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V U C. BATTOJJ.

««l>OttT.

» asdUng of tiia Bibia V o M d ,

(ha Blbla Baam't. N*«lkTilK TWIMAWKI. Ui* 7di

dsy «f tb« folUwrng B««alatiaa

v u

L K ebmaraltwu of tbrw bs appr ut-

•dia laJV eawiiiamtioti iba Cwrrmpondinf Bec-

nUfy'f l U p m in lliB Cuunailaa U I.(Mii<iTill«,«th»

Kvpott ftom » dpacitU Caminlttib, b m U In Jimturj

Ittt, sod lbs anpun of lb* CorfmpuqdiBc BKraWrr

ntorot to n U CummiUw, M d (lu eometasieUioQ

tbl* dajr prvwubnl by ihe Ccrrwptndiag awr^tsiT,

and rvpuft oo dw u n a lo Ui* S o w L

Tbs Oanaittee to whom tbo »bi>rti rvtolit-

tiaa v u iiabmittad, lt»r« Had Uw matter refbr

rod 10 it «nd«r w e f a l «aBitder»tuH), Mii beg Ia»T* to r*port M &iUci*a:

Tha B i ^ BoftrU of the SonUtenk B*pti«t

Cwftatimv v w ari^niiad, w d MiiUffi<4 tba

iliiabv(« of the inbe* Mi>igne4 it, on Uto 13Ut

4a J of M » 7 . 1851, aa<ler the Seer«t»r7diip of

BaT, W . 0 . Baak. Ii eontiBaed it* o i ^ t i o g s

lianniim«iulj m 4 «asoBWallT, sntil the 30th

(lay of JsBoarr, 1864, wh«o Mr. Book, baring

aeaeplad the Putorship of the ehareh io Co-

Inmboi, Miaa., nMigned hU offiee. The Board

uomedialelj inatitutad uu}airiai with th« riew

of obtaiung the serri««« of a aoitAbU <aooe*-

lior. Whereopoa, after some time had elapaed,

Eer . J . B . Grarea preaeated the name of Be* .

A . C . Dajtoo, who was at that time onkaowa

to the other members of the Board. Upon

diU reeommendxtioa, Mr. Dajtoa was, <m the

llih day of Aagtiat, 18&i , aleeted Correapond-

ing SeereXuj, to hold the offioa antil the fol^

lowine Jaaoarj, with the nndcrstandios that

if b a & parties were pleased, it would then be.

made permanent. H e at once entered apon

the dades asngned bin, and continued oncl

the time r p e d S ^ , when the beirg enti-

lely Batt?fisd, he was appointed permanently

to the o S » , aa the' foUowisg extiacu will

ahflw:"

" Affocir 11, 1S54.

" T&b w m e at Be«. A . C. Dajtca, of StiribTTflie,

n s bnoaht b e f ^ i&e Board br t3ie Preaidest, (J

K. 6taT«,} fiir ComapaiidlBaSi^-ratry, and aftrr

aai9s£tca3to^bswaa dect^ to fiU said tieaoey •Eia lai JaoMiT.JS&a."

•• Oa BWdssrihe Cm t w ^ d i a g SMTEtary. K«T. A .

C. Saftoa n a ssiaiiiiaoa!; to w*id office

aBtaSUync^

[ B a n w s — T h a Bibia B a i d of the Sanih-

esn Baptin C^Tenttca so d a u ^ -i^bsdeti

&Mi ^ Aavid b^ a. tfxieiir tr^thfo! »r?stlTe,

T^w tfejise •eiia W e

able wmaideratioit, and thm beeano intimtaly

Interaated in ito pnMpenty. H « rabaaqwmtly

iaoQod, by that Haiite, anoUMff TolniM of the

M O M oiam, ai^ nnder a aimUar title. It wai

aUo anaeaoeed is the Tanntaaaa BapUat, that

the SeoieUry waa eoK»eo<l In preparing a »o-

riaa of Saoday Sohool Book*, to be r«ady in

a f>>w vootba. Hia artielm io the Boma and

F.irei^ Jonmai now began to bo wade up,

moaUy of the notices of bookj^ in part the

i^oct of Uiat House, which h« commended is

the Ugheat terrot; and with seal and caraent-

ne«*, advoefttcd their oolporta^e with the Bible,

to the neglect of the L a m of our Pablioatinn

goeietiea. T o all of thii the Board, aa n u h ,

entered no o^jeetion. Camplaintt were made,

howwer. by hia fellow ieoretariaB of tbo other

Boardjii by aorae of ovr denominational pa-

psw; «Ad by indlridaal*, to member* of the

Board, ajrain and again. It was al>iO allej^ed

that the GorrenpundinK geeretary waa spending

too mneh time in makio|rbookt; that he waa

ftdvoeatiog the im»e» of the South-We«tem

PubliihiBg H o m e , »o»« of which were highly

offeoiive to many of tbo members of the de-

nominatioQ, and raoally aa to some members of

Board; and that he waa oocnpyin? too

ro

the , mach tpaae i i the Home and Foreign Jour

nal, in notieea of inch works, to the negleet

of theinteraata of the 6iole. About the aame

time, articleii app«ared in the Tetineaaee Bap-

tist, edited by a Viee-President of the Board

intimating that the Board was remiss in its

adToea<^ of the circulation of religioju and

deacmicational books in connection with the

Bible. Guided by these faeU and oonstdera-

tiona, without at all impeaching the fidelity

of the Correspospanding Secretary, the Board

felt it to be its duty, as the representatiTe "

this behalf, of the denomination South, to in-

stimta an inquiry as to the instructions of the

Southatn Baptist G<»Tenuon, in regard to the

diuacter of those books, which it was desired

ihotdd be circulated with the Bible. The

Board accordingly, at a meeting oo the 3lst

day of August, 1857, adopted the following

preamble and resolution:"

" W a x a u s , It bis been frequently azmoiHiced,

t ^ B ^ h some of the papers of this city, that * »

hara been repeatedly ixtinteitd by the Southmi

Bap&sl BSennial Conrention to drcnlate deaomina-

uonal books m connexion with the Bible. Ttero-

fon

" Btsdred, Thai Dr. J. D. Wiaston, Eer. R . B. C.

Ho«»a and A. Xelsoa, be, and they are hweby ap-

pointed a Commiuee to examine the records of the

Cooxeaticn and report t ^ facts to this Board.-"

" Oa awUat, Srss, A . C. ItoytiKi and W . P. Jeow •ere aided to the Gommhtec aboTB caned.'

[ S a n s w . — 1 hardly know what 1 o u ^ t to

» b 3 « ^ absT'' Statcmsits. I do aot Kke

;. V ! j V i

» few nontha u obtoluidy untnu. N o

sooh uwooneenMot had beeit n » d « in that

p»p«r or any other. If thera had been it is

sUll in print. Let it b« preaented. I bare

made dilligAnt sewrob for it. It eannot be

found. Saeh vinounoement w u first made,

as I am told, iit the»g»'»« ' probably

in November, 1857. But this oommittoe was

appointed in Augusi

ad. The assertion that " my articles in the

Home and Foreign Journal had begun to be

mostly made up of book notioea," is abto-

iufWy falu, though donhtlaas unintention-

ally, -This tho 'lBoard could easily baye seen

by referring to the files of that paper. This

any m a n can who will examine the files of

that jiaptfr. I oerer wrote any tkwg in tha

Jouniai till after tha Montgomery ConTen-

lion. From that time to the liOuisTille Con-

rention I had only ixno columm monthly, and

do not rttnuHbtr or Id in* that I «Ter wrote

a notice of any book for those two columns.

Let ona bo found if it is there. l^Junt, 1857,

the Board resolted to occupy one-third, or

about siven columns of the Jonmai. It is,

therefore, in the July and Aufust numbers of

lilu, if any where before the 31st of A u g ,

that the proof will be found that my articles

consLited »noj% of notices of books.

A n d 60 far is it from being .true that tnoti

of my space in those numbers consists of book

notices, ihtrt is not a single notice hy me

of any book in either numbtr. If there is

let the Board tell tchat book, or books, were

noticed, and I will confess that I hare forgotten

what I wrota

(I m»4e this statement from memory, not haring

a foil file of the JoumaS before me. I have sent for

one, and will as soon as it *rriTM. corrrct my

(tatement, if it l« wrong. My firm conriction is

that the first a M only mention of books, or book

colportage before September, is in the August Sam-

ber]

4th. At that tiw I had not noticed in

the Journal any book published by tiie Pub-

lishing House in Nashtille. If I bad the

notice 13 in print—let it be presented. The

statement th«t I had done so is therefore &Ise,

though CO falsduwd may hare beca intended

by the Board.

Slh, & from haTtng eonsmessded these

books ju the high^t terms ai thai fisa, I bad

ueyer uttered a word of praise in the Journal

• - — - ^ v -i.^ Tr I

ITinsfon, Brother W. F. Bang, Brother C.

Dauten, and Brother A. ytl$on, I appeal to

them to go to the filas of tha Jonroal uid ex-

amine the facts and sUta the truth to tha Bible

Board. I appeal to tha Bible Board,

whose names I will giTs in another place,

to corrtci tha unintentional falsehoods

which they hare endorsed and published.

They owe it to me, they owe it to the oansa of

truth, they owe ii to themseWes, and U>ey owe

it to the denomination. I f they negM or re-

fu$» to do it, they have entailed uf«n them-

selres, and the cause they represent, eUmal

disgraoe. Brethren, I entreat you in tha

name of the Savior whom we all profess to lore,

that yon will not laava-me to rest under these

fait* and tland*rou$ impnUtions fixod upon

one who h u lo»ed you, and labored with yon,

and prayed with you, and for you by your dt.

liberate and ojfieial action, and published by

your ojfficial sanction to the world

"Ot° the Committee which wa« oordially ap-

pointed by this resolution, tha Secretary waa

himself a member, (sinoa hia presenoo and ax-

plana ions were thoagbt neeassary to iu pro-

per deliberations) to oonsider and report upon

this whole subject. That committee was de-

layed in eonsequenea of tha neoossary absenoe

of iu chairman, from tha city, whosa business

called him to Kentucky. It was rumored in

the city, that tha SeereUry considered the ap-

pointment of the Committee as rery offensiTe,

and that be would be prepared to mainUin his

own riews firmly, before the Board. The next

regular meeting'of the Board occurred, and

the Committee were not ready to raport. The

SecreUry, however, read a long paper, of

which the following is a fair extract, and which

we introduce as an example of its style and

temper

" The Corrwpondicg Sccietsry could not see how

it was possible for us to know that the Conrention

had instructed as in regard to anything, if we could

not know that it required us to engage with all oar

eaereies in promoUng the joint circnUtion ot Bible*

and oar deGomioatioDal and other religiocs books,

throogh oor auiiliaries, and also by oar colporters,

should any be employed directly by the Board. He,

therefore, made the announcement fin the newspa-

pers] which gaTe occasion to the resolaUon of ia-

qniry abore referred to, [ihU which originated the

Committee.] And Iu t^ps^sad imtendt, taibe ex-

t»t of his otpacity, to carry out the mant&at iiit««i-

tltm ot tlie Coc'eotioo, by farming societies with

thi4 joint object in new, and by callisg the attention

of oar hreihiwi is the Soasls Io the imponaoce ot

eircalaUiig oar own denomin^tiocal Bscrasure, by his

tongue and his peis." " For ihii parpoee kt inttrnd*

^ ti two cdcmns mocthly. of the

don*. Mr . Dayton htd no id«« what the Com-

mittaa had dona or isJUti they did it, ontil oso

of tha memban imformad hiin kbont tha first

weak in January, 1858, four months after it

had baaa appointed, that it had "givan tha

Corresponding SwsraUry Hawkins." W h a t

this meant he did not know until ha heard tha

reading of tha Beport, only • part of which

was kdoptod, u d is hera pablishad by Uia

Bokrd. It was then, for tha first time, that he

baeama aware that his monthly report, giving

the (kots and reasons for his aondnet, was re-

garded as offenaiva to the Board or the Com-

mittea. <?u«ry.—-Would it have bean ao re-

garded had the real objeet of that Oommittoa

been simply and only to ascertain and report a

true and compleie statement of all tha faata on

both sides of tha ({uestiob, instead of an argu-

ment upon one side of it to oondemn the Sso-

reUry ?

"Before introdneing this report, Wd dasire

further to remark, that the B o m , as will be

aeen, expressed no judgment derogatory to the

of tha 8 " •"

Ab4 acaitt, an yac* a . f m m '

«B«MltiMni|«rtaf

twred a poite af iIhi Sa

antion of tba Seeiatary. It did notaoeusa him

of witsting the time which should have been

devoted to the interests of the Board; it did

not accuse him of undue efforts to secure the

circulation of the issues of the South-Western

Publishing House, in preference to those of the

Southern Baptist Publioation Society; it did

advert to the spaoe occupied by him in the

Home and Foreign Journal, in reviewing books,

but it did not impeach, in this respect, his lo;

alty to the Board- It nmply inquired into tl

obligation of the Board and the duties of the

Secretary, and that, not beeause they found

fault w i ^ him, but in order t9 vindicate itself

against the oom plaints othe^ and to ascer-

tain more exactly, the instructions of the Con-

vention. A u d s t ^ further: A t the meeting

that adopted tha report of the Coemittee which

we are about to present, as a part of this re-

port, the Board re-asserted therraolution adopt-

ed at its organisation, reqwring the Corres

ponding Secretary to jpve his undivided time

to the duties of bis oSce. The Secretary af-

firmed that he would not object io the re-as£r-

tion of the resolution at any other time, but

that to ds so sow, seemed to him to imply that

he had not hilly « v e n h b time to tha interests

of the Board. It waa rqoined, however, on

the part of the Board, that such was not the

intention, but that the object of it was to q w t

the fears of Uioeewho supposed that die B W d

bad not dischaiged its duty in this partiea-

lar."

[ K e v h w -Will (he reader be kind enough

to go bsek and rekd the statonents of the Board

in regard to the and etmaderations,"

tr Tiienoat w» h a v teaa «M« tm T riiBi)

- •Aofbbt^Mrt . nafc,,

"TIm CowalttMr tA whoca was

of t ^ rrpon of llM SfM* B a r !

to BiUa and baek ealpartacw, m|i>rtMjr "mmL.

that they frrt Mglu-y gnWDNd l» i»tt»»ls>

dency, <wriy and sccecas wMek ka^v"

•dtbtsdepansantoracnaiawt esW»

Tear CamnHlM d0i»t awrtk* OMnrflT af

ioff aay Imponani cbaoees, M rimfifuiei-

tba Board laeoettnutlhtwarkwWdi I t e y k a m M

favoraWy cowmauend-ta fsndsb t « r a t f i t t n

with books of Mtr Smtim b.

toBibles-toartabliiii aaxiBafy MciXiM

practicable, aad to employ aH MiHakU wmtm u

awaken a paswal iatsreHtaUw BiMecamtbmjtb-

out the SotuhMTt SutM."

This ball clear ecoosh. The Cormpoodtec

rMary had stated io bU rrt>ntt,- {]MtlUs Baarf bad

pnrchaMd oo books bat Bibb* and Te*«aan«s, aod

bad mads no arraoeeaMSts for any e ^ p o ^ actiec

under a commissioa dlmetly ftoa tha BAi* Boani to

distribnte aay other books." ThvesoinritU* ndiwd

lo tha CoQvention specially Is eoesidar this portiao

of tha aecretary's report, after exproasiBB tfiair Ueh

degree ofsatis&ctioa, say they "do not sw tha as-

cessity of making asy important chasgea, bat wooJd

simply adii— tha Board to cootinne the work t h ^

hare so fsrarably eoramenced—to famish their col-

portars with books of our PablicatiaB sodetiea, la

addition to Bibles," etc., etc." To yon it is

tufrisory—to cootinne the work," etc., etc. TIu?,

thecommitteeof theC<Hireot!on, said not a word

abont other books than the Bible and those of "onr

PablicaUon Sodetiea," and adilse ns to famish col

portara—agaicies, by the way, which we nersrhad

—with^these books. But, in reference to the yiint

fond derired from Bibles and other books beeoming

a basis of representatioo lo the ConfenUoo, they are

entirely silent. Toar committee, howerw, are com-

pdled to regard this feature of the case settled by

the repotft made by the apedal oraimittee at Mont-

gomery, Alabama; for, after repeated reiereoce to

"our Publicaaon SodetSes" and the BiUa Board—

after alluding to the s« >sxa:e agencies and objecU

of each—it Is farther sjud, in refet«s» to colpc?-

iige sssbrscins bods iaSerests; "Each interest could

bear its proporUoa of the expenses of the sys»m,

and thus the associated capital of each Bible and

PubBcaUon Society, could be combined with that of

t ^ parent societies, thereby doubling the effldeacT

of each."

Ia regard to this you will see first, that a jiruioit

between tbe Bible Board and PublicsiiK! Societies, s/

a«e^w»«iinddenltothej(Mt syaets of colpor-

tage, is desriy sad nnr<joiroeany cociffisplalsd,—

What dse is the slgniScaaon of the fanrgoittE Us-

geag«,asti>tfc^ being "mnaad heipere.-' "mutuid

hripea t» esch othfr,"" and tasiixr. thaf'eefi ist^-

W f t S c . s d r i s a a i » Otssem''

11*11 n Itwiiillsa' tttOo^bm.

mteian,

ui ! H m m a* lit •^fiwww?

b a ^ a r j

w-|*e*S« i * aS fssfefesSIsM,

Thf aaly naasUcs tw

Bsardtadct

thtfCMK

whatdxtmf I f r a n d s f n i m k i s

eircaiau adNH-baafai, itMB yos alwatf S I

tiatawdlarra

oar PMiatim Semdies. CacP tm i

ha** BOthtec whslsnr is 4 a w { &

tha BiUe.

TeorCoesmitlM itummtui for yosr

tha (dlowinr Bsanlatfains.

1. JStttind, ThattUs Board newer ban,

sot now, rrcaoaesd the distribatiae, by its <

ters, of any depoMiaatlona! or other baaki. apart

from the Bibte, neaps thoae of am Ba/tiM PuVim

tie* Sacitiitt^

2. Smkti, That this Board, baring mada sa ar-

rasgemetiU with eishar of owr Pablicatiae Bnciatiea,

or with any colpntes, are wboDy Baprrpaird ts en-

ter directly iatn the wivk of dlMfmTnsa'ng dcnoBi-

natirmal books.

t. Eaobmd, That this Board s m r win et>c«ca in

the distribotion of say books, dn>oininatirB-«; or

otherwise, the style and doctrine of which tbry da

aot approve.

4. Setohed, That the Correspoadisg Secretary ba

instructed to occupy the space allotted ss is tha

Home and Foreiga Joonial, in direct efibna te

the Bible, and iKit generaDy in n w w i n g or crit-

idsing "the diaxactcr and iaflnesce of other

books."

6. That this Board regard as a basis c^

re;8«seatation ia the CsnrendoD, those Siads oeiy

which are collected Sor Bible purposes, aad that

esse dirsstiy or indirsstHy isw onr Tteatsry, and

not those origiaatad or ployed fyi tba dicslaitao

of otbr iocis thaa the B U ^

[ B E v i r r . — m ^ no analydi cf this re-

jKCt here, feeeaase I bava T»rie«ed its piina-

pal pasitls&s a&d pslcted out tsar in

my defence agthiA the attacks

V O L X 5 V .

i-Si. i o T B E W B O L E T R I T H . D A R U t i T O O P P O S E U T J E R R C n ,

N A S H V I L L E , T K N ^ K S S f c l i : . S A T H I U A V , J U L Y 1 7 .

^ S. R. MKAVKS. • J . S f . m c ^ D t ^ r r o s i . • c . o a r r a s i . T m *

>

* T W = j n o i i u t s t ^ T a n , - * > r T T l E E i ? T H * E T D « > » T B I T i i i L

c f itui m-S-Att-• C • -- Ja-

•f o f t b a Babls ' ai^^ sfce» . t Tii-, ^

« f M a ; . ^ iMawia^ E c s o h U M o

' w u a a o p t e ^ :

gfw'carf Ttaat a CaoHKniti^ of thnrr br appoint-

ed to take into caendiTUtac thr t%><Tnp«sdistc Sec-

ntarj t Kaport to iit- Caj^Tenaffli at UwiaTiUa,—tke

Rapatt 6wid a Sp«ci«i aiaife ia Jaaaarr

last, aa«i uia at ti>e Secretary

rr&ranl td said C^aii^tter. »ad tiir ctMnmnrTratioo

tins day pnaaued bv t&a Corraapnodiiu! becrvtarT-.

aad rapunoo tfar samr to thi* Board.

Tli« CooDDiuae to wiicna the above reaola-

cioQ m a sabsittcd. have had the matter refer-

red to it asder eare&l coiuideratiaD. and beg

leave to iraort m fiallovs:

T h a Bible Board of tiie Scutiieni Ba j ^-t

C w v e a d o a v b s (^gaoixcd, and assmctid the

rfiH-hary of tie duties assigned it. on the loth

day of M a y , 1 8 5 1 , nader £ e Secretarrsliip of

B e r . W . C . B a c k . It coatiaiied its operations

harnuHtioiigiy and saecessfiilly. until the

day of Jaooary , l'».">4. w^hea Mr . B a d t . bavio|r

acsepted the Pa^tardliip of the ehsrt^h in Co-

Ismbas , MLis.. resigsihi h b office. T h e Board

immediatelj iosatated ioqoiiiori witii the view

of obtaining the aerrices of a suitable sacees-

sor. W h e r e n p o s . after some time iiad elapsed,

B e r . J . B . Graves preseated the xasme cf Rev .

A . G . Paytoo, who was at that time onkoown

to tite ( ^ e r m e m b a n of the Bosrd. U p o a

this recommendatiaQ. U r . D a j t o n was, oa the

l l t i day of August, 1.>.74, elected Correspond-

ing Se«YtarT, to hold the ontil the fal-

lowing January, with the ond-^rsta&diuz that

if b o ^ paraes were pleased, it would be

m a d e pennasent. H e at ono« entered upon

the dotiea aangned him. and eontinaed ondl

the time specific, wtiiiu the Board being enti-

rely satisfied, he was appointed permanently

to the office, as the fallowing extraetj w iU

s h o w : '

Ac»r»T 11. 19-54.

- The name of Eer A. C . Diviac, of aUelbyrille.

was bruu^iit beiure the Board bv the Prpsidt^n'.., (J

B . Sntres. 1 fur Correspccdins Sturearr. and after

some diacoaaiuu he was eiectctl to till said vxcaccr

until 1st JaouaiT, 1656."

D x c x x b u iSCi4.

• On motion the Corrsspondina Secn-UtTy, Ker. A .

C. DajUm was unanimous! v ui said otnce

until May next."

[ R k t i * w —^The Bible B«}ard ct the South

era Baptist Ckuivention ao doubt intend d

that tiii« should be a strictly tmthfa! narratire.

aad such it will be regarded b j tao>e who have

no means of correcting the erTOrs into which

the Board has faUen through carelcs:iCCs.-> cr

fargztfalnesi. H i n c c m y brethren ia that

Boaxd, will doobdcsH feel thaakfal t.i a e for

any carrections which I may be able tosngee.<t,

and iL in a a j instance, it should bo made

plainly to appear tiiat they have ^itatei what

is not tnu, thej will feel boosd, not merely

aa O S e e r a of the S o u t h e m Baptist Uonrec-

tioo, having in charge a great pubiic R-.iigious

interest, but as Christians a£d a^ honoralde

gmlUmm, to take th» same pains to corrcct

tiie Etlsehood as A e j hare to cirtmlate it.

A slight and unimportant errnr occurs in

their statement gives above. T h e Board ^ajs

diat at the time of m y appcuStmeci is Secre-

tary I was " uninaxn to the members of (he

Boisrti,'' except Elder Graves. T h e y bad

probably forgoticm that about ten months be-

fure ^ t I had persoesilj appeared before the

Board and solicited the appoiatmEct which

they conferred upon m e of traveling agent

without a salary. O n e of the Committee who

made this report, Bro. C. K. Winston, mad-j

the mntioa for m y appointment. After a f n ^

coaversatiao had been held at that meeting,

lad also with. seTeni members at an Lcformal

meeting, at which I W3:5 also present the d,ij

before. M y brethran in Georgia migIit,oD seeing

tiiis announcement, suspect m e of having im-

posed myaelf i ^ n them as acting b j aut;horitj

of the Board, when they in fac^ die Board,

knew notiiisg of me . I i a J , and probably

hare itill, a written commi^^ion fivm the

Board given ia authentication of what trans-

pired on that occasion. I had in fact met

oftencT, and known much longer and betu:r, some-

other members of the Board than I had Bro.

Gravel. I had prmxchtd in their Church and

p T M a m e Uiey were present, though he was

n o t ]

REroaT.

" H a prosecuted his duties energeticaily. aa^

the Board was so well pleased with his admin

iatradon, that it unheaitatingly cunSdcti in his

hands all its interests: seconding Lis plan.-, and

carrying them out, with equal unaa imit j .—

A m o n g the measures suggested b j him, was a

plan <rf calportagsj wfaieh. as they tinderstood

It, met the approbation of the Board, was re-

ported to the Convention at i u meeting in

Muiittfomery. and received its sanction. This

Board was instructed aeeordici;Iy, to effect".

such an a r r u g e m e n t with oar Publication Sn-

cieties as vouid combine the circulation of

their publicationa with the Bible, among our

people. This plan was accordingly recom-

mended to our anxiliaries, in which they

p r o ^ t l j ac(]^aieaced ; and in soma places were

mstitnted Bible and Coiportcr Societies. This

Board itself, not baring maile the necessary

arrangements, never entered iato the direct

work of colportage.''

[ R j i v u w . — T h e r e is another slight mistake

in thia statement. I f the Board had seen fit

to examine tA*ir rtport to tbe Ooaraitton at

Montgomery^hey would have found that the plan

for Book Calportagfl was n»t gnggested b j m e

nor reported Ay thm or tiu to the Convention.

Nor ia there in that Beport the slightest allu-

aioa to any i>lan q^ colportage wkattver. T h e

plao fderred to ^ v e waa sogg^ted by £ltL

Stamui HtiuUnm,

as Chairatan of otie of

the CammittMa of the Conveatioo. This is

not Ttry important, except as it shows h o w

U t t U reliance can be placed upon the hisiorieal

aeeuraa/ of thia report. I n m j ^ r d to other

t U a p Ua •tatmnenta are atill more carelesaly

" S o o n after the Beeretarr catered upon the

J a t i n of U n office. tiM mttk, m e e ^ t i b & b

tlM thia i d T ^ o d o a i a , b * ^ to a p p e u

• ud in

ia prqasrt;^ a. 1 f .

bad h m madt t.» tfea?

H" - . oratiirr >r F. Brother J. C.

lirr.UrL Htither A. Xtison. I appeal to

.-•1.- -.

, ia tke T e a a e a m Baptist, ao'

m i a a a d u a ToiBimt b y the Sooth-

T o U i i U B g H o o a e . F o r thia Torit

jjjfhiil^aftm n w r n i finiiB that hooae a ralo-

ttr^ J

- • •

i % nrv naBtks. H i s azrieleii tn t M g A n w asQ

FortifB Jourtml n o w began to b e m a d e up .

oi«>itly of the Botiees of books, ia part the

i«sues of that Hco<c , whidi be commesded in

the highest tenna ; and with xeal and eamrst-

ws», advocated their colportage with the Bible,

to th<» negleet of the israes of our Pablication

Sociedes. T o all of thw the Board, as sneh,

•wtered no o' jeetioo. Cmnplaints were made,

however, by his fellow-aecretaries of the other

Boards ; b j some of onr denominational pa-

pers; and b j individuals, to members of the

B-jord, a^ain and aetin It w a s also alleged

that the Correspondine Secretary was spending

too much time in making books; that he was

advocating the issues of the South-Western

PuWishing House^ some of which were highly

uffrfL-iiTe to m a n y of the members of the de-

nomination, and equally so to some members of

the B o a r d : and that he was occupying too

m u t ^ space i i the H o m e and Foreign Jour-

nal. in notices of such works, to the neglect

of the interesits of the Eible. A b o n t the ,<ame

time, articlfti appeared in the Tennessee Bap-

tist. edited by a Vice-President of the Board,

intimating that the Board was remiss in its

advocacy of the circulation of religious and

det:ominatioiial books in connection with the

Bible. Guided by these facts and considera-

tion.-', without at all impeaching the fidelity

of the Corrcjposponding Secretary, the Board

fdlt it to be its duty, as the representative in

this behalf, of the denomination Sooth, to in-

stitute an inquiry as to the instructions of the

Southern Baptist Convention, in regard to the

cuiracter of those books, which it was desired

should be circulated with the Bible. T h e

Board accordingly, at a meeting on the 31st

day of August , 1857 . adopted the following

preamble and resolution . "

WasssAs . It has been frv-juentiy annoimced,

through some of tbe papers of this city, that we

hare Iwen repeatedly tmtrucied by the Southern

Bapdst Bieccia^ Convecuon to circulate denomina-

unual books in cooceiion with the Bible. Tb>"r»^

fai-e

• RticiTid, Thit Dr. J V. Winston, Bev. R . B. C.

Uowell aad A. Nelson, be, and they are hereby a|)-

poinled a ComaiiUce to examine tfce ri-cords of the

Coarentioc and report the fictj to this Boaid. '

" On motion. Bros, A. C l>ayu>a and W . P. Jones

were added to the Commitlec above uamed.

[ R s v i n w . — I hardly know what I ought to

say about the above statements. 1 do not like

to think, much les? to saij that the Bible Board

of theSoathern Baptist Convention has adopted

and published a tcilful and del iherate falsehoci.

not to say several such falsehoods in a single

paragraph. I cannot believe they so intended,

and I mast hope, at least, that when I show

them how they have been misled they will take

the needful trouble to set themselves and the

troth at one a^ain, before th<» whole denomina-

tiou, as I promise ui do if thej will convict

me cf any untruth, either in anything I have

said or matj say of ihtai.

W i l l m y reader be kind enough to tjo back

and read what they have tsid again, aad then

decide if it dot." cot Larolve the fullowing as-

sertion, viz That the Bible Board was inilu-

eneed to appoint the Coaimittee of the 31st of

.\ugu3i, IS.ST. by certain aliegtd "facto and

coc^ideratioDs" before mentioned, and,

l«t. Is not the impression sought to be made

that one of these was that I had been intiu-

er.ced by m y pecuniary inters?', in the .'^outh-

Wc-:-t<-r3 Publishing House, to employ my

time and m y offici-tl influence, and to occupy

m j .••-pace in the H o n e and Foreign Journal

to build up the intirests of that House.

2- Is it not expressly stated thai it had been

announced in the Tetmesscc Baptist, that I was

preparing a series of Sunday ScLool Books to

be ready in a few months 'i .

•S. Is it not distinctly stated that m y ar-

ticles in »he H o m e and Foreign J-jumal had

begun t** be made up tno.-itiy of notices of iKioks?"

4. Is it not diitinotly stated that some of

these b.-/ok notices were notices of books issued

b j tbe South-Wcstem Publishing H i use V

•5. Is it tot dLitinctly stated that I com-

mciidod thoie b<x>k3 in the highest terms in the

eoiumns of the H o m e and Foreign Journal ?

t). Is i : not distinctly stated that 1 " advo-

cated with zeal and carnettness the Colportage

with the Bible of those books published by

that house ?

Is it cot distinctly stated that I ueglcct

ed to advocate the colportage of the publica-

tions of the Southern Fublication Societj ?

H. Is it not distinctly stated that complaints

had been made by m y fellow Secretaries of the

other boards, on the ground that I had done

tliese things above mentioned ?

9. Is it not distinctly stated that similar

camplaicts, based on the same grounds, had

been made by some of our denominational

papers ?

10. Is it not distinctly stated that the Bible

Board was indnccd by these facts and consid-

erations to appoint that committee on the olst

day of August , 1'?.57 '! Notice the date.

N o w will it be believed, will the members of

this Board themselves believe that each one of

these ten allegations is abst>lutely false ? Y e t

I will now give such testimony as iciU satisfy

even ihtmselris that such is the case iu re-

gard to nine of the ten.

IsL A s for the insisoation that I was

infiuenced by the additional profit which

I might hope to realtie en m y books

from the additional prosperity of tbe

gooth-Western Poblishiog House to pros-

titute m y official iniitience to build it up, I

leave it for what it la worth. Those who know

tee m a y believe it if they can, and those w h o

do not k n o w m e will haidly be infioenoed b y

m y pcRMoal d i a v o w a l of having been infio-

enced b y any such baso and unworthy motive.

I f those m e n judge other men's motives b y

their o w n , thia insintiation m a y give some idea

o* what they would do to advance their o w n

pecuniary intere8t&

^ T h e asaertion that notice had been ^iven

io the Tennessee Baptist that I was preparing

J a aeriea of S o n d a j School hooks to be ready

. I n & d c dilHge::* a e o e h ii- I s

jvssT 1= J JDasid. S a u an was i m m s ^ .

^ j B o s r d . I

as I a m tola, in iae Baptist Jtrgister, probably

in Xorember , 1S57 . H o t thia conunitti^ was

app<^ted in Ajsgaat.

3d . T h e assertion that " m y articles in the

H o m e and Foreign Journal had begun to be

mostly m a d e o p o f book notices," is oAso-

luitly falst, though dotibtlcsa onintention-

ally. Th is the Board eoold easily ha:re seen

by referring to Uie files of that paper. This

any man can see w h o will examine the files of

that paper. I never wrote a n y thittg in the

Journal till after the Montgomery Conven-

tion. F r o m that time to the Lonisrllle Con-

vention I had only ^tro columns monthly, and

do not remember or believe that I ever wrote

a notice of any book for those two colomns.

Let one be found if it is there, lu J*tne, 1 9 5 7 ,

the Board resolved to occupy one-third, or

about seven columns of the Journal It is,

therefore, in the Ju ly and August numbers of

1JC.7, if any where before the 31st of A u g ,

that the proof will be found that m y articles

cunsisted mostly of notices of books.

A n d so far is it from being true that most

of m y spaee in those numbers consists of book

noticcs, there is not a sirtgh notice by me

of any book in either number. I f there is

let the Board tell %chat book, or books, were

noticed, and I will confess that I have forgotten

what I wrote.

[1 make this statement from memory, not baring

a full' file of the Journal before me. I have gent for

one, and will as soon as it arrives, correct my

statetnent, if it is wrong. My arm conriction is

that the first and only mention of books, or book

colportage before September, ia in the August Num-

ber ]

4th. .1/ that time I had not noticed in

the J o u m a l any book published by tbe Pub-

lishing H o u s e in Nashville. I f I bad the

notice is in print—let it be presented. T h e

statement that I had done so is therefore false,

though no falsehood may have been intended

by the Board.

•5th. So far from having commended these

books in the highest terms at that time, I had

never uttered a word of praise in the Journal

in favor of any book published by them If I

had it is in print—let it Leashown

tich. At that time I had never advocated

the colportage of the books of the South

VVe.stern Publishing House , and of course had

cot done it " with jeal and earnestness."'

7th. T h e only article in which I had advo-

cated the colportage of any specijic works w^

tba following, which I cot from the Avyust

number of the Journal, published a few days

before this committee was appointed, and

which was all that the members of the Board

ciiuld have had before them on this point, to

lead to its appointment.

•• W i i j T B o o k s .tr.E N e e d e i ' . — T h i s is a

ijuestioii vrhich we are not prepared to an-

swer T h e Bible Board makes no pnrchase.s

bat Bible.s. and thus far, has not thuut;bt fit to

recommcnd any particular works. It lt-av.>«

to the State and W a l societies the tvholo re

^poIlsibility. T h e y know btist what is needed

in their own region. T h e y will we doubt not

ch<¥)sc a.» wi.'clj. and as well, as we could do.

W e truit they will remember that other things

bein>t equal, the books of our own Southern B a p

ti-t Publication Society should be preferred to

those of Northern aad Pedobaptist bouses—

but there are many most valuable wcrks pub

liihcd elsewhere, and which it is of very great

importance should be widely circulated among

the Baptists of the South.

A m o n g these are the publications of the

American Tract Socicty on Christian benevo-

Icnce, and on vital piety; and others publish

ed by Northern houses. W e will as our iia:e

and space permits, insert in the .Journal fro ~

time to time some notice of such works as we

think worthy of the attention of the State So-

cieties, colporters and brethren—premising

this, however, that such notice is to regard

ed not as the endorsement or commendation of

the Bible Board, but only an expression of the

opinion of one who claims no more than the

privilege to think for himself, and tell what

he thinksL A . C . D . "

This is what the B I B L P ] B O A R D calls

"advocating with zeal and earnestness the

crJportage tcith tha Bible of the publications

of the South-Westcm Publishing House to

the neglect of (hose of the Southern Baptist

ruUication Society." S h a m e ! shame! •\nd

yet the Board will probably never take the

trouble to request the same papers to publish

the truth which they have solicited to publish

their unintended falsehood. W e will sec

8th. It is not true that any complaint had

been made ai this iinie by m y fellow Secreta-

ries, unless it was done in secret letters, and I

do not believe they were capable cf condescend-

ing to employ such means to poison the mind.^

of the Board. N o complaint has ever been

made by them as is stated in this report on ac-

count of book notices. T h e only complaint they

f f r made was in or after November, 1857 ,

and that was about a notice of the Sunday

School Unioti. I f they made any other let it

be shown.

l)th. It is not true that any complaint had

at that time been made by any denominational

paper or papers about m y mode of oocnpyiog

the Journal. T h e first waa in the South-

TTesitm Baptist, after the meeting of the Sun-

day School Convention in October, and this

was rot aboot books as stated by the Board in

this report, but abont a notice of tho Conven-

tion in Nashville to form the S u n d a y School

Union . S o these two allegations, the 8th and

lUh, are doubly false, though they m a y have

been inUndtd for the troth.

10th. It follows that since these "facts and

considerations" did not exists, the Bible

Board nuld not possibly hare been "guided'^

b j them w h e n it f d t it to be its duty to ap-

point the committee on the 31st of August ,

1 8 5 7 .

I n o w appeal to the members of the com-

mittee w h o m a d e this report, Brother C. K.

-i-a:, » ' f ' i w Jottraal ap'! •'r

a m - ^ toe B i ^ B i a r d .

to correct the oninteationai falsehoods

which they hare endorsed and published.

T h e y ^ w e it to me , they owe it to the cause of

troth, they owe it to thentelves, and they o w «

it to the denomination. I f they negltd or re-

fuse to do it, they hare entailed apon them-

selves, and the caose they represent, eternal

disgrace. Brethren, I entreat yoo in the

n a m e of the Savior w h o m w e all profess to love,

that you will not leave m e to rest under these

false and slanderous imputations fixed upon

one w h o has loved yon, and labored with you,

and prayed with y o ^ and for yoo hy your de-

liberate and official action, and pobiished by

your official sanction to the world :]

" O f the Committee whieh was cordially ap-

pointed by t h b resolution, the Secretary was

himself a memb4^, (since hi* presence and ex-

plana ions were thought necessary to its pro-

per deliberations) to consider and report upon

this whole subject. T h a t committee was de-

layed in consequence of the necessary absence

of its chairman, from the city, whose business

called him to Kentucky. It was rumored in

the city, that the Secretary considered the ap-

pointment of the Committee as very offensive,

and that he would be prepared to maintain his

own views firmly, before the Board. T h e next

regular meeting of the Board occurred, and

the Committee were not ready to report. T b e

Secretary, however, read a long p a ^ r , of

which the following is a fair extract, and which

we introduce as an example of its style and

temper . "

•• The Corresfwnding Secretary could not see how

it was poasibte for us to know that the Convention

had instructed ns in regard to anything, if we could

not know that it re<|uired us to engage with all our

energies in promoting tbe joint circulation of Bibles

antl onr denominational and other religions books,

thruagh our auxiliaries, and also by our colporters,

should any be employed directly by the Board. Ue,

therefore, made the announcement [.in the newspa-

pers I which gave occasion to the resolution of in-

quiry above referred to, [that which originated the

Committee.] And he expecttand taieads, to the ex-

tern of bis capacity, to carry out the manifest inten-

tion ot the Convention by forming xocieXies witli

this joint object in view, and by calling the attention

of our brethren in tbe South to tbe importance of

circulatioc our own denomiuSUonal literature, by bis

touene and his pen. • For this purpose he intends

u, occupy at least two columns monthly of ihe

Home and Foreign Joumal, in nt.lices of the char-

acter ai..i intlnence of onr books." .And with this

I.hject iu view, he tntrndf to urge upon the Bible

Society of our G. neral .Association to become, at

oacr an active worker in the colportage."

[ R t v i E w (4 ) W h e n thb Committee was

appointed, I supposed it * » all done in good

faith, that the B o a r d felt ^ c l f really tgno-

r ^ t nt what had b c s n j f t f l f ^ ^ c t i o n s of the

Convention. I I c a m c ^ f ^ o w o v S P ^ r o m

-hortly afterwards, that there was an object lo

be accomplished by this Committee very differ-

ent from the one avowed. It was understood

that that object was to impeach, if pos.<iible,

the veracity of the Corresponding Secretary.

Whether this was true or not I cannot s a y . —

But when I waa told that such was the object,

I was naturally very anxious to have the facts

come out at oLce T h e day of the next regu-

lar monthly meeting came and I had not been

called to attend any meeting of tbe Commit-

tee , I knew not whether they had met or not

I felt that it was due to the Board, and due to

ni .-ielf, if there teas any doubt upon the ques-

tion as to whether I had told the truth in the

notices referred to by the preamble above given,

that I thould give the reasons for what I had

done. I was unwilling to rest under an im.

plied charge of falsehood until tho coming year,

as I must have done had I waited for the Com-

mittee, or even f.>r another day. I therefore

rcpared as a part of my rajular monthly re-

/»< rt a statement of the facts which led me to

entertjin tho opinion that the Convention had

instrucifd the Bible Board to combine the cir-

culation of 1 :bles with our denominational

and other religious bcoks. and also the consid-

eraticns by which I had been induced to make

the announcements referred to These were

substantially the same as those published in m y

Defence some weeks ago A n d after stating

them in detail I added, " i n view of these facts

and considerations," (or words to that effect,)

the Corresponding Secretary could not see how

it was possible, T h e Board has begun its

quotation of iny bnguage in the middle of a

sentence, and thus makes the false impression

that it was from oero willfulness, and not in

view of facts stated and reasons given that I

employed the lafguage attributed to me |

" T h i s individtal report of A . C Dayton, the

Secretary, was nferred to the Committee, and

at the regular meeting, January -Itb, 18oS, the

Committee, who»e meetings M r . Dayton never

attended, reported in full on tbe whole subject

T h e report wasdiscusscd at length, and the

meeting adjouricd to the 7th of January . A t

the meeting, mitual explanations were m a d e ;

the Secretary k^ked leave to withdraw his indi-

vidual report, vhich was granted; tho Com-

mittee then asted leave, which was also grant-

ed, to withdrav so much of its report as had

reference to the individual report of tbe Secre-

tary; and thai the remainder of the report

and resolutiois were adopted. Its adoption

was supposed to be satisfactory, except that tho

Corresiwtidiqg Secretary, and perhaps some

other m e m b c B of the Board, thought that the

construction given by the Committee, would

prove detrimental to the interests of the Bible

and Colporttr societies auxiliary to us, inas-

much as thai it embraced no other books than

those of oir Baptist Publication Societies;

and also t h « it took the ground that fonds

derived from other books than the Bible

should not eonstitute a ba.sis of repeeentation in

the Convention."

[ R k v i b w . (5 ) There was tho best of all rea-

sons w h y " M r . Dayton did oot attend the meet-

ings of tht Committee," and that is, that* he

never hadany notice given him of either ih*

time or place of its meetings, except of the

first one, irhich was on a yery stormy night,

and to wlich he could not go, and at which he

has since been informed n o ^ t n ^ definite was

deme. M r . Daytoa had idea "afkat t h e C v a -

Bit&se had d m t-r k A m thry did it, S3til aem

ot the B t s b e r s imfaraed him aboat S n t

And acaia. pace : z^-.

ti>» -it tj>e cartTTtge*- » whiCa T.

a 7«>rr..i.,- ^''•.H' S^tmnrr « ntocwz. . 1. - ^

H tie iiise,

h a d beea aMwinted . it h a d "g ives the

S j i r f e a W h a t

this meant he did not k n o w ontil h e heard the

reading o f the Report, only a part of whieh

was adopted, and is here poblished by the

Board. It was then, for the first time, Uiathe

became aware that his monthly report, giving

the £aets and reasons for his conduct, was re-

garded as ofiensive to the Board or the Com-

mittee. ^ f l ^ . — W o u l d it have been so re-

garded had the real object of that Committee

been simply and only to ascertain and report a

true and eompUi* sUtementof all the &etB on

both sides of theqoestion, instead of an argo-

ment opon one side of it to condemn the S m -

retary?

"Before introdneing this report, w e desire

further to remark, that the Board, as will be

seen, expressed no judgment derogatory to the

action of the Seeietary. It did notaeeose him

of wasting tbe time which shoold have been

devoted to the interests of the Board ; it did

not accuse him of imdue efforts to secure the

circulation of the issues of the South-Western

Publishing Hooae, in preference to those of the

Southern Baptist Publication Society ; it did

advert to the space occupied by him in the

H o m e and Foreign J o n m i d , in reviewing books,

but it did not impeach, in this respect, his loy-

ally to the Board. It simply inquired into the

obligation of the Board and the dotiea of the

Seeretary, and that, not because thej^ found

fault with him, but in order to vindicate itself

a ^ i n s t the complaints of others, and to ascer-

tain more exactly, th < instructions of the Con-

vention. A n d still further: A t the meeting

that adopted the report of the Committee which

we are about to present, as a part of thb re-

port, the Board re-asserted the reaolotion adopt-

ed at its organization, requiring the Corres

ponding Secretary to give his undivided time

to the doties of his office. T h e SecreUry af-

firmed that he woold not object to the re-asser-

tion of the resolution at any other time, but

that to do so now, seemed to him to imply that

be had not fully given h b time to the interests

of the Board. It was rejoined, however, on

the part of the Board, that each was not the

intention, but that the object of it was to qtiiet

the fears of those w h o supposed that the Board

had not discharged its duty in t h b particu-

lar."

[ R e v i e w . — W i l l the reader be kind enough

to go back and read the statements of the Board

in regard to the "facts and considerations,"

which, they assert, led to tho appointment of

this Committee, and then the above remarks

before introducing its report ? It would seem

that hDwever guilty the Board may have

thought me to bo before tho Committee was

appointed, they now fully exonerate me ^ m

every charge. A n d let any one who has read

the articles in the South-Western Baptbt, en-

dorsed and commended, if not written by some

oF tho sum* numbers of the Board w h o TOted

for the adoption of this report, say h o w beao-

tifully those accusations of having made a false

report, and of unfaithfulness in duty made five

hundred miles from home, correspond with

thc.se assertions made here at home in the

Board, that it had no fault whatever to find

with him, but only some indefinite fear that

somebody might complain of the Board for not

finding fault. ]

T h e Report and resolutions of the Commit-

tee are as follows :

R E P O R T .

The Committee to whom was referred the investiga-

tion of the records of the Southern Baptist Biennial

Convention, with a view lo ascertain and report to

this Board the facts in reference to onr instructions

to circulate denominational and other religious books

in connection with the Holy Scriptures, respectfully

submit tbe following.

In the ilinutes of the Convention at Montgomery,

Alabama, pp. CO and 61, there are recommendaUons

couched in the following language. "That there be

in the bounds of each Association, a Bible Society

organized, which shall hold its annual meetings in

connection with the Association; and that an auxili-

ary society be established in the t>ouods of each

church , and we further recommend that a system of

colportage. which shall embrace not only Bibles, but

religious and denominational book distribution, be

eitablished by these associational societies. Thus

our Bible and Publication Societies could become

mutual helpers to each other In the great work of

home evangelization," etc., etc.

You will observe, 1st. That in the order of recom-

mendation, is the organization of Associational Bible

Societies, "one in tbe bounds of each Asaociation,"

etc. 2iL In tbe order of recommendation, is an auz-

i2tary society in the bonnds of each church. 3d. In tbe

order of recommendation, ia a system of colportage,

in which our Bible and Publieation Societies were to

become mutual helper*.

Vour Committee find nothing in the subsequent

records authorizing you. as the Managers of this

Board, to change or rcrerae this order of business.

Vou will observe, too, that the church societies are

those named as aniiliary to your Board, and that

assocuUional socieiitt, (not the Bible Board,) are

here recommended to establish a system of colpor-

tage to circulate Bibles, and distribute the books of

our Publication Societies. The recommendation is

s]>ecific, and confines even the associational societies

lo Bibles and to the books of "tur PubtieatioH Soei-

eiiet." It is doubted, also, whether the "mutuai

help" here contemplated has ever been extended on

the part of "our Publication Societies," to the Asso-

ciational Societies.

At tbe session of tbe Biennial Convention at Louis-

ville, in tbe Corresponding Secretary's report, Aay

be found tbo fbUowing language, which will be seen

by reference to page 23 of the prt>ceedings of said

Convention;

" W e have purchased no book* but Bibles andTea-

tamenu, and bare made no arrangement* for any

colporter acting tinder a commission directly from

tbe Bible Board to distribute any other books. Some

of the members of the Board thought that tbe in-

structions of the Convention to which we have re-

feired neither required nor authorised It to do ao.—

And there has also been tome doubt in the minds of

a part of tbe Board whether it was the intention of

tbe Convention that tbe funds contributed to onr

auxlliariea, and employed by them in the Joint clr-

culaUon of Biblas and books, should be reported to

us, and thus become abaaU of repreaantaUon In tbe

Convention, or only so much as could be ascertain-

ed to have b M n employed in the exclusive purchase

and clrcuUtioo of BlUes. W e trust you wiU give

us inch InstmctiMis on these p t ^ U as will obviate

such doabU hereaftor. Bat for thdr existeooe w *

should probably be able to accompUah somewhat

more, especially in Keataeky and Tennawes."

' e c a p v t k e r v p a c s i S ^ | |Kcat8>rUBties>««t.

i T i f „

--1 —" tear; iat:-

to Bible and book eotponaca. twpeet&flT report,

that thay feel highly gtatifiad in raviawiag tbaeff-

dency, energy and sticcess which have rbarartrris

ed this department of a grea» and aoble nVapnttL

"Tour Coomittee donotaaethe neceai^ of mak-

ing any important chances, but would simply adeitt

tb^ Board to continue the work which they have ao

Civorably commenced—to fumiah their colporter*

with books of our PaitOatiam Societies in addition

to Bibles—to esUblish auxUiaty socieUes wherever

practicable, and to employ all suitable means to

awaken a general intereatin tbe Bible cause through-

out the Soothem States."

Thia is all clear eoough. The Conesponding Sec-

retary had stated in his report, "thatthis Board had

purchased no books but Biblea and Taatameota, aod

had made oo arrangements for any colporter acting

tmdera commission directly from the Bible Boaid to

distribute any other books." Tbe committee raised

in tbe Cooventioo specially to consider this portion

of the Secretary's report, after expressing their high

degree of satisfaction, say they '"do not see the ne-

cessity of malting any important changea, but would

simply advise Use Board to continue tbe work they

have so favorably commenced—lo fumish their

porters with books of our Publication socieUea, in

addition to Bibles," etc., etc." To you it is simply

advisory—lo continue tile work," etc., etc. They,

tbe committee of the Convention, said not a word

about other books than the Bible and those of "our

Publication Societies," and advise us to fttmiith col-

porters-agencies, by the way, which we never had

—with these books. But, in reference to the joint

fund derived from Bibles and other book* becoming

a basis of representatioo in the Conventi(«i, they are

entirely silent. Your committee, however, are com-

pelled to regard this feature of the case settled by

the report made by tha special coamiittce at Mont-

gomery. Alabama; for, after repeated reference to

"our Publication SocieUes" and the Bible Board-

after alluding to tbe separate agencies jacd objects

of each—it is further said, in reference to colpor-

tage embracing both intereaU: "Each interest could

bear its proportion of the expenses of the system.

and thus tbe associated capital of cach Bible and

Publication Society, could be combined with that of

the parent societies, thereby doubling tbe efficiency

of each."

In regard to this you will see, first, tiiat i.d%nnmi

between the Bible Board and Publication Societies, of

the expenses incident to the joint system of colpor-

tage, is clearly and unequivocally contemplated.—

What else is the signification of the foregoing lan-

guage, as to their being "mutual helpers," "mutual

helper* lo each other," and further. thafrocA inter-

est toula bear its proportwn of the erpcnsa of the sys-

tem."

The same committee, in the same report, suggest-

ed that the Bible Board should, "by bearing its due

proportion of the expcnseji, become identified with

the Home and Foreign JoumaL ' Its proportion of

the expenses," is language common both lo an ar-

rangement with the Home- and Foreign Joumal, and

arrangemruts with our Pablicatioa Societies. Did

any one ever suppose we were to shoulder the entire

expense of the Joumal 7 And if not, how can any

one t i y i p ^ w » w«rE defray the expenses of a joint

system of colportage 1 " - -

Ton wii] notice, secondly, that there is not tbe

shadow of authority for the joint fund being made a

basis of representation in the Convention, or of its

being even brought into our general estimate of Bible

funds, as is shown from lhi.i language TTteassoriat-

ed capital vf each Bible and Pu>jltcalion Sc.cieiy could

be coBtbfned letih thai of the parent soneties." (not

society, referring to one, but parent societies,) ' there

tjr doubling the rfficxency of each." Like begets likt-

—as is the father so is tbe child. The publication

fund is most obviously to be combined with its pa

rent, the Publication Society, aad the capital a«ed

in Bible colportage, to be estimated with the parent

fund—in other words, lo come into the treasury oi

the Bible Board , thus increasim:. or in the Ian

guage of the report, thereby doubling the etEciency

of each "

Such seems to your committee to have been tbe

views taken by tbe Special Committee, who, at Mont-

gomery, submitted a "plan for iKe future operations

of tke Bible Board.' They also Introduced, in their

report to tbe Convention, the following resolution.

"Eesolred, That the Bible Board be instructed in

all future appointments of colporters, so far as prac

ticable, to negotiate such arrangement with our Pub-

lication Societies as will combine the dissemina-

tion of ihetr publications with the Holy Scriptures "

It is for this Board to determi;;e whether it w^Il

make appointments of colporters. and to what ex

tent it is "practicable to negotiate arrangements with

our Publication Societies." So far a<i practicable,

and in accordance with the foregoing requirements—

i. e., that the Bible Board and Publication Societies

become "mutual helpers uf each other''—that' each

inte est bear its proportion of the expen.«es of the

system," and in view of the capital thus associated

again combining with its parent fund, being r«tum-

ed to the parent society, or in otb*r words, those

funds being kept separau* in so far as these things

are practicable, il seems proper that they should be

regarded by yon.

W e arecircumscribr.; in our book colportage, both

by the above resolutioii and subsequent advisory re-

port (on page 56 of tbe proceedings of the Conven-

tion at Louisville) in tbe one Instance to the books

of onr Publication SoCfties in the other to the pubh-

cations of "our societies," not to the publications of

the Southern Society alone; but to tbe ptbtieaiiens of

"our Publication Socirties."

It will be proper, in tbe estimation of your Com-

mittee, for the Bible Board, /Int, to determine wheth-

er these things are practicable at all. Seetndly,

what proportion of the expense of tbe system of col-

portage "our Publication Societies" shall bear.—

TkinVy, whether those societiK, tbrongh our agents,

shall be permitted to circulate any or all their pub-

lications ; or whether, afU-r the proportions of ex-

petuie ahall be agreed upon, we will also demand an

iDvi.^tigaUon and approval of the books to be sold

'. '^nection with our Bibles.

r the Board are jrilling to assume the re-

f t fpermitUng our colporters to dissrmi-

uati t-' i 'i>--ut examinatitm and approval by

tb's Eor- has the leisure to examine, so as

juc. -^r-minate beetweea the good and

the ' to the absence of the leisnre oo the

part -< *rd for this duty, upoo whose Judg-

ment - ' t-^ of the Boaid rdy t Your

commi • - I-' - iJiatyoahava the shadow of

aathorit. ^i-culi:.- ^ny other books than Biblea,

a ^ • publications of onr sodetiea.—

1 M b . -ges as to the books tboae socie-

ties i c > • M »>onp, or on coamtisdon; d o privi-

b«eao> < .r our societies'pubUcatioos. The lan-

guage b ' to combud the diaseninatioa of

their pub. . . atisrtss with the Holy Scriptares." If that

one thing is reqnirc:, all others are forbidden, ex-

c q A i n so Ikr as m a x be neoeaaaiT to carry oat the

thing required. B y way ofilhistiatloo >-the Savior

reqolwdbeUevws to be baptised, » d thereby vir-

tuaHy pn^b i ted the ordtaumoeto anbelievera.

The Southern Baptist Biennial Convention, at

= 51

«_ ^ t ,

elftctasny. rrrTiiii i ^

other than tiw-pebBcstians of eer 1

aeain tlie qsra:iau iccais. wiB « « « ciiEatale

thewt If theBib;eBoardaccsf>t'thFadvic«iaao

one instance, it ia equaQv booad to aAare to it

every oilier. If too datcrmiae to ^i|Miiit rnlfai

ten, dividing the expenae incSdeDt thereia witk O a

PublicaUon Sodetiea. tbra in aO our fittme r r i t f m

to colportage, the Bible Board must, aa we tM^v

conflce itself to tlw diiaendnatxm of die- Biide ami

denomiaaiiooa} books of Baptist PuhficatiaB Seoe-

ties—not only disregarding, btil abagintely ifBsriac

or prohibiting all other publicasiooa, f h n Thalirsr

source.

The only queationa for the maaagss of the Bilte

Board to determine are, whether theae iTiittiali wm

f^om tile Convention are practicable at aH, aad to

what extent T If you determine it ia t»

circulate other boots, then you mhoaid at-once nego-

tiate such arrangements as were c o n t o ^ ^ r i with

otrr PuUicaiim Soeieties. Cntn you 'to thSa, yoa

have nothing whatever to do with other booka th.^.

the Bible.

Your Committee recommend for your adi^itUai,

the following £fts<dations

1. SeMolved, That this Board never have, and do

not now, recommend the diatribution, by ita coipor-

tera, of any deniminational or other books, apart

from the Bible, except thoae of our Baptist PuUica-

(ton Societies.

2. Stsdved, That this Board, having made no ar-

rangamenta with eiltier of our PsSltcatian S o c i e t y

or with any colpottera, are wbollr unprepared toao-

ter directly into the work of diaaeminating dOHiBii-

national boolta.

8. Bescitied, That this B o a M nerer win e n g a ^ in

fhe diatribution of aay books, denominational or

ot-Vrwise, tbe style and doctrine of which they de

not approve.

4. .Itsolted, That tbe Corresponding Sectetaiyba

instructed to occupy tbe apace allotted ui, in the

Home u d Foreign Journal, in direct effoits for

the Bible, and not generally in reviewing os.«Tit-

iciaing "a-e cliaracttr and inilnence of otiiar

books."

5. SesUced, That this Board rega.-d aa a basis of

repreaentation it tlie Convention, those fucda only

which are collecU"d for Bible parposea, sad that

come directly or indirectly into our Treajniry, and

not those ori^inatad or employed for the circulation

of other ixxJa than the Bible.

[ R e t i k w . — I make no analysis of thb re-

port here, becaose I have reviewed its nrinm-

pal positions and pointed out their fallsHes in

m y defence against the attacks which w e n

professedly based upon il I hope the readers

of this paper have preserved aad will refer to

that "defence," to see what were tbe instruc-

tions which the Bible Board Lad received,

how it had understood them, and what reasons

I had for believing, in oppo>itiun to the find-

ing of this committee, that the Convention at

Montgomery and tiiat at Louisville, and also

the Bible Board itself, intendedTiiat Bibles

a i ^ Books shoold be combined m the eolpor-

e o f tmr « ind£as7 nonietias W i d th** , 4 *

fionds employed in this j t ^ t wa|;k dioald W

made the b a s b of representatioo i s tha O a a ^

vention. I have not room to go over bati^

or the arguments here. T h e report of J a a w -

ry. Ib.'i^, suggested, and : U adoption demand-

ed. an entire change of the plans which iht

Board itself had passed, and for neariy three

years had officially recommended to the Con-

vention at Loubville in its report M a y , I S 5 8 ,

eight months before.]

" T h e dplanations made, and the spirit pre-

vailing during th-* discussLin on thb report

^ m e d to have accomplished the purpose de^

signed. T h e Board felt that it had discharged

its duty to the denomination, although the Sec-

retary, aad some members of the Board , be-

lieved that tbe action taken trould prove detri-

mental to iL« interests- Yet , they hoped that

harmony would prevail, and that the Secretary

would, as formerly, continue to discharge his

duty. A n d the Board b of the opinion, that

if it and the Secretary had been let alone, no

unpleasant results would Have taken place.

Unfortunately, however, articles on the sub-

ject commenced to appear in the Tennessee Bap-

tist soon after the adop^sn of the above report

W e regret the necessity of d o b g so, but as-

sured that otherwise the matter will not be

understood, we present a few extracts from

that paper."

[ l U v i x w . — I t b true that if the Board a k d

T H E SxracTABT had been let alone there wocld

probably have been no resignation of the

Secretary. B u t why could not the Board tell

the whole truth ? W h y did it not say " tmfor-

tonatelj' h o w e v e r " a letter appeared in the

Baptist Watchman signed by " A M E M B x a oi

T H E B i b l e B o Ann . " dated the 16th of Janu-

ary, oJmojf a fjonth before the artides nferred

to a letter in the Tennessee Baptist, which

made public the action of the Board, giving it

such a coloring that it would be regarded as

an official and formal condeu<i.htioD of the

Secretary. T h e Board was not ignorant of

the cxbtence of thb letter, nor of the fact

that it was this, which, in connection with

articles of a later date in the South-Western

Baptbt, led to the resignation of th^ Seeretary.

W h a t was its motive for concealing the truth I

pretend not to say.

In the Tmncssee Baptbt , whose editor, it ii

proper to repeat, b one of the Yioe-Prtsidenta

of the Board, number 2 3 , dated F e h m a i y

I3th, 1S5S. the editor says:

" There is manifeatly a systematic attempt to crip-

ple down tbe Secretary of the Bible Board, on the

part of anti-Landmark men and editors. W e aHude

to wliat has appeared in tbe JcniTial [Home and For-

eign,] f ^ hia asaodate editon, [J. B . Taylor, A . M .

Poindexter and R . Holeman,] and the conrae of a

pmlion of the Baptist press, and the anti-Landmark

portion of the Board," and not the least indicative

sign, the allusion to Brother Dayton .as Corre^iond-

big Secretary, in Eider Boweli'sletter ta the ladex."

" All these things are calculated to make the posi-

tioD of tbe Corresponding Seeretary nncfflalortabte,

destroy his p«aee, and paralyse his infiuecoe and

naefulneaa. W e have no dovbt but aa anU-Laad-

mark Secretary would be preferred by that part of

the Board that adopted the late rep<»t of a Coomit-

tee. Brotber DayVm can earily be driven ftaoi the

Board; sad win certainly be by thia treatment. Vat

win the Board supply U s plaoe with a better maal

H e has done too a n c h g o ^ to bo kt alone. B e is

e^ioyinc too isoch of the love, and sttiarttag taq

{ooiTispap <» M O X i .]

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Ih— iiliu an imtwi iniT trr-r —*- «Hh oa. OxA.'rat, M a u i dc C o .

— T s t m u u L m Bueewro.—We l a M Bra. JCoBtszm of Tma, if tbt 8eri|rtam ratlMrte a Salar to wbrioittar n ocdiuna e r 'n ta of Uip

Sa will I n " J M." 11 111 [iTi uti he nndnitood n toaran, •*attend te."L pemke of. « • nM rndwimmv i f * woman iaf t i t t or mdasinia-lrrtfa»««livwt Via ^ M. asawerl

— WtsaSmt aak«d Bro. M. tf Iw b d b ^ tint the Wooi of Ctalat WM ef man rfflcacr- Unn that of "sl ia! lor»| j«t t"«te- He aiM«iw "yat "

Wifl be tfrU sa wtiCTBin. 5f the Wood of Christ cao-dM do what the Wood of botti flJled to do, t e /ur-m r ptr/millmm mmOifimlbsii. 8m Hebrewa X-I -13-

VUl ifce Ski. arinil Uut tha Bew eoTena&t of gnes iaa bntarooeUun thaaU«:reoastof wocksl Bod if ao. Ifieciiv wfaerein 5

— aiwtTcaitr eiKoarmerd bf let;e{a and n«w i i i I i i i B P i i I firum S<3oih Alatatuiuk

— i Sottth Carofina. By all mrann rrocnnf The TaRdity of tnineniacts of Pedobaptisita, by Dif t<m. 8«id f ir W or 100 to as to sgpply eTwr deWate and BafXiat at 5tnir Asociatioo. Too eta awet anj man with tbia book.

— Bra B. VinUaui, Qttotgia, procare and jtiufy Bac^' Fbiloaoph; of Beli^ioQ, | l 25. The flm part ia a d:aeiuurioo of the ATosaaaxT—a ne»i-pa^ar article could not do justice to it—U nqoires • book.

— W V. Xitcban, lU. 5 a Fleaae aend it, and n w i U uutrnm.

— T n TAUttrrr o» PiooB^rasr A3B C^Mnm-ira InxaMiun — Fnun i«tt«n racn«cd frum w i -cuu Sua hem Siam we lean: thAt this tioeatSon will be bratttiit ap for the adrice of seraral iUnociatiaiu this teiL U ahosiCSks «U oUiw qantiooa. be bandied diaercsUjr, or lh«e is dacser of dirldicg Aasaeiatiaiia and diTisiocs ihoBid, above a!I thisK* except, (in, be aniided. JUI Baptisu ceed to decidr' the i{aeat>oQ csmcUy bKjAt. Some have bees b««:ldered br tho sophistical ar^aisrati of D Kton at Diriaitj. Sow i«c »Tery fncad of w r i ^ n l <»der fur a dt ara or uta ^f OATtoa's wnrk npoo thii »tt''J-iat, to crcalaie In his Church aati Tirisicr no*, wnittu before the Ajsociadon, and then the Church «iU be prepared—harins »«« both sides — fur this enataias the best arcumeats of Fatler. WaiJiT, Johnwai, Willlsnui Waylasd. io snppor-vl rach bapusma-r-to tostruct its messea^rs how ta W« siutald be pie«a«d to learn that rrerr Anociadoa in the Sooth was to discuss acd to di>-cid« this tjasstino this Can, and we wmiM frel liule &«r aboot the resolt woa'd ^rerr Baptist but read this work Snt. It is a work of 170 paxes, hand-saaelT boosd. and seat br mail far o q I t 40 ceota.

— Ottc eX3?il«il Brother P W. DjOjoc has n^ njptei tiff Trofessnrship of BJaihemaiics in the Uaina tXaireisitT. We leun thai he propoaes to Cartiua SkssHi. and wiU stin ccmti:iae his rocuicc u a '.^tther of iha yonaa. IFc cnmtnead Professor D ta OUT h.mhrea as a man of j^as moral worth, a kisd and emissctlj social Chnstian gentleman, aad oae W30 has the repa»jf>n of a rerr ih'jroaih idt»»Ur. Hr iml his asaiiale ani taSenwii Udj itili be aa aa{nisratKi to a::y camaiaiiilT. We are sorrr ^ lose them to Teacessee. j .

W(s naisi> with car Brother ia heartily comau'cd-iag PrafipssQT Dodsun as a classical or Miifcemaiicai teach^. He has fiir aiaay y^aa been a ProiVsscr in Onl -n CaiTetaity. -"TTiii f«n please iafvjname what book or work wilJ

gtre ms the best and must r«iab?e infccmatioa cos eendnr the rise or the diflirent reli^oos srcts in our cnaatr}-. War the Baptista I hara Benedict OrciKil I wajit far ali othen. I want to fcn.s^ t h ^ a»Igia mJK* lion anrtliiaa ris.-. fa there s r j iaroraatiiai eauide of Betjcdiet a-sj Orcoard. air-ciraicg the mijia cf Ejisaa r.irholics.

What jirai the beat accuon; of the pcr3ecut:oiis of Baptists, aad who perseca'ed."

Eossar S- Prscis Assw-ES.—Taa shouW haTe-Chnrchra aj^l

price 73 and" DfHrliags Histary of B-jman-ism,"' new rfitian, ( l Ott.

— BfJthier Barry of Liiina[ton, Mhs. We fear is wiU be out of our poirerta arant yonr rwioest. We ihauid ia do so. aad- if passibis". wilL

— A Rssptjisa rofiit Ssir J s s j s t —" I caa=oi bat Utick joa ar» -i^ht in wikfcg np the Blaptis;? Suiih and 5-jnh. wff-3 as Ea»i and W«t, to thr impcTtrosr' of presfrcticic a biiJi frt^ot to "Pjote*: sat P;>p*ry"-to w»fl is to Soman P .'psry. T«a irr cerai^ly right ia yuorricws rMpectins th? procli*-ity of Bapiiat Churches X^rth asd East, toward. P.dr.bapiiiiS sociftwi and crcanxudots. The preacher amr>na the BafCiats of this day, who lets the a^ptut stand oat pramiueatlg at cUtista, is pvt

i -mi hy both Cieray and Chorches. For the last «i«E»a j « n I hare aoi heard in Sew Jersey a ser man at our A.'isactaeiaos or Sate ConTentiatis, is Thleh Baptist prisciplea exsIuairWy prsdominaied throa^hcut.

Oae haif of anr socailed ieadin; men ia ;ie mlais try acd in CuUeges do as much, ia my <^iaioa. baiilup PrMbyteriacism and ilethciism as the Baptist Charch. These thinss gripTe tas; bat I hope the cext jsieraU an will get zJleir eyes epea and act csora wisely. o ,

— W« are eomprlied to deciine the inritatioos to Tiait Associationa in East Tennessee, except two,— the a nerai As»>e:atioa ia Joorsboro, secaod Sab-badi in 0>:tob«!r, and th» ConTention at S r^etiralcr,

flrst Sabbath in Xt=reaber. — S»yi one rsaJer of the Tfccessee Baptise, and

an entha<fastic admirer of gcod poetry, aoljtug'* hot toe <entimRits ia pnetrj, " I woaid giT» St» d-iUarm fir the Tennessee Baptist one year, fir the flae specrm-os at poetry I flid under • P«i and Scis-sor*,' or eis^wfaere. There b certainly a poet amocg iu edistirs. f ir a poet only could seT^ct sach aa-i «««»• ii»3f but ntk.

p r n ^ to Io»tt good poetry, and t i ae who do. win usually And a pins of good poetry, in our esd-matioa. itoiis- Pm end Seiisors. or eo U» first pace The piece t&ia w«k ia worth gnid, and should be cumaiittcd to atesuur by erery miniater.

— See Wuda ftria Etiecd* this wetk. — Suaxca.—n U said of E.-asmus that be be-

loDged to « cl»o of men, alaa. numerous eren in thi* day. who m genetaay ready to a^^iau i amooa the loudest shaS bo ooe ia bis senses would think of csosttrlas, bat who lift op their hands in hoiy horror at ^ha T^hemcses of adfocacy by which alone. agxtati kajEnquOaiu/liirfoarf and wiclmc*, the ob-ject of their ap^^asn eimhi be auccessfitUj rindi-caied. The oa»aryingbard«i of this cha.»?o against Luthrzr was hia want of mildaesa, he thus ob-tained p n t a a S i t la ty iHj aad Chriatlaa meek-saai and charitj-. But no soMwr had he eonunitted himaelftoaeanlrosersy witkLuike-, than he,"the UI»l<iDg pn-acher of tolsance aial Laderatitm, not mtlj enpinyed the moat Tiole&t iaiectiTa ia re-joinder. but actually called oo the Slectar of Saxooy la pimiah Luther or msizia hiuL."

We iifne an to think aboot this and to mate Uteff o«B •fpUcBion.

— O n I ^ n n ar Lur.—Of aB tiw papen re-PBbBakthi E TKJrt adopted by por-

tf«a< ih i lBib ioMi, ooly OM to y « been faand Xk•WateteK^ nder HjOnui ' i

^ do SMer a w w i tlualiB. LikaB aw tttlina nen p ^ . *** —Piiitiiilly to capr B t e Dajtoifa

TIni? aAtoca pentatEmiy tefiise to al-"fcT^MStwartrtionaoy m^T.

p«pec

E N N I T S S E E i B A E T P S T . c "is.*.

8. S k u t k ) —The' SeT{«w te n d ^ beee aoae for the ateel-plate e^raiinc. A fewdaya more wtH be aeceaaaiy.

X«a Hsnsck *br *m*.—The brger pan of Uiia i«per k <Kctip)ed with Bro. Daytoo'a Beriew of the iate Report adopted by the aoti iMdmark por-lioo of tbe Bible Board. Eseiy one wiH see that a reply wma dnssnded, asd will approve of the t ^ l y of Bro. lUyton. He haa ahswed his assailants all Etinieaa, harinic pubHsbed their Beport in fulL Our rwders now base both sides before them.

Tha Biblu Board aay they can see no occaaioD for Bntther Dayton'a "^OeAoae" and all the •* Hubbsb" to which tke csotroTcrsrttr which it forms a part haa firen dae. -x.: -

A worthy heather from Laurcos District, 8. C., writes:

" Against Mr. Daytoo we hare had a tremendous demonsaatten, dJargln? him with baring made a fcl«e reprearatatiQit. This was truly a rery serious charge and seemed to portend his d«trucUon both as a maa and miaitlet of Jesus Christ, but I am happy to say, 1 hare seen his de&nce and am con-strained to prooottBee it a triumphant one, both in maaer acd spirit."

And this is but one of scores of similar expres-sions which base readied us frot^ erery part of the few. If Brother Dtytoo had not defended himaelf from those attacks he must hare been disgraced and ruined. Certainly there is not a brother who wUl And Idull because he has doce so. The editors of this paper ate not blamable with thiscontroversr.

We do hope that erery Baptist will read it, long as it is, carefully, and jaiee impartiallv. We ba^^ no hater wonts to say. We beltere that'the majorilj- of tha brethren who roted the report did so without making personal investigaUon, and we hope ttey will yet place dx-mseTes rigbt. If not their names are known to the denomination and time will prore that they only" injured themselves.

One of the foremost men engaged to effect the ruin of Brother Dayton, writes abroad that. " The Board^has now ad^^ted a report from the effect of which Mr. Dayton wiU nerer be ab!e to rise again to respectability.- Time will show whether thU Re-port WiU injure Brother Dayton so much as it will the President of the Bible Board and that Com-mittee.

— B.-0. Mauiui^. Esq. ffe cannot express oar gratltate to you for your kindness in meeting the charges of the South-Weswm Baptist npt« that oo casfon. It proTes that we ought to defend ourselves so k>ng as that paper makes charges-though many good brethren say, " Say, let them go, for slandera are sooc overtaken," unless lmU> is sent afttr them, s»y vre.

— Daricg tia.- past twenty-six weeks of Elder Headcrsoo s war to break down the circulaUon of ih» Tennessee Baptist, it has madi- a clear gain of I'JOO iubscribera, and nearly doubled its circuUiioa •n Svjuth AUbama. He Las lost, we presume more than lOuO.

C:thi3 s Bask or Sx»BTn.tK asd .Mssrais— Tue biJs of this Bank were thrown out oo the 13:h icst Parties remitting to Bs will place notice. See uar bank qaoca?:».ns.

— Correspondrais must be patient, the camber cf leuers and articles that hare accnmalaied daring oar absence will require weeks to get tliroagh.

— To Bro Hart, aad others. Providence permU-•tng, xi expect to meet with ocr breshreiria West Tecuessee. tl the ap..rtmchiii» ConvenUoc on th? 4lh Sibfaalh in Aa^-ast. We hop.- i: will be the larger: «:..nvestiuc of Faf^Ut, evir hWd in Districl-WUl C..t every Cbarcb in Wesi Tenacasee represent ncrself by n !eist one deicsaieJ The car.>e wi;l receive a feesh impobe by a lar^e ai.d eathaiiastic lEeetiai.

— Those words cf yoars. Bro J J Mi'Jer wer-like c»ol dew-drops on iLe clseek of the dower.-(Jjd bless yoa.

— A Minister from Svi.-k5vi3e. MLss., «-ri;es Tae Soadiv-school Caioa is aU right in Miss

I have yc- w see the man who is opposed t« it, — A. W. Wbiii.-j» or Mijj. . in aHadina ii the

sr.eers and taatits of the &ialh Western Baptist u •-he ^ triumviratein Xashvile. is forcily renicdtd -if .«ac.'ed triamvlraies ia the B.ble.

Timers were Moses acd Ai.-oa a:id Ha.- ui - le toiiJe against Am»lrk

Then ihere were the three Hebrews, Shadrach, M»-'C<K:fa a;:d Abedaego, who woala cot bow down before the golden image that a maa had set up.— roey were severely tried, but Gml did not forsake then. Aiti-Lacdniirk men woald force Baptists to l> jw before Proiesyuuism—the Ima^e of the Cea?:. ia icfc:owicdgeme!it of ita evaigelicalaeas.

M a r k s b y the Way . so . I ! .

Dr. Oiss b DOW both proprietcr acd editor jf the Recorder, aad for the first time for, lo. tiiese maa j years, it is standiug oat a s j ou: ap-ia the r e r j groaad where we can give it our Esreserred commcLdation. It has boldly thrown off from it erery Campbellite infiaecce, l t d t»i=a aa derated BsptL>t ground—co aetming comproisLse—no a&iiaticn with error •>r erroriats.

The Prtsh'jterian Herald pays it this high -•omplimeat, and admit tha constantly increas-ing fltreEgth of coasLteav Baptist principles.

' •aiGE-C a C S C H l S J I I S LOC IST I LLE .

" I t ye«3M that the new editor of the Western Recorder, the Baptist paper «f this city, ha.s become an outspoken Highchnrch Baptist of tha Etraicest sect. • • • aighehnrch party in tLe denomination are constantly gaining accessiscs to their ranks They havs the lagie, Uking Baptist pre^nises f-iT graojed, on their side, whilst the Low-churchmca have the piety on theirs. Which will carry the day, lope or piety, remains to be seen. In the meantime the ^reat mass oat -tda oi the Baptist Church will,-by the contest between them, b« induced to see the prcK'on pseudos of both parues and abandon it. That ts, that immersion alone is baptism."

(I t s«iBs that the editor of the Herald hx>s rery singular ideas of f i e l ^ ; we ihoujjht it based upon the truth, acd that the truth iira> •nseparable from it, but Mr. Hill savs the Luidmark party hare the logic, i e. truth and rtaiOH, while tha anti-Lacdmark fcave the

All the piety there is in the Baptist (Jhurcb, Qi in the world, diseonnected from reason aud truth, L e., logic, aoti-Landmark-aen and Pedobaptista are perfectly weJcomc to, and, by the way, our readers can see frrm Mr- Hill's admbnoo that if immersion aJone is baptism, then Pedobaptist societies are not scriptural Churchcs, and hare no ministry, but are human C&orches inrented by men, and set dp in riralry of »be Churcheif of Christ)

To place the Recorder in this new pt^itioD cOBt Bro Otis a severe struggle, we leara, and ^ m e of his strongest friends in I^uisrillc— Baptists, ReTisionists, and Campbellites did their best to deter him from t a J ^ g the only course left him to sare the Recorder, and to r ^ d c r it a true exponent of Baptist princi-Jrfea an i seniimtnts ia Kentccky. I t is thought b , these who know best, that he has ^ d ^ f a o K ^ B o o b o o x i o n a to the powers t ^ t be, t U t he is yet feel the keen edge of the sword ecdesiasticaL We cannot well<x-

on being able to gire to t t e Recorder bcA hand, and^doome ft into the T e ^ ran of battkL Only let i t maintain the nobb taken, « ,d e r e r j new thoBsand added to ita list will b i t w m 4 t — Deq^ite the clouds t i ialhare beea h a o ^ of late orvc our western sky we^aaseethebruAt Woe sky beocaUt them. Wkaterer may b®. the pntiej iato whiek £a^« tn and 8<mtli-Sast-

n Baptiats m a j aettl^ there ia hope Ibr the SooA and Weak The Westeia Beeordv, TenneGMBi^tist ,6eaisia Index, H i ^ ^ i Baptist, Texas B a p ^ if we rij^tfy mder-

tbem, now ^and shimlder to Moulder u adT{ieaej noo a f f i l i a t e in the pulpit or

• w ^ w n k a i t i b l e , m f t M ^ W M ^ s r r o r -

il jht

iB ' i p r^ £uBiliai^«ad S^iibafh-tehools^a&d ^wx%are two. witnesaea at least, east of the IwMmtaias—tlw Virginia Baptist and Biblical R«eorder. The Christian Repository, edited by Brother Ford and the author of Grace Truman, is aaeoeedisg well, though just now breasting a ctf B a p ^ a t t d Campbellite'np-pMiUpn, if not downright ptrsteution. The pnblie mind has been prepared by the publica-tions in the Louisville Journal, and indircot allusions in the Repository, for ittracge dis-closuiss. While we take no sides in the mat tor until we hare all the testimony before us, it may not be improper for us to su t e how thbgs stand in LouisTille. Elder Ford leam-

through a brother, that Elder EverU was indostnoasly cirealatiDg the most slanderous and ruinous reports caleulatcd to ruin bis mor-al, as well as Christian and ministerial charac-ter. Elder F . called upon Eld E to retract, and upon his refusal to do so, Elder F. arraign-ed him before his Church on the charj{e.6f slan-der, and Elder E. justifies. Each Church, the East Street and Walnut appointed a Com-mittee of seven, to hear, and report all the te.s-timony, not confining Elder Everts to prove ^ e specific chargss only preferred, but allow-M him to prefer as many as he saw fit to at-tempt to prove. Lawyers were employed to examine and oross-ezamine witnesses, &c. Tbi* Court sat for weeks, and we learn that the cvi dence taken makes Mme 400 to 500 pages of manuscript I The testimony has been cioxed, and the Committee are now engaged sifting the testimony before presenting it to the respective Churches. A large part of it will d-mbile.-^ see the light, aud revelations will be made. It is a morul warfare. If Elder Everu proves one half what ho has reported, Elder F->rd is a vile man; if he fails to do 80 Elder EverL-is a vile slanderer. I t is impos.Mble for a.s t>j say which is the guilty man. One however is, and ought not to be tolerated onu day after (he fact-< are published. Let the guilty Kutler, whether he be an editor or a Do«tor of Disiiii-ty. The characters of men areeijuai, or should be with Baptists. One thing, however, we must lift our voice against, and we believe ev-ery true Baptist will reprobate, i. e., the char-acter of witnesses and testimony introduced to establish guilt upon Elder Ford—his bitter-e^t enemies—those who seek his dovnifail — Campbellites, Irish Catholios, ignorant Ger-mans. and i^rman Turners, i. c., infidel' ! Is a Baptist miuister's rtputation to b« placed in peril by sitoh witnesses ? Will Bapusts hold all those jf their ministers guilty who are con victed of falsehood or unfair dealing by ^acil testimony ? The like of it we never heard of befjrc. We would be understood, we do uot S4y that Campbellites and Pedoba .lists are iBcapable of .telling the truth, but we do say that their testimony is that of interesttd icit-

litssex when they appear against a Baptist minister whom they have long known and fell to bo an enemy to th«ir false system. Wili Baptists reccive the testimony of A Campbell, wntten aad published to th^ world 8;raia>t Eider Jeter, of Ktehmond ? Then is Elder J an ignorant and r-"aa man, a notable liar.— Will thede&oui: .uon receivc tho testim'tuj uf Mr. Lee. of Ricumoiid, and J B McFerrit of this city, agiiii.-t. Eld Howell, acd a \ number of respectable Baptist miuisltr.-? — i Oaly establish the eril that the te^iiaiODv * f ! Pedobapt:.<ts, and Caaipbeliites will be rect i n -i ; aeaiust a Baptist miuister, and we would not I give a farthing for the character of any bi}. ' tist miuiatcr in the land who hifp.ua lo t» j iDi>re of a Baptist thaa a I'cdo or (. iiupb. ILt. iu his iiifiuence. |

What then bhall we .say of the ti-stimoav ..f I Iri^a aad Gvrman Catbolio a liaf,ti-t i heretic? Are there Baptists iini;^ ah.) wlu: i rebatid the imjuiiitioa in oi:r iij!.i-i, <i>. .'troj their own brethren by the w r; lu-ai,-that Rjme resorted t;^—the teaiiaioi.y i.f a \ one who could be }.>crraaded to te-tifv the victim? Wo kr-.iw nut bow mai-'i- . f .- loi. sort of testimony wiij be considered i.'«<,>.ii n<ji and vaitd by the fiual adjudicators, but ter our decidcd proieti before Lai.d atiiu-i such cLiractcr of witne.- ses. A^k Dr Ricc :t' he is willing to be tncd upon the t.;rtinii.tiv of Catholics y A>k the ashes of tLc aiia-i 3p!:-L-during a thousand 5cars.

We loam that EiJ t r Ford ^ vrhoic iUc !r .aj boyhood Las beta i^iniined. private ai i j d;.-famatory letters .'oat into every couiaiuiiity m which he has resided, and tsforajatjcn M>ughi It was found that the Church a-hicfa orda.m.i bim years ago is broken up perhaps, a;.J the validity o{ his crdi/Iatio:>, aiid perhaps b. ; tisai. chaleiiged; but by chaiiCe. Le Laj.ptuu 1 j to fitd his certificate of crdinattoD, and our or | more of the ministers are livirg '-Pr IM ! lard aad -Dr " Campbell were" heard to r- ' msrk, that if tbty Wtre calltd npna to prnvo ] them-elvcs ordained ministers they could a.it 1 haviDg lost their "papers." Wc nieutioo th-.-^ | things here to express ur aaer I.-'a-hii>2 | the unprincipled meanness of such a cur^t ' by whomsoever puriufcd to ruin or i t jare ar.v man, and much more a brother. It i.s itjdtca live of an inveterate malice r>f the d.-f-pest t rpe ! of wickedness. If Elder Ford i.s t ' l ' l ty him be proved so like a white man lo a fair way, aud we will not uphold him one t.-ur.

Th • Baptists of l\.ei)tucky are piinfull) agitated by this prosecution Toev are a wan-ing the result with anxious ^licitude. Tocy fear the coasequecci^ Very iittlc appreheu sioa of the guilt of Bro Ford is aicertained, yet they see should he come forth iuiioctnt yet for the present he will be a deeply i[ij'.ir^ man, tho fact that he has been cbargcd wiib such ofToDces by a distiuguisbed Btptist niiii-ister, will be used by his <aiemier, and too ci.e-mies of Baptists, to eounieract aujlbii g hv may say. But more than this is feared, thai this movement may possibly have ia it a deep s-ignificancy,—may look towards a division of the decominatsoa ia Kentucky. T/u fstao tLhrneni of Elder turd's innocence leadii.g directly to it. Should Elder Ford's Church i be satisfied of his 'Duoccticy, and the Walnut j Street Church irhou!d declare him guilty, a n j ] refuse to exclude her pastor for slander, tb-? fellowship of the Churches is at once des royol Should Eld F.'s Church call a large advisory council and lay before thtm all the tc.sSimoDj etc . aud the council should sustain her deci.>it.n, then the Walnut Sireet Church would bs mot at the door cf the A-saociatiia aad the (jaes-tion raided upon her reception. Now it is known that the parties b the caso are aati-Campbellite noc-affiliatiocist Biptists. and af-filiationbts aad those who apologue for Cimp-belliss because of Revision, and other consid-erations that the question cf Church order might become potential and the As<ociaii'>Q divide, and then who could tell where the division would ea i ? ' Thus the very inno-eencc of Elder Ford is the very thing that may be U5cd to divide the Association in Ken-tucky. And are there not omens upon the sky further South, that point to the &rac do-iaga—to effect a division or to threaten or force the denomination to the v e i ^ of it, and leave them the altemativt of allowirg certain men to be sacrificed or t a see the denomina-tion divided ? There are upon the sky, u d sounds upon the air that .fill t<s with trem-bling forebodings. The step h.ts already been taken to rend the denomtnatioa in Arkansas Elder T. H Gooipere, rcpreseBte.d to us by Landmaik Baptbte,'aa b«ng a bo.'d, fearless Baptist preacher, a non-affiliationist, bat by others as a meddiestHce, tronUesomer conten-tious, strife and miEchief-iBaldag, eelf-eor» ceitrf, ambitious man, has Rcently been a i m m a n / y exduded from a Baptist Chnrch by aa - " t i -Ijandmark najority—and reeared by anotO«r whose aet has been ssstunad by a Qconcil-^ -Now what will bo the action of the Associa-Uop ? One of these Churches i t mast decide ia in disorder. Butunquestioni^Iy oUter con-siderations and in^oencea will be itet to work

aad yf^ teU W &r the w e d ^ v ^ ^

driven? Bring tho matter u e u f r home. Eld. Dayton is guilty of the deception alid hewous wr.ing-doing charged upan him by tho anti-Landmark members of the Bible Board, or those members of the Board are guilty of egregious misreprescnUtion and foul treatment of their SecreUry. He publishea his defence and expo.^ their late report, and most clearlv conviota them, and vindicates himself Now suppose they should, a<< a la.-t resort to ruin him, charge him before the First Church, aad amsjarity should sustain them and their resort, and proBounoo him guilty aad cxclode him, who cannot see what would inevitably follow. Should he find a Church that would give his case a re-hearirg and assisted by a council, if you please, prove him an innoceat—a grossly wronged acd persecuted man, and give him membership, th'e Concord Association would take coi^ixiDcc of tho fact, and pronounce that one of tha Churcben wa« in disorder.— But right here would be brought in extraneous influences, peni<.>&al consideiations and the whole tran.ssction might be charged upon Land-mark Baptists, or tho editor of the Tennessee Baptist (as the late Sibhath-«ehoi>i Convention wa«,) whose design wan to divide and make a party, aud some gord, but unthinking brethren might bo deceired, aud tho As..ioci«tiou divided, and the division once commenced who could foresee its end ? Every Church in Middle Tennessee and North Alabama would soon be forced to take side.s, aud the limits of the Su t e would not cimfi le it. Now this would be, should it take place, surely charged to the ad-voeate.i of tho l.<:iiid:uark policy, but who «»iiuot siHj that fh<! V. ry innocenco of Bro D would be Hie rial t'lnso of it, i. e. ^hould the denomination be deteniiiiied to sustain his iiiin!c''ucy a^raiii-l liis as.ssilaiit.s,

1( IS pos,>ible fur ihe Church sometimes to bo Used by an iLfluentiat pistor, to effect the ruiu or lasting iujury of au inncoent member not altoiri'ther acci. ptttblo to the pastor. We have laAly heard of a pastor when speaking of tho exclusion of au influential member to whom he wa.s opp>>sud, tbat exclusion from the Church would ruiu hiin, fcrsaid he, whoever knew of a member lurie-d out by tho majority of au iiitluuDtial Church, that was not uUi-mately ruined b^ it ! ' Tiiis is to confess a pha.-e of dcsigulug craft and depravity uncau-eened of b>- Uv Wbit blasphemy ! Use the Church of 0..d to gratify tbe feelings of per-sonal reveugu upou au iuuiiceul brother ! The jadj^mcut jyill bo it.deoj a day of revelation

But to returu to (reorgetown. Tho minis-ters attcudiijg the General Assooution, to the uuujbtr of 10, wo Karicd, tucmorializod the Ki.'t aud \\ albut StrevS Cliurclifs in Louis-ville. to call a coutieil of ministers'and dea-oou^'. to eiataiiie into aud settle harmoniously up )u sonj.' proper basis the charges in issue bciweei! Elder F and E In passing through Louisville on our way bome wq learned that Eld F a!.<l his Church had readily assented to the propossiion. but that Eld E. waived it, for ihe present at Icit-il. The result will SOQU

b<j Icariied O i Sunday f iiliiwij ;; «re preached at

5It. Fieasant. lu the pulpit firuierly uccupied b j EJui.iij.l Waller—faluerot J . L Wallw,— the puif.it iu w!n.;ii wo proaobt i oar second ser-:iii>i! Tiie coiiji-regat ion was largo aiid atten-tive as-J c. rdiai was liie grceliag we received fr.-iu the oivi Ijlherstbat arc still living around

alter A: i.ighi we proached at t.Ve Ml Frmi-.aj I'tiaiuii whcrd si'CiC sixteen year-ifS : a uitre 'ifi^iu-i;. Ko fforc ordaitad ti> the

bui ili..-> ' tbe ra-a^'!' of time, oai> itiii., . f ill , Wc kuew ami

1 ::ii!u n.alh ha-;r.t/.i.e ui.'J olLers have re -S al tV-w reuiaiii luaj

.t.t!u L < a liiiiV Im.ki; y ihv aril.-I i vf! 'I ubcii Wi- Cil.

u. f t |.,v,J " , 1 el a: a. 1 .1 •u .>..1 1.. 1 i -u t,..,

! r .V a r ; 1 'T a !. ... • li -

u'.lti ih-aj .'rolracttnl

t - cbar;^e is ihe latr i:-ii(;i rt' -ci recollection r.f j . ju- 1. \ us touciiicg the

. .'uc ntKen year.- >u.ee, -i.Jii. jear= before Le

owing' to the great press of matters aa mj hands, I am eompdied to hare a fixed d a j to write letters^ and h u e a this delaj . '

I am glad of this opportonitj of writing to you freely ^ u t Brother Grares, of the Tennessee Baptist. I have reeeired reeoitly, some doxen ki tars on the mbjee t l a i H a n -"wer only yours, and I hope yon will pnsmrv

the answer, if need^bk for fb twe pablioatioaf Brother Chambliss would do well to leam the 11th oommandment, "Let erery man mind his own business."

Brother GraTes was here a week ago. He has treated me badly of late, but he was im-posed upon by—and others; our interriew was pleasant and entirely satisfactory. For the first time he told me of what was said, just as you have written as coming £rmn Brother Chambliss; and in the presence of Rers. T. J . Fisher, and 8. H. Ford, I told him what I had said, and he did not deny one word of my statement. The facts are these: Some eight or ten years ago, just before Brother Graves left Kentucky, he drove me ia a b u ^ ^ to meet some appointments I had to filL He had just closed his school, was oat of employ-ment, had failed to get in as teacher of the Preparatory department at Georgetown. He spoke to me freely and unreservedly of his future course. He said he could not consci-entiously remain in a slave State. That he knew that all the young men were in the habit of having illicit intereourse with negro ^irls, and that the state of morals was such he thought he could not stay and be silent In %I1 kindness and frankness, I told him that he knew mnro about such things than I did, al-though I wi s raised among slaves, and with unre.served sincerity, I advi»^ him tQ go to a free StaU). Shortly afterwards he did go. The next I heard of him, was the reception of a Catalogue of a Female College, somewhere in North Ohio, I believe, setting forth a very large number of pupils. Some months after, he wrote a loug letter, two sheets of cap paper, expressing his anxiety to return to Kentucky, or some where South. To this let-ter I did not reply, in consequence of my for-mer advice and impresiiions. Tho next I knew of him was as the associate editor of Or. Howell in the Tennessee Baptist.

The above is the substance what I told him ten days ago, as brethren Ford and l ^ h e r will attest, and he did not gainsay i t I t made no unfavorable impression on my mind towards Brother Graves. I supposed it ail natural enough for one raised out of a slave State, and we parted then, as we have re-main^ ever since, (ou my part I knoic) sincere friends.

I have no doubt I mentioned this conversa-tion to Rev. J . T. Tichenor, as I have to others, and as perhaps I did to you, and other friends of Bro. Graves and m y ^ f . I did so simply to vindicate Bro. Graves from ultra Souihernism; or rather to show that it was im-possible thav he could be at heart in favor of proscribbg the benevolent societies and the good men of the North. I never received any letters from him on slavery in my Hfie; they have mistaken what I said respecting the two sheet cap paper letter mentioned already for such a letter. I never regarded Brother Graves as an Abolitionist, or as having the least sympathies that way ; and never intimat-ed any thing of the kiad. I have ever re-^ rarded him as a Christian and a high-toned g'--ntlemau —too impulsive perhaps and too easy II lend a listening ear to designing men—but fironipt to correct himself, and always mag uanimous iu his feelings. This opinion I have ei;.rcs.-e<i every where and to all men whea it jas callcd for 1 have thus written in full without liic slightest mental reservation, and iiiterly uussajed by favor or affection—the irae ver.-ioti of this matter. Again. I say

rg^ r:, ^^ : ,

axaept in Hmr pniat, while if we so mocfras indioate ia mprivait ootunnaHon cm ^ ^ ^

amalgamatioa. Elder Henderson, some of these w y men;

"Ctj iatoe, aad let alip the dogs of war."-

Now if Elder Henderson ia honet^ let him turn awordaym tiiese B»n aad Ininir f lam to repentanee||er drive them {it>m ^ South, and let the j M g m r a t b ^ i n ia his own offioe.

i:

AtjJi i t ioaism and s . w . Bapt is t . i i - tU.l r ! It- 6 U l>if.t:.-t Saiiiuel

II -..li. r... 11 i r IL. tii.iii.l >e oi ibjariny t'.e cil JU.jtl.iLi j''ifil IL .Vlatia : a, ttpe-c:iliV. - d I U i'll' jT-ii :a.. .. Las ref'ved ail .•!•] I l l - : , a;:: ti ;.r=dcces*er at-leujpted T . u-., \ . r -iLCii. l l .seem.-' ttia; tile tiiitL.'-. ' ; w.at p . ; : r are aujbuioa^ to gaii- a x- .-> t jf putrid t i crvtCeLo:-

The J .-.i. . •J. L Wali.r s •. . .. .-.Jiae ca.-u_ reaiart-. lutiiure lit toe .-ic aud iuU a iijit ur>l Ciiic 1 1; Uf

Wlitii .( . i-Tu t- edit r f tLe S W Bap-i!-i 12 1!. (d tbi- caar^t- a tVicud of ours, Hr

W i'. ;iii. >l I-7.1 -i(.t who was also a iva.'in ii:>: i ..1 -I L Uj i i t t , immediatelv isri.ti. Ki ivr A J..11 ; i,- tacts m the ca.-e wt.icti E 1 r j.iir r.jii^ to his be-rvc-. ll> c;!• 1 wliMi'. I t.-I 11 -4.1! be -.ceu, fun, i.-iies u- a -i" .Mi-i'v^: a t i o s f r o v

I 1; K I i M • .-i. V I. .11.11 le'M^ t

To tiiree iLi.^^ «i ' • call especial al tei-AiK-:. .

1. Till! 'Ur I'-.^ailaM d'-- 'S'hit we cant 01 eoneeive ai. a >:>< ui^ii 1" .;i I be forced to Ly tbe terr>.r- iiie tike— aifcs one •• -.-i Ir m lb'.' it i:rr. « iaiui-.< c 'astr-i • . Jrom If that appareuii;. tuakf L. i-r ...ilcr coxi vict Us iJi ab-illlMJls I , 11 .. '.vI . WiT Ie tbe ietu r '.J viti.ji -a; • i .. tbe' charge, anu dcK s lit esplicil t. : i-

Wbru an ; vill nsort to such foul iiieaus u. hilai:. 1. iti<- cLaracU-r of even au en-Liuy, ue 1. .-lire to r. ' t i n wbal be dcscrve.i., .be t.I*.cralKU t'l aii ^ -a l;-.::.

Ll'.:! tc iJiifkil. tha' <';;r rcTnirks to Ei-der W . a- n lueiulK-r-a l>i Es.ivr W..wcro D >! t.>uobii j: tbe luoraiity - t Mi:fal[ies.<i, or j/iisi-.-/I'i'Kis e'l .•iGtvrv. hu; • i;t p irsoti-al views .j1 Ji.-j^asi 11'jniti/y i '.., ' • which is uci shir au cui .Lfi.t(. i ; ur aa atca.se ot slavery

:5 .Vl .! let isvo otHcr facts, br bori;o in mind Tje ecu -r o! ;be S Baptist cbarge-j u> iD ULQ t-l 111 articles \iiilj leic;' too httie o isoUltj'Tl: iL I'ell;.^'. aJ.U ea-tlCg our iLfluence-a,;aii:.-' -a s-taraii.ji! of tb< South fron tt." .N rrh iu it- b-,!;<-v-.->l-?!it raterprbw — WQO!! E i Wall.- tl .u. }-; that we were aito^'f-tber too uUra Sou'.b-era, at the same tiii e ci l l i rg up ci'jr Atiti-aaiti^amali-jn re-maik- to justify luis b<-t!tf "»Vo advocated in the f.ico cf Ai'-fcr ir<t.'iT',< opposition a separation frcim the Xo'-thrjri BUi« Society,

and the of th< S'Aitkfm B i l l e

Bocrd' i t M difficult to plea>e a! tastes. W*e can safeiv say this, that wo bav.j written aad published fxo, if -jot Uve, li;"- ia defonoe cf the institutKw, where ihis clitni Las written or.e. N'>w a iVw statenitaLs to correct Elder Waller's mijrec fllicti.jas aad iufireacea.

We never "iefi the Souih" as a place of res-idence at ail, but on 'a vi>it to oir relatives, and having married, returned to the South, whether all our fasily -won fi.»llow?d us. Since tho year of our majoriiy we have beea a citi-

of the South, having cast ourfir.-t rote in Kentucky, and are tc-day, aa wt have been ever since we have betn able to ba—a slaveholder, acd no min can trutbfully assert thatwe have ever been tiofairbful t* tbe South-

I t was s catalogue of our B'-<>tivrs school, not of ours that Elder Waller re»;4vcd

With these remarks we submit tie letter cf Elder Waller, which fiilly acd fcrever aa-sw^ets tbe columns cf special pleaiicg made by this editor and his coadjutors toeanrict us of sentiments that we. utterly repadiite.

Will not our friends procure the piblieation of this letter, with these cxplacaticns, in all those secular papers in which we tave been anonymously assailed ?

L o v i s v i i l * , KaKTOar. J tLT 12 ,183 .

p^i. M. W. Pniups. D j s a r B b o t b e b :,—Your kind favor of

27ti^ a l t , «uBe to jiand four days tgo, bnt

lutbor.ze you to use this letter as you please; bat be sure to keep i t I will write no other on the subject; aad whea I call for its publi cation, as perhaps I never shall, I n u t it to be paV iishcd. That is ail the coatrol I ask of it^

Bro Chambliss is acting a very unworthy part in detaiiiag my conversations at second baud. May my tongue be palsied before I en cajTc in .such unhallowed methods to itijare the ri puiatio;: of any mac—even an enemy—not t-j say a brother I expect to write to yo.i again soon. I have not time to write mon u..«. At ica.st I will answer all your letters.

Yours affectionately, JoaN L . W a l l e e .

In once more cKising our defence, we submit a reflection or two

Elder Henderson labors to impress his readers that he has been impelled to pursue the course he has against us by a deep sease of his daty to h s 6<k1, aad his patriotbm aad iove fcr the South in de-fence of Ler peculiar iii.-titutioa. He may be Hncere in this pro-festion. but we are disposed to put it to a test 11 is a beinous sin thus t-o s-pcak agaiast amaJ-

y-Tma/tcn. which is all we ever did—or to op-jm; the evils or abuses of slavery as it b

ci-aimcd that wc did. how infiaitely more guilty l« for>- s'-Uier Henderson's God, and dangerous ; • .>-->uth is that man or those men in oar

iv midst who declare slavery i t^lf a ' 'moral . vil. cad unsanetioned by tbe Scripttires."— Now if Eider H. has drawn his sword against heretics why does he not comc out against all who have avowed what he denominates abo-lition sentiments't Why ? Does he not kaow that there is amor.g hi.< regular readers a cel-ebrated D.D., two or more of whose books have beta published by the Southern Baptist Pub-lication S'jcitty, who dcclarcl on one occasion, with -.raniith and earcei-t gesticulation that b-o wi uSd so< -".er lose his right arm lhan admit ibst slavcrr wa~ not a moral evil ? If Eld. H.

to .-reent this treason, wc refer him to J a CaaipbeU, of Griffin, and P H Mell, of .\.theus. Ga , J H. Bursey, Treasurer of Mer-cer University ,Ga . who can give the uamc of the man if they will. If they refuse we will give tbe aame of a laan who will Why are we as.-ailed so furiously when only opposed to 'tmal'jaitiation, and this man lauded and up beld? Will Elder Henderson make Ala-bamians believe he is sincere by pursuing thL« coarse ? At>d if he desires more work h id out >11 ihia line, let him s-: to New York acd scarcb tii=s archives of the Home Slission Society, and exiaiiae that singular document that was pr<v seatod to the venerable John Peck in 1S41 2. who was sent out to pacify the South and ob tain some oonMssoas that would allay irriU-tion at sto North Sec if Elders Waller, Digg, Majily, aad Howell, perhaps several other prcuiiaeat men ia the South and South-\rest, an.l even Dr. J S. Baker himself did D r t t — t h a i rery ^ear in tshich t r e pronotoiad

ag iinst amaljamation in Kentucky—put their signatures to a paper, with a view of appeav iog their abolition brethren at the North, de-elaricgor admitting that they vieietd dav«ry

as an evil, aad pleadi»g forbearance on the part cf their abolition brethren on the ground. thiUhiy did not'vrijinait iiandevttld n o < n-

move th* frU.' f Uoderstaad us. We do not asset t that all the above naoies were signed to that paper, but this is our -infcrmation. - 'Will Elder H. attead to it and give us the Caets ? Finally until we hear from Uiese eases. Bid not the editors of the S. 'W. Baptist oopj less than a ye«r ^ an artiele firom a New York p p e r , ia which the writer ctmtended that G«d had nster sanctioned or, a^ppnved vi s l a r a j ? Was not that article i m t t e i by OM of their favored contributors, a minister,' foraiCTlj a resident of Alabama, sowbf XaGrugt^^GiL— Elder T e a ^ e ? He is andetBteod to be ' tbe author of i t v sva

Now it appears that pttxninent men bom in the S o ^ , occupying positions of l a r n iaiu-ence, e u not o b I j d ^ a i e s l a i ^ I b ^ to be a moral evil,' but theyrean pot their a a m a to a document to be pnblidted in Uie North, ad-mitting it to be aa evil, or write letters to abo-lition newspapen d e d ^ K slareiy " n n ^ e -tioned byGod," l ad ElderH. lisps m word

The foDowins plan we comuwnd to the at-tention of an those who have charse of the puUica-tioB interests of oar denomination. T b a g n t t f ^ tare, having all tlw work dooe hf measai* and at the lowest is the.cmtral feature of tlMpiaa pro-posed by as fa- wo^ng the Sontfaen B^>ti8t Stm-day School Uaioa. Who can doabt tbe su-periority of this plan over all existins noes, for providing, at the lazttposnlUeot, a .Kqi^SimdaT School literature 1

A SnggestlTe Plazu A correspondent of the Independent gives

aa account of the system pursued by the Lon-don Tract Society, which may afford usefiil suggestions to other benevolent institutiests.— This Society has aU its Work done by measure, at the lowest bid, after sending ^>eeifications to all the responsible houses in each line of business. Thus it avoids the risks of «»eneral business, the encumbrance of cajntal, the op-portunities for fraud and abuse of a thousand kinds, knows the exact separate oost of every publication to a farthing, and enjoys the friendship of tbe tradesmen. In the second place, it sells its publications at a small profit, doing business enough in this way to pay all its expoises, for officers, agents, raits, &e., leaving all benevolent contributions to be ap-plied exclusively to the gratuitous circulation of its issues. Every one know; thus what he gives his money for, and that it is not, any portion of it, diverted from the purely benev-olent end which he proposed to himself in giv-ing it, to sustain a machinery of publication or of agency, in which he may not be able to see an unmixed utility or propriety.

The publications of this Society are sold by almost every bookseller in the United King-dom, on equal terms with the Society's own de-pots. Thus the booksellers are also the aux iliaries of the Society, and the mighty and wide-reaching machinery of "the Trade," is converted into an engine for cireulating evan-gelical truth. "The cost to the Society of distributing, in 1857, thirty-four millions cf publications, was absolutely nothing—not single farthing. I t does not employ a solitary colporter, but uses tho voluntary unpaid per-sonal labors of Christian men and women ic their own fields of exertion."

Ques t ions . After answering Elder H.'s list of ques-

tions last week we propounded the two follow-ing, that do not reach back to the days of his minority, or even when he was a political edi-tor, but to his ministerial acts, which discoier the real sentiments of bis heart.

1. Did you ever, since a Baptist minister, in Alabama, carry round the bread and tciiu for

a Presbyieriaji or Pedi^Mzptisi minisfcr upon his communion Sabbath

2. Were you not present—if you did cot come up for the express purpose—to aid your associate editor. Elder Taliaferro to receive a Campbellite mto the Talledega Church, Ala-bama, upon her Campbellite religion and bap-

tism }

Will you luform your readers if you are not knowing to the fact tk i t the editor associated with you. Elder T., d i i aot advocate the va-lidity cf such baptisBis, aad if yon did not wii.k at the matter if you did not indirectly ap-prove ? Were yoa not csnsulted ? Did yoa give your voice and infiuenee agaiast the act ?

Should he inform his readers that he has sometimes served in the capacity of a Presby-terian Deacon, since he Las beea a Baptist minister, it will go very far to accoimt for his union with Mr. Tustin & Ca in s mad at-tempt to blight the iaSueace of the editors ot this paper. And since Elder H. is scenting for abolitionism ic religioas editors just coa. will he not call upon his associate editor, Eld-Taliaferro, who notr praises Dr. J . S. Baker for the " patriotic and manly stand" fas once took upon the South and slavery, and aik him this question. Did you act then bitterly op-pose and condemn that very patriotic and manly stand"' w'aich Dr. Baker thea took, and whea your articles became too viruleiit, or for some cause were rejected by the then editor of the Alabama Baptist, did yoa istit abase him ^ Consisteney is a jewel

Amtising. A writer ic a iate No. of the KashvOle Ad-

vocate says ; " We baptize some of the folics occasionally

—the largest number I believe, we have bap tised during the last twelve months were in-fants. 1 have no objection to tbat sort of bap-tism my&el£ I hope before we write again we shall have better news to teli yem. '

A Methodist prcachcr waats to tell better news than tbat he has beea baptizing infants I This will do.

Another writer iu the same paper referritg to tae jailor says; - The word ' pcpisteukas' is an active, present participle, etc. Men who know so little of Greek as to tay pepisieukos

is a present paniciple, ought to be excused from writing on infant baptism. r.

S P S C I A I . HOTICES. Bic H a t c h i e Associanoi.—This body sill meet

with Ae EUem Church, Lauderdale (northem por-tion) County, Tetsn., on Saturday before tbe 4ih Lord's Day ia July next. We, the ConmiUee of In-vitation and SecepUoo, wooid infcna the brethics and friends wiahing to attend, that we win be found at the church 03 Saturday ready'to designate homes to tboce in aUendaace. By order of the Chureh.

B.L.STXtcuaa». 1 J a a o Sowamn. B . B . B e s t l s v . W. T RocxoTasE. X&aaeaj ta . J . U. Bccxn. UtLToa Taoxrsos. Wit Joanair.

EOoo Ctarcb, Satorday bef<m the ^ Lts^'s DayinJoa^paraed the Aifiowing renlutMci, with tbercqoeattliat it be pabSiSwd in tbe Tennessee

Beadrtd, vwnuKnafy, Tbat Brother J . B. Gravea be invited to with us upoo'tbe above occaskm as there are maiiy,«rara hearts aod haati epeaed wMe to receive faiiiL

JosEra H. Boan , Modefttor. W.P.Sowaaa. Clerk.

Committet,

PaTXOxs tx AaKAXtas.—Brelhin B. H. Thtesher and Al'L. Hay wiB w m be ^ ' t t e i u a , aad piopoae tocaoTass theStateforus. WAtnatt^earfr ienda wfflgrertUwiBkiDdly.aad tkat aO wlioare ia ar-laart with us wiU be pnpctvd to t teo . m

PsymcBtto SaATea, MARKS* CO.

SPBAK THE nUTTH WIXHOVT R A X . E» who has the truth, aad keeps U,

Keeps wbat aot to UmbdoBs*— * Bat peilbnai a sdflab actioB,

That his feUow-mortaJ wroega.

Ha who bean tb» trntli, and places Its high proBpun^ under ban.

Loud may boast of all that's manly, But can never be a mim. » > » • • • «

B<M in speech, aad bold ia actisc, Be forever!—nme will tent,

Of tbe tree souled and tha alariah. Which fulfills life's mitaion best.

Be thou like the m>b]e asciwt— 800.11 the threat that Uds the fear,

Speak!—no matter what betide thee i Let them strike, but make them hear'.

Be thou Bke the first Apostiea— Be Uion Kke lieroic Paul:

If a free tboogbt aeek expremoa. S p ^ it bfddly—^>eak it aU'

Face thine eoezoies—accusers ; Scorn tbe prison, rack, or rod ;

And, if thoB haU truth to utter. Speak, and leave the net to God!

— " Compromiae is the word tbat men use wh«c the Devi! gets a victtKy over Gcd'i cause."

— " A-taan ia the right, with God <m his aide, i . in tte majorilT, though he be ataie : for God U multitudinous above all pj^.njatiQna of the earth."

— A Ue alwayj needs a truth for a handle sc. it; elaa the band would cut i»eif. which sought to drive ithome upon another. The worsi lie., iherju fore, are those whose blade is ialse, but whoae han-dle is true."

— A iUxaaKaBi.E CoivEaaioa.—Eoberi Dale Ow«i, United States iDniaier at the Court of Ka-Dles, baa written home to hU ftfeads in I n d i ^ that he baa become converted to Cfemtiaaity. Jir. Ow«i has, haresofore, we believe, been an isfidcL So aays the Atfacta Intelligeacer. B..bert Daie Owen, aad hia father before him. were d^sts and herctica in general, so as the doctrinei of revela-tion were cooccroei though both were estimable men. The senior, bom in Englaad, moved to thia country to found a colony of Soci^ts , which h» did in Indiana, calling his setUement Sew Har-mony.

We shall not rej«ce until we leam to wtaj type of Christianity Mr Owen is converted-perhapi he is <m!y aa CniUrian, or Pujuviie, or Caihe-Iic.

— CHascB.-Ecv. E- L. Eobinsot, fur rwenty four years a member and minister among the ."Ue-ihodiaU, was received into the Baptiu Church. Paulding. Jiiisissippi, recently.

— Inaas ios —The Eev. B C Gnmiiv D D_ o: tbe Presh.vteriaa Church, has just pror^ fto his own aatislactioa) that the.=« are not baf>iized whi are immersed'

— M o t h i s '— T h e Emperor of China, on certait dava of the year, pays a visa to Us Eothcr who is seated on a throne to receive bim , k:<J four thaes on his and as ofum on his kners he makes her a profound obeisance, bowia^ his Lead even lo the ground.

— A s o t h e b V O R I ^ - A leurd f r i los ,

an a^pJ hermii go bv him harefL«s. ' Father," said he. Ton a.-e in a very oiserabie coadiiioc if there u n^ aiyaher wc-Jd.- Tme. wn," repBtd the hermit. - be: what is vocr condiUos if there u r

— A Xkh BimsiL-Tbc G W. EDersaa« thai a sf-aUman in Miasouri ^ bapuized (11 bj a Methodist mic-sier. r«»aUy. as tali..« Ee was pnt W da, -ligti, t i , brrasi was ihen laid ba-T ; ^ d the B^v. Dr., ic ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Father. Son Eid Holy Spirit dashed watej- iz.to ids bosom • • The apiaoauoa of this facmiliajii- fma. is cot less hnmiliating than the (act itself. The eentlemaa in .jutstion had aore pej^lexity of nurd as to the pruper mode of bapusm . he d.T:aai«i thai the orJiiiaiicc was performed in the maixer alrcaaj indicated, aad he acccpied ji is dream as a wtln Uoa of hU doubU by rerelat2<«3 &xim the SpirU' •

There is not a Hestodis: ediWH- ia the who will picsuiae to say that tiiai new baptism is to", valid—asd jast as valid as affiision on the biad.

— Caaxec op SErosiiTi.—The Wiiness savs Rev. John C. S-isham, paslor of the PrwbytCTian Cnnrch at Rising Siin, led., and probably tbe most pc;,al»r preacher ia the lUdi-sm P.'esbr.ery. haviag c h i a ^ his views oa the

of baptism, aid being cocviaced that there no scriptural auiioriiy so.- iclaiis bapiiaa—made

' he anncnacemeni to his chnrcina. Soadaj. iU; i. tad also gave his reasons 6jr chaacia:! i^s Vicws.

— T h e S e i d or r a s R i s b t b o c s . - l a t h t B e p list Mariner s Church. S. Y , on the Lord s day J*^ - t . two yowng bi^s, grandsons of r>r. Cintjz were baptized.

— Tl^ Teiiaessee BapU-v Jcne 1- stales tha; & BapUst Asswaation, the Kiuj , Wc^ntain Associa U™, S. C-. pas-edt):' foU trii g a: iti. i»si eession

^^^rtd. That it b iacon..:sieiu wuh ibe faith oi

Baptists to invi:e iato <.cr pulpits I tAri^j^^. yj eit rcise with u-. in rcliiiouj worship in any way trhatsoerer A!«o. lo receive persons into fdkiw-»hip who have beea immersed by tbem wiihoui l>apiizin.j tfcrei.

Maiy 0-: cur readers may think the above very strinsenl, tad even unchariuble. Ca: U ii ria; j ua wha: .hr,cJd have been dcae in the first sta.-. o: the

Church ! According to their viesi, of ihr rite of bafrtisE. they aloae, except oSthoo-jt of Ht

same truik. a.-e baptized. Why th?u iuviw Ped,-bapri.^ to "exerciss with them in reiigiutu wor shipT' Surely BO sBch tbinH can reasocaWy t" ei peeled.- C. r . papi^. Pa.

— Evasiiiucai. CarEcaas 15 Sas FiAicuto — The evangeUcal chm-rhes of Sas Fraaosro a.-e thirteen in number, ani tbrir aggrrgale meEiber ship amouna to 9,000

Thineen diSmnt aad eocaictirp scriptnna, i. e. co.-Tect churches. We thouahi thai two conliadic lory propositi^* crula coi be equally tme-on?, il not moii br jaj^, • Thmeei yojTis cf ci«th aad CO two yards of rn i same length '!

— Tbe editcT of tbe S;. Louis Chnstiai. Advo-cate, a Methodist paper, says

" If the dogma of doce ccntmar-ioa ^ve wav, that of exclusive immerrfoc, or baptism by immc-fion only, wiago-witiit. Tber belons to the same cla.«T!, and are so coaoeci'd thsi the of the one will determine thai of ibc r.tHrr."*

It ia for this very rca- t, that Pedobaptists aQ as-sault this vaSl so fierc«-ij and croUsBoualy Thev kacw that if this wall gives way, Baptiats win perisb fr-alhelacd. They s=ek ia a a o ^ d i j ^ ^ ^^ . our r u i ^ W v e r wnh honied word, upon ' • ' '^as^sairf deceit in l h « r l i . m , u . e v i ^

• or beg us aiemnly - allow them to eat at ouis. ^ ^

— Caa3ca.-Eev. J, J . FlemmiBg, fo r«w«] ^ ^ a Pedobaptist Baptist Cl««h .& O . «

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U , . - ^ or .rf « « « v b n . i . ta i» to rrpM^ioB. If • • l a , , r r p r « m t « l either, « i r « « o p « to them. WlsM w c r c o r a w ^ d o l 80 k s f j«asi ns. (h*.* must be cametod.

- C. K. Hotdnckaoo of Xna]dtia rrrsBia Uw trelfagi of ««r bnAhrm in Menphi* -^sdUM-Scatbcm pMiofUwStoto . B e v r i t M l i k r * rncud a t d broUs«r«« b e k , aod « « a i « mJmJW •Jiai he j c d «ur fti^nda grneraUT iind«-««ad pnOr «eU tile aimed at by KWer H. ind h h

in this citT. The opjKwtion «e«ber» io the Bible Bfl«rd jBK done ihemariTea i r«p«mNe Mary - anieaa they mnataXU ccme out u d c t u i m

icied uBd-er the mflnenc* of oUien, tod -a.-Wv in adapting t ie i r i « e wpoR, tbe object of •jif or ooe* that drew it, mamfesly bein« to 6x a inMce sUpoa o p o n t i e editor of Ais paper and EZder D , acd what more win next be suuie, we wail to we. There iriU either be a paaae aad a r -cunsideration, aci5 perhapa reparatiaa and recoti-

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One writer in that base in the wide cireidatJooof the T«.-

W ^ u t , a y a that rngMt a t t y H k e h b ^ tt»^«w«attoa« wlMtb g o i n g o B L - " I m e

» » » » Bwthe rWal to r i a a Jate wunber of the W e ^ tdUag hia nsaden why the Tenne»eeBap.

»o «aoy r ^ e r . , ^ ^ ^ w a are aa trne and jwd, hot I think the whole

c:liaB«m. winch s a y Gc^ S^sat. or an act of ftauic siadee-d wiU &Uow,—bnl be it what it may, God WT:1 uLke of bi» snUi and hii own cause.

— E'Xii SEO. Gut ter .—I icarcdy know wlietAer M wriit? u> fuo «jr ciii; for I know hew many hnn i redj -f Irtirra <>n l>iiaiiit«s yoo hare to read, and

many object* d r m u ^ yoor attentitKl of far jiiTc jm- tiTUkLx* l iua anythise I hare to say. I •^Ij j a ^ h«-e bnicbcr Gntres, there is my heart

t i ia i . I <m!y wish yoo to know that yon hare icy 5r,w3t£S i-jstpaSkas. and tarntit pra-frrs to God fi.r Tocr enure defirerasice from erS au» I hare

As V tis» of this malisBant auack on • U wtli rvboGcd upon the beads of its

2£d sisik. Umn to a lower deep than iifv- lasi^aed Jar jus- Hecdersoc i Co. hare par-: tLii*^ etJitTjl ioiuny for their baaecess, and if hey nTf er«r sauii by timeiy repentance, it •13 be i '^jsii! Tt^tanc? of " the grace of God mz^if ied." r i ia wiiiile warisr? has its origin in hatred to the Lii-dmarit. TLe principle brins isminerabie—nn-wticatd by kieic. osacarhed by ridicnie—Uk aim —•m 13 !<o desirtiy Lis adrccalc^ I know 00 mfan-cpM »o iiuie so aiierly becraih tontempi, as to go ieyticd i mac prasent charactc. acd seek some ••rrar nr blcncrr. or cooTersatitsn that occarred .rears aao, thai nobody knew anything aboot. hot '.he dead A mic wto would do that is base er.amrb Co pat Ue» ;stu a dead man a month. Yoa I'ften remiod sje of ace of oid. Oce bc::dred and twenty di ef nica in search of a eoard handle were 12 rnT par^ait of Daa ^ i bnJ lin^y coald find .no f.i!:U IE i im. acd taey could take no hold of Ana in

or i^irtai camJu ji Bat one tliins •:xvy evuiii d j . t iey coold attack bis reii^ioos prin-c piet thar coaid i t r i u at the old Lazidmark. and they iM it. Bat G "d took care of Daaiei, and his r c i i j an too. S? wiilali-ays do so.

• > :-» nf y jo r bitterest enemies of Nashville when ; M! J they conid not take hold of you so

13 jna <Hit of t i e chorcfa. tiu^ trcxU iixe ta I.- i-.i{ cjidd ikd.'

Bi tai; ara.T if that th.-eatcns-i a ' ^ m p t saoald be .Lcte kittt^ t» sac i a howi of ind '^a t ioa

ih? Sooth and West, that the chnrch in -VishrtiL- wua'd think that tile d ty ofjodgment had cjcai^. A dioaiond charchsa woa!d be open to yoo-

I dun 1 beJiero yoa ar» immicniate—yoa are not net tn i ie parfecl by sajSl^ring—bat I don't think ..-«a i.T; 1 iianwr abore ail mm. I would indnitety prpf-r to be whaiyoo are, than to be your tradacer. 5 I cisaid gee br^Hher Dtytan. He has spiked <>'erT a;a3- Gire hia hand a shake for me. I hare cai-Tje of the chnrch at E^pt—also preach in my iieinabarhiMd—aiso at North Memphis. My hands »re falL

Brotht r Dnne, has taken in aboat one hondred —the rsTiral has been Tery extensiTe in both

ciiarchea Wo ttare rtceired a beaotifal lot in north Mem-

phis. also aoe in &iath Memphis, and one in Fort Pick^nna Wa are on rising grooiid. We are all Baptists of the right class here.

M c m ; ^ . Jane 10 13o£.

— Ir. indueauai miniater in Alabama, who per-i^pn ta xea inftf'ined of the state at pab&e frelina in Jia.. thus saticea an article in the Soath Western Uaptisl.

Bau. D —In the South Western Baptist of J ane 17 is a thnrt article finim soow one andM' the cap-tias Tnie, O S i n ™ l i ^ e d S T. Z. The writer says, ' . ' ta 3±n's chancter or indsecce has beeo.or can be so riddled by conSroTcrsy as his (Grares) has been; and finally to my certain knowled^ no man is Imini; hia popolarity so fast ai he. Fmm tie leLTt af kit ttrrUary ' :

Saw, I pmcuance this whole extract—palpably taise. Those who hare tried to " riddle" BroUier • tfm*Bs' "character and indaeace" hare riddled, mintfied, and esp«isJHi their 'iwu. Where is Tas-un' i tndneno! in ^ a t h Carolina t Where are Qills-&uin 3 and his friend Q. in Tennessee 1 Where is Qenderwin'f vi A'ahamal 5a t one of them has a titLa of the induencs in the heart of tinir territory " Liat tiey iutd befort tkey bega» 'tkit

an brother Grares and hia paper. " They hare axade a pit, and dusked it, and are fallen into the 'iitcb wliich they made. Their mischief baa retom-

ap<m Uieir own heads, and their riolent dealing has come down af^on their own pate." Psa. rii. 15. Tiiis is strictly true of brother Henderson. His TIO-i'-nt ieaiin^ has cum- dawn apon liis own pate, and

f i t U ti. and hit friends feei it for him. I hare to c-.u-rarse with th» Smt Baptist in this Stato who be-

he has done ri«ht in malicioos and anpro-Tv kad asiiao-'ts «a the editors of the Tennessee Bap-

I do not say then? are not 5tich Baptists in the State, fur I know there are. Bat 1 gay I hare But f iacd one of them, and I hare talked with many, miny, r e r ; many, and fhim dlflerent partd ui the dute . True, I have talked with a /in* who care bo! little for the editors of tlto Tennene* Baptist, bat they c»r« less fijr the editors of the Suath W«,ura Bantist.

Bat this writer sayi, to hia " certain knowledge aa man is Imiax hia popalaritf ao tut u be," Bra I Grates.) S-iw, Joes not e r e ryose know this to be falsa T J>J«I the writer bcfiere i t ta be true 1 Brother Grarea n e r u in his life bad aocb a Itotd on Alabama Baptists as at thia time, t a d t ^ i e U i»-t r s a a m r j i l i i i r , and wtH stOl increase. There ia bat cme Uriog man whu can stop thia inflaence. L ei. brother G.-sves himseUL Oo eao stop it b f doing wrong. Henderaoo, TaHafcno, Tkbener, and B n -tor, am not the oalf htfloentnl Bapti«a En Alabuaa. They are b scorning rather the taQ cad of the d«-nomiiutiua ia the State, and can no u < n eoDtnt BapUsis in Alahasia, ibaa tbay can c M n i tbeaon in hia cnane. Thia writer a t e i t a that, " a o aiaa in the StaUi CR- Weit ha* had n e b teoainatioaal io«BencefBraoaMyeu«pHtaaher '*(Q«aMi.] Aad I beUere. rathw I ksAw, that If i t ia evHTwhet* •iae as it b in tbta State, that infloMKA b doablad no i r . - l aa i j wii&UiMe Bra. Grafaa bavelnS'taBeeAir good, iCany gart ^ hia iaflAenee ia to « « S t wai* to »•• ili vitbar. Bat befieriag aa 1 t h a t b b j l ^ pnaobiBC, aad i n i n e u a p a a n B r , b w b a n i a r t b e w l n o c a m i a ^ o f the I f m a i ' i o a i ^ I a b a a

toaaebla h t d n e m i a c n a ^ CaQ ir.. tw ••maB-TOtablp," If j t w

F t a i l a id tf ooe duBck ,« ttagr ^ a i i -itt mmfa^mial i a r t ^ M b B n .

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" a r he exidained thns, " Bapt iM are be-« » ^ « M e d t h a t t h e y c a n « e i n U a daring to

the wbrie tnith, and to oppoae any t rwr . "

A t a a a x a . — E d e r t Q . Hetidersoc of Pecsacola. Fla. has

r ^ u f the principles known M W Laadaark. Elder H. U a yoong man of

bis .Tract erineea. We will gire ^ extract «n cor next.

- r The Ibnowina b ab«nt as good a rejoinder to the aceer of the South W«ie.-a B ^ t i s t as we hare fl^CSU

k a a a U u M » o f t n A t » A a i r m e t t i c o t h a t t b c M exfwianoas of a i n « bad r e f m a c v t o A e T r m s t n r ' * w ^ o r t t b a j bava U c k a d o o t o t h o r « z t ( M t three linoa t a k r a from a n o d u r and aZ-icgtAmr difimt part of my defenoe, and wp m t e d fh>ai Ihe e x t n e t to which A e y h a r e joined Uwmby nea r ty » wholeoo l imn of pno ted

! « « » « « a n d Mn<for of t h e BULK BOA«B of t h e S o a t h e r n B a p t i s t C ^ v e n t i o n f They n a k c the » w p r « nom Uia t i t w a s j a s t a t ^ r t w / i o u i r a n d o f ' ^ -repor t t h a t I was speaking when I c d l e d

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tentkm to my agency in b n n g i a e certain ftindx urto t h e "Treasnrer 'a r e p o r t ' ^ I do not charge Bro ther Darden, t h e Chairman of tiie Corn-m i ^ wi th be inc m i l t y of thia rewutrhalAy

of wiUfTil dec«ptioa, for I do not

- T n a m T i r a t e s . " - H i ^ e r s o o sneers at the Edi-tor of the Tennes^* Baptwt, as a triumriraU «>®PMy of three: I dont see aav wrong in three m « adTOcatins the thing, prorlded it is a

iWng. If there is dftable gaflt on the ^ aide. There are the three HV. Howell fiteA^ and H i l W n , doing aU they can againn the S ^ y School Cnion, which d e a i g S H

^ douig all they can to pall down the Soo.h Weste™ Publishing House. l h « ha. a W r ^ « m ^ t o ^ I y Baptists with Baptist books -•nd then there U a trio of T s - T a s t i n T a l i a ^ and Kchecor. helping the trio of H s to a ™ ^

For oar part we think Z ^ ^ ^ J ^ . ^ ^ t h e T B^ a ^ . ^ - ^ e d in a more laadrbU-and holler work than the trios of H s and T s. The f o ^ are laboring to baild ap the denomination

the Ut:«- u, rain some Of oar most asefal and l>e«i men. The people anderstand things."

- Elders . Adiam.of Newport. R. I., orders a l is tofUiepabncatiocsof the Soath-Wesiem Pub-lishing Hoose, acd adds

"Mostof the b.>jhi. prepared by the Southern Baptist, are so clear, earr^e^t, ancompr-^mising, for-

piece imagine t h a t h e was tho r ^ author of the re-port . B a t l e t the man who was i t s au tho r ask himaelf if the re was no t a falsehood in tbns br inging t o o t h e r aa thoneh they were one, of p a m m £ a r d i » m i l a r a B 4 H i 8 e o n n e e t e d . W h a t reliance can the d o n m i n a t i o n place apon a re-por t which thus m b l e a and d i^ Iaoca the doo-n m o i t s t o w h i c h i t r e f i e i a — a n d then goes on from such da ta to d raw such cone loaoas as the following?

BKPOaT. 'These eztracU embrace bat a rery small part of

what the Secretary s ^ 00 thU aabject, bat they gi»e a ^ idea of the whole. Xo one who reads this pa per will doubt that the Treasurer's report was pre-Tioosly read before the Board, adopted, sent to the ConTention,' and was there read aod approved Yi>or committee hare only to say. in refetcLce to all this, that the Treasarer s rei.ort was not> laid before the Bible Board prerionsly to a meeUng of the Con Tentioo. This is known to every member of the Board piewot at the meetings jast preriocs to the CoBTectioD. It was not present, and of contse not read al Loaisvilk. This u known to every member of (hat Conrention. It was not laid before the Board after the CoQTeDti<m. As printed, the Board n e w saw U untU it appeared in the Minates of that body. These declarations may seem strange in them-•elres, and especially strange after what is said aboT^by the Secretary, bat they are nevertheless true. How the Secretair coald Cdl to know it, we pretend not to say, especially as he himself stated in the CunventioQ at Loaisrille that the Treasarer s report was not completed, and coald not theref^ e be read."

cible and conclusive, that th«asb aaptlatable lo the advocates of error, they must do cood I wi^h more of the direct. fea.-iess manner of the South coald be lEfiised into the Baptist writinss of the North.

" The historical spirit awakened at the Soath »ernn- lo cl«u- a w mticonceptioc- thai have ^ n g r e s W on the true origin of th . Bapti^u in the -\ew World. Bat thb more thoroa^h r.v s ^ h . that nothini but the t.-ath the whole trath and t ^ presented in aU ha.-monr. ,hoa!d bepre^ »ented to the minds of men in the State that prevail, among the Baptist of the Soath.

- - A jo thke T.CTa.-Satardav, the r f " day ot the Lbarch ^ cave Spring Gx Darin, the sermon by oar Fa«or, B.-uth« Wm Newton

r i as

. , . . ^ ^ ' ^ a e r caaie in acd ^ I c h:s ^ near the palpit HU »ray hairs, into! Ugent countenance, thoaahtftd appearance t i a c W aueoiion Whei. the do..r of ihc churc was opened, this su-ang^r «cpped forward ai d e^v. hBhand tothe.Pa.^>r Tb. Pastor announced tha t h e g e t ^ n ^ w a s a ^ r a n s e r t o m m and in^aired If any Brother present waa acqaainted with him when he was leJd that bis t ^ c e JlcVecly Presbyterian Minister of standing ia his own d e n o m ^ c n After reUUn^. in an 'anobtrasive way what wis claimed a sati^factcrv ChrisUan . peri^oce. he w,., cordially bv the chnrch a candidate for baptism.

On Sabbath morain- at half past !G o clock be •vas immersed by Brother Xewton in thzi beaaufal stream that skins oar beaaufal g r o v e - - the lovli est spot 00 e a r th " - i a the presence of a large and JaieUigoit congregation.

T ^ occurence above named has afforded voar brethren here no Utile aiUiiei ion. They re- r ,^ n aa a Signal instance of the triamph of Truth,"as an ansriiciled preference for oar denominational Prin-ciples.

As aa item of iatereg: I may menUoa that on- or two of the members of the church had seen this Brother and had some kaowiedjje of h i j cha.-acter bat not a soUtary one. that I am aware of. knew cf aay snt^nUoa oa his pa.-i to j nn o-ir church. He is now Imng some ten mUes West .>f o^ leachiaa -^ar i sh ing school. The very day he was baptised he had aa appoinanent at Cedar Bluff 25 miles dis ant. From iuqaity made iince, we leam that h^ belonged to Uie Oid School P.-tebyteriaa denomina ttoD. that he is a ripe scholar a man of genuine piety and humiUty, a ^ pre^her . conSJed in by his neighbors, acd beloved by hi, people. From these ciraunstances we regard him a valuable accession to us and destined to be u-^efal We hare appointed him to preach at onr cbarch the second Sabbath ia Jaly. May the great K-ad of the church make him Jie means of leadicj; other:. the mazes of error into the -Ifaioc-i t.-aths of the gospel.

Traly yours.

U

-A J K:so. — A Goiid WOKP faoa OLI> VIM.HSH —Messrs

Eiitors - I see that you have $6 000 so raise to d i yoa in year Dew buildina. and call upon voar snbicribcrs to pay m advance if they feel dispiued to do so, and I frt-i jas t like doina aU 1 can to sus-tain the Teriaeasee BapUst, or rather its persecuted Bdit.^rs for if t r e r m-n did suffer for the sake of the truth of our blessed .Master, and if Graves, Pen-dleton, and Daytoc. are not the men, I should be at a. areat Iocs to know where they can be found. I owa slaves, and I have no fear; only the liv ing, seem w toab le the dead. 1 raise and Uke to see their handles. 1 bf.ve tea children also that I am not afraid for yoa all to be purveyors of theology for. Vour books are doing a good work — afid the great body of tree Baptist U with yon; de-risi<Hj and scorn can never answer your arguments DO matter how mgenioasly they may be written or spoken, if men will only think. Md after thinkins have no intenest to serve but that of Christ. P]e.i<se 4ad enclosed five dollars, four for the Tennessee Baptist, and one for as many of Bro. Diyton s Sun-day School books as it will f u m b h at Gardonsville. I am T«y anxious to see the book.

Tours in Christ, Wit t iaa L. C a a m t .

Through the Jriadness of onr subscribcrj we have paid over two thonsand doIUni, and wi t j titrir as-sistance we shall be able to pay through the remain-ing ftOOO, and another IIOOO for fixing it up. and then we will take pleasure in receiving the caK< of oar iSrienda ia a nice pttbSshing hosse.

— O. F. Flippo, of MJ., writes : 1 gave Slack's Beacflos to a Presbyterian school nustress in this place, afterwards handed her Theodosfei. She was bitter a t first, bat saw her error and made haste to obey. Sbe was baptized a few Sabbaths aince. In ber reason which appeared ia the True Onion, of J ane lOtb, No. 21, .-qiesays, " After reading Theo-dosia ibe became unsettled ia mind and resSred to investigate for herself. She took God's word and fbltoccd wberemr it* teachings might lead," &c.

Bro. P. sends for more tracts. Toocsonot pUce one paitieie of reliance apon what the man allnded tb sa j s . He is i^oUydestitate of character for ver-acity. What yon allnde to is fa ls^ wkaOy.

RKTIE-b.—I t rus t my brethren will forgive me if I seem to speak too harshly of some things in this r e p o r t I h a r e no conscioasness of any ankind feeling towards the Committee who prepared, ox the Board tha t adopted i t .— They are my brethren, n>embers of the same Chorch, and have had not only my respect, but my affectionate r ^ d ; and I do not believe they coald find it in «heir hear ts to say at all, as men apon their personal responsibility, ^acb ihuigs as they have not bes iu t ed to say as a Committee and a B o a r d — I speak not of their actsa.s individual acts, bu t as official—and when I say tha t they have s u t e d and end..rsed what is not t r u e — I mean tha t they have done so not as men, b a t in the i r official capacity, B a t f ^ siatemtnU are none the less falae on that account. Here fallows an extract from the letter of iha Treasurer to Elder J , E. Dawson, pabli^ihed some time ^ince in the South-Western Bap tu t ,—the falsity of which. I have twice publicly exposed.—and yet the Board by this publication of it endorsee it as true

REi'OBI •Bat do not these facu reqaire same .-i[>lanai!.,ti:

The Treasurer, in answer to uar iL,|mtsf» make.-ihe f..!lowica staten.eiit "

•Tb» factj uiil circam»:mi<M^ roaa-ctrd cub Thl» j3,ir .r, u (oiluw. . latMklag a;, bn for Lb, Coi,

•^ntion. ihe Trt«ar« ol ih* B.U. to.nl i i . .^ . crnid t!j rrptirU ta»de to b:=i bj the l"on».(wuJii-E f thi? Board. Sa.-h n , ih, [j, th- i~pcn lor :h,

C*»CT».ntlOD al L o i . t » T l i j , . — u > d T..— i:«i>« mnitfairt. i>ot preTtooiIj «pp»arl=g th» „( thr TrroaBrpr. and i«r tbe accsx^rjor propriety oi »6Ki. b- t* Com mpoasibic. Fanh*.-. mj ncallnuoa u, aat th, U»i t» [«>rt cf l i , Tm>arrr nM n».d<r out for to, parpo^ o» t-in< .ul-3iiC:*.4 to lb, B*..sni .»nlT a thort tlm, b.-Ci>r, th» m ,ttog nf th, CoBTrntlon. af t« brinf lias rootaloint onlj th-itetM prai>;riT a^pnnsc npoa h.H>l of tb, Trr^^ar^, ih Comtspoadinj Src«:arj rrportr* tlioaa partlcoUi iina, .Li u Sax, giro rl5» to <T>atroTtr»T Th, iotrwiactjon o( tho», iT»m» asad.- it lcrth« shoir rt-port to b* r. . -tJ"!-T!i> Tmnmr bad maie amne,m.-Bt> to b-joi, f j i «

the nritdaj. »oi»att.T«of ac urjrEt tu.«lB,>. -hanc •«r. aQ4 tlienpC>r, tuaod tt impuaaible to c.vsij>;«tr th.* w^ri to •™»0D for tJi» CooTi-ntioa, Aftfr hl» ntsni horn, ti., r»i .rt was aja^a copwl to full and printed ia th» Mtaam.

"Xel'Jiw th- ahatiao prrparnj for the loaTeatioa s„r tl., rvport lat-l! aa priett^ «a> e-er aabmia-l to the M iioa ol tiir B04e Board, thai I am awai, of. eicr|>tii>2 .o tar a. -pe. Sc

laaj hare beea <-ontiin«d la ih, jvaeraJ t» i«.r! ol

no t deny this. T h e Bible Board d a n n o t de-ny thia- A n d why, i a t ha name of t r o t h and nghteonsneas, I adc, why shotad thoy a f t e r the i r a t tent ion has been pnbliely i ^ M to i t , why eboald t h e r p^st in this r i L s n EJtTKEiErrATTOS tflht/odi yuoftdabovef

KKPOKT. ••T^e iiKiujry may arise, ukg the Board ftrmitUi

such an important paper la go tA prem withoat ever having .oeea or examined it. That in this the Board did icronff. there can be no doubt, they freely con-fess it. Their only apoibysf U Urtr unbooDded coo-Sdecce in the Correspoeding Sectetary."

R K T I K W . — p e o p l e will t h i ck i t r e r y s t range t h a t confiJenoo in their Steretitry shoald have led them to adopt meh a coarse in regard to the duties of their Treasurer, over whose work the Secretary had no con t ro l—bat there is no tel l ing what emifidente may not lead men to do.

aernaT-"We will make only <we other brief rcfeivnce to

this paper. The manuscript wo«!d, we suppose, make about fifty common sized octavo printed pages. The reference is as follows "

- I tram JOB -la not dea.T no. aa aa f . «f ^aipU jaitJco. the prlellnr' ef eatertog opoa .Tocr record wtat I har» to n.T (;hl»

riper J ia my 4,f.4ic«. I da bm aa j «a ta ailept or •u<^ Uoa It, bal oolj la permit me. a« aij Ua: oficial a-t. to write It with BIT ova hand BfOB roar EuaatM."

"Of this propotntion »-e prefer tot to speak. The Board, of coarse, did not grant the permiuioo ask ed. .\or do we s|>eak of nisny other things contain-ed in ibi> manascnpt. Several <.onclasioiis present iheHuelTn oatarsJly ariaing f roa mis whole sub-ject , |iut we chooM cot to saggi^'. iLrni. We con-fine ourselves to simple facts. We niakeno commen-taries. We itidnlje ib no declamation."

REVIEW — T h e Board speak of my request tha» so mach of my defence as I t hougb toagh t t«j be read to them might be recorded, without expense to them, upon their record.*, ai= a tb icg too preposteroas to be thought of Perhaps it was pre»umptaoaj m me to expect fr.im them even this act of aimp.le justice. The Soardad-m i u that the attacksi were groaodless, and that I deserved none of the censure which had bcrn heaped upon me, having always perform-ed my duties fai thful ly t e d well—having been esteemed by them as a s active and efficient officer And with thia I suppose I ought to be content.

read REVIEW.—N ow will the reader plca^ ' this again, and see if it does not say that it is the "ntco/Zfcfiort of the Trea-^urcr tha t after his report had bfen made otii for the purpose of b ^ g s u b m i u e i to the Board, the Corre? pocding SecreUry reported to him ahi^ have gitxn rise this controversy, which made i t imposi^ible for him to complete the r e |wr t in t ime for the Convention, and that this was the reason why his report wa< not given to the Board, and by it laid before the Convention. Now I do not <ja-»stioa all tha t such was the "recollection of the Tcoa." urer, bu t why should the Board present t as a true sUtement of the facts when I fcav. tide* publicly shown tha t "reco ' lec t ion" to h a r e been erroneous. I will show it once more, and see if they will then make known the simple truth, l ^ t the reader remember tha t" /A« ifonsirAicA had ^ieen rise to thi. controversy" had been ticice published in th: South-Western Bapt i s t as those which, as See re tary , I had reported, but which I had riyht to report . They are as follows:

• I copy them from the corrected ' F A C T S and f i j CRES"—article In the South-Western Baptist. Item 1. For Miss. Board, per. a C,

Convention, Item i Ga. Convention, forborne di»

tributioo, - - . Item 3. Ala. Bible and Coiporter So-

ciety. - - . . Item 4. Indian Mission Asso-

ciation, . . . . Item 5l Bible Board of S. C.

Convention, Item G. Bible Board of S. C.

Convention, Item 7. North Carolina Bip-

Ust Convention, Item 8. Bible Board of Vtr

ginia Convmtion, Item 9. West Tennessee Bible

Society, Item 10. Balance on hand at

preceding Report

jilX) 00

C16 19

St.SOT 00

l_t) (10

M i TS

IGl (IS 1,100 81

4,574 Oi

500 00

953 oa

S n i e w Of t h e * * B m r t o f t h e B f U e B o a r d o f t h e S o n t h e m B u t b t COB-- n n t f o n , a d o p t e a J a n e 1 5 t h , 1 8 S 8 . »

[co5ctin«& r ioa P A Q B T O U K . ]

inatead of the general t m r t of the i p v e d b j t b e See re t a ryaad adoi^ed by

»a4 inSdi « u read at Loaisrille. IkaevBoaMn nboot the Tnaaum's Report

Board. I w -»«l l i l<mi i i ipBBt. laordartopTe

t h e :

Sl5,ts6u 57 There were two other items, making I'J in all They were the last year's work of Georgia and Alabama, which I could not repon aniil after the meetings of the societies in those States were held, one on the 2d, the other on the 4th week in April. Now I call upon this committee in the name of tmih, to go to the Treastirer's books and see if ten out of itotlct of these items were not on the Treasurer's book at least a/tfH month before the time for his report to be laid before the Board. I f not ao, let diem publish th* doits of the entries and thas eonnct me of the falsehood. I f <o' let the Bible Board UU iit truth, and no Ion-fer attempt to eereen the Treasarer by cast-ing blame apon the Secretary. I charge Uiat Item 3, the <M,807 00 from Alabama, which involTes all the prin«ples aboat which there b any eoatention, was as his books in JULY, I856,aZMos<a yan* bdbre the meeting at LoaisTiUe—aad that all these items except the two mentioned above, wrr« on his bwks M MarA, 1857, and made the Iwsis of a puUie notice the tfrst tecdb th ^prd—and that the meeua^ whidt adopted the report to be sent to Lotusrille, waa held in Jfny. Brother Fal-ler 4 m Mt d a j tfus. f h i i etmnittee dan

KEPoar The committee cannot close this report withoat

expressing the deepest regret at lh« coarse which the Secretary b u coiuiiUred ii bis duty to |.nrsae. Hb action mast prove detnoiLCUl lo the Bible cause and fuast W-.<iu the conlideiice of the deaomiaatioa in the Ciiristtan spirit aud iuteKriij tspecially of this Board, il DUI OI all tlj«- >.iUr Ikiards of the Con vectiun. Ha.i ib.- S^cn-lary situplj resiaued his pv siti.ia, Urcause he coai.l uoi acquiejce in ihe [rulicv

f Uie Board or if |„ ihuui-ht bis c<»iiutciioa a itb the J Kuuld be rex.derrd aupitasaai and au^rof-itable OQ iiocouu I at,> himseif at;d some mEiBbers uf 11 ;„. duS. tily wuuld have occurred

Review - Did the CommiK^e or the Board coostder wbat i. involved in ihis expression of regret, and the de.>ire that I had . ju ie t l j with ^rawa tmoi ibe Board wiilu.at a t y e'xpiana lion or defence ? Is it i.ut a r^-gret'that I d-.d u.Jt p^.raiitcny aad lUT official char-ac.-er to wear forever the staiu wbici. meinbcrs of the Hoar i. over tUeir uwu sigua tiire->, ^uue tha.:k> to Eider Hei.der>on for cast-ing au li N u u,.t i n y r e t Iiiai I ha.J ii.,t (|>rju:tl.,l ii,c l{a;ir.l ar.d ihe f i r l d to say Kl j e r I)ivi.,i, wi,, arca-^-d by tn tuhrrr. of th. BoarJ he ^t-ri-. d and with I'.o ipj .arcut •^aIicnoIi ol aa official vote uf ih. B lard iL-eif •f hauii^r tit-jrlectod his a u t i ! > _ w u b havu.^t

J . o-.iv,J It-,- rs iurches by n;afcinir ,hca. h- lieve tl.^ H -J,., iio;4 to ;Le circtilai; f i of our reli ifi-'U, d..-L'onii:iat!;in.-ii b,>.,.it< with ihat ..f b:ble>—and of h.ivu g f i i - !y re p a n . .1 ...ome tworitT five o.- tweatVMi th. a - i u d dollars t o ' the C-.aventioa vrhich had ua r ight M n port, and iviifa the »>ileci;ou di.-buT.-euieiit of whi.h the Board bad i.,-i:UITIJ Tvhatj-ier ;., do—that he iid this t . - g l j r i f ^ h u n s , J f r i . J ra^k.- the • tmprr.<s,o i : ' ' U t ho had doce ojueh more tl,»:i he had—and wbea tbe^j ac-i oa- i t i . , j s wer.- made, heoffirr^-i n., e ip laaa t ion or defence, but jaieity J i ibd r t w troaj the office he had di.-huiioreJ ut.d the B-arii be hsd dis graced This would, it seem, tavo been ver> afrrt^ablc to sh - Board Mv ram would theo have be^-c compk-te. Thoush they admit I wa. ri^'bt. vet the black c.lcud c.f infamy would forever c jver aiy na^:; Tbere ;ire thia;; . Ill i i i . r ep j r t which wo.ild lead one to think that thii G as indetd whit they de>i t d Ar.d that they Wviuld have doublv ^ k d if I had permitted the mtsreprcsemauon.s which I have exposed above t.i have .,toi-d uro>rr(^t ed that tiuy mi -h t do the work ol" defamanon in which my accu.<cr.s outside iLt- l ioarJ had s.--sigtiilly failed

Thev fear that my dtfcnce will injure the Bible i ^a -c atjd destroy the cjnS.leocc of the d.-Qomination ia ihe Bjard . It iras the at-tacks wbicb haJ already destroyed that cot^d •ienoe before my d-. tence wa.- "aritt- ii Who 1= for tiie fearfal, the irretrievable s i j u n j ^ which the Board aud fLc Rible cause •Jiust suii r ^ Pid not the BJard h i r e the uaboUDdod i. t ndence of ;be jc'

or reqoBBt I t rar t l w aet to W held sponsible for all that haa beea w a n he alioat the Board by other pe^Ie. X j fenee waa iawmtd to be Knd and topeetfidtft the Boud. I t was not frtnriMfaf to aei aay emnre or eoetempt epon i t or aay — h e r ie it,exeeptinsofar aa H «r t h ^ had coantenance tothe frlaeand daaderauaMidEa which it repelled. Bat i f the Bwrd eoaadtf. ed itself so fcr identified in leellng or in &et withmy accoserstibat i t took to itadf whet waa said oely of titen, tha i i dwrfiiiJ Uiu reproaches i ^ d i i t seaaa to timfc i t neemd.

u r o K T . "The c<»imUtee takes tUs occadoo to A s ^ m

any intention OQ the part tha Board t» in jore toe Correspocdtng SecTetaiy. «r to drive U m ft«« hia office. U bad reposed in h i a UteatBMstcoBitdence, and had esteemed him as aa actite and eiBdent offi-cer, and woald hare bem pleased to have coetinned him, hadhetieea wflllng tocoa««mtohsdeBbent» . )y ad<»pt«d policy. The Board parts with ita late Corresponding Secictary wttili no aakiad b e l i e T i n c t h a t b e h a s i n j a r e i h i m i ^ a a d the came of the Bible m<se than be has any ooe else j and that he will yet regret mnch that be has done, and said in regard to all the matters which have called forth this repon.

We propose f j r adoption the foUowing naola-tions:

w e e e a i w t a u t h B - t i e t w r

a s o e r a s i i ewmxtm c a c a w x a c * * - ^ tesMw af Xkr B S U I

nU «r«(htni. L -Ktt^in^ Tbu oat SretktM. S< • BV' k*" ocMtten u> aUma tW Bibl* BMid. W - t i i t r t to <U.->ct tbclr rammxaieatiaaa. fer tk* |i iimii. t» a. Xc

S. SaalmL Th»t «atu Bunt e » procai* tk* Mrriocs ml s CoTT»i|»iuU>( Sw»t*n. tk*s<ci*<arl(«a(t^ Hi •igs B<w>t>-K.ni>:iaaii X. T. Swmt. J. B.T^]ar.aad a.11. PotKi»t<T-br. .adtlM; hnk*. rntMttd ts 4iT«>tm»t.t 19 car bekalt •ml u hOy mm thrr —y w ia

ilea* ACJ r<»ri{B Josrmal. ao tk*t t ^ eaua ot th» Kbte na j aim baa. Ita pUa in the tiaofiit. sad aSorU ol ourtnth:

m. S. CwW. rs^tto rrrasnr bntliraa tkn>a(kaat th* SMOk-

<ft, u>4 S,><»tk Wotera StUca a Mi o p w t a t t j »l foiaii^ » cfrrK-.jiutgmnt. a* to tiwcaatrann.v betwaaa th* BtUa Bawd and iti Co.-ra.poBdliij ^tmtur. thia npoit ha pabUahsd is M . asJ isunediaMv.

4- iE^rcrf, Th»t the xiitora of the Tr« CaJoa. of XvyUad; u( the Rr-i^oaa Bmld. orTiigiBia; of tha B!h!ira! ~ oINur-hCuo'liia: theSoatheca BaMiat. of S<wth CaraUu. theChritUao lad>x. ot tha SasSh W. ul iUbama; tha boBiaiaoa B>|>tift. ef Loaiatiaa: the T«saa E i ttat. ofTaxia: the Uiaaiaav^ Ba^tM, af Hia^teip^ - tha B^iat W.tchBai- of Teucaaae; Ih* TmMiia a-ftt.^ Teaitraaae ; ihs Wcatara BeeotiicT. of Kaatsefc;: aad tha W< cm Warchaiaa. of H'umrt. br reij>ecJfanjaoUettad t» cot-jthii report la fan. txd al aaaartj « daj a« poBibi*. isto th-lr i». •pvcUTe papera.

B«i*etliit!y astmitti-*. S a DASDKS. C airmaM.

REVISW.—Thoagh this repor t is signed by C Darden as Chairman of th is Committee,

I have been told i t was in the hand wri t ing of C A. Fuller, the Tre«.carerof the Board Jkowas not r. member of ike Committee. Bat whether he or some other person was t h e ouMor of i t is a mat ter of not mach onseqaence . I t was formally adr.pted by a deliberate o f f i c i i not of the Bible Board and is sent oa t to the world as a fal l and fair representation of what the Bii,U Board desires the denomination to be-lieve to be f t n d 3 i in regard to the matters treated of

The veracity of the indiTidaal members of that Board will be regarded as ba r ing been pledged to the tmthfa lness of each one of i ts statements- Tha t Board consiste of the fol lowicff persons :

Prindent —R B C. Howell. Acting Vict-Prtsidfmt—S. I t Graves.

t w T O U M m m - * ^ ^ ^ ^ u ^ ^ A B L * EceifBGCAi. i i T n c u a zacK

IT- u r m s n ai. L n c i wiu. i T S a TOUrXS. OS t]>*K»adajat«9.r I

T H E E N - F I D E L ' S D A U G H T E K . SMa- Danva haa hau mifet* to teaiii ju^

Ck-pteaiKlhiaraiaae. fa Ihrfl Isc « wffl fc, , PM aitbar a( h» mks .

a&rt was bo^aMdtonMte-iil, , tcrwUas and af as, r^oadtaf csa.

S t e z B i a m s . A S T MTSOTZK A EEBSCZIBaB ^AY XOZ A£,U4J>T

•ATS THB r a m vaa f I ML

an Hiii.too a j ^ Ifcj, ^ g, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

•w—at iw^KiusaB. u ^ — r :

•iMtltfafEcitU^aba auvasd aery a M S - O . Sataf

a O a i a

Milli^illoU tsp :o the Sr-st ot J^-ra .rv » Who struck the Srst blow to uadtr.ui..B and f v e r f i r a ihai eon-fijeooe Was it aot lu. D arJ lU lf l^s•lf by n i-fr-i.iy ;he Course which i: ! aJ ioll jwod U,r

and wh!i-i it had it-clf Convonti jii at L <Qi5rille

ejght niouiiis b-fore ? Who strncii the nrxt Was i; uot the mea iUr of the Board

nearly three jv-ar.-, co'am!nj>if^i to tho

»ith sQCa fsLse colurii-K that Baptist

blow who paoliihe-i action to the world in the Baptist Watch mau Who .struck the n?st blow ? Was it not E lde r Heudersoa in it.e South-Western Bipt is t , or ra ther tho.-«e meabur - of the Bible Board who furaished the materials for bis at tack and a r ^ d him to make it ? Who o ja t iaued to strike blow af ter blow while I lay on my bed of saff.-ring. uacoascioa-i cf w h i t w i , on v VVa.s it not the editor . f . S •tth-Wc»terii B t p t i s i a a d his c o r r o p i a d e a t . J members of j i t e B.)ard who ^ v e hiia thank fo r ihe work of! i emal i t ion? Tho foal w.;rk i.ad be^u done ^•fore I wa.s able to write HIT dtfeucc- Con ddoneehad bec i destroyed b.' the Board itself, and these members of it who sought thronah the Board for reasons j t l to me ankaown, "to b n o g disgrace and rain upon mo. They stabbed to death the Board with the d a s j e r which ihcy ihrast a t me. I never c a l k J iQ^q-testion th? Christian spiri t or honesty of the Board until in thia, my reaietc of their last report . No E M can Sod a sentence in which I ever did that thing If I do it now, it is becau-o the B -ard kas given its official sanctiot. to positive fsise-hood.^. This may seoaj harsh acd unkind, but

have given the proof and till the Board r t -tractj» itjs s ta tement of the ca-tses which led to the appointment of that comaiittco in August , and of the causcs which led to my resignation, aod i u cndorscmeDt of tho rfcollectioiia af the Treasarer aboat tho time when those items which led to this controTcrsy were reported to him they must rest under the charge, or b r ing the proof to show they told tlic t ru th

KJtPORT. But when bo cails in question the Christian spirit

and honesty of the Boani; charges il witb the de-sign to drive him from his office', and accnMs them of Injastice and persecnlioa. or permits others to do these things for him, he commit? an offense against b b brethren which compels them to withdraw the high confidence they bad reposed ia him."

Rn-IKW.—I never hare charged "the Board' with a design to d r i r e me from my cffioe.

I haTe mver til l now accused "the Board'' of injasUoeorperswution.

I f oOuTi did >0 it ra not by my sngg^on

Tre.isurer—C.. A. Foller. Rfcording Secretary —A. Nelson. ilinag'-rs — H . G ScoTell, A_ B Shank-

land. A C Beech, S C Ro?pr3,S. R Bodees, II R Baehanan W F ""Bang, L CouLw, Sam I M Scott , W P Jone.s, C. K Winston J l> Wi3st<in.J C. Darden, T. M. Hughes.

Some of tht-se brethren knew nothing about this report until i t was printed. Some of them were present and I am told Toted agamst u l a . mcvfiiu^ when it wa.s adopted. But the r e t w d s ot the Board do not ehow this f ac t Each ooe and all whose names are i iucn above will be held by the denomination iiud the world as having adopted and endoraed the statements of this r epo r t I therefore ci l l upon you by name, as my brethren in Chri i t , most of yoa members of the same Church with myself, to re-examine your state-mvats and corrcct them in those part iculars where you dare not as i n t i t r u f u o / m e n say they arc true. If I know my own hear t I h a r e not be.-ii iiiflaeaeed in any thing I h a r e said by auy uukind personal feeling to any one of you. \ \ bat I ha re said of yon was said of yon in your ojtcial capacity. W b a t I note say fa addressed to you as indi r idoal Christ ian men. I DOT charge that yoa haTe, in this report , of-ti<^viily cndorsrfd and published vehai is aof true aud what th^re is not one of you who will dart as an individual man tO say is true.

D1 not gv?t angry with me for saying this. II the charge is false I will answer i t to you as a Christian Brother &hoald. I am person-ally responsible to you and to the Church of which we an; members. And tha t there may b» uo rai-sunderstanding as to what I oiean, I will here re t^pi tu la te and explain.

IsL I ask j o u if there is any one of you ail lifho will dare to assert as of his own kuowtedgy? that I was personally unkHom to the tnct.nbcrs of the Board (except J . R Graves) when I was appointed Sec re t a ry? B a r e yon »'jt caid 30 ia this Repor t ?

2 i. I>are any one of you, as a t ru th fu l man, -ay that the plan of OoIporUge, to which you refer in this Report teas suggested by me and nportfd by you to the Convention a t Mont t'omery ? H a r e you not said so uffidally in his R e p o r t /

od. Dare aay one of you as a t ru th fu l man to .say, as you have done officially in this re-fK>rt. that tb.' B.iard was led to appoint tha t Committee cf J i / y u s * 3ls<, 1857, in view of the feet that It had been announced in the Tennessee Bjptist that I teas engaged in pre-

p-!ri>,g a series of Sunday School Books."— When DO Mich acnouncemcnt was made in that paper or any other till long af terwards.

4tfa. Dare any one of you, as a t ru thfu l man a s c r t . as you have officially in this Re-port, that the Board were led to this acUon »it .J ugust, by the fact that my articles in the Home and Foreign J o u r n a l had then b ^ t i n to consist mostly of book notices or t ha t 1

D a n e i e e f i t r« t f cW m a n , . » e r t ^ i S q r « « madb o o « a . B , t o n M e o n B t o f c k o * t h i B g » , o r a ^ abawtmy^t&ii^aBtfl g f e flL-^stf,^ iadimn a^povtftd?

12th. Dare any, one of yoa as VfroOifal maato ANY as JOB have iaid dBetaBy A ^ report, O u any of oar deDoaisafiooal pa iMn ittdeoiB{aainedbeS»« that eonnittae m sp-{W^ad^ of my oeeanying Oe' H o w aad F«-w Joomal wiA book notieea or any itasg d a e ? « ' ®

Dare any me rf yo«,ar a trafliful n u a , i d ^ y osarrf what yoa have cMciaSy vtHaiatmim this R e p o r t , ^ i twMut tht R i w ^ Bi^aiit, mad hr the agem^ of & GraMs, <ne of the Viee-Pie&eBtB. that the i r a t ^ e appeared which w>a ealcolated to d i s ^ the hamray whiebhad been re^ tablndied between dte Board aad the Seeretary ^ t h e Jaaoaiy meetiag. or that i t w » nU dwi6y soow one of yourstlpts in the B^Oisi na&AmoM.

14tk I ^ any one of yoa 9ay,aa yen hare said oSstally in this Report, that the editorial artide in the Soath We^era B^ytist anaiyiii« the Loaisrille Report and impM^inc the

honesty of the SeeretariF, was published in the interval between t b e o S e r i n e *ad the aeeeptaaoe of the Secretary 's r e s e n t t ion. and not b ^ o r t his resignation wasoSiatsd. or that it was not on your U&U asd K&rFcd to ia the discassion at that wuetwg.

15th. Dare any one of y o a a s a t r a th fu l plainly assert wh»t y o a h a r e o ^ d a U y

wtvmattd, TI2: tha t my Etatements eo e c r a b g n ^ e c t of the D ^ t o t y agen t^ Toon.

Aelstm & Co., to make a rrpvrt^their work iofhe Convention et I/>uisvUU u HorxwnE? T o n w i n obserTe tha t I did not !iay they had neTer made any setfUmeni urith the Board, but no Report at Lonisrille.

1 7 t L Wi l l any one of yoa dare to a r o t , as a t r u th fu l man, t ha t the statement in n v a r d to the fifty dol lars p ^ Ha iderson and T i l i a -fero quoted by y o a from my defense as an er-ror, to ^ o w i ts ga i e r a l inoorrectae® is not ^rictly trut, except so Ctr as s h a r d s the num-ber of pleas sent out, o r th* t this error was not vcluniarHy corrected in the same paper in which the d e C ^ was pabl id ted?

W i l l this Board take the same t roable to correct its errors a f t e r they h a r e been pointed out to i t ? W e shall sec.

1 8 t L Wil l any one of yon as a t ru thfu l man ^ r c to say as yoa have offic^y vdimaied in this report , tha t there was no other reason or occasion for my defence and ail t h b "A^tAiaJ/ ' as you are pleased to style it, ba t simply tha t the ^Secretary pleased io make ili"

19 th. Wi l l any one of yoa as a t ru thfu l man Tcntnre to assert as you have done officially in Uiis report tha t I "-surmised tha t some mem bers of the Board »ympatbized in those as-s a r t s " when you had before you the following printed extract f m m the "South Western Bap-tist," " T W O M E M B E B S O F T H E B I B L E B O A R D H A V E W R I [ T E N T O ' ' B R O T H E R H E N D E R S O N , " T H A N K I N G H I M F O R T H E S J ? " A S T O U N D I N G } D I S C L O S E U R K S " A N D A N O T H B R O N E O P T H E B O A R D H A S C O N F I R M E D T H K M I N A R E C E N T L E T T E R T O T H E B A P T I S T W A T C H M A N . "

20th. Dare any one cf you as a t ru thful ^ assert what you have said oj^ciaUy in , „ , , t tus report, t ix . t ha t the language quoted by I si Strife ji « . liui

^ yarticM llal Mo^gaMM •f OriaHamfty. I t o e v a M «tK

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oopjgma. AST asaaniiisc, rraaidot S. IL CramlarS . o n

"wfc&JvtafcM. CESISTLUr EABAKiXES. <1 t«.

Which ha pcmnaad sh, amt vslsaUc mok the ptMMiI acaacn.

Let mn fdasaSif tha T£XXZ35$£ StmSTeD to wmUmi •a.«aaa4d».ori3cr--.»Th.l3ibrfar« Aa £ t s sf SM-

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oa» vcA * HA Kcs. * on.

C A T A I . O & U B O P B O O K S r u u s z i s rr

THE S0CTH-WE3TERX PCBLISHI50 B0C3E.

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ST J. N. Gtktibl SUK adi-TITB CBEAT I B O S WA££L-tias. $1.

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you, beginning, " I f tha t Report was a Iklse-hood." &c. was used by me in inference to J Ac financial report as published in the mia-utM, or as you afterwards desijenate i t the

treasurers report," when you tuia ngtu t>e-

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pcnoBKpTiiT AXD r?»»iPEciajr« ruvxa^ioKs •KS . r»i.« ot ar^MMi^,! D ruir-" w»i».r- F.

i l s t I s there any other one of you all who « « « t . . as a t r u th fu l man, will dare to say what Bro I AVB.VCIXG T H S s t t c i : or j i , state of f»!ii ^ ih. Fu l le r said a t first apon "his recolUction " b a t " * must noic be ander.^ood to say upon e iamina Oisc i io . t i i i r . i o s ASE n s r . tion made (for his at tention, has been s p e d a l i j | ^ ^ '•'TP"' GIIT«. Baiiucm called to the error,) n z . tha t ihe items ichick i ' '' "" "" ' ^ve given rise to this c^ntr^ersy, and which p S ' i ^ ^ ^ ' J S ^ I have quoted above f rom the paper in which

fore your eyes my statement as a part rf the paragraph you quoted that it was the Report I which I read ai Louisville, of which I speaking.

P»TTO!ri SCWPrrkE CCiSTIOS BOOK far rsaCla

TEOCCHTS OS d o i s n a s E m . Bi 1. 3L PasCctaa.

UtPESITEXI. ET J. K. PexSetoE. U

QCEsTiaSS TO Tai t&ceau.

' DOCtOS.- or rta Fiithtl Caatmi-ii. »>crteBi»l btmaa of u n a ; . B^S. ILCnslvd. U esfatt. '

THB BKW SASBiTa ' FAH ISCHIA.

, WHI..H IS o r a EwiosL. caxiiT 6 j B. a. TaiU&.-ra. U ecau

SCHFIOL SOSIISTEL, B r 1 . X.

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CABTSTIASIN- S R S C R P M X I OF LEUJ^L r cao i ; H. 19 emits. J.

BAPTI53ir0BTnEEE*ia5S0X0rE^a. laWlsaxSm? Bj S. M. ;63ra*». -Pnaekicf lb» iMfiriaa of xc-I pea asce for litr I

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BXAS0S3 FOB BECJOSISG A EAmsr . Br Wa. I. Back, liloau. THB Biae Axn PEOCEXSS OF O P E S COSXCSIOS a

I ESOLAXO. B;aB.OTekui. Uc

' book notice " before had publi!.hed a single i September, i 5th Dare any one of you, as a truthful man, as.s«>rt as you have done oj^cially in thb report, tha t I had in the. Journal at that time published a book notice of any of the issues of the South-Western Publ i sh ing House. Do not say tha t i t makes no diflference whether it Wis done before or after that time if it was done at all. It makes io you all tho difference between truth and fitlsehood, for yoa hare said that it teas one of the considerations tcAicA AT THAT TIME influenced the action of tht Board}

6jh. Dire any one yon, as a truthful man. assert as yon have done cfficiallv in thb Re-p>rt, that I had commended i,^ tie highest Urmt" in the Journal, books that I had nercr mentioned there f

Dare any wne of you, as a trathful man, as-sert as you have done offijially in this Report, that " r advocated vith zeal and eam^tntss. Lie colportage" of books which I had ntvtr mentioned.

Sth. DATC any one of you, as a trathfid man, assert as yoa haTe done officially in this Report, that I advocated the colportage of the is- ues of the Hoa» ia Nashville, " ifo fki ntg-led of those of the Southern Bc^iut i>»5&. cation Society," when in the only artide Uteo pablished on the sabjeet I called special atten-tion to these last and did not so mac^ as men-tion the others ?

0th. Dare any one of yoa, u a trathfal man, say that lizt my Hau dmriag my ejjSeial l^e, advocated the eolportage with the KUe of tha issues of Ute Hsose la Ns^r i lk, to lit negltct of those of tiie Soatl i^ Bwtist Pub* lioation Socie^T *

the controversy upon them begun and I carried on, were not upon his books tchen hi prepared his report to the Conveniion, but Kere reporUd to him by me after his report ttos I^epared, and a t so late a day tha t he had no t t ime to copy it before yoa r meeting oa the 2d of May, 1857. This b wha t he has be«» understood to say. T h b b what he ev-idently intends to say. T t i b b what vou will U mdcrs tood to endorse as true. ' F o r al-1 ECCLESIASTICAL U S I T T ci t n o n n yoa give this only as Uie answer of | BJ A-joM-.jir. u the Treasarer to your enquiries," y e t yotir puUieation of t h b answer as t h o ^ h you thought i t true, and as a satisfactory reply to your enquiries will be r ^ a r d e d by all men as a ple<^e of your veracity to its truthfulness

N o w dare you say as t ru thfu l men that Usis b true when the books of tht Trtasurrr wUl place fefore y o u r qws the &ct t ha t some of these ^HteiTis" were reported, and entered there as early as J u l y , 1S56, almost a year before t h b time, and tha t ten out of the twelve items were there as early as the month of March, I , B A r n s s s . bj J. B. J E I A . 1 8 5 7 , * ful l month before the time for h b r e - , " ^ , . . port , or before he started North ? BJ C B ; ^ s

I entreat of JOU to go tothe Treasurrr's ^ ^ books, and see if I do not tell the t ruih. I f I J oojrcsssTa-^s or TEDOBAPrisTf t o BAPTIST P E B -do, have you not giren your o^cial endorse- j h. BartKaia. -« ment to a falsehood If I do not I entreat I " you to publ idi the dates of the entries from V A L I D A D M I N I S -your t r e a s u r e r ' s book, and thus c o n t ^ me\ iii^'w'ik^^^g.'^riil^j^f.^^' of the falsehood. . E i ther you or I have sUted , i»isccs£:os tHOss T H E IHJET

I . * " * T i T f c , . i t ^ p o a r a s r o r THE paasxsrr AOE*~ What IS not true, i ie t the Eecords in your [ wa eoma»»< «3 wfco «<mM tttwiig*^. i: t® pracsT* u< Treasurer 's office decide between us. I t b n o " * ' * ' * t«:j>«i»t»«»»: trifling mat ter f t r « official b ^ y l ike your- T n E n n i E B 5 i o T s ^ p i ^ ^ " ^ AKncAHP«tLi. selves thus to perver t the t ru th , misrepresiait iTes..»i»a.vsra.*-noe»T.-»«si«. i.^iaaa. w S S ^ S ^ facts, and deceive the churches of Chris t who • i ^ c . n^u, , . t rus t to yoa for reliable information. I am L J S ? S ^ ^ I J ' I . I L S ^ I ^ , S ^ ^ T v ^ ^ i r t a t i n g i t a s a serious and solemn thing, for j such I feel, and such you should feel i t to b e «> BE I S S T E S cs ARCT^r. If l a m m b t a k e • in my and^rs tandine and r»>i*u.caa« representaUon of these f ^ J beg you correct me, and I will not only make confes sion of my faul t to you, bu t will hasten to re- I t t n »tk» a:in>tiM! at aa^wM*. pair the t^ng by making my c r a C ^ o n public as I have made t h e accusation. TFili | »F ^ C S A V E S HAIULS * I » you not do th* same? Bible

Or will yon leave the Board to lest under the imputation of T ^ ^ ^ ^ SEPTEM-

having publicly and officially made ^temrats i to the isjory of its late Secretary which tew*

- CRBI5T1AK PABAUOXBS.' »» B-FFUBRNTTD <tmetPuiv«B»tt».<?a. 4SI),

X. o.—a a 'W te ly /jCJL WtrteBaJai'Mta.Bji Or. a • tkriattu ia jva^-sa Wt? K ke n M atvaat t d

Iba Icuaa* u t lu r fcaa tUri; or as::li T ^ AWK H TELTMD ta TUN a IKJRR aata-ana LUIR OR TLW S I «

IL CirasM B.B. t^fiMtoI WrscetVUvanatf.*^ aafa t£«w

, . I lob.a Tjlaalito »i.f«ie»l toWaj not true, and wbich tptrs tkaten to b* untriu, | <fc. 'tav>:trp<i<»i<''u> and yet yon left them ancorrectod to do their [ work of defamation to him, and dishonor to yoa. I f yro parsoe this eoats^ yoa will do more "to injare the BtbW eiose, destroy coiifidencc in aB our Boards, and eppc^Iy i n _ thb than a do.en ^ drf«ces 11SST nave felt i t my duty to wnte, ooald posu^ | h^aaVrMteav aa l la ^klr^fcn un>. JKhI sites have done. And yw viO '&ot o d j desfaroy eonUotoe in the Board whi^ yoa boap<we, but ia yourselres as ofieos of the ConTea^n as members of the Qiar«ii of Christ, aad even as ^nor^ Ie gentleman. I have no doabt that this report was Mepixed iat yoa, and rimply read to yoa, ot by. yoo, aad yom loot for granted withoat that dtose wlio premted it told die tratiL Bat u aot kniiwa to tke vorid. and its effeet b all

a t n < tie*I*a Ca^actarnr « ha itaxU a«imi> • E^ .

WBat«£^«raara na Ansai vffl sr I i ^ acv

ta th* knoda timdk iiitmrum wcrtj Jaauai, « te Ba trj tux Timft,

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irill l ika Chris t iaa m o i , tt&er cor r ee l the ! w n w g w h i A ^ m h a r i dooe to a s i f j m ^ v e beea nistafcan, o r eal l « M t o aaoooat fiortiwl

I baire doae to y o a , i f y o o k a n toid | o a l y t h e t e o t l i j ' " "

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f o m nt|jk«er, B. Bk

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m mm T H E T E N N E S S E E B A P T I S T

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m m to dB n A tkM tMCM otter i(aBl«d ftrtlw ittUaBTBM^ tev*

Itke gcBcisl iBMeBneyof this report, as a hi>-ItWMKldoennv&t.

lat Ik mj9 ** Mtantimt u utiele appeared |m tlte Soatli-WwteiQ Baptist," Ac. This m k w tiM inpraBrioB that the analysis of the

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» » —rftha»|»«it loBJtartfc« ftmhetaace irf tb» objeeto eo«m!»-| per q>p«ared «» fA# o / ^ ^ a i tid to By (AarC*. I tarred t]ie eanao I Uboicd ter, I ^nd ik« acc^anc* of my res^o^ion.

•BdMMAmriydertwdUaiBecees. 1 This ia not tnte. My resignation was offered ^ J lh«d Itttered iay«if.w.Ul on theotfc day o / ^ r t f . «The article analjn-, W j^ idwd. the editor of my rfRwU, | ^ i ^ i S f .v .

toU-denona-luakiQ aad tiw Boeid, both ai to Uw thingi done. Western BmpUn was published March Sa/A. and the tb^m*-- of a r M a c t h t n . I ten d a j a before m j r e s j ^ t i o n vas offersd.

T i h i i i i h Bapt i* 90, I S M : " „ ^ " IrwerWatdWWBtJy. - ^ . rf WT«»« a l^ ^ rMt,aiidl I dxmtd hwra i ik H Hf dotr to a r and vas tm the table in the Bible Rooms when

« tian ianediairiT apoo tbe adopaoo rf the — resignation was read, and made the sub-«i>dte«l«ioB.of t l«t iMetin«.bntlto ander-1

„„ jn , - i l i , , t h a n t«»j«ani.Tb«>de«ia.j««ndln« that • IM mod S < ; » r t i c W » for U» Simttero | SccfetaiT diaaTowed.

. . <rf B- FuHw, W. B. Jo»>i>-1 which that lotion ha. ^ Mhmr M he poWlshed in a T o J » e ; Scrip- I mux bMn SMde pabSe by amemberof the Board,

BMka«irS«tdaT sawoiB. etc.. cK-. | slainta that the adoptiaD of that report aad theie-•adl daricx A*^ f ' P 1 pMenut of tba moiatfa» ef I K l , are sadentood to •bo • w b M dunuhtthai B « D did wrt j beeoodemnalotTofToarSeeretarT.aadtoiJaoehim

. ^ j - T T T r ^ ^ r . , ^ ^ discnssionat that meet-T iateotiw to cast ceasnte cpoo the H ing.

2d. I t sajs " the Editor of that paper took occasi(m to remark that he hoped the false im-pression had been made ttninientionaUy." I hare the article before me, and there is in it

On the con-

the prtwf.in the printing oSo^ aad wiU teatil^ j thay nfnaad «r negleeted to main any-wporl I ^ ha a a d t i ^ t» be • t k J u ^ t J ^ s a J r L n Z i p i ^ U A h ^ L l ^ m ^ ^ o f ^ o t h « . thai t h e B o a x d ^ d b a a ^ been already moetly let up by the printers, ont 4Ul One wort now abont the nahrrt of this ] to H m , b«i» wiUhwI p « s « i n ^ y * t l l M _ of whose hands! took it to read to the Board, settlement which oecttiTed ia the presence <rf | aeeoant or a rvnOux or any state-' and to whose hands h was returned the same the Secretary. My own impren<m was that ment whaterer < amoont rf •Ie^ atoclc w night to be completed. The paragraph gtren Bro. Nelaan atatod to tha Boart that ho had i hand, or 3Kmi« i«WTedaaddi«lwnBa<—I«y by them below was read to the Board, but was examined the books,aad fbnnd that the Board i f this deserres ie«»m tfjanka rf 4e Board, not designed for pubUcation. would, upon setUenjent, be indebted to the I truat^they wiU ofer aometh^wm t t e

2 d . T h e B i b l e Boaw) w o u l d hare been ^ firm of Toon, Nelson * about seren 1 thanks to the present agats, Grmrea, Marb if I had left myself and Hum to rest under doUars,and had so written. Lest, howerer, I j & Ca, i f they Aould h ipen to rq»art their the false and slanderous accusations of the might inadrertaitly do any injnatiee to thoae I operations ia good time and proper finm at editor of the South-Western Baptist, sanction- worthy brethren, one of whom is now the Seo-1 Rkshmond next spring. \ ed. as he .expressly declared, by three members rf'tary of the Southern Baptist Publi«»tioo I I do not make these remaAs out cf any ua-of the Board. They are ^ w r f that I made Society at Charleston, I submitted iriiat I bad kind fadings to Hendersoa&Co.,» to Tomt, the only effecUre defence I could hare made writtei abore to Bro. Nelson, with a desire 1 & Co, but only to caB attention to ih* by showing that th' charges were false and! that he should correct any emw into which j of the Board in Ais report [to its deter-wicked. Does not ^ look trange? I may have faUwi. Ho returned the maau-1 nunation to shidd from blame ererybody but

3. The Board b now about to expose the script with the foUowi^note: errors of thb strange manuscript. They se- j Nelson stated to the Board what Bro.

UB7, Hm mm amaam^

l o d k i to a e o e ^ of l i s o S d i l dEfisB? A r i p d i B * e a i e A s C f a M s e B i d e x i e

l i Z ^ to ^ p o s and ttally I his b « t h r « in the position of oce who ha, j expression of no such hope, jitchaxi* ttJ» »" I .V- o i . — i trary the whole sp in t of the article seems to JKxnw, bat the amoary."

[Had I eTer neglected my duties ?

misTfpmentedtbe Board, deceived the Charehes, ind tifftseiad hU dnties. { indicate that the writer of it wa.s glad to find

Howtct little I may bar* bcac able heretoCwe to j aomethisg which he snppoc«d coaid be used to do for the iBMwau of the Board, is is certain » my dbadranUge, and the fact that he has not •to Binch less when I labor under sach lapotatians '

Here is tins answer of the B ' a rd . ]

- I t is eertainlT true, we here take occasioo . m a c a wneo i » « . r uiHwr « « • "di f tnce" against his accusations, tn as Statrd bf thw |»per . that up to as theee. haring the appar«t sancUw of a lOtmal K ^ r . u u i to rrmarx, as "J " i r_, I , , „ nor any part of it, to be seen by his readers, the ciae Mentioned, the B««rd did not t h ^ k r.xe of the Board. u u . . i • j j u e ^ nor did i t afi«Trards, that the Some other penoa will. donbUesa, be able W> ae- though eamcsUy solicited to do so by many of S^^cmarr did not dircHarge his ofSstal datie» cnmpK^ mow than I coiild hope to do ntrfer axiat- his own subscribers, is cridence that no such Brnmpdr and fidlr. The reason of the Board j um circBmstancea, cspeaaHy a> not briagcooacioos j as is here expressed teas in his heart for ref-mmr to this subject at all. was, t ^ f ^ baTin* either minepresected the Board, or ne*- ^he re were sercral articles referred to in my

the resolution in qtiestion of ^ r d ; | u ^ dutie.. I do not « e m t importSBt p» -1 „ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ o ^ . on. of which communication

its Secretary.] •The Secrrta.-7 cantdaizB. ia tbepaperreftmd to

, it n * puhluslT announced thM the Sec-retarr was «i«a«ed ia preparing a series of gundar School books; and sinee the B . ^ hmi ae'w b««» consulted in die premises, i ' minhthe piesumed by oar brethren abroad, that the B.iard wa» indifferent to the inteKutj. ennmitted to its eharH®. and therefare kept a Bn>ther in its employ at a rery handsome sal who denrted himself to a great extmt tc Othrr wnrk than that which beloeged to hi.- , „ . . , , , a f i ^ The Board was no leas desirous thai. K x n r w . — I am sorry that the Board com was ita Sarretary. not to lay itself liahle to a j pels me here to raise an issue of veracitifhe-j!i.*t charge of os^thfulness in doty. | t«een itself aad the Secretary, upon the true By the side, howerer. of the abore sute- ^ ^ ^ resignation. The Secretary dis ment of the Tennessee BaptMt. ire b^ to place j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^ ^

ucalais IB whid I can h<m to do any better in the , , . . , , fuwre than I hare ia the par- was an anonymous communication published

Ib new of these facu. I think the interests of the the 8th of April , three days after my resigna cause I lore, and will stiH gladly labor for as any fit upportBcity may offer, viU be best ssbserred by cny resi|[aati(»i the office which Ibidd by ^point-

I awst of the CoornxtioQ at Looisrille. This tesig-j oatioo I, there£are, rapectftilly piesent-"

A.C. Darros.

another from tha a m e paper. So . 26, March 6Ui. 1353:

" The d m attack oe Brother Daytoo did not be-gin with ihe Suaday Schorf Cnion. The ](«aer of the aaa-Licdoiark Baocaa in this Siab* •was a member of the Bible Board.' ' Wben t i* wctHid TOlame of TW^ioma appeared, and Uier«-ra a probahiHty aai'taatina to loEicai cenainty that the <ntr«u«E «oal4 be »e« at rwt. whether Pedo^ baptist &cietjei were trae chorchM of Christ, and whether lait beiae soch they eooW hare any UwfuHy ordioced aunistBS. hr labored by artfaay inaiaa-ated inoeodoes. So destroy the influence of the book ' This was probably iatraded to reach Laaisxille >b time to prfTwjt the re appointment of lo bad a mac as Brritiirr Daytas. to so important an office as Cur. re<paBdiss 3«"CiwarT.

Ta the Tranessee Baptist of March 6th.

tion. ba t I took occasion Co that this was but ih* echo of the prtvtuus editorials pnblirh-ed befort the resignation was presented*]

Meantime, also, the following notices ap-peared :

The Tennessee Baptist, April 10th, said — Bro. Dayton tendered his reeiguation to the

Bible Board last Monday, to take effect im-mediately. There are some who will read this with pleasure." And commenting on the same subject, the Assistant Editor, Mr Poiidleton,

lect two for a sample of itsgenerd eorrectnesss j i,^ in Nashrill^ and To find these two ther are obliged to make rimply repeated what Toon h ^ told him at public a part of it which was not intended for the depot, wh« he y s , . . , , .. n ^ ^ .nJ of of Ills brother-in-law from Nashnlle to Frank-publication but only for the Board, and ot ^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ course they hare selected the most g l ^ g and .fflje^on pressure of business, he manifest errors they could find. Now if it I j ot to make up the aocount. but should appear that ihese two were no errors at | that if SB^a up. the Bible Board would be all, but simple sUtemcnts of truth apparent

KO.

Hum by laCirfau/ •Mben of

tiM Board, and aot d u a to nat upoB any e^ba^ae&m rf ihe Bovd Uadfl Bs i ia Jaa. a (Toantiass of Bawd Bade a leport. Tha Board od^Mdn t report. I t wdeUdvtUt Board tisat tfcere wasaoth-iag ia Ais wiodi was iatended to cast the d ^ M eoisnre at sa^aaaa oa the Seoetary. But within t a daya a letter was written, whether by the PrwideDt, the Treasarer, or 90BC other meaiber of tho Board. I do aot say, laaldBg matter pnbEe, aad cfauaung that I had misieprcseated the Board, aad that the Board itsdf eoiidemned me for the misemj^ynteat of my time. Elds Header-son came to Nashrille about ^ saote ^ e , and was by the kxndaesB td the Presid^t, or

^ <icn3e other meoibers of the Board, permitted I . . , , . , .V - , T

gnation which they hare here published, that »»d, April 17th—- The Board will probably r • .... .u.. soon cease to have more than a nominal exist-

tt w a s o w i n g to the fact that although 1 ^ The Corresponding Secretary would •ierstood what the B o ^ say abore was true, resigned ere now, had the state of his t h a t n o censure was designed to be cast upon the | health permitted him to meet with the Board Secretary by the report or the resoladons of I Nor do I suppose that any man fit to be Seo-JanuarT, ISoS. Yet " the connection in which ^ t a r y , w i U consent to u k e the place which thcT h ^ been made pubUc by a member of Bro. D a y t a s self respect compeL. h.m to va u e j UBU uccu J ~ , cate. ' About the same time, this gentleman, fhe Board [in a letter to the ^ p t i s t Watch- mother article, characterlied the action of man. dated Jan . 16th, 1858, within ten days i the Board as " transcendently foolish, not to »fter the meeting referred to] shows that the j say wii ked.'" In the Tennessee Baptist, No. adoption of that Report, and the repassing of dated May 15, 18.^8. Mr Graves - P r o p h ^ s u s '

^ . » -icai ^ ..J K. . |as f o l l o w s ; — e venture toprophesv that in Resolution of ISo l , are u n d e r s t ^ ^ less than four years, there will be an attempt

•ondemnatory of your Secretary, and to place ^ ^ ^ transfer the Bible Board from Nash him before his brethren in the position of one j ville to Charlestrri. aad combine its work with who has misrepresented the Board, deceived | that of the S<w: rn Publication S.>ciety. Aad

1!j5S. No. 26. he sars —" There seems to be I t^e dinrches, and neglected his duties." I say h f this sho^.d succeed aad the Board of - a ^s temat ic effort on foot ta cripple «id par- - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ this referred to the that >ocicty be created a Hoard of the fcoath

t i l . ?n9ii«i«. of the Corre^oondinir Sec- ^ ^ x>«»™ ' ' ^ Baptist Conventiou, no one .>f theacca.-«rs of S ^ i ' l e B ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Bro.'Dayton will see any need of any more

is rei^rded as a Landmark Baptist, not be«»a»e any of these articles which they are pleased to cxpUcit instructions than the Bible Board has h e h a s e r e r written anything directly npon the copT from the Tenntsstt Baptist. Their at- already received from the Balumore. Mont-

*ulpit Communion, twit beeaa.«p lie has so » t t i ed the question, ' What is the auestion of Pulpit Communion, but be«aa.«> I i^^tion was specially called to this fact at the I gomery, atid Louisville Conventions, to autho^

- . f .. . Ti-v . • - t . l r rf I r ' l e it to ccaage larijely III the dislnbuiion of meetiBg when my resignation was presented i .

true dinrch T and what is the true and onlv hapti!>m?' that he ha.* erected an impre^ab ie fi>rtre-« behind which the advocates of old Landmarkism may ply their ba»<eries with ir P'Miitibie force and terrible cffii-ct urrni all op-p.wer».' He (Davtrm) wv< <w imprudent and daring. a« tf» ri«k the arath«na.« of all wh •tek th«» downfall of fhe Smth Western Pub tisotnc H<tu«e. by emplo*1^^ them t.i puMisn his ho<'k. Ho ought to have carried it to the N .rth "

Under the head of The necond attack," the editor of that paper says: " I f Brother Daytoa flattered bim.'vlf that he would be per mittad to rw* ia peace, while his books were erary day gaininr a larser eirculatioo, and ex ertiag a iara*r and m^re controlling influence o w the mind* of the be^t thinkers among the Bapttsta. he iioon d i ^ v c r e d that he was vert much mintakaD. A few months only had elapsad. when a member o( the Bible Board f>and fcca ion to introduce a resolution in the B >ard, «-Uit>e far the app^^intment of a Oom mittae to >'Kwnine the record* "f the Southern B^pti^t Canrmtion and awsertain the exact relation which the Bible Board wis Iatended by the r iUTffliition tn sustain to the circal-iriop of tha Bible and other rdigious^took^ That Committee brought in a report, prepared, with out doubt, by the same member of the Board who m'lyed the appointment. " N o iaconsid-erahie part of it [was] dcidgaed to condemn, or criminate the Secretary " " As the mat ter ha^ thu.« fin newspaper article*] been made public by others, and the Bible Board has bv them bem dra need into this contrureny much to our regret, we shall recur to this report asain. But let no one charge us with havine inrnlyed the Bible Board in die dispute. We wf-ih the oiemies of the [Southern Bapti."! Sunday Seh'uil] Uoioo. and the Old Land mark, cmild ha*e let the Board alone. But sines they M r a to be determined to u«e it, and if need be destroy it. for the sake of injuring the Landmark members of i t and the Presi-dent of the Sunday Sdiool Union, we cannot help it. We meet the battle as it present^ itself Ciream-xtances may yet require the publication of all that very remartahle report U-der the head of » Thtrf a t t a i i , " he ?ay* " If their nbjeet is. as the aiaaife^atioos force us to believe, to drive brother Dayton from the B'lard. i t is very probable they will sue eeed"

To all this, and miKh, very much more in the same strain, unjust and tmfounded as it was, the Board said not a s i ade word, nor has i t said a word to this day- I t wa.<. however, pemived that the Secretary, notwithstanding an that occurred at the adoption of the report, sympathised (idly with the course of the Ten-aeiseee Baptist, and csiaeided in its attack? upon the Board. And here, perhaps, i t might as wcQ be said, that as to Lardmarkism, or Aati-Laadmarinsai. i t is believed ctw&dently that i t had no inSuenee ia the Board whateyer, and the nune ia trae of the Secretary's appoint-m a t as Presidrat of the Sunday School Union. S o one knew, or inqpred upon whidi side of the Landmark question the Secretary stood.— Aad as to his Bimday Sdtotd Presidency, no one supposed that the oSce was, or eyer would be, more thaa nominal.. W e are not aware that ddier of these conaideratiaas ever influ-enced. in any way, far or ag^anst the Secretary, a i i n | ^ vote ia the Board. The Preadency was nnthiaii, sad s> to Laadaiarkism, his po-d t a a ia rdi t i tm to i t had not thea, aor do we know that ft haa evea aow, traasi^red The Board has, ia ao iaataaee, aaai led its Secre-tary, or soaght to mydye him ia aay way.— Tha raRdts of t h e s outade infiuenees were ao b r r r a ^ t t o bearupoa the Secretary, who was iBtbsatdy assodated with the Tenaenee Bap-tist and tha S lay i -Westsa Pohliahiag H jua^ ia l a^Bi t a ^ i a t e r ^ that oa te sSi day of

. Bibles, and our denominational aud other re Previous to the publication of that letter 1 had [i^ji^^j books; not u tf - m ail determined, though feeling that I should be I will so much as nrag Lis toc^ue in couticmna iteatly crippled in my work by the insinuations tion of them. And iLcn wili be rcndt r^'i plaiu which the President, Elder Howell, had pub ' b a t now we cjui onl^ gues. a t - v , z

. . . , . J V .u there may not have been a .>ecret pU.t to ruiu tuhed in the Christian Indtx, and by the en ^^^ ^ ^ ^^^ „ tire change of policy in the I I Kashvilic, fijr the purpose of alieuaiiu^ the aetermtncd to go ou aud try what could b« | confidence of the churchc.«, and the bretLri-ii done and to do the best I could. from it, and thus prepare the way for the re^

On reading this letter, however, 1 felt that "^va l of the Board to Charleston Probably vru . . . I some preparatory measures will be adupteJ, or

I had no choice but to pre«ent my resignaUoB I • < . , .

on their own written records it will doubtless be conceded that this was a remarkabU truth-ful docvmmt Here is the first "error," which the reader will please remember I did Dotputluih, but only read it to the Board ia the presence of Bro Selson, the represenU-tive of the firm of Toon, Nelson & Co. ]

"Mr Dayton says - Pcmlt u* aliDtc tmy that I hlTe l«d by tk« dr-

nuutiism abuo nftr-rd to, tu m»»» m. nuie canlU cxamlBa-Itoa at joar si LaamUU 1 »m 1-d to (««i th«t k h u o i m

Bim.y uk ho« It baf-jx-urd thai lhtr» 1» In It 00 Hi«atto» of the work 0/ yoar Drpm tbrr kfrsta. Toon. S«l»oo * Co. It aat ^ffrmr tkat thry aoU at iBralahcd to root «rd» a aliicl* B:kl«. it loaka stTXn{», but I do not know ihat expluatisD oa^bt tn h. KaJr. M? iiap™.«l<ji» t> moiMW. that JOB aenl Brulhec Toob to rrprMDl th« liit»t»»l o< th. Boari la Ihm Miauutppl ComrBtioB uul that h« rBcrtirf on aicoaot ol Board matnrthtnf t»«. 4. llara. Bat I 4a not Sad it la »oBr Tr»a»ar»r » t»foTt. Tha of Ml»i»ilpf>i "MJ lD4atr» what baa af it- I aappoM fom can gtr* torn ult>la<t>>r> aniw r bul 1 Jo know what It "til tw. I only

TOB •lii &oi thn.« th« t>:ain« aNTtaalT apoo »onr Corrwa-[»ioJiDf S. -r»tai7 a> I h»«r haj aaj tliic^ to 4o with loar Depualtor; aork. harlcf aisaja ihat aa In tha ,iclBai». charg* o( oth« oficra. aad I rrmrmbrr caUloj -ooj aitrsnoa to ihr fact ita! B.-u Toon niail. Ih» collMtlon rrfarrH to ami voaM •loabtlr«» report to loa at a proper tlaia."

• Tbe reading of tsis |>arai2raph made a very pain-ful im[iressiun n|><>n the Bo»rd. Brethren Toon and NWson had always be.-n regarded as irreproacbabl* Christian meti, and a j l>asiness men, energetic, prompt aud in eTery way. reliable. W.- knew not, Ihertforr what Ui think of this impatation npoa ihfir honor Mr T.x>ii now rrsidcs in Charleston, S C Mr Nrls«>ii is however a resident here T« inqairies on the 5ubj«:l by your ciimmiltee he re. plies in substance a.- follows IsL That all their a c coani.s iTfif duly seuUd wilh th.- Board illy. Tha< in this setllemeni ihe Board wa... found to be in. debied to them. :id y Thai ihey maite to the Boart) a donation of the wboip amonnl which, upon seUlei meat was found still due Ui them from the Beard, lihlv. That all this vas done in the presence of the S«:retiry him.self •Uily .\nd that since that tiim uo other lh.in monthly r\i«>rls had been made bt the Trt a..urrr this tran.saction being protier only to a rPi>orl in detail. In pnmf .-f tl>is .statement, we r . r the followiiic exiraci fTum the minutes 01 thr Bible B >Ar.l ..f j.uiaary 4ili

li^-aiii woald b-

found in debt to the late firm of Toon, Nelson & Co. Brother Nelson was not an attire partner in the bouse, and knew but little per-1 m «oaU acmcd m* or DeciKtb>( mj sonally of the bu-siness operations of the estab- ' —• —-lishment. He never pretended to have charge i To aU this, aad much more to the saa»e sfleet. and of the business. _ I in the tame ofiensive style and spirit, we b a ^ oolr

your Committee, that the Board haa accused him of nepectiMg his oficial duties. His language is as fol-lows :

- I t i>tteo]>lsiaao(i»ra«pM>pl«tkattriWivcst>atka ttm rradiBC wkkk Iltti* anriond to writing V jka, m m ta tko Bo«i4.«ra«t of it.waal4 feanasTatlt(t«eo I had l i n t u xtan! aaaant ®f t iw la . , x e t -|>naeh.<oa««aI4iien»i*ba^com]>U»dt]umna«M.(thr{tO e x a a n ^ and ff l i* IWJW Of thiS report WhlCh _anT <ut. aprat la diaeo irKa to prmh <o«i» iaSi* represented in the South "Western Baptist e h a n ^ oT tJda asd of w^iij, Toa had as arara ri^S ta I _ , co.pi.ia tiuBora^Tthisc I ^ ibr ther Sat-.- « cosdsaaatMHi of the Secretary. te^iaenwithBToBruidBtica. XaT.nor*. I do sot v i i m | The Secretary still vcn t qtoetlT on in the

Ws d u t i ^ without making compldat or d^esae.

Then eame attach after attack c h a i ^ g the

Baptist—short, and in a Christian spir i t ."] "The other representation is as follows

--laHwt tha «th«- It<»a of upeaaa which thU Boud has la-earndfor AlahaBU. waa aa aoeoBat af Sftj dollaim paU to H«8-dmoD and Tallafarro, for aalUac to aach of tMr ss Wiihan a documaat. n a t atoary wMlndty litfat. U ihaaec^htKS has-drad or two thoasaad plaaa added aothtag to tha aBciwcT. aa4 dM aothlnf to tn<'naaa tha intoma of omr aUbaau AmiUaxT.-

As there is other exceptionable ma^r in j ^^ p ^ jj^ never, in | Secretary, not aterdy with having segUeted the article, I hope Bra Dayton will ei»e ^ j » aogie, inatacce. " accused him of negiectiBg his j his duties, bat with having node a fahtn-a chance to make a short reply n» next w ^ s j ^^jj^. ,^jj j^Correspocding8ectBtaiT-—I of the pecuniary transactions of the

They might have complained, but t h ^ did not, that fBoard to coBceal that aeglect Aad yet the h e a l t e w e d h i ^ t o b e a n n o n ^ o r hiuuelf, in the aenpapers, as bans engaged m ad- 1 . , , , , . . . . . . dltion to his official duties, in writing a «wies of P ^ ^ resignation la the hands of books, and that, too. while a re«IutioQ of the Board I the Board, whose honor was implicated with was before his eyea, requiring him to " tive his M>-1 h i s o w n , aad to whom he trusted for a visdi-Jindd time to the duties of his office," and liax all | eatioa of hb oj^eicd, if not of his Christian this should occur without apprising the Board of I ^n^^cter his intentioos, or in any vay consolting its wishes.— The Board coisplaiiied of no book he had written, DOT prvpottd to write, nor of iht f t w oocnpied in writing them, although they knev that toe produc-tioo within three years of several riahcoatevolnmas. some of which number about four hundred octavo pages, bad necessarily occupied him -ore I these charges, if they were not oficially few weeks or monzks. It is also nearly certai» that ' if he had thousht it worth whQe to consult the Board , . . . . and asked a so^tension of iU resolutioii, that U | ^ ^ ^ ^

kne'

at least proposed ia Richmoud next spnug. All this, and very much more of tbe >aiue

character, the Board .-^w with unspeakable pain and mortifii»tion I t es-Nayed no drfeuce Indeed, what defenoe wa.-; practicable, or could

and leave it to the Board to say by refusing it hat a did not agree with the " iisiiBSK or a s Boatn"' who wrote it, or by accepting it

to relieve me of my very unpleasant position The editor of the Tennessee Baptist, ho

ever, and Brother Scovell, and others, whom I | At the meeting of the Board, at which the c o u n t e d as my friends, insisted that I should j Secretary 's resignation wa.s rceeivcd, a year >u>t resiiOi. And I probably would never have "nee the last Coaventiun. i

^ n t ^ the resignation I had written but for Treasurer made his annual n ^ ^ r t Tna t, •seniea uic * i f^^j^g^j^g SecreUry wa-s cailca upon

il ».. rr.j'orJ th^: -J a l « "jr fora.i .l.^-^jlorr

... ,!-.< t,. t-CQ »Ji4 l.r,.(.o.ir.s to th- .ccoBOl »i:k ™tl.fiii. = l ou c-.tioQ i.i Uro. S<.oT,.li. -.hflr at

— r<OW wKl il't rt>oJ<M- t c kind what • Mr Dayton ram at

comport with Chrii^tiau dignity, against such a stream of vituperation and detraction ''

• April, 1858, he t a t d o a d his rewgiiitioa ia the ' i i u n r i a g w o r b :

A A s M b t e n K O e SmOhtn B,^tiMt Gmmmtim

I waa iainmed some ;tMa t l h a d besB B»aiated jtKr Secretatr, I

I f t a$aMI tofciid teardMindaBT such thios. ' r . l^ i twaaacaBofOad. Ipnimpt l j '

«aee,Bpan the

iawUdi I j h n t t o a

presented the resignation •-he appearance in the South-Western Baptist if a scries of articles, cridently suggested, if aot written, by members of the Board in Nash-ville, accusing me of such direlictions of duty, as must, if heiieyed, destroy all confidence of •uy brethren in me, not only as aa officer of the Board but as a Christian gentleman. I liad the published declaration of the Editor of Uiat paper, that at least two or three members •if the Board approved of these attacks—and ^here were unmistakable intimations that the Board i tsdf approved them. In the several discusBiooa which grew up, pending the accept-ance of my resignation, these ar t ides were again and again referred to by my friends as those which had drirea me to a resignation, and I ^ y , therefore, that the Board could noi have hten ignorcmt of the irutk, and it seems strange to me that instead of idling it plainly and frankly like Christian men, they should en-deavor to make a "false impression''' by this long string of quotations from the Tennesece Baptist, and the assertion that it was these 'Utidde influences which were so brought to

bear upon the Secretary that he tendered his resignation." The Board should certainly irnow what influenced its oim course of action better than I , but I cannot h d p bdieviag Uiat

was qmte as competent to say what influ-enced mine as they cocld possibly be, nor can

see any good reason why they should accuse me by implication at least of bar ing made a false representation of the grounds of my re-signadoa.]

The resignation of the Secretary was not accepted at that m6etiag,ia the h o ^ by some of the Board, that someumg aiight occur whidi would raider sudi a measare un-necessary. I t was laid iq»on the table for ac-tioa at ^e aext session. Meantime aa artide appeared ia tha Soath-Western Baptist, aaalys-iaz the Treasarer's Beport as eoataia^ ia the mmutes of the last meetiag of the Goaveation, for whidi the Secretary was hdd responsble. T ^ editor took oecasioa to lemaik that uis aaalysB, by vhidi he proposed to show that a false impreaaion had beoi aiade n f ^ the de-noiasaatioB, aot, he hoped, iateationally, but oertaialy aude ta z^ard to the opeza;doas ci the Board, had beoi eoauaeaded by soate mem-bers of the Board itad£ This vas higUy offeasiye to the Seeretaiy, aad at meetiag whid reedyed his reagaatioi, he took occa-noa to read a loag mauaactipt, vfaidi be de-daztd to tho Board, vas his ddoiee aguast the Cham of the aditor of the Soath-West-era Baatist The Board heard this deCmce eatfy, but regarded i t as vboUy hcrderaat;

the !or

for his annual report, before acting up<iii Lis re.-igna-tion. He declined to make any annual rcpi>rt I He then read to the Board iLe paper referred to, the reading of which occupied an haur and

half. His rcsignatiua then ucanimoiislj accepted by the Board. Your committee pro-pose to examine and report the facts only in the cose, and which we cow procecd to do as briefly as poseiblc."

aeverthdea, boeaase i t vas aSnaed that i t waa then a t m y in ^po for the Tebaessee Baptist, aad Ti ta?p*« reSeetioas apcaT the Board, aa v d l as apoaeertaia brethren rat of the Board, i t was by lesolation placed ia' the haads of tliia Coauaittee" Kxyov.-r-Thcce a n two steteamts in the

above p a n g r ^ v U e h i f not a b o d a t d y on-t n e , a n a t least ealealated to aaake a " / d s e t a ^ t n a i o H . " They a n o f a o great q a a e e , ! ! ! ^ I c«n aUeotion tQ ^ o a te

[Rbview.—It is true that the Secretary was called on as above stated for his annual report, and he replied that he did not know that such a thing was expectcd at that meeting, and had therefore not prepared one. I t wa.< 1 believe the first time thai be had ever been called on to make an annual report to tbe feoard, unlc.ss it was in new of some public anniversary 1

We hare noticed a long article in the Ten nessee Baptist of May loth ultimo, entitled.

To my Brethren the Constituents of the Southern Baptist Convention," which professes to be the same with that read to the B-ani , and the manuM:ript of vthich i;ow liei. before U3. We find, upon comparing them, tbat they are not the same, as any one may see by ex aming for himself, some ihiiigs being left ont of the printed paper which were read in tbe manuscript- We shall, of course, be governed by themannscript ; and we liment exceedingly, and especially for the sake of tbe late Secre-tary, its whole character Gladly would we have suppressed the whole matter. Ba t as most of it has now gone before the public, and is doing the Bible Board great injury, we arc com pdled to review it faithfully and candidly And, by way of showing its general correct-ness, we will begin by referring to two of ifc representations of individual transactions We do this, also, to shorten our work, since an ex-posure of all the errors in this strange manu-script would extend our report to the size of a small volume."

[ B m r w . — I have several things to say of the paragraph above

Ist . It is not true that the long article en-titled " To my Brethren." «fcc., professes to be the same with that read to the Board. There is in that article, as any one can see by looking a t the paper, no pretence tehalecer that it is, as a «koU, the manuscript which was read to Uie Board- About the beginning of the fifth column of that article, the reader will find the f d l o v i s g language, " The fourth accusation is that I ioa.de a false report at Louisville last May. This is a maUcr that so nearly concern-ed the honor of the Bible Board as well as my o v a repuUtioa as a Christian man, that thought i t due to call to i t the special atten-tioa of the Bible Board in the following docu-m o i t v h i d t I read to them a t the meeting in M a y . a t v h i c h they accepted my resignation offered to them the montii before." I t does not say tha t I read nothing to the Board at tha t meetiag vh ich is not there pablished, and I WW d e d a n that every vsvrd vhich is there pablidied as har iag been read to the Bible

Ht.. onoujh lo liK)k sav>

llo says 1st, That there is in the Keport of the BibU Board at Louisvilie no account of the work of its i»ep).Mtory agents^ If this is aa errt r it can be proved by the report If CO .-ucL account is lu tbat report then this is flu/ an rrrvr but the truth,

•id He says It does not appear | from the l^ui.-iTille Ri'portI that th< v sold or furnished to tbe order of tbe Board a s-.ngle Bible If it docs ihe j can sh- sr ii in the Keporu Let any one examitie and .si-e for iiitasclf.

:>d Mr Dayton -ays • fAiJi U>uks strange ' In the previous reports tbtre was a depository department The B<iird reported what its Depository agent.- had done How many Bibles received and sold, bow much cash received, expended, and on band The C-onvetUton had a ritjht to fc'ioir .\nd it Hoes iook stranyt that the B -ard should at Louisville conceal all that pertained to this d par tmcnt and not even give an excuse or rea.*on for doing so Totin. Nelson & Co reported at Montgomery

Tb«! Board had the impression that this was fe exorbitant ctArge for work, which a good clerk could do certainly in little more than a day. We did not understand il, and were unwilling to believe j that these gentlemen would knowingly thus impose upon the Bible Board. Tour committee have from Messrs. Henderson and Taliaferro tbe following statement

- What an tha facU In tha eaaa T BrtcS; theaa Elder Darton CthM Corraapoodln* Sacratar*) f a t as not thar thr»« thoaaaad -Pl aa" In a box. ky frota SaniUe Tran. Wa maOM them aU. Oia cant poataf* auap oa »aeh

auda thirty doUaia. Gattbtg tka box t j Toskier*. coat •tx or MTvn doUars. Than war* oth«r eopaaaaa wt 'lo aot aoa rra»Bi)x>t. amoantlsg [in ail] to aeaxlj fertr toUaia. A') thi. ra paid cot of o»r own pockets. BesWn w» psW dalks to mill thptn and oth« labor connectad vtth traaaiainlct th«a DUha axpact u tsbnraUthianpe&aaearaalTM; Afur foot iaj ap the whole bjil aa taieiy eo»»t»d cXTeBm."

Thus it was seen that this trwnsaction also was fair, and honorable, and benevolent Tbe motives of the Secretary, which led him lo attempt thus to implicate these brethren, we pretend not to pette-irate. The Board thinks its gratitude dne to them, and takK this occasion to present iU warns thanks lo the members of the late firm of Toon. Xvlson & Co . and llttndersi.n and Taliaferro, for the disinter-ested services ihus rendered in the transactions re-ferred to. to the gr.?at cause in which wc are all engaged."

R E V I E W —Here is the paragraph which the Board pretends ti> quote as it was read to the Board

But in addition to whatever I may possibly have accotmilishe^l in this wav Bro. Henderson can tes lify thai I hare more than once employed the ci>-lumns of the Son'.h-Western Baptist to make ap l>eals for that Stciety, and that among the othei items of which this Board has incurred for .\labama. was aa acisonl of fifty dollars lo Uender son and Taliaferro, for mailins lo each of their sub scribers a copy of a document oa the last page ot uhich the fol!owit:g language occurs

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT. THEREFORE TH.\TOLTK REPORT SH.\LL SHOW .\LL TH.\T H.VS .\CTr.\LLY BEE.N DOSE. .\.VD NOT MERE LT THE LITTLE PITT-\.\CE WHICH A FEW STATK.S Oli a s s o c i a t i o n A L SOCIETIES FEEL THAT THEY CAN SPARE FROM THEIR OWN WORK AT HOME TO HELP CS IN THE F<' RKIGN FIELII. THE HoME WORK ISASTRC LV OUR WORK AS THE FOREIGN. WE .ARE Etjl'ALLY REAI»V TO All! IN CARRYING IT ON AN It WE UESIRE TO PERFORM IT AS FAR AS p r a c t i c a b l e TilRolGil OCR ACXILI ARIES

That tifty dollars was u;oney badly sped if these IStW or pleas added nothing to Use efficiency and did nothing to increase lite income of onr Ala-t>ama auxiliary.

Let the reader say if there is in this any •attempt to implicate these brethren,'^ Tallia-

ferro and Henderson. I t docs not say or in-sinuate that the charge was e x t r a v a j ^ t or wrong, or that the money was not h^ntstiy earned and due. I t only sajrs, it wiu-

Ths Board did not eo mach as appdnt a I Committee to oquire whether the chvges to which their attention had beoi caUed vere trae or false. Aad it vas easy to see fnm indications in the Board and out of it, that

a sa^>ensio3 of its resolution, that it I might not appear that in devoUng himself so exteu- j knew they were fidse. My res jnat ion W£S lively to other work he was violating his contract, | based upon the fact that these charges had the the Board would have cheerfolly granted i t We so [ iadge. because we have never known him to ask a | &vor of the Board, except, as ws shall see, the very last one, which it did cot grant So OKifideot in-deed. were the Board in his piety, industry and Sdel-tty tbat even had he, as he says he might have done, i occnpied bis time in reading, wrilina seimoos,

tbat they property,

had in band of the Bible Board

"ba lance" Books, " balance,'

But as soon as I was. 1 hastened io correct it voluntarily and gladly in the sam</wt^Jer which contained the error. 1 have since examined tbe Rccords of the Board and find the follow-ing ent ry :

".Yor. U/A. iNi t i—On motion, an account [of fifty dollars) for distributing pleas present-ed by the Corresponding Secretary, in favor of the South-Western Baptist, was allowed and ordered U> be paid, f 2TtU; pleas ) '

The Bible Board had therefore the evidence

S2.M >>'2 $>3 yo

Total, Ts

Witb this tbcy entered tbe two years, the work of which they .should have reported at Luutsville. Daring these two years they re-ceived books from the Bible Society of Weal Tccncbsee, estimated at live hundred dollars (lhou<'b they were not actually worth that, having been uoiaewbat injured in transporta tion, etc ) Bro. Toou is believed to have re-ceived over two hundred dollars as agent for the Board at the Mississippi Convention. How much they received for sales of books or I on its own records that this money paid othtr thiiigs, I do not kuow But this would I for this object to these men, and that the num-make over a thousand dollars which the de- her of pseas circulated was »;o/3l>tKl, but 2.766. nomiuation expecU'd them to account for at And if these brethren were entitled to "the the tlonvention at Louisville I did not in j gratitude of the Board,' ' aad "Us tcarm tbe Board, and I not noic, accuse them of any thanks " for their disinterested services, 1 dishonesty I have great confidencc in their would respectfully suggest that a vote of thanks honor and Christian integrity. I do not ques- I is oter due to the firm of Graves, Marks & Co tion that they had tn their hands the proper for simQar services rendered at a much lower vouchers to show what they did with eyery price. If it cost seven dollars for freight dollar, and every book which came into their I and one cent . acA / o r postage on these 2,it56

I pleas, the outlay waa 66. Take this from fifty and it leaves SI.5 34 for folding, direct-ing, and mailing. Now, at the same rate, the

possession. I only feare<J that somebody Eiight enquire tchy they had noi presented these vouchers, and why the Bible Board had

Board, leeu read to t h ^ just as i t stands, an-less there vas some error of the printers. Bro. Bogeza heard i t read in the B o i ^ »nd read

apparent sanction of the Board, and by ac-eeptiag it vithoiu explanation or defioise of w ^ t I had done, the Board voald have giyea its actual and official sanction tc these false accusations. Was it therefare not a duty vhich I owed to the Board, as veil as to mv-

smoking cigars, and visiting his fri«ids, it would, j sd f and the denomination, to lay before them doubtless^ have been very .low to censure him, un- . ^a jement of the facts in regard to the t r aa^ less It had been prMt^Aci ta Me uK^jujmv, as was 1 . , ^ i.- v • , l 11 , - , • , , , .V V . 1. J J V ! actions about which t h i s hubbub had been done m the other case, that kt did so occupy bis j " " umi time. In that evenv as in the instance before as, il President aad other members of is probable that tbe Board would hare thought it j the Board, " ossisUd" by the Editor of the uecessary to re-assert their resolotioa and thereby I Baptist Watchman, South Western Baptist, protect themselves from the imputaatm of a careless I aad Southern Bapt is t

Wha t would be thought of a body of men who ^ o u l d assail a peaceftil neighbor's hosse

at midnight, and when in defense of his life er his family he shotild raise an outcry or fire a gun, shotdd complain of him for distttrbing the stillness of the night, and the ptace of the neighborhood, and raisiBg a great - hubbtib''' aboBt the ears of his assailasts ]

" B»e Board insisted onlv that the report of the Treasurer shooid show the facts in the case . thai mooey created by the purchase and sale of books, other than tbe Sfbie. should noi be m>i down as Bible fmids, aad. as has before been stated made a basis of representation ia the Cocvettioa . and that this Board shotild not be fortxd into the Coiporteur work before it was prepared for i t David cerer contradicted his son Absalom, nor did the Board its Secretary ; but in these UtUe matters 'insisted upon being heard, aad we see the n-alL His "sclt respect" does not allow Idm to " remait. ksager id ihe Board,'' nor, we are sorry to say. treat ii with ordinary civility.

Be alleges, however, that he had beea a' saTied by newspapres " ire httndredmilei off: surmises thai some memb?fs of th« I>aaFd sympadiisrd in those assaults , and complaiss tbat tbe Board had not said a word in his defence, nor aSecpLed to jnstifv him. But in all this, he serms to have fcrgottea that the Board had been violently assaciu^, as we have seen, wrek after week, fw momba by a p»5ser not one mile off; that he fully syxapaiitized in these assaults, if be did not really write tbt m; snd S ^ be, the Board's " writing" officer, nttecd not a word in its defoiee; but was in fact faritrrpt erimiau in the onslaught Peihapi be thoagbt the Board cocld not be defended, and the Board also though., per baps thai be could not be defended. The tmlh is, the analysis of the Louisviile mpixt, which appcaml is the newspapers, was made by the editors them-selves, : >on their own responsibility, and from the materiaU alone contained in that report It »si focth facts o d j i and whatever of bitterness it ifl the form of ccmmentarr. be owes to the provo-cations of tbe editor of the TaiMetTie Hapaji. In all this, the Board, as such, has had no participa-tion, and is in no way responsible. "

"In regard to the Cnanrial report of this Board pub&sbed in the Mint:tes of the LouiEvilk- CcLven-tktn, and which had bean criticised in S4>me of our denominational papers., ia a manner cSs.sirF to l ie Secretary, be thus egresses himself in this maixi -script to the Bosrd "

"I did net matt aay report U' tAe CotrrrnimM a: ^.^urtZZc, ojui am niitier pmoaaSy uor r^rtaliy rr^KTjiSir for taiy report thai wizt made, aiij mxirt tkaaanyctJuTmuTKieTcftkis Boat d. Xo Secr-aix ever a report of «hrt he bxs don^ to tbe Cotivestitsi. The report which I read at LosbviBe was ymr report, nd mine. I did not ii u my report It was not received as bv report It was not acted en as my report. Is s-as c^t pshlish-ed as Bty report Tbe facU it sUtes do cot n-zt oa my asthoniy. The su^estioss it sakes ar? L.aimy suggestjtms."

-XTt^npartnsiaazTaesapa&^aF^k^ i! vu > Uiae&Kkl aUch had bm iaU Morr UsSi Sard, cberr tu tsxIxsMlt (m]4aaa0ThzT*V«<&i^<4aa£ If il w

disregard of those great interests committed by their brethren to their special charge."

R e v i e w — I t ts noi true that the Secretary complained in the paper referred to, that the /A>ard had accuscd him of neglecting his official duties. My statement was that "the Resolution of l^-M, which wasrcadopted in June last, had been regarded oi rsiPKor t u b Board as an act •>{ ccnsure upon your Secretary. I t was passed as yoa know, with a verbal protest that it was not so understood. I make no complaint.— But 1 ask as a spccial &vor, that if it vas, or is, or ever shall be the understanding of the Board that during the three years and eight months that I have served you, I hare a t any lime neglected or carelessly performed the duties of my office you will not leave it to be inferred by insinuations or inuendoes, but vil l candidly and frankly, like Christian brethren, >pccify the instance and the proof."

I then referred to the grounds upon which some persons who had attacked me had inferred that I had been gu»'ty of some neglect of duty. One was that the income of the Board had not been as great as that of the other Bjards-The other was " that I had found time to write some other things besides official letters." On this point I said to the Board " I am ready to account to yoa for haviag dene less than my duty if you charge it and I will account U> my brethren and my God for having done more. I then added the lasguagc quoted above-

And I am glad to see thai however anx-ious the Board seems Jo be in t h b report to find something to complain of against the late Secretary, they nave not ventured to charge

I paid fi>r circulating this document. There was. however, an error in regard to the num her of • Picas" sent o u t I wrote from memo-ry, and it was not till after the manuscript wa.-in print tbat I was satisfied of my mistake.— I him with any neglect of duty in his office.—

They thus uci t ly admit that the accusat ions» freely made ovtsieU the Board, and cLtmrxG to hiive the S:it!ctton of the Board Tirere false and baseless ]

' great deal is said, and in i biUer tone, in this manascripi, in defense of the admiiiistratiou ol the Secretary, legsrdiag auiiliaries and their coipcster opeiaiioas , to all of which co ansirer need be given, except simply ihat Use Board has never objected to his course in that behalf, nor to anythiz^ dtme by its aoxiliaries, unless its declining to recommend any other books tor distribnlion than those pablished by ibe Baptist Publication Societies may be so con-sidered , bat oa the contrary, so far as they have come to their kiiowledge, hare approved boUi. This loag defence, therefore amoonts to L-othing ; nor can vonj cotcniitiee see aay reason for its introduction! unless it wa? dc>.i::aed to cast odiom cpoQ the Board, aad thus U) ' glorify himself," -ind weaken, proba-bly drstruy, its powers ol doing good.

Sor ha» the Board ever expressed or «tertained the desire that the funds collected aad disbursed by ;hese auxiliaries should hive been sent to its treas-ury, or thai they : hocid have done wiai them any-thing but exactly what they did do with them.

U may be asked, what is ail this hubbub about 7— Vonr conimitSce are obliged to say they do not

know, except that ibe Secretary, with the assstance n o t g i ven them to the Convention at Louis- Tennessee Baptist office should have c h a r g e d o? t he aforesaid Vice-Presideot, pleased to make i f ville as in duty bound. It could not say it for folding, directing, and mailing the tw^ve [Review . - W h a t is ail this hubbub ab«u t ! ! was for want of time, for these agents resigned thousand which they sent ou^ something orer Truly enough 1 what is U about? Nothtng tn their office as early as January, 1857-seycra l seventy dollars, but their biU for this item was thevorld ! There was no other reason font but months before the Louis-yille meeting. And only eighteen doflars,—only tvo dollars and that A. C. Dayton and J . B. Grayes «pleased I feared the people might feel disposed to cast sixty-six cents more for twelve thousand than to make i t " That long defence" of thk Ute the blame upon the Secretary, as had already the South-Western Baptist chargcd for less SecreUry " amounts to nothing P There vas been done in regard to the neglect of by than three thousand. But ao such vote of no occasion for i t ! I ts only object mast naye the Treasurer. And this settlement said to thaaks v i l l be tendered to them. And now, been " to cast odium oa the Bible Board, aad have occurred in the prosenco of the Secretary brethren Hendersoa & Co. v i l l please to take glorify himsdf! I! N o v this viU seem sary

made Jan. 4, 1858, a full year after their notice that this is the first time that I haye so . strange to honest men vho haye seea the rc'icnation as agents. And not haying been much as intimated that their Vill vas not just iacks to vhich thb ' defence" vas a rep^-

• ' what it should haye beea, aor voa ld I haye! There vaa one member of the Board, Dr. W-done so nov bat for the reference to the trans- j P. Jones, vho virtaaUy accused the

«riy they made no report at LouisviUe in I action in thi . report. of bdng gtnlty of "lyutg ^ ^ ^ MaylSbl I did not puMisA this paragraph, And i f the former Depository agrats (7Aosf,« as Aaanias aad Saphira did— because I did not wish to cast any «Mjiicio»s are eatitied to the thaaks of the B o a r d h e u s e d h i s shreds and scrape of toe m much less ccnsure, npoa brethrea Tooa and for hayiag refused or neglected to make ing such a book as . Selson I should bo yery sorry oa thdr ao- aay report of thdr vork for the preyioas tvo to this attack, although pub^ed more t b u a

yearatotheCoayeaUoa at Loaisyik, or aay year ago ia the Parlor Yiaito^ a J oanal rf setdemeat vith the Board aatil a fall year af- vhiA Elder Bayksa, the thea Fr^tderatfike

And not haying been | made public in its details, could be no expla-nation to ihe denomination of the reasons |

count that it haa been published; nov veie it not that brother Nelson himsdf was on the Committee thai made this report, a n d o f course feels that he has in readineaa to offer gome yef j good and laffident leaaoni vhy

ter their reagaatioa aad retizemeat from all eoaaeetioa vith the Board, and then only a reibal statement £t<«i <»e of tbe paztaen ot

Bidle Board, was a coeditoi, t U S«»etu7 .yed no defease. mw IL

B . C. H o v d l , took oceaikn to xa

mafi ^MwdnioiMdaataitDptFlaiiUan t ; UtSi B al* B o ^ aad t ; U tr«Trmir.»< t» tlie CBBTiEiioa. u tat

tain ^ai th* deosmiaaSicB t» rix«rda» traa." •'If ftsj-willwp-piw ifcat tia Cl«tIli»«>S-=I S«s«arT pol t t o , twTBSy-eiacr

rrrarVtEto that Saeam-st far SmMcir f -•nb-aecroaijetoiTteespowtlisShe farj-a dtf C. • TitmaoTTM rmrt. ar tkat tbr Trcusrer

. ^ maOi tfattsal af Ike Sccrrtaiy fkzt ka snltad 'ri:^ bJs, *.dME»deB.«e4tk*thit t i t j t n tiLstr amermlr

t]» aamri xurff W. ^ a r ? to tLe aad iomati Um bsbk aad tn

U^^^Oatnaalkii i . thia Ui is Kcat ksdast pnMata« It l i ^ ia tba fas

tf tka atkr B«>k« << Ib* aacrt Coimtiaii: ,]^b>tl»ftee»ftk*SaBth Vcxtaa aat.ti>t. aba n> thm takS^aaM-aaAWeUsntdetaee: Tifhtia t2» ! » of 4c}». (atafioB 13 ttaStfttv&aB ahkh ikr faab rei^onad

••cow: r ^ ^ l e t t e t e a a a d »WT Baaria ani BwWtki by Aa t«a4» atraiit a. W cae-tri»>atat.«nof :ytl»«au»iMilti>tOT ka«i f i u k m at tka baa4. «r n u t W RCalM » - r a j ar azan^ {•(IT «BftL Sn^r tka ms . ar tfaa am. *ko <oa!e hare eaal <xi«*i asd anested thk fbaet BaUac it ^VMT (tat Oa C»-nijii»itiH,niiUij t i l 1 n *' '^ii ha kMtBsi:. •tIt«t^kMi>etae&iwsdqpcaarkaiisw asS Ijepadcao-vinalarr«UEkeadl«4r^vc«amEEqai2T<lt7 a laae eaart« affitiMMt akfatoM." ' ^ a a j t c w A j E i t attidaii>ii:t.ta caavmatlaatiMtaShaacwTlladla «MH> i n b i i iO t t t l iM—ll ' l l iT f at^y^OaiCWwaaaaa." I BvmEV.—The Board ia qaoting the aboye Icsye oat l A a t u set ia badce t s , aad call tlie z q i ^ . R^txied to tite "f iaandal rqxHt

O a S o ^ thaa laakiBg tbeimpresBoa that i t v a s ^ n o k tbe IVaosmr^a B q a a t t t e t i vaa

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