referred to the constitutional objection—he | give up the attempt to ameliorate his condition could not be ordained, because unacceptable. as hopeless. In the light of the great event Why! the test of incompatibility was the of emancipation, with four millions of Freedjudgment of the congregation that gave him men drifting from their ministry—they frame the call. He must be such a minister as a these detestable resolutions-professing at church is willing to call. He was utterly the same time to "attach" to their fellowship opposed to advancing the Freed-men to a position of social equality, but he wanted to take such steps as would attach them to us. Ultimately the assembly adopted a series of resolutions, of which the following is the fifth: "Resolved, that whilst nothing in our standards, or in the Word of God, prohibits the introduction into the gospel ministry of only qualified persons of any race, yet difficulties arise in the general structure of society, and from providential causes, which may and should restrain the application in the church of this abstract principle. Holding this over the assembly recommends that wherever a Session or Presbytery shall find a coloured person who shall possess suitable qualifications, they are authorized to license him to labour as an exhorter among the coloured people, under the supervision of the body appointing him." Caste is therefore established under the solemn sanction of this assembly. The deliberate resolution is adopted to make an utter distinction in the Church of God, between those who have a white skin and those who have a black one, and to shut out from all the officers of the church the latter, no matter whether they have been called of God, or how well qualified they may be in other respects. The simple question of colour is to determine whether a man is to be admitted to the ministry, or even to the office of ruling elder. The resolutions go still farther. They effectually prevent the organization of a single church composed of coloured people alone, anywhere in connection with the Presbyterian body represented by this assembly. It is evident therefore that these Southern ministers as a body have learnt nothing from the terrible conflict, and the frightful calamities they have witnessed. They stand as they did before, judicially blinded. If the negro had no more capacity than these divines have shewn in the Memphis Assembly, we should They the people they so openly despise. They An ELEGANT set of furniture has been sent to Jeff. Davis from Norfolk, Va. He has received no testimonials yet from Andersonville! WHAT ONE WOMAN DID. At the outbreak of the Rebellion, a Northern born woman of firm Union principles lived in Alabama. Her situation was so critical that her husband sent her to her friends, promising that he would not take up arms against his country. During the whole four years of the war she was unable to hear from him, until on returning to Alabama, she learned that he had fallen in the first battle of Bull Run. She then resolved in her desolation to devote herself to the welfare of the freedmen, by becoming their teacher. The Christian Register tells the story : pro -could bear un "Often was she hooted at, and even stoned, in her walks to and from school, by rude boys or the students of an academy in the town, though the sad veil of her widowhood drawn closely around her might have invited pity instead of insult. The good woman who tected and lodged her, was persecuted and shunned because she sheltered 'a Yankee schoolmarm.' Insult, danger, complete isolation, and hatred, Mrs.moved, till they threatened her only white friend. Then she took refuge in a black man's home. Finally an order from President Johnson threatened the removal of the Freed. men's Bureau from the town. The officer in charge warned Mrs.- that her life would not be safe one moment after the slight protection of the Bureau was withdrawn. With a sad heart she bade her coloured friends 'good-by,' packed her trunk, and sat waiting one morning for the stage. The door of her room was suddenly opened. Looking up she recognized Mr., one of the most influential men in the county. He greeted her respectfully, and coming hastily to where she was seated on an old box, earnestly begged her to stay among them. For months he had watched her closely, and observed her great influence for good over the coloured people. He would do all in his power to protect her from insult; she should continue her labours henceforth shielded by his authority. stranger so long to kindness and sympathy from a white man, no wonder she was overpowered, and tears were her only answer to this unlooked-for reward of her patient endurance. She stayed. What a regiment of A soldiers could not have accomplished, this one weak woman has done. Through weakness was she made strong. She has revolu. tionized public sentiment in the whole county. Unflinching courage and steadfast devotion have won the victory." TRINITY INTRODUCTORY CHURCH, STOKE NEWINGTON.-On Wednesday, December 5th, a meeting on behalf of the British and Foreign Freed. Men's Aid Society, was held in the above place of worship, J. H. Estcourt, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was opened by singing the hymn "O'er the gloomy hills of darkness, etc." when the Rev. Thomas Barker, the Chaplain of Abney Park Cemetery, engaged in prayer. Addresses were delivered by the chairman, the Revs. Dr. Waddington, W. H. Jones, Dr. Fred. Tomkins, Mr. Greaves, a coloured friend, from America, and by Mr. Robert Bulman of Milton House, Shacklewell. In consequence of the state of the weather and the muddy roads, the meeting was but small; good number of the FREED-MAN was sold, and cards taken and promises made for the coming Bazaar. much interest was however aroused, a Collection at the doors amounted to £1 16s. 10d. UNPUNISHED MURDERS.-At the late Equal Rights Convention held in Macon, Ga., the delegates, representing some fifty counties, reported one hundred and fifty murders of coloured people within the last ten months, and in no instance did the civil authorities attempt to bring the murderers to justice. One woman was found with her throat cut from ear to ear, and her little child, less than a year old, eating the clotted blood from the wound. Another woman in a "delicate condition," was beat to death. We know that these murders are committed by villians, white villians, but they are no better than coloured murderers. The latter are punished the former are not.-Loyal Georgian. NEGRO LABOR.-An educated Virginia farmer says that after having a large experience with white laborers, both foreign and native, he has come to the conclusion that the world cannot produce a more skilful and efficient farm laborer than a well-trained Virginia negro who is willing to work. Governor WISE.—In April of last year, we visited the home of the man who signed John Brown's death warrant. We dined with the teacher in his house, retired to his drawingroom after dinner, and held a meeting. Over the mantle-piece hung a large photograph of John Brown encircled in a garland. We sung the John Brown hymn, Hail Columbia, and God save the Queen. Three cheers were given for Freedom, three for Abraham Lincoln and three for Queen Victoria. The old domestic slave, aunty Charlotte, was there, but the master was a fugitive, and the son, poor young Henry Wise, had fallen at Roanoke, when General Burnside took that historic island. How have things changed since that day! Mrs. Richardson sends us the following "SAUL AMONG THE PROPHETS.-It may be remembered that Governor Wise, of Virginia, was the man who signed the death-warrant of John Brown. So fierce and ultra was his devotion to slavery, that when he heard that Frederick Douglass had sailed for Europe, he is said to have declared that a ship of war ought to have been sent to intercept the English steamer, and drag him from beneath the shelter of the British flag. But sharp and quick was the hour of retribution. The civil war broke out. Virginia was occupied by the hated Northerners, and one of his sons fell a victim to the strife. Driven ingloriously from his princely domain,* he drank the bitter cup to the dregs, when his own drawing-room became a school for negro children. But adversity, it seems, has had a healthful and humanising effect on this redoubtable champion of slavery, in proof of which we quote the following from the American Missionary for Nov. 'CAN THIS BE SO ?-The wonderment of those who exclaimed, 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' must be exceeded by the sensa tions experienced by those who read the following. Henry A. Wise, ex-governor of Virginia, in a lecture at Norfolk, for the benefit of the Southern churches, made this This is a mistake. The house is a poor wooden structure, and everything appertaining to it and to the curtilage in a most shiftless condition. An old rusty circular saw served for a gong to summon the Governor's slaves. -ED. THE FREED-MAN. THE LATE HON. G. W. GORDON. AMIDST the excitement of the crisis in Jamaica it was difficult to obtain any clear and trustworthy account of Mr. Gordon. The violent treatment he received at the hands of Mr Eyre and the military authorities rendered it the interest of the anti-negro party to represent their victim in the worst possible colours. We find even now that old West Indian planters speak of him with great bitterness. They all knew Gordon well." Some of them make a mistake of a quarter of a century in speaking of his age, and introduce into their story various discrepancies; but this does not abate the emphasis of their statements. They make up for the want of certainty by the positiveness of their manner. The simple truth is, that in Jamaica there are several "Gordons," and the late member of the Jamaica Assembly is charged freely with all their delinquencies. We are happy to find a witness, who is entitled, from his christian character and personal knowledge of the Hon. G. W. Gordon, to entire credit, and it becomes our duty to put on record his valuable testimony. We have endea voured to act and to write with equanimity in the conflict of parties, and we may fairly invite the attention of all to the simple facts that now come to light. The Rev. D. Fletcher, formerly a missionary in Jamaica, has supplied to us interesting particulars respecting Mr. Gordon. He intends to publish a memoir for the press, worthy of the subject, and waits only for a few half-crown subscribers. "The father of Mr. Gordon is a Scotchman, a native of Inverness, and has resided in the colony for more than half a century. He was not only hale, but fresh and vigorous, the last time I saw him, and could converse freely in his Celtic vernacular. On one occasion he asked and received, in Gaelic, my opinion of Mrs. Gordon, while she sat beside us at the breakfast,table in "blessed ignorance" of the subject of our colloquy. Mr. Gordon's father, being a man of sober and industrious habits, became a planter of great affluence and high position in the Island. He had the honour of being, for many years, the Mayor of Kingston, and was long associated with the legislature of the country. Mr. Gordon's mother was of African descent, one of his father's slaves, and, of course, liable to any abuse which her lordly proprietor might feel disposed to inflict on her. Although but a degraded bondwoman, she had maternal feelings, which secured for her the affection and esteem of her unfortunate child; for that child, after he had become a man, was wont to retire to the rough and lonely grave, and mournfully weep over the dust of his dear mother. Mr. Gordon's father was, in some respects, an exception and a pattern to the plantocracy of Jamaica, although, in his younger days, like all his compeers, he was shamefully regardless of the requirement in the Seventh Commandment." The state of morals in Jamaica at the time of Mr. Gordon's early childhood was frightfully corrupt. "As late as the year 1832, when Mr. Gordon was a stripling, impressible as melted wax, Mr. Bailie, a large West Indian proprietor, on being examined before a Committee of the House of Lords, was asked if he could name any overseer, driver, or any other person in authority, who did not keep a mistress. His reply was, 'I cannot.' Long (who is regarded as the favourite historian of the planters) says:-The name of a family man was formerly held in the greatest derision, whilst for the white man to form a matrimonial alliance with a woman of colour, although she might have lived with him for years, and borne him several children, would be for ever to forfeit his rank in white society, and transmit his name to posterity in imperishable infamy. Many who succeeded to the management of estates had much fewer good qualities than the slaves. over whom they were set in authority, the better sort of whom heartily despised them, perceiving little or no difference from themselves, except in skin and blacker depravity.' 66 Renny, in his history of Jamaica, says:—' 'Surely there never was a greater inconsistency than a profession of religion here. In some of the parishes, which are larger than our shires, there is no church; in others there is no priest, and when there is, the white inhabitants never think of attending. In a town which contains between twenty and thirty thousand inhabitants there is but one church, whilst the attendance at first sight is somewhat surprising. When you enter the church on Sunday you see the curate, the clerk, the sexton, one or two magistrates, and about a dozen gentlemen, and nearly double that number of ladies. Nothing troubles the white inhabitants less than religion. Christianity, indeed, is so contrary in its spirit, in its doctrines, and in its injunctions to their conduct, their prejudices, and their interests, that it is not at all surprising that even the mutilated form of it which the English Church presents to them should be very obnoxious, and, though not much spoken against, yet secretly despised and openly neglected. In the towns many of the stores are open on the Sunday, and business is transacted in them as usual, with this difference, that the clerks and negroes generally have that day to themselves, which the former spend in amusement, and the latter in idleness and debauchery."" Mr. Gordon, being originally only a poor slave, had no means of acquiring property. A man who does not even own himself can call nothing else strictly his own. He was, however, emancipated, aud possessing a clear intellect and sound constitution, he made steady progress. His open countenance and genial |