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Judge Lynch; and really, I think it- one of the most wholesome
and salutary remedies for the malady of Northern fanaticism that
can be applied, and no doubt my worthy friend, the editor of
the Emancipator and Human Rights. would feel the better of
its enforcement, provided he had a Southern administrator. I go
to the Bible for my warrant in all moral matters. . . Let your
emissaries dare venture to cross the Potomac, and I cannot
promise you that their fate will be less than Haman's. Then
beware how you goad an insulted, but magnanimous people to
deeds of desperation."
  Rev. Robert N. Anderson, of Virginia:
  ";To the Sessions of the Presbyterian Congregations
within the bounds of the West Hanover Presbytery:"
  "At the approaching stated meeting of our Presbytery, I
design to offer a preamble and string of resolutions on the subject
of the use of wine in the Lord's Supper; and also a preamble
and string of resolutions on the subject of the-treasonable and
abominably wicked interference of the Northern and Eastern
fanatics, with our political and civil rights, our property, and
our domestic concerns. You are aware that our clergy, whether
with or without reason, are more suspected by the public, than
the clergy of other denominations. Now, dear Christian beeth-
rcn, I humbly express it its my earnest wish, that you quit your-
selves like men. If there be any stray goat of a minister among
you, tainted with the blood-hound principles of abolitionism, let
him be ferreted out, silenced, excommunicated, and left to the
public to dispose of him in other respects.
              "Your affectionate brother in the Lord,
                                 RO1BERT N. ANDERSON."
   THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
   The number of members in this church is not known.
It is, however, small when compared with the number in
any of the churches that have been mentioned. Its con-
gregations are mostly in the cities and towns, and they
generally consist of persons in the wealthier classes of
society. This, together with the smallness of its numbers
and the authority of the bishops, has prevented it from
being much agitated with the anti-slavery question.  Its
leading ministers, so far as they concern themselves at all
about the slavery question, are in favor of the American
colonization scheme. Their influence is, therefore, de-
cidedly adverse to emancipation. The prevailing temper
of the Protestant Episcopal church is thus testified of by
John Jay, Esq., of the city of New York, himself an
Episcopalian, in a pamphlet entitled, " Thoughts on the
duty of the Episcopal church in relation to Slavery :"