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K F .CO I „ U TO DR JOH * DAOXALL,
108 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York. v2n24ly j
BROWNStOMBE'S ABOLITION SER
MON.
MR. EDITOR :
We are informed by the
editor of the Republican , that Eldor Browns
combe's sermon, on the occasion of our re
cent quarterly meeting,was a"clear refutation
of the wild assumptions of the Vermont slave
propagandist," as contained in the letter
which you recently published.
It seems the Editor's informers did not
give him the arguments employed, or if they'
did, he does not see fit to give them to the
public" In this they may have profited by
i lie advice given a certain judge, not remark
ably leame l in the law, to simply announce
his dicisioiis, without giving any reasons for
them ; for the sophistry by which he might
endeavor to support them, would expose
their fallacy, and even if Ins decisions hap
pened to be right his arguments might be
wrong. It was wise in them not to under
take to give the arguments. There were no
arguments adduced. The discourse was
mere assertion, and if this is what they
mean by refutation, then the Bishop's letter
was most sternly refuted. lhe Rev'd said
he did not care if the advocate of such views
was an Arch Bishop or an Angel he would
denounce them— surely then we would have
nad "a mouse nibbiing at an angel's wing."
We should have preferred that this sermon
nad been left with those who heard it. To
those who are capable of reasoning upon the
>uhject, its bitter invective would have been
harmless, unless to excite feelings of disgust,
and perhaps the endorsement by the editor
of the Republican adds hut little to its cred
it. Any review of it necessarily involves a
degree of personality that is exceedidgly un
pleasant ; for in matter it was nothing, in
manner eveything, if it indeed were any
thing. In this however we cannot excel,
and certainly we do not wish even to equal,
the Rev'd himself. Like every minister—
that we ever heard, or read, who professed
to argue against slavery, he first denounced
in the bitterest terms possible, the institu
tution, and then its advocates or apologists*
i'he infidel abolitionist says, "if the Bible
justifies slavery, so much the worse for the
Bible." The divine imitates him in spirit
iiid the language of the pulpit is not much
less irreverent. The Bishop in his letter
suppresses his prejudices and appeals to the
Bible ; the elder t ok counsel of his prejudic
es and passions and thus sought to rally
those of his hearers. His manner and lan
guage, as already, in substance, quoted were
defiant and dictatorial, and the exhibition ot
leeling rebellious, though perhaps conscien
tiously believed to bt that of holy zeal
Well might the Bishop ask, "who are we
that we shall dictate to the Almighty what
He shall regard as a sin.,'
But what could be expected but denuncia
tion and reprehension, not to use stronger
'ermsjfroin one who assumes to answer an ar
gument that he confesses, as a preface to his
own pretended reply , he has only partially
read. This the elder openly did in what is
reported as his very " fine sermon." It was
certainly a very fitting prelude to his dis
course, and did not detract therefrom in the
least, still it is venturing little to say that
any fair and honorable disputant, in any
sphere, would feel himself disgraced by such
a confession. But what prompted this con
fession ? Did he fear that some of his hear
ers would copy his example, and upon read
ing the Bishop's letter for themselves, suspect
him of willful perversionand miorepre>cntaui>n
of which he so freely charged the Bishop?
Or was it an excuse cr apology to such a*
had already read it for his palpable unfair
ness. There might have been method in this
seeming madness.
He next accuses the Bishop of special
pleading. lie did not show in what respect,
or tell us what he meant by it, if, indeed he
knew. This perhaps was like everything else
i hat he said, i-et down to the credulity of his
audience. " Special pleading," says both
Webster and the law books, "is the allega
tion of special or new matter, as distin
guished from a direct denial of matter previ
ously alleged on the opposite side." It " sets
forth the particular facts or reasons" that are
relied upon. From the manner in which this
charge was preferred against the Bishop, one
would have inferred that the Blue laws, in ail
probability, had long since executed ven
geance upon him in some criminal court u'
ustice. But wherein is the guilt ? If the
charge means anything, it must he this, that
the Bishop instead of angrily denying thatsla
is a sin set forth specially the arguments, or
facts, contained in the Bible to 6how and
prove that it is not. We know that this is
not of the " kind of treason defined in the
constitution," but it may be very disloyal ac
cording to the notions of loyalty that inhabit
the distempered brain of cr zy fanatics. The
opposite course would certainly have been
much more in harmony with the practice of
the Elder and his notions of no-compromise,
war, extermination and devastation.
It is perhaps fortunater for the Bishop I hat
Vermont has not a Burnside to execute the
will of Abraham Ist. As an additional count
in the indictment, the Bishop not only quoted
the Scriptures, but he misquoted, and did
not quote he whole of them. But did the
Elder show wherein he misquoted, or omitted
any thing that was pertinent and material to
theiseue ? Every bearer will bear witness
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1863.
that he did not attempt U. He hext affirmed
that the curse spoken of in the Scriptures
vras pronounced upon Canaan in a manner
that would leave his hearers to infer that
Bishop Hopkins had said something different.
He then said that Alrican slavery coul t have
no connection with the corse pnmouced upon
Canaan or they were not his descendants.
However true this may be, we know that it
has been quite common with ministers to re
fer to this institution as a fulfilment of the
Scriptures in ibis respect. Many of your
•eaders will lecollect that the Rev
Mr. Wyatt, occupying as high apossition
in the. M. E. cimrch as the Rev. Elder
himself in a Ser.non in Moneypentiy s mill, in
proving the authenticity of the Scriptures
placed great weight upon the existence of
African slavery as a fulfillment of this curse.
Bishop Hopkins did not however affirm that
the African is the descend nit of C main.
It was not material to the issue. I tie
question he was discussing was, whether
"itis a moral evil—a positive sin to hold a
human being in b mdage." For this purpose
it was sufficient to show that any portion of
the human family were doomed to this con
dition. That they were the elder himself
tacitly if not expressly conceded. Well
now, what did the Bishop say ? He first
quotas the language of the cutse or predic
tion, and thus notices the "immediate oc
casion of this remarkable prophecy," to wit,
" the heartless irreverence which Ham. the
father of Canaan, had displayed toward his
eminent parent, whose piety had just save I
him from the deluge." He invariably speaks
of the eurse as being pronounced upon the
posterity of Ham. This the elder conceded,
and thus all this hullabaloo about mtsquot
ing and misrepresentation vanishes into thin
air. It is a most miserable repetition of the
farce of " stop thief."
Of a piece with this were his remarks up
on the term of servitude arming the Hebrews
repeating, in part, just wnat the Bishop had
said, but failing entirely to notice the dis
tinction bet ween the " temp irary servitude
of the Israelite and the perpetual bondage o 1
tfie heathen race." We coul 1 but pity the
man, that he hail not more carefully read
either the Bishop's letter on this point or his
Bible. Here again if he did not so Mte in
terms, he evidently intended that his hear
ers should understand that Hopkins ha i de
nied that the servitude of the Israelites was
temporary, declaring most vehemently
that it was, just as if Bishop Hopkins did
not say the sain- thing, but failed to notice
what either the Bishop or the Bible said of
the perpetual bondage of ihe heatoen. This
may be " very fine," but certainly it is not
very fair ; and if he had not apologized for it
by Raying that he had only partially rt-ad
the Bishop's letter, we should say it was not
very honest.
What next? Why the Bish-p in con
trasting the conduct of Christ, who lived in
the very midst of slavery, with that of the
ultra abolitionist of the present day, says,
that He " openly rebuked the sanctimonious
Pharisees;" "spared not the wealthy infi
del Sadducees;""denounced the hypocritical
Scribes;" " called the royal Herod 'that
fox,' regardless of the king's displeasure :
censures severely the Jewish praclice of di
vorce; tells the deluded crowd of his enemies,
that they are the children of the devil ; makes
a scourge of small cords,and drives the buyers
and sellers out of the temple ; and while he
thus rebukes the sin of all around him, and
and speaks witn divine authority, he pro
claims himself 'he special friend and patron
of the poor, heals their diseases, partakes of
their humble fare, and, passing by the rich
and the great, chooses his apostles from the
publicans and the fi-hermen of Galilee,
and yet while thus living in the midst o'
slavery, maintained ovtr the old heathen
races, in accordance with the Mosaic law, he
uttered not one word against it. But hovv
does'this model Elder,whohasconcluded at last
to hang out his sign and preach abolitionism
for the reason that people know that he is an
abolitionist any way, endeavor to ward off the
shaft thai is thus so accurately leveled against
him ? Why, he says " Cutist did not say a
w ird about it." So said the Bishop, or, in
very words: "He did not allude to it
at all," Truly there are none so dumb as
the willfully blind. And if the Elder per
sists in not. finding the point in the Bishop's
argument the paint will persist as obstinately
in finding him Well may the Bishop ex •
claim, " woe to our union when the blind be
come the leaders of the blind." and when such
nonsense is quoted as " very fine.'
The Rev'd Elder then followed with some
thing about purchasing with money among
ihe Hebrews not implying property as un
derstood by us, that was not understood by
many of his audience, if by any, or even by
himself. If it was meant to be und rstood,
we suppose there is no impropriety in ask
ing for information on the subject.
It was however when the elder came to
speak of Bishop Hopkins' cri'-oisins on the
Declaration of Independence, that he waxed
most enthusiastic. He evidently felt that he
had the Bishop here at a disadvantage, and
was disposed to make the most of it. The
celerity with which he arranged the relative
positions of himself and the Bishop with re
spect to that memorable instrument, the
Bishop as its assailant and himself as its de
fender, would have done honor to a man of
the ring ur a pot-house politician. He made
the Bishop say much that he never did say,
at least not in his letter, and then said him
self, in substance, just what the Bishop had
said, concediug that the declaration that
" all men are created equal" is true only in
ihe sense in which Hopkins says it is true,
and in the sense in winch its authors used
it. He did not refer to one of the Bishop's
arguments, but made sad havoc with tn<n
ster phantoms of his own imagination, a
if they had been real oljtcts of the Bishops'
creation. The Bishop said, we may talk
as we please of our equality in political rights
and privileges, but in point of fact there is
n tsnch tiling." He adds, "all men are hern
unequal, n body, in mind, and social privil
eges. Their intellectual faculties are une
qual. Them educations are unequal. Their
associations arc unequal. Their opportuni
ti s are unequal." So in substance said he
Rev'd Elder. But to give you a specimen
of the logic used. "Ifi< is not true then
that all men are end -wed with certain un
alienable rights and that among tlie-e are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
then the converse of the proposition must
be true, that they are not endowed wi'h cer
tain unalienable rights, that among these,"
that is that rhey are not endowed with, " are
not life, liberty and the pur-uit of happiness."
Amazing logic ! A thing is or it isn't; and
if it isn't, why theu it isn't. This is cer
tairily irresistable. There is no getting
around it or over it, and Bishop Hopkins, we
think, would hardly deny it "even if he
were an Arch Bishop," " Ignorant" as the
Bishop may he, and as the elder says he
must be,we think he would hardly have made
such a use of the lertn converge or have giv
en such an illustration of its meaning. This
was as new to his hearers as the Bishops'
crificisins were to him. He skeins to have
read his defenitions of logical terms ab >ut as
carefully as he did the Bishop's leiter. We
had supposed that the doctrine that men
are endowed with alie iable rights was a
most favorite one with the elder. Unless it
be true we would respectful!) ask how it is
that the people of the South have forfeited
all their righ's, and where the Elder wooid
find his authority, in any possible contingen
cy, for exterminating every man, woman,
and child of that section of our countr) . It
is sufficient upon this point to add, that lie
had not the fairness to notice one of the
Bishop's arguments. The Bishop admi s
the power of this doctrine of equality over
the common mind for the purpose of excit
ing di-content among classes, hatred among
individuals and against particular insUtu
tions, and of inciting to lawlessness and re
bellion, and the Elder has evidently profited
largely by he hint. An 1 when he prayed
G..d to forbid that any of his posterity should
be doomed to bordage, we were at loss to
kn -w whether the man was really insane,
• whether he contemplated practical amal
amaticr
"u'i nat was the effect of this '' very
| fine sermon ?" lie answered n-ne of the
! arguments of the Bishop that he attempted
ui reply to, and failed to notice others at ail
i The idea of calling such a sermon a refuta
tion of the Bishop's letter is superlatively
ridiculous. We hoped for argument, instead
of invecttve upon a subject that is so deeply
I agitating the public mind—that would op
| erate as oil upon the troubled waters instead
|of adding fuel to the Haines already kindled,
something that would convince he intellect
rather than iuHanie prejudices and passions
already over excited. We have no doubt
I that many of his hearers, as reported to the
Editor of the Republican , really believed
that they had beard an argument, and the
Elder himself may have shared in this con
viction. But, upon reflections, will either
he or they persist in the delusion ? They
evidently went from the house of Cfod with
their prejudices strengthened, as was mani
j fested by the exhibitions of feeling in tin
streets, as they were going home. We sav
prejudices, for we believe that this whole
question is too generally prejudged by the
Northern mind. What better evidence of
the fact, than this lame attempt to argue tfit
question, while the institution is so confi
dentlv and bitterly declaimed against ?_
Would it not be well for us to pauso for a
moment in our tnad career, and weigh well
our own conduct as compared with that of
Christ, who, while he lived in the midst of
slavery, reproving every evil arounf him,
yet, as the Elder and the Bishop both agree,
in spite of the elders determination to diss
gree, " uttered not one word against it."
Not only this, but many of his minisiers
North, who s e lives, conduct, abilities and
many virtues entitle their opinions to ie
spect, believe that the example of Christ,
and the teachings of His apostles, justify it,
while those of His followers who, like Him,
I've in the midst of it, fail to discover its
enormities. And where any people becomes
too confident in their convictions upon any
subject to reason upon it, is it no: very prob
able that they are subjugated by their prej
udices 1 We have yet to learn that posi
tiveness in an individual or community is
evidence that they are right. This is the
parent of persecution the world over. To
base an argument upon it w< uld be to vindi
tate the persecution!- of the primitive chris
cianß themselves, for Paul te>tifies that lie
persecuted n all good conscience. This is
the evil of mixing up polilics and religion,
and it is against this that we protest.
A DAMNING RECORD,
Governor Cu rtin—Who he Is, and what he
Is, as p rtrayed by a Republican Editor.
The following article is taken from the
Pittsburg Gazette, published on the morning
of the day U| • h*? meeting of tha Republican
S ate Convention The Guzelte is the prin
ciple organ of the Republican parly in wes
•ern Pennsylvania. Its statements, there
tore, cannot be attributed to pariizan pnju
dice or flatted, uor can they be successull\
refuted. We never i*aw a more damning
record produced against any public man, and
t cannot but tell fearfully against Governor
Curiin with the intelligent, thinking voters
of the Stale. How any honest man can vote
lor the Republican candidate fur Governor
with such overwhelming evidence of his cor
ruptibility and dishonesty staring thern in
ihe face—fastened upon him, too, bv his own
partizans—is more than we can see. We
do not believe they will. But read the arti
cle and judge for yourselves :
From the Pittsburg Gazette, Aug sth
A Parting A'ord to the Convention.
The delegates to the State Convention are
now amongst us. Before th<y proceed to do
their duty, we have a wo d to say to theni
We had reason D. believe that Governor
Curt in, notwithstanding his ostensible with
drawal, was a candidate for renoirinatmn,
and confident that he would he successful.
WE FELT ASSURED THAT FIE COULD
NOT BE ELECTED. WE KNEW THAT
HE OUGHT NOT. IT BECAME OUR DU
TY. THEREFORE, TO SOUND THE
ALARM,AND ENDEAVOR TO SAVE
THE PARTY IF POSSIBLE.
He /rare endeavored In show that he im
posed upon the the soldiets. by farming them
nut to his friends and then denying that he
had employed them.
We have exhibited the record to establish
ibe fact that he had. approved a bill, ac
know/edged by him to be wrong. WHICH
ROBBED THE TREASURY OF MANY
MILLIONS OF MONEY ; thai a the con
ditions of his approval, he had taken an
agreement for the State, which he abstracted
and secretly surrendered to the parties who
had given—and that when inierogated by
'be Legislature, he confessed the fact, and
• fit-red as his apol. gv, a reason which is
shown in have been itntiue.
We have demonstrated the fact that he
bargained away a Repnblica < United States
Senator, for the consideration of an adjour -
ment. and the discharge <>! the Couimi'te,
appointed to inquire into 'he means which
bad been used to procure the passage of that
bill.
We have charged that he was unfriendly
to the war policy nf the Administration, and
proved it not only by his Mpssage in relation
to Ihe draft, hut bv the character of the men
whom lie nas retained about hiui.
We have shown that the ttieCl of his poli
cy has been to breas down the p >Wer ol the
Republican party of this Slate, and even
those v\ ho merely co-operated with him in
Legislature, have been placed, almost with
out exception under ihe ban of the people.
And we have inferred /run all this—with
nut referring 'o other matters —THA l Ill£
NOMINA! IUN WOULD BE DISGRACE
FUL TO THE PARTY AND HIS ELEC
IION IMPOSSIBLE—as the general desire
ol Copperheads that we should lake bun as
ur candidal*;, proves it to be, iu their judg
ment, as well as ours.
All ihis we have been impelled, by the ne
cessities ot the case, to do in order to save the
cause J rom the irretrieveuble ruin.. We
have kept these things in the background
rat hen ban run the risk ol crippling the State
administration, or driving it bodiiy into the
embraces ol the enemy, to whicn we feared
its tendencies were over strung a'ready
We thought it wise te make the best of a bad
I bargain, ro long as we could not help our
selves. \\ lien the same man was however
presented anew, as a candida'e fur a second
term, it becomes our duly to speak out be
fore the mischief was emcted, and we have
done Bu, in language as moderate as the facts
hear. And yet even then, we would
rather have waved our objections' if it had
been possib'e, and taken the weakest man,
and the wickedest of our enemies, than run
the risk of (Dstu'b'ng the harm my of ihe
party, at uch a time. It was clear to us.
howerer, that with such a landidale, IT
WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO SUC
CEED. We shold be beaten, at any rate
as our past e.vpeience has demonstrated—
and as it could n>t m i'ce he milter
wor-e, it was worth at least the trouble to
endeavor t prevent it.
And now we ask ! he members of the Con
vention to tell us calmly, whether, with the
facts before them, as we have them to be,
there ts a constituency in Pennsylvania, that
would have recommended or instructed for
him—and whether these fads, defending
mainly upon the record, and incontrovertible
of course, can be now successfully concealed
from thetu ?
We ask them again, who there are among
the eminent speakers of this State, who en
joy the confidence of the people, that will
venture to meet these issues, with the very
record to confound them 1 IVe do not know
a man, of any position or force, in this coup•
ty, at nil event*. who wovlrt not feel himself
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persona'ly compromised, by undertaking a
tabor so Herculean as (his.
lne question then comes at last, whethor
'here are any ot the delegate* incl.ned to the
support of Curtio, who would consider a tri
uuiph now, as more important than a triumph
at l tie election, and a sufficient Compensation
tor a deleal at that lime—or Would be willing
to oiaae ihe result upon a doubt ? Il it be
true, as charged, that he rnsists on playing
me p it oi the dug in manger, and sacrifice
die pail}, ol which, il la said he claims to be
the uudder, to himself, m there any man in
the Convention who will allow himseli to be
used lor such a purpose f What is to be
gainedby it lor the advantage ot anybody but
me rebels and their Northern sympathizers ?
e have slated more than once—.and we
cannot repeal it too olteu—that whatever may
be ihe opinion ol itie Convention, and wheth
er right or wrong, the Jetting against Got'
Cuitin in the country at least —growing out
of Ins own acts and poncy—is so strong
l/iut we "ould no more control it, even it we
were B o disposed, than we could sievi the tor
rent of the Niagara with our fiands. We
might ruin ourselves by adcucuting his elec
tion, and we couldn't help hun. it is not we
who are responsible lor the existence or ori
gin ol that Jeelmg. We reflect it only, and
have but throwu ourselves into the current,
which was flowing as rapidly before we un
dertook to fathom or direct it.
There were good men here who doubted in
1860, whether he could betrusied, and refus
ed to vote for hun, and yet, his county gave
nun a majority of about 6400 votes. Less
man a month afterward, It gave Lincoln
10,000. With a stronger man that Curtin
here shoul 1 have been 8.000 at least, with
an unexceptional candidate now we are
-trong as ever— With Gov. Curtin, we doubt
whether it could be curiitd at all , and those
who reflect that his conduct at the session of
1861, brought in a Democrat even here, at the
election which followed, will realize the mis
chief that such a nomination may inflict.
It is not this county only, however, in
which it is important to make the machine
run smooth. There will be like difficulty
elsewhere, and particularly in those those
counties where the strength of the Republi
can party lies. If he should be nominated,
will not be by thevoles of those districts,,
which will beexpected to elect hun. It
J will be Counties like Berks, we suppose,
that are to he cast as make weights into
the scale. Would it not become them to re
flect, that if they want us to do the work they
must put us into a condition to run without
weights? Are not even the prejudices of
our people—if they choose to call them so—
to be considered ? Ff they can find a man
who is free from objection—and we are in
bad condition, indeed, if they cannot— what
is their duty as inen—as patriots—as lovers
of their country ? How can they excuse
themselves lur insisting—from mere pride of
sell will—on one of the opposite kind, who
is known to be unpalatable i< any resecta
ble section of the party ? ff'e skull guaje
the. r patriotism by the way m which the
deal wish the difficulty With men vj hero
ic slump—men suited to the times, it can
prove no serious difficulty at all.
THE Dot; THAT HAD NO FRIENDS.— We
were traveling (says a correspondent)
through Canada, in the year 1861, and afetr
a hard day's ride, stopped at the Lion Inn ;
and the contents of ihe stage, nine persons,
soon gathered ar unil the cheerful fire
Aumng the occupants of the room we observ
ed an ill looking cur, who had shown Ins wit
by taking up his quarters in so Comfortable
an apartment.
After a few moments the landlord entered
and observing the specimen of the canine spe
cies, remarked :
"Fine dog that! is he yours, sir?"ap
proaching one of the passengers.
'' No sir."
" Beautiful dog! Yours, sir?" addressing
himself to another.
" No," was the blunt reply.
'• Come here, pup ? Perhaps he i& yours,
sir ?',
" No," was the reply.
Very sagacious animal. Belongs to you,
I suppose, rir 7'
'• No he doesn't," was the answer.
J hen he is yours and you have a treas
ure, i throwing the animal a cracker.)
*' Nothing of the kind."
' Oh ! (with a smite) he belongs to you as
a matter of course ?" addressing the last pass
enger.
' Wouldn't have htm as a gift."
" Then you infernal, dirty mean contempt
ible whelp, git out ?" and with that the host
gave the poor dog such a kick a sent tho
pnimal yelling into the street, amid the roars
of the company.
We lately mer a grammarian, says a Cali
fornia paoer,who has just made a tour through'
the mine*, conjugating, or rather cogitating
thus : " positive mine; comparative miner j
superlative minus!"
JC 3ST" a p'ay upn ' words," as the boy
said when he kicked tho Dictionary up and
down the sehord room.
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