PeaceーFree SoilーTaylorism.

On Friday evening last, our noble-hearted friend, Henry C. Wright, lectured here on the great question of Peace, impressed his audience with "words of truth and soberness." Had some opposition on the part of those whose theology is in favor of violence and throttling, who press the Bible into the service of wickedness and wrong, and who call those infidels who wish to use it to build up and perpetuate the kingdom of Peace and Righteousness. But the robes of royalty, the sceptres of power, and the gilded trappings of wealth and fame, will finally be torn away from the hideous monster of War; when the world shall behold him in his true character—bloody and revolting; and then men will shrink from him, as from the approach of a huge and terrible serpent, and wonder that any power "on earth above, or hell beneath," could have won for him the admiration and worship of mankind.

Last evening, a meeting of a different character was held here, by the Hon. Walter Forward and Moses Hampton, of Pittsburgh,ーa meeting which, though professing to be anti-slavery and Free Soil, was nevertheless called to aid in the election of Gen. Taylor, that spotless patriot and Christian, whose promotion to the Presidency will aid the promotion of Freedom and Christianity! I felt indignant and disgusted to hear the cant and whine about Free Soil and Taylor, and the fulsome, sickening eulogy of the notorious man-stealer and bull-dog warriorーpronouncing him "the best, the purest, and the ablest man in the nation, and that his name would be written on the monuments of fame, while the names of his calumniators would rot in

oblivion." This was the language of the Heterik Moses Hampton. Alas! for the morality of a people, when they can so stultify themselves as to applaud such sentiments. Looking to the approbation of man for reward, what encouragement is there for men to be pure, and good, and virtuous, when an individual can make "mad havoc" of every principle of justice and humanity, driving the plough-share of destruction over the lives and hopes of thousands, and yet win the appellation of pure and good? I am astounded at such devilish teachings. They are a withering and unmitigated curse. They destroy the distinction between right and wrongーdarken and confuse the mind, making wreck of Justice and Right, and fill the world with error and suffering. But these and similar sentiments are taught from press and pulpit, until absolute atheism, of the worst character, floods the land, and shows its terrible work on the infidel lives of thousands.

"The memory of the wicked shall rot, but the righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance."

Thine in the cause of Freedom and Peace,

MILO A. TOWNSENDTownsend, Milo A.

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New Brighton, Oct. 27, 1848.