“I suppose you all remember Dr. Pennington—­[cheers]—­a colored minister of great talent and excellence—­[Hear, hear!]—­though born a slave, and for many years was a fugitive slave. [Hear, hear.] Dr. Pennington is a member of the presbytery of New York; and within the last six months he has been chosen moderator of that presbytery. [Loud cheers.] He has presided in that capacity at the ordination of a minister to one of the most respectable churches of that city.  So far so good—­we rejoice in it, and we hope that the same sense of justice which has brought about that change, so that a colored man can be moderator of a Presbytery in the city of New York, will go on, till full justice is done to these people, and until the grievous wrongs to which they have been subjected will be entirely done away. [Cheers.] But still, what is the aspect which the great American nation now presents to the Christian world?  Most sorry am I to say it; but it is just this—­a Christian republic upholding slavery—­the only great nation on earth that does uphold it—­a great Christian republic, which, so far as the white people are concerned, is the fairest and most prosperous nation on earth—­that great Christian republic using all the power of its government to secure and to shield this horrible institution of negro slavery from aggression; and there is no subject on which the government is so sensitive—­there is no institution which it manifests such a determination to uphold. [Hear, hear!] And then the most melancholy fact of all is, that the entire Christian church in that republic, with few exceptions, are silent, or are apologists for this great wrong. [Hear, hear!] It makes my heart bleed to think of it; and there are many praying and weeping in secret places over this curse, whose voices are not heard.  There is such a pressure on the subject, it is so mixed up with other things, that many sigh over it who know not what to say or what to do in reference to it.  And what kind of slavery is it?  Is it like the servitude under the Mosaic law, which is brought forward to defend it?  Nothing like it.  Let me read you a little extract from a correspondent of a New York paper, writing from Paris.  I will read it, because it is so graphic, and because I wish to show from what sources you may best ascertain the real nature of American slavery.  The commercial newspapers, published by slaveholders, in slaveholding states, will give you a far more graphic idea of what slavery actually is, than you have from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; for there the most horrible features are softened.  This writer says, ’And now a word on American representatives abroad.  I have already made my complaint of the troubles brought on Americans here by that “incendiary” book of Mrs. Stowe’s, especially of the difficulty we have in making the French understand our institutions.  But there was one partially satisfactory way of answering their questions, by saying that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a romance.  And this would have served the purpose