CHAPTEE XXIII. 



Churches in Albany. Rivalry in building and ornamenting them. 

 Yearly engagement or hiring of the clergy. Periodical hiring of 

 teachers. Their unsettled character. Annual meeting of the State 

 Agricultural Society. Characteristic discussion. Training of the 

 young, and fear of each other. The Shakers. Watervliet. ~&quot; Shaker 

 Yarbs.&quot; The Thomsonian system. Jealousy of the Shakers. 

 Charges against them. &quot; Mother Ann Lee,&quot; foundress of the 

 Shakers. Their numbers and peculiar doctrine. Their apprehended 

 influence on the elections. Law against the accumulation of pro 

 perty or influence. How they are recruited. Kinderhook. Slavery 

 times on the Hudson. Effects of emancipation. Opinion of the New 

 York Legislature in regard to slavery. Their complaints against the 

 South. Charges made against Great Britain. Parallel between the 

 proceedings of Great Britain and the United States as to slavery and 

 the slave-trade. Slavery-increasing tendency of the Union. Effects 

 of the American revolution on the slavery of the British empire. 

 Call upon Great Britain in reference to American slavery. Difficult 

 position of the slaveholders. Agricultural improvements in progress. 

 State Agricultural Society. Circulation of its reports at the public 

 expense. Proposed agricultural college. Opposition of the farmers. 

 Natural history survey. Number and value of the volumes. 

 Uncatholic tendency of American science. Revision of the code of 

 the State. New code of procedure. Objections made to it. Great 

 ness of the work. Tendency to litigation. Anti-renters. Canvassing 

 for public office. Albany penitentiary. City of Troy, its prosperity 

 and prospects. Railway to Canada. Annexation feeling in New 

 York. Resolutions in the State Legislature. Dutch words in com 

 mon use. Other peculiar words. 



SUNDAY, Jan. 13, 1850. The churches in this city arc 

 large, comfortable, well filled, and usually ministered to 

 by clergymen of very considerable talent. Here, as in 



