is.  Take, for example, the American Board of Foreign Missions.  There are not better men, or more conscientious men, on the face of the earth, or men more sincerely desirous of doing their duty; yet, in some things, I believe they are mistaken.  I think it would be better to throw over the very few churches connected with the Board which are slaveholding, than to endeavor to sustain them, and to have all this pressure of responsibility still upon them.  But yet they are pursuing the course which they conscientiously think to be right.  Christian admonition will not be lost upon them.[H] I will say the same of the American Home Missionary Society.  They have little to do with slavery, as I have already remarked.  Many think they ought not to say any thing upon the subject, because they cannot do so without weakening their influence.  But then this question comes:  If good men do not speak, who will?—­[Hear, hear!]—­and, as our Savior said in regard to the children that shouted, Hosannah, ’If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.’  It is in consequence of their silence that stones have begun to cry out, and they rebuke the silence and apathy of good men; and this is made an argument against religion, which has had effect with unthinking people; so I think it absolutely necessary that men in the church, on that very ground, should speak out their mind on this great subject at whatever risk—­[cheers]—­and they must take the consequences.  In due time God will prosper the right, and in due time the fetters will fall from every slave, and the black man will have the same privileges as the white. [Applause.]”

ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY DINNER, AT THE FREEMASON’S TAVERN, LONDON—­MAY 14.

The Chairman, Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, gave “The health of her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland, and the noble patronesses of the Society,” which was received with great applause.  It was extremely gratifying, he said, to find a lady, belonging to one of the most ancient and noblest families of the kingdom, displaying so great an interest in their institution. [Cheers.] Not the least of their obligations to her Grace was the opportunity she had given them to offer their respects to a lady, remarkable alike for her genius and her philanthropy, who had come from across the Atlantic, and who, by her philanthropic exertions in the cause of negro emancipation, had enlisted the feelings and called forth the sympathies of thousands and tens of thousands on both sides of the ocean. [Tremendous cheering.] She had shown that the genius, and talents, and energies, which such a cause inspired, had created a species of freemasonry throughout the world; it had set aside nationalities, and bound two nations together which the broad Atlantic could not sever; and created a union of sentiment and purpose which he trusted would continue till the great work of negro emancipation had been finally accomplished. [Cheers.]