At the anniversaries in New Hampshire, the Rev. R. R. Gurley, secretary of the American Colonization Society, being called upon by Mr. May to give his opinion concerning the Maryland scheme, gave utterance to the following remarkable sentiment. With regard to direct legislation he would confess his mind was not clear. This he would say, on his own responsibility, that when the time arrived that slavery should become a great political question, he conceived it might be justifiable for a state to select a spot, _here or in Africa, and carry the blacks there, willing or unwilling_. But he should object to the Maryland scheme, because, _at the present time_, such rigorous laws were unnecessary. Here is a sentiment as _murderous_ to the peace of the colored people as a dagger thrust into the heart. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS IN PITTSBURGH. There have recently been two most interesting anti-slavery meetings in Pittsburgh, which were addressed by a number of members of the Presbyterian General Assembly. In this connection, we have the pleasure to state, that _forty-eight_ members, or about _one_ fourth part of that body, this year, were found to be favorable to _immediate emancipation_: of these, _six_ are ministers from _slave states_. Last year there were only _two_ known abolitionists in the Assembly. The speeches at the anti-slavery meetings were Christian-like, eloquent, and rich in facts. We make a few extracts. FROM THE REV. DR. BEMAN OF TROY. “Admitting, as all do, that slavery is a great evil, existing in the land, we would anxiously inquire, Is there no remedy? Is there any evil for which God has provided no remedy? No, I would not slander the Bible, by making such an assertion. Let us all come up to the work, shoulder to shoulder, in a pleasant way, (I don’t like scowls,) and there is no danger but we can get right. I have heard many remedies proposed; and one very queer one: ‘_Better let it alone._’ This is a very popular remedy. In case of slight pain, or momentary head-ach, it will do very well. But who ever heard that an acute disease, which racks the whole frame, and threatens speedy dissolution, if left to the operations of nature, will cure itself? Sin is an inveterate disease――it has no curative principle――it never gets well of itself. Slavery will never cure itself.――This _let-alone_ policy――if it were in the church, I would call it _heresy_――it is _moral_ heresy. “But, I have heard of another remedy: ‘Just leave that question to the slave states. What have we at the north to do with slavery?’ But, here is ground for caution. Have not we at the north our share in the government of the District of Columbia? Do we not in fact govern it? Yet, that district is the central mart of the traffic in human flesh. Yes, sir, we at the north do govern slave shambles. Our hands are not quite so clean as we have supposed――as in the dusty atmosphere of Pittsburgh, we often get them a little smutty before we are aware of it.