The Baptists in America; a narrative of the deputation from the Baptist Union in England to the United States and Canada

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Chapter I. Page Introductory, 9

CHAPTER H.

JOURNEY THROUGH PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, AND WASHING- TON, TO RICHMOND, 16

CHAPTER HI.

CHAPTER IV.

DEPARTURE FROM RICHMOND. — ACCOUNTS OF PUBLIC MEETINGS

AT BALTIMORE AND NEW-YORK, 81

CHAPTER V.

STATEMENT RESPECTING THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE

ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY AT NEW-YORK, 100

CHAPTER VI.

JOURNEY THROUGH NEW HAVEN AND NEW BEDFORD TO BO«-

TON. — PUBLIC MEETINGS

CHAPTER VII.

DR. COX'S JOURNEY THROUGH NEW ENGLAND TO THE CANADAS, AND BV BUFFALO TO UTICA.

Section III. — Visit to Lisbon, at the Anniversary Meeting of the Free-will Baptists, 153

Section IV. — Progress from Sugar Hill to Montreal, . . . 167 Section V. — Montreal. — Journey through the woods of Lower

Canada to Chatham, Bredalbane, and Fort Covrington, . . . 177

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Section VI.— Upper Canada.— Niagara.— Camp Meeting, Section VII. — General Remarks and Recommendations with Reference to the Religious Culture of the Canadas, .... 214 Section VUL— From Buffalo to Utica, by the Erie Canal, . . 238

CHAPTER VIII.

DR. HOBY'S JOURNEY INTO THE WEST.

Section III.— Albion to Utica, 291 CHAPTER IX

HAMILTON. — UTICA. — SCHENECTADY. — SARATOGA. — ALBANY. — DI- VISION OF THE CHURCH THERE, AND REVIVAL, . . . 314

CHAPTER X.

.BR. COX'S JOURNEY TO THE STATE OF MAINE.

From Albany through New- York and Boston to Portland. — Sacramental Sabbath. — Brunswick. — Topsham. — Merry-meeting Bay. — Augusta. — Waterville. — Account of the College and the Commencement. — Visit to Bangor. — Lumber Mission. — Indian Sertl. - ment. — Account of the Country, and of the Baptist Denomination in Maine, 335

CHAPTER XL

INSTITUTION AT NEW HAMPTON. — ANDOVER. — SAI.FM. — NEAVTON

THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. MK. COBB. — MEETING AT FANEUIL

HALL. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION. — NEWEUR YPORT.

— WHITEFIELD's TOMB. — CHURCHES AT BOSTON, .... 359

CHAPTER XII.

DR. COX'S TOUR FROM BOSTON, THROUGH FLYMOUTH AND NEW- FORT, TO PROVIDENCE, 399

CHAPTER XIII.

COMMENCEMENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY. — COURSE OF STUDY. —

JOYCE HETH. ROGER WILLIAMS' PLACE OF LANDING. — WOK-

CESTER ASSOCIATION. — CAMP MEETING. SPRINGFIELD. — HART-

-FORD AND THE ASSOCIATION. NORTH AMPT ( N.— A LBA N Y AND

PASSAGE DOWN THE HUDSON. — FINAL VISIT TO NEW-YORK, . 408

CHAPTER XIV.

80MMARY VIEW OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN THE FMTED STATES,

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NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

" What do you think of America ?" — This is one of the most frequent of the many questions addressed to a visitor in the United States, and surely it is one of the most natural ; though an eager curiosity has sometimes been remarked upon by travellers, as if it were discreditable to national character. But would any of the denouncers of the inquisitive " Yankees," (a name which the New Englander appropriates with pride) be willing that they should treat their visitor's researches into the mental, moral, and physical features of the country with indifference ? Would they be willing to have it supposed that their opinions would not repay even the trouble of eliciting, or that their books were not worth the reading ? Ought not this anxiety, though a little feverish in its degree, to be regarded as useful in its tendency, rather than scoffed at as ridiculous ?

The principle upon which the present work is constructed being that of avoiding indiscriminate censure, which would be unjust, and undistinguishing panegyric,

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which would be injudicious, it is fair to observe at the? outset upon the questioning habits of the western world, that as curiosity is one of the elements of our mental constitution, and is the one great instrument of acquiring knowledge, if Americans possess more of this spirit than ourselves, which the very objection seems to imply, it does but afford an evidence of their intellectual vigour, and may suggest the caution that we do not allow ourselves to be beguiled by self-confidence and sluggishness into the loss of the race and rivalry of knowledge. If, however, the reproach be intended solely to represent their sensitiveness with regard to the conclusions to which their friends from the "Father- land" may come respecting themselves or their institutions, then it may be viewed as, at least, complimentary. It presupposes that our judgment is thought to be of some importance ; and that as an older and more advanced country, we are competent to form some estimate of their intellectual and moral condition. Why should we seem to spurn as a meanness, or contemn as a folly ; even an excessive eagerness to obtain the approving smile of Britain upon their efforts, which a generous rivalship will not withhold, and which will promote a friendship between us that must be reciprocally beneficial ? United by a common origin, a common language, a common Christianity, we are capable, if ready to act in fraternal combination, of impressing a character upon the future destinies of the world.

In some points of view, indeed the question proposed. Whether for the purpose of eliciting praise or challenging criticism, scarcely admits of a very direct or a very definite answer. Vague and general terms may easily be used in reply, which, when analysed, have hardly a meaning, and which are often the substitutes rather than the expressions of intelligent ideas. It is true that there is a far greater identity among the confederated republics of America than among the separate kingdoms of Europe ; but time must be allowed for them to be moulded into a general homogeneous uniformity. If the inquiry regarded particular states or sectional divisions, a general outline, even of the ever-fluctuating transatlantic world, approximating national character in each, might be given ; but we must be content at present with few generalizations, and allow the hand of lime to amalgamate and prepare the colours for the ultimate exhibition of a well-defined and finished portraiture of the whole.

If, however, it would be difficult to furnish a general feature, it is not so to describe a general feeling. The progress of political events has combined with the increase of commercial and social intercourse, to awaken in the minds of the great majority on the other side of the Atlantic, a sentiment which we believe is extensively reciprocated on this, that the endeavour to promote dislike of each other among either people by partial and prejudiced representations, must be discountenanced by both, and that nothing can be more desirable than a sincere and permanent union. It is not exclusively or primarily to statesmen and legislators we must look ; but to men who can coalesce upon another and a nobler principle than the politics of this world supply. It must be based on Christianity, the prevalence of which in both countries is already giving indications that the time is hastening when this consummation of all pious wishes and prayers will be accomplished.

Without attempting to reply in general terms or by nice discriminations to the question so often proposed abroad and re-echoed at home, " What do you think of America ? " we shall endeavour to furnish an account so faithful and impartial, that every reader may perceive what we must think, and be enabled to form a correct judgment for himself.

As travellers usually commence with their personal adventures, and make them throughout the great point upon which their recitals are to concentrate, we may be expected to follow in so tempting a course. It would certainly be easy to gratify friendship, or provide a feast for criticism, in this manner ; but we feel much more inclined to omit every thing of this kind, and should at once request the reader merely to imagine that we left home, journeyed to Liverpool, and crossed the Atlantic to New York, were it not that the goodness and greatness of God demand an admiring and a grateful record. We may be permitted, therefore, to deviate, if, indeed, deviation it may be called, from a general rule, in this instance, because we cannot pass over in silence the striking manifestations of an ever-wakeful Providence.

On the second day of our voyage, (March 13th, 1835,) a contrary wind impelled us towards the coast of Ireland. The captain had placed a man in the bow of the ship, on one side, to look out, while he with his telescope watched on the other. The vessel was sailing about nine or ten knots an hour. On a sudden a voice exclaimed, " There is a porpoise playing about, exactly abreast of us." The mate, standing close by, applied his glass, and exclaimed, " A porpoise, it is a buoy ! " The listening ear of the captain caught the sound, and uttering with a stentorian voice the words « Helm up — 'bout ship 1 " he ran to the helm with an eagerness that at once exhibited our situation. For a moment or two the rope by which it was turned caught but was happily disentangled. We had, as with the velocity of lightning, shot by the mark that warned us of shoals and dangers ; and had the ship missed stays, all had been over. As it was, we expected every instant to strike ; and the nature of the case would have required an immediate launch of the boats in a boisterous sea, at the approach of night, and with a south-west wind increasing to a gale. We repeated to each other the words, " The will of the Lord be done f though, even at the crisis of danger, we were not altogether destitute of the hope that the promise would be fulfilled in us, " he shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in."

Tempestuous as the weather proved, we were nevertheless able to maintain worship on board once on every Sabbath, and to pay some little attention to the children of the steerage passengers, by having a kind of Bible class.

On the 27th, when crossing the banks of Newfoundland, we were startled, at five in the morning, by the vociferations of the mate, calling to the captain below, " Ice, sir, ice ! " We were running at the rate of ten knots an hour, directly upon one of those drifting masses that descend from the north, during the months of April, May, and June, known by the name of icebergs. It was beautiful, indeed, in the grey light of the morning, but too clearly resembled other objects of sense, which are at once attractive and destructive. This danger was skilfully avoided ; but the increase of the wind, and a storm of forty-eight hours, which drove us three hundred miles from our course, and shivered every sail

2* of another ship that had started with us from Liverpool, gave a full though fearful opportunity of (: seeing the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." Watery mountains rose in magnificent succession, and appeared every moment ready to overwhelm us ; yet we often ascended from the liquid valleys and scaled the watery heights with a dignified ease and triumph, as if our floating ark were maintaining a desperate, but ever-successful struggle with the roaring elements around. Frequently, indeed, the froth and foam-covered summits of these Alpine peaks and ridges, called by the sailors " curlers/' would pour in hogsheads of water upon us, and dash with irresistable fury across the deck ; or, when prevented by dexterous management, would seem to deal forth upon our agtiated ship the blows of some maddened giant's hand. Awful was the solitude — awful the contrasted silence of the ship's company and the thunder of conflicting elements — awful, too, the frequent descent of the wind perpendicularly, holding us in long suspense, as if resolved to push and bear us down to the depths — and awful the occasional suspension of our gallant bark upon the top of the white billows, when every timber trembled, as in terror, while about the next moment to be precipitated to the yawning gulf below ! What moments were these for humiliation before God. for solemn searchings of heart, andfor the secret breathings of fervent prayer ! What moments these for tender recollections, yet filial and firm dependence on omniscient love !

Yet was the scene full of beauty as well as grandeur. Who that has never witnessed similar exhibitions can conceive of the variety of forms into which the giant waves were tossed by the tempest ; the majesty and terror of their motions ; the ever-limiting, ever- widening horizon of view ; the continual shifting of the fine perspective of rolling billows and mountain ranges ; the frequent lifting up of the waters into a kind of perpendicular cliff or apparent head-land crowned with fleecy snow and streaked with inimitable colours, as if a thousand Niagaras were there ! The wind would sometimes catch the top of a wave and disperse it in a furious spray which, in its diffusion, would reflect innumerable rainbows ; while immediately beneath the foaming and curling summit would appear, for a depth of several feet, streams and streaks of transcendently clear, bright, living colours, contrasting with the general hue of the ocean. Mountains of deep indigo were crowned with summits of brilliant green, and these again crested with white foam, which sometimes blended with other cataracts, and spread into silvery sheets. Nothing could be at once more beautiful, and more terrible. We thought of the power and the grace of Him, who, in the days of his humanity, said to the troubled sea, " Peace, be still ! " and whose gracious providence at length permitted us to enjoy " a great calm ! "

When we approached the shores of America, a sudden gale prevented our doubling a point of land which is technically termed " The Hook," and compelled us to cast anchor. Anxious to reach the point of our first destination, we availed ourselves of a pilot boat which dashed along like a " thing of life," and brought us to " our desired haven.'' Just as we were discussing the question of immediate arrangements, an inquiring voice — it was that of T. Purser, Esq., — was heard to pronounce our names ; and in one quarter of an hour we had made a friend and found a home.

Chapter II. Washington, To Richmond

After a brief interview with a few friends, we left New York on the 16th of April, and proceeded by steam packets and railroads in the usual course by the Rariton, to Amboy ; whence we crossed to Trenton, the seat of the state government, and went down the Delaware to Philadelphia.

We were given to understand that the heavy fall of snow which enveloped us during at least half the distance, did not occasion any great privation in point of scenery ; a statement which frequent glimpses of the low and swampy shores of New Jersey corroborated. Afterwards, in sailing between this state and Pennsylvania, the latter appeared more rich in cultivation, though the Delaware itself was still the finest object. The appearance of some of the villages is attractive, particularly Burlington, which looks smilingly upon the serpentine course of the river. The approach to Philadelphia is imposing, the city seeming to extend in a graceful sweep along shore for two or three miles. As we spent some days here, of which one was the sabbath, an opportunity was afforded of acquiring much information, and inspecting many public institutions.

The theological and literary seminary at Haddington, about four miles from the city, is built on a commanding eminence. It is placed under the effective superintendence of Mr. Dagg, late pastor of the baptist church in Sansom-street. Being of recent establishment, there are at present only about eight students in divinity, and fifty youths in the neighbourhood. The studies of the literary and theological pupils are separately conducted.

This institution is under the patronage of the Philadelphia Baptist Association. Arrangements are in progress to introduce the students to the manual labour system, as a means of preserving health and diminishing the expenses of education. At the time of our arrival, another baptist seminary was forming at Burlington, chiefly we believe through the exertions of Dr. Brantly, whom we had the pleasure of visiting. It has since been opened, and our devout wish is that both may flourish and bear fruit to the glory of God.

The water-works at Fair Mount, on the Schuylkill, are the boast of the Philadelphians, which a celebrated traveller declared he would mortify them by not visiting. He had better not, for a similar reason, deign to look at St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey in London, the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and the Vatican in Rome. They are, to say the least, worthy of inspection, not only as works of public utility, but as an ornament of the river side. The design of their construction is to supply the city with water. The reservoirs are on the top of a hill, and contain upwards of twelve million gallons. The machinery is simple, being turned by five large wheels propelled by the water of the Schuylkill. The pistons work in cylinders placed horizontally. If all the wheels were at work, they would raise seven mil-

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lion of gallons in twenty-four hours. In case of fire, it is only necessary to screw the hose to hydrants, which are placed at suitable distances.

The Penitentiary is a goal for solitary confinement, to the superintendence of which Mr. George Dudley, nephew of Mr. Charles Dudley of the British and Foreign Bible Society, is appointed. The whole arrangement is excellent in point of cleanliness and accommodation ; but although each unhappy prisoner is allowed a good supply of provisions, a small yard for exercise, and a cell lofty, light, and warmed in winter by a water-pipe, it is found that perfect solitude is inexpressibly irksome. It is a method resorted to not merely for punishment, but amelioration. Man, being of a social nature, the sole companionship of a guilty conscience is the severest of inflictions ; and although a question might arise as to the extent to which it is legitimate to pursue a course which tends towards the extinction of an original element of our being, yet the testimony of experience proves that such discipline for a time, is conducive to moral improvement. If alone, they are not, however, without employment, being furnished, each according to his capacity, with the means of spinning, weaving, shoemaking, and other labours. '•The Pennsylvanian system," say the Inspectors in their sixth annual report, " is emphatically a mild and humane system. Let us look for a moment at the condition of the majority of those who become subject to its regulation. We find them living a hurried and thoughtless life of hourly excitement, and shuddering at the possibility of a pause which could let in (to them the demon) reflection.

We see them wanting the ordinary comforts of clothing and cleanliness, without a home save that afforded by chance companionship. We rind them in the brothel and the gin-shop, given up to all manner of excesses, indulging in every extreme of vice, self-degraded and brutal. We see them corrupted and corrupting, initiating new candidates in the race of misery, and, dragging them in their own vortex to a death of infamy and horror. Where do we place them, and how do we treat them ? They are taken to the bath and cleansed of outward pollution, they are new clad in warm and comfortable garments, they are placed in an apartment infinitely superior to what they have been accustomed, they are given employment to enable them to live by their own industry, they are addressed in the language of kindness, interest is shown in their present and future welfare, they are advised and urged to think of their former course and to avoid it, they are lifted gently from their state of humiliation ; self -degradation is removed, and self-esteem inducted. Pride of character and manliness is inculcated, and they go out of prison unknown as convicts, determined to wrestle for a living in the path of honesty and virtue. Is not this humane ? The object of all prison establishments should be to reclaim. The separation of convicts affords facilities (which would be impossible under other circumstances) to treat each individual case in a manner best adapted to that result. There are no doubt some criminals who are incorrigible ; but even with these, the vindictive feelings usually generated by prison discipline find no place, and they leave the establishment with sentiments of regard rather than resentment towards those who have attempted to alter their vicious habits."

The Girard College for Orphans is now rising into a magnificent structure, under the care, and according to a plan devised by Mr. Thomas Walter, at whose father's house we found a hospitable home. It is situated on a tract of land of forty-five acres, about a mile from the city : the building is peripteral, 160 feet in front by 217 feet on the flank. The columns are of the Corinthian order, to stand on a basement of twelve steps surrounding the whole edifice. All the columns, entablature, pediment, floors, and stair- ways are to be of marble. It is not a poor school, a charity school, or a free school, in the common acceptation of those words, but, as it is termed, a college. The inmates are prohibited, by the will of the donor, from wearing any peculiar dress, that they might not be objects of remark or contempt, and that the only distinction at which they aim should be the livery of a good conduct. The instruction is to embrace reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, the French and Spanish languages, and, if the trustees choose, Latin and Greek. Stephen Girard was a native of Bordeaux, in France, and having removed to the United States, took up his abode at Philadelphia, where he died in December, 1831, at the age of 80, full of riches as well as years. Among numerous large legacies to public objects, he bequeathed the extraordinary sum of two millions of dollars for the erection and support of this orphan institution.

Philadelphia contains too, the ashes of Franklin, the room in which the declaration of independence was read, and the spot where Penn signed his treaty with the Indians.

A visit to the Navy Yard afforded an opportunity of seeing the "Pennsylvania," a man-of-war on the stocks, of 140 guns. Whether this immense apparatus of mischief is larger than the one building at Woolwich, we could not at the time determine ; but we devoutly united in wishing that both might be suffered to rot, while the respective countries should remain in undisturbed harmony.

The afternoon of this day was agreeably spent at the house of Dr. Brantly, where we met the Rev. Mr. Fuller, a baptist minister of celebrity from Carolina. At Mr. Walter's we enjoyed interviews with many other friends. Slavery and the Temperance Societies formed prominent topics of conversation ; and having ascertained the character of some apprehensions entertained respecting the immediate purport of our visit, we were enabled to present the subject in a view which we had every reason to conclude inspired confidence, while it involved no compromise of sentiment.

We preached on the sabbath at several of the churches, and obtained much valuable information respecting them. Our reception was every where kind ; our intercourse with ministers and people gratifying, and such as bespoke a deep interest in the object of promoting fraternal union between the churches of Britain and America. The presbyterians are flourishing and numerous. Their annual assembly was transferred this year to Pittsburg, amidst great apprehensions of a division of the body, in consequence of disagreements on questions relating chiefly to high and low Calvinism.

The baptist denomination is of early origin in Philadelphia. In 1802, the first church, however, situated in Second-street, was then the only one, under the pastoral care of Thomas Ustic, who had been preceded by Morgan Edwards and William Rogers. At present there are eight baptist churches, besides two African, comprehending about three thousand members. Some of these are in a prosperous state, with large places of worship ; particularly those of Dr. Brantly, in whose church more than one revival has occurred, and Mr. Kennard. The church of which the latter is pastor was only constituted in September, 1817 ; nevertheless, it now consists of between five and six hundred members. Spruce-street, though at present without a pastor, is acquiring stability and magnitude. The congregation in Sansom-street is beginning, after a season of depression, to return to its pristine importance ; and it is anticipated that the capacious edifice, which is estimated to contain nearly 3000 people, will again be filled.

The name of Dr. Staughton is intimately associated with Sansom-street, and with the progress of the denomination, of which he was a splendid ornament. It is not, indeed, in Philadelphia only, the sphere of his noblest exertions, or in Washington, where he died, after having presided for a few years over the Columbian College, that his virtues are commemorated. By the influence of his character, the attraction of his talents, the judiciousness and plenitude of his instructions to the young, especially to the rising ministry whom he educated, by the blandishments of his private intercourse, and the almost endless variety of his benevolent efforts and enterprises, he gave an impulse, which is every day developing itself to the baptist churches and congregations of America. We met with ministers formerly his pupils, and now situated in distant places, who uniformly expressed the most profound veneration for their former tutor. Some of them in the meridian or decline of life, are distinguished men, reflecting, as we could easily imagine, some of his hallowed lustre. Many others spoke of the discourses which they had occasionally heard, as if his tones were yet thrilling in their ears, and his impressive manner still fixing their attention. In the families he visited, in the pulpits he occupied, in the public institutions he founded or adorned, " being dead, he yet speaketh." He was born in Coventry, January 4, 1770, removed to the United States in 1893, and after a popular and eminently useful career of nearly forty years, expired in the city of Washington, December 12. 1729. His memory, however, will not soon fade away ; and while the present generation is conscious of the rich treasure of his recollected virtues, and the surviving power of his honoured name, a far distant posterity, to whom his fame shall be transmitted, is likely to reap the benefit, when his contemporaries have all followed him to the dust, and even when the recording tablet shall have perished.

We left Philadelphia with the impression, that the churches, both baptist and peedo-baptist, were considerably divided in sentiment, on what is termed high and low Calvinism. They appear to be passing through a process similar to that which agitated the English churches for some years after Mr. Fuller appeared on the field of controversy. These diversities have, perhaps, in some measure, exasperated their divisions ; but we trust that light and love are blending their holy rays.

The Philadelphia Association is the oldest of the kind m America, having been organized July 27, 1707 ; and it is the parent of many others. The doctrines it maintains assimilate to those of the confession of 1689. The Central Union Association was formed in Philadelphia in 1832, for the purpose of promoting the gospel bydomestic missions, the education of young men for the ministry, aiding feeble churches, supporting benevolent institutions, and awakening a revival spirit. The Bridgewater Association was formed in 1826, by a separation from the Susquehannah, on the alleged ground of the prevalence of Arminian sentiments ; and though the churches of which it is composed are small, religion thrives among them. .

After passing down the Delaware in the steam packet, crossing by a rail-road to the Chesapeake, and traversing its noble waters to Baltimore, we were happy to find our trip of 120 miles terminate in the hospitable mansion of Mr. Levering. The evening closed agreeably among christian friends, at the house of T. Wilson, Esq. Our reception was every thing that could be desired ; and both on this occasion, and on our return, it was gratifying to find genuine piety uniting with worldly respectability to enrich with greater glory than her monuments or mansions could confer, this beautiful city. It is situated at the head of the tide water on the north side of the Patapsco river, fourteen miles above its entrance into the Chesapeake. In 1752, it contained but twenty-five houses ; now it may be regarded as the the third city of the union, with a population rapidly approaching to 100,000. It is the first flour market in the world, having sixty mills in constant operation. It has, besides numerous cotton and other manufactories, a roman catholic cathedral of the Ionic order : the battle monument erected in memory of those

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Who fell in the conflict of 1815 ; the Washington monument, of white marble, with a colossal statue of their hero, the largest of modern times, standing on the summit, 163 feet above the ground ; rail roads leading to the Ohio and the Susquehannah, together with suburbs of much beauty, presenting a succession of elevated points or knolls of land, on some of which appear magnificent private residences.

There are, in addition to the episcopalian, presbyterian, and methodist, an African and three other baptist churches, of which the first was founded in 1785. This place of worship is spacious, capable of containing about two thousand people. After experiencing a considerable season of prosperity, it became much reduced, partly by the secession of members to form another church, which is now in an advancing state, and partly from the discussions incident to that secession, and the spread of what is termed " Campbellism." This sect has originated in the zeal of Mr. Campbell, formerly the successful antagonist of Robert Owen, the soi-disant reformer of the world from Lanark. The residence of Mr. C. is in Virginia, but his influence has extended to neighbouring States. His followers, with some of whose leaders we had opportunities of intercourse in various places, are baptists, who hold some of the principles, and adopt some of the practices of Sandemanianism, and many of whom associate with these a doctrine which, if it be not identical, is intimately allied to that of baptismal regeneration. By the recent settlement of Mr. Hill, in Baltimore, as pastor of the first church, the people are confidently, and with reason, anticipating the resuscitation of a spirit of vital piety and holy exertion, JNbt more than twelve months before our visit, a season