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.ppt atjtcniion. ' ' — : —
Tobk Teibctne, first- ,8 ;
it in its twenty-second
gained both a larger and I
tv diffusedcircnlationthan
published
Though it b«s suffered,
tfith otber journals, from
.„rin.f and departure oi
Snds
Var "for the 'Umonf, r jits
this qtb&rf Detoember^
; 60,125 1
.. 17,250
..148,000
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. fig a bstract gen trail ties w h i ch
all .\yill. admit without; hesitation; I
j'pjsr notice tos-the stern,
soleratllnatioriai duty of these times,
if we would "serve God.in truth with
all our heart.” It indistinctly this:
To support with our-prayers, with our
ijjieceli, with I our.hciis, with bi r for
tuubs and bur proclamation
of the President, wb®h rings out sub- 1
limcly on Jbc’ car of, the civilized;
world, and Qoubtiess' in the atfjdistica j
of rejoicing hosts in heaven, im-fchesej
word's: "That on .the' fir«t-dajvof-3an‘-1
uaryvinV the ycaV of -bur Lofd biie.
thousSifS eight hundred and, sixty
three. all-persons held .-as slavcswith
ill aiiy(Std.t|. oi; Jesignated part
| State, the shall then
Ibe in rebellion-against the United;
Suites, »kal! be .Meg, thenceforth and
if.revet; IrccjUind the -Executive Gov
ernment of-the United Stales, include
ling- the military nod naval authorities
I thereof will a-ecogniite.Srand maintain
| the freedom'of such persons, and will
btlo ho get or; acts to repress such, pbr- :
hfobs, or any of tUgm? in - any efforts
they may -make for their actual fiec
dbin.’/ '\ow Jica'p• Mr. Alexander
'Stephens..(and his language .has nev
jicrUieeh 'disclaimed,) the Vice Presi
! dent-'of the bo called Confederate
[States: "The prevailing fdea,s enter-!
■ereiv ;g t'tafubd. by -Him. (Thomas Jefferson'-att-i
jsb devotes attention in j t j ir , v 0 f Dcjiaratipii of Indepond-
A anddefsome extent va aiul :Il ; ;) itbfAfe leading slates-:
.v-ation, Ag-: • nu . ll timd bf the -formation »f
j .mentions', and whatever t | lo ( >hlConstitution, were, that the
-t; ; ter to- th? spiritual and ibfj.sbye-mohtgif the African race- was j
•i-g^(:‘apd : ot; ;, r :Vfolaff(>ri of tha laws of, nature.; j
teg the present its cner-.i ; t SV as'Wi'bng-in principle, social-j
a f iffnms, are mainlyxde-i. v In „ ra -ii v ami. politieailv,”' "Our j
:? invigpratiod and .success • n incut is fmimfod upon |cx-,
tiife Ignioh, Its special; .opposite ideas; its founda
•f :ts - *|?toin.pany, . e f at ;c laid, its corner stone rejsts.l
•f at my-and eveiy (jponitho great truftvthjOf the negro is j
gresrstriig-j to the yfHVlo inim'fthal>la- j
vri- trust tb.fesult hi the _ Subordination 10-s-thc superior 1
ecaciuslvc triumph ot. tae £ IC * jg hi;*, natural ami-moral -condi-1
'-:s and in the resolution This, our new Government, is•
■r.d .-Thrift /God grant that it mayi.be'
jiatry. \v e believe luaf. n'otf jj— whiedv slni.il Lavgsuch a bold.'
-aii afuller or morc^aw«i-i l , ad^{lVc - uce r y.;S fheihisfory of,the
the progress and charac ! world, based upon thisigreat’physical,
.is momentous «^ic V rl»o| hHogo - hu l al!( j -htoral truth!”- j
Juan through, the regu.ar bear the living God : "The Lord i
*' u r ftiiUinils.. And ''f,«;; t . x b tutc th righleousaesiranil judgment j
fr
i tne.ivatiopai taase..vliit 11 g j„ tho-suulihie outlines of the ;
fe.-ru 'and. upiioicr a» that r, . y;.. ss ; a ;,*s kingdom in fhc earth-iwhich i
p-ii-Jluinanity, in u MirUcJ uS the- i
fg as 1 ; ; ■ L'-ulai, ,it is emphatically ailirme'd ofi
-1 the conquering, Pcdccmbr, and these I
fttorßi,Oils iiicTetvw wine price 1 • , , 1 ~ ®
ft;.,., -„,i h. v 1 •: i tones im.msli- ;a (Ltuiiracnlarv on the.
f-tuig. paper and ouiep.matcrjid.- : ' -.r i.u\
ktdbg'Sit-wf^rs.
Tut- tv - I ’ l r e Ulff I°^^
:ir^ : ' - >*u b uiV t;l»e ctf the
i i 1 ! jlbrcalf.- in pieces the
Coi^f.-lu-t-.-Ser.” Malachrfas tuo mouth-,
■i-cfiborsfonc J piyi-e mf-frod, "llUve WO
.MI-\VEEKLY: TRrilUA'jE., u' f ail one i-tjJie'rfrT- 7 ' Hath not one
:j,' cue year Klod created as^-’Wby 1 do we deal
! tfcacheroiisl v; man against his:
covenant
mra copy-ft-m'-ie seahs-nah/eKn'cn- f of < our ; fathers-Math n., 10. r-lsa :
''■cr. • | iali. as the trumpeter,-of Divinsftruth,
,^ 3 journal and
i The Tbibcse hae polixi-
ure well charac
'n<rle word Kepublican.
-^n? n - its hearty adhesion
, truth that - ‘l.God has;
, t bioo-J all natiohfof men”
3riniH assertion of the
’inalienable rights of all
fe liberty, and the . pursuit
rHepublican; in its
"rarne't. .defiant hostlli tyv.lp
Tie and* effort, of the- .Slave
i tli?' oglcxus
t Rebellion. to gf&p'tbo-;
:he>’ew Woild and 'wield
ts'of our countrj- dor; its
idizemetil —Uepnhlieaii - in
despots of the
who "fondly hail in -tbe^
calamitics snddctjy: thrust,
‘-their American;•counter’s j
/ertliroty and ruin <of the 1
Jti its i
trust, its afjiith- and^iffort,
1 -robious :^lwe he!lion inust™
signal -overthrow of.its >
,[i tii- firm istahiishmenvi
equal laws through-., 1
WeyiS.ect of oiirvcountry, j
jerty'apjluUnioti shati' in- ’
ie an'aiiFseparuble” hence- 1
; .AVEEK£YvTRHU : XEir teaches the matm«R.4fts--wbic.l«Va fast
mrfMpjeaf i C2 3,'ilay 1 .should : be observed, (aud_ you
'J? ar — S 5. Pktuiw Vile -piously- inclined: Jefferson
lSSn^r^ r “ ; : ; ""i : Uavis'h.Jmu<-h given, toasting and
iv ■ larger VP , i devout: appeals to H«swcn):* ‘is not
IdHtbe iksutl.at I have button? to
\ n ; J? -rT Uo6s4tl.c bands' of wickedness, to an.
“ r ' "i beFC 1 to eyery . blvrdcnSf and to i*t the.
ioj pressed go’free, and that ye break
ievery yoke?’' What j Gbj-isthin citi
jzth of 'Peniisylvdniu can, in the pres
;! ouce.of a divine utterunc s’■ like, this,
j plant,' his handyiipcn.bilji he irt, .arid, say
{that he believes the Go* of Heaven
r#i!l hear, prayer ’for theos aJWisli mc n t
' of an empire whose “chief stottbef the \
j v corner*” is the horrible dogibaV:—an |
(infusion of Afiie:m.slavery is thc iidr-j
! mil I condition of human society; ,Sla
j very aiiiversa!—‘slavery perpetual—
jis the.goal which IhefcbaHot,of civili
sation reaches allcr; rolling along'a
pathway of thousands of ycarg! The
people of ithiSo States must meet the
iss.des of these’ times under a sense of
responsibility to God: “Forwc musj.
airstand ftfefpre'.the judgment seat’of
Christ.” UU- that judgment throne
Gojd will iltbld all ;of ns accountable for
our present- political action—for our
choice. are the things between
which w^Pnstchoosc: '
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d.ET. Kr »tj-t7- tL < ‘ • i J ■. a l>proval to-the establishment of a
'j ~■r? . , °i PR J ETOB i Government whose principles of ad-
the conTcaancts4”of » fi rs ministration will be repulsive to Hea-
T . ! S ! ' fitted up in, Tfb and an tagonistic to the rights .0$
complete anil eat isfactory man- human nature. 1 have no doubt 1 but
' i that, in his own good time and right-'
o OT „«U f hc M„ st High itM Ti
’■tofg their acasoß, in ahv'desired root :«*?%'&■ Government—B Weep ifl
• r fßwie» cßpJbc rdrnisHcd kith Oyster?, i a :"' a y 'vi t n the besom jnf. .destruction, i
sV? °v The iablo ds • furnished; But will .He hold us guiltless for our {
! ‘*4’ff'rd' lrie * MAJlsj consent to its organization? Let noi
& %tW W heritage herl-tt I the tribulations of. war,
>J , continuance of the satne t' a peace which sanctions
■ uli j*soiicited. . ; ; a pc p- t 'the-enormity because, of which God
is haying such a controversy with the
nation. We. shall gain, upoh thc don
< dition of a recognition of the so-cah j
Ifei Ceßlod«rcicy l p«aM for as bout, and j
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. 1 THANKSGIVING SERMON,
DELITEKED THE LOCUST; STREET
M.’.£• jCHOBiCH, UARBISBVBO, PENK., . *
*••*! K«T. y^JtAJTKLIS >IOOI*, • D.D ./•
. November -27th, 1862. ■ '
Psalm c., ! 4—Enter into| his gates with
thnftksgiving. findjinio hi* courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
I Samuel sil, 24.—0n1y fearV-tW.tord,
.and serve him in Truth [ With all yourueart:
for consider how great things He hatli done
for you. i • •
Beaver
at :he skrao time inherit, under the
retributive justice -of Heaven,-oorder
wars for ages, to come., : We can pre
vent, if we 11 it, tht.independence,
of the revolted States, j IBelieve that.
(Jckl demands of us, as we feSr-liim
and love our follow-men everywhere,
that we do prevent such independence,
bo I tbo and I
blood ever so immense. - If wo reject
thik first attitude of thing* the
{bathing which it desorvda, then we
Lave before- us this, j “ -t:
Second ChbicbWe must to>
factions complaints against r-thp G oy
ernm®nt of iho Union, to 1 resistance
of-jthc: proclamation of its [president;
we/Toast wink at the poisoning of the i
popular conscience regarding the iw-j
foil nancity of the obligation of; obedi- j
j cnee to the powers that be, which are
i ordained ot God. And for what, my
j hearers ? Why, wo arc told for the,
i sake of “the qonstitutiort as it is—!
| the. Onion as it was.” 1 have no dis
i positionlo enteb rnto controversy with !
I politicians, but.stili I do feel it my du
! ty, as a preacher of the gospel of Jo
j bus Christ, to say from jthis sacred;
placer—to sound it out* from this pul
pit—which, so far as it speaks truth
unto salvation, individual jor national,
and the remark, is true of every
Cl)ristian -pulpit—ls God's throne-' of
state On earth ;tb6oundTl] outinto the
ear of the nation-r—’*Tbc Constitution]
: as_it is, abd the Unjon as] it wa
itii absurdity'! Hear mo before youtettn
demn this strong declaration; You
may have the Constitution with all its
‘ present articles, sections,! words] and_
letters, but it will hot be “the Consti
tution as it is ” after .you haygf tram
pled tlie life put of it,, by trampling
upon iho proclamation] ojf the Fresi
ident, who is. by (Jecreo_of {hb Consti
tution, the Commander-in-chief of tbo
anrty and navy of the United Stales.
Again: the Constitution is now inter
preted iu accordance wjtlv the true
j heart beats of the natioir—in the in
-1 vcirosts- of Freedom; On the condi
j tioii of a reconstruction of, things, by
j disregarding Iho proclamation ofomau
•| cipatTon, and by compromising with
j armed and unconqucred] traitors, cv
■jery thinking citizen knows that, by
) the: very enactment of such 'corapro-
Imise.vil is conceded that henceforth
i the Constitution shall be | con strewed
| iil the interests of Sls.vciy.‘. It is e-
I qhally absurd, if the President's proc
'! imitation be di^regarded, to expect a
j ihing like this, —“IMfo -'Uhion |as it]
| ttras I” 'You, may .hayeHthe; the; land,
■to the last square foot] of all the j
j Slates and Territories which now con
! siitule tho. Union-; you may have_ oil |
' the present inhabitants of thbUnion,
in this reconstructed Government and
strlbnotihave “the Uhrqjp' ! as it' wtk«.”
litell yefti what yon will then have,]
bbt which I know my people 100 well
j U> libel them with the thought that
1 they will ever consent to have. You
■i iiill have a Union from ‘millions
I -the lofty life of liberty will fiaye died out.
i r f]he liberty of the white: millions will
j then have been sacrificed, upon the
■j'shmc hilar .of oppression] from whoso
J excruciating fires the wilifc-ries and
j plaintive" wails] of black] people, now ,
1 counted by millibps, have been ascend-1
ihg up for moic than two hundred;
! vein's, int«“thojcars of ; the God of
i SabaoUi. j CneV and wails they are,
■ which caused the. fieryVßaiidolphr.to
• 4J ia Vt er c ver y slaves
#focp be went into thc|iresenco ot God.
f Cries ami wails they com
■ polled Thomas Jefferson to exclaim,
I ‘ Indeed, I trembled forj my country
1 when I reflect that God is just!” Well
I jnay thisnation tremblcj it it Pillows
j the evil counsels of demagogues, and
■ resists the appeals of Gpd ir. this cri
-1 bis, so charged with destiny. 7
jl I have said above, that' l in this soc
-1 oiidehoicc, of comprpijji <e and eoncos
isipn, you will have *a Union] from
■whose millions the lofty life "of liber
ty will have died out That.is. it
will Imvo died out from] all those who
['either planned or.submitted tamely to
j;the inglorious cr&bilixioii ofi ] right
I wKich-jviil hays taken place, at the
] hands "of irreguldrconvcri lions T ~with
[unlimited powers, But will any such
'condition of tilings as may thus bo
1 arranged by such convention or Con
! ventions bo permanent ? He is gross,
ily ignorant of huinan nature, add.es--
pccially ofV-the Anglo Saxon nature,
.who believes such will befc the fact.—
All the nobler elements of the Anglo-
Saxon race have been
for, ages by an irrepressible love of
liberty. Ever since the Getbtan Kero,
Armirdiis, overwhelmed line Roman
•legions under Yarns, the Gorman,
heart has shdwn itself to-havo an un
conquerable attacbmeni to personal
rights. Added to this, deathless lovei
of freedom,-which] will be burring and ]
effervescing in the souls of raiilions of
Outraged Northern
ed in their deeply rooteid and consci
entious 4 convictions' dn-. the, sub-]
ject ;of human rights—you will find
unconquerable difficulties in preserv
ing a; permanent pea^d —permanent, i
Social quiet, arising from
'condition of the nation] That truck
ling! spirit, which crucifies Liberty
for ibe' sake . of, a] compromise
with armed traitors, may ore long
consent to fling on {he tiati'oh at large
the debt incurred by the rebellion,
while-ht;,tho same time-]-there will bo
devised many subtle ways to screen
the caressed traitors from bearing a.
legitimate share of the! debt of the
Union. The leading rebeft wUI ]de
mand impudently that icornpensation
shall be given for tho confiscation of
the property of Southern men, and
also tor various aUegedJnjnried inflict-
W ©dnesday, J amiary 31,1868.
EMI
ed on the people'of the South & .our
armies. They will finally dpmaltdtho
-repudiation ot theentire Wardebtriur
curred by the UniouMn the prosecu
tion of the war.' With’this repudia
tion will ensue Ihe utjter I financial-yu-j
in of-jtbonsatids or citizens, who, last- j
ibg unfaltering dh the faith of tbo<
Government, have invested / their 1
wealth; in Government funds. . Oqm-]
meree will be? prostrated, and roaou* >
faetnres will The violence ]
of the financial shock'would be felt
'through every walklof life>-*Uiro®gh
put the entire framework of society.
In a thousand ways,, the confusion
and crash in thoi finances of the coon*
try would press heavilyv upon *the rla
[boring and poorer•-laaess. Th.esein
jiquitoue measure may ndt, most like--,
i ly will not, be; adopted at onpe, bht
and insidiously they will bo
; forced on the nation.[;
i • Every thoughtful citizen ought fb
j know that the spirit which makes
; peace with rebels and traitonr will
give them anything they njay ask af
terwards . Having I committed ■; the
greater, the giant wrong against the
rights df the nation, l^ow, .can this ser
vile fepirit of thocooyentksdsts refuse
their tyrants and co conspirators the
commission of any fraud against the
■peppTeiwhich they may anoT willinso
tontly deman.tf. What then will bo
the condition of things? The‘true
national heart, that larger class which 1
will be counted by millions, who love
liberty unto the death/wilffhen have
the hearty co-operation oj^that raized
multitude which is fotthdln every na
tion, and which is influenced rather
by what appeals to the purse
than by that which appeals to the
, higher instincts of :thp soul. If dem
agogues can move this multitude away
from the right, by excitingtheir, fears
and discontent iff view of financial
burdens arising out of the prosecution
of a righteous war, they wiij-be mov
ed like the sea before the Appeals of
outraged freemen, when their; finan
cial afflictions are made by glaring
fraud, in comparison with what they
wore, after the scale of Bohoboam s
fbrent of rigour in comparison with
thaiPof his father Solomon, when hio
said/“My little finger shall be thicker
than'my father’s loins.’’ Irt plam
1 words, then, the result of this [wicked
[compromise with Southern,rpbcllicin
will lead, as surely as aiiy causes will
produce their legitimate effects, to'
Northern Revolution. Tboi penalty
inflicted thus on truckelers to traitors
will in time be the kindling bf volca
noes beneath their own bomift. The
upheaving ! of throe volranfas will
sweep away the men .-who toitt that
God.reigns, and that the rifgKfades
"tined iprATilp fbTlbb'eafth'. ‘iTiiftf
the plain',.lr6nest people of the notion
be awakened to a sense of the weary
i pilgrimage of blood and suffering thro’
[which, ib the nature of things, they
I mdst travel, if, foiling to nobly crush
' thik.rebellion, they give heed to apos
! ties of oppression, and at their bid
ding make compromises which barter
Liberty al though it wCrp a toy. It
is high tirpe/'.oo, that thesS-paltry
'politicians wake tip. to the fact that
the Anglo Saxon soul m now the same
groat,untrainmeled'lhing^it wax thous
ands of years ago,Jn the dark, [forests
bfGchnauy. s These rhe.i must remem
ber that the spirit of Lexington and
Blinker Hill,and Brandywine,, is alive
in the land still I , 7
While I may übt have traced the!
precise ,way in which it will transpire,
yet 1 cannot refrain ,fromf the asser
tion, that on the condition of shame
ful compromise, with elavery trium
phant, the result which will surely bo
attained will be that of Revolution.—
J would thunder it thlrougb. ..halls
of every Pennsylvania home, and of
every home in the land, that the tri
.urnph of-the Southern liebdiion, by com
promise in the Union ,.| ts the certain fore
runner of Northern Nepolution.
■I charge such politicians as 'have
been in this dis
course “with aiming ala result which,
i whether reached on their part through
; judicial created by _ party I
passion, or with, deliberate intent of
I suen result, will prove, if successful, I
the most.stupendous fraud and wrong j
known in hnmftn history. That re
sult will be this To rivet more firm
ly than ever the; manacles j of black
men y to continue the bamiliatioq and:
almost serfdom ot millions (if South
ern white men, and last, though not
least, to enslave millions of Northern
freemen. - This last element |of the
general result, of outrage ]on blood
relatives, and neighbors, will be achiev
ed after vehement protestations of
sympathy for our “Southern brothern.”
T call upon the patriots and statesmen,
of the land to sacrifice present add
personal euse,and, while theirbrethren
are fighting in the jfield, to'challenge
these politicians to the
boldiy unmaak .them in tho.. presence
of the people, who will heed the right.
Lot the nation be set on fi re by the
agltatjon, ngt of that llilsehbod with
which conspirators fired Southern
heart, hut by the agitation and circu
lation of that truth which is. mighty
andwill prevail.- We most Ido this, I
fear, if we would save the land from
the flames of revolution. !• beseech
all. Christians to wrestle with God
night and day, that be would save as
from the vortex' of agony And- horror
into which the macbmatlohf of these
men must plunge ns!
I come now to the third thing
which ,we may .choose, land; which 1
have no doubt the | Christianity and
{atri Dtistn of the.nation will. oboOse.
t is compliance, cheerful And earnest,
.1 -v
with the President's [proclamation of
emancipation.'' In its execution wo
shall be permitted: to see, under; oar
own eyes and injlour own time",': the
conclusion iof one of: those mighty
steps of Divine Providence which of
teoindjade ages. The
Union, after tbo fiist day of. January, |
in the ysari of our Lorcjl one thousand |
eight nnnared ' and sociy-threo, will,
then be a sublime • governmental : !Joi|U-l
flee, 1 upon whose': Stone/ from 1
corner to capstones, Will bo wiitten
in ' letters of light—“ Liberty : and
Uhicm, now and -forever, bne and/ in
separable.’' Glorious as have been its
streamings- in '1 the past, . the Sta
r then wave,
the wind as it ncyijr
Its stars will then be clothed with a
doable brightness, as though every"
star were the dwelling*place of a!
Hying soul—as if H were the flashing j
eye of the( fieniua of Liberty—while:
its: broadj spreadings wilt roll and;
rollick ih the breeze as though aj
siprit of eclacy lingered -in its blue
field/ and was leaping along every.l
striper! The manacled .millions of
the South [will, Vat the sight and sound
of these words, leap up from the dusti
and, iii the conciousness of restored
manhood, Jmingle their thrilling cries !
of jubilee with the ring [oftheir
shivered chains ! The civilizocL/world
Will read the glowing words inscribed
i on the temple of our national liberty;
and! rejoice in their' significance t—-■
1 Heaven will sicze the joy of earth,
and the harp of many, an angel who
■ has been a to /the
, black believer, will trill with strains,
, whos,o richness earth may not know,
’ becanssthe shackles of the slave have
fallen, and he [is now doubly free—
! free by the law of ijjo i land,.as before
he was free in-Christ'Jesos ! ■ ■ >
‘ Touching this proclamation, I
would farther remarks;—
It is well known that the President
did no£ issue it until afteri much
patienS,l doubt not,; at tunes, agon
izingly earnest ' thought. ; Whatever
may be the asseverations of the par
tisanship of tlio hour, the calm voice
of history will be. that this, procla
million wls not the Vesult .of the
coercion and ot
{‘radical abolitionists,’; many Of whorri,
the good Presidents whose
grandeur of mind and movement in
thpse tumultuous times indicates hinfj
lo be a fur greater man than at first* j
his most sanguine supporters supposed 5
him to bo—,maoy of whom,, I say,
the 1 President grieved as bitterly by
his slowness ; of action upon this
vezodandvital national question, ns,
now jhe /baa grieved and enraged
heartless demagogues, by •‘putting
"doivu his foot,” and taking action for
which! the world will applaud forever !
I pumbit here! this thought for the
consideration of {ho Christian men
and women of Pennsylvania, and, so
>far as these may go, to the j
Christian men and women of the;
cjmntry. l - if our I God 1 notices the j
falling sparrow,: if he be the prayer-i
hleafing God. is it not rather the part;
of •.sublime Christian faith," thaii of;
blind fanaticism, to believe it highly!
probable that He has, in this matter/
regarded this mighty nation —millions;
oP whom ‘have .bo|tr pleading and||
and praying s for the'; President —and]|
has aelua ly gyided the[ mjnd: of our j
chief rulor in file issue of this ; proclu- !
mation of emancipation !* Let the ;
| Christian men . and women of the j
! country' .toward how they speak light
ly of. tbiii measure, lest haply thqy,
may be kupd- to fight against God. —r
A measure j life, this, so . linked - with
the welfare 1 of the; nation—a measure
taken £o{m|tlonsiy,{ carefulljj, and, : Ij
belieyd tl e most violent political dp-1
ponents of |tho President must' admit.
, conscientiously-—it is hardly compati- j
[ blq r -with our Christian notions to
suppose is the offspring of clipnce.-
Moreover,‘jwhoii 1 we sneak of fana
ticism in Connection with this subject i
Of (slavery, (which is so vitally assailed
by the proclamation, it is worthy tho
thought of all persons with whom
j reason is the law of life, whotber it i|.
I not equally possible for a map to be*,
j come i a fanatic in defence of this
i mammoth evil, as well as ip efforts to.(
I crush it- Is it not a possible thing
j that u political zealot feay bo hurling
his poisoned arrows right at [the
i heart of the beautiful Goddess of
liibcrty, when he thinks himself to
ijo only driving polished shafts into;
tho cleared cfegs of |“the demon of"
Abolitionism ?'lt mijght be well f«y
such zealots to inquire- whether they
bo not engaged id a, fruitless task ; to
inquire whether this* so-called demon
of Abolitionism is npt like Banquo’s
Gholt and‘thus will not be bidden
down, Yea, while the royealed voico
of God rolls authoritatively through
the earth, while the 1 human heart
beats (its true .life ! march, and- the
S conscience is I true to its office
It not be hidden down until
bout the| world the last shackle
ill from the limbs qf tho slave!
v Still jreison together, my
Hearers, about this question of eman
cipation. What is the very life spirit
ot the American Republic ? jlsj.it
not this—the very >dmo thing which
pur noble historian . Bancroft has as
-sorted of Puritanism—“ Religion con
tending.for the rights of thV coinmpn
people”—yea, I. ! may add, /of f»U
people. Wo are, in the present V
fighting the battle of Democracy t
the world. And now, why shqui
any true and loyal American oitizjei
murmur at a proclamation whipl
unfettei B the slave, and" at tho sami
tint* lifts up millions of oar wfcl»
FEMME
Established
'-I- : '■ ih■' ■ - ■•' ■■Wl:. ' .M '■ I '■' .1 ■
bHlzens—the |pmihon pe6ple and Up reversal,-. that we
of the South—frotp the. humiliation of warning how we act in thi«
virtual borfdom inilo«be true [ glory of or * B 'B f . J .... • „ ! f
a citizenship in whose ;fruitiln their V“s}• ,ia the word that to
voice will hOreaftc? bo a liviiig power Jeremiah byjthe Lord, after that the
in the land ? Why shall we contend King ;Zedekmh hud wade a covenant
so tehafciohsly-fseck fbr every! legal -all the; people .that wore .at '
technicality and constitutional quibble Jerusalem, to py^datnil UIU /
-i-at 8‘ time 6f huge rebellion, to thomij that overman should lot ««» • ,
guarantee the iWeicriptive lights of a nmii-ijopyant,■ and every inun his
few hundred thousand men of the .servant, being an Hebrew pr tie.
South, and at the 1
the “inalienable,” God-givbniights serve] himself of them, to w it. ol a
of.entire millions both of! black and Jew his brother; HSov \>;hpn ali/the .
white men ? I r ,0, : ’ pnneps.aml all the people winch .. •
Before 1 close this portibn- ol my outor P d int ° f n u ?"
discourse I wilj notice * subject whiehj «W3j sbou e 1 * '
Is now of primal importance in the r J ono
nation, cannot impress upon our S
minds too strongly, in this period of f ’? ve f , of t \ lC i m t a ,i^i n l , n ’ RntSWter •
agitation and tribulation, thb duty of St and caused the
submission to law, to dulyonstitutsd 't“™r '
not iXk| learn, jjjftj a4 b, !
T&SSt** ; iodft>r and -
Government reared by thbnational - 'P* , | I . i
fathers, we are standijng o'n ja beetling “Therefore, the word of the Lord
cliff', that is fast crumbling ratora gull canid to jjereihiaji from the Lord. say ;
of cursing!. and social bhjaosM from jng, jThus said the Lord, the God of
whose sight I turn away in horror, Israbl.l rnado a,covenant with your
and say, with all the pleadjngj earn- fathers jin the .day that I brought i
estness of the Litany,/ 1 By.jthy - cross them.forth out. of the land .of'Egypt. ''
andi passion, by thine agony ’and outthehousc of bondage,- saying, at
bloody sweat,. good Lora, deliver the end jof seven years lei-ye go every :
us‘;'V I % j I’ ■' nfun I his brother, an Hebrew, which
It is w.Uf human society an with haihibceu sold unto thee ; and when
the objects of nature -viewed in the be hath ; served thee six years, thou
light of chebiistfy. Thews nrdifright- shaft letj hi ip go free from tpee. But v
ful possibilitios slumbering all . around youij fatbersboarkened not unto me ; ;
u'g*. Break the cohesive [poWer of neitherJinchned. their ear
iron and teadj which motajls so! adorn viere\noib tinned, and hdd done right in
the architecture ; of our Jcities and
they are highly combustible. ’rFinelyv to his ■neighbour.; and yo had made a. •?;
pulverized lead will fly oft into, sheets; covenant beforeme intbehousewhicli ,
of flame upon being showeredthrough is called by my name, but yo turmsd;..
the air. So, '-jiff you iHntjter andtile aiidjpolluted jipy name, and cauScd ,
away the strong bands of lawful au-., bver.y man' his servant, and .every |
tbority by defiant rebellion,' or in- man his handmaid, whom he had set, |
sidions treason, Vfe nht yrhat at liberty at their pleasure, to return,! |
the end of such a process will, be.— andjbronght them into subjection to r
Wo know!, however, that tho Jcgltif-j be gntoj you for servants and forhand
mato tentjency of such jn course is to maids. ! Therefore, thus' sailhr the
uncap tht pandemoiiHim o; the human’ the Lord; 'Ye - have not hearkened un- :
poulr—to,'l sheet' all f speicityl with the; to mo, im broelainiing liberty every
flames of* Satanic fill a one to tiis brother, and every man ito
UtuiLwjtb wavjs. ■ The ilethodist Dis- bis. neighbor } behold i proclaim, a .
eiplinei whieii I hop Vis not 1 yet an ydu the Tjicu’d, to the
ob»o|ete book, in its'luttcrances on sword, jtq the pestilence; 1 and to
llhis national ulcer, has l>ng had in .famine i and. I . will mako j’ou tp be . .
lit this qiiostioh : “What i hull bo done removed intc all the kingdoms of the
;for the extirpation of tlie evil' of eartb,’ ? ! Jeremiah, xxxiv., 8-17 - . : , |
• slavey ?” The answer, which I need i 4n 6l>jcctor \vill urge that aft this
inot cite at length, begins' irijtbia lan- applies to llm Hebrevv, and not
guago : “Wo declare that wd. iro as ‘African.l race,'and that the servitude
much as ever convinced of tlie great from which there was a rciea-e de- ■■
cvil of ’ This whole , nation, elated was but for tenii of year-, a.Hi
of ill partiosand creed 3, in calni,con- notj perpetual. , To sudh pbjcc.ions I
fiddntiall conversation,‘ have declared reply; a® follows ; Firfst," tljcru is iin
the] same -thing.! Jfow we have a -jified in the entire section of the Holy
righteous opportunity foxf tho ? extlr- Word cited, that'even Buch temp; vary
pa lion of slaverv i . was regarded as a stu o .of
It remains to|be t showo by our con- pppressiom which tvas onlj* tolerated*
duct whether of not history will plant in considerationi-pf llie hardnc -s r,f
Us, as a natiph,: upon this subject! on jthdir li carts, aildinot approved of trod
theßamcplatijoirinofdeceitwjiihliheEng- us rngood postuto df society. Accord
lisli aristocracy, whb.aflor generations ingly, it is right to lemlt
jof anathemas atr.ainst American slave- gddh J thc Divino
1 ry. now turn around and, pdtkgmmces. Word asserts tbilptho execute 111.
which history brill!
pitj'ing I alnd iscornfiil gaze of men in (which eeriSainly inclrdes dhe ur nPf '
aftcr andi purer , ages ,of the world r every race) oppressed. Tl.ifii
now they 1 say. by their actions* “Wo ly,ias
wefc only after pill” The issue,. bondagoj sncli'( .the .
thyr heafcri,j is oh us and on thi's mi-
lion. Our decision will declare wheth- Go!d.is|: '“I havo'sijrely seen thb afllic- -
er u’o bo a uation of true hien or a tioji of iTiyipepple;, which are in Egypt,
natjion of bypoefi tcs.. On if choice a n|l ! halve iheard thei rei y of
will declarp; whether or not wb: have thbir taskmasters, for 1 know thyir
been all this while, with prayers and, 8 bmaiicipiiifon
protestations,,„ei|acting, on a stupen- prCelamatibn pf‘our Prej-ide:it l'e lhro’ '
doas scale, jnl farce which is not ymt a any evil vcoiitjscls,. oyei rulcd, J mhbt
farce, for, in rbsility, in t'n.e issue of warn my people, upon the authontyfif
matlbrs, it Will prove to be|oiie of the Hivine. precedent, .ihat tltf" horizon :bf j
most mournful and morally t appalling ou'r nalional fiiturc is lillecf with gvira
traaedies which have transpired', or horrors;-
will transpire, on this planet. I
quote once more the Methodist Dis
cipline.» Th^;twchty-th|rd;Article of
.Religion reads thus : ]: ' f
‘•lMjofPrVsidcijt, the Gongfesji, fhq
Gen'ei-al ‘ 4»^ e tobliss.;--tli|o Gove’rjbprs, ;
and the Cdupeils. of State,/as/Ac dele
gates of the. pepj le, sire , of
the United! States of America, accord
ing to the 'division of powet’made,|to
them by Vtlio Constitution of f the
United States] and liy the- Constitution
of the respective States; the
%aid States are a sovereign iand indc;
pendent nation, and: Ought not .to I be*
subject to atiyiforeign jurisdiction.’’
f Appended to the articlo islho t fob.
lowing note|: | ' : 'S"-??
i’iAs fur as itircspects affairs,
\yo‘:believe it the duty jof Christiana,
and especially! all Christian ministers,
rid be subject to thej supreme authori
ty of the country,! where they may
reside, and to i use;, all lajndibloM means !
to enjoin obedience to the powers that
bo; and therefore itis expected that
all our preachersand people, who
may be under the] British*’or vany
other.government, will behave j them
selves as peaceable and orderly sub
jects:’' , ■■j-, s .k;|- ,‘k.
Now, I aipeal, by their reverence,
td Gold, by their love of. gotintrj- and’
61 humanity, to the more than one
hundred thdusandMcthodist of Penn
sylvania, and, if I can reach them,
the one million Methodist ?of the loy
al States —that they be true to their
twenty-third article ol religion,a and
support the President, their lawful
ruler, in his policy pf emancipation,
when to refuse that support is to
revolutionize in behalf of oppression.
The’appeal of truth and mercy will
not be in vain; they will rally arou.nd
, him, and the banpor of the’; Law—
reived to the death ‘will very many of
f them. rally apoapdi him ak against
n lawless demagogues. ; I: I i , j
i Let me here cite from tb«f Writings
s of the prophet Jeremiah | something j
» «hqat «maoßip»tioa pn&uaiatioa
''j -V,
. »( the'imtfr
subsequent inier^ 00 , !
liseoont mode to jfwjf
• idTCituements, /: :
itT* UnisoMhi* <yp f j
cent, addition id reg
,een!sa line, per year
Marriages.and Dealhi, JJeligiouts r.oUtical j
and other Notices of a public nature, free. ,
tf pur, poo'pW bn •seduced', by cun
'■nii|g-’.''rtnd'party, Icr,-l-rs.. to .
c6pipvomi«o to .]y: hf 1 - I
tuate and,;s6ifly:is,they maj-. u; s.!ii'v .
tify- Iniinai bondage under the sdva|«»i
police and pro.iperitj'i let’fh’Vru.'■knyv'iyhr
.in (advance find, tbcnr.p-ives
tbir 'Victimf> oljia terrible! <l|;J i~.i i
(rid, with nitude of re-o^ um
\yrll' fight-agajrrst them,; and ii'lnihe
them bitterly. y'A’hc elemehtsof nature
atid societywili*?ise up against them.
stars in tij|eir courses” will ,fight
against■ every -Oppressing Sisera. -
I can cautiofi'toy ,dear country nienh,
tßprcfdrc,' i n tip ®pre appropriate hi rf C_'
gdagb IhiTifi that, of, the iprophet.
“lioiir ye, andgiveear; be not prouda
■foi thu:,Loi|d hhll) Spoken. Uiivo glo
ry to j iihe Lord yourrOod, before he.
cause uajrkfiosS; and befnfe your feet,
sthntbje.lpponlUic-dark niouiitatus..nirii
while light, hie tririi
fo|lbe ; jßhadow‘.of .death,- and' make ; i(...
gross darkness; But if ye will, no;
hbar it, niy soul shall weep in seo'ivi
yoar pride, and mine eye;\,-
shall weep! sore,' hod tu u <l.xwn yvi-ih':
tears, because the Lord’s floyk, is ’par- .
ried away captive.”. Jeffxiii-. ,15-1 T;
Aj fearful captivity of affliction* w.iii
the nation secure to itself by foillinr-V
inW ji short-sighted and cruel.policy.—
Whosoever a than or a nation '.sowrt.fi f
tliat shall he of such'nation reap,-is 1
tita ,irrevocable d'ecreh of: destiny. ; ,
ji nannOt jclose . this section iof my
sermon, without making an" observa
tion, for whose truthfutnesß.il make
an appeal to the verdict of the- future,
•whatever, may bo the passionate ut
terance-to the contrary .upon the part
of any our citizens in this age ot strife
apd tumult. This whole’’ complex
subject of slavery and Emancipation
Isj.far more intensly andyitally a mor
al'and religious than a political question.
Religion and hunianitybavebutone
vhice upon it : “Lpt the oppressed'go
ftee!” If, then, it be possible there
lingers among-kny large. number of
ptfoplasympathy, ft* davecy
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