What has been the result of those "rival factions," in Marshpee? Blind Jo and William Apes, have _forty-seven_ Indian members of their churches, (fourteen males,) in good standing, collected together in three years. The missionary has baptized but twenty in twenty-two years. The Indian preachers have also established a total abstinence Temperance Society, without any aid from the missionary, and there are already sixty members of it, who, from all the evidence in the case, there is no reason to doubt, live up to their profession. I do not say this to detract from the good the missionary has done; I doubt not he has done much good, and earnestly desired to do more; but when he denounces to the Legislature other religious denominations, as _usurpers_ and "_rival factions_," it is but reasonable that a comparison should be drawn between the fruit of his labors and that of those he so severely condemns. I confess, I am struck with surprise, at the following remarks, in the memorial of the Rev. Mr. Fish. Speaking of the complaint of the Indians respecting their Meeting-house, that it is not fit for respectable people to meet in, being worn out; he says, "As it was built by a _white_ Missionary Society, and repaired at the expense of the _white_ Legislature of the State, perhaps the _whites_ may think themselves entitled to some wear of it, and being no way fit for '_respectable_ people,' the church and congregation hope they may the more readily be left unmolested in their accustomed use of it." [Page 4.] Again he says of the complaints of the Indians, that they were forbidden to have preaching in their School-houses. "The School-houses, built by the munificence of the State, began to be occupied for _Meeting-houses_, soon after their erection, and have been more or less occupied _in this fashion_! ever since; and your memorialist desires to affirm that _in this perversion_ of your _liberal purpose_, he had no share whatever!" Is this possible? Can it be a _perversion_ of buildings erected for the mental and moral improvement of the Indians, that religious meetings should be held there, by ministers whom the Indians prefer to the Missionary? The inequality in the appropriations for religious instruction, is remarked upon by the Commissioner, Hon. Mr. Fiske, who says in his report that if the present appropriations are to be restricted to a Congregationalist minister, some further provision, in accordance with religious freedom, ought to be made for the Baptist part of the colored people. [Page 29. No. 14.]