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MONROE, SAMUEL Y. 



MUNCK, SALOMON. 



founded on justice and law, and we offer our 

 services in enforcing it against any opposition 

 whatever; 



That we favor direct taxation in preference 

 to a protective tariff. 



A general convention is then recommended, 

 to make such modification in our form of gov- 

 ernment as shall receive the cordial support 

 of all, reinvigorate republican sympathies and 

 principles, and establish an enduring constitu- 

 tion. 



The State government is then arraigned, aud 

 the dominant party in Missouri pronounced 

 corrupt and oppressive ; and they finally re- 

 solved, that every white man of Missouri, of 

 lawful age and sound mind, has a right to vote, 

 and should exercise the right at all hazards, 

 and subject to all consequences which an un- 

 lawful assumption of power might awaken. 



An election was held in November, in the 

 Third Congressional District, to supply the va- 

 cancy occasioned by the death of Thomas E. 

 Noel. The vote was light, the whole number 

 cast being 3,252, of which, Jas. R. McCormick, 

 the Democratic candidate, received a majority 

 of 190. The Republican candidate was James 

 H. Chase. 



MONROE, Rev. SAMUEL Y., D. D., a Meth- 

 odist clergyman, and, at the time of his death, 

 secretary of the Church Extension Society of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, born in Mount 

 Holly, K J., in 1813 ; died by being thrown 

 from the cars near Jersey City, N. J., February 

 9, 1867. He was the son of Hon. Clayton 

 Monroe, of Mount Holly, N. J., but spent most 

 of his youth in Philadelphia. He united with 

 the Methodist Church in 1834, and soon became 

 a local preacher, but did not enter the itiner- 

 ancy until 1843. His labors were confined to 

 churches in the New Jersey Conference for the 

 next twenty years, being stationed successively 

 at Salem, Paterson, Newark, Princeton, New- 

 ark again, and New Brunswick. In 1856 he 

 was appointed the presiding elder of the Bridge- 

 ton district. In 1860 he was appointed pastor 

 in Camden, and at the end of two years trans- 

 ferred to Trenton, and in 1864 made presiding 

 elder of the Camden district, but at his own 

 request transferred to the pastorate in Jersey 

 City. In 1865 he was appointed correspond- 

 ing secretary of the Church Extension Society, 

 and by his rare executive ability had made that 

 society a most efficient and powerful organiza- 

 tion in the Church. He was an active and 

 leading member of the General Conferences of 

 1856, 1860, and 1864, and in the last received a 

 large vote for bishop. He was an eloquent 

 preacher and an able and vigorous writer. 



MOSCOW, Most Rev. PHILARETE DROZDOF, 

 Archbishop of, and Metropolitan of the Rus- 

 sian Greek Church, born in 1782 at Colomna, in 

 the Government of Moscow ; died at Moscow 

 December 1, 1867. He began his studies in his 

 native town, and completed his theological 

 course at the seminary of the Laura of St. Ser- 

 gius, in Moscow. Attracting the notice of the 



Metropolitan Plato, he was appointed professor 

 in the Seminary as soon as he had finished his 

 course of study there, and in 1808 took holy 

 orders. Four years later he became rector of 

 the Theological Academy of St. Alexandre 

 Nevsky at St. Petersburg; in 1817, Bishop of 

 Revel; in 1819, Archbishop of Tver, and mem- 

 ber of the Holy Synod; in 1820, Archbishop of 

 Saroslav; in 1821, Archbishop of Moscow, and 

 in 1826, on the occasion of the coronation of the 

 Czar Nicholas, Metropolitan. His career as a 

 preacher and writer began in 1811, when some 

 of his sermons were published, and excited 

 marked attention. In 1813, he printed a funer- 

 al oration on the death of Prince Golonischeff 

 Koutoussoff, and in 1814 his first political ser- 

 mon, with the title of " The Voice of Him that 

 crieth in the Wilderness." This discourse 

 established his fame as a preacher. His subse- 

 quent works have been: "An Examination of 

 the Moral Causes of the Surprising Success of 

 Russia in the War of 1812" (1814) ; "A. Com- 

 mentary on the 67th Psalm" (1814) ; " Dialogues 

 between a Skeptic and a Believer in the Ortho- 

 dox Russo-Greek Church " (1815) ; " A sketch 

 of Ecclesiasto-Biblical History" (1816); 'i Notes 

 on the Book of Genesis" (1816); "The Great 

 Catechism" (1826) ; two volumes of sermons 

 published in 1844, and a third volume in 1861. 

 A large number of his sermons and addresses 

 have been printed in a monthly religious 

 journal published at Moscow. A considera- 

 ble number of his sermons and his other works 

 have been translated into French. He con- 

 tinued to preach until a short time before his 

 death, and his services were crowded, though 

 but few could distinguish his words. His ser- 

 mons were replete with Biblical quotations, and 

 give evidence of fervor, earnestness, and depth 

 of conviction of the truths he uttered, which 

 must have made them very effective. In polit- 

 ical matters the Metropolitan was a decided 

 liberal, and though upholding the constituted 

 order of the Government, was ever ready to 

 suggest, at the appropriate time, needed reforms. 

 He was the confidant, friend, and counsellor of 

 the Czar Alexander I., and exerted considerable 

 influence over Nicholas until he withstood man- 

 fully the despotism of that monarch, when he 

 was virtually exiled from the capital. He has 

 been the adviser and friend of the present 

 Emperor, and the act which on the 19th of 

 March, 1861, gave freedom to twenty-three 

 millions of serfs, was drawn up by his hand. 

 In the Crimean War his eloquence called out 

 the Russians to volunteer for their faith, Czar, 

 and country, and his appeals sent forth the 

 "Widows of Mercy" to visit and care for the 

 wounded. 



MUNCK (or MUNK), SALOMON, a Semitic 

 scholar and orientalist, of Jewish extraction, 

 born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia, in 1807 ; died 

 in Paris, in February, 1867. He studied in the 

 Universities of Berlin and Bonn, and by the 

 assistance of friends was enabled to avail him- 

 self of the instruction of the great French 



