The press., November 30, 1860, Image 1

fVMUBMD DAILY, (BtmfiAYS BXOEWBI),)
•YJTftHN W. FORNEY. .
*WIOE NO. UT CHESTNUT STREET
_ .Daily pres*.
***«», : Cl!tre in Wn«, tWaM* to the Carriei.
' lijpi4s>lp*W°ribws Ml o(tl»Citr«i Six Dou.ua
&>'***» »o» Ktent Kosthi.
T*Sw;?9iL*Ui »o» Si* MontHe—lniranaMr Id ad
lee tha time ordered.
' '*.„ ' fM-WEIUY PBKSS.
BUM to Sabecriber* oat of the Cilr at Tail* Dol
e-iKM** As»?*. io edvanoe. ,
COMMISSION HOUSES.
HAZARD, * HUTCHINSON,
- - NO. 119 CHESTNUT ST, ;
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
FOR THE BALE OF
I’HILADELPHIA'-MADE
GOODS.
MMM
MILLS,
Formerly bay state mills.
iSUAWJLiB oi'&Usiztn in Rieat.va.ii»tj,
JKmbcNMNHi and Printed TABLE COVERS*
TJSiv** BEAVERS nod BROAD CLOTHS*
BALMORAL SKIRTS.
DOESKINS. and Double and Twieted COATINGS.
«-< BACKINGS, and Heavr ZEPHYR CLOTBB,
Twilled sad Plain FLANNELS and OPERA FLAN
MELS,
Printed FELT CARPETINGS.
Fotaalebj
FROTH NOHAM. A WELLS,
31 Booth FRONT Street, and
35 LETITIA Street.
£»L,OTHING GOODS.
ITALIAN CLOTHS.
ALPACAS,
SPANISH, SLAV, AND BLOUSE
Yluh akd fancy
BUCKS AND DRILLS.
sow in itobui xnn for bulk bt
GEO. D. PARRISH.
BoS-lm 319 CHESTNUT Street.
MILLINERY GOODS.
KENNEDY & BRO.
739
CHESTNUT STREET, BELOIT EIGHTH,
■an .feeed a SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of
FRENCH FLOWERS, HEAD DRESSES,
FEATHERS, RIBBONS, STRAW GOODS,
mb
BONNET MATERIALS.
AT LOW PBICEB. ee*-Jm
HATS AND CAPS.
NEW HAT STORE.
JOHN E. FOSTER.
(Lot. of lot South Third itreet,}
Hanoi taken the atore st
NO. 331 CHESTNUT ST..
Ajfttttedit of m eagerior etyle, invitee the attention
““TIESBaOTAND EXTENSIVE STOCK
o»
HATS AND CAPS.
VBU new lUI ityles *» touch admired.
LOOKING GLASSES.
I^OOBING-GLASSES
.an
PICTURE FRAMES,
«eeerr .TUietT.
AWGRAVINOS, 01L-PAINTINBS, St.,
NO, BSS ARCH STREET.
GEO. F. BENKER.T,
VASrp.cmxs ads mioim.
TIgrURE, MOULDINGS,
OKIN G-G LASSES,
PORTRAIT AND PICTURE FRAMES
BNORAVINOS.
.flu, iaucubm.
JAMBB S. EABLK fc 80H,
'OPOATMRS, MAItDPACTVRMRB, WHOLM-
SAt* AM RETAIL DEALERS.
SABLES’ GALLERIES,
•IS CHESINCT Itnil.
CABINET FUBNITVBE.
pRENOH FURNITURE.
(JSOR»E J. HENKBM.
t*« walnut street,
o jot tSogei A Soil* urrctts el
VLK,
qUADKILLN,
WARQCBTRIB, and
ORMOLU WORK,
WhiobhovUlwUMteiJ REDUCED PRICES.
FUST-CLASS CABINET WARE-
GKO. J. HENKELS,
*B4 wAi.ItUT STREET
till HIDUOBD PBICE.B
■bolwiMtiatoitmontlntte Union, all of Now Domino
/-.n botore wohaMng. oeU tm
r*ABISST TOBKITUR* AND BIL'-j
V/ UARD TABLES. ; .
MOORE & CAMPION.
tn SpUTH
BrtiiT§y»wy«y*S>w , ffiriw taTt iM thorn, to
T r ondlfilfr or UwooToMoi .tfco *»»»-.,
'. ■
NX W CABINET WAR BROOMS
OPEKD THIS WEEK BY H ; utißB
Ifo. 40 Sonth SECOND Snoot,..
Fonrdoora above Ohoojjn|toj*ootj^
A UfOuwrtMotorFUßNlTUßK olev»rT4Mon»-
n«aBßSs§roiib»nd, at tbe lowoot oaeh snooa.
'._... ■■ ■■ (as:
SPORTING GOODS.
rjUNS. PISTOLS.
W SKATES. &o.
FHITLiP WILSON & CO.,
manufacturers of superior ours,
Imtortan aad Dealeio in
FINE BBNS AND BHOOTINB TACKLE.
CRICKET DATS, BALIA, So.,
BAA E-BALI, IMPLEMENT*,
SKATES OF EVERY VARIETY,
FINE FIBHINU TACKLE,
AT THB ; LOWEST PRICES.
403 CHBSTNBT STREET.
REMOVALS.
REMOVAL.
THOMAS MELLOK&OO
HOSIERY HOUSE,
Hbto ronoeedtotho Storo formerly, ooonpted br
YARD, GILLMORE, A CO,,
No. 40 AND 4S NORTH THIRD STREET,
Between MARKET and ARCH Sheet*.
uoS-lql. - ...
BRWCTG ICHBOiI.
WHBELBR & WILSON.
Priced Redneed, H«». 15» iB6O.
SOWING MACHINES.
#9» iSawrmrr btrbbt-seoorb floor.
»<H« ' 1 '
riABRIS’ BOUDOIR
n hewino machine.
ftBILTIRO ARB
' HEAVY WORK.
mmaass**
rjraStMsr'’ 'manufacturing a«d
-ci -i iii»WJu<jWB|yg»»
rwfatt'st.'t,: r - “****”, * L ** >, y'k>>./>nKAi > R Ti>
SOB. AND TAR.
VOL. 4,—NO. XQ4.
SILK Ami DRY GOOPI JOBBERS.
J\EW GOODS
FOR
NOVEMBER TRADE,
We shall otfor for »ale
THIS BAY
A beautiful assortment,
IN NEW STYLES,
DRESS GOODS
AND SHAWLS.
Betide many varieties
NEW AND SCARCE
STAPIxE GOODSi
Buyers will find our stock well assorted throughout
the year.
JOSHUA L. BAIL'S,
IMPORTER AND JOBBER.
No. 313 MARKET ST.
nog-tf . ; : PHILADELPHIA.
ESTABLISHED 1813.
WM. WILV ON & SON.
MANUFACTURERS OF
SILVER WARE,
S. W. CORNER FIFTH AND CHERRY STS.
A litre eeeortment conatantly on hand, or made to erder
to rnetoh any pattern desired.
Pereona vublsg to have ORIGINAL STYLES -will be
furnlahed with pattern! by our deaipser FREE OF
CHARGE.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
ENGLISH,
■FRENCH, AND AMERICAN
PLATED WARES,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
poll tf .
g O. THOMPSON,
TAILOR,
NORTHEAST COXNERAIF SEVENTH AND WAL
NUT STREETS,
Oppoaite Weahinpton Seuare.
<
PANTALOONS IN FIT A GUARANTEE.
N. B.—Geetlsmea vuitinsr the city are solicited to
have their measures taken for future orders*
nott-mwfSm
HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS*
YyiLIAAM YARNALL.
, IMPORTER AND .DEALER IN
HOUSE! FURNISHINO
GOODS,
No. 1030 CHESTNUT STREET,
mmediately oppoaite the Academy of Fine Arta.)
TABLE CUTLERY, OVAL WAITERS.
KITCREN TABLES, DOOR MATS,
CLOTHES MANGLES, Ao., Ac,
Feraone eommenoinp Hoo«*x*»ms are particularly
inrited to an examination of tbia atook of Übmpx.
Boost. 'Ut-im *—>'•
nuAUt.
JjLINDS AND SHADES.
B. J. WILLIAMS,
No. 1A NORTH SIXTH STREET,
I, the moot oitentire Nenatec hirer of
VENETIAN BLINDS
o AWD
WINDOW SHADES.
I Tbs UMMt end Ineot eaeortment in the oitT.et the
I '“JfoREMADES madeand loHwod, REFAMINB
I tionotlt atwadad to:
[iILHES’ PATENT
WROUGHT AND CHILLED IRON
a |715 CHESTNUT ST.,I
tjj UNDER MASONIC HALL.
§ M. 0. SADLER, General A(«nt.
, t AND bank looks; DOORS, *o.
§PAI,X)INO*H
PREPARED SDDE!
-a niTCX n WINE SAVES NIMK
umnnMVl DISSAIOH
ROOWW* 1 gJirM THa rI gaMK <
At inUMii mill ktrrn, nm *• tnll-nmltn*
rmmtua ll li nn 4eair*ble toheTeeome ohe»t. an 4
eoorenlent mr fer reeairine Fnrnitnre. Tom, Crttkt
FT. Be.
, fI?ALDIN»’B PREPARED »LXIK
asste all s«®L wwls*» And so hosssftoid dsn affart
la tie Without it. It i> alwaM ready and wto the atiok
... M ]nU There ia'no lower a' neoeeeitr for limpini
ehailSr'eelintared Veneere, tieedleeedotle, and broken
amalm. It ieioat the article for cone, ■hell, and other
»T»upeat*l work, u »opQ'»r with ladies of refinement
l *WwSsSlur*M#»Wai»Uo#l» «•? «”“• “‘ n ‘* l '*
aieally kfU inwdution. andvomatmf *U the vatanWe
ImSSeeof the beet oabinet-makere’ sine. It maybe
I teed in the floce Of ordinary maodaffr Mint
1 IN EVERY HOUSE.'
r ■, s. A btneh'aooomeahlee eaaii bottle.
I NUOB TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Wheteeaie Detot, Me. 41 CEDAR Street, Hew Yera.
Aidrtsr ’
HENRY 0. SPALDIND * 00.,
Boa Me. MOO, New York.
HMQUlill Utk |MkM».
*^' A FBItPAKED BMJJS
will MTf t*n ttam it* suit urnutUr to ererj houshold.
g*U br »li »nmmn.St*tl<ninj> DMl|Ut*, Hard.
| j£y *aii Fomit»r« Do*!*n, ftoetn, ud Fon«j
•tutor rtiaUiiiitaiH mat* » seM«i
BPAIDUfe’B PBSPARKD BLDK,
fliiro AHX OJtIMA* I -.
pAittur FLOUR,
Mann FIOH CHOICE WHITE WHEAT,
8, W. her. ARGk anS TENTH atresia,
CPAB&LINS AND STILL CATAWBA
© WINED, matMiull 11
J. BBHKLBT,
Giaeinaati.Oide,.
.. mi. tolls lota to nrtfwehssen. bj
tfniMi.KM V. TAB6AHT, BdoAkwit, •
llltM Mo. MUM AEKBT Street.
OUTLER HOUbE,
® No. 119 BOOTH. SIXTH Btrtet.
IndAfondMCO SWArt*
' CtmdsbtM’ob &*‘Mt(>Wsa hi*«.
: h0«., 4 rre , rlrtor ,
SILVER WARE.
CLOTHING.
SAFES.
DEPOT
FKEPAKEDGI.UE.
O. H, MATTSON,
’€ Ij i |P t tit .
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, IBCO.
Behind the Age.
I'laat enterprising, earnest, and go-a-liead
American, Mr. Train, who lately introduced
passenger cars, running upon iron tramways,
at Birkenhead, in England, is likely to have
his hands full of business, and, eventually, his
purse full oi money. The principal cities and
towns in Great Britain and Ireland have ex
pressed great anxiety tor the extension of this
cheap, safe, and pleasant mode of travelling,
and it would not surprise us to iind the lead
ing cities in Continental Europe speedily avail
ing themselves of similar advantages.
. As yet, Mr. Train has boon unable to intro
duce the passenger cars into London. In the
great business thoroughfares, such as Leaden
hall street, Oornhill, the Poultry, Cheapside,
St. Paul’s Churchyard, Ludgato Hill, Fleet
street, and the Strand, all of which are nar
rower than Chestnut street, and crowded, day
and night, with an immenso population and
traffic—it would bo next to impossible to run
the cars. But all around, and oven into Lon
don itself, tbo cars might easily run, greatly
to tho accommodation of tho public. London
actually is as much surrounded by broad roads
or boulevards as Paris, and tramways might
readily ho introduced upon them. In all the
suburbs on tho Surrey side of tho Thames, tho
cars might run. Also from tho Great ‘West
ern Railway station, down near the Euston
squaro station, and by tho City Road, to tho
end of Mongato, which is within twonty steps
of tho Bank of England, and within ftity paces
of tho Royal Exchango. Tho cars could not
run down Holborn—certainly not up and down
Snow Hill—but they could run all through tho
West-end from Holborn Bars, down Oxford
street to Shepherd’s Bosh; they conld run to
and Irom Islington, Holloway, Highgato, tho
Edgowaro road, Pulliam, Brompton, and a
variety of othor rus in urbe places now in
corporated with London by boing built up to
it.
Mr. Train proposed to mn passenger-cars
through Marylebone, but the West End peo
ple in that vicinity—which is only Bemi-fash
ionablo, after all, for it is a long way (torn Bel
gravia—have risen in arms against it. Lord
Portman owns a square in Marylobone, which
bears his name, and believes that his property
would bo injured by increasing the facilities,
increasing the safety, and diminishing the cost
of passenger travelling. When the Oranibns
was established in London, thirty years ago,
other landlords prated as Lord Portman does,
of their “vested rights,” and tho imminent
danger to peoples’ lives and morals, by intro
ducing cheap oity travel! One might fancy
that Lord Portman and the inhabitants of
Marylebono wiiom ho has induced to join him
in opposing Mr. Train, wore omnibus proprie
tors, whoso occupation Will bo gone, if pas
songers cars make headway.
In like manner, though London was lighted
with gas, as lar back os 1814, one of its most
public parts continued with the old and glim
mering oil-lamps until about 1845. This was
Gtosvenor Square, an aristocratic locality dur
ing the Regency, which turned up its nose at
anything so. vulgar as coal-gas, and continued
that scornful action lor over thirty years.
The time is not remote, we bolieve, when
London will have its lines or passenger-rail
roads, just as we have thorn hero. Passenger
cars, running on iron tramways, give a better,
easier, fester, -and cheaper mode of locomo
tion than the heavy lumbering omnibuses,
which aro fast gliding, in this city, into moro
objects of memory, Tbo time will come, we
think, hore and elsowhere, when these passon
ger-cars will bo propelled, at a still cheapor
rate and with moro speed, certos„tjr..<u,rf safe
ty, by small instead of by
one section of it, has so far re
jected street railways. Therefore, beyond all
question, wo may say that the stupid people
I who have done this are much behind the age—
sunch behind its activity, its rapidity, its intel
ligence. But, let us ask, are these people
alone in being so slow ?
Mr. Train Is now in New York (or imme
diately expected there) for the purpose of en
deavoring'to carry ont a favorite project of
his—the introduction of light cabs instead of
the heavy carriages, now in use, for hire, in
most American cities. If London is behind
us in stroet-raUways, sho ia as much ahead of
us in her street-carriages. Her Broughams
apd Clarences, respectively conveying two
or four persons, are each drawn by a single ]
horse, and each passenger’s faro is restricted,
by law, to twelve conts a mile. There is a
small extra allowance for each separate piece
of luggage after the first. The rate of Btreot
travel by these vehicles is about six miles an
hour, but if a man wishes “to catch the
train,” the promiso of an additional ismctvX
will quicken the speed. In this country there
is a nominal legal rate for stroet-conveyanoe—
but who 1b over known to act upon it 1 The
Jarvoy exacts as much as ho thinks your purse
or your greonness will submit to. His rate
runs from half a dollar to five dollars. Ilis
carriage costs a comparatively large sum; he
has to buy and feed two horses, instead of
ono, and ho knows that, except in extreme
need, the public will not employ Mm. More,
over, tho paßSenger cars havo nearly reduced
his calling to a sinecure—without the profit
usually attached to such offices.
Now, If Mr. Train shonld succeed in esta
blishing cabs instoad of heavy carriages in
New York and other places, tho cheapness
and speed of the new vehicles ought Instantly
cause them to ho generally adopted. Tho
price might safely bo fixed at twenty-five cents
per mile, which is donblo tho rato allowed in
London, hut fairly warrantable hero, from tho
greater expense of living. Tho cost of horsos
and keep Is about equal in both cities. Tho
cab itsolt could be improved upon horo, as to
lightness and shape, and supplied at less than
what it coßtfl in London.
■Well, suppose that Mr. Train shonld go in
for this improved mode' of city-travel, is it
likely to bo adopted 1 Wo doubt it. Proviouß
attempts havo boen made. Tlioy did not suc
ceed—partly bccanso New York preferred tho
old and costly carriages; partly becansothere
was not snfficiont. money invested to carry it
through; partly becanso the carriage owners I
and carriage-drivers persecuted the cah-drivors '
within an iijch of their lives; and. partly be
cause, from somo reason to us unknown, tho
Now York magistracy, having a respect for
the “ vosted rights” of the ancient and extor
tionating Jarvies, actually took their part in
most cases wlioro the cab-men complained.
Thoro is memoy, and there is spirit, wc hear,
for Mr. Train’s now attempt. If it should not
succeed, even with his energy, we may fairly
say that New York, as well as Lohdon, is very
much behind the age.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29, 1860.
i For The P/es*.]
Mb. Editor : X notlood In one of onr looal
newspapers, (l think The Press,) a report of the
mooting of the Controllers of the Pnblio Bohools, in
whloh they itemiied eaoh partloular study now in
use in our “ Grammar Bohools.” and proposing,
or rather contemplating, a reform in the distrlbu.
tion of same. They also enumerated the studies
•> recommended" in the reform. Now, this action
of the” Controllers” is all very well, but I regretted
to observe that in the Hat of those "recommended”
they entirely overlooked the noble study of the
“ Constitution of the United States,” one of the
most important in the scholastic course of the
Crammer School.
Even if this study should be, or mused In the
High Bohool, our Controllers must, know that a
vast number of youths never enter that Institution;
thereby they deprive them of op. of the most no
eeuary icddirements Of ah American citiren, vie:
A knowledge' of the "WOrkingi of onr greet and
glorious free Goveinment. A Nonas Mia.
AH organfzed gaßg of incendiaries has been
'discovered at Manchester, Ohio, whose pnrnosejs
to ruin the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Com
pany by bur ning its building, at vailoua pein e.
Several fires have occurred which haw, (been dis-.
tlnotly traced to these parties. George Mooro,
Alexander McConnell; and Jaineß Rooney, ■ for
merly employees of the company, have been
1 rested, ana aro now detained at Cleveland.
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1860.
THANKSGIVING IN PHILADELPHIA,
HOW THE DAY WAS CELEBRATE^,
’RINCIPAL SERMONS PREACHED,
SHILLABEK’S LECTUHIC,
BEFORE THE “HARRISON LITERARY INSTITUTE."
MILITARY PARADES, «sct;
In acoordanoe with tho Governor’s proclamation,
yesterday w(vs observed in this oity, and through'
oat the State, as a day of rejoicing and of worship
To devout minds the solemn purposes of the d% r
comwehdod it as eminently worthy of concldei&
tion and regard. He who gave to man the bles£"
ingsso necessary for sustenance and happiness;
should be honored with more than passing grati
tude.
The first proclamation of Thanksgiving day that
is to be found in a printed form is the one Issued by
hisExoellopoy Franoia Bernard, Captain- Gogeral
and Governor-ia-Chief in and over His Majesty’s
provinoe of tho' Massachusetts Bay, in Hew Eng*
lin'd, and Vice Admiral of tho same, in 1767. *
Since that time tho custom has become gene*
rAUned, and of lato days fliHzons of nil Common
wenltbß look to tbo event as something not optional
with the reigning powor, but absolutely demanded.
THU PEOPLE
do not, bowevor, all regard the proclamation in
the same light. For the rich harvests and the
general success in mechanics, manufactures, olo.\
it is natural, at least, with tho “oarnal" man
rather to - rejoloe than to pray. Thanksgiving
with most men, a carnival, & feast at tabernaolosy
a general holiday. A stranger, regarding the
citizens yesterday, thronging Chostnut streot in
fine raiment, with glad faces and happy hearts,
would havoscarcely thoiight that tho beautlfnl day
whs conseor&ted to piety—of tho sisootio order, at
least. Bat was there not a thanksgiving beneath,
each eyobrow and under o/wh waistcoat ? DM not
tho elements, in the still wind, tho humid air, and
the sunlight, smilo responsively ? And were there
not evidences both of blessing and of gratitude in
tlie healthy thousands that heard tbo ahuroh-balls
and keptstep to tho time of thoir music ?
The post office was dosed, excepting from 7.30 to
9A. M,, and from 2to3P. M. The courts wore
sot In session, and the teachers nnd pupils of the
public schools onjoyed a holiday.
There was a fair turn-out of the military. The
regiment under tho command of 001. Patterson
proceeded to Camao’s Woods.
The members of the Soott Legion attended, in
the afternoon, the funeral of Sergeant Spear, one
of their members. Tho remains wero interred in
Glenwood Cemetery
Services wore heid at different churches. A
discourse appropriate to tho day was delivered &t
the new synagogue, Seventh Btreot, above Aroh,
by Rev. S. Morals.
The usual festivities took place at the Northern
Home for Friendless Children, oorner of Twenty
third and Brown streets, at 3 o’clock. Besides
the exercises by tbe ohildren, addresses were re
ceived from Rev. CL W. Smiley, M. J; Mitoheson,
Riv. Dr. Adams, C. P. Ivrautb, Jr., D. D , and
others. The children sang during the afternoon.
One of the noticeable pleasantries was the ap
pearance ofeorao urchins in a farniture car, whoso
faces were blackoned with cork, and who flourished
mhnurel instruments of tnusio. They bore a flag, 1
bearing the motto: “ Irrepressible Confliot,” and
were undoubtedly “ put up” to this thing by some
older, bat not more matured, minds. Toward tho
latter half of the day, the more joooso exhibited an'
elevation of spirits indicative ef imbihation. These
conjoined togother, and ranch disturbed the dig
nify of the military, by following In their wake, to
repeat the Zouave oheer or sing some Infant oW
rus. Occasionally an Inebriated man was seen,
who alluded to his political preference*.
Sermon by Rev. Wm.J. It. Taylor, D,l)«>
pastor off ms Tamo narosxßD dutch chttf-^i.
In accordance with a time-honored ottatoyi, tbs'
three Reformed Dutch Churches in this city united
in the religious obiomnoe of Thanksgiving Day,
yesterday morning, at II o’clock, the annual ser
mon being preached on this oooasion by the Bov*
Win. J. R. Taylor, D. D., at the Second R. D.
Cbdroh, Seventh street, above Brown, of whioh the
Rev. J. F. BeTg, D. D., (who was present in the
pulpit,} is pastor.
J)r. Taylor's disoonrse was founded upen tho
following text of Ecrlptnro: ,
11 A land which tlifl TtQlfl Jiff.lina
tho eye? „o£ib'nnikortbo yoar, even to tho end 1 of
f;-. Deuteronomy, xi, 12. • _
trhV l Messing and watchful ooro had boon prigf
Bally vouoheafod to Israel aa a nation—tho
Hebrew Commonwealth; yet It might be Mid,
al f jo, in a very important senso, to apply to outer
nations of the earth, and to none moro rightfully
thin our own.
In th o first place, the language of the text, he
thought, hod been literally iulfilled, to us, daring
th* past year; ithadbeen “ full of His goodness.
Udder thishesd, before enlarging upon tho pan
uie blessings wbieh havo orowned the year, tho ,
sneaker dwelt eloquently upon those of a negative
dharaoter—ae, for oxemplo, our having been pre
served from mady dire ovile from whioh others had
not been exempted. Of the former olass of bleesinge
th* abundance of th* orops ocoupled a prominent
nldo*. Oar country had been enriched hundreds
of inilllotts of dollars from thia eonroe alone. In
this bonneotion tho following interesting faot was
Stated : After th* financial revulsion of 185,, th*
ootnmeroo of the great Northern ohain of lakca
had so deoiinod that vessoie rotted at tho wharves,
storehouses were olosed, irelghts were at tbo lowest
rates, andmUHons of oapltal were nnemplojod;
but ohlefly under the power of thie vast harvest of
I 860; which was being moved from the fields whoro
it grow, to the marts of trade, tho oommoroo of the
lakes for the ourreut year was estimated at the
enormous anm of six hundred million dollars.
Coming down to tho troubles whioh now distract
our land, these, said tho speaker, were not the
doings of God. And If ovon they were Bis doings,
should they blind ns to that undesorved goodness
bv whioh He has “ filled us with the finest of tho
wheat 7 ” Tboro was, ho said, not a Ohlnoeo idola
tor on our Pacific coast, nor a red Indian In our
foiosts, nor an African slave on our most distant
plantation, who wonld lift his dark face to that
bright sky and endorse tho worse than pagan sen
timent of the chief magistrate of a great sister
olty whose proclamation Informed his fellow-elti
mm that, in his opinion, tho country either in its
political, commercial, or financial aspects presents
no feature! for which we ehenld bn ttmnklnl! “and
then, with equal piety, "by every consideration
of self-preservation, bo summons Mb constitu
ents to prayer and humiliation and malediction.
Tho Bpealtcr contlnnod, “'Wore more no other
reason for thanksgiving to-day, we might find it
all-sufliolent to bless God’s name that tbo liberties
Bnd faith of the American people aro not in the
keeping of disappointed politicians and ungodly
officials.
The second part of me sermon was stated thus:
The Btat* of tho country demands that we should
remember God’s ooaaefsss care of our land in
times that are past; and then, running briefly over
the history of our oountry from the landing of the
pitgrlme, lie suggested two points as most worthy
of attention at this particular time. Tho first of
these points was, That tho American Union was
the. wor/b of (loti, (whioh was discussed In a Tory
able way,) and the second point wss, That parallel
with tho history of tho Union, and of still more
profound significance, was that of the. Church of
God in these. United States
As, however, the main referenoe to the groat
polttioal question of tho day was contained in the
latter part of the disoourse, we pass on to his oonolu
slon. in whioh he spolte substantially as lollowb :
Most thankfully oould I oonolndo this discourse
without one word that oould disturb these exalted
memories of tho pest, and tho harvest tongs of tho
present. The result of tho late Presidential elec
tion has preolpitatedtho orisis, whioh tho egitation
of the question of Blavery in tho States and Ter
ritories had rendered certain at no very distant
period. One year ago .to-day out pulpits resounded
with thanksgiving and the voice of melody ovor a
fruitful season and a pekoelnl land. But on that
day there oame the tidings of that miserable raid
in a sisler Btate, for whioh the fsnatloal aotors I
have paid tbo just penalty of their lives. Tho firo
which Was kindlod then has not been quenched.
All tho eloments of the egitation whioh bogan in
1835 havo grown strongerjas.tbo oontest has hcen
carried from field to field, and tho Inst great Issue
is soon to bo tried. Th* result God only knows, j
The Union le His work—and this faot enoonrages |
the hope and the belief that it will suivive tho pro
sent and even greater ebooks in the future—yot we [
oannot forget that the Thcoorooy was even In a |
higher sense Ills work. But tho Theooraoy wont j
under the guilt of kings and people, and amid |
plagues and-horrors that are beyond description,
they drank th* onp of wrath. The Jewish Church,
was the work of Clod, but it beoame as oorrupt as
th* nation, and shared its doom. So, too, though
our Union leth* work of God, it may sink under
tho jodgment inflicted upon a guilty people, and
our American Ohuroh may not escape the bitter
ond. I believe that our country can withstand
every assanlt from withont; bnt if she does fall, it
will he by her own suioidal band, by the just
judgment of Almighty God. Time was, and
not very long ago, when oven to calonlate tho vnlno
of the Union was rogarded ae treason in tho germ.
To-day, the great polltioal question of tho world
Is, how osn tho Union b* presorted ? A few years
ago tho two largest Christian denominations,
which represented every ■ ecotlon of our country,
the Methodist Episcopal and the Baptist ohurohes,
war* rent asunder by “ the explosive effect” of
this one agitating question. Subsequently othor
ecolesiastloal bonds have been Bunuerod, in tho
same way, and none of the savored parties have
lived in peace and quietness with each other since
tho rupture.- Their once happy unity was lost at
onoe, and until the Frinoo of.Peaoo shell reunite
them. To-day Southern oohvontlons and pulpits
re-coho the spirit -of governors’ messages and
State legislators, for immediate secession and dis
union. Oar dally mailß and newspapers bring to
light new and startling faote in this painful orisis
This Is no time for argument on the abstract ques
tion of slavery. Every man ought to know ond
hold his own views on this subject, with intelligent
and righteous deoiaion. Muon less is it a time fott
crimination and recrimination, for aheap defianoes,
or for degrading and dtsgraoeful maledictions, Tim
danger 'IB real, imminent, and vast, and it
asst he met with, mutual forhsaranoo, dignity,
sincerity, and calmness. It mast be met every
where, but especially among tho people, who alone
(lan makA that publio opinion before whioh tbo
i press, legislators, and the leaders of the masses
must bow. The course of, this rirgpment, and the
ftttitudo in which we stand beioro (Jed to day, no*;
turally suggest tbo duty of the Christian oburohes
of the osuntfy. • The history of the agitation shows
that the pulpit is largely responsible ‘for tbo tone
Of popular Bootimont and action. When, six years
; »go, three thousand and fifty olorgymen of New
England, of all eeots, sent their
memorial to Congress remonstrating against the
passage of the it was received
by tho 'whole countryJas a portentous indication of
the power whioh the pulpit can concentrate upon
any groat moral issue of the day,. I say nothing pf
tho merits or demerits of .that remarkable petition,.
«or of its treatpueht by th'e'Seuate. But'it is'a faof.
In oar nati&nal-rebord of no secondary importance,
especially when seen In the light of tho iDflamma
; style jn yytiloh political subjeotffhave been
.treated by hundreds of olorgymen in all sections j
of our country and on alt sides of the question, 1
which is shaking tbo Union to Its oentre. Again,
.when on the law fpst-day Jn .Bouth*o*WdhiV(if 1
the reporta of the papers arc true,) every minister
in Charleston preaohed a secession sermpn. and on.
the succeeding Sabbath. every‘Episcopal clergy.- -
man of that city omitted* the usual prayer of'the
Liturgy for the President of the United States;
and when a large Baptist .Convention in Alabama
.unanimously declared for- immediate tooes&ion—
nS the reports ronobed our Northern .homes, mul
titudes felt that tho hour of peril bad indeed been,
struck from the dhuroh'towers of ourdand.** The
harangues of violent politicians may, in ordi
nary .times, pass for what thov are worth; but
when tho ministry of Christ klndlo the fires of
disunion on tho watch-towers of Zion, the timo is
replete with peril and prophetic of ruin. Very
hiuoh of our future will dopend upon tho tone of
the Amorioan pulpit in ovory State that oolobratos
this Thanksgiving - day. - God grant that the
trumpet may givo no uncertain sound, and that
the ministry of dvery namo'in otery section of the
country may not be found wanting In the hour of
perU. Tho pulpit of dha Revolutionary times con
tributed in.no small dqgropnto tho.estabUsbment of
I odr liberties. While .the jbnme of John Wither
spoon* remainß among the signora of tho Deolara
; tion, and that of Samuel Davies among the elo-'
! qqent orators, and that of Caldwell among the
! martytp of liberty, ohd those of hundreds more
1 among the oivilians and soldiers, and sufferers
of tbo Revolution, God grant that the min.
istry whioh 'succeeds them may never, never,
never* bring down the judgments of high Heaven
upon the o&use whioh was built up as much by the
1 pinyors and sacrifices of the pions, as by the arms
of, the viotois. Do you n«k, then, what tho minis
try' and the Chureh can do? I answer in the
words of David-: “ Pray for the peeoo of Jerusa
lem—they shall prosper that lovo thee. Peace be
within tuy walls, and prosperity within thy pa
laces. For my brethren and companions’ sake. I!
will now soy Peaco be within thee: Boobubo of tho
houso of tho Lord our God X will .ieek thy good. ”
i I answer again, in tho words of Paul: u I exhort,
' therefore, that first ot all, (mark the words), jffr.tr
of alf supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks bo made for all men ; for kings,
and tor nil that are in authority, that we may
lead a quiet and peaceable lifo in all godliness
and honesty’.” Theta arc no two mtn on the faoe
of this continent for whom at this moment so much
prayor is needed as the President of these United
States snd the citizen who has just been constltu
-1 tlfinolly elected to sucoood him in that high office.
, Moreover, we ought to pray with equal earneat
| ness for every public man, but especially for.those
who arc leading the pcoplo In suoh a time as this,
i Any fool or madmari may carry the blaring torch
! into the glorious tenfplc bf cur freedom nod fire it
at the altar.- -As? blabk-hcarted traitor may tear
our banner into tatters, and the mbb may stamp it
beneath their furidus feet. Any poor good man and
true patriot ra fly be used to savo a principle and to
quell a rebellion. How much more then are we
bound to pray for our rulers to that God who
hath paid, “ By me kings reign and princes de
oree justice, by me princes rule and nobles, yea,
and all judges of the earth.”
Again : The crisis eslls upon the ministry and
the ohuroh to take their stand upon the Bible doc
trine of obedlenoe to law. We want no vile Ba
laams with prophecies on their unwilling lips and
h'arses in their bitter hearts. But it is true that
those essential principles of our Chrißtifm faith
which underlie the whole structure of tho common
lair snd the wrttten Constitutions of our National
ami Stale eovereigntieß shall be plainly taught and
sculpturally enforced as a part of the religious ob-*
ligation of every ottizsn. Say what men will, re
ligion must enter into polities, not by the union
of, Church and ' Htate, not by priestcraft and
impertinent interference* of ecoleslastioal bo- i
dies ip the government. But wo solemnly declare
on the authority of God’s word, that no. Chris
fiAd jnaa L*s a tight to withhold his
pgrontiT, 4 legitimate, ‘ constitutional Influence
In behslf of that -righteousness which ex
tCLleth a nation, and against that sin whioh is tho
reproach of any people. And all that influence
mast bo thrown Into the scale of Soriptural “ obe
dience to the powers that be that are ordained of
God.’’ The Chureh of Jeaua Christ Is bound, by
the doctrine of Paul lu the thirteenth chapter of the
Eplstlo to tbo Romans, to whioh I respectfully xo
fof all who wish lighton tho subject. If the law Is
wrong, the people can change it by their vote?.
If the ruler is bad, ho may be impeaohod or thrown
out by * 1 ** ballot. If tho Government become
posaltios. “ Rendor tfiereiojo .mtn ttosor tne
things which arc Char’s, and unto God tho things
whioh are God’s.” This dootrino of obedicnoo to
constituted authorities, with its proper limitations,
is no arbitrary thing. ■> All dominion over man,’
said Edmund Burke, - is tho effect of tbo divine
disposition. We are all born in subjection, all
born cauolly, high and low, governors and govern
ei, in subjeotlon to ono great, Immutable, pro
oxistant law, prior to all our devices and all our
contrivances, paramount to all our ideas and all
ont sensations, antecedent to our very existence,
by whioh wo are knit and connected m the eternal
frame of tho universe, and out of which we can
not stir. This great law does not arise out ot our
conventions or compacts; on the contrary, it gives
to our compacts and conventions all the forco and
the sanction they can havo.” ..... *
The Holy tcriptures confirm, illustrate, and
enforce this principle of obodionoo. Its highest
type is to be found in the example of Him who,
being made under the law, become obedient unto
death, even unto the death of the cross. Iho
most illustrious subject of the Pagan Ctosars, the
ereatest patriot that ever loved the oity of God,
was He whom tho Roman soldiers and tbo Jew lab
elders nailed to the accursed tree of Calvary, be
tween two blaspheming thieves .
On that hiU of blood let us learn the highest
lessons of onr Christian duty, as oitizona and pa
triots, on this Thankeglvisg day. - Here silence is
a orimo; indifference is moral treason, and re
ligion Is patriotism. Let ub confess, hew all, and
forsake our sins. Let us pray to God for tho con
tinuance of these blessings to our guilty people.
Tbe last, best, and almost tho only sure hope l
have left for my country is in tho faithfulness, or
the Christian people who constitute the churches
of this land, to tho principles of divine govern
ment whioh arc contained In this law of lows. |
Thus only shall we perpetuate that fiplendld fabric,
which is the work of God, and obtain the ends so
nobly proposed in the preamble to the Constitution
of the United States: “in order to form a more per
fect union, establish justtco, insure domestic tran
quillity, provide for the common defence, promote
the general welfare, and seoure the bleuinKß of
liberty to ourselves and to our posterity. iluu
shall we fulfil the high destiny of our Church
and State, and receive the answer to our prayer,
God bo merciful to us, and bless us, and obubo his
face to shine upon usj that Thy way may be known
upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations.
Sermon of Rev. 8. IS* Gieny#
The services of the congregation at the .First I
Gorman Reformed Church, Race street, below |
Fouith, yesterday, wore conducted by the Rev. S. 1
H Giesy, late of Hagerstown, Md. Mr. Giesy is j
the pastor eteot of “Christ German Roformed
Church,” the edifice of whioh la now being erected
on West Green street, above Fifteenth. |
As Christ Church is a branch enterprise of the
Race-street Church, it was deemed propor that the
two congregations should unite in tho exeroiscs of
thanksgiving. After the rare performance of the
sterling Thanksgiving anthem, "0, Praiso tho
Lord, all yo Nations,” tho reverend gentleman
proceeded with the following consideration of the
ocooalon, its social and national solemnities:
<« All my springs are in Thee.”' —Psalms Ixxxvif,
Tbo proclamation of our Chief Magistrate very
properly calls the people of this Commonwealth to
iether to-day to the Lord’s sanotuarj to join in an
universal song of praise. Whatever motive, pure
or selfish, politioal or religious, may underlie the
proclamation itself, it is a publlo recognition of
our absolute dependence noon Almighty God.
There is a moral sublimity in the act of thirty
two separate commonwealths, in obedience to a olvil
proclamation, and notwithstanding their divided,
interests and their present alienation, gathering
together on the same day, i» ihoir places of wor*
shin, to render thanks for continuing goodness and
meroy. "What a Bublime testimony is such a spec
tacle to that faith, which, notwithstanding tho
“ skepticism oonjuTed up by tolling intellects, still
Ifes safoly entrenched amid the tostnesses of the
unaltorablo nature of man!" There is amoral
grandeur In the eoene of this day. The people of
God of evety some, and oil Bhadcs of belief, dL
vidod in their creed but united in this aot of wor
ship gathering around ono common meroy-seat to
praise the Lord for past meroies, and earnestly to
sopglioate Him for a graoiouß continuance of H»
right for each Individual to enter hifl oloset,
and there, where no eye but Omniscience pene
trates, pour forth his heart’s swelling gratitudei to
that beneficent God who causotb the outgoings
ef his mornings and evenings to rojoioo. xw
riffht and piopor for tho family, around the altar
ofnrayeT, with humble acknow
ledge the goodness of Ihoir Boavonly Father. The
same is eminently becoming a Christian people, so
highly favored as we have been, by tho God of nft-
preßonoe in the sanotuary to-day testifies to
our belief in this declaration of fionptuto: “ All
m v springs are in God.” However multiplied are
our blessings, and through whatever channel they
may come to us, He la the fountain the spring
head of tho entire bUoam. As the rivulet, gushing
from the mountain eido, increasing as it nows, on
throuch vales and meadows, soatters, in its noise
less ooutbo, beauty and verdure and freshness on
either side, bo the river of God a goodness, issuing
from the exhaustless springhead of this love,
throush Us thousand swelling Streamlets, has
strewn, in riobest profusion, along our pathway,
the dowers and the fruit of God’s beneficence.
Wo have assembled hero for the purpose of
thanksaiviDg; and, to aid you in the service, x
have designedly selected a text, whioh mUitl f e
our thoughts up to God, as the great sourco of all
our manifold and various blessings, personal and
domestic, temporal and spiritual, natural and na
tional : “ All my simiigs are m Into- ,
Firstly. Tho Almighty God is the original starter
qnd. remains tho indispensable upboldor of our
boing. “In Him we live, movo, and have our
being.” Nature is not ondowed with creative
energies. , There is no vivifying capacity latent in
nature Man sprang not fall grown, Minerva
like, from, the Nature. T Twas Jehovah's
Creative word that called 1 from nothingness the’
globe which wo inhabit. His.energizing word has
peopled tho earth with myralds of creatures. Life
started in Him, the living jGodk
; The bald Atheistic notion iq that the world came
by chance, and' that'man, ‘is Ndtare’s noblest
offspring. How impudently nonsensical is snob a
theory! and what a bold endeavor to thrust the
Almighty out from His own work! y Chnuco must
ever be blind in ite operations. A ohanoo world ,
would be a wortd full of sthrillrig sibhfetrosities.
‘‘f lapsus nature,” slip? of nature, and not marked
• by the harmony, beduty, symmetry, and regularity:
ervorywhero discoverable in God’? own
-vast or the swelling man bora Of
’op? iVstfe&f end nobler humanity 1
‘ j Could eVer nothing make somotbiDg? That
■whKh'is-not’, that whioh is ? That wbioh is with'-
ou tlife; powers and wisdom, that which,feendwted
With-n%dnttlligenco, and will?, (
|Farther,-now. Whatever is created can subsist
only by the will of the Creator.. The creative
agency that brought us into beiog must oontinne
to sustain us. We are not self snbsistent. Onr
constant dependence is on Him who created ns.
•But so regularly doth the earth bring forth its
fqllness and fatness that wo are apE to loso sight of
tlioir Divine souroo. Oh ! it is with the great God
afeovo to continue or cut off the supplies of onr
very subsistence. By the abundant harvest a mer
ciful God has filled our homes with plonty, and eur
hearts with choor. There will bo distress during
this winter in this large oity. But it will arise
from other causes; not because tho God of the
harvest has not mndo the earth bring forth plenti
fully. The springs of God’s goodness have poured
out a copious supply, as the strioken rook of tho
wilderness to tho perishing Israelites. Let us show
our gratitude to God,not onlywith asongof praise
to-day, but by remembering the poor in onr midst
with this coming winter.
Secondly. Our domestic blessings and comforts.
We will not fail to perceive that these, too, issue
from the same fountain—God our Father’s love.
0! if the light of God’s love, and His sanctifying
gfnoe. have abode in onr homes and in our loved
ones during this dosing year, what joy and gratl
tddo should fill and warm our hearts? The
Psalmist’s exclamation should be to-day tho bur
then of your song: “Bless the Lord, 0 my soul,
and all that is within mo, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, omy soul! and forget not all his
benefits t”
But,y>osßlbly, to-day, in your songs of praise, yon
may mingle notes of sorrow. You woop to-day with
your pastor and hiR smitten household. The re
membrances of the past, however, bring up many
causes for thankfulness, oven though the grave
throws Its dark shftdow over them all. Our eftlio-
tions are monnt for our sanctification. These chas
tisements are divine thrashings separating the
chaff from tho wheat, and even they enter to-day
into our blesrings, as onuses for praise and thanks
giving.
Thirdly. We should he thankfal for tho preroga
tives and priviloges of the sanotuary—tho home of
the pions soul.
By some commentators this language of the min
strel, “All my springs are in Thoe ” is said to
have been spoken of Zion. The Jewish heart felt
and frequently off nod this. Jerusalem or Mount
Zion was the sun whence streamed forth to them
tho blessings of light, of hope, of pesoe, of salva
tion. Thajoy of the whole earth was Mount Zion,-
tho city of God. Zion was the typo of tho Chris
tian Churob. Its elevation, its gilded walls, its
holy communion, its solemn festivals, were nil pro
phecies of the New-Testaraent Zion,-the Church of
Christ. The Ohuroh is our spiritual birthpleoe.
Here only are the bright hopes of a peaoeful death,
a glorious res'urreotion, a happy immortality- With
the psalmist, then, gladly exclaim: “Blessed be
the God and Father of onr Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with alt spiritual blessings in kca*
vmly places in Christ.”
Fourthly, Onr oivil privileges and our national
prosperity we owe to tne moroiful God, and should
eel deeply thankful to Him for the measure of
peaoe we still enjoy. We ate self-governed. Here
the blood-won banner of highest freedom floats oat
to the breeze. The people are the sovereign
rulers. Their will elevates or dethrones. This is
ajirerogative for whioh we oannot be too thankful.
We seem to bare fallen in troublous times. Pas
sions barn fiercely. Threats grow more furious.
The Area of civil wftr may be kindled in oar midst.
Poaoe may wing her flight to other realms. May
the God who gave victory to our arms avert from
us now all evils Oar trust is now in the God above
us. To the wild waves of dissention and disunion
may. He say, “ Thus far' sbalt thon come, and no
farther.”
But whether a perpetuated or a dismembered
Union, God will work oat his own plans, purposes,
and glory. It is a reasonable duty which oalls ns
together to-day. We have been the recipients of
unnumbered favors, and it is but right that we
should bring to this altar to-day the saorifioe of
grateful hearts. But let us not attempt nor think
to satisfy conscience or God with this outward ser
vice simply. We ought to oonsocrato to Him our
selves as a perpetual offering. “I beseech yon,
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodioß, a living saorifioe, holy, ac
ceptable unto God, whioh is yonr reasonable ser
vice.”
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Bramerd.
the 27th,’ 290-his ohuroh, Pine street,
Peutoronomy: ~
“And S© mourned in your tents: because tne
Lord Hated us he has brought us forth out of the
land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the
Ammoiltoe to destroy us. Then t said unto you
Droad not, neither be afraid of thorn. The Lord
your God which goeth heforo you according to all
he did for you InEgvpt heforo youreyej.
I he pastor detailed the antecedent histonoal clr*
omnstanoes, and thoso related in tho text.
Israelites bad forgotten that He who saw tho onil
from the beginning was likely to finish the work he
had begun As we infer the giant oak from the
sprouting aoorn, and the river from the mountain
stream; the twilight and the sunshine from the
dawn, and the strength of manhood from the mo
ther yearning over tho sleeping child, sp “id Moses
infer that .the Divine care whioh guided Israel
through tho Ked Hea would defeat tho artifices of
the Ammorltes, and make tho promised people a
nation to be loved and feared. j
Dr. Brainord then applied the oase ot the Israel
ites to tho present exigencies of our own country.
\Ye hud uot been lifted up only to be dashed in
pieces. The proTldenoes of two hundrttl years
were not to ho gainsaid by ns. They pointed to
a series of now and richer blessings Snob did
not signify an utter absence of all visitation. Those
whom God loved he ehastened. The moroies of the
past were thon adverted to.
Our fathors had their Red Sea to pass, without
a eenorai government; without an arsonal or an
army: without a treasury or a vessel-of war;
without a nomo among nations, or an ally among
tho potentates of earth, our fathors, when their
civil and religions liberties were in danger, rose
up and defied the power of Old England. They
were pinched by no immediate necessity; they
were stirred by no. raJßic.ri; they exneoted no
gain by conquest or plunder. They looked at
principles more than aots of oppression; at pos
torlty more than thomsolves. As he signed the
Declaration of Independence, John Adaum said,
“ we mey rue this, but posterity will rejoice.
Their patriotism was far outside of personal, local
party interests. It swelled into universal pbiian
thronv Oppressed, they stood up, not for America
alone, not tor three millions of thoir countrymen
only; but for man everywhere; lor humanity
itself' for tho oppressed of all lands, and In ail
time They tool; in their hand the second
table of the great law of Almighty Godt
thou shall low thy neighbor as thyself. This
second table the/ did not break np because
kings and oppressors might find It inconvenient In
time to oome! No, no; they held up ‘his law be
fore the world as the Constitution of God a l-io
nire In Heaven and Earth; os the shelter of the
poor against the rloh—the weak against the strong,
as the promotion of their oblldren and ours
Standing up beforo the world they said. We hold
these truths to bo solf-ovident: That ell
created free and equal, and endowed by their
I Creator with certain inalienable rights, and
among these are life, liberty, andthe porsun of
harmless. To vindicate this principle they say
they stake their lives, their fortunes, and their
honors As oonsoious of being in the right, they
anneal lo Hie God of nations and armies to aid
them In vindioating Ills own great truth, and the
rli Our < ConutUufion Is the embodiment of wisdom
and love of country. Tho largest liberty, wltb
law, no man enu gain by! Jin/it I
ehatter of evory man’s nobility—ho will defend it.,
It is the oontral orb. Tho States, so many planets,
eaoh furnishing, but feeling the central attraohon,
may go off like tho oomot, but, like tho comet,
''’’the'sacrifices of our fathers in blood and trea
sure is remembored by God. No State oan afford
to leave that common altar of J berty on whioh
a thousand patriots have sprink ed their blood.
They may turn their backs on it In passion, they
will come book to it in love and tears.
Dr Brainord’s discourse abounded with brilliant
passages. It was heard with tho olosest attention,
and his clear, cogent delivery gave earnestness to
the most bountiful passages.
Sermon by Rev. Dr. West, nt Heston
ville*
Tho following is the skeleton of a sermon de- ;
liveied in tho Pirst Presbyterian Church of Hes
tonviUa, West Philadelphia, jesterday morning,
by Rot. Dr. Wost:
re.,. _»And at what instant Ishall apeak con
cerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
buifd and toplnnt it: if it do evil in my sight,
that it obey not my voloe, then I will repent of
the good whorowlth I said I would benefit them.
' r< SunjnoV— The oanscs of tho dissolution ef a
nation evidently planted by God are to be oare
fUlNtßonDCrios. After reading to you, my
worthy hearers, the “ proclamation of our ex
cellent: Governor, oalling us togother on this ocoa-
America” has been planted by God. Thw is
, "'r , B7national derivation. 2. By the agenoies
omnlovod. 3. By the sncooss achieved. 4. By
hfsForfcat developments 5. By tho Pjosponly
. and 6 By tho present state of tho na
tion-Pirst, in her population ; second, in her re
. clous’ character; third, In her commercial pro
‘ . fourth, in her internal resources; fifth, in
external improvements; sixth, in the magni
tude of her extent; seventh, and in the influence
she exerts upon other nations. Wo next show:
II That tho causes tending to dissolve such a
nation should bo carefully avoidod. What causes
does the word of God assign for plucking up the
nation whioh God determines to overthrow ? Some
of the causes are dearly named:
First. Profane swearing—lSxod. xx, 7. Second.
By lyiDg, killing, atealing, adultery, they break
out and blood tuuoheth blood.” Hob. Iv, 2. Third.
TWO CENTS.
Drunkenness—Dent, xxix, 18, 21. " Fourth. Op
pression, wilful falsehood; afid habitual Injustice—
Isa. Hr, 12, 15. Fifth. {Sabbath 1 desecration—
Ezek. rr, 21. Sixth. “ Pride,'fullnpsa of bread,
abundance of idleness, haughtlnesd, ‘breach’ of oo
venant, lewdness.”—Ezek. xvi, dB,S9. ‘ Thera are
many more causes assigned for the dissolving of
nationi.but theso may suffiee otproscnt." We shall
close with a few discriminations, and "
' 1.. A nation’s imp of iniquity miiFt be' fhll before
God dissolves it. Gea. xr, 16.
! 2. A nation la not dissolved without assigning’
the reasons —lsa. f, 4-6. , *~ s ■'
1 3.^A'natioßlsT)otdit^lteifrithpntipfoviouihb}f'
repeated. warniijgs.-r *vii,ns/17.. Isa. lvliH.'
14.tNow.\let,thanks ana praises arise to God
through Jesus Christ’ that; this 1 nation is yet the'
objoofc‘ at Divino favor, and of 'Almighty promo
tion !' Sho has sics enough fcp.repeWpfyjHrtfiiary -
• beuor,. praise, 'end' powerbe this day, ascribed to
tppr. that odr nation does not yet bear tho
'national marks of Divine abhorrence Let us
thank God .heartily fo? the naiional'Wessißgs.we.
'have,*' and with troe'patrlOtiQ irtlnds.lcje&eh Go<l
;tixaMs n a nation,
yet be repented of and forsaken, and be carefully.
avoided in future. And let us devoutly preyfor
this holy consummation speedily to take place, and
be sure and no t forget our Rulers!
Thanksgiving Sermon by Rev. E.*W.
Hutter.
In St. Matthew’s Lutheran Churoh, New street,
Rer. B. W. Hatter prcaohed a patriotic and. elo
quent national discourse, from Psalms 133, Terse
1: “ Behold how good and koto pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity.” The theme
was, in the main, the value and blessedness of
Brotborly Love, In the family, the Church,' the
Btate, and in ell societies, oivil and sacred, After
dwolling, in detail, on the reasons we have for
thanksgiving, and for living together ns people of
one common oountry,.ln peace and lore, ana ap- ;
proving of smaal public thank-offerings, the Rev.
speaker* referred particularly to national affairs,
although not In any partisan Bense, and dwelt in
glowing terms on thtf value and htessednert of the
American Union, as indissolubly interwoven with
the past, present, and prospective greatness of our’'
common country. Alter warmly enlogising the
work of our wisp and patriotic ancestry, he incul
cated, in an'impressive end forcible manner, our
neeexsitie*. Among those especially enumerated,
were the following;
1. A more vivid and realising sense of nations)'
accountability.
2. An increased and enlarged spirit of prayer
and supplication.
3. A fuller and more elevated sense, of the im*’
portanoe and dignity of our national mission. r
4. A spirit of mutual concession and forbear
auoe.
i a va> uivu uv vjiiUO, hum kuw
A more joyous and oheerfui Hora, based on’ - ness of many of them to sell their principles at a
reliance on the protecting arm of the Almighty. oheaper price than their goods, may naturally hate
fi. A more con'Jemtive, patriotic, and national oreated in the Carolina mind the idea that pwu*
newspaper influenoe. niary considerations rule alt mankind.
Kach of these Beverni points were carefully ola-' AVhat a sad and humiliating commentary upon
bora led, and set forth with oharaotoristlo clearness the freedom and the free institutions does the pr fr
ond impressiveness. The discourse, throughout, sent condition cf tbiogs furnish! ‘ One or more
was eminently conservative, pious, and national. States, clamoring to break up the Union, not be*
The revorend speaker did not hesitate to affirm that cause it oripples and confines them ; not because
he regarded the preservation of our bond of Union it no longer helps tho expanding spirit of freedom;
as a physical, commercial, and religious xzcemitv, nut because it is beginning to endanger the trade
and that we might as well hope to decompose the in human flesh, and to interfere with the bunting
element which hold* together the suns, stars, and of human beings; because it is beginning, feebly,
systems of the material universe, peaceably, and to show some of the free sphH which it was ex
without detriment, as to sever the links that unite presaly established to promote; because it shows
this confederacy of Btatea in one grand and har- some timid, hesitating tenderness tor the rights of
monious whole, without involving all in a whole* humanity!
sale castastrophe. If we have done injustice to The Southern States are breaking aray from the
our brethren of the South, by the enactment of Union that they may assert tho right of property
laws violative of the. national compaot, it is our In man, and follow the African slave trade as an
imperative duty, before God and the world, to honorable pursuit. The chains of the enslaved aio
ukdo the wrong we have done, and that with all in danger of being melted off in the rising heat of
possible alacrity. If those of the South have the free sentiment which is kindling in all the
claimed, or are olalming more than the same na* Worth," and which has expressod itself with an ini*
tional compaot grants, it is their duty to lewer their posing unanimity in recent political events. To
standard, that thus every bone of contention may be some among us, this generous fire which has been
removed, and we may live together in love and kindled, and which has thrown the South into such
fieace. Tho reverend speaker’s discourse abounded oonvulsions of madness, seems a very little fire. I
n many strikingly apt' and telling Scripture confess/to me it appears to bo ouly a feeble and
passages and illustrations from the past experience fitful warmth, alternating with most depressing
of republics, as recorded in history, stored and ohUls. In our great Northern cities, mca of busi*
profane Be alluded in feeling terms to the name ness, under various patriotio pretences, are trying,
and memory of the great and good Washington, at intervals, to damp down the flame, and smother
justly styled the Father of his Country, who fre- it under the bushel of trade. It is very far yet
quently retired from the noise and revelry of the from having diffused through the North even so
camp, into the unbroken stillness of the forest, much as a steady and genial glow. But, fee bio as
and there, upon bended knee, and with outstretoh- it seems to us, though it has warmed only a hand*
ed bonds, implored the succor of the God of bat* ful at the North up to tho explicit reassert ion.of
ties.' Sweet and acceptable in the sight of Heaven the great principles of the Declaration of Inde-•
must have been the visions of such a man’s hu- pendenoe, the saored rights of all men of all colors,
mility! to the South, whose property in human flesh it en-
The canclusicnof the-discourse was full of hope dangers, i> seems a consuming fire; ahd tbeprtauri*
and trust, under God 2 as to the preservation of our tanoy and violence' with' wmbh they are coating
national bond of Union. Be did not believe God forth out of their borders every Northern-boni
would permit it to be broken up, and it never man betrays their, belief that the people of tho
oould bo broken up, except by -Nerih-ur* tus m&s, red-hot with tho anti-slavery
the most solemn precepts of the illustrious dead; sentiment They giro us a great deal too much
except by disregarding, with wioked and profligate oredit, it must be confessed. They have no idee,
recklessness, the tolls, the treasuro, and the lives what numbers there are among us who have as
of those, who, to establish our Union, endured a little scruple as themselves in bolding tlaves. But
baptism of fire and a martyrdom of blood. it is natural that they should believe that the spirit
The reverend speaker concluded by expressing of freedom must have becorno identified with
the wish, the hope, and the prayer, that this Northern blood. For tho fact ia, it is mixed with
Union, with all its associated comforts and bless- tbebloodof man everywhere. Man is born free, and
Inga, might endure until the apooalyptio angel freedom is fin instinct of human nature; and there
should announce to the whole universe of God that is not a man at the South who does not know in hla
Time itsolf should bo no more. And, he asked, own soul that there is an indcstrucilblo affinity be*
who that fears God, and loves his oountry, and is tween every human heart &nd the idea of liberty,
concerned for the millions that are to follow Mm, And when the South proclaims thnt rosbi&ooeto
to this prayer will refuse to respond a joyous and tyrants is obedience to God, every man there knows,
hearty Amen ? • and is compelled to know it by tho very necessity
The discourse, we learn, was received with much of his rational naturo, that -hat sentiment, as it 18
bV Uie intelligent and appreciative true for man, Is true for all men of every coin-
TU= divine delivered an imprVsrive disooureo human o»gff
before the conjoined Methodist Episcopaloongre- n^ ,
g&tionß of Twelfth-street, (}reen-Btreet t and Fifth- I £b ba79 suppressing their instinctive convto
street ohurohes. He addressed a lull house at the ODB} cherish those convictions. Therefore it
latter edifice, and his deep, sonorous voice en- p, that they cannot help that the loitb,
tranced the people throngheut the whole sermon. whoUMne
The following was the text. u that when one solitary individual at tho North
•♦Let the people praise thee,.o God, published, some thuty years ago or less, the do
fnhetawof God°Yhe s=’ SK
‘-The grand old truth, SbK°
and they that despise ine shall j, earnest in countenancing and upholding the
ed,” still maintains itself amid tte Si? “property in man, aa3 that is, yon must
principles of Deity. And theextinauisl the hatred of slavery in tho northern
Say for thanksgiving andprayer'bythe Sowrnor ““Jf ßomo suunge and hellish
of our own Commonwealth, and by the Meontives mm , / 4 a ad tendency of
of other mates of ‘tisConfedcrsoy.reoognhos the “““’'“lSlls “naword, you mast pinch the
existence of that truth; a truth that stand, out Northern NortferA 'bosom, and" the con
prominent in all out history. ,n« A -i.d«tiiant af science- You must transmute our sacred humaa
Thanksgiving is a »«“«*l® f,®* 11 ®Isense 1 sense of blMd into the blood of spaniels and of hares. You
favors reoeived, or »“ «, e bo- must disoonrage tho erect postatoof manhood, and
thorn by word or work to tho praise or tho bo “ ay6rt a u me s n j nto reptiles and vermin, and then,
Slower. 1...™... if we continue to orawl and to broathe, it wilt only
In other duties, P WAZf a || Deu t bVbecause tho slave power will aooount us too oon
in hearing, as sohoiars and disoiples, we expeot t D ' tibl() and too worthless to esmpensato for the
something from God; but in this work, the work of ¥ . p crushim* us. I have no apprehension
thnnksgiving.wowouldbestowsomothmgoEHim- to this Personal
in our way pnt honor on God. tve would gather tn mn „ be annulled, fugitive-slave laws
together and make a orown of b'“ u ® f l“®S®d- X he re-eSoroed, political paities, ■ pledged to
Thanksgiving is a friendly °i7. b T freedom, may go backward, political loaders may
-.•Let the people 0 God, let all tho Keeoom. may a o£ buUbe Bpirit of
people praise thee: then shall *ke ®»rth vie dho Freedom will still survivo, uucxtinguished and in
fnoroaso, nnd God, even our Go(l,ehallble!a . M tinauishal)le: and not only so, it will receive new
Pliny tolls of a fountain that would rise, and burn with a tnoto consuming heat,
swell, and overflow at ih o r 1 »?*®8 P i lot a j[ these trinis to which it may be put.
when they ceased, would stop again lnetouniain i V j believe in the spirit of Freedom,
of motoy rises, swells, andoverilowswithnew imp- - lt , i B ’destined to go round tho world, and
pile.of grace, when we praise and acknowledge it, life-giving warmth,
stings us into harmony with nature, and with IttLSd' JSk
the InUlligenl oreation of God-‘The heaven. uV- t b children of God. I heliove in it, not only
dare tho glory of God, and the firmanent J see that all Nature is hound to generate
his handiwork —day unto day of'rrrrAepeeoh- K eO ,X4-{free course, and to glorify it, but also
nightnnlonight r/mtoerA knowledge If fhe busy it, g» tbia ] and like
heavens are always at leisure, amf he stupU earth b'eanse I see that tt has P, O , bo3e wio
is perpetually active in manifesting the wisdom, “S,™ fiery portent to those who resist
power, and J f n "“ .Hon v oarth aWe and Ylasphome it, it ha? como, not by the will of
man, the lord Jfthecarthglv X b o t*l»y the will of God, taking its oalm, ma
forth its plants, budding, fruit-bearing, as a thank , y defiance of human opposition,
offering to the snn for his light anOeat, the “ man - m tho land that has given
heavens send down their genial showers upon the b „ lad aooeptanoo. They have all
earth, in return for the vapors exhaled; it instant ana hoacomc a /, audit is
rivets freely send bsok their waters to fteocean E “. u and eprcaamg, “like a thunder cloud
from whioh they had boon drawn, if the b«» •> ®, ( the wind.” AU mhoncr of conspiracies
in tho wild forest home, as woli as the mo g cburob and stato have been formed to resist
gentle and sooiablo, bear somo kindness, andl show disperse it. Politioal parties havo struggled
tome sons, of gratitude for those who provKle for and to £ lt h „ s caused, and their efforts
them—shall not mnn make a return wW. Bod tosto orfy proved fuct to the flsme.
for blessings reoelved from His bountifnlh a . a j j ead ers have insisted that it must “he
And what more honorablo than to■ to toilJowi ing P »O 0 or 03an38 ned that it should bo oon
tho employment of ongels- to be b«ralds to pro «X 4 M a ’p re j tt dieo.” And still it has steadily
olatm the Lord s glory f It is I he Idvanoed and has but just now non an inspiring
our work ;it Is nearest work ofheaven. _. , j nmph in tbo extraordinary unanimity to whioh
- How pleasant and delightful, I® 0 "!®’! 9"? „ ba ? bronght tho free States in their late politi
refreshment-to remember the many favors, re- « has oroagui
'ceived from the harnd' of God, and, remembering, oal aotio • Qod tbat a flee pu blie ecatimont is
offer praise and thanksgiving therefor .pleading over tho North ; that it will extend over
To be able to perform the du ‘J tbo South likewise, sooner or later, we must have
to-day with profit toouraelvos and pleasing !o to lhat it will continue to bo resisted there
wo must, to some extent at least, “”®'X n . d ®“I ” 8 it haB been, and as it now is with great violence,
privileges; how high, how nobleonr poiffloa, and tm* t eot . Wo oan only pray most earnestly
he able to appreciate them, value them, as they w F of tbe South may be bronght to
deserve. , . , . . nee that the spirit of freedom is their only salva.
We should, also, retain fresh In our memories set' « ftat u 8 itB blessings to tho master as
the “ loving kindness and tender meroy °l°“| well as the elavf. God deliver them from the
God. Bet up some memorial I°® ho made of foolish delusion that his own free truth is nothing
each Bethef with an altar, *ougMt be^ made of | n UoDsUBa! acd Northern spite .
rough hewn stone, nnd ponr the oil.of gratitode j 0 « events, for onreelves, if times of civil
thoreon, that the ineenie of ’ B trife and anarchy aro approaching, the ark of our
ascend to God. Let us with glad spirits ohertan , stnie ]OTO of eqilBl jnstlco and liberty.
the memories of tho past, an * of f?o P d J ilf that love imbues tho general mind, it will orga
frame of mind receive good at the hand of go , j . t goc j a i iustitutioua; and when
ovon our God. . The blessings o *. ,^®P? s l v?vX. ! written constitutions aro torn end trampled in the
acknowledged, indeed, proclaimed upon the no dustasadoad lottor, a commanding public sonti
top. Can we beg so muoh, ”?® i ®®XS u t °o God 9 1 ment, deriving its strength from tho sonso of right
not return to offer e:r ? r ® Jsio ?i o 4?, r ~oa„thonis* 9 ‘ in every private man, will extemporise all salu
“WeretherenottonoloarisiedT , t la 4/ aEd measures, and extend thethleldof
There isoontinnsl oooesionfor *b fl ”bsgi f! Itsprotection over every man’s person and prop
prayer. No time is moment » P w# bl^o every reason to put the utmost
we receive favors, and 'berefore ? j . t j faith in an oolightened and just publio opimoo a
owe thanks-yot there “•'““"“'Tj 1 “ hlth which should move us alt m our sovoral
especially appropriate. [Here ‘be speaker re |« nU tbHt , n „ a lies to give currency
ferrod in strong languago to some of those seasons. J JP“ d ' to what we believe to bo just, humane,
Theaa acknowledgments should Mi made wiui a Py vi„ Already wo experience tbe
profound love for their author; let the love bear the 8 safety of such a publio sentl
somo nroportion to tho benefit rooeived. valoe nation in tha world bas ever doEO
Mr P Fattiaon then proceeded to demonstrate go to Franco and oorno home
that in the worst dispensations there was muoh to b® l "®; Xf p ? ais ls of the social order that
bo thankful for, as Paul and Stiss found an wage! ] au d order bo preserved more
in prison. Bpiritoai mercies had been mamfoid is estabiisb (han heio , Bul thm order is
during the year, and as Zion was beautiful in the thoroumij foroB , by a despotic Government,
light of these, so ouriand had reioiood in all Gos- “J”X“ pB tho peaoo, in order that tho people
pel dispensations. The hand should he palsied *“~ ba jJ d uood to maintain the despotism that has
that would do away with thorn. The past history —, aed the ascendency in that land. But here, if
of the country, glowing with great deeds, and order }8 les3 por f eo t, if tho peace of society is
hearing on every pago tokens of GodiWaepeculiarly " ioDnll „ broken by a transient riot, still,
referred to. The pastor drew a picture el ordcr w 0 haT6 an order that springs out of
the disoovery of tho oountry, and stilted tae prm — B „ a i EcnBo 0 f proprioty, and our Govern
eiples on which it had been founded, ine am m((nt e is not tho Govornm.ntot a master, but the
eovory had boen made during the era of Lnth«“ aoT ammont »J ourselves by uuraelves To walk
reformation. When bigotry and porseoution urov . t 8 ur tho more crowdedl streets of
the men of Uto Old \for\i afar- God «P«™ »f 0 » city of New York, on a Sunday, when
new land and sent Columbus forth on a voyg on o meets throngs of well-dressed people, andwrth
disoovery. From the germ ptantan ai r.y u n 0 a rrayof military or polioo, tcuohea my mind, I
rook the Kreat tree of liberty had grown pp. t confess.*with a sonso of sublimity. And the order
gome length tho pastor b and the quiet of multitudes thatthrorgtd the Bteps
tXof tlought. nds of statesmen “ihe Vrinoo of Wales boro witness to the fact
God’BWiEdominatilledintothemi ot the supremaoy m the Noithorn States of a
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1 ‘ Sermon by Iter. W m . h. Furness,
1 (Siva UAufWiintn tie •'Lord for Ho io- .odd. for Hu
meter. anda rC/fr>„foyefer—Ps ovi. l, i
kiwilGth.-Jaraea iii,«. ow Bre * s *
•! jfh& ’reverena gehtleman opened with itie cus
tomary * l alluBlbn to the observances of the day.
Uatil-withia *few seAW,*'on this And on other pub
were .T7pobt ,apparently in aH g«od
fMtb, to glory in our liberties, and to thank God
fbr.fchmn, as if this oouhtry were indeed .what U
profesfC3 to'bej pro eminently the lend of the free.*
Sat within the last quarter of & ceniuiy tbdbKflif-.
ness of onr national pride has. been away;
’The fact that’tn'iliiong.of humflfe b'einga are Jan
gufshiog on our soli under a bondage as inhuman
a| the world eyer aafr has been brought folly into
viewy antU" it is now blatonedover all Christen
dom- Thb existence of this terrible sorvithde ne
cessarily impairs and restricts the liberty o r all.
Xt perils, and has in fact dostroyed in some of the
State/, apd infrioged in all, those rights of free
! speech afid free thought without whioh Liberty
1 ceases to exist, and the governing power is jjespo
! tUm, by'whatever pleasant name ft may he called.
Nothing will pacify it or provent it from'drench*
iag the iand with blood but tho luileflt permission
to extend itself at pleasure.
When the people of a numbor of these States are
; obsorving this as a day of thanksgiving, a new
' chapter is opening in the history ef this evil. One
of States upon whioh ifhasbCenf 6tencd,from
tbe first, and whioh it has steadily been exhaust
ingof oil tho vigor of freedom, maddened by the
growing consciousness of her weakness, and by a
baffled love of pow*er, and by the sight ef tho won
derful enterprise and prosperity of those States'
that early cast out this foul thing from among
them, tbeState of South Carolina, is boat, no mat
ter at what cost of human blood, upon rushing out
ofthepaleofoivilhatioD, And of taking her place
among those barbarous States whioh have subsis
ted upon the trad© in human flesh, and whioh have
bden accounted the enemies of tho human race.
I do not believo that, even under the Constitu*
tion of this nation,' South Carolina haa'any right to
hefwtho Union. The Constitute >n requires that
every State in this Union should enjoy a republican
form of government. South Carolina has no such
government. If, thon, sbo proposes to secede, let
not'a finger be lifted to prevent her departure. In
her frenzied folly she dreams that she can make
good her God-nuii*mai’-defjing position. The ease
with which sbo has hitherto intimidated tho North,
by threatening our men of trade, and the read!-