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sure, the thanks of our readers, for the
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believe that any where can be found a view
of the national situation more comprehen ;
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a Christian patriot.
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our dissent from the viewtof the venerated
author. We believe he gives too great
credit to the South for the completeness
of their submission to the National author
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and hopelessly defeated. The giant blows
of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas,
in the last campaign, were the severest ever
dealt in mortal warfare. After them there
was about nothing left of the Confederacy;
its military power was not one-tenth that of
the Nation. And the South to-day, as a
whole, writhes under a humiliating sense
of defeat, and smoulders with pent-up
hatred of the North and the emancipated
slave. The voting population—not merely
the women—of the South prefer to send
violent rebels, maimed soldiers and officers
of the rebel army, whom they admire as
martyrs, to Congress, rather than persons
who can take the prescribed oath; and had
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action of the great loyal majority in .that
body, we should have seen blood-stained
traitors, and guerilla chiefs, and rebel Cork
gressmen sitting defiant in the halls of the
National Capitol, concocting new mischief
with the crawling copperheads of the North.
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which is characteristic of the man, Mr.
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of the Southern situation; we are sorryto
differ from him; we would rather unite
with him in this offer of the olive branch
to the conquered insurgents; but our view
of the facts does not permit it. But we
cheerfully express our cordial agreement
with this most sound and able discourse, as
a whole.
FROM OCR CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
BRICK CHURCH REUNION
The Brick Church, of Rochester, does
nothing by halves. It was not enough to
have an anniversary sermon; they must
also have an anniversary festival, or a grand
social' reunion, with speeches of congratula
tion, and gifts of good will, and a joyous
memorable time generally.
A big committee of arrangements was
appointed some weeks since; cards of invi
tstion, by the hundred, were sent to all
former?embers of the congregation, as far
as,thel could be reached, inviting them to
come back once more to the old homestead,
and join with the present members of the
Society, in celebrating the twenty-fifth anni
versary of Dr. Shaw's - settlement among
them.
The time set for these festivities was
Tuesday evening, 12th instant, and we can
truly say, that the Brick Church was, on
that occasion, one of the most delightful
and beautiful places that we ever saw.
The arrangements were complete, reflecting
the highest credit for good taste and enter
prise, alike upon the ladies and the gentle
men of the congregation. It was evidently
understood, that it is no small matter to
have a good minister, and to keep him for
twenty-five years, and prosper under his
ministry, and no pains were spared which
were necessary to make the celebration
suitable to the occasion.
We do not suppose that the Brick Church
edifice was built on purpose for such a fes
tival; but if it had been, we do not see
how it could have been more suitably
arranged; with its large Lecture room and
adjoining parlors, opening directly into the
rear of the Church proper, and its Sabbath
school room above. These were cleared of
their .seats, and so prepared, one for a re
ception room, and the other for the supper
room. All were tastefully decorated, with
pictures and mottoes, with wreaths and
flowers, and presented a most cheerful and
inviting appearance.
Early in the evening the guests began
to assemble. The first hour was spent in
social communion and friendly congratula
tions. At eight o'clock, the. great com
pany were called to order in the audience
room of the Church, by S. P. Allen, Esq.,
President of the evening. The opening
prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Hall, pastor
of the third Presbyterian Church of this
city, whose people, in like manner, cele-
/ I 0 1 t, I MBER 21, 1865.
•
brated his twenty-fifth anniversary about
one year ago.
Old Dr. Wisntr, of Ithaca, who was the
second pastor of the Brick Church, and
who is now eighty-four years of age, was
expected to perform this service, but for
some reason he did not appear. In his let
ter to the committee, accepting their invi
tation, he sends his love to their " dear pas
tor;" says also, " If I should not be present
in body, my heart will be with you in
thanksgiving to God for his blessings on
the Church and its pastor;" and adds the
following lines, which certainly read well,
for something dashed off in a letter by an
octogenarian.
I've preached in her pulpit there many a day,
Ere my eyes were dim or my locks were grey,
When the spirit of God came down from above,
And made hundreds of sinners the heirs of his
love ;
Though years have since passed and loved ones
are dead.
And another dear pastor stands up in my stead,
May he be preserved at the head of his fold,
Till this wedding of silver's transmuted to gold ;
That the souls who are' saved by his labors of
love,
May be stars in his crown of rejoicing above.
The dear old man ! His ministry of five
years in this place is remembered with pro
found interest and gratitude to this day.
Few men have preached the Gospel with
greater simplicity, directness, earnestness
and power. His absence from this festival
was greatly regretted by all.
After the opening prayer, addresses of
congratulation were made by Rev. Dr. Rob
inson; of the Rochester Theological Semi
nary : by Rev. Drs. Wisner, of Lockport,
and Heacock, of Buffalo; and by Rev. Drs.
Anderson and Kendrick, of the Rochester
University, interspersed with singing by
the choir. These addresses were brief,
sometimes playful, with happy hits here
and there; all affectionate, and tender, and
joyful, recognizing the exceeding interest
of the occasion, and all in the highest de
gree complimentary and eulogistic towards
the good man whom the whole assembly de
lighted to honor.
Dr. Wisner was unusually facetious and
playful.,. Think-of his saying., that thirty
three years ago "he, too was -- a — fraStor in
Rochester, then young and handsome, sur
rounded by a bevy of bright eyed and
beautiful young ladies—any one could
judge for nimself what a sensation he must
have created wherever he went, and how
carefully he must have borne himself, not
to do great harm, among the susceptible
natures around him. He said he could tell
a story of a " Minister's Wooing," if there
were time, quite equal to Mrs. Ste we's, and
more successful.
He said also, that when he was pastor of
the Third Church in this city, its present
minister, Dr. Hall, was one of his boys;
but that it was no new thing, in this fast
age, for the son to be older than the father.
Dr. Wisner knows how to enliven such an,
occasion. And yet, while thus playful in
parts of his speech, he was full of pathos
and tenderness in others, paying the high
est tribute of respect and affection to his
"dear friend, the beloved pastor of the
Brick Church," and to the Church itself
for its generous appreciation of him, and
for its enterprise and energy, which, with
God's blessing, had ensured such large
prosperity.
Dr. Heacock was equally happy in some
of his touches. Dr. Kendrick ran over
with pleasantry and praise. But the sub
stantial speech was made by L. H. Hovey,
Esq., a member of the Brick Church, speak
ing for the entire congregation and the Sab
bath-school. In a few . graceful and affec
tionate words, he alluded to the• pastor's
faithfulness to them through so many years,
and of their high appreciation of his ser
vices; in token whereof they had not only
got up this festive celebration, to 'pass away
with the evening, but • they had tried 'to
raise something more substantial, for his
benefit
speak and that of his family; whereupon
b
the speaker put into the pastor's hands an
envelope, containing drafts for four thou
sand and five hundred dollars—afterward
made up to five thousand The Doctor
also received a large and beautiful tea-set
from Mr. John T. Fox, one of his parish
oners ; also, eighteen volumes of valuable
Theological works, and a silver ice pitcher
from a military company, the Union Blues,
of which he has recently been elected chap
lain ; and also, a beautiful solid silver ink
stand from John H. Gough, Esq., which
took Dr. Shaw completely by surprise.
This was Mr. Gough's expression 01 his in
terest in the occasion, and his high apprecia
tion of the faithful labors of the pastor of the
Brick Church. Mr. Gough always goes to
hear Dr. Shaw preach, 'when stopping in
this city over Sunday.
After all this, being so bepraised, as
mortal man never was before, we were
almost tempted to say, and being loaded
down with, gifts and kindness, like any
beast of burden, how is Dr. Shaw to reply ?
His first words were characteristic of that
ready wit which served him so well as
Moderator of the General Assembly last
Spring :---44 My dear friends ; perhaps I
ought to say, first of all, that I am alive."
He felt as if he had been pelted with bul
lets; and yet they were so rounded by love,
and so padded all over with kindness, that
they did' not hart him;
And so he went on to thank his friends
for theihindness—" I am thanks all over;
thanks in every fibre of my being; thanks
through' very thread of my garments ;
thankqp and bottom—thanks right and
left; nothing but thanks."
It
a.: truly an enthusiastic and jx.ms
H j appreciated not less by a Mk
terprising and grateful people, than
faithful, earnest, honored pastor.
e. public services being ended, a
d bountiful supper, enough it was
ous, ei
by the
The'
said to
be disc
.'eed five thousand men, was still to
;
issed in the Sabbath-school room.
Three eat tables were spread the whole
length f the room, groaning under their
burden. The Infant-school room served as
pantry nd kitchen, and in that there seem
ed to h cords of food; tea, coffee, oysters,
turkeys, ice cream, &c. We need hay*
..
say, that all who chose to do so, partook
bountifully of the good things provided,
and it was their own fault if they did not go
away fn and well pleased.
1 C. P. B.
Roca TER, December 16, 1865.
LETTER FROM Joat 0. SMITH, D.D.
WASHINGTON, D'Ocember 12, 1865.
We are now in the eighth week of our
protracted meetings, and have this day a
deep interest in spiritual things, and new
cases constantly occurring. Already we
have fifty-six persons before the Session,
and others who will apply before our coin
munion, together with as many as the Lord
our God may call. " Believers have been
added to the Lord, multitudes of both men
and women." Other churches than my
own havealso reaped, yhere they,have not
tozCiii'. --- WiiirkelirrOttS, -- iiiid' Can afford to
be.
This work began soon after our Church
edifice was given up by the Government,
having been used as an hospital for our sick
and wounded for eight long months. In
those months, Rev. T. B. McFalls and my
self had evening worship; and, preaching
on Sabbath morning, making eight regular
services every week, besides our other daily
duties to our gallant men brought from the
army. We were pastors of churches as
well as chaplains in the United States
Army. These were days of trial indeed,
only ) that God might prepare us for large
blessings. Additions to my communion
have been most encouraging, ever since our
return to this beloved Church home.
Before our communion the last Sabbath in
October, I said to myself, I would begin a
protracted prayer-meeting, to be continued
as the gracious tokens might indicate. On
that Sabbath morning, brother Sawyer, of
Tennessee, whom I had never seen, called
to see me. He was with me in my first
prayer-meeting and for several evenings,
as was also, Rev. Alex. D. Moore, pastor
of our Church, Dauphin, Pa. He is one
of the baptized children of my Church, and
one of the seals of my ministry, and whom
I love with paternal affection. A man, of
great spirituality, and large ministerial
gifts and experience. He was detained
here by the illnesstand death of a beloved
sister.
Thus God had, without any thought
of mine, provided help for me. I thanked
God. and took courage. Rev. Charles P.
Glover, of New Jersey, licentiate, is associ
ated with my people and myself, in and
among the young folks in the Sabbath
school. and our two Missionary Societie - s.
His help is invaluable.
We had three weeks of prayer-meetings ;
the two services of Sabbath in course, and
our evening prayer-meeting. On the second
day of our fourth week of prayer, brother
Wiswell, of Wilmington, came to preach.
The evening prayer-meeting, the day before
he came, was one of intense interest and large
promise. At least twenty arose, in token of
their desire to have Christ formed in their
hearts. All of theni in the morning of life,
and most of them the baptized, some of
whom had come to years. The way was di
vinely prepared, and brother Wiswell
preached as "the annointed of God."
When he left, we returned to our prayer
meeting held every evening. In , each
meeting, God was with us with signs and
wonders, and the power of the Holy Ghost.
At the end of that week, on Saturday morn
ing, our beloved Rev. A. M. Stewart, that
.
noble, that gallant chaplain, came into my
study, to my great surprise and delight.
1 d
y heart was full, and in a few words, I
q
him what great things God, had done
f s, and asked him to help its the next
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1022,
week. With characteristic kindness, he
promptly said "/ will." He preached for
four evenings in succession, with power and
blessed results. A faithful soldier is he; a
superior preacher, with an original mind,
and great aptness to teach the Word, and
illustrate to the edification of all who hear.
He has good fruit in this harvest. May
his bosom be filled with sheaves here
wherever God may appoint his lot. When
he left, we returned to our prayer-meetings,
and in the closing service of last Friday,
the blessings were . large and free. Souls
were renewed and sins forgiven.
Our morning and afternoon services of
the Sabbath were largely attended, (as were
our Thanksgiving of Thursday) and in the
evening we returned to our prayer-meeting,
and shall continue till Rev. Thomas J.
Shepherd, D.D., of your city, shall arrive,
He has promised to preach for several even
ings. He will impart to us and receive
some spiritual gift. His coming in among
us is anticipated with much pleasure by all
those who knew him when he was a mem
ber of this Fourth Church. In this Church
he was licensed to preach, and has beauti
fully represented us in his ministry. Others,
'who have no personal acquaintance, are
equally anxious to see the father of our
" Social Hymn and Tune Book," which
has been a rich treasure of blessing to us
in our gracious season. This book has been
baptized first among us. It seems right,
as it is pleasant, that this brother should
furnish us with this• almost faultless book,
and then come to labor for our good, and
sing with us these beautiful hymns of praise
to God. He will find us " present before
God to hear all things that are commanded
us of God." JOHN C. SMITH.
OFR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, December, 12, 1866.
Connecticut's vote against impartial suf
frage, •did not, as some . people seemed to
think, decide thMßcation in the United
States forever. Nriattwas simply a scout
as it were, sent out to ascertain the force
and strength of the enemy, and though
the result showed that -for the time being,
it was not prudent to move and attack
him, the campaign was by no means aban
doned. It may turn out yet, that impar
tial suffrage can be secured without the
aid of Connecticut, just as the Great
Amendment has been ratified without the
help of New Jersey. In 1862, the abo
lition of slavery was an experiment in the
District of Columbia, the only ten miles
square of the national domain over which
Congress has the exclusive right to legis
late ; now, it is an accomplished fact in every
State of the Union. This experiment has
become a success almost imperceptibly.
There were no insurrections among the
blacks, no breaking up of the foundations
of the great deep of the social structure,
by which it was predicted society would be
deluged by blood and anarchy. We had
no political earthquake shaking the general
government from its centre to its circum
ference, and knocking our free institutions
about our ears. The freeing of four mil
lions of slaves, the character of whose
oppression far eclipsed the most aggravated
forms of human servitude, without so much
as a jarring of the machinery of govern
ment, would have been unprecedented in
times of profound peace, but it was almost
miraculous, occurring as it did, in4the
midst of a bitter civil sirife. I think his
tory will decide that a race which has
conducted itself as the 'negro has done,
under such extraordinary circumstances,
might be safely trusted with a voice in the
question of self-government.
The experiment of beginning the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia
worked so well, and has been productive
of such beneficial results, that Congress
has determined to try the solution of the
other great question—lmpartial Suffrage
—on the same ground. For myself, I
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among the Christian graces, and without
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or a tinkling - cymbal," no matter what
may be his color, or what his professions.
When I claim this virtue for the negro,
I think I do not take anything for granted.
In innumerable ways, on thousands of
occasions, and under very unfavorable
circumstances, he has given such un
mistakable proofs of his loyalty to our
government and flag as to extort from his
bitterest enemies an acknowledgment of
the fact. What other race would have
been so often and so contemptuously
spurned, and still have clung to the old
flag and reposed a faith in our government
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almost as strong and as pure as the Chris
tian's faith in his Saviour ?
During the war, the negro performed a
double service—he was among the bravest
of our soldiers and the most useful and
trustworthy of our scouts. lam afraid the
history of the part he took in suppressing
the slaveholders' rebellion will never be
folly written, because a very important por
tion of it was performed in the mountains
of Tennessee, the savannas of Georgia, the
jungles of the Carolinas, and the valleys
and swamps of Virginia. In all these
places he was the finger-board that guided
our armies, as they marched on the road
to victory. If we had a particle of nation
al gratitude or chivalry about us, we would
enfranchise the negro simply as a reward of
his services, aside from all consideration of
justice and right.
I have observed, and doubtless so have
you, that the opposition to impartial suffrage
comes mainly, though not exclusively, from
those who did their utmost, by word and
deed, to destroy the government, and now
have the unparalelled impudence to set
themselves up as oracles, at which loyal
men must inquire in all questions of public
policy. If you go with me into Congress,
I will point you out the men, whose votes
I predict, will be cast solid, against the bill
to enfranchise the negroes of this District.
They are the men whose public record
shows that the ever voted a dollar to
suppress the rebeMri, that their sympathies
were all with the traitors, that they op
posed the abolition' of slavery here and
elsewhere, and that, had the bastard gov
ernment of Davis succeeded, they would
have • been among its most ardent sup
porters. They are suck men in the Senat
as Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, whose
beastly intemperance, even in the Senate
Chamber, is a national disgrace; Reverdy
Johnson of Maryland, who openly advised
his constituents to perjure themselves
rather than be loyal: and in the House,
such men as Brooks of New York, who
gloated over the riots set on foot in that
city, by the "friends" of Horatio Seymour;
Voorhies of Indiana, whose connection
with the Knights of the Golden Circle
has never been explained, and G-lossbren
ner of Pennsylvania, who helped Buchanan
to betray the Government into the hands
of its enemies. If a man is known by the
company he keeps, let professors of relig
ion, who are opposed to impartial suffrage,
reflect upon the character of the men with
whom they act.
In this question of impartial suffrage, as
in the slavery question, I am afraid the
Church is much to blame. I have always
believed that in this country, the Chris
tians, Church members, held the balance,
of power, and that if they moved together
for the accomplishment of any measure,
their force would be irresistible. lam
of the same opinion now. Prominent
politicians here have said to me, " Why,
we are ready for this question of impartial
suffrage, not only in the District of Colum
bia, but everywhere, but the people are
not yet up to the mark." That is really
where the trouble is. Now, if every church
throughout the land was to declare for
mally, in favor of justice to the negro,
we should have no occasion to wait for
experiments on the subject herein the
District. But it is, perhaps, too much
to expect this. With many men their
prejudices are far stronger than their
religion. In the meantime, however, Con
gress will pass the bill now being draughted
by Senator Morrill of Maine, Chairman
of the Committee on the District of Col
umbia, and we will, at least, have the
experiment tried here. Let us hope that
it will be as successful as the great experi
ment of 1862, whereby the Republic be
came free forever, to all men of every
color and of every race.
PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM.—Secre
tary Seward has issued a proclamation,
declaring the Constitutional Amendment
by which slavery is abolished, the LAW
OF THE LAND. Among the twenty
seven States, which he declares to have
adopted the amendment he includes Vir
ginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas,
and Georgia.
PROMPT PATMENT.—We are refreshed
with the promptness of some subscribers,
as annoyed with the dilatoriness of
others. One case, occurring last week,
is worthy of being held up as a model.
The bill was folded up in the paper and
mailed to a city one hundred miles off,
and in forty hours had returned to our
office, by mail, with the money accom
panying.
NEW SITBSCRIBERS are coming in
steadily. From a single church in this
city we received thirty-two new names.
last week.