Alpha Kingsley,*

A. A. Caseday,*
Mason Vannoy,
John Austin,
James A. Porter,
John M. Hill,
Thomas Wells,
Edward D. Hicks,
George Wilson,
Wm. Armstrong,*
W. Hasell Hunt,
Thomas Callender,
James Woods,
George Brown,
Greenwood Payne,
John Estell,
Thomas J. Read,
Joel M. Smith,
Joseph Miller,

Nicholas Hobson,

Samuel M. Barner,

Washington Barrow,

Joseph Smith,

George Crockett,

Robert Farquharson,
John Somerville,
Samuel Seay*
Samuel Watkins,
Beverly W. White,
Robert W. Greene,
Robert I. Moore,
John M. Bass,
James Young,
Andrew Hynes,
James Nichol,
Floyd Hunt,
Anthony W. Johnson,
Edward Trabue,
J. B. Knowles,
S. V. D. Stout,*
S. C. Robinson,*
George S. Yerger,
Wm. M. Berryhill,
Theo. P. Minor,
Elihu S. Hall,
Foster G. Crutcher,

F. P. Wook,

H. R. Cartmell, and
W. H. Moore.

I am requested "after having examined this list, candidly to say, whether four or five hours spent by such men in the trial, and nearly as many more in subsequent deliberation, is not evidence of their calmness, patience, and of a wish to act with impartiality." My reply is, that men who proceed to try and inflict infamous punishment upon an individual who has violated no law, as the Banner asserts, or in respect to whose case their own Attorney-General says, it "was a case not adequately provided for by law, and until the legislature shall make proper provisions against the incendiary publications of abolitionists, it will be very dangerous for them to meddle in an improper way in so delicate and dangerous a concern, and the public feeling cannot be restrained in that respect," must necessarily be excited beyond the exercise of a sound judgment. It is impossible that sensible and respectable men, not thus excited, could engage in such a business. However satisfied with themselves, and their own conduct at this time, it is incontrovertible, that their measures are indefensible in any just view of sound morals, public safety, or legal obligation. Precisely as they sustain themselves upon their special case, may every special case be sustained in the opinion of the actors. Gamblers may be hung, banks demolished, bank agents plundered, churches torn down. This is no idle speculation. We have but to look at daily events, for the practical illustration. Of this enough

Elders in the Presbyterian church.

Mr. Hunt supposes his name was invidiously introduced into the Gazette's notice of Dresser's case. Nothing of disrespect or of ridicule was intended by the repetition of his name. Having appeared in the Banner, it was used in the Gazette as convenient for perspicuity in illustration.

In this day's Gazette we publish Amos Dresser's own account of his journey to Nashville, and of his doings and treatment at that place. Upon inquiry we find that Dresser is a native of Massachusetts, that he lost his father in his infancy, and that he remained with his mother and her second husband laboring on a farm, until about fifteen years of age. He then set out to get a living and an education for himself. He was for a time engaged in a store; he then taught, a school; afterwards became a student in the Oneida Labor Institute, in NewYork, from whence he came to Lane Seminary. That he abandoned, upon its prohibition of the Abolition Society. His object is to obtain orders as a minister of the gospel, and thus qualify himself for a foreign mission. For the rest, let his own story speak.

AMOS DRESSER'S OWN NARRATIVE.

As my name has obtained an unexpected notoriety, I ask the public attention to my own account of the transactions that have given me celebrity.

On the first day of last month I left Cincinnati for the purpose of selling the "Cottage Bible," in order, from the profits of the sale, to raise funds sufficient to enable me to complete my education. The largest portion of my books was sent to Nashville by water. I took several copies of the Bible with me, besides a considerable number of the little work entitled "Six Months in a Convent." In packing them into my trunk and the box of my barouche, a number of pamphlets and papers of different descriptions were used to prevent the books from injury by rubbing, intending to distribute them as suitable opportunities should present. Among them were old religious newspapers, anti-slavery publications, numbers of the Missionary Herald, Sunday-school periodicals, temperance almanacs, &c., &c. At Danville, Ky., where a state anti-slavery society had been organized some months before, and where the subject of emancipation seemed to be discussed without restraint, besides selling several copies of my books, I parted with a large share of my anti-slavery publications.

In travelling through that state, I distributed most of my temperance almanacs and other papers above mentioned, including a few tracts on slavery, given to those who were willing to receive them. I gave none of these to any person of color, bond or free, nor had I any intention of doing so.

Near Gallatin, in Sumner county, Tennessee, I sold a copy of Rankin's Letters on Slavery. I arrived at Nashville on Saturday the 11th of July, and took lodgings at the Nashville Inn. The young man who accompanied me, in bringing into the house my books from the box of the barouche, omitted the anti-slavery tracts and other pamphlets. Their being overlooked did not occupy the attention of either of us, and on Monday morning the barouche was taken to the shop of Mr. Stout to be re paired. In the course of the day Mr. S. remarked to his workmen, as he afterwards informed me, that perhaps, as I came from Cincinnati, I was an Abolitionist. On this, one of them commenced rummaging my carriage. In the box he found, among the other pamphlets, a February number of the Anti-Slavery Record, with a cut represent. ing a drove of slaves chained, the two foremost having violins, on which they were playing-the American flag waving in the centre, whilst the slave-driver, with his whip, was urging on the rear. This added considerably to the general excitement, which I afterwards learned, was prevailing in relation to slavery and in a short time it was noised about that I had been "circulating incendiary periodicals among the free colored people, and trying to excite the slaves to insurrection." So soon as the report came to my knowledge, I went to Mr. Stout, and explained to him how it was that the pamphlets had been left in the barouche. I then took into my custody the remainder of them, and locked them up in my trunk. Mr. S. on this occasion, told me that the scene repre sented in the cut was one of by no means unfrequent oc currence that it was accurate in all its parts, and that he had witnessed it again and again, Mr. S. is himself a slaveholder, though, as he says, opposed to slavery in principle a member, if not an elder, in the Presbyterian

here, in stating of Mr. B., that, allowing his conduct to be strictly official, he exhibited to me, throughout the whole of this melancholy affair, the kindest and most delicate deportment. I immediately accompanied him to town, where, on arriving at my boarding-house, I found the mayor, Mr. John P. Erwin, waiting for us. He remarked, he was afraid I had got myself into difficulty, and wished me to appear before the Committee of Vigi lance. To this I replied, it would give me pleasure to do so, as I wished it understood just what I had done, and what I had not done. He then asked me if I had any witness I wished to have called. My reply was, I knew not what need I had of witnesses, till I had heard the charge brought against me-that I supposed it would be necessary to prove me guilty of some misdemeanor, and not that it should be upon me to prove that I had broken no law. To his demand, if I was ready for trial, I answered, I wished it to take place immediately, as I was anxious to return to the camp-ground.

We repaired to the court-room, which was at once crowded full to overflowing. The roll of the Committee (sixty in number) was called, and the names of the absentees proclaimed.

The meeting being called to order, the mayor stated, that he had caused me to be arrested, and brought before the Committee, in consequence of the excitement produced by the periodicals known to have been in my possession; and that he had also taken into his charge my trunk, which he had delayed opening till my return. The trunk was then produced before the Committee, and a motion made and carried, that I should be interrogated as to its contents before opening it. On being interrogated accordingly, I replied, as the trunk was before them, I preferred they should make the examination for themselves. It was then resolved, (the whole house voting) that my trunk should be examined. The officer first laid before the Committee a pile of clothing, which was examined very closely-then followed my books, among which was found, one copy of the " Oasis," one of " Rankin's Letters on Slavery," and one of "Bourne's Picture of Slavery in