C XI VKKSA LISTS. 



753 



.diictioii is already absorbing 

 the :' our manufacturing im! 



leaving insufficient means i'..r its extension in 



i to tin- increa-ing population ; that 

 it is now encroaching upon capital itself; that 

 it lias materially impaired i>,ir productive 



i- ami our capacity to purchase t! 

 material of the aurricultural districts; ami that 

 tin- continuance of this burden inn-4 involve 

 tin- extinction of tliat divcr.-ilied industry which 



.'n pro-peril y to the Unit 

 In an address to Congress, this latter 1-011- 

 vciition recommended that the annual expen- 

 ditures of the Government should bo reduced 

 , ' ">."i)0,000, of which $180,000,000 will be 

 required to pay tho interest on the national 

 $25,000,000 for pensions, and $120,000,- 

 000 for ordinary expenses and the reduction 

 of the public, debt. An expenditure of $60,- 

 000,000 above the expenditures of 1860 should 

 now bo the limit of national expense beyond 

 interest and pensions. They further said : 

 "With a revenue from customs of $150,000,- 

 000, the sum of $125,000,000 raised by internal 

 revenue taxation will be ample to meet such a 

 scale of expenditure; and we recommend the 

 immediate repeal of all taxes on raw materials 

 and on all manufactures, excepting articles of 

 luxury, believing that the amount required can 

 -ily raised on a small number of articles 

 with safety and economy." 



The foreign relations of the country are pre- 

 sented under the head of DIPLOMATIC COKRE- 

 sroxnExcE; for its military and naval affairs, see 

 AI:MY and XAVY respectively; for the meas- 

 ures of Eeconstruction, see CONGRESS and the 



: al Southern States. 



I' N I V !: I : s A ! . ISTS. The Universalist Regis- 

 ter, for 1868, gives the following statistics: 



In all the above States there are annual 

 "State Conventions." There are also u few 

 societies and ministers in tho other Si 

 There are six l T niversa!ist papers in the coun- 

 hi addition to these, the Universalisfs now 

 have five monthly magazines, and one Sunday- 

 school paper, the Myrtle, and the / 



////. Tho schools of tho denomination 



are the Westbrook Seminary, near Portland, 



Me., with property valued at $86,000; the 



: Mountain Institute, at South Woodstock, 



arid the Orleans Liberal Institute, at Glover, 



VOL. VH. 18 



N't.; the D.-an ! Franklin, Ma--.. 



nt and |. "f $160,000 



'; the Clinton Liberal In- 

 t.ii, N. Y.; the St. Lawn-nee \',,\; 

 ton. N. V.. with a property of *;;- 

 bard I'nAvr-itv, ("lal.-burg, III., \\-J.i 

 to lie,' >,d ha- an cndo\'.n>< 



$100,000; the Theological - 



which has property worth s-: i j,n- 



pares both yoiin^ men and voting worn 

 Mini-try. Tuf: 



!. is a lii- ' .lli-^-e, 



.dowed and iboroiighly ol!i--.-r.-d. I 1 

 takes its j)lace as the fourth <! .d cn- 



dowed college in Mass-irhusctts, and has al- 

 ready r.-eeived the aid oft prop- 

 erty of tho college is estimated at $80.j,< M)n . 

 Jefferson Liberal Institute was i: 

 last year at Jefferson, Wis., <! r the 

 Northwest. A commencement has already been 

 made, for the erection of a building. 



The General Convention of Universal! - 

 tho United States of America meets on the 

 third Tuesday in Scpte'mber, and contin:, 

 session three days. Kadi State (or Territorial) 

 Convention is represented by one clerical and 

 two lay delegates, if consisting of fifty so. 

 (or churches) and clergymen, two clerical and 

 four lay; and for every additional fifty societies 

 and preacbers, one clerical and two lay dele- 

 gates. This Convention was incorporated 

 March 9, 1866. It is empowered to hold prop- 

 erty, real and personal, to the amount of $500,- 

 000, "to bo devoted exclusively to the diffu- 

 sion of Christian knowledge, by means of mis- 

 sionaries, publications, and other agencies." 

 Its purpose is to make the Universalist denomi- 

 nation felt among the working religious forces 

 of the 



The General Convention of Universalists in 

 1867 was held in Baltimore. The following 

 officers were elected: President, Henry D. 

 Williams, Mass.; Vice-President, Rev. E. G. 

 Brooks, D. D., New York ; Secretary, Rev. W. 

 E. Gibbs, New Jersey. The following States 

 were represented: Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New 

 York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, 

 Distr'u-t, of Columbia, Ohio, Michigan, " West 

 Virginia, and Nova Scotia. It was resolved to 

 raise $100,000 for denominational purposes. A 

 special committee reported adversely to propo- 

 sitions to amend the constitution, and to a 

 change of time of meeting, approving of the 

 proposition to publish tho Church History, and 

 recommending its reference to a.committee con- 

 sisting of Pu>v. Drs. Paige, Sawyer, and Thayer s 

 and recommending the adoption of the follow- 

 laration, in reference to the meaning of 

 the Winchester Confe ion : That it was the 

 evident intention of our denominational fathers 

 to affirm the Divine authority of the Scriptures 

 and the Lordship of .Jesu> Christ; and in the 

 judgment of this Convention those only comply 

 with the p!v-e:-ihed conditions of fellowship 

 who accept tho confession with this interpre- 



