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touching on Florida and Alabama ha* suc
ceeded beyond our expectation.
Id the new counties recently laid off in
the west of Georgia, a large tract of coun
try now fast settling, an extensive field for
Missionary labour is now betore us.
A Missionary appointed to itinerate in the
upper new counties the year past, in the
small part embraced in his bounds, laboured
with success and formed a number of socie
tics. The calls of our service from this
section, are loud and affecting. The
Preachers in those Circuils contiguous to
these counties havo extended their Inhours
so as occasionally to visit various neighbour
hoods. There is ample room for Jive or
six Circuits in the new country now ripen
ing for the harvest, and only men and weans
are wanting to turn that dreary waste into
a fruitful field.
East Florida has also very pressing claims
on our benevolence and services; a small
portion of that beautiful country containing
5000 inhabitants, is very destitute of Prot
estant Ministers to give them the bread of
life. Frequent applications have been late
ly made to us for help, and the visits of
some of our preachers have been hailed
with emotions of the greatest joy, and their
ministry attended by multitudes of serious
hearers.
These facts substantially supported have
enlisted the warmest feeling* of your board,
an.) whilst we direct your attention to these
objects, we would say, go on, increase your
funds. Create Branch Societies whenever it
is practicable, and the Lord will raise up
men who shall lilt the Stsudard of the Cross
and rear Churches where so recently the
savage cry was heard, and tha name ol
Christ unknown.
We woulJ contiane our solicitations for
aid with redoubled ardour, as nothing seems
wanting but the means of carrying on our
labour of love.
We avail ourselves of this opportunity to
express our gratitude to the Young Men of
this City f>r the zeal exhibited by them, in
forming a Missionary Society, that promises
much aid in this good work, and would say
to others go thou and do likewise.
OFFICERS.
Rev. LEWIS MYERS, President.
Rev. WH M. KENNEDY. Ist rice Pres't.
Rev. J AMES NORTON, 2d Vice Pres't.
Rev. JOHN HOWARD, Recording SetPy.
Uil CAP MRS. Corresponding Scc'y.
Rev. JAMES O. ANDREW. Treasurer. -
MANAGERS.
Rev. Messrs. Joseph Travis, Samuel K.
Hodges, Henry Bass, Whitman C. Hill, Thorn
es Parley , Isaac Smith , Tilman Snead, Sam
uel Dunwody, and Allen Turner.
[lt appears from the Treasurer’s Report
that the sum of $967 86 1-4 now remain in
Lis hands.]
From the Salem Observer.
THE TWO GREEK YOUTHS.
The two Greek youths recently armed
at Ibis port in the brig America, Captain
Dewing, hating excited considerable inter
est, It may be gratifying to the piihlirk to
be informed more particularly concerning
them and the objeci which they have in view
in coming to this country.
It wrll be recollected that a little more
than three years since the A. B. C. F. Mis
sion* undertook a mission to western A-na,
and sen* out for this purpose, the Rev. Pliny
Fi*k, and the Rev. Levi Parsons. The (al
ter has ince died. Mr. Fi-k having been
joined by several other missionaries, has
with his brethren taken up a temporary res
idence in the Hand of Malta: the civil com
motions of the Ottoman empire making it
difficult to effect a settlement in the places
to which they were originally destined.
The Greek youths brought by Capt. Dew
ing, were found at this place by the Ameri
can missionaries and through their influence
have been sent to this country with a view
to an education at the Foreign Mission
School in Cornwall, Conn.
The eldest, Piiotius Kayasales, is an or
phan bijy, fifteen years of age, whose father,
mother, four brothers and two sisters, were
swept off by the plague in Smyrna, in the
year 1814. Photius was left destitute and
was put into the hospital, where he remain
ed two or three years, and suffered much it
is said from sickness, and for want of prop
r attention. He has one brother left, who
is now in the Morea, and an officer iu the
Grecian army. Having an unci# living in
Malta, he was sent thither about four years
ago, and by consent of this uncle he is now
brought to America.
The other lad, whose name is Anastasia#
Karabelles, is eleven years of age, and a
son of the Greek priest at present officiating
in the Greek cburch at Malta. He was
born at Zante, and brought to Malta by his
father when he was but four years of age.
They both read in modern Greek and
Italian, and converse also in Maltese ; and
have brought with them books in each of
these languages. Those who have had
most opportunity of seeing them since their
arrival, speak highly of their capacity, and
of their uncommonly respectful and decent
behaviour. It is expected they will reside
in Salem a few months with a view to ac
quire some knowledge of the English lan
guage and 4o pursue some other studies,
preparatory to their entering the institution
at Cornwall. They are committed to the
care of the Rev. Mr. Corneliu*, and have
been by him placed in the school of the able
and accomplished instructer Mr. Hollock.
It may be proper to add, that their only de
pendence for support is upon the charily of
the publick; it is hoped a generous sympa
thy will be felt for them not only upon their
own account, but on account of (heir oppres
fled and bleeding country.
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Anguish of mind has -driven thousands to
suicide—pain us body, none. This proves
that the health of the mind is of far more
importance to our happiness than the health
oft he body, although both are deserving
much more attention than they receive, j
MISCELLANY.
SLAVE TRADE.
SPEECH OF MR. MERCER.
Home of Representatives, leb. £B.
Mr Mercer of Vn. called for the consider
ation of the following resolution: —
Resolved. That the President of the U. States
be requested to enter upon, and to prosecute Irom
time to time, such negotiations with the several
maritime powers ol Europe and America, as he
i may deem expedient for the effectual abolition of
; the African Stave Trade, and it ultimate denun
ciation, as piracy, under the Law ol Nations, by
: the consent of the civilized world.
The House having agreed to consider it —
Mr .Mercer proceeded to say,in substance,
as follows: After experiencing the indul
gence of the House, I shall avoid trespas
sing on their patience, by confining my ar
gument, in support ot the resolution, to the
narrowest compass. The commerce which
this resolution seeks to soppres*, by a com
bination of the moral hni! physical power of
the civilized world, had been declared, ma
ny yeais ago, by a convention ot the prin
cipal powers of Europe, to be the disgiace
of that continent, and the scourge and ca
lamity of Africa.
The Government of the United States
prohibited it as soon as it had acquired con
stitutional power to do so ; and, by a succes
sion of laws, increasing in severity, three
years ago, denounced it as piracy. The re
port of the committee to the House of Rep
resentatives, which accompanied the bill to
this effect, in (lie first session of the Six
teenth Congress, borrowing the language
of the memorable Congress of Vienna, pro
nounced this trade to be the scourge of Af
rica, the disgrace and affliction ot both Eu
rope and America. Yet, the papers lying
before me disclose the melancholy fact,that,
notwithstanding the active and zealous ef
forts of Great Britain and America, to sup
press this iniquitous trafflek, seconded, as
those efforts had been, by the treaties of the
former, with three of the principal mari
time powers of Europe, the African slave
trade continues to spread its ravages over
that much injured continent; increasing an
nually, both in extent and malignity. Since
this trade has been condemned by the mor
el feelings of all Christendom, it has fallen
into the hands of the most dating and hard-
Shielded from search,
by the maxims of publick law, no efforts of
the maritime power of England and Ameri
ca, can overtake or punish them. So long
as the right of common search and punish
ment is withheld, so long may the flag of a
single state cover this detestable commerce.
Indeed, the partial restraints now imposed
upon this trafflek, by enhancing its profit,
and its danger, serve only to whet the cu
pidity of avarice, and to augment the suff
erings of its victims. The heart recoils
with horrour from the narratives of cruelty
and guilt recounted in the volumes before
me. From two African rivers, the Bonny
and the Calabar, both emptying into the
Atlantick, north of the line;” from a very
small portion of an extensive coast, to the
whole of which the slave trade has been
interdicted, by the united voice of all Eu
rope, two hundred and fifty cargoes of hu
man victim* have been transported in a sin
gle year! Os these, one-third are supposed
to have perished in thp Middle Pas*age!
The mixed commission courts of Great Brit
ain and her allies, have not, from their first
institution, down to the present period, pro
nounced more than twenty sentences of
condemnation on the numerous vessels en
gaged in this trafflek; and the court estab
lished at the great slave mart of Cuba, not
one.
Mr. Speaker: The volumes before me
abound with unquestionable evidence of the
deplorable extent to which these horrible
cargoes are smuggled into our Southern
States. This evidence consists of numer
ous letters fr r m the custom-house officers
of the U. States, the faithful though ineffec
tual agents of our law-* for the exclusion of
this forbidden, impolitick and guilty com
merce. Their testimony is confirmed, in
my own knowledge, as it must be in that of
an honourable colleague of mine in my eye,
(Gen. Floyd,) by what another honourable
member, now a Minister abroad, (Mr. Mid
dleton, of South Carolina,) declared, five
years ago, to be his belief—that not less
than thirteen thousand African negroes
were annually smuggled into the Southern
States. Within a few days past, I have
been informed, by the highly respectable
representative of the most remote of those
Stales, (Mr. Johnston, of Louisiana,) that
numerous instances have more recently oc
curred of the illicit introduction of this pop
illation, through Galvestcwn, and the adja
cent shores into the territory of Louisiana.
If the U. States, and especially the South
ern States of (his Union, were exposed to
the hazard of having their settled and salu
tary policy baffled by the cupidity of these
daring adventurers, before the recent ac
! quisition of Florida, how greatly is that haz
, ard augmented by a sea coast without in
| habitants, of great extent, bordered by nu
merous islands, indented by many commo
I ditis inlets, and immediately opposite to the
great slave market of the West Indies. To
guard a coast like this, whole squadrons of
j revenue cutters and armies of custom-house
officers would prove ineffectual. An hour
or two, at most a single night, suffices to
perfect one of these iniquitous enterprises.
The unfortunate captives are landed, con
veyed into the intenour, and “no mention!
of them more is made.” They are con j
signed to hereditary slavery; and to the j
desolation of the country from which they I
have been torn, is added the curse of that :
which receives them.
Sir, said Mr. M. the U. States cannot be
insensible of the danger of inundating, with j
new floods of black population, not only the
extensive and numerous islands on their
southern border, but tbeir own territory.
A danger greatly enhanced by the rapid in
crease, in our own t>o9om, of a third cast,,
midway between the slave and the white;
population r.f the south, and alike perni- j
cious to the happine** of both. As I ad
vance, staid Mr. M. new views of the malig
nity of this growing evil crowd upon my im
agination, and I perceive it to be necessary
to recollect the pledge with which I sat out
in this argument. I will but add, that it is
not less the interest of the European colo
nies in the West Indies, than our own to
arrest this cruel, this unnecessary trafflek.
Wherever it has been partially suspended,
as in the V. States, and the British W. In
dies, this species of labour, fostered by bet
ter treatment, multiplied but too rapidly by
its natural resources; while in the island ol
Guadaloupe, a census lately repealed,after
a short interval of ten years, affords the
horrible result, that of a population of little
more than one hundred thousand, notwith
standing all the accessions from foreign im
portation, there has been a declension of
15,000 souls. A fact, which must sound an
audible appeal to the humanity of the hard-
est heart.
Haviog seen that the root of all these ca
lamities cannot be eradicated by the means
which have been hitherto employed, either
by others, or ourselves; that our own flag
has disappeared from the African coast, only
to give place to that of other nations, by
whom this trade is alike forbidden : that the
occasional vessel which vve despatch for
that desolaJed land, carries with it, under
the late instructions of our government, no
authority competent to the execution of our
own purpose ; and that no measure of an in
ternal policy, can shield us from that share
of the general calamity resulting from this
trafflek, which falls peculiarly on our own
country: allow me, said Mr. M. to invite
the earnest attention of the House to the
remedy provided by the resolution which I
have presumed to propose.
Let the African slave trade be denounced
to be piracy, tinder the law of nations, by
the consent of the maritime powers of Eu-
rope and America, and this species of pira
cy will, like any other, speedily disappear
from the surface of the ocean. All nations
will have authority to detect, to punish it,
to put it down.
I am aware, sir, that technical objections
have been urged, and sneers have been in
dulged against the legal accuracy of the
term Piracy to this offence. Such criticism
has no sound reason to sustain it. The law
of nations is in part natural; in part conven
tional. Its only sanction is to be found in
the physical force, its legal authority in
j the express or tacit consent of nations.—
j The consent of nations may make piracy of
any offence upon the high seas. In seeking
a denomination for anew crime, it is not
necessary to invent anew term. The ob
ject ofclassiog the prohibited act under an
old title, is to provide for the former a defi
nite and competent remedy. Piracy, under
the law of nations, is alike understood and
punished by all nations. But, sir, is there
no analogy between the African slave trade
and the offence of piracy, which would
warrant the proposed classification of the
former crime under the latter title? It may
sometimes prove a difficult task amidst con
flicting authorities, to say what is not pira
cy; but it cannot be difficult to determine
what it is.
Is it robbery, on the high seas, without
a lawful commission from any recognized
authority, to take forcibly from a vessel,
without colour of law, a single package of
goods? And is it not robbery to seize, not
the property of the man, but the man him
self ; to chain him down with hundreds of
his fellows,in the pestilential bold ofa slave
ship, in order, if he chance to survive the
voyage, to sell him to some “foreign master
—to consign him, and not himself only, but
his latest posterity, to hereditary slavery in
an unknown, joyless land ? By a former
law, almost coeval with our present con
stitution of government, we have made
murder on the high seas piracy. Kill a
man by poisoning the air he breathes—is it
not murder as truly as to kill him by pois
ing food, or by planting a dagger in his
heart ? Is it not, indeed, to kill him with the
aggravated horrour of a slow and loathsome
death i It is robbery, combined with mur
der. This crime, begun on a barbarous
shore, claimed by no civilized state, and
subject to no moral law, is prosecuted to its
aonsummation on the high seas. Every
day, every hour of such a voyage of iniqui
ty, furnishes a fresh instance of the crime.
Search the etymology of this term, and
nothing restricts piracy to the mere inju
ries of the rights of property, or limits its
commission to a certain distance from any
foreign shore. According to the most re
mote antiquity, the first pirates were steal
ers of men; and for the very purpose which
now carries the African slave dealer to that
continent which his crimes have so often
imbued with human blood, to enslave and
sell his spoil. From the shores of the
Mediterranean this piracy spread along the
Atlantick, and finally encircles Africa & her
islands within its iron grasp. From the
very history of this species of piracy, it may
be confidently inferred, that once suppress
ed, it cannot be revived. Other piracies
have their origin in transient disorders in
the world. They cease and re-appear again.
This is a remnant of ancient barbarism—a
curse extended to the new world by the
colonial policy of the old. Let Africa but
once freight with the fruits of her soil those
ships which now carry thither scourges ?od
fetter- 1 , and she will not sell her offpring.
Let all Christendom proclaim the slave
trade to be piracy, and you will shortly rev
olutionize the moral sentiment of the few
states who now seem, not by their profes
sions, indeed, but their conduct, to tolerate
this crime. Publick sentiment and law act
reciprocally on each other. Has not the
denunciation of the African slave trade as
piracy by the act of the last Congress done
much towards the entire abolition of that
portion of this Irafflclt which then lingered jc
in America? I 1
The time is not very remote when men I
jof high standing in our country openly and <
unblushingly prosecuted this profitable com- ]
merce. is there now remaining a single I
man in America who would brave the pub- !
lick sentiment, not to *peak of the publick i
justice, by avowing hnnsel! a participant in I
this guiity Iraffick ? 1
Sir, said Mr. M. the present period is :
most propitious lor the success of the ex
periment I have presumed to recommend
to the sanction of the house and the nation. !
South America furnished, and Brazil yet af
fords an extensive market for African slaves.
Two years only have elapsed since this
House pledged itself to sustain the Execu
tive in a recognition of the independence
of the Spanish provinces, now the States of
Mexico, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Chili and
Peru. During our present session, the
Executive has deputed ministers to the sev
erel governments of these new-born em
pires. The instructions of these minister*
it may presumed, are now preparing, and if
among them there shall be comprehended
this resolution, sustained as 1 trust it will be
by the approving voice of this House, will
those governments deny to us the small
boon we ask of them, humanity and justice,
in return for our recognition of their sove
reignty ? They have all possibly, with the
exception of Peru, followed the example of
the United States, by abolishing this trade.
They will undoubtedly seize the first oc
casion to propitiate the good will, not of
America merely, but of all Christendom,
towards their infant cause.
Brazil, the great slave mart, which has
so long withheld Portugal from a cordial
union with England in the abolition of the
aive trade, is also a candidate for indepen
dence ; and it may be confidently hoped
that another year will afford sufficient evi
dence of her ability to sustain it. Should
she, in like manner with her neighbours,
yield her support to our policy, much will
have been achieved lor the success of the
object of this resolution.
The Cortez of regenerated Spain have
recently signalized their humanity by an
nexing penalties to the slave trade, next in
severity to those denounced against that of
fence by Great Britain and America. Por
tugal, severed from Brazil, may probably
tread in her steps, when urged to it by Eng
land, her ally and protector.
The government of France, where pub
lick sentiment derives activity and force
from an enlightened, generous, and high
minded people, will not much longer tem
porise with the plighted faith of treaties,
and her acknowledged sense of moral and
religious obligation.
The maritime powers of the north early
ceased to participate in this criminal trafflek,
and have acknowledged the duty, devolved
on Europe, of reodering retributive justice
to Africa, so long the victim of a cruel and
mistaken policy.
Ou the northern shores of the Mediter
ranean there is no State, except those which
I Have named, whose colonial policy re
quires the labour of Africa To sustain it.
What the United States may hope to ef
fect in the new world, it must be left to
England to accomplish in the old where her
influence is predominant; and continued
peace yet favours every effort of humanity
to improve the condition of our race. G.
Britain cannot but perceive the ii.efficacy of
those mixed courts, on which she has relied
to give effect to her laws and treaties for
the abolition of the slave trade, and, above
all, that her present system, complicated
and difficult of execution in peace, must be
exposed to great derangement, if not aba i
doned, in war. She cannot but prefer to it
the substitute offered by our resolution,
which is in its character as simple, as it must
prove, in its operation, effective; and which
will endure until its purpose, the entire abo
lition of the African slave trade, is accom
plished.
In concluding, said Mr. M. I perceive Mr.
.Speaker, that I have omitted much of what
1 bad intended to say; and what I have ut
tered, with a feeble voice, under circum
stances which greatly tended to impede my
thoughts, as well as my speech, has, I fear,
done but little justice to the noblest theme
that ever engaged an advocate.
Should this resolution fail, it will be a
source of deep and lasting regret to me that
I have ventured to submit it to the judg
ment of the House. I call, therefore upon
my friends from Massachusetts and Pennsyl
vania, and upon my colleagues, (Messrs.
Gorham , Hemphill , and Floyd,) who have
hitherto co-operated with me in this sacred
cause, uot to allow it to sink, through my
inability to sustain it. I implore the hu
manity of this House to uphold it: 1 demand
it of their justice.
The resolution wa9 adopted by nearly an
unanimous vote.
MR. FREY,
The undersigned officers of the Ameri
can Society for meliorating the condition
of the Jews, make this statement respect
ing their agent, now at the South, the Rev.
Jos. S. C. F. Frey, in consequence of cer
tain misrepresentations which have appear
ed in some of the southern newspapers.—
It is our request that ihe southern editors
who favour the cause of Christianity,would
give circulation to this article—perhaps
common justice demands it.
This society was organized in this city,
(New York) in the spring of 1819, and in
corporated in the following year by the
Legislature of this state. Its object has
been very generally approved. JnNovem
ber of last year, the Hoard of Directors of
this Society appointed Mr. Frey their agent,
to travel southward t,o form Auxiliary So
cieties, receive collections, and by his
preaching and efforts to interest the Chris
tiarn publick in this great and auspicjouv
cause. Mr. Frey is furnished with ampl*
testimonials, and the fart of bis appnini
ment m this service ought to convince i.
concerned of the sense we entertain of his
personal character. Mr. Frey is a m etr .
her in good standing of the Presbytery cf
New York. In connexion with the Gene
ral Assembly, and since his occupation in
this agency, his success, his remittances
and his correspondence, have given entire
satisfaction to ike Board.
[Signed—Peter Wilson, Presdt. hhx.
Me Lead, Sec. For. Cor. Samuel H. Co)x’
Sec. Dorn. Cor. R. M. Blatchford, Treas.]’
OT®
MOUNT ZION, MONDAY, MARCH 31,1a,’
From the Savannah. Republican, March P
“'Missions.— The zeal of the religious*, nn <j(| le
sympathy of the philanthropick have been pcc.
liarly excited towards the establishment ofnij.”
sions in foreign lands, to diffuse the light
Gospel, and hold forth the means of salvation
the heathen. The motives which urge thisex
cursive benevolence, are no doubt pure nx)
praiseworthy—emanating from a love of re limn
and an amiable anxiety for the eternal welfafit
the unenlightened. But may not these itinqaat
efforts to propagate the doctrines of the L,
have become thankless, fruitless, useless. ] ac
not the operations of the society have bee d".
rected to impracticable objects, white those
feclly within their reach and within the bosr i[
our country have been neglected and abando id.
How many communities are there in this s i!(
to whom the opportunities of publick worshii in’
afforded but once a mouth? Shall Christians m
neglect the known and acknowledged wan id
their brethren at home, to wage an uncut ii
warfare against the prejudices and superstition*!
distant and uncivilized nations, among whom *
presence is merely suffered, and their doct *
are ridiculed ? We have been led to these oi.
vat ions, by perusing a communication in
tional Intelligencer, containing an exposition
the progress made at some of the most impotU
Missionary establishments. The informa!i,J ,
the subject is stated to be derived from v;il
publications of the Missionaries themselves 1 ,
well as from persons whose mercantile purs t
have carried them into these regions. We p
lisb the statement for the purpose of affording!
formation that may be novel to many who are
harked in the cause, and to shew the unproSlafe
manner in which their charity has been appfc
We confess to have been startled at perceivin%
little benefit that has resulted from the vastap.
propriations which have been made and expended
for Missionary purposes, and we notice wid)*
gret the increased disrepute into which the reli
gion bus fallen from the depraved and degraded
character of the proselytes. We believe wiM e
writer, that “ a sufficient sum has been rotted
upon these impracticable schemes to relhe a
large portion of the distress, and to enliglten a
great deal of the ignorance which still sihiists
among the people of this country.”
The communication alluded to in the abo.ere-!
mark?, is from the pen ofa writer who call him
self a “ Citizen of Washington and who lately
| addressed a number of queries to the publick on j
the subject of missions in India. These queries/
onr readers will recollect, were ably and jodi
ciously answered by the editor of the ColumbiJ
Star, whose reply appeared in this paper of tf*
3d iust. After grossly misrepresenting the si*
tion of several missionary establishments in hejil •
en lands, this contemner of religious enter#!!;
thus speaks of missionaries and missionary sJce s.
in the South Sea Islands:
“At the Sandwich islands and Otaheite, gen’
tleman who was at both places not ion J since;
states that they have made some outwaw c-m
verts, whose ignorance and bad character is sa
notorious a3 to bring even the religion they pros
fess into contempt. The better sort of nat
view the missionaries with marked dislike, & say]
they think more of women and gain than of their
religion !”
We should hardly have noticed this base and
slanderous attack upon the heralds of the cross,#
did it not afford a favourable opportunity to pre
sent to our readers a true picture of the present
moral condition of some of these
mut excite the liveliest emotions, of gi*itudei
and pleasure in the bosom of every friend of hu-J
man happiness. Against the assertions of an anony
mous writer and his unknown “ gentleman,” wei
shall bring testimony which no well-informed#
man can doubt—since the complete triumph om
Christianity in many of the South Sea islands hits’ j
already become a matter of history. The Chris - I
lion Observer for November last, (a work which
we scarcely need say is of the first respectability,
and extensively read in America as well as Eu
rope) contains the following information respit
ing the success of the Gospel in one of those *very
islands where the “ Citizen of Washington,” with
Ins usual regard for truth, says only a “ few out
ward converts of bad character,” have been
made ! !
The London Society’s Missionaries continue to
report most favourably of the progress of Cliristi
anity and its attendant blessings in the South-Sea
Islands. Their statements are fully confirmed by
communications from the Rev. D. Tyertnan, who j
went out to Ihe South Seas on a visit of inpec- I
tion. That gentleman writes from Taheite, (Ola
heile) Nov. 24, 1821 ; “ Had I opportunity to
describe the former moral condition of this peo
ple, it would be unnecessary (hat I should do so
to you : it was peculiarly the place where ‘ Sa
tan’s seat was.’ The details of wickedness given
us by the missionaries since we have been here, ,
fill us with horrour. How many human victims
almost daily bled upon their altars ! Two thirds
of the infants born were instantly murdered by
the hands of their own mothers. I saw one wo
man the other day, who had destroyed eight of
her own offspring: I have heard of another who
killed nine, another seventeen, another twenty.
The god of theives, for there was such a god hfcrt,
was faithfully served, while crimes too horrible to
be named every where defiled this beautiful land.
All the worst passions of human nature were in
dulged in the utmost possible extent. But, where
sin abounded, grace now much more abounds.
“ God has done great things for this people. .■
Where I have been, the Sabbath is universally re- i
garded; not an individual is known, whether .
among the chiefs or the common people, who does i|
not attend Divine worship on the Lord’s day. I
The engagements of the holy day commence with 1
a prayer-meeting, conducted entirely by the na- I
lives themselves at sunrise. What do you think .1
my surprise has been, on going to these servicer, if
to find their large places of worship literally filled fl
This is the fact at all the situations I have visited ; H
the whole congregations indeed attend. At nine I
o’clock in the morning, and at three in the after- §!
noon, there is publick worship and preaching, I
when their chapels arc crowded. The congrega- I