carry into speedy operation the only plan that can do the blessed work you have undertaken, and that you will instruct your missionaries accordingly. The plan which we propose is the following: viz. apportion that part of the city bounded north by Leonardstreet, east by Orange-street, south by Anthony-street, and west by Centre-street, to not less than two individuals, and let that be the spot upon which they shall, in going from house to house, preaching to and praying for their wretched inmates, bear all their missionary influence in the day-time and in the night. Also, apportion to another missionary company of not less than two persons, another station, bounded by given streets; and apportion station after station to missionary bands, each band being of not less than two persons, until you have filled the field with reapers to gather in the harvest. Also, let there be a missionary house in the centre of the field, where all the missionary bands may meet every morning for prayer and consultation, before they enter on their labors; and to which house they may direct such erring, penitent women, as may request help at their hands. Let each missionary band, once every week, give into the Society employing them a copy of their diary. These diaries may furnish matter for their paper. With christian salutations, we are, &c. J. R. M'DOWALL, P. VAN DYCK, E. A. LAMBERT, J. K. CowPERTHWAITE, H. R. PIERCY, JOSIAH P. MARQUAND, LEWIS TAPPAN, WILLIAM BURNETT, GEORGE CRAGIN, S. W. BENEDICT. CHAPTER XXVI. Visit to New-Haven and Litchfield-His fortune-Amalgamation and purity-Sail up the Hudson-Obscene Pictures-Journal in Troy. July 4th, 1835.-Visited New-Haven. My stay in this pleasant town, where literature and science, laws and theology are taught, must be very short, as I have taken a seat in a stage for Litchfield, and it goes at three o'clock P. M. The militia are parading in the streets. Thousands of admiring women gaze on the warlike scene. Joyful hearts make the ladies move easily over the plain. They seem to approve of war; but the science of war is the organized system of national murder. If one man may not rise up and take the life of his enemy who has insulted him, or who, by swindling, has deprived him of property justly his own, then, for national insult or plunder, nation may not rise up against nation, and carry sword and fire through the other's country, sacking towns, deflouring wives and daughters, and killing tens of thousands of human beings. Nations have no right to put men to death out of pride, avarice, or malice. Lust is not a justifiable cause for depriving men of liberty, property, limbs, and life. Wo unto those through whom wars come. In this life men may wear a conqueror's crown, and on the page of history secure a hero's name, but in the life to come, if impenitent, be immured in the deepest hell. O how can women applaud military measures, followed, as they are, by brutality and lust. I left New-Haven at three o'clock for Litchfield, on the 4th, and arrived at midnight the same day. This is a small country village. The Rev. Lyman Beecher, President of Lane Seminary, was formerly settled here. The ride from New-Haven was pleasant on the whole, though we had a thunder-shower, and two drunkards on board for several miles-not that their breath or conversation was pleasant. Two black females entered the stage at New-Haven, and left it about sunset. Uneasiness was manifested by the passengers whose lot it was to sit by the side of the black ladies. I offered to exchange seats with them; they declined, and the stage passed on. The conversation soon turned on the subjects of slavery, colonization, anti-slavery, &c. After a protracted discussion, the temperance cause was introduced by the two male drunkards. On the road we saw many drunkards: it seemed as if the towns on this rout had mustered all their drunkards for an exhibition. At nine o'clock at night the stage drove up to a publichouse, where there was a riot-a mob of some twenty or thirty men under the influence of strong drink. Before the stage-driver could demand his fare, one of the drunken passengers, who had showed the driver the fare, but put it in his pocket again, was out of sight. Fraud is the result of dram-drinking. The man who made it, and the man who sold it, and the man who drank it, are guilty of this swindling of the stage-proprietor out of his just due. On the Sabbath I heard the Rev. R. M. Chipman, of Harwinton, Connecticut, preach. I passed the evening with him. This gentleman, for a season, kindly aided me in editing the Journal: it was part of the time while he resided in New-York as one of the secretaries of the American Peace Society, and editor of their publication. Our interview was very sweet the remembrance of many of our mutual trials was revived, and furnished topics for conversation. In mutual friendship our sympa thies flowed delightfully till the hour of parting, and then we separated in love. The stage is now standing at the door, and I must close. It is half-past three in the morning. Poughkeepsie, 8th.-The stage-driver, on the rout be tween Litchfield and Poughkeepsie, confessed he had been a rake, but now lived virtuously with a wife. He formerly drove a stage between Patterson and New-York, for which he received $25 per month. The profits he made by carrying little packages and doing errands, paid his board. His $25 per month was spent principally in the theatres and brothels of the city. Then his gain, though a single man, was less than it now is on $12 per month. Men seldom reflect that strange women" bring 66 those that keep them to a morsel of bread. New-York, July 9th, 1835. MY FORTUNE. I am now, for the first time in four years and nine months, completely released from the cares which have borne me down to the earth. My enemies have accused me of making a fortune by my Journal. In truth, I am worth less to-day than I was in 1830, the time when I began to labor in behalf of Moral Reform. The inventory of my property shows a small remnant of the library. which I had in College and in the Theological Seminary; one change of apparel, worn nearly thread bare; two chairs; my wife's bedding; the stereotype plates of the Journal and of a few Tracts, and a small annuity. I have no funds in any bank on earth, lodged there, either in my own name or the name of any other person. All the money I have on hand, and all I can command as my own, without a lawsuit, is less than thirty dollars. I owe more than thirty dollars. Owe no man, is the doctrine of the New Testament. I must pay my creditors every cent. In my labors in New-York I have not, to my knowledge, defrauded any man or society, and this reflection consoles my heart. I will go on, taking up my cross to follow Christ, through evil as well as through good report. I deserve no better treatment than my Master received. Amalgamation and Purity. In theory, many men are violently opposed to the intermarrying of blacks and whites; but these very men make no disturbance about what is infinitely worse, viz. the practical lewdness of white men with black women. Cases in illustration might be multiplied to an almost indefinite number. One in this place shall suffice. A respectable female member of the colored church in New-Haven states, that recently she had occasion to be in the street about nine o'clock one evening, where she was in a very friendly manner accosted by a professed and reputed gentleman, a member of one of the white churches in the same city. He assured her he had for a long time been desirous of seeing her; that he was much gratified to meet her; that he desired her to act in the capacity of his concubine; and that he would liberally reward her if she would comply. Having rejected his proposals, she called upon a friend, whose advice she sought, saying, "You do not know what temptations, solicitations, and snares are laid by gentlemen in NewHaven, to lure us colored women into licentiousness. They seek to take away our virtue, and what have we left? The hypocrisy of those who object to the setting of the "captive free" because they are opposed to the intermarrying of whites and blacks, is most wicked and unrighteous. They can connive at adultery and fornication, but they cannot endure the lawful union of two persons of different colors. Freedom, in their mind, is associated with amalgamation; but they can see no amalgamation growing out of slavery. They see no quad |