Advocate and Journal, and by Dr. Kingsley in the Western Christian Advocate, are complete. No candid person can read them without at once perceiving their conclusiveness. No one can read them without wondering at the character and purpose of these assaults. But the attempt to break down the Church papers has proved an ignominious failure. We thank God that our people are true, loyal, and intelligent-too intelligent to be led astray by the machinations of disappointed and ambitious men. Nor will the great body of the laity be hoodwinked by those assuming to be their special champions. The question involved is not a question of lay delegation or of antislavery delega tion. It lies deeper than this. It is one of ecclesiastical order, involving the very permanency and usefulness of the Church. Many good men may be deceived and led astray. A new spirit-one that was a stranger to their hearts years ago-may take possession of them. They may become alienated from the Church, cease their active coöperation in her great enterprises, go beyond her pale even; all this is to be regretted, to be deplored. But the respousibility for all this can not rest upon those who, in prayer and faith, stand by the old landmarks, content to toil on, loving and serving God to the end.

DEVELOPMENT OF TREASON IN THE NORTH.-We

blush to record that in a war so execrable in its origin, purposes, and management as that now ravaging the country sympathizers and abettors of treason and the rebellion are found in the North-in the free States! Yet why should we wonder? Were there not tories during the Revolutionary war? Did they not seek to weaken the power of the Government and to betray our cause when we were in the death struggle for liberty? Liberty triumphed then in spite of treason; it will triumph now. Their names became a byword of scorn and ignominy, and their memory is execrated; so shall coming generations execrate those who now are ready to strike hands with rebels and become party to rebellion. The issue is now fairly made. He that is not for the Government is against it. No pretexts, or concealments, or false pretenses will answer. He that does not sustain the Government does sustain the rebellion. What do these men want in New Jer sey. in New York, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Illinois, and in other places whose very breath is fetid with treason, and whose every effort is put forth to embarrass the Government? It matters not what they want or what becomes of them, but the people ought not to be deceived.

They cry, "Let us have peace." But let us not be deceived. The peace they would invoke would be the downfall of our national liberties and the enthronement of the Southern oligarchy over all the land. They would bring back the traitors, reinstate them 'with enlarged powers and new honors in the Govern ment they have betrayed and well-nigh ruined. Our very manhood, the instinct of nationality, should spurn such a proposition. A 'compromise" would prove treacherous, and any "peace" short of crushing out the rebellion would be deceptive if not ruinous.

of taxes? What would these men have us do? yield to the South and then be taxed not only for the expenses of the Government in putting down the rebellion, but also for that of the rebels in getting it up? This cry of taxes is a lying cheat. Let us fight the rebellion to the end, and then we shall have only the legitimate taxes of the Government to pay, and we shall have the confiscated property of the rebels to help us in that.

But then the Emancipation Proclamation!" What of that? Has not the Government a right to confiscate the property of men found in arms against it? No one but a traitor can or will say "nay." The more serviceable the property is to the rebels, the more aid it brings to them in the prosecuting and prolonging their rebellion, the more important is it that it should be confiscated. Such is the Emancipation Proclamation. It strikes at the vitals of the rebellion. It was the only shaft that could pierce them. The President waited long-tried every means to avoid itbefore he leveled that shaft; but the twang of the bowstring, clear and sharp, has been heard. The deathcry of slavery comes up from its minions North as well as South. It is well. If there are men who love slavery, with all its wrongs, pollutions, and treacheries, better than the Government it should be known.

But then "we'll be overrun with negroes!" This plea may answer to excite the prejudices and passions of the ignorant. But who does not know that the South is the natural climate of the negro? Why is he at the North at all? What brings him up here? It is the slave system of the South that drives him away from his own climate and soil. It is that which forces him north where nothing is congenial to his nature. Destroy the system of slavery that forced him out, and he will as naturally tend southward again as water will tend down hill.

But again, let us stop this unnatural war!" Yes, let us stop this unnatural war by crushing the power of those who began it, but never by allowing them to secure the "unnatural" end for which they inaugurated their drama of blood-no, never! Yes, let us stop this "unnatural war" by vanquishing our "unnatural” enemies. Then, and then only, will it be effectually stopped.

But again, "what difference does it make which party triumphs; one government is as good as the other!" And has it come to this? Are we willing to surrender the glorious heritage bequeathed to us by our fathers? Willing to surrender our country with all its glorious memories? Willing to become the sport and the victim of an oligarchy steeped in blood and rampant in treason? Willing to submit to its insults, its extortions, its dictations, and its cruelties? If so we are too mean for existence, personal or national. Subjugation to infamy would fall below our deserts; extinction hardly reach up to them.

But after all it is gratifying to know that, deep as is the moral treason of those in the North who would barter away our liberties, their power is circumscribed. The rebels spurn their overtures. The army of the Union breathes execrations, long, and loud, and deep, upon them. The moral sentiment of the people, deceived, insulted, outraged, is already displaying its reactive power. The signs surely portend that traitors in the North will find treason a hard road to travel.