The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1859, Page 10

ony . YORK HERALD, ef A. H. Recdor had been substituted for that of “A Penn- Now, it may be well enough for the publis to know that It Eo A man,” as he is called, we teten ot the mage ot tio. Soasers of tae sopublioas o' most rs of the repul , occasionally paid a flying visit to his old friend the purpose of course we do not that the purpose was not out lligence of the outbreak at Harper's giz ik, ee Ferry was received here, one or two republicans heard to remark thatthey knew “Old Brown,” thag hhad seen him in Baston, in Reeder’s office; but w! t tere began to be published and developements w be made, all seemed to be hush pa is, bemyyes, encartalaed ‘Bhat he spent an evening in jer’s office in Apri and it is y asserted that he was again in Baston Ht was in ex-Governor Reeder’s office that he said an, the Lord watched over him. But the 1 uiry 1 wish to start is, Where was Ossawatomie Browd on ie 3a day of October last? If in Easton, what ‘was his business, and who did he come to see? Is it not a littlostrange that this man, whom the re- 8 now affect to regard as crazy, should 0 lately eecse nothin welcome. vieiter and counsellor, who for years has been travelling about the country, making Public declaration of his purposes, and yet onablod to vaige large sums of money by private contribution? If the receiving and expenditure of these Jorge sums of money by him are to be regarded as evi dances of bis being crazy, what does it prove of those who gave him thetr money? ‘Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a kuave. ¥ these lines apply to “Old Brown” they apply with equal force to his aiders and abettors. AN EASTONIAN. A COLORED BLACK REPUBLICAN ON THE STUMP. RE GLORIFIETH “GLORIOUS OLD JOHN BROWN’ — WHITE BLACK REPUBLICANS CRY AMEN. TO THR EDITOR OF THK HERALD. ‘You are performing a lasting service to the country by your able exposure of the nefarious principles and policy which guide and impel the Ossawatomies in their mad and defiant career. Who would have thought that any- ‘where in the country such treasonable sentiments as those to which Joshua R. Giddings gave utterance a few days ago in Philadelphia, and Wendell Phillipe in Brooklyn, eould be received with “enthusiastic and prolonged ap- pause?” Is there no way to silence these traitors? They ‘weuld be tolerated in no other land beneath the sun. Tlistened last night to @ political speech from a colored imdsvidual, namea Wm. James Watkins, who styled him- aif 4 ‘colored black repubiican.”” He spoke toa crowd ed audience in a church at Brockett’s Bridge. The fellow certainly gave a masterly speech. Indeed, as a mere lite. vary cffort, I have seldom heard it equalled. It ig a great pity that so much eloquence and ability, even in a nigger, ‘should bevprostituted upon the bloody altar of black re- pudlicanism. After defining his principles, he expatiatod ‘at great length, to the great edification of his hearers (ail ‘ef whom were white men), on the Harper’s Ferry insur- yeetion. He said he had not one word to say against Old Brown, but a great many words in vindication of his eourse. He was a hero, as brave aud as holy as the sun- ght ever flashed upon. Hoe envied him his present po- mbon; sorry he did uot succeed. He had the example of ‘Washington and his compeers to guide him. But these meu du not deserve to be mentioned on the same day ‘with Capt. Brown. He may swing between the heavens and the earth, but from the gallows he goes home to God, his refuge, wafted upon the wing of that cordial sym- pathy which swells the heart of many millions throughout the world. It is James Buchanan, not John Brown, who deverves the gallows. (At this point the audience eheered vociferously.) Seward was right, he said, when he spoke of the “irrepressible conflict.”” It must and will eontioue till slavery is driven to its native hell. He (the speaker) defied this government. “He was a rebel, aud @leried in bis rebellion. If he were a slave, with his present knowledge of his inherent right to liberty, he ‘would not look at or care about the consequences of agi- tating the subject of his right. He'd break his chains, so help him God, and leap from his prison house, even though he knew the leap would jar the universe. This was @ bold and startling piece of rhetoric, and was Joudly applauded. The slaves must and will be free, even though they wade through seas of blood. And God ‘will belp them. © We in the North are miserable, obsequi. ous cowards, if we refuse them our sympathy. Such is a brief sketch’of this part of bis harangue. Shame upon the village in which a nigger isiallowed to utter such sentiments. But you will uuderstand it all when I inform you that there are only three democrats in the place. The nigger speaks there again to-night, and will, aoubtiess, waik home with a white republican sister, arm in arm (without any ‘ conilict’’), as he did last eve- ‘This Watkins is on the stump, working hard for the re- blican ticket, and, it is said, is as efficient as any man ‘the ranks in making converts. Pity he is not in Africa, ‘employing hig varied talent, 8 a better purpose than eureing a country which he calls his country. 4 = VERITAS. ‘PHE ROCHESTER COUNCIL REPUDIATES THE ROCHESTER MANIFESTO. ‘The following resolutions, we are informed, haye been adopted by the Rochester Council:— Resolved, That the time has come, and now is, when it is the duty of the'American people io put on trial for treagom and ra xrson OF persons who have, openly or secret- Sfralrecuy orleuireedy, eiced or encouraged thee” calaguiged amen in their late attempt at insurrection at Harper's Ferry. Resolved, That the negroes in Virginia, in refusing to murder Inasters when weapons of death had been furnished them for that purpose to such an alarming extent, have shown that they possese a higher standard of moraliiy than some of our mieguiaed philanthropists, who have long tanght the people that t wes tbe duty of the slaves to elfect their emancipadon by ‘tolence and bloodshed. ‘means . ‘Resolved, That the late melancholy proceedings at Harper's Ferry are some of the,legitimate fruits of those dangerous doc- tines taught first by feading ubolitionists in their profane de- noupeingsof the constitution of our beloved coauury, and reite- rated so often by ‘eading jouruais courting the abolition vole, ‘when that sacred instrument, wnich is hallowed by the name of ‘Weahington himself, bus been branded as “an atrocious bar- made with our forefathers.” ‘Resolved, That while the people of the free States can have no sympathy with any effort which seeks to extend slavery {nto territory now free, they at the same time do not desire to have doctriries taught from the pulpit, the press or the wayside, which lead even a weak brother tp commit murder, or to arm the poor slave with deadly weapons, and thus tempt him to asked of what ear ition of affairs in Kansas. ‘He made an ev! that they might be of some use, dition were good for nothing. I said no more. But as he seemed to be very urgent to have them finished, J dally consented to make an one to do the work, on condition that the $450, which I would refund in ot fin any one to do tho work. Ho me $150, for whioh I gave him a receipt, which has been publiahod with one of Pd — He also agreed to send me $300 more within ree 8. A few days after, 1 received a letter dated Troy, N. Y., June 7, 1869, with a draft endorsed on New York for '$300, 'on receipt of which I wrote him the letter bearing date ‘Oollingville, Conn., June 10, 1859,” directed to John Brown, West An- dover, Ohio, which seems to have been found in “Old Brown’s carpet bag,” and was published some days since in the principal papers in thie State and elsewhore. Soon after Brown ilinsville, 1 agreed with ©. Hart & Son, of Unionville, Conn., to tnish up the ‘pikes’? (a8 they are called) which I bad to make 450 more, making ceived # letter from “Old Brown,” di ward the “freight,” when finished, to ‘J. Smith & Sons, Chambersburg, Penn.’ Subsequently I received we following letter:— 3 i Cuamaunsaunc, Penn., Aug, 2, 1889. Cusnurs Biam, Euq.: Daan bin—Some tive ine July lash, & Mr Brown, Who said be waadealing with you, ‘arrange- 0 ive und forward some ireight he expected em YON. Wil you please any to vs by return mail if yen Rave sent an; w jou thin) any pait of it forward, and ifnot when you think, you can ¢ ‘The words “received”? and “forwarded” were under- scored in the origival. ‘This letter was in an entirely different handwriting, and T honestly suposed was from a bona fide firm dom busi- ness in Chambersburg. My reply to that letter has also been published. Within a few days the pikes were sent ax ordered, and their receipt was acknowledged by J. Smith & Sons, in a letter dated September 15, 1859. REWARDS FOR FUGITIVES. GOY. WISE OFFERS $2,000 FOR THE APPREHENSION OF THE FUGITIVES. The following official advertisement appears in the Rich- mond papers:— Two Tuovsaxp Dotiars RewAkD—A PROCLAMATION BY TAK GOVERNOR OF VinGiNia.—Information having been re: ceived by the Executive that Owen Brown, Barclay Oop- pie, Frabeis J. Meriam and Charles P. Tidd (who are severally charged with the crimes of treason, murder and conspiring and advising with slaves to rebel im the county of Jefferson, in this commonwealth), have eseaped (rom justice, aud ure now going at large, therefore I do hereby ‘ofter a reward of tive hundred dollars to any per shall arrest either of said fugitives and deliver hi the jail of said county of Jeilurson, and 1 do moreover require al) officers of this commonwealth, civil and mil: tary, and request the people generally, to use their bi exertions to procure their urrest, that they may be Drought to justice. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Loss seal of the commonwealth, at Richmond, this third day of November, 1869. HENRY A. WISE. ‘Owen Brown is 33 or 34 years of age, about six feet in height, with fair complexion, thongh somewhat tre: has red hair, and very heavy whiskers of the same color. He is a spare man, with regular features, and bas deep jue eye Barclay Coppie is about 20 years of age; is about 5 feet 74y inches in height, with hazel eyes and browa hair, ‘Wears a light moustache, and has a consumptive look. Fruncis J. Merium is about 26 years of age; 1s about 5 fect 845 inches in height, has black hair and oyes and brows mot ‘he. He has lost one eye—sometimes wears face is somewhat blotched from the of syphiis, Complexion dark. Charles P. Tidd stands about 5 feet 11 inches; has broad shoulders, and looks like a very muscular’ apd active man; has ’ light hair, blue eyes, Grecian nose, aud heavy brown whiskers; looks like a fighting man, and his Jooks in this repect are in no way deceptive. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD FOR THE BODY OF JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS. The following advertisement appears in the Whig:— ‘Try Trorsaxp Dortars Rewarp.—Joshua R. Giddings having openly declared himseifa traitor, in a lectare at Philadelphia on the 28th of October, aud there hging no process, strange to say, by which’ he can be brought to justice, I propese to be one of one huudred to raise $10,000 Yor his'sate dchvery in Richmond, or $5,000 for the pro- duction of his head. Ido not regard this proposition ex- traordipary, us it may at first seem, either unjust or an- merciful. The law of God and the constitution of his country both condemn him to death. For satisfactory reasons I withhold my name from the public, but it is in the hands of the editor of the Richmond Whig. There will be no difficulty, I am sure, in raising the $10,000 upon a reasonable prospect of getting the said Giddings to this city. Tucnoxn, Nov. 1, 1869. ‘ A VISIT TO JOHN BROWN’S' FAMILY. [From the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, Nov. 4.] . T. W. Higginson, of this city, has just returned from a visit to the family of Capt. John Brown. He found them up among the Adirondac Mountains in New York, near Lake Champlainf opposite Burlington, Vermont— Mrs. Brown and four of her surviving children, three Gaughters and one son. She is a second wile, arid Faas been the motoer of twelve children. Brown had cight children by a previous wife, making twenty in all. Eight of the twenty are now living. Mrs. Brown accompa- med Mr. Higginson, on his return, and he went with her in the train to Boston yesterday, passing through Fitchburg. She will leave to-day for Virginia, having telegraphed to Goy. Wise for permission to visit her hus- band in prison. Richmond ONE OF THE INSURGENTS. In answer toa question of Vallandigham, of Ohio, Old Brown, of the Harper’s Ferry affair, stated recently that one of his men came from somewhere between Steuben- vitle and Wheeling. “We learn,” says the Wheeling Intelligencer, “tbat the man alluded ve was the negro named Dangerfield Newby (one of the killed), who is wellknown in Bridgeport, and who travelled through Belmont county soliciting money to buy his freedom and his master’s blovd. Resolved, ‘that Ossawatomie Brown and his comrades gene- rally bave dur deepest sympaihy in the great trouble which those mieguided men have now brought upon themselves in conse ‘quence of their insane attempt to carry ovt the wicked sugges Mons of “the evilone,” made through Senators and specala: tors, who would wrap this couniry in fraternal gore if thereby Jarge sums of money could be realized in the sudden rise of ‘ution, or places of preferment reached by a new slavery ex- citement. Reswlved, That the feverish anxiety manifested by certain politics) journals in this slate, to have Joha rown und his comrades executed without delay, can only be accounted for oa the principle that “ dead men tell no us and we most Bincercly Dope tbat Gov. Wise will interpose the executive elemency, sullicienty at least to ufford an oppor.unity for a Teank sud full confesmon, to the ena that no injustice may be done to leading citizens of thia State upon whose heads suspi “eion of complicity with these fearful crimes now rests with such portentious weight. WHO SHOT OLD BROWN’S SON? The Charleston Courier of Monday says:—A gallant friend, now residing on James’ Island, who served a faithful tour in Kansas on behalf of the South, informs us that the “life’’ and statements which are ‘reported as found among Brown’s papers, are in many respects false. ‘That frend, whose name we may give hereafter, will be recognized by many readers, who will gladJy receive the Statements and explanation promised. Meanwhile we beg attention to the following letter:— James’ Istanp, 8. C., Oct. 28, 1859. It is stated by Northern papers that Old Brown was Jed to the perpetration of his late acts in retaliation of his ‘treatment at the hands of the border ruffians in Kansas, particularly the killing of bis son Frederick. 1 am well posted on Old Brown's life in Kansas, and if a truthful statement of the same is desired by you I will devote an ‘hour to the subject. I state, as a fact,that his son was Ailled in Kangas by a free State man, a citizen of Illinois, and a minister of the Gospel—a man who was by report murdered by pro-slavery meu. The Northern’ papers, particularly the New York Iribune, will recogaize the man when I declare that ‘Poor Martin White’? was the man that shot “Old Brown’s son.’’ I saw it done; and ‘the same day I shot Old Brown, and now regret that I did not finish him. Ag regards Old Brown’s abolitionism, it was merety a cloak # covering his thieving propensity, ‘he having been the leader of a gang of horse thieves. LETTER FROM THE MAN WHO MADE OLD BROWN’S PIKES, Couussviiix, Conn., Nov. 4, 1859. As several articles have appeared within the last few days in your paper and other journals of this State and elsewhere, containing statements in regard to the “‘Collins- ‘ville pikes,” inwhich my name is very freoly used, and which are entirely incorrect, Ihave coucluded in justice to myself, my friends, and the public, to give you the facts nt the case, #0 far at Tum concerned:— part of February, or early part of March, 1857, “Old Brown,” as he is called, came vo this town to ‘visit bis relatives, (most of whom reside here,) and by in- vitation addressed the inbabitants at a public meeting. At the close of the meeting, or on the following day, he ex- hibited some weapons which he claimed to have taken from Captain H. C. Pate, at the battle of Black Jack. Among others was a bowie-knife or dirk, having a blade eight inches long. Brown remarked thai such an instru. ment fixed to a pole about six feet long, would be a capi. ‘tal weapon to place in the hands of the settlers in Kansas, to keep in their cabins to defend themselves against any atuck by “border rufflans or wild beasts,” and asked me what it would be worth to make one thousand. 1, replied that I would make them for one dollar each, not thinking that it would lead to @ contract, or that such an instrument would ever be wanted or put to use in any way, if made. But, to my surprise, he drew up a contract for one thousand, to be compiewd in three months, he (Brown) agreeing to pay $500 within ten days and the balance within thirty duys thereafter. Brown placed $660 in my hands within the specified time and as it was dull times and the contract protitable, i commenced operations by purchasing the materials for doing the whole job, and forged abont five hundred. At the expiration of thirty days Brown wrote me from Springfield, Mass., saying thathe was unable to raise the to complete his contract. Soon after the receipt of his letter I stopped the work. After this Iheard very little more of Brown until the following year (1858), when I received a letter from him, dated at Rochester, 8. Y., February 10, 1868, in which he expressed his regret that he had been unable w fulfil his contract with me, and hoped it would not always be 80. In this letter he requested me to send us many as I felt willing to in the unfinished state of the contract, to E. A. Fobes, Lindenville, Ashtabula county, Ohio. (It may be inferred from this that Brown had not then fixud upon any definite plan.) I wrote to him on receipt of this let- Yer, that I had never finished any of them, and did not ‘wish to trouble myself further about the matter, and ‘he eed not trouble himself to raise the funds to’ pay the aan OF evares 1 sent none of them, next I knew of Brown, he called at my house in ‘Collinsville on the 3d day of June last, 1 think, and said ‘to me that he had never before been able to fulfil his con- ‘eract with me, but could now do it, and wished I would go and figish up tap werk, 1 ‘bhat | was very dif. that of his fai ‘We learn that he has now to hiscredit a considerable sum of money in the Belmont Brauch Bank at Bridgeport.”” SENSATION SERMONS FROM NEW YORK PARSONS, DR. CHEEVER ON THE “IRREPR ESSIBLE CON FLICT.” Rey. Dr. Cheever preached at the Church of the Puri. tans, in Union square, last evening, a d ze on “The Sacredness and Safety of the Pursuit of Principle aboves all Expediency.” The church was compactly filled with an intelligent and fashionably dressed congregation, and the discourse was listened to with marked attention throughout. Settees and chairs were placed in all the aisles and in the open space in front of the pulpit, and still a considerable number were obliged to stand. After the usual introductory services, the preacher an- nounced some religious meetings during the present week, and stated that as Tuesday was the election, involving a duty quite as sacred as prayer, the usual evening service on Tuesday would be omitted. Dr. Cheever then delivered the following discourse, taking for his text the 22d and 23d yerses of the 6th chap. ter of Matthew :— Principle and Expediency—the watchwords that divide the world as truly and thoroughly as light and darkness, sin and holiness. But expediency assumes the form and reputation of principle, and carries @ great part of the ‘world on the side of wrong, under the profession of wis- dom and conservatism, teaching the right. The conflictis fundamental. A seitish expediency is the native habit of mankind, and the first bale against itis wheu a man is converted from the power of satan unto God. When he comes under the government of righteous principie, and makes the will of God his rule, instead of cousulting and obeying what is, or seems to be, expedient in his owa view for bis own intereet, or convenient for his own will and pleasure, he is a converted man—a true Christian. ‘True religion consists in choosing and following what is right, and making that in all casoe detertaine what is ox- pedient. | speak now of all cases where the question of Tight, of duty, is involved; for there are many things, many junctures and affuirs of life, where prudential con siderations as to what is best form the whole fivid of con sideration, and that which seems to a man’s mind on the whole moet profitable is best, and therefore ought to be pursued, is therefore right. It 1s right, because it is best, the balance of considerations is morviy pru- for example, whether you shali take passage for a sea voyage in a sailing veswl or a steamship, whether you shall embark your capi- tal in one direction or another of varied forms of business or juvestments equally honorable and pro- per; ten thousand cases might be stated where that which, on the whole, you discover or conclude to be best, moet advantageous und convenient for you, is right. It is not best merely because it is right, but right because it is best, there being no other moral principle involved in it, but a choice of benefits, which is no moral principle at all. And aman whose life 1s confined to such pursuits might possibly never be found acting in reference to any moral principle, or any ¢onsideration of it whatever; might live to the age of Methuselah, plodding on in busi- hos, or running 4 career of vast speculations in business, without ever having his soul stirred by anything higher han calculations of prudence. In such a case the very absence and negation of moral principle woul be the basement and destruction of a man’s nature, and the con- demnation of his life. A le centering on self, absorbed in self, occupied wholly with self and what is best for self, is a relfish life—a life of self-idolatry—a life in which golf supreme principle, and, God being entirely disre- garded, au immoral principle und an immoral life. ‘The entire negation of high moral principle constitutes ag perfect un immorality of character as the presence and power of a poritive reigning vice. And it may be abso- Iutely more diffoult to raise a man up trom the depths of such negation, from the dungeon of such a tomb, and in- spire him with piety, than itis to break in vielently upon great and raging sins, in which men have been held cap- tive by satan at his will, We belong to God, and are bound to regard His will supremely in all things, and to seek His approbation, and carry into effect His law, both in ourselves and others. The eye single, therefore, is the eye that is turned towards Him, while the evil eye ‘is the eye that is turned tewards self—turned away from God, and filled with self instead of God, as the supreme idol. You know that in the language of the very proverbs of society there is no more fitting doscription of a moan and worthless creature—a selfish, heartless, unsympathising man, from whom you can expect nothing good, great or generous—than the phrase that he is always sure to look out for number one. Self always comes first between hie sight and everything else under heaven; and until this de- pravity is broken and conquered, and he is taught and in- spired ey Divi grace tp ae tof self in God, and to Ray, Not my will, but thine, be dome, God himecls, in P ual ag an experience i from hig own existence. Such a man is safe and happy, everywhere and under im God. He thiat dwelleth in the secret the Almighty. He condemned to death by and God’s love in bis heart he will be as happy as an angel. glance can cheer vin Baradfon if thou wrt bore » AF thon ai % If thou depart, 'tis hell, ‘The path of duty will be made plain to such a man, and he will have courage ministered to him from God to walk ip it, always making God’s word, God's law, the light, the guide, the arbiter of conscience, and always endea voring, in all things, to maintain a conscience veid of of: fence towards God and man, For this two great things are necessary—much prayer, and much earnestand pray- erful ‘study of God's word. Both these things aro necessary, and if a man neglect either, he is liable to go astray, aud while he thinks he is acting from principle, to be ueting from mistake or from mereselfish expediency. Thy word have I hid in my heart, that 1 might not sin against thee. Prayer hides God's word in the heart, and be Holy Spirit abides there with it, and leads it into all truth and duty; and this being the’ case, a man having God's truth for’ his shield ‘and buckler, and God’s spirit for his comforter, has need of nothing else, and noed fear nothing. Hence the appeal of God, Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness—ye people in whose heart is my, law; fear ye uot the reproach of man, neither be ye afraid of their’ revilings; for the moth shall eat them up ike a garment, und the worm shall eat them like wool; but’ my righteousness shall be for- ever, and Iny salvation from generation to gémeration.?? The righteousness of God is the one permanent, eternal reality and rule, and the law of God is the manifestation t righteousness for the guidance ot human conduct. w of God is a system of principles. He governs the iverse upon principles—the principles of his own right- ness, They are of equal and universal applicatioa. ‘They aro not one thing in Heaven and another thing on earth; one thing among God's friends, and another t among his enemies; they are the same everywhere, an the standard of right and wrong is the same on earth a3 itis in Heaven. Perfect obedience, supreme devotion to God, i the rule here, as it is there,’ and God will have his wil’ done onearth’as in heaven. The principles of God's law never vary. They are as immutable as him- self, They never bend to circumstances, but go straight through the universe. They do not come into the world to be refracted out of their straight line in the gross me- dium of men’s fancies or maxims of convenience or ex- pediency; they cannot alter. Heaven and earth shall away before one jot or tittle of the law shall fail. Asa standard of fecling and action, as a standard of right and Wrong, a8 a standard of duty under all circumstanoes, and of judgment in every respect, it is unerring and un- g. Its principles were given forth, not to bo , criticised or evaded by God's creatures, but to be obeyed, and earried into unfaltering execution. ’ Their ap- pleution is not to be prevented because of its condemning, overturning consequences in a world of sin; thoy are to bo laid alongside the character and employments of men, though, to the anger of all, they make the whole world, with their whole business, guilty before God. The least ment or alteration ot any one principle of God’s would be of more evil in any community than the riurning of that whole community coukl be ig out that principle to the uttermost. For the d is revealed from Heaven against all unright- and ungodiiness of men, and especially against those who hold the truth in unrigbteousness. And the b of the servant of Jesus Christ is to make constant application of the law of God, and bring’ its light to blaze anu ita power to bear upon every form of iniquity. And although the principles of God’s Word, taken up resolutely, and carried straight through human’ society, make tre- mendous work with the principles of this world, yet that is the very application and overturning that God requires, whose conservatism is just this: the removing of those thipgs that require overturning or may be shaken, that ‘thoso things whieh ‘cannot be shuken may | re: main, The principles of God’s word cut across and tear vp by the roots whole plantations of the most cherished humin maxims and laws. ‘They do this with such amazing power, wherever any sinful practice has gained the sanction of ‘time, and been winked at by a worldly chureh, that even churches and ministers are afraid of their operation. ‘The consequences of the unbending prin- ciples of the Word of God are so tremendous in their con- ilict with human passions, especially where sin is legal- ized und oppreesion carried on by statute, that even the professed friends of God shrink from meeting them. Nevertheless, those principles must be applied; they are our only salvation &the only hope of the world fbeing made Detter is in them, and our only security trom being swallewed up in the world’s wickedness is in the great breakwater with them breasting the storm, when the waters roar and are troubled, and the mountains shake with the swellingthereof. The only true expediency is to act from principle, to obey God, to obey a conscience en- lightened and guided by the Word of God, to ask in all things what God will have us to do, and “having ascer- tained the path of duty toward God, to go forward and do t, leaving the consequences with him. It is no excuse for wickedness, though all the world should consent to follow it, aud though all the statutes of mankind should command us to do the same. But by the word of God alone can we know what is righteousness in principle and righteousness in jaw. And here, in passing, let the im- portence of the Bible and its teachings in our common schools be noted, to bave the eommon conscience of the nation, to give the nation a common sense and knowledge or equity and righteousness, so sturdy, so habitual, that tyranny shall quail before ‘it, and legislators not ‘dare the experiment of promulgating unrighteous law. Such 4 conscience, so trained, is tho strongest, most impregnable safeguard of a natien’s liberties. Adherence to the law of God,as supreme in political as Social life, is our only security. It is impossible to describe Strongly enough the infinite importance, at this present ine, for all men, public and private, for us a8 a commun- ty and people, of keeping this great’ truth in view, and acting upon it.’ ‘The most pernicious and alarming doo- trines are being circulated among us; doctrines that at one und the same time go to the destruction of all con- science towards God, and all humanity and justice to- ards our fellow beings; doctrines that take away our very right todemand and enforce freedom and justice against tyranny and injastice, and deprive us of the very possibility even of appealing fo God against the iniquity and oppression of man; doctines that deny and annihi- late the inherent supremacy of conscience, instructed by the Author and Framer of our being, over all our actions, and commit that supremacy to the absolute sheer willof an oligareby in power over us, or of the multitude who con- sent to put the will of that oligarchy into the shape of law, and then arrogate for it the sanction of the Almighty, at the same time announcing our duty to obey it, whether tbe Almighty sauctious it or not, nay—even though it be against the express interdict of the living God; doctrines that at the same time, and by a fatal coherence and ne- sity of logic and of consequence, deny any inherent rights but such as arc permitted and guaranteed by some Written human constitution, and in creatures of a sable rights at all, if any State or community, by law aration, deny them, withhold them. Doctrines aflirming that go lgng as anything whatever is put in the form of heman law, so long its obligation of obe- supreme and imperative, (no matter how in- or oppressive the law may be), take from God himseif lus own sovereinty over us, and from ourselves all right of resistance against wickeduess in God's name— ail possibility of the protection of our conscience and our liberties—all remnant of liberty iteelf worth poseessing—since, by these doctrines, all that any band of usurpers have todo, in order to sanction, confirm and T immutable and eternal their despotism, is to pro: ate its principles ayd pretences in a constitution, and pase it8 requisitions in the shape of law, which, while it ‘stands, is imperative, and of which they can fore pre: Vent the alteration or repeal. The whoie scheme is one of complete practical atheism; and hell iteelf, the empire of satan, would need no better foundation against the autho- rity of the Loyd Almighty. Yetithas been shamolessly promulgated, in so many words, that the constitution of the people, their political constitution, is their Bible; and this for the purpose of defending the right of the govern- the people to obey, one of istian, irroligious, savage sta- tutes, that under the light of God’s word, and in aetiauce and Violation of his law, ever was passed on earth. It is not only ailirmed that their political constitution is their Bible, but that any law whatever, which the legislature please w pase, under the pretended sanction of that tution, however wickedly perverted, and concerning which they can get it ailirmed by a bench of judges that in their opinion it is constitutional, has an obligation of obedience attached to it avove God’s law—the Bible of God being supreme only in and for heaven, white the po- litical Bible is supreme on carth, and so supreme that no poul from it can be taken to God’s Bible, so supreme that God's law cannot be quoted as above it—cannot be per- miited to have any anthonity over the conseience under it. A people that will give way to such doctrines will ap- pland the speeches and the teachings in which they are conveyed, will vote for men and put men in power who proclaim ‘them, and signify thelr, readiness and determination to quforce them, are as fast a8 possible ontting off all possibility of pro- tecting their own liberties—are forging chains and manucles for their own souls, are offering up themselves on the altar of national atheism as the prey of tyrants, are on the eve of that irremediable betrayaland renounce- ment of their own inheritance of freedom,their birth- right from God, of which there is no place for repentance, and after which there is no hope; of which God himself says, they have chosen their own way, I also will choose their delusions; they have chosen the statutes of Omri, and the statutes of Omri shall be their ruin, The ex treme of basenees and treachery towards God and man to which these advocates of human tyranny have gone is almost incredible. ‘There are those who not only assert that any and every human law has the authority of heaven, and that méu are bound to obey it 80 long as it is law, Whether it be contrary to God’s law or not, but even that we have no right to go against any wrong, any wickedness, which a human coustitutiqg, protests and orders us n0t to interfere with, or whieh Me even assert. ed by the judges to protect, or which is by them pro- nounced eonstitutional. Here these men tie up our hands, and we, if we admit such pretensions of ungodliness, tie up our own hands, not only from all right and possibility of self defence, if our own liberties are by pretended jaw taken from us, but from the equally and grander and more noble and glorious right and duty of defending others, and protecting others from wrong and ruin. Could anything be more monstrous, more heaven-defying, than the doct a wrong or impiety ina vested wrong, securea by a constitution and Jaws in ite {avor, therefore we are cut off from all right of interferin, agatmpt it, or claiming the rights of the victims crus under it, or insisting upon their deliverance from such oppreesion ? pecially, could anything be more monstrous than such an atheistic claim in bebal€, of wrong, for immunity from examina- tion and redress under a government ing to acknowledge God and his word and the religion of the Bible as of supreme authority, and professing distinctly to have been framed for the protection of the liberties and rights of every human being under it, to establish justice and secure the Diessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity; a constitution framed under an appeal w God, under a déclaration that our yery title tothe slate and of @ nation is drawn from the laws of naturo and “- the ‘of these ‘that they are endowed by their Creator with cortain ina’ hienable Pus; shah among these ‘are life, liberty and the paren @, ; that to secure. these A yn oo ore ‘mea, derivi ir ers from the consent of the g ; that whenever eny form of becomes destructive of thes ends, itis the right of the people to alter itor to abolish it, and to institute anew government, laying” its foanda- tions on snc elaciGen ol organiziug its powers in such form as to them een toa like to effvct their safety and ha) ‘Tho less is always included in the greater; andif the people have power and right to change or to abolish their constitution when its action is pervert: ed to the ape and of wrong, much more have they right and power to resist such perversion; much more is the resistance of such perversion their dounden duty and the duty of those who aro called to ad- minister the government, If the government bo framed for the establishment of justice and the prowetion of liber- ty for all, and of the just rights ofall who are set under it by the Creator, then the constitution of such a govern- ment—a government meant for such purposes—and just only while it adheres to them, cannot be assumed to sanction any wrong in conflict with them, or to forbid the resistance and removal of any wrong, of which in spite of its object, and against the authority of God, from whom alone its ganction is derived, the. constitution is per- verted to become the instrument, ’It is. therefore, mon- strous to say that we will go against wrong only'so far as the constitution permits us to go against it; for m the rst place, the Almighty has commanded us to go against all wrong, pecially 0 to administer government a8 that God’s rights, and the rights of conscience towards God an4 justice to every creature may be protected by Ht; and in tho second placo, the rights bestowed upon men from their Creator are asserted, by the very deciara- \ion under which and in pursuance of which the consti- tution has been framed, to be inalienable; aud, therefore, the constitution itself binds those who adminiswr it, as well as the people who mast watch over its operation, te go against any wrong which is against those rights, and hot to sufler any law in behalf of such wrong to be 'exe- cuted, Every sufference of such execution, every lend- ing of themselves, either on the part of magistrate or people, as instruments of such wrong in the name of law, and under the pretence of law, is just the deliberate com: mission of two crimes instead of one. First, it is the transaction of the original crime—injustice, inbumanity— which js a sin against both God aud man; and second, it is the practice of the crime in the name of law, which’ is au added sin, especially against God, and is the daring assertion that human law is higher than the Divine. It is not only the practice of the sin, which is an act of disobe- dience against God and cruelly towards man, but it is the teaching of such disobedience to others, the enforce- ment of it by law against God’s law. and’ God himself says, that while he who shall be guilty of breaking any one_of his commandments shall be puliished accordiug to his crime, he that shall not ouly do but also toach such crime, such violation, shall be utterly cast out from the kivgdom of Heaven.’ Aud our blessed Lord condemned in the strongest terms tho Scribes ani Pharisees and of the nation because they had dared, under nce of God's authority, to do and to tach thivgs contrary to God's law, or which made God's law of none ‘effect, perverting and setting aside its authority, And po wonder; for God has said, in that very book out of which’ our blessed Lord drew expounded his own commission us the Messiah and of righteousness, that the throne of mquity shall not have tellowship with tim which frameth mischief by a law. Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed, to turn aside the needy from judgment and to take away the right from the poor among the people. Wo unt them that Justify the wicked for reward, and take away tho righteousness of the righteous from him. Wo unto them tat draw iniquity with cords of vanity, bind it with un- righteous Jaw, and bind their sin about as with a cart rope. Ob, wy peuple, they which lead thee cause theo to urr and destroy the way of thy paths; and the mean man boweth down, aid the great man humbleth himself to such commanded wickedness; therefore forgive them not. Therefore my people are gone into captivity; there- fore hell bath enlarged if and opened her mouth Without measure, as mustalways be the cuse when the way of sin, which is the way of heli, is established by law, und your very rulers and political guides ery out that you have ho right to interfere with it and nothing to do but to obey it, because with a great lie they swear that it is in the constitution. But wo unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for dark- ness. Cursed bo he that removeth his neighbor's land- mark, and all the people shall say amen. Cursed be he tha: maketh the blind to wander out of the way, and all the people shall say amen. Curged be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, futherless and widow, and all the people shall say amen.’ Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly, und all the people shall say amen. Cursed be he that tiketh reward to slay an iunocent per- son, and all the people shall say amen. Therefore as the fire’ devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth ihe chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness and their Diossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the Jaw of the Lord, and despised the Word of the Holy One ot Israel. Now,’ what are we to say to these things? Do wo imagine, my friends, can we deceive ourselves #0 far us to dreain that a nation guilty of such practical atheism, under the comparative dimness of the old dis- pensation, could be cast forth from God's presence and Dlessing, and laden with such retributive curses, and that we, a Christian nation, under so much clearer light, with their own example before us as a warning, an their punishment as a proof, can escape, can be let off, under our commission of the’ same guilt?’ Is the casting away of the law of the Lord, and the setting up of a politi- cal idol of miquity in i ‘place, any less bateful in His sight, any more endurable in us than it was in them? ‘Con we, Of all nations of the earth, be suclvatheists and vot be’ punished for it? Has that which was sin amon, the Jews become righteousness among the Gentiles? ‘an an iniquity become righteous now by State sanction, 'y political platforms, which was only doubled in its iniquity and immensely exagperated, even then, by the very attempt to claim for it the guardianship of tho State. and to set it under sanction of the law? Nay, the Lor will enter into judgment with the rulers and tho princes ot the people. ‘Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Every one loveth gifls, and followeth after rewards. ‘They judge not the fatheriess, neither doth the cause of the stranger nor the oppressed come unto them; but they dare to say, our party is the white man’s party, ind. as to the negro, we are not oar brother's keeper, but it is a false accusation against us that we wish to have anything to do with the protection of the rights of the Diucks: and so bave you taught cruelty and wickednoss and rebellion against the Lord, and have attempted to set the aesassination of the rights’ of a wholo race of your fellow beings in your very constitution, a8 a compacted bond of such wickedness. Therefore, hear the Word of the Lord, ye scornfal men, that rule this people. Because ye have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agree- ment, when the overllowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come unto us, for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves; therefore, thug saith the Lord: Judgment will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the hail shall sweep away your refuges of lies, and the waters shall overflow i hiding place; and your covenant with death shall be nulled, and Your agreement with hell shall not stand; Len the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be be trodden down by it. Any compact with wick- edness is an agreement with hell, but especially the pro- tence of such a compact, binding you to the extremest rucity and injustice, in a covenant setting out with the “ration that it is for the more perfect establishment of justice and of freedom. The pretence of law for such rascality is only a vast exasperation of the villainy, and the more law for such wickedneas the less justice, the less sacredness, and the greater the obligation to resist auch wickedness when it is taught in high places, and pre- tended to be sanctioned by the authority oklaw; for when this is the case, and men, in the name of God, do not re- sist, then everything goes rapidly to ruin; and as the prophet of the Lord declared, in this very caso of old, except God raised up some gap men in this breach, except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us a very small. re 3 We should have been as Sodom, and we should havé been Like unto Gomorrah. Therefore, hear ye the word ef the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God,’ ¥e people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the de of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord. ye come to appear before me, Who hath required this at'your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations. Your Sabbaths and your calling of as- semblies cannot away with. It is iniquity, even the ‘fem meeting. Your appointed feasts my soul hateth. And when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers I will not hear, for your hands ae fullof blood. Wash ye, make you clean, put away te evil of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to do evil, learm to do well, sock judgment, relieve the opprossed, judge the fatherloss, plead for the widow; open thy mouth for the dumb, in (be cause of all guch as are appointed to destruc- tion; open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the" cause tho Poor and “neody. But, it ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with sword, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. When Will our own country and people once lay things to heart ? In what way, by what method of warn- ing, of arrest, cen we be made to feel that not oven to ligt of old wero these truths 80 appropriate by reason of ir sins, as on account of our sins they are to us? Will nothing move us, nothing awaken us, nothing bring us to repentance? Are we 80 insensate, 60 drunken with our prosperity, so mad upon our idols, as to imagine that wo can take the very ame sins on account of which God swopt the Jews from the face of the earth, and not only practice them individually, but teach and command them, by law, ensbrine them in our tribunals of justice, main: tain them as elements of our religion and manifestations of God’s righteousness, and still go on with impunity in such a career and escape God's wrath? Even amidst the distant thunder of the coming tempest, while the big drops ure falling that forerun the storm, under the very discipline of God’s preliminary plague, the blood at Har- per’s Ferry being only the precursor of the blood of the firet born, if the American Pharaoh, with Jannes and Jambree, resisting God, refuse to set his people free; even thus and now, we are publicly taught that man is to bo obeyed rather than God, that the wicked laws of men must be sustained and followed, no matter what becomes of God’s law, for that law is 80 sacred @ thing, and so im- portant to be preserved in its majesty, that while it is law, though ever #0 to God’s word, it must be fulfiled. “But the only ty of law is tho majesty of God's authority, God's righteousness, and if divested of that, if contrary to that, then the only obligation upon us is that of disobeying and denouncing it God’s law in- deed must be fulfilled, and man’s law, if contrary to God's law, must be disobeyed; and this is the only way to preserve a just respect for the government, or a rem- nant of human freedom on the carth. Yet these athelsts tell us, “Obey even the bad law while it is a law, until it Ye repealed !”” As if any tyrant on earth, or oppressive goverbment, would ever repeal one of their unrighteous cpuctmentsy #0 long. a8 they found the ‘people willing to obey them.’ As if Nebuchadndazar’s | image wor- ship would ever have been repealed if Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, instructed by our modern politicians, had consented to obey it, and had taught the peaple to obey it while it was a law. ‘Oras if the decroe of Darius against prayer to God, in the law of the Medes and Persians, would ever have been repealed, had Daniel, according to the fame atheistic teachings, obeyed it go long as it was & Jaw; had he not disobeyed it, in the namo of God, and gone into the Hion’s den in consequence, just as Shadrach, Mesbach and Abednego into the flery furnace. They broke up the tyranny by breaking tho law, and that was the G inspired und commanded method of protestiny it It. Now, my friends, tbis hath the mouth of the poken for us, and we are on the verge of tho same ruin. Jf ip iD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1859.—TRIPLB SHEBT. nile as soft a grace for ater ng Bu none for thelr, By mangneries, tte that dwelt hat disdained ‘Upliited hands, that at convenient imes Sfanbed with eines srupiouny ule joatness scrupul 4 ‘And free from every talon but that of vice, i Shall we despise the warning and the lesson, or lay it to Dear "When men, through covetousness, with feigned words, make merchandise of you, aud yé permit aud sancaion, and perpetuate by law, tho makmg merchandise of men, be sure that your judgment now of » long timo lingoreth not, and your damnation slumbereth not. Lot tho inspired Christian poet continue his strain, Judgment, however tardy, mends her paco— ‘When obstina has conquered grace, Busgrave diasdtublore canvot understand ‘That ain Jet Jooge speaks punisment at band, ‘Ob, larael! of all autions most ‘Thy diadem displaced, thy Booptre, gone; a4 beet Shas ties eae tot dust, Bock at the gates of Lg heir glory faded, and their race dispersed, ‘The last of Bationa pow, though once tna Seek, ‘They warn and teach tné proudest, woud they learn, Ir ele ncaped not if Heaven spared hot uo Yaled, eatvered aid extorminafed thus das? If viow received her retribution once ‘When we were visited, what hope for you? What hope, indeed? Let the fulfilment of tho curses thas have been summoned from the law of God answer, recorded for our warning im the divine history. It is a terrible array; but it is mot to be denied that no small portions both of the Old and New Testaments are occupied with these vivid expressions of the divine jastice, these avenging lightnings of God’s violated law. It is not to be denied that God set forth these-maledictions to be a power against sin, a terror to evil-doers, and they do possess an eilicacy when every other method would have failed. God meam them to be applied. Buta man cannot be titted to deal with the divine curses as they ought to bo used without the same holy spirit in his heart ‘by whose influence they were inspired. They are a sharp two- edged sword, and without the spirit of heaven-inspired Jove ® man may cut himself with it oftener than he does God’s enemies, and he will be just as likely to grasp it by the blade us by the handle. Hence the great significance of the catalogue of a Christian’s armor in the sixth chap- ter of Paui’s Epistle to the Ephesians, where the detail be- gins with she truth as a girdle, and rightousness as a breastplate, and the feet shod aud swiftened with the glad tidings of peace, and the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation; ail these personal graces, elements of Christian experievee in porsession, in wearing and use, Defore the mention of the sword of the spirit as the weapon of war, and then follows prayer as always to be used inseparable from the whole, ‘The word of God is quick and powerful, aud sharper than any two-edged sword against #n, abd ifthe church and the ministry ‘would uge it faithfully, trusting in God, sin would be con- quered. Its sharpest cage is to be used, and it 13 not to De wreathed with flowers nor handled deoeitfully, nor the trowel of Ezckiel’s false prophets to be substituted for it, Gaubmg with untempered mortar. Used as God gave it, it bas & power, even against the atheism and inhumanity of slavery, that nothing else can have, In the work of the abolition ot ‘y by the Society of Friends, in one of the Southern States, there was at first great difficulty and opposition. In one of their stormy discussions, an in- uential Quaker, who still held on to his slave property, when it was insisted that they must all relinquish it, atid the most persuasive arguments bad been employed in ‘viup, arose and declared that they had no right to make sucha demand upon him, that his slaves were as truly his property as his oxen, and that it was not obligatory on him to give up the one more than the other. Indig- ant at this assertion, another brother arose to answer hint, and said: “Wriend, that speech of thine came right out from the very belty’of hell, yea, from the very belly of hell thou hast brought this speech.” On their as- sembling the next morning, the man thus pun. geutiy rebuked said to his reproving brother: “Friend, thou didst hurt my feelings; thou didst much distress me by thine unkind speaking. I could get no sloop all night for thy bitterness.” “Friend,” said his neighbor “if thou hast been distressed I am glad of it; 1am glad thou couldet not sleep, and Thope to God thou never wilt sleep till thou hast {reed thy slaves.” And he could not sleep again, and did not, till he had freed his slaves; but had it not been for the ‘faithful reproof his brother he might have kept them to this day. Read the 27th chapter of Deuteronomy, and then say for what purpose were these curses given, and to whom were they committed for use and application. To the church and the ministey, for a greut, wise, most merciful and good purpose, against the cruel, remorseless, gigantic sin of men and ‘nations; against oppreseors and those who sanction their villanies. Itis the business of the church* and ministry to apply these withering denunciations, just as God gave them, to the precise sins which he has catalogued and classified there and elsewhere for their reprobation. They are tre- mendous weapons, which thoee only can use aright who are themselves Thspired with God’s love, and therefore know how to hate whatj God abbors and has forbidden, But if stich who profess to have been the recipients of his grace refuse this mission, then let them refrain from de- nouncing, in their turn, those who, perhaps without the spirit of love, but to supply their treachery, take up the burden of those curses and seem to occupy themselves wholly with them. If the church do not curse at God’s command, in sympathy with him, out of love, and in the spirit of righteous indignation in behalf of the oppressed and against the oppressor, then the world will curse, the heart of agonized humanity will curse, out of nothing but wrath and hatred. If the church and ministry refuse to apply these denunciations of God agaiust sin, then the world will take them up and scatter them as Hrebrands, arrows and death. If the church do not use thom as God inteuded, men out ef the church, driven into infideli- ty by the church sanctioning sin, will’ brandish them with mere natural revengeful passion and heat. If this tire be not kindled on God's altar, in God’s fireplace, the devil will scatter itll about the house, Or if conservative saints jump upon the safety valve to confine the steam and prevent the noise, then no wondor if it explodes to men’s destruction. It is thus that such a man ag John Brown, of Ossawatemie, was thrown from his ba- lance ‘and driven to a’ course of desperation. Tho church and the ministry would not giye vent to that fire which God bas commitied to them for applice tion against sin, and the consequence was that a double portion of it in his soul exploded. A silent, conservative, treacherous church and ministry compel such a soul to do more, to feel more, to hate moro, than its sensitive organi- zation can bear; and it very naturally may give way un- der the pressure. If the church and mjuistry had done their duty, John Brown would have done no more than his; John Brown would have been found with the church, dirécting the great guns of God’s word against the sin of slaveholding, and not at Harper's Ferry with carnal weapons. Let not those professed Christians who have neglected their duty presume to utter one word against that martial hero for having overdone his, The dumb dogs that never even yelped against slavery are deep- mouthed in their deminciations of him. Tue man has committed no treason, but the silent church and ministry have. If the man should be hanged, it is their treason, not his own, for which he suffers. They who have sanc- tioned the iniquity and cruelty against which he has been fighting are the traitors, and the anguish of such treachery, if such a man brooded long over {t, might hava driven him almost mad, even if the murder of his own children had not been added to it. ‘The inactivity and treachery of the church, amidst the prevalence of such enormities, drive some men into infidelity, but_not a man whose com: munion is with God, not a irue Christian such as John Brown is sald tgbe; the mischiet with him aecms to have been that the failure and treachery of others, their un- faithfulness to God aud the enslaved, filled him with more fire than he could keep within the bounds of wisdom and prudence. It is the declaration of divine inspiration itself that oppreesion maketh a wise man mad. Let those that are without sn cust the first stone, ‘The great lesgn of the tragedy is this: If the men of peace will not Spply God’s law against the sin of slaveholding in the shape of argument and earnest truth, the men of war will put it in she shape of bullets, and fightit out. Most of the wars in this world have risen from the scarcity and unfaithfulness of Christian warriors; for if they will but tight God’s battles with the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God, God himself promises that éven men of violence shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and the nations shall learn war no more. DISCOURSE OF REV. HUGH HENRY BLAIR AT THE ASSOCIATE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. A numerous and fashionable oongrogation was in at- tendance last evening at the Associate Pressbyterian church in Charles street, to listen to a discourse on the Harper’s Ferry outbreak by the Rev. Hugh Henry Blair, the pastor. After the chaunting of some psalms, and the performance of other of the usual services, the orator of the evening read from the Bible the second chapter of Exodus, wherein ig related the birth of Moses, his exposure when only three months old in an ark of bulrushes among the flags, his rescue by the daughter of Pharaoh, and the slaying of the Egyptian for wronging an Hebrew. The Rey. Mr. Blajr then offered up a long prayer, after which the twelfth psalm, commencing— Help, Lord, because the goodly doth daily fade away, And from among the sons of men the faithful do decay; Unto his neighbor ev'ry one doth utter vanity: ‘They with a double heart do speak, and lips of flattery, ‘was sung by the whole congregation. The reverend gen- tleman next read his text, which was taken from the seventh chapter of the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, as follows— 22, And Mores was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyp- tinns, and was mighty in words and deeds. #4. And seeing one of them suffer wrong he defended him, ano avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the ry 7 his brethren would have un how that’ God by bas hud would deliver them; but they The speaker began his discourse by remarking that there was a strange and wonderful similarity in the his- tory of mon and things in various ages. ‘The text was se- lected from tho last sermon pretchiod by Stephen, the first martyr under the present dispensation to holy reli- |. This text, he said. had a striking bearing upon the untoward event which lately occurred im our own land. Not that the chief actor was to be placed above Washing- ton, or Fegarded-as equal to the great Lawgivor of Isradl; but’ because there was something illustrative of the conduct of heroes in that of the rash amd impetuous Brown of Harper's Ferry notoriety. Jn the care of Moses there was every reason to believe this act was not approved of by God, but held up as a warning to men. The sight of wrong, sympathy with the oppressed , called forth the violence of Moses, aud #0 it was, with the hero of the Harper's Ferry insurrection, thou his offence against the law of the iand was not to be for that reason palliated. The same absolute power now exerciaed by slave masters over their slaves was exer- in big conception of human freedom, rose : the the world ane funy in religion a a a er then referred to the deed. of Mones tn smitine Ue Egyptian, which was murder, deliberate here rad greatezcitemo nt doubles aan pal Brown's iusresion was nueteoniis 8 of a mous character which might him to the deed.” Governor Wise bimeelf, and chivalrous as he was, acknowledged Brown| Les thusiasm, here—was the folly of Wendell Phillips in eulogising Brown above Ws ton, the Father of h oor Tho speaker hore bandied tho u of P , used in his late ‘Lessons of the Hour,” Plymouth ‘chu , Brooklyn, and remarked that sentiments were anything but creditable.” When me and 8 were actuated by merely human motives, and acted on the impulses solely of the buman heart they were very likely to speak and act rashly, but different was & with those who followed the prompting: of religion with a sincere desire of doing good to their fel creatures, Moses had to fly and remain in th wilderness for forty years in consequence of his act, b he did return afterwards to emancipate his people, bu not in the character of a murderer, but as the sent of th Lord to deliver his nation from let it 0h be = oo will ba come—God’s own time—fo @ deliverance ot 1@ oppressed of this counts Tet us hope, receive with humility even a still gr ‘baptism of Blood, but lot still jer be offered up the time may soon come when shall be washed from the horizon of our country. us pray that the day may soon come when we all m exclaim, “There are no slaves in this country,” when the oppressed from whatever land may find shel ter among us, and on this soil his chains fall down and h be up a freeman. The Rev. Mr. Blair then co Fy E 44 3 ened, that if they must suffer the penalty of death, they’ ma; sleep in Jesus—in heaven, where-all the inhabiusate Joice as one glorious family, washed in the blood of Jest ‘and sanetified by his grace. The Wrecked Steamboat Champion. TWO TERSONS KILLED—HER PRESENT CONDITION: THE BODIES FOUND— THE CORONER'S INQUEST, ETC. ‘The steamboat Champion, of the New York and Ne‘ Haven line, which was run into at 6A. M. Wedn last by the propeller Albatross from Providence, is lying high and dry on the marine ways at Hunter’s Poin She presents a very dilapidated appearance inside ‘out. About fifteen feet forward of her engine, and to the port side wheelbox, is the break, or rather the cision, made by the Albatross. It is a clean cut throug} the heavy timbers of the guard and hull straight into th boiler, which has a large rent in it. This cut is exactly shape the outline of the bow of asharp pointed showing with what force the Albatross must have struc the Champion. The ladies’ saloon aftis entirely destroyed the planks of the ceiling, or promenade deck, still han together. The floor is now strewn with all kinds of a parel, broken timber, hides, boxes, codfish, all piled on upon the other. The greater portion of the cargo flo ashore, after she sunk, near Fresh Pond, Long Ii q ‘The lower cabin is also in a very bad conditio Her boiler is neurly ruined; her machinery is not at broken, nor injurt rially, and, strange to say, n timbers ten feet each side of the cut do not seem to be all strained. Mr. English and Mr. Sneeden, shipbuild examined her yesterday, and remarked that her timb were free from rot. The Champion was brought to her present position on| floating derrick, twenty-three hours after the derrick le} New York—probably the quickest job of the kind done. The derrick left the city at nine o’clock Thursd morning, arrived off Mattinicock Point, Long Island Sound at 54g P. M.; it took but four hours to raive the steam and at 9 o’clock Friday —' she arrived at the foot the ways at Hunter's Point. raising her, a ho was chopped into the cabin and a safe taken out ing $1,600, which, with papers, was found uninjured. it has been thought since the accident first happen that more bodies the two that were at first m would be found when the cabins could be examined; b these are the only bodies on the wreck, and were éasi identified as those of Mr. George Steel, of New Have and Martin Jackson, a tireman. It is algo stated by aptain and Mr. McNeil, the pilot, that there is no dou of ieee peng iue caus pereces om At 8:20 P. M. Friday water had sufficiontly loft th wreck the cabins. Steel's body was found in the lower cabin, clinging to berth a few feet from the fopt of the forward staircase the cabin. His berth was on the other side of the cab and near the stern of the boat, two berths removed fro another stairoase at the stern. When found the right foot was resting on the edge the lower berth, the left foot hanging out, the right han grasping tho top of the upper berth, and the left graspi the edge of the upper berth in a most felike attiba He had his night clothes on, showing that he must ha been asleep in his berth when the accident happened, was drowned before he could reach the forward stairw The fireman’s body had been previously found in t fireroom, clinging to a laader leading to the deck. He h been 80 budly scalded that the body could not be remo ‘without removing the skin at each touch. The following is the tesumony taken before the Ca roner: John McNeil, the pilot of the Champion, made the fo lowingstavement:—I wason board the Ctlampion, actin a8 pilot, on the 2d of November, at five o'clock, ft Saude Point; at the time of the'aocident, the Chatopio wus on her’ regular route from New York to Net Haven; the Albatross was geen directly ahead. in ou course; we then turned a little to the right and blew th whistle twice; the pilotof the Albatross kept a straigl course for us; they had no sail hoisted, but. were depen: ing on their steam. John Tuttle, wheelman of the Champion, was tH second and last witness exumined. Being uuly sworn, 1 suid:—He was on board the Champien on. the 2d inst: about five o'clock in the morning saw the propeller some little distance; she came direct for us; did not tu out at all, and ran ‘into us; we bad on first hd turned half a powt, aud blown a whistle; they did n then turn out, and we turned another Bali point, ad blew a whistle, and the propeller ran directly into us. While our reporter was e: ‘the wreck, a h containing a handsome y coffin drove up, an the remains of Mr. Steel were removed, to be sent to Ne Haven, by the Island City, in the evening. Me. Si leaves a wife and three sons, residing in New Haven. It is the intention of the company to put the Champic immediately into repair, The Traveller, whose plad the Champion took, uud whose fate she shared, is be rapidly repaired, and it is thought will be out the latt<| part of this week, The body of Martin Jackson, the fireman, was foun] before the wreck was taken from off Fresh Pond. Coroner’s jury was then summoned, and an inquest hel! upon the body, by Coroner Hawhurst, ef Glencove. Th verdict was :— That the deceased, Martin Jackson, carr] to his death by scalds and burns recelyed iu cousequenc of 4 collision between the Albatross, of Prot vidence, R. I., and the steamer \, of New Havel which collision caused the boiler of the latter vessel burst. And we further find, that said collision caused by the grogs carelessness of those in charge of tl} Albatrogg. An inquest was held on. the boay ‘of el at Hunter’s Point ou . Mr. Of Astoria, was the Coroner. iagige sind The Jury was composed of the following named pe gone—lonathan Crano, | (foreman,) John MeGtiver ‘William Toomey , Edward , James Sinclair, Jam Slattery, Moses Springstad. After a very short dolibe tion, the above jury brought in the following verdict: “We, the jarors called to inquire into the cause of tt] deatti of Goorge Steele, who came to his death on board || the Champion, on November 2, 1859, do say that he can to his death by the criminal carelessness of tho pilot emhe inquest wan held at 11:80 ; e inquest was al 50 A. M. on Saturday, ¢ board ofthe Champion, at, Hunter's Point. | Dur 4 inque: roner, Mr. Stephen Higby, of Astoria, as | ed the first witness, the pilot, bee ees lenty of cha” nel room for the two vessels to pass each other easil when the accident happened. He replied that there wa but that there was more rooms on the Albatross’ sic than for the Champion ‘The inquest was very much hurried with, on account the impatience of the deceased's friends to have the bo removed to New Haven. Supreme Court—Special Term. Before Hon. Judge Ingraham. Noy. 6.—H. M. Richards’ Jewelry Company vs. Isaac Allen et als.—Motion granted” uniese the. plaintiff tle bond mune protunc, which he is allowed to do. ‘Tho d fendunts’ costs of $10 to abide the event. William Emerson, Jr., vs. Nelson G. Smith et als.—M" | tion granted to strike out the first and wecond defences | showed and judgment ordered. John Pocock vs, Nicholas Splers.—It is too. catty int | cause to move for a reference, If the Court should ord)))) the accounting, it will thert be referred for that purpos” ‘The case must first be tried at Special Term. Moti | denied; costs to abide the event. : Jovi P. Martin and others vs. Max Well and others. Motion granted as to the first Paragraph #0 far as Fe to the contents of pleadings and insert a general averment of the fraud. of the motion is denied. Naw Yor Post Orvices,—The following Post this State have been discontinued :—Cran county; Burr’s Mills, Jefferson 5 Page’ Herkimer county; and May Flower, vaca | CAaNprparEs Yor Minsurrmun.—There are cles for the nomination of midshipmen in the follow, Congressional districts in the State fy A js ati we ‘Third, Tenth, Sixteenth, Nineteantb, Twenty ty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Thirty-Arst