the sole
purpose of sacking cities, consigning
■hrm to ibe flames, killing the unarnj-
f( l itbubii,Muis, anti inflicting horrible
outrages on women and children, are
Anieul ibe constantly recurring atroc-
J ‘ ies °fibe invader. It cannot reason-
■‘ V be pretended that such acts con-
lUce ,0 any end which their authors
‘•are avow before the civilized world,
aii; l 'toiler or later Christendom must
°ut to them the condemnation
"tueh such brutality deserves. The
''■t-Wing thus ruthlessly inflicted upon
1 le people of dig invaded districts lias
p ,Ve d but to illustrate their patriotism,
-oiirr: unanimity and zeal for their
V'Uuiiy s cause have been pre-emiuent-
'.'fonspicuous among those whose sae-
r,l!l : es have been greatest. So the army
1 T ims borne the trials and dangers
" mtMvar; which has been
privations ant
I 11)311 !y fortitude fat niore severe than
,,L 'JMt-i fatigues and perils of actual
ooaibat.) has been the centre ol cheer-
Ul! ‘ ess and hope. From the camp
ooires ibe voice of the soldier patriots,
1 ‘Liking each who is at home, in the
d'uere he fiest may fill, to devote his
" ! °1° energies to the support of a
!n the success of which thejr
assert a title to govern Slates whose
separate, and independent sovereignty
was recognized by treaty with France
and Great Britain in the last tentury.
and remained unquestioned for n.early
three generations. Yet these very Gov
ernments, in disregard of dutv and
treaty obligations which bind them to
recognize as independent Virginia and
and other Confederate States, persist
in countenancing, by moral influence,
d not in auhng by unfair and partial
action, the claim set up by the Execu
tive of a foreign Government, to exer
cise despotic sway over the States thus
recognized, and treat the invasion of
them by their former limited and spec
ial agent, as though it were the attempt
of a sovereign to suppress a rebellion
against lawful authority. Ungenerous
advantage has been taken ol our pres
ent condition, and our rights have been
violated, our vessels of war detained
in ports to which iliey had been invit
ed by proclamations ot neutrality, and
in one instance our flag also insulted
where the sacred lightof asylum was
supposed to he secure; while one of
these Governments has contented it
self with simply deprecating by defer
ential representations the conduct of our
enemy in the constantly recurring in
stances of his contemptuous disregard
of neutral rights and flagrant violations
of public law. It may be that foreign
Governments, like our enemies, have
mistaken our desire for peace, unre
servedly expressed, for evidence oTex
haustion, and have thence inferred the
probability of success in the effort to
subjugate or exterminate the millions
of human beings who, in these States,,
prefer an}? fate to submission to their
savage assailants. 1 see no prospect
of an early change in the course here
tofore pursued by these Governments ;
but when this delusion shall have been
dispelled, and when our independence,
by the valor and fortitude of our peo
ple, shall have been won against all
the hostile influences combined against
us, and .can no longer be ignored by
open foes or professed neutrals, this
war will have left with its proud mem
ories a record ot many wrongs, which
it may not misbecome us to forgive—
some of which we may not properly
forbear from demanding redress. In
the meantime, it is enough for us 1 to
know- that every avenue of negotiation
is closed against us ; that our enemy
is making renewed and strenuous ef
forts for our destruction, and that, the
in the justice ofour cause and holding
our liberties to be more precious than
all other earthly possessions, is to com
bine and apply every available ele
ment of power for their defence and
preservation.
On the subject of the exchanged pris
oners, J greatly regret to be> unable to
give you satisfactory information. The
Government of the United. States,
while persisting in failure to execute
the terms of the cartel, make occas
ional deliveries of prisoners, and then
suspend action without apparent cause.
I confess my inability to comprehend
their policy or purpose. The prison
ers held by us. in spile of humane care,
are perishing from the inevitable ef
fects of imprisonment and the home
sickness produced by the hopelessness
of release from confinement. The
spectacle of their suffering augments
our desire to relieve from similar trials
own brave men, who have spent
months in a cruel and
endured with
heroic constancy. The delivery, after
a suspension of some weeks, has just
of the currency would be attended by
disastrous effects, and would produce
the speedy recurrence of the evils from
which the funding law has rescued the
country. If our armes are crowned
with the success which we have so
much reason to hope, vve may well ex
pect that this war cannot be prolonged
beyond the current year, and nothing
would so much retard the benefieieut
influence of peace on all the interests
of our country, as the existence of a
great mass of currency not redeema
ble in coin. With our vast resources,
the circulation, if restricted to its pres
ent volume, would be easily managea
ble, and by gradual saborption in pay
ment of public dues, would give place
to the precious metals, the only basis
of a currency adapted to commerce
with foreign countries. In our present
circumstances, 1 know of no mode of
providing for the public wants which
would entail sacrifices so great as a
fresh issue of Treasury notes, and I
trust you will concur in
From the Southern Presbyterian.
FROM THti NORTH.
New York, Feb. 1861.
Dear Brother Porter: I vt ish I had
time to write you all that I have to say.
First, I will speak of religion. The
universal testimony of pastors and the
church papers is, that religion is at the
lowest ebb. I hear of no work of
grace in the churches. There is no
spirit of prayer and humility among
the professors of religion. As to con
versions in their armies, I have never
heard ofany. 1l is not a matter of
wonder that religion has died out. The
elergy of the North as a body are the
most litne-serving and blood thirsty
tnen in it. This is not simply my
opinion, I have heard the declaration
from some of their own number. You
can have no conception of their truck
ling servility. There is old Dr. McEl-
roy, of the Scotch church, who, a year
ago, was conservative, and in favor of
peace, is now for prosecuting the war
r i I j ,• i • , j. the propnetyj unt q ^e South be conquered.
l l d ' nS any ,ncrease 1,1 Dr. N. L. Dice is another st
those now m circulation.
Officers have been appointed and
despatched to the Trans-Mississippi
States, and the necessary measures ta
ken for the execution of the' laws,
enacted to obviate delays in adminis
tering the Treasury and other Execu
tive Departments in those States; but
sufficient time has not elapsed to as
certain the results.
In relation to the most important of
all subjects at the present time, the ef
ficiency of our armies in the field, it is
gratifying to assure you that the dis
cipline and instruction of the troops
have kept pace with the improvement
in material and equipment. We have
our
so many weary
useless imprisonment,
i lias been subjected
disappoint ments,(tests
Cause
Cotifi
'“‘fence has never faltered. ‘They
“‘e veterans of many a hard-fought
!■ .»'ender to their country, without
111111 u ! lime, a service of priceless val-
. e 1(1 us, one which posterity will hold
§ ra< cfu! remembrance,
considering the stale of the coun-
^.tbe reflection is naturally suggest-
'' , ;| i this is the third Congress pi
-j| konlederate tetates of America.—
I rov isional Government wgs form-
11 C's. Congress held four sessions,
v . u ,,s appointed term, ant} passed
phe Permanent. Government
' then organized, its different de-
r,j 11 Established, a CongresselecD
its-
l-ircd.
vv ‘‘|<'h also held four sessions, serv-
U) 1 constitutional term and ex-
, Vou, the second Congress, un-
tl0i 1 le Permanent Government, are
! vv . U£se mbi(ql at the time and plupe
a .'"iiited by law for commencing your
Ail these events have passed
'j; 0 history, notwithstanding tlie threat
Year*? PfDmp};' subjugation, irp-ide three
11 8 U by a people thai presume to
been resumed by the enemy ; but as
they give no assurance ot intent to car
ry out the cartel, an interruption of
ilie exchange may recur at any mo
ment.
The reports of the departments,
herewith submitted, are referred to for
full information in relation to the mat
ters appertaining to each’. There are
two of thorn on which I deem it neces
sary to make, special remark.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury states facts justifying the
conclusion that the law passed at the
last session for the purpose < f with
drawing from circulation the large ex*
pess of Treasury notes heretofore is
sued, has had the desired effect ; and
that by the 1st July the amount in cir
culation will have been reduced to a
sum not exceeding two hundred and
thirty millions of dollars. It is believ
ed to be of primaiy? importance that no
further issue ot notes should take place,
.and that the use of the credit of the
(joyer?peu|. should be restricted to the
twoolhei jnodes provided by Congress,
viz : the sale of bonds and the issue of
tiflcut.es hearing interest for the
nice of supplies purchased wjthjn our
Ijmjts. The law, as it now stands au
thorizes the issue bv the Treasury of
new notes to the extent of two-thirds
of the amount lecelved under its pro
visions. The estimate of the amount
funded under the law is shewn to be
t hree bundled millions of dollars, and
jf t\yo-thjrds qi fliis sum he r e 'j 5 * ue< h
we shall have ap adcfUipn of two hun
dred millions qt dollars Jo «uj pircuja-r
lion, believed to he already ample for
the bps;ness of the country, The ad*
dition of this large sum to the volume
ce
reason to congratulate ourselves-on the
results of the legislation on this sub
ject, and on the increased administra
tive energy in the different bureaus of
the War Department, and may not
unreasonably indulge anticipations of
commensurate success in the ensuing
campaign.
'file organization of reserves is in
progress, and it is hoped they will be
valuable in affording local protection
without requiring details and detach
meiiis from active seivicei
Among the recommendations con
tained in the report o! the Secretary of
War, your attention is specially invit
ed to those, in which legislation is sag-
gested on the following subjects, viz :
Tlfe temire of office of the general offi-
• - -i-~ jnu \ i n ^ rr ,,, 1
proper discrimination in the compen
sation of the different grades ; the pro
vision required in aid of invalid officers
who have resigned in consequence of
wounds or sickness contracted while
in service ; the amendment of jhe lqw
which deprives officers in the field of
the privilege of purchasing rations,
and thus adds to their embarrassment
instead of conferring the benefit intend
ed ; the organization of the general
staff of the army, in relation to which
a special message will shortly be ad
dressed to you, containing the reasons
which compelled me to withhold my
approval of the bill passed by your
predecessors at too late a period ot the
session to allow time for returning it
for their reconsideration ; the necessi
ty for an increase in the allowance now
made lor the transportation of officers
traveling under orders ; the mode of
providing officers for the execution of
the conscript laws ; the means ot secur
ing greater despatch and more regular
administration of justice in examining
and disposing of the records of cases
repot ted'from court martials and mili
tary courts in the army.
The recent events of the war are
highly creditable to our troops, exhib
iting energy and vigduneo- combined
with the liabilual gallantry which they
have taught us to expect on all occa
sions, We have been cheered by import
ant and valuable successes in Florida,
Northern Mississippi, Western Ten
nessee and Kentucky, Western Louisi
ana and Eastern North Carolina, re
flecting the highest honor on the skill
and conduct of our commanders, and
on the incomparable soldiers whom it
is their privilege to lead, A naval at
tack on Mobile was so successfully re-
pqlsed at the outer works that the at
tempt was abandoned, and the nine
months’ siege of Charleston has been
practically suspended, leaving that no
ble city and its fortresses imperishable
monuments to the skill and fortitude eff
its defenders. The armies in North
ern Georgia and in Northern Virginia
still oppose, with unshaken front, a
formidable barrier to the progress of
the'invader.; and our generals, armies
gnd ppqpje, are animated by ^heerlul
confidence.
Lei us, then, while resolute in de
voting all our energies to securing the
realizasion of the bl ight auspices which
encourage us, uot forget that our hum
ble and most gra eful thanks are due
to Him without whose guidance and
protecting care all human efforts are of
no avail, and to whose interposition-
are due the rpgnijold sqcc3sses with
which we have been cheered.
JEFFERSON DAVIS. .
Richmond, May 2 ? 1364-
ad exam
ple. I have talked with him repeated
ly ; ho believes in his heart that this
war upon the South is a most atrocious
crime; yet undei the threats of the
abolitionists in his congregation, and
from the fear of losing his position, he
now oravs for the success of the Fede
ral armies. Rev. James Brooks, of St.
Louis, is another; he was arrested and
cast into prison with me, and was loud
in his professions of fidelity to the
cause, yet, under the influence of Gov.
Gamble who was an elder in his church,
and of other Lincolniles there, he has
preached and published a sermon, in
which he argues from Scripture, the
“divine right of kings and passive obe
dience.” It is precisely such, a dis
course as graced the English pulpit in
the days of James II. These are the
infirmities of good men. As to the
bloody harangues oftbeout-an-out war
clergy, no pen can depietthem. They
rejoice in the carnage of the battle-field,
and in the spectacle of widows and
orphans driven homeless from their
burning dwellings. ‘They delight to
see Southern ladies stripped, whipped
and exposed to the insults of their for
mer slaves. Not a pulpit, nor a religi
ous (save the mark) newspaper in the
North condemns the brutalities of a
Butler, the butcheries of a McNeil, or
the baseness of a Turchiu. They and
the Christian people of the Federal
States openly declareth.it “rebels have
no rigniL, ' ’ : • \
exterminate them, to seize their lands,
free their slaves, and to do whatsoever
else see met h to them good.
. l, Resolced y That the Lord hath given
the earth to His saints.”
“Resolved, That we are the saints of
the Lord.”
The result is as might be anticipated.
True religion is dying out. In the
^North-west an anti church movement
is begun. Those who are opposed to
the war and abolitionism, will meet
for worship without any church organ
ization. Again, the Roman Catholic
church is gaining largely, because of
its supposed conservatism. But the
most extensive movement is towards
infidelity. The process is a short one,
lire Northern chCirehes areabolitionized;
abolitionism is infidelity. I enclose a
slip from the “Herald” of yesterday.
Such ate the “religious notices,” which
appear every Sabbath. Cora Hatch,
is a pretended “medium ;” she scouts
the Bible,-denies the personality and
existence of God, and proclaims the
blackest Atheism, One evening, a
young man rose' in the audience and
openly charged her with living in con
cubinage with his father who had aban
doned his own family. Yet the crowds
striving lor admittance to her hall are
so greaL that the police are obliged to
keep order.
The Presbyterian church in this city,
particularly the Old School, is in a de
plorable state. Drs. Spring and Potts
and Phillips, ct id otnnc genus, are dron
ing their congregations to death. Dr
Scott here, and VanDykein Brooklyn,
are the only men. who are alive and
sound. They are battling manfully,
but under great discouragements.—
They both long for a more salubrious
climate and abetter people.
But I turn away trom the spectacle
of an apostate church, and altars reek
ing with human sacrifices.
In relation to political affairs here, if
vou will send to for a letter
Troubles are the trials of frieudsbiD.
written a few weeks ago, you will see
rny views fully set forth- Lest you
may fail to get that, however, 1 will
briefly stale my conclusions in this
placel The North never seemed to
be more united in the prosecution of
the war, more determined to conquer
the South, or more confident of its abil
ity to do 30, By dint of much lying,
the government at Washington has
persuaded the people that a very short
and easy campaign In the spring will
end the war. This expectation, to
gether with the enormous bounties,
from $fi0Q to SS0Q to each soldier,
secures numerous recruits. They will
make a desperate effort in ihe next
campaign. Should they succeed iu
penetrating further into the Confedera
cy,-in capturing a few more places, they
will be grebtly enequraged, and the
war indefinitely prolonged. Bill on
the other hand (which God grant,)
should they be baffled and defeated 1
believe the war will terminate. There
is evidently a reaction taking place al
ready, as is shown in the rapid increase
of the circulation of the peace papers ;
in the numerous publications in tavorof
slavery and the great demand for them;
i n't he large vote given for Vallandig
ham, which was a vote not only for
peace, but for revolution to secure it;
in the majority given in this city, tor
Gur.ther, the peace candidate for May
or ; in the large minorities in all the
States, opposed to the administration
and its policy ; in the disaffection of a
large portion of the Union party in the
border States. I do not lay too much
stress upon any or all of these tilings,
but they all point one way, and indi
cate a wide-spread dissatisfaction with
the present posture of affairs. They
will amount to nothing so long as the
apparent success of the Federal armies
maintain confidence in the final tri
umph of Federal power. The hope of
subduing the South keeps all these
elements under; the prestige anil power
of the government is resistless. But
when the time shall come (as it surely
will sooner or later,) that the people of
this country shall lose their confidence
in the ability of their tyrants to suppress
“the rebellion, ’ and to pay its enor
mous debt, all these elements of dis
content, inflamed by a sense of disap
pointment, and the dread of ruin will
burst forth into revolution. The pas
sive submission of these people to the
loss of their liberties, to the burdens of
an aggressive war, anil to the oppres
sions of the meanest tyrants that ever
disgraced humanity, is inexplicable, l
think, upon any other hypothesis than
the one J have mentioned, viz: that
they are allured in the hope of compen
sation iu the conquest of the South.
History, I believe, does not present
an instance of a people, accustomed to
liberty, lamely surrendering it without
a struggle. Some powerful motive
must exist to account for the anomaly;
that motive is, as I have stated the
expectation of ample reward for their
sacrifices, coupled with the persuasion
that when triumph is secured, they will
easily regain their lost rights. Both
expectations will be defeated, they will
fail in their schemes of conquest; they
will not recover their liberties without
a terrible struggle. When these con
victions shall be fastened upon them,
lbei r L^ufl* will rfMiil thr« -hpflui*nj
Ihey will madly rusti into revolution,
into anarchy, into civil wtir. The peo
ple will rise against their oppressors,
the poor will assail the rich, the Stales
will attack the Federal power.
Improbable as these events may now
seem, I beiievethe time is approaching
when the Confederacy, at peace, free
and prosperous, will look down from
her elevated position upon the North
struggling in the throes of a mortal ago
ny. I would not be surprised if a still
greater revolution in public sentiment
here should occur.and thatabolitiomsm,
as the cause of the war and of all these
troubles, should become more hateful
to these unthinking masses than seces-
sionism now is, and that its now trium
phant leaders should be hunted and
hounded with a deeper animosity .than
Southern exiles are now incurring. I
base these opinions not upon any con
fidence in the integrity and sound prin
ciples of these people, I believe them to
be utterly destitute of either. They
have no fixed ideas in religion, moral
and politics. They rush hither and
thither like a herd of Buffaloes at the
display of a red rag.' Having failed in
trampling down the South, they will
turn in the madness of their baffled fury
and wreak their vengeance upon their
present masters.
When will these things be. 3 Should
the South be successful iri the approach
ing campaign, they will occur, I believe
next fall. Should the North, ou the
other hand, obtain further advantages
in arms, they will he postponed. But
however late they will surely, come
suddenly and teiribly. Revolution in
the North will be the guarantee of
Southern independence; a revolution
to be brought about not by the return
ing reason* the awakened humanity, or
the quickened piety of those people; for
they have neither sense, charity, or
reverence, they are brute beasts and
savage barbarians ; “they neither fear
God, nor regard man.” The lust of
power, the lust ol wealth, and envy of
a superior race, have filled their, with
the subtlety and malice of their father,
the Devil.
Bui the revolution I predict will be
extorted by shame and fear and suffer
ing. The triumphs of our armies will
produce a financial crash l»ere; these
two events will hurl tljein from their
pinnacle of pride, into an abyss of des
pair, terror and r^in, which, as I have
stated, will lead directly to revolution,
anarchy and civil war. The future be
fore those wretched creatures is so
black and awful that, could I for a mo
ment forget their satanic outrages upon
my people, l might pity them in antic
ipation.
The masses of them seem to be un
conscious of their danger, and, as in
Addison’s “Vision of Mirawh,
trooping.along the bridge of life, for
getful of its broken arches,its trap-doors,
and the raging torrents below. The
recklessness of speculation and the
extravagance of expenditure excel all
belief. It is a wild carnival of shoddy-
ism, greenbacks, corruption, lust and
blond. In this city more than twenty
places of amusement are open every
night and crowded to excess ; from
eight to ten thousand carriages a. day
roll along the gravelled road of central
park ; diamonds and silks in fabulous
abundance glitter and rustle on Broad-
w'av. Absorbed in the excitements and
pleasures of the passing moment, ‘ley
think not of the fearful doom impend
ing over a people abandoned of God to
the guidance of their own evil pas
sions.
The more reflecting, however, among
tnemselves are uneasy and apprehen
sive, filled with “a certain fearful look
ing for of judgment.” They feel that
they stand upon a volcano, which may
at any moment explode under their
feet. This nervous timidity of the
business community is the best prepa
ration for the panic and crash which so
many causes are conspiring to produce.
When I contrast the condition of the
North, its blasphemy, its bloodthirst,
its arrogance, its avarice, its corruption,
with thd of the South, her pure relig
ion, godly people, sound morals, pat
riotic devotion, moderation in victory,
patience in suffering, I cannot doubt
the result of the conflict between them.
I would not paint a loo flattering pic
ture for ourselves. I observe in some
ofour papers complaints of corruption
in the Confederacy. These are spots
on the sun. The great heart of the
Southern people is sound; the pure
Gospel is preached, believed, obeyed ;
the standard of virtue is high, being
founded on the word of God; the wise
and the good are in authority. Here
is nothing but a mass of reeking
ety and cruelty, “the
sick, the whole heart faint;” from the
crown of the head to the soles of the
feet, the body politic is wounds, and
bruises a*ul putrefying sores. The
cheering work of grace that, beginning
in the lamented Jackson’s corps, has
extended so widely through Gen. Lee’s
army is watched on this side by almost
universal scepticism among soldiers
and people. On the one hand, we see
faith in God, honor, chivalry, and for
titude ; on the other, devil worship, fa
naticism, treachery and barbarism.—
to restrain and correct the excesses of
a brutal war. Even the religious press
(so called) utters no condemnation of
the atrocious deeds that have desolated
so many of our hearth stones.
God will vindicate His truth and
will bless the people, who are strug
gling to maintain it. The South wilL
come forth from this furnace of afflic
tion, purified and ennobled. May it be
His gracious will to grant her a speedy
and complete deliverance. I am more
and more persuaded that the Chrisfian
people of the South are the best in the
world, and the clergy the most faithful
anti laborious. No where else are the
churches so pure, and the Gospei pro
claimed with such freedom and full
ness.
impi-
whole head is
The Northern Pulpit.—The fol
lowing is a part of the “religious” ad
vertisements, enclosed by our New
York correspondent, and referred to in
his interesting letter. They give us a
notion or some of the devotions and
amusements of the New Yoikers on the
Sabbath day.
“Religious Intelligence—Sermons To
day.—At the Twentieth street Univer-
salisl church, near Seventh avenue,
Rev. E. G. Brooks gives the fourth
discourse on representative characters
at 3 o’clock. Subject—“Sampson, the
man of Wasted Powers.” Morning
sermon at half-past ten o’clock.
At the Athenaeum, Brooklyn, corner
of Clinton and Atlantic streets, the
Rev. Matthew Hale SmilH will preach
at halt-past seven o’cjock on “Our
Lord a Lawyer,”—a sermon to ihe
legal profession. Morning service at
halt-past ten o’clock.
The Rev. G. T. Flanders will de
liver the third discourse on “Hell—Its
Origin, Destiny,” at the Historical So
ciety’s Buildings, Second avenue and
Eleventh street, this evening. Sub
ject—“Report of Hell by a Discharged
Conviei.”
“Who have bepn and are the Disun-
ionists of the North?” will be the sub
jects of discussion at the People’s meet
ing, at 187 Bowery, trom three to five
o’clock. From two to three o’clock,
“A Consideration of the Diff’eicnt
Forms of Government.”
Randolph on “Miscegenation” this
morning and evening, corner ol Broad
way and Twenty-third street. At
three o’clock, discussion—“Is the Bi
ble a Direct Revelation from God ?”
between Randolph and the Rev. Dr.
Robinson.
Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch will speak
in Clinton Hall, Astor place, at three
and bait-past seven o’clock. Subject
for the evening lecture chosen by the
audience. Discussion at the close*”
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