ar PREDMAN, PROVINOIA : 1 ? if CHATHAM, SAP RDAY, ica Mr..W illiam Sul, of Philadelpbia Pp. A. is authorized to receive. subse riplions fors tars paper, and give Avecei pis for ihe same. BSR MAY 16, 1857. NOTICES. - SUBSCRIBERS, EDtTORS,POSTM AST- ERS and DWAGHERS, are invited to obtain subscribers to the tom which twenty, percent will be allowed, papers willbe sent until the cash isreecived. ~ The, tenm..of, the .#yeenan are payment' advance, and no paper Will be sent bonget Taan maid for. SPECIMEN numbers will' be application. Abpriss' ds x SPZSIAL No sent gratis Upon De StH ADB. Chatham, OC. W.. REMITTANCES: All®subseription monies: for this journal enclosed. in Je{ters and duly recistered,-- wiiichYéan besdone.at any, Post Ollice. on pavmeit of (Wo dents in addition tothe post- pa age--are at the risk of the Publisher. Sub- scribers will-oblizes us.and.relieve us from nAanyedilficulties: by forwarding their sub- séription money by mail, as the trouble and o through the country expense of cullectiony iy is weny areat.--I. D.s. BLIELS! BILLS!) BLLLS!!! We have sent alatge number of bills, to Sabscfibers and hope they: will remitt tous at the earliest' possible moment, as our sub- | scriptions are our only dependence. i <B> @ @-- eee OUT GAN VASSING. Messrse [.D.Shadd. & JE. 5. Douglass; both' 6f this office, will-visit many of thie towns and cities in Western: and' Idastern Canada, immediately, for the purpose of pro- motingsthe irterestand prospects of this pa- fier; andthe "cause? of >humanity generally. Mr. Shadd will-act as canvasser &c., while Mr. Douglass, who has just.returned from a tour in.the Western. states, where he has spoken with great acceptance, will, Lecture extensively as well as canvass, and-we know satisfactorily. Both are young men, and are labouring, in the cause of human rights, and forthe spreadof intell:gence among Canadi- an tefagees. We hope, the Liberty-loving' people of these Provinces, will give them aid in their work.--My AsS. C. _Lecturing --Our Success Anti-Slavery in Canada. We hope to give under this head a few facis in regard to the Canadian Provinces, aad: their-velativn. to. the barbarian Republic of the United States; the -reciprocity.of re- ligion, manners;-and-to-some extent habits of "life existing between the (wo goyern- it that anti-slavery lecturing in Canada necessary ; merts; is, these relations make politic; leaving .out the, question 'are. we morally:bound to:remember those in. bonds as bound "with them.' antislavery feeling among all classes of men in Canada, that need only to be agi- tated, to bring it forth into. active. conflict, to produce-a-generous co-operation, a warm hearted amen and: God speed, to those on the other side of the Lake, who are strug- ling with earnest hearts, azainst the foulest system of wrong and villainy that ever a righteous. God: permitted tonestle upon old There is-a strong earth's- bosom; to awaken this sentiment | wes the object of Our mission. We make no pretensions fo infalibility, wisdom, or high literary attainments. We confess.that our early education. has. been very limited, for-we-had none at all.) We were born and reared to the ave of fif- teen, without even thc knowledge of the alphabet, in.a land of slavery, among slaves, though conditionally free, yet, » sharing their wretched lot and degrading associa- tions; all. this too, in the'slave breeding state of Virginia, one of whose Governors as ear ly as 1671, declared, "That there were no Free. Schools. and. Printing Presses ja Vir- *giniayand he huped there would be none this hundred' years." 'The spirit of Sir William Berkly seems still to preside over the councils of the ald Dominion. Under these circumstances it could not be expect- ed of a8, to bring to our aid, that finish and culture that the age demands, and that a highly educated British audience, is slow to excuse in a public speaker, . This much, however; we think we may claim for our- self, without the charge of egotism or yanity.; that. is, an earnestness of purpose, a sincere desire to do something. to benefit our ra¢éy'and to-overthrow slavery. in the United States, jlius far in the Canadas, has been beyond We confess that our tour gur expectations, : Qur first meeting in London was held at PROVINCIAL FREEMANS the Mechanies' Hall, which was densely filled, hundreds failing to ¢ : We met many kind friends, but none whose acquaintance we more highly prize than that prince of gentlemen Mr. A. B. Joucs, ' whose urbanity and ugasuming Modesty, we shall not soon forget. Of his intellectual - De" lady we "need*scarcel y"epeak coming: from the same states we were made welcome, and was scon convinced that she was one of the We "Peytons" "from the fustest fanities." ~alsohadsthe pleasure of taking by tle hand our old and cherished friend, W. ILoward Day and his accomplished Lucie, who are now residing in London; to seg them brought back old reminiscences of the: Buckeye state. AWe..are..sorry..that Mr, Day has not put himself in a. proper position, to give the col. vied people the benefit of his classical edu- catio.. and. fine, literary. attalimeats, such memarenecded and deserve tui be encour- aged." We must nut forget to iheation our visit to the British Institute, now under the charge of Mr. Hurst, formerly. under the supenntendcnee of Ma. Dillon; our opposi- | on to'this s¢h ool 'heretofore, and white un- der the 'charge of "Mr. Diilon, 'wis bussed upon its cxclusiveness, after a very pleasant interview with Mr. Hurst, we were assured that' whatuvers were the intentions of | its former head, that the school now pr: sented no objectionable feature, cither to the phi- lanthropist.or the christian. From Loudon we went to Woodstock, spoke to a very fine | mecting in the Town Tall' Objections were raised agatust us, because we cliarged the Wesleyan M. cuuren of Canada,with be- urches "We admit fsays| iny in-fellowship with-Pro-slavery eh the United States. Mr. IIutton and. Mr. Scarf that we felluw- in ship withthe Methodist church North, but she is Antislavery." But said we, hererare the facts: the M-E. church North, embraces eleven slayehulding conferences; t. at mem- bers.of that church own. over thirty-five thousand slaves, that the notorious Gorsuck who was shot at Christiana, while in pur- suit of a fugitive, was a docal preacher of Ky But, as these. geatlemen szem .to-be con- the - Methodist iscopal. church North. sciéntious christians seeking for the trath, we lope that the earnest and indefatigable Mr. Linton, will, give. them more light: on the subject... We spoke tu.a cruwded house ia Stratford, and hid the pleasure. of seeing for the first lime J.J... Linton Esq.; just re ferred to, who has won: for. himself a_per- manent and lastine- reputation oa both sides of the o¢ean, by his untiring' exertions to purify and cleanse the Canadian church from the hateful. contamination of slavery. Our meetings at Paris, Brantford, Dundas, at the last a thousand We feel the fo.lowing and ITamilton were very large; named place we spoke to over people in Mechanics' Hall. indebtcd gentlemen of Hamilton, for their kindly aid and assistance, W. H. Berry, J. Hl. Bland, our- to self deeply eain adial: SLO. ct Charles Jj Carter and Josiah Cuochrane.-- | He FED: = Just Arrived! | A. CELEBRATED INDIAN CLAIRVOYANT Docrress, Who will examine the system in any state of disease, Mental or Physical; accurately describing the locality of Diseases and their remedies. She'also 'travels by.sea and land in the trance state for losses, absent friends, and matrimony, giving accurate descriptions of the persons and things. Siie has wrought wonderful cures in the following diseases -- Blindness, Deafness, Rheumatism, Scrof- ula [Kings evil,] Erysipelas, Dyspepsia: Fits, Gout, Asthma. Come .and have a demonstration, at Id. Doston's on Kine Street, near the. First Baptist Church. Neg ooiiaeate R&S" We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of £3 15. for the Freeman, from kind friends in Pennsylvania, who forbid the publication of their names.--=-M.A.8 G. see TEE sas SE Davis' Pain Killer~from the reports of deal- ers inthis city, we think no proprietory medidine has had a larger sale. Its valua- ble properties, as a.speedy cure for pains cannot fail to to be generally appreciated. and no family should be without it, in case of accident, or attack of dysentery, diahorea, cholera morbus, and.even Asiatic cholera, yields to its magic power.--[ Montreal 'Tran script. | OEE OO Re Most. of the popular Tonic Medicines con- Stimulants The Ox ygenated Bitters being entirely free from tain more: or less Alcoholis which prevents their general use. every intoxicating quality, give a healthy tone to the digestive system. ot GES '" Rattlesnakes' --Slavery Influence. When perusing various exchange papers fiom the U 2 7a 4 yy 204 (\y . nited States, and in reading ex- _does not, but which may have cleaned its | £°" -- eee fue a f, seine absls | With the fond hopes, we trust, of successtuily skirts of the iniquity, if ever it had been) HOG Irene arent Pee any nai Seo 2 \ tracts culled from European papers, the | (uoughtful philantbropie mind, is startled Witness the fullowing: "* Benjamin Serews, the Negro with the contrast- of facts. Bioker." "Benjamin Screws, Negro Broker, will keep constantly on hand, field hands, house servants, carpenters, and blacksmiths. Office, No. 159, Gravier Street, New Or- leans." There is a long and a just comment on this notice, in the New York The New York Observer has an extract of a private letter-from a Rev. W. O.°Pond of Downieville as follows: 'We are enjoying 'a mest precious season of refreshing frony the presence of the Lord. The meetings Fare held at. the Methodist Church, but all christians participate in them freely and Back-sliders are reclaimed, and ie he work is going on quietly but powerfully -- eagerly. sinners are convicted and converted. and makes it delightful to. preach the gos- pel" This last extract is of a very ardivary character, for our readers will rceolicct 11 is from the Jand-of chattel slavery, where these same wors hippers of the Almizhty y> hold, aud' sell, their fellow brethren of the and beseechers ata throne of grace,--bu flesh, yes, their bodies and souls, as Cana- So ordi- nary is the character of such, and so vure- dians_do a horse, cow, or a ple. markable, that to read of the screams ol agovy and the writhines of the whipped and lacerated bodies of those held in bund- | age,----and the crics and the shoutings of a camp or a revival mecting of professing re- liviuus' Americans;--at the same ume, within the seme distance of hearing, at the same neighboul hood,----is no remarkalle fua- Cc } ture. of the bate at the mother's breast, and tearing it from the mother (when not suld along with it) ispo uncommon thing,---no, not even the selling or bargaining for. the unborn babe=--and whether a boy or a gill, increasing or decreasing the cousidera- tion. The Chieago Dimes hasan extreet as to Sabbath ubservance--a part of which > this: "Here in Chicago, on Sunday, we have 56 churches open during the forenoon and evening; but, at the samelime, there are no Jess than 80 bal!-rooms, in e:ch of which the "band" plays from anurniug till mid- ges on In addition to these ** festivities, night, and waltzing . . 5) mission. we have two theatres, each with its per- formers in tights.and very short garments, rivalling Elsser in their graceful evolUuions. | Saloons have their frent doors. closed by proclamation, but do a thriving business b) throueh side entrance.' And we might > 3 : > names of other places, say New | add the pames,of, 9 i iSa8 0 | ored people, who were so many of them former York,#--where,in the mid-t of eburches, tract societies and missionaries, bad,-=very | Tribune. Seiling, by the auctioncer's banmer, | without Inter- | (SOO NaN ned Neel atl el IO } { bad,----scenes are acted on Sunday, and all | : . ° | we hope is, that such things will not en- | : ae : | come from ; and to Which countries so many nis- | crease and -extend, Hasa nation which acknowledges slavery and the open sales of | 'human beings, a greater chance for a moral OVINCIAL FREEMAN AND WEEKLY ADV Ne Oe a i oa ae graceful fellowship which certain of our i churches, people, ané tract societies, have | with the silent and pro-slavery parties of the North,---who again, bow to the Southern influence. "And yet--a wonder in our christian times,--that Southern influence will send missionaries to Africa, to Hindos- tan, and to other unchristianised»portions of our Globe,--while they deny, at 'their own doors, in their own Southern States, a knowledge of "schooling" from the A.B C. upwards, to their young or their old and grown up slaves! Nay more,--they will not permit of education, by the book, to be given to free colored people! Yet more, they will rot permit a free colored person, to return to the State he may leave -- though he may have been absent only for a day,--an hour,--or atmonth! No wonder then, that the scenes enacted amongst.such a lawless and inhumane peo- ple, appear on the surface of society--for we predict, that much worse scenes will yet have to. be recorded, whieh will arise from the slave influence of the South. thers be any foot-hold fur genuine chris- ilanity there? Is not the gospel with its ministers, in the South, only looked upon as a thing to give the inhabitants (generally) | a claim to the name of a "christiin people," a "civilized nation !'? Does not the disgrace of "slavery," attach itself.to the name and e-aracter of every American, whether. of tbe South or. the North? And--on the European. continent, it is only when the passing traveller or tourist, when an Ame- rican, has scine claim to attention or notice as a man of literature or of knowledve, (and even such but rarely) that he is otherwise iwoked upon! A nation, in these -enlivht- ened times, which acknowledves chattel slavery, [and more so, where impudence boasts of its freedom | cannot otherwise be, than beld in disgrace and ignominy. x Se ee ee sr iWien's Associations -- 4 4 Slavery. In thisiissue will be foan{ta copy of a cirenlar issued by the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion of Afontreal, of which, ona which expresses pure senti- ment Ciiuistian. love. and } i I } dy our Numerous readers asa document of some | econsi_eration, and as well suited to the atmos- inada as to that of the Northern, and States of the a phere off © ad- ia ; 453 ue And why is such a buble ¢xpres- Western, and New joining Union. sion of opinion suited ty -a-Canadian atmos- | phere? Just in this way--ithat the Churches and religious organizations, of eur white Canacian, brethren, bave not hitherto given | forth asure and certain sound of gospel truth, | to their respective people, showing that "there is | no respect of persons with God ;" with the ex- | ception*of the Free Presbyterian Church, the | Church of England, (by its Colonial Church | and School Society espevially,) and the New | Connection Mcthcdists. The United Presbyte- rian body inthis Province show through their monthly Magazine, (published by W. C. Fletch- | er of Toronto,) that their church has adopted a large fied of Missionary entcrprise among col- 'ly slaves, (as witnessed in their pleasing pto- gress apd advancement in Christian fellowship | in the island of Jaoiaica )--and the same as well in the native countries where colored people | siguaries are sent, by while people,-- with the tond i hopes, and we wust with the sare success of | showing to these uachristianized lands, the ad- reformation, than a country or nation which | led into it? ~Wohich of such two nations is vantages of civilization and of a belie! in and conformity to-the precepts of our holy religion | the divine command of "doing to others as we there the most hope 'of, for-a sound moral | | for fallen. and sinful bumaiity, we record the fuct, regeneration, --a gradual change 'for 'the beller, a nearer.approach to abide by the doctrines of humanity revealed to us in Gods vord in the New Testament? Any | only recognize, the wish others should do to us." But with a sigh, that imany-of our While professing Christians, colored people, in fureien lands, While they: despise their band blight their pro-pects, In the very lands of our readers who may be even only par-- faally acquainted with. the history of na- | family, will atonee agree ina decision for the "land of the free." But here is anoth- er feature, at thir our day existing.--not in 1807 in the noble Wilberforecé and Clark- son's time,--and the same appears tn an exchange paper: "A vessel, schooner rig- red, named the Merchant, was yesterday arrested by the United States Marshal of New York, while passing out to sea, en suspicion that she was intended for the slave trade. 'There was considerable c:use for the suspicion. schooner and the crew, and the steam-tuy rested, and the men lccked up for exami- pation." the greatest mart of commerce on the Ame- rican continent! Still farther, on the 18th March,--as reported by the Falmouth Post (Jamaica,)--'an American Schooner was brought into St. Anu's Bay, Jamaica, The schooner had on board 8738 Negroes, 127 having fallen victims to the horrors of the middle passe ge, during a voyage of twenty- ning days from the coast of Africa. They were al. naked and most of them in a fam- ished condition, The interpreter on board on board, and that each slave was worth in Cuba, from $500 to $700. 'The poor crea- tures were taken ashore and their necessi- ties attended to"!!! The above last fact quoted, is a More momentous text to be all the accounts of revivals, camp-meetings, &e., &c., from the Rio del Norte to the borders of Lake Erie. "Christian prokers in the trade of blood!" How ean the mat- ter be much otherwise. © Kven in Canada --and should we all not be ashamed of it, ----tiere ts the approach to the recornizing of the direfaul and hellish trade, mm the dis- captured by Her Majesty's brig Arab and | |... co justly cited ? | reason is, that in searching ¢he records of its-- expounded, explained, and illustrated, than | tions, and of the progression of the human | The Captain of the | where these missionaries are seal from, and maby desecudauts fom tiese lauds Where sv J ale, vay, Where even the nuéives may perchance come, (as. witnessed in the case of Lhe present King of the Sandwich Islands by name. we think Liholiho, who was so unceremoniously so inhumanly aod unchiistianly expelled from white society in the steamboat on ihe Hadson river but a few years since,) and in this we refer more particularly to the Christians (professealy) of the Uttited sta Will such things occur id France,--Roman Catholic and paruy Protes- tant Branee ? or in Belgium.(a Catholie coun- try) or in Ho land--the nursery of Protestantism ity aud powerul, bat hu- tes, --or in our own migt | mane, Christian England, Scotland or Ltreland 2 "John Birkbeak" and her crew, (who took | out men for her to the Hook) were all ar-| This is no uncommon thing, the | arrest of a Slaver or slave ship, from the! port of New York,--the christian capital of \ No, no fin these countries, "human creatures" of every > 3 are recognized as "God's handiwork, hue or color; of every religious beliet, and of every kind of political faith. It is in the: self- styled 'free America,'--the United States,--that the iwnormg of the "common brotherhood" of S) | mankind exists, stated that upon an average two vessels de- | parted weekly, each with 500 to 700 slaves | "Bat why Mr. Freeman, refer to Canada, in all this, when 7 is an offshoot, though part and parcel, of the mighty and powerful England you Why, our readers, the Canada's--religivus history, we do not flnd, but with the exceptions above noticed, the full, frank and free admission of the "common brotherhood" ot mankind. We find that the common social and Christian relations of life, amongst Cana- dians, have been tampered with by foreign col- porteurs and missionaries, (aided by Canadian religious organizations) from the United States, who for so many years colported their books, tracts, hymn books, &c., containing Repnblican ideas, wishes and desires, with no words of com- fort for the poor, down-trodden sous and daugh- ters of Africa,--and as likely, omissions which really were (through deceptive intention) of words and sentences in the original editions as to | Slavery and as to detestations of its cursed influ- ence, We find, also, that a fellowship with such pro-slavery, religious, (2) organizations, has ex- isted with some in Canada, and no where have n 13} eles Mee eo we seen the sinfu'ness of such denounced i i Canadian ous publications, excepting Elow cap | humanity, and | ychusal, we hope, will be received | Canadian | cuudition | SSNS FE ES DEE, EE NR. TISER. 7 at 6 BR a rs | the Evangeli al Witness Of the Methodist New Connection, @ very piously written paper pub- lished twice a monthat London, C. W-, though wetknow that the Byec Presbyterians have no fellowship either with pro-:lavery bodies, and the obtaining of the "Presbyterien books" from Philadelphia, we understand, will not be suf- fered hereafter. We have fownd in Canada, by and through religious, influence, (proh pudor!) that the state and condition of the colored people, and their progressive advancement, have been to a lamen- table extent, dealt with, nearly akin with such a condition as such is in the United States. There is much "Yankeeism" in Canada, and ainongst some Canadians, asto produce what we state. And why, to any extent ina British. Pro- vince? Just because of the spare moral influ- as enee; and the- paucity (or poverty,)-of pure re- ligious knowledge from God's own word.--in our churches and amongst our church-going and church-loving people. It is not so tm Britain. What remedy should be applieds® {Just such a worthy document as the Montreal circular, we have referred to-be issued "by our respective We mean a churches. Efa! such a circular 2? expressed. heathens and non-Christian lands will be only persuaded, one and all, to set betore their mem- bers and hearers, from the pulpit and fromthe | prest,--the real aud true doctrine of Christianity, _ that our Savior's words and commands were for. | all, and not for white people ulon2,--tor the German. | Frank, Briton, Greek, Turk, Airiean; Colored ff | American, American, Polynesian; Chinese, Bar- | similar writing ntaining such Christi (eee ae : Tales poe apna g such Christian and | of Associations, and the salvation of souls divine sentiments; and as firmly and. concisely | if our-ministers of religion, who ask | in their prayers for 'success: 10' the Missions to | RRL LOO DOLL NRA NI NIA NA NA NPR ANS NANPA ; when (hese are transplanted to a land of Chris- tian enlightenment, shall we deny them the priviliges we accord to them abroad? No rather far deny ourselves the henefits of the Con- federation; than by identifying ourselves with it so far sacrifice our feelings of sacred duty as to exclude those whom Jesus loves, of whatever Race or Color, from full fellowship and commu. nion with us. _ In conclusion, such being our views and feel- ings on this subject of mrembership, it is our duty to bring them to notice of all Sister Associ. ations in the only way left open for us, and to urge upon them a prayerful consideration of theiy duty in this matter. . We cannot doubt that many of you entertain the same. sentiments, and we earnestly hope and pray that you all may be brought te the same mind, even the mind of Jesus our Common Lord and Savior. A union of Young Men's Christian Associa- trons; Coutederated.-together- on-the-broad-and comprehensive basis of the present Confedera- tion, pledging themselves individually to carry out its principles, with no other qualifications than such 'as the Gospé! requires, and without distinction of persons, is the devout desire of our hearts; and with alsuch Assoviations-we-stand ready to unite either in the present or ina new Confederation if-such be needful, To yonr own consciences, under the guidance | of the Divine Spirit, we commend this matter, _ hoping: and confidently believing. that the result i | | | | | | : mese & tdindoostanese,all alike,ihat there is a hea | *ven anda hell forthe white and black alike--that | the inviting promises of reconciliation, pardon ; and peace are proffered the black sinner alike. Bat amidst these re- flections to the candid and just historian and to the Christian, there will arise the "blushing shame," that all the outeries for and against chat- tel Slavery,--the manilold cractiies--the "hor- ridpess of horror' of the various manifestations Tadians the cursed traie ip - buman. Adrican anid | flesh,--the blushing sirume, that such originated, | was created and vidented in civitized suctcty, by the whom the white peaple in the Christian forefathers--the ancestors -- fram Uniled Slates, nay, iin America, have sprung. aa Sze ss ALG YOUNG N'S. ASSOCIATION SLAVERY. Young Mun's Cunisrian ASSOCIATION, Monrrear, April i857, To the' Young Bl s> Christian Associations of the United Slates and British Pi ovcnecs. : Dear Brevuren, Al alate meeting of this Association, afte: having lung and prayerfully considered the mat- iter, and alter caruest and repeated deliverauens, it was Itesolved, by an almost unanimons vote, "That as Southern "Young Men's Christian As- sociations, couvected with the Confederation, refuse membership to Christian Young Men-of Color; and forasmch as no discussion of this this question wiil be permitted in Convention therciuie, wesuived, Tuattve Montreal Young Meu's Christian Association "da: withdraw lfiom the Conitederativa of ¥. Mo Chrisnan Associations of the United States anc British Proviuces;" and the undersigned were appointed a special committee to prepare and address a circular to the various Associations on this Gon- 'tinent. sctting forth the reasons which tmipelted | us io this Coulre. tn aduressing ourselves to this hardly less ; painful than immiportant duty, We inviie your se- rious and candid. consideration cf a tew facts and thoughts, which wii, we trust, be received by all in the Saime 'spiritof Christian love and charity which prompts thea. We -ulteriy dis- iclaim all unkind feeling and cens<uriouspess of i spirit in ihe reanatks which follow, as foreign to |our thuughi> and intentions. At the Copveutioa held in this City last sum- mer, Mambersol this Assvciativn made the pain- ful discuvery, that ia a portion of the: Associa- | tious Connected with tae Contederation, Chiris- uan Young Mou were denied he privilege of Metibership solely on account of a call reve of Race or Color--and that a'strong "fccling, and what the incmoers of Lois Assoclation could not help cousidermg an unebristiap feeling cxist }ou the part of thuse Associ divus so luis sub iject. Ailusion to atin Coavention only discord, aud brethien Who sympataiz d with and acknowlecged the rights of @alé men were denivs this privil ge by th ir conveciiod Wii the Con tuderalion, The © Basis OF OrGanizavion," adopted at th Paris Conwention, ant rai uiea be th: Conteratec Associatious op this Continent, reads as tollows --« The Youngs Meus Caristian Assceiations sce lo wnile those young men who, regarding Jesus Curist as their God und Sacwr, according to the iloly Seriptu es, desire lo be Mis disciples in theis doctrine and in ther life, and lo assuciace thei efforts for the evtension of Hs kingdom among young men." On this broad platform, we recoguiz no distinction among those who thus believe and act; and no qialilicdtion, save thatof sincerity anu cunsisteiicy of life. No distinclisn of Rae or Color is the.e made, bul the priviteges of Christian fellowship, and the advantages of Confederation are accorded alik: to allyoun meu who love our Lord Jesus Ch: ist; and thos who avail themselves of these advantages, avow their obligation to ex:end them to all young men who are ready to conform tothe same simpie requirements, 'Shis we conceive to be the only fair and true construction of the terms of the "Basis," and any attempt to limitor qualify them, as calcu- lated to impair the usefulness of individual As- sociations, and essentially to weaken their con- federated suength.. Nay, more--we look upon such a distinction as that above alluded to as contrary to the Spirit avd teaching of Christ; who declares in unmistakable terms and by for- cible illustration, every man to be our neighbor and entitled to our Christian sympathy and re- gard; and a virtual denial of the Divine truth, that 'tin Christ Jesus there is neither Barbarian, Scythian ; Bond nor free." 'Tbas far we have sposen of the action of in- dividual Associations, but a {further cause of deep regret is found in the fact, that the Conted eration endorses that action by iis non-recogni tion of exisUng Associations of Christian Youns Men-of Color, thus enforcing the same distine tion with regard to its individual members as that which ob.ains in the Association alluded to Un this ground then we take issue; claiming as we do on the broad Basis of tie Constitution and of Gospel Christianity, the same rights an privileges which we enjoy for Christian Young Men irrespective of Caste, Class, Race; or Color. in voluntarily excluding ourselves from th benefits of Confederation, which none more high ly appreciate, we are actuated solely by consci entious motives of duty. The love of Christ which implies the love of our fellow-men, con Straineth us. In foreign missionary fields we rejoice to ex tend the right hand of Christian fellowship to the Converted Brahmin and Hindoo--to the Hot- tentot and the benighted denighetd of Africa, and hy God throtizh Jesus Christ, for acceptance to the wate sinner and to | created will redound to the Glory of God, to the snecess _ With renewed assuranaes of warmest Chris- tian Love, and unabatéd'in your> spiriual pros- perily, : We remaio your Brethren in Christ, * Bk. GRAFTON, T. JAMES CLAXTON, JAMES BAYLIS, PR. W. WOUD, WM. DICKSON, GEO..8. BRUSH. On behalf of Montieal Y: M.C.A.