The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1861, Page 2

a . ee * “3 t ge Ki NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. “8 § 0S Sea" Gen? —@ Ge? way ene eee cee ee ee ee eee eee ee ec ec tc cr AAU Wnt. SRERSEN UTES OP SERRE RSENS ePeemNR Weer rNepon eee RENE IPE -eammeeoE nomad dag er, Sagar Tone Kin.” King nls | Zu brs eterna wen 2 see a | ting ane Cot wi aap a | is Se ‘uy cio fala are ot | Gt arsed Wo manhattan ad | Wek mak, wih gtrne, Senay own magnanimor igment , c - | “righteous ov: tes “gig? cl : catened with diskolution. But te best answer | their purity—if in any of these things, or others, the | commence to get up and send, not your memorials, but Powerful to fomeut and augment the peg ini ory edt oR ata ce gee pt a on sa ting against the duty of a natiolalacknowledg. | master deprives the boud servant of that which is ‘just | your eemmands, to those whom you ave sent t0 the mows not, but which is plainly taught by the pre- muni winch be 18 powerleas to allay. OF at Oa aght oman er . : f Almighty God may be witnessed ia this natioual | and equal,” governing, for his gole, exclusive benedt, | Dational Legislature to support and ‘ ht | as that rever st] 66 & lead amon, io who | cepts of men, they would entertain more equity ani less | ment o! ghty y 4 ‘ hagge ; va ‘ . — ave been | as asin, T wished to convinge inyself whether he Southern fellow citizens would adopt. the Bible view of | against aud 1 sive ition | the cry 7 p ears of nu commands to tiem. Let this be, done throughou ie patience of a reflecting prope shows Mia s . t code which por- he mcrey £¢at, and ecmpels the utterances of faith in | God of Subaoth, appealing for deliverance and for juat all the States of this confederacy, aud the y willbe e material greatness | f «| any Scripture warranty for so doing, and whether | slavery, and discard that heathen slave code which por- | to the mercy , pe ° pea I nO nt a . t : x ° micst giited tiuds ; 90 that, Urgent as is our wed, | for moral instruction advangol | by, the New | which throws a stigma aud a disgrace on the whole body | rie seo aeday, asa nation, it is right, proper and | duot of Je-us and His Apostics aa the law and the tostime. | bave a right to speak have said should not be dissolved, Pressing as is the occasion, no or set of men have | Testament, I have accordingly examined the various | of slaveholders; if both North ond South would do what oy eres poenx Wed Hsing above the narrow | Dooks of Christian ciphave snd fin that they afford the | is right, then “Ged would see their works, and that they Kee of sectional iuduonoes ahd prejudices, ant with | reverend gentleman and bis compeers RO authority turned frem the evil of their ways,” and im their caso, zon of sectional inlluene telicent, to embra>e the | whatever for his and their bold declainations. ‘The New | as iu that of the poople of Nineveh, Ho would mereitu'ly Mrety ofthe Union, and to secure its prosp: | Testament nowhere, directly or indirectly, condemus | ayert the impending evil, for with Him alone is the power pen ng ’ slavebolding—whieh, indeed, i proved by the universal | to dogo. ‘Vherefure, let ua pray:—Almighty and merc! ae ow tr jends, Cotton is not King, and Huma 1 “hongé wactice of all Christian nations during many centuries. | fu! God, we approach Thee this day, our hearts heavy with se ee ee tdenat meek. The Lord alone is Kins. | Receiving slavery as one of the conditions of soeicty, | the weight of our sins, our looks downenst under tue mal. ai boc Tmashala, and Hi: the New Testament nowhere interferes with or contra- | sense of our ingratitude, national and individual. Thou, eli. This very cay of humiliation 3 dicts the slave code of Moses; it even preserves a letter | Father, all bounteous, bast, in thine abundant goodness, it duc the ree gi ition of Hig supremac written by one of the most eminent Christian teachers to | plentifully bestowed upon us every good and every bless- of His power and of our own weakne a slayeowner on sendipg back to him his runaway | ing. spiritual, mental, temporal, that in the present stato Sbich pur distress addresses to His m slave, And when we next refer to tho history and ‘‘ro- | of the world man can desire. But we have perverted ny. The relation of apprenticeship was allowed amoug | Therefore, my humble recommendation is to instantly the Hebrews for a period of six years. “If thou bay | eemmenee the preparation of these memorials, or com a Hebrew servant, six years shail he serve, and in the | mands, or ‘whalever else you may call them, and send seventh he shall go out frve for nothing.”” (Exod. xxi.,2.) | them on to your servants by thousands and thoasands, conservative to confess Him, not merely iu a spasmodic way, bot ou principle, and ia the solemuity of a constitu tichal act. Put our fathers, in their opposition to a union of Church and State, with just apprehensions of the dominecring exactness of bigotry and the predominance of sectar tolerance, swung back on the extreme op- posite of ignoring Ged as the Ruler of the nation. It is a hopeful sign of the influence of Christianity that the laws and practices of most States and of the United tes observe the Divine law of a Christian Sunday. And it is an omen of dark por- tent that the convention of the seceding State of South ( But emancipation was prohibited if the servant choso 10 | and tell them that they must act; that the hopes of thie Femain for life. “and-.f the servant shall plainly say, 1 | country, that the sovereignty of this country, the peace love my master, my wife aud my out free; then his master shall brily he shall also bring bim to the door, or athe fe and his master si e his ear through with an a and he shal! serve bim forever.” (Kixod. xxi., 5,6; Deut. | this Union. Jt is time for the people to speak, and the ae pg 9 Voluntary slavery was thus permitted out of | people may very respectfully and properly demand uldren: K will not go | of this country must, be preserved, and that tho oppor- im unio the judges; | tunity shall be aiforded thein to, express their desires. to the door-post, | For there is not an individual citigen in this country however humble he may be, who has not an imterest in a sess 7 i o> wi rel that they hall have an ity w be ; ov } ” ‘own ‘a % : : ogines and | Cuvolina profaned the Lord’s day in not observing it. | regard to the slave's will and preference, In allusion to ass shea supplications may be gre ee, aaenine hacer othes” ones Gat ge ee fextmct poison | For i, there be any truth in physiology, it is | this fact aud ceremony, the spirit of prophecy, speaking heard, and demand it im tones that will ‘not admit Ghat Hie suproms pro gave the Tex Commandments on Mount Sinai— from. Thy most precions booms; the spiritual have | that (he seventh day's rest is wholesome and’ neeo. | im the name of Christ aud foretelling his voluniary servi- | of refusal by those who after all are our sorvants—no pag: aap piel for ery Th here His finger scorched the tablet shone; degenerated into eelf-righteousness, the mental have ren- | sary (0 man. And when Robespierre and his godless | tude for our salvation, describer Him as saying, ““Sucri- | more than our servants; and it would be a marvel And Pee pert Wart ihenn merely us bandful, 0 There where ils chadow on His people shone; | deed ve vatn-ginrious and eoncaited, and the vemporai | aud bi-vly” baud veitured to amend he divine law, | Hee and oferiag, thot didst net desire; mite,éars haat | snemaly. under a coustitalonal government ke this Union loving Hebrews, but I mean the whole of the peo: His glory shrouded in its garb of fire, have degraded us into. Mammon-worsbipping slaves of | by appointing the tenth day as the decade of rest, Sorreveinedi Tota nes Cees yp Sue | Ovecuréour rights. ‘They must otherwise be trying 10 hited States, the President and his Himnrelt no eye might see and not expire. avarice, Intoxicated with our prosperity, we have for- | FYench rmy, both man and beast, fainted and suceitmb- #ebinet, th at elect and his advisers, the kaders | Even on that mést solemn and most holy occasion slaye- | getten Thee; druxken with pride, we ree! on towards the of publie opi ‘rth and vouth. If they truly and | holding is not only recognized and sanctioned as | precipice of disunion and ruin. What band can stay us if heuestly desire to save our country, let them believe in | aa integral part of the social structure, when | it be not Ihine,) Lord? Thou who art long suffering, as God and in His holy word ; aud then, when the authority | it is ccmmanded that the Sabbath of the Jord ) thou art almighty, to Thee we turn in the hour of our ut- ef the constitution is to be set aside fora higher | is to bring reet to Ngabdecha ve amathecha—‘thy | most need. Hear us, Father, for on Thee our hopes are law, they will be to appeal to the | male slave end thy female slave.” (Exod. xx., 16; | fixed. Help us, Father, for Thou alone canst do it. Punish highest law of all, tho a law, apd | Lect. v., 14.) But the property in slaves is placed | us not according to our arrogance. Affiict us not aocord- Word of God, which afiords its supreme sanction to | under the same protection as any other spe ’ | ing to our deserts, Remove from our breasts the heart ‘the constitution. There can be no doubt, my friends, that | lawful property, when it is said ‘thou shalt not o of stone, and from our jwind the obstinacy of self-willed owever much of personal ambition, gellishness, pride | thy neighbor's house, or nis field, or his male slave, or | pride. Extend Thy grace unto us, that we may acknow- aud obstinacy there may enter into the present unhappy | bi3 female slave, or his ox, or his ass, or aught that bo p our own transyressions. Open our eyes, that wo qnarre) bot ween the two great sections of the Common- | longeth to thy neighbor.” X.,17; v., 21.) That behold and renounce the wrong we tatlict on our Wealth, Tsay it is certain that the origin of the quarrel | te male slave and the female Slave here spoken of donot | neighbors. God of justice and of mercy suffer not despots Stsclf ia the difference of opinion respecting slaveholding, } designate the Hebrew bondman, but the heathen sl to rejoice at our dissensions, nor tyrants to triumph over which the one section denonnces as sinful, aye, as the | Irhall presently show you. That the Ten Command | ovr fall. Let them not point at ug with the finger of most heinous of sin?, while the other section upholds it | ments are the word of Ged, and as such of the vorr | scorn, or fay, “Lork at the fruits of freedom ‘and ‘ag perfectly lawful. ‘It is tho province of statesmen to | highest authority, is acknowledged by Christians as wll | self-government, — of equal rights and popular examine the eircumetances under which the constitution | as by Jews. 1 would therefore ask the reverend gen- | poyereignty’’—strife without any real cause, de. ‘of the United States recognized the legality of slavchold Ueman of Brooklyv and bis compeers:—'‘How dare you— nection without any sufficient motive. O, let wg, aud under what circumstances, if any, % becomes in the face of the sanction and protection afforded to | not them who truet im Thee put to shame, sre against the Jaw of the laud. slave property in tho fen Commandments—how dare you thove who seek Thee be disgraced. Almighty God, ex- whether slavebolding is. a sin before denounce sliveholding as a sin? When you remember nd Thy gracious protection to these United States. Pour Jongs to the theologian. T have been requested by promi- | that Abrabrm, Jacob, Job—the men with whom | out over the citizeus thereof and those whom they have nent citizens of other denominations that [should on this | the Aimighty communed, with whose names He rulers the spirit of grace and of sup- day exumiue the Bible view of slavery, as the religious ¥ coxnects His own most holy name rit of wisdem and brotherly love, so that mund of thé country requires to be enlightened on this ouchsated to give the pt ‘pe t, upright, en as hitherto, they may know that union mubject. In compliance with that reques:,and after hum Ged and eschewing evil’ ’—(Job i., 8)—that all , and that it is good and pleasant for brethren Diy. praying that the Father of trath and of mercy wore slavcholders, does it not strike you cowell together in unity, And above all things, Lord, exlighten my mind and dire cords for good that you are y of something very little short of cifulaud gracious, avert the calamities of civil war about to solicit your caraest « 1, my friends, to bis | blasphemy? And if you answer me, “Oh, in their time m our midst. i in thy supreme wisdom Thou Last serious subject. My discourse will, I’ fear, take up moro | slavcholding was lawful, but now it has become a sin,” 1, reed that (his vast commonwealth, which has risen ‘of your Line than Tam in the habit'ef exacting from you; | in my turn, ak you, when and by what anthority do you } vnder Thy protection and prospered under Thy blessing, 7 chal) now be separate let that s oe emir’ Ged.” (Pealms. x1., 6-8; compare Hebrews x., 5-9.) | Cestroy the very things they are appointed to secure to The Apostle to the Hebrews employs this prophe-y and | 1. ‘These thinge should not be #0. Men of all partics is familiar iNustration to exemplify the voluntary | hould agree to this at once. Forget not, however, that meciatorial sufferii of the Messiab. ‘The slave, | mall wedo we must have Ged’s blessing, that God’s anong God's ancient people, was as one af | blessing must be inplored. Ang the American woman the family to whom privileges were allowed not | bas her duty. jot that she should mingle in granted to the guest nor to the hired servant, Asan ex- | }Olitics; God‘ forbid! God forbid! Tet her 6c ample, the priest’s portion of the sacrifice of theshew | cupy and adorn that sphere which becomes bread, “which it was not lawful for any to eat but the | her, go that her country may point with prieet”’ and his family, was the meat of the bond slave, ide to her daughters. But they have fathers and “There ehall no stranger eat of the holy thing; a scjourner brothers and husbands; and a word from you, ladies, of the priest, or an hired servant shali not eat of the holy | may prompt them to the performance of this very simple thing. But if the priest buy any ole his money he | Cuty of enrolling their names uj those memorials, de- shall eat cf it, and he that is born in his house, they shall | manding action of * we are sacrificed as a eat of his meat.” (Levit, xvii., 10, 11.) ‘The special | jeople. That is the only suggestion I have to make, ask- enactment which authorized bondage for life is in these | ing the exclusion of all other Guestions, settling this great words:—Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids which | question first, and I do believe that whenever tho je thou shalt baye shall be of the heathen that are round | shall assemble to arrange those difficulties they will about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bond- | arranged amicably and without |. ished. And the ef- maids; moreover, of the children of the strangers that do | fort will be to give greater stability to our own institu- sojourn among you, of thom shall ye buy, and of their fa- | tions and secure them more firraly upon the foundations milies that are with you, which they begat in your land, | which our fathers have built. and they shall be your possession, And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your ebildren after you, to in- “ herit them for a possession: they shall be your boadmen THE REV, DR, FRANCIS GALLAUDET, forever." (Levit. xxy., 4448.) Taking these permis: sive laws into one view, we sec jomes- ’a Epi 1 Church for Deaf tic slavery undoubtedly authorized; but in every case the | S* cae = cfr pctgpenn condition of the pene Para Seesavet by sneer pol fates, ighteen Ts wabam tekivetiCn fhe Se easel bene master | Services were held at St. Aun’s Episcopal chureh for and slave; for, in the case of the voluntary slave, it was to gratify’ hie ‘affections, and in the case o” the heathen | deaf mutes, in Fighteenth street, yesterday, in ac slave it was to bring him into the midst of civilizing cvl- | cordance with the request of the President. The church ede restore U tical truths of Chrietianity is the fact that the people who, in the spirit of Jesus, observe the Sunday for wor- ship, for rest and for deeds of necessity and charity, are blessed of God, beth in health of body and in cheerful piet heart, Let it be a lesson of this fast day of the nal to train a public sentiment for the acknowledg- ment of (ied and Christ im our civil constitutions and @ the mandates of our rulers and in the habits of the p § ple. Second—A further cause of our national trouble may be traced to our social and political corruption. Pride and beastivg, self-reliance and individual independency; will and liberty sprouting into licentiousness; violent ccmpetition in trade and in politics ;covetousness for money and for place; reluctance to the slow processes of labor in agriculture and in the mechanic arts; enterprise, pushed inte impatience, through haste to be rich. These are our national cheracters, in some of which we observe virtues ordinately exercised till they become perverted into vices. But the crowning shame and the damning stigma on the fore front of the republic is bribery. It is histori- cal that the decay of every iblic has begun in the form of a corruption most ‘subtle, by influencing magis- trates and legislators ind judges through some kind of purchase. It was the case, ag every clussical boy knows, in the beginning of the downfallof the republics of Greeoe and Rome. It was the premonitory symptom of the ead of the theocratic republic of Israel. When old Semmel resigned his Vicegerency, hé appealed to. the people to attest his personal fidelity:—‘‘Of whose hand have I received a bribe to blind mine _ therewith?” r r oppressive toil, compelling the First Consul to » seventh day Sabbath. And among the prac- self rn day ne 0, 1 ay, to liston to draw the line? Tel! us the precise tim then we beseech Thee they said, ou hast not taken aught of any man’s Renee dey dione must be accounted aa a pani. | ing ceaeed to bo pormaitied and became parution be pea " ihat no human blood may be shed, "and be said to thom, “The Lordis witwees againgt | ture, Poth in ming and sip jTipwas cminenty a domes- | Wag growded, and the services and sermon partook of the fentia! infiction. rauember the wirehiet which this inventing of a now J bv" that the canopy of Thy peace may stil remain epread | you this day that ye have not found jvght in my ; te! Ihstitation. Yet, the Word of God does not fail re: | ee etce ana ip wow extant. After tho ‘Usual of my inves ation i Mo "o ta: sin not known to the Bible is causing—how it exase over ali the land. lay we add our prayers to Thee, nd they anewered, He is witness.” (1 Samuel, xii.,3—5. x hard , Soo re ae a ee ae ee | caadaeetines SLA conta Anka eee dom. ( pliable time; mayest Thou, 0. God, in | So boldly and soleninly did that pabive olllcer purge hint. | when the civilized mam is reduced to" bondage; | opening prayer and hymn, tho pastor, the Rev. Thonsas back can we trace the 2 1: slavehoiding condemned as asin in sacred Scrip etence of the North, toa degree that men who should y, answer us with the truth of Thy ‘ture? be brothers are on the point ae _ — in f : 1 pata % § - 7 Cition 01 eo Alay biblical 06 each other's blood—are we not entitled to the reve- At the conclusion 0! ia discourse th? preacher was wit ne was tbe condition of the slave In biblical Aithas | eee aeaaay nt EVeape WCas Cakehats seedn Gx | wavwlyibekes by te Ma Ts large oan ot not in his ways, but turned aside after Incre, and took | there ye rhall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen | from the first epistle of St. Peter, fifth chapter and sixth and bondwomen. In the morning thou shalt say would | yerge:—s‘Humble yourself, therefore, under the mighty a thou shalt say would God it ‘ q ¥ 4 a iuiretog?? "Deut xxv 88, 09.) In allthis we re- | hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time”? cognie a certain authority for slavery which it would be | He said that:— ted judgment.” (18am. vill. 3.) And sult and exasperate thousands of God fearing, law abid- ens, WhO in the hext verse, that the ing citizens, whose moral worth and patriotism, whoze purity of consoience and of life, are fully equal ‘to your own! What right have you to place youder gray headed pgregation, several Southern gentiomen having availed mselves of the first opportunity to express their appre ciation of his sentiments. bribes and per with this record, it follow: jon rejected God.“ Lord gaid to Samuel, they e not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that And saying, with our father Jacob, for “Thy help T hope, 0 Lord,’ 1 proceed to examina tha question, how Mar back cau we trace the existence of slavery? “ p M.. It is generally admitted that slavery had its origin | philanthropist (Touro) on a level with a murderer, or HE REV. DR. FRANCIS VIN I sheuld not reign over them.” In this short history is | uncandid to deny. Yet it remains to examine the ques- "Though this passage of Holy Scripture forms part of an $n war, public or private. The vietor, having it in bis } yonder virtuows mother of a family on a line with an THE REV. DR, CIS VINTON, not the portraituf our country sketched? Our fathers, | tion by the light of the New Testament, And it is ad- Meine Ga tadete ar 10 take the life of his vanquished enemy, prefers | Liuiteress, or yonder honorable and honest man in one ~ a like Sautucl, could call God and the people to witness thai | mitted on all sides that the institution of slavery waa | SPostolic admonition to the y universal during the human life of Jesus and His Apostles. | Christian church to act towards each other in simple Yet we read of no instance when our Lord changed the | hearted humility, looking only for the exaltation which ycient laws on the subject; but he taught those princi- a pies and precepts of al love, which, if obeyed, would should, for Christ’s sake, be their reward at the hands of mitigate, if not bless, relationship of master and ser- | their Maker, yet its teaching is especially appropriate to Jet him live, and reduces him to bondage. The life he | rank with & thief’—and all this solely because they exer- | Trinity Church (EK; isan). Broad- ‘has spared, tho body ho might have mutilated or destroy- | sise a right which your own fathers and. proge’ y keg ionamin ed, become his absolute property. Ho may dispose of it | tors “during mavy” generations held and exe way. Many way he pleases. Such was, and through a great | cised without reproach or compunction? You | The snow storm of yesterday did not prevent ar up- pert of tho world still is, the brutal law of force. When | profess “to frame your ‘moral instruction of the | usicn° iuryecovereazcion fro attending Teivity chivah state of things first began it is next to impossible to | race’ according to the requirements of the New | “Svélly large congregation from attending Trinity chu — ER ee pe nt ch spay ce 4 tyre ~e Testament; but tell us where and by whom it is said, | in the forenoon. Not only the pews, but the aisles moat truth?ul collection of records now or at any time in | «Whosoever shall say to his neighbor, Raca (worthless | and porches of the stately and venerable odifice were existence, we find the word ngeied, slave, which the Eng- | sinner), shall be in danger of the council; bat whosoever raat crowded. Th i at Fg ais Beh version renders servant,” first used by Noah, who, | ghail say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the judment.’”” | “eveely crowded. The unvarying brown o ive 3m Genesis ix. , 25, curses the descendants of his son Him, | My friends, I find, and Iam sorry to find, that Iam deli- | stone walls and pillars was profusely adorned aud re- y saying they should be ngebed ngabadim, “the moauest | vering a pro-slavery discourse. I am no friend to slavery | lieved by boughs of palm trees and other pretty ever- slaves,” or, as the Fnglish version has it, “servautof | jn the ubstract, and still less friendly to the practical celia: ait ie aeittk: “eebiiie ask and Soliihaiae Rervants.”” The question naturally arises, how came | working of slavery. But I stand here aga teacher in Is- | © 5 pulpit, rf esh to age thie os reeslon? How came he to know a y- | Tael, not to place’ before you my own feelings and, opl- table were tastefully festooned and draped with the thing pomowany ions, but to propoui you tl § le | fol! of green winter. exeraises ‘Shuman beings on earth, except Noah and his family of | view of slavery. With a due sense of my responsibility peat he The cla Sng shears’ ig Mhree sons, apparently by one mother, born free and | | must state to you the truth, and nothing but the truth, 4 Teym om the vestry no bribe had ever blinded their eyes to pervert judgment; while their degenerate sons, in the high places of the nation, in the halls of theState and of the city—and, shall I say, in the tribunals of an elective and poorly paid judiciary—are, Jike the sons of Samuel, with ‘turning aside after lucre, and taking bribes and peryert- it Kdolatry was ae hiss laeeaee eer a all who this day give heed to the recommendation of the while slavery was permitted. Saviour an ty Kveatien denounced idolatry, but tolerated ravers: | The Chief Magistrate eager eg ot | aes =r et Apostles, inspired on the of Pentecost, taught bond | like Hezekiah of old, lay before e i slaves fe Lipase Say Cpe ag to their Masters) | country, midst the hallowed associations which cluster ay hygertpne potaecyt gr ope Alene Pema around the courts whence prayer and praige are wont to which is just and equal.” ‘Let as many servants as are under the! oka count their own masters worthy of all | arise to tho great Jehovah. Yes, our beloved he pails thai ae bath Haar thee" A el ne country is in trouble, The great nation, which in many a y a etapa 3 respects is the wonder of the earth, is in danger of dire- them not despise them, because they are brethren, but ud father ‘do them service (I 'Tumevi., 1,2) “Masters | ful disruption, Dark cloudsof impending peril rest upon ing judgment. The subtle temptation appears, not at firet, in the glitter of gold, but in an agreement between parties to help one another in some favorite measure— the peice is demanded and paid for a vote. This is bribery. Next the promise or the hope of in some place of protit, is the motive to a vote, And by this selfich aim the heart is corrupted with bribery. At tast the conscience gets hardened, and the people yield to the apparent necessity, aud the public sentiment becomes defiled, and the itching palm of a covetous band is over- laid with the bribe, according toa tariff of each man’s i 4 childs Noah had ea ty tee Ges te ttirea mo | Alas! are not these sings notorious. Where is ive sea (a lg Shemp Baa Sie aed equal; | the land whose sons and daughters could, until recently, equal, with their wives and children. Noal no | however unpalatable or unpopular that truth may be. room, preceded by choriater boys, attir the pure man in public life who exclaims, ‘‘ Lord, Ihave | knowing ye have also a Master ven.?? ‘of the noble which Mlaved; from tho time he had quitted the ark he could | “Tit te remains for me how. to examine what was the | robes of snowy white, which wero in unison with the | loved the babitatien of Thy house and the place whore | there ia no respect of persons with Him.” (Col. si., 22; | "Peak with united enthusiasm ee Fph. vi., 5,9; Col. iv., 1.) Commentators of every com: | were made for Mberty at Bunker Hill, and Yorktown and plexion of religious persuasion express no doubts that the | New Orleans. The mighty people whose forefathers mag- “servants under the yoke’? were bondmen and bond- women, the slaves of the Roman empire. And there is, Manimously Coniprontined the "great polltioll priiciptes moreover, a fugitive slave law of the New Testa: | "pon which they could not clearly agree seem ment the Fpistle of St. Paul to Philemon, | about to separate upon abstrattions pushed by Onesimus, a fugitive slave of Philemon, flees to Romo, te ‘on both sides to table e: where he is converted by St. Paul. (Verse 10.) The | Passionate men pareve g ube irene. Apoetle sends him back to’ his master horns 12); for he | In the present turmoil—indicating upon the surface of ave none. It therefore becomes evident that Noxh’s | condition of the slave in Biblical times and the ee acquaintance with the word slave and the nature of | Hieprews. And hero we must at once distinguish be. | Yesments of the clergymen, The services did no: vary Slavery must date from before the flood, and existed in | {iron the Hebrew: bondman aud the heathen slave, Tse | materially from the ordinary morning service, but the Bis memory only, uutil the crime of Hany calieg itforth, | sovmer could only, bo reduced to bondage from J 118th, 121st and 61th Pralms were those specially ap- Fou and I may regret that from beneath the waters rhe . prey | a) , ) wrath Noah, fa lis anger. should tinve tished up the idea | pug GaNeeS a ey Me yy tL ‘Meettution | Pointed for the day, and they wore chaunted creditably and practice of slavery; but that he did so is afactwhich | je was ‘sold for his theft.’ (Exod. xx., 11-13.) Or if | by the youthful and numerous choir. The 80th hymn rests on the authority of Soripture. I am tberelore | he became so miserably poor that he could not sustain | was the one chosen for the occasion, It is very appro- gostified when, tracing slavery as far back as it can be | life except by begging, he had permission to “sell” or | Yeiate, and reads a8 follows:—- Thine honor ¢welleth. Gather not my soul with sitners, nor my fe with bioody men, tn whose hands la mlachiet and their right hand is fall of bribes. But as for me, I will waik in mine integrity. My foot standeth in aneyen place: in the congregation will I bless the Lord.” (Ps, xxvi. 812.) Where is such aman? Here and there he stands in his uprightness, ‘‘the observed of all observers,” ‘the cynoswe of every eye,” revered and hated; a pattern of incorrupt virtue, sending forth Braned, I arrive at the corelusion that next to the | pind himeelf in servitude. (Levit. xxv.. 39, et. sig But the beama of his light over the dark mass of like | would not keep bim to serve himself, out of regard to the | passing events what under currents of murmuring and domestic relations of husband and wife, parents and rane his servitude was limited in’ dura om and Almighty God, before Thy throne the lighthouse on the headlands of the coast, to foil tho | master’s right and the slave's duty (verses 13, mg He | discontent are poisoning the sources of disinterested pa- children, the oldest relation of soviety with which | character. ‘ix years shall he serve, and in the seventh Thy mourning people bend. wreckers and to guide the voyagers in society. My | enjoins Philemon to treat him as a better servant than r hat Swe sre ‘acquainted is that of master and slave. Let | fe snsii'go out tree for nothing.” (Exod. xxi,,2.) And »ris on Thy pardoning grace alono « | Brethren, when an‘honest public agent becomes conspici. | ever, even as a Christin brother (verses 15, 16); and he | trictism—what a blessed thing it is that the. Pre- wa, ior an instance, stop at this curse by Noah, | if'even the bondman preferred bondage to freodom, he Our prostrate hopes depend. ous and js praised for lis fidelity, it is because of a con- | cffers to pay Philemon all damage. (Verse 19.) If we | sident bas asked in bebalf of the country the with which slaver ter the flood, is recalled into ox- | could not, under an} pinay ha ‘be held to servitude trast with wailing dishonesty. That he should ‘“‘be | believe this Scripture and acknowledge the authority of prayers of all who are willing to bow down before istence. Among the many prophecies coutained in tte | Jouger than the jubilee then next oot At od Dark judgments from Thy heavy hepa righteous in his veneration”? js to fix on him the eulogium | this example, we must adinit that it is a violation of the ks fe Sable sud having reference to particular times, persons | (muttnchet ined hed originally belonged to bls ttber a Thy dreadful powers display; rea re ere ee coriptercen tecaneeor Sipe | CUFKURH kw w rein fugitives from their masters, ani | the Almighty Ruler, to bes will pardon andevents, there are three singular predictions, i.) whe He. weg Yes mercy spares our guilty land, aoe ean ett nmon wickedness. Mad when | for the masters to treat them crucliy on tolr return, | our national «ins, and interpose by special providence to So threw distinct races wnloa. sebich Reem WMsHAR! | Tavatreth cheno paescsscey ana = taap mecnesda And atill wa liwa 1 meaw rudd, Katee "pociety exists, God comes with his doluge | Such, my brethren, is the statement of Holy scripture a6 | grant vee return of united peace and good will, Goa So. *Bree,diztinct races of, veemlcn._ which RPM UME | Tepe pelt “ “thins Say “Bas. © torn us, turn ua, mighty God, © avsirey them all. God complains of us in pathetic | it eppears to your preacher, on this question of demestic nt tbat the direct result of this day’s fasting, bumilia, sent day. The firstof these is thedoom of Ham's de. | pended, and the law, in permitting him to be sold, con- Convert ws by Thy grace; -trains:—‘How is the faithful eity become an harlot! It Savery. Have the Southern States complied with the | 8T@ 'y’s fasting, humilia- / noendants, the African race, pronounce! upwards of four | templated his restoration to his full rights, it took care Then shall our hearts obey Thy word ‘was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now | law of God when they refuse to their servants manhood | tion and prayer throughout the land may be deep, sincere ‘Mhousand years ago. The second js tho character of the | that during his servitude his mind ahould not be crushed ‘And see again Thy face. murderers. by silver is become dross, thy wine mixed | rights; when they profane the sacred bonds of marriage; | national humility, undor tho mighty hand of God w descendants of Ishmael, the Arabs, pronounced nearly | to the abject and cringing condition of a slaye— Ye shall four thousand years ago, aud the third and list is the | not rule one over abother with rigor,” is the provision | After tho singing of this byron tho Roy, Dr. Vistow ise of continu estructile nationality made | of the law. ‘Lev. xxv.,46.) Ho is fenced rouwd with | ascended the pulpit and preached the following excellen: ‘us Israclites full two thousand five hundred years «go. | protection against any abuse of power on the part of his discourse, in a plaintive tone and im) ive manner Whas been said that the knowledge that a particular | Cmployer; and tradition go strictly interpreted the letter » D — Prophecy exists helps to work out its fuldiment. And i | Of the law in his favor, that it was @ cominon saying of | singularly adapted to the molancholy eubject on wisieb i par a Willing to allow that with us Israelites such is | piptical times and’ homes, which Marmonides has | was brought to bear:— The fact. The knowledge we have of God's gracious pro. | preserved to us, that “he who buys an Ho- The pense tame to (hey honensat 008, mikes renders us imperichadle. though the greatest | brew Londmon gets himself a master.” Though | even betcre God. and titted up their vole and most powerful nations of the olden time have utterly ‘bis Hebrew was in no wise exempt | and said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass tn perished. It may be doubted whether the fanatic Arab us duties, Therefore it is not for him or | Israel, that ihere should be w-day one tribe lacking in ‘of the desert ever Leard of the prophecy that he is to be | his that the Ten Commandments stipulate for res ton the | Israel}—Judgrs x21., 2, 3. awild man, bis hand sgaiust every man, and every | sabbath of the Lord, for his employer could not compel | The text acquaints us with a time of great distress man’s hand against hin.’ (Geu. xvi, 12.) But y cd _} him to work on that day, and if worl is own se X, and all men of ordicary "education, know | accord he became guilty of death like any other Sabbath | “M06 the tribes of Tsracl. It was an era of lawlessness ‘hat this prediction, at all times, has been, and | treaker. Neither coos the prohibition, «thon shalt not | “4 confusion, when public sentiment wae depraved; © nom, pe ai falailed, and bas | covet the property of thy neighbor,” apply tohim, for he | when personal safety was endangered; when law was dis ever een interry, . _ Not D I | was not the property of his employer. In fact, between 08 Solowers of Mahomet rushed forth Ww spreal his doe- | {ye thebuew hostmnen and the touthern Mave there te ge | Rovored and set at nanght; when piety was rare and wor Yrinee, the Koran in one hand and the sword in tho | joint of comparison. There were, however, slaves among ship of God neglected; when good men retired into the sqtber and when Arab congueah rendore ss the fairvat por | the Hebiews whose general Condition was analogous to | sanctuary of their private and domestic fresides for the ¢ Olt World subject @ empire ir €a- | that of his Southern fellow sufferer. That was the heathen r Uphs. did the descendants of Ishmael renounce their cha- | {aye who was to be bovght--from the heathen that wore | “curity and comforts of life which society denied thom; acteristics. Even the boasted civilization of the present | round about the land of Isracl, or from the heathen | When the Commonwealth was abandoned to the control of eentury, and frequent intercourse with Western travel. | gtrangers that sojourned in the land.’ They should bea | “the sons of Belial,’ who, im the passionate rioting of Jers, still leave tho Arab ‘a wild man, hig hand againat | possession to be bequeathed as an inheritance to the | pampered appetites and ravenous lusts, comnitted atro- everybody, and every man against him'’—a most con- | owner's children after his death “forever,” (Levit. xxv., . vineing and durable proct that the word of God is trae, | 44-46.) Over these heathen slaves the owner's | Cities that appalled the community. (Judges xix., xx.) _ Ny] me ogeeien ph me frm ge map | } wd promerty, was absolute; he cout put them to | It was one of those horrible crimes that roused the tribes tof the Most High. But ugh, i a ard labor, to the utmost extent of their physiaal | , Arab, it is barely possible that he inay be acquainted | ptrength, he could. inflict on them ry cegepe against the tribe of Benjamin, and gathered the congre ‘with the prediction made to Hagar, yet we may be sure | of chastisement short of injury to life and limb. If his | tion together as one man, from Dan to Beersheba. Am- ant the pout serving, benighted {fcican has no kuow | heathen slave ran away or strayed from home, every Ia | bassadors were sent to the offending tribe to demand the Sedge of Noah's prediction, w owever, i8 Nowhere | ractite was bound to bring or send him back, as he would i qoore fully or more atrocionsly carried out than | haye todo any ether portion of bia neighbor Property | Suixender of the children of Belial for punishment, But Mm the native homo of the African. Witness the | (hat had been lost or strayed. (Deut. xxii., 3) Now | ‘the tribe of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of aeerid fact ile ban a ed ves wef pada = you may, perhaps, ask me how I can reconcile this state- | their brethren,.”’ but made common cause with the very time ng wi oe ment with the text of Scripture so frequently quoted ‘ e deep tench, sutlicient to float a boat; that the | against the Fugitive Slave law, “Thoushaltnot surrender | "ders, and “gathered themsclves together to vietime” arc’ innocent men, murdered’ to satisfy | tuto his master the slave who. is eacaped from lis mas. | €° Out to battle against the children of Israel,” come freak bl What . = wi. — in ter unto tien” ‘Deut, x, 30). 5 ore you that ac- | Civil war was tho consequence, and the tribe of that Monstrous and me om a cording to al its this text applies to a en slave i near! Those 0 opposition either from the pious indignation of Great | ‘who from any foreign country escapes from his maser, | Penisinin was ruined nearly to e<tormination. Briain or from the maluue humanity of ocr country. | even though that master bo an Hebrew, residing out fearful times are described in tho last verse of Now, | ang well aware that the Tiblical critics called ra- | the land of Israel. Such aslave—but such a slave only: the Book of Judges, in these few omphatic words:— Monalists,” who deny the possibility of prophecy, bave | is to tind a permanent asylum in any part of the country | ‘In those dave there no king in Brael; every man Jaken upon themsclves to assert that the prediction of | he may choose, This interpretation is fully borne out by | did that which was right in his. own eyes.””’ Tt was only ‘Which I have spoken wis never uttere! by Noah, but 48 | the words of the precept; the pronoun ‘thou’ is not hero | when the fatal issue of that civi! war was felt in the be- made yp many centuries after him by the Hebrew writse | used in the same ser.co as in the Ten Commandments. | reavements and desalation which ensued, that the of the Bible, in order to smoothen the extermination of | There it designates every soul in Isracl; since every indj- | sentiment was roused in the public heart and God was the Canaan ites, whose land was conquered by the larael- | vidual has it in his power and is im dnity bound toobey | remembered, Under the pressure of the common woe, Mes. With superhuman knowledge hike that of the ra- | the commandment. But here, where the carrying qut of | and in view of the impotency of mortal strife, “the peo tionalists, who claim to sit in judgment on the word of | the commandment is buona the power a ot indi- le came te the house of God, and abode there till even ‘God, I do not think it worth while to argue, Bat I would vidual, and therefore pronoun ‘thou’ used in efore God, and lifted up thelr Voices and wept sore; and ‘ask you: how is it that a prediction, manufactured for a | thig Precept designates the whole people of Israel. | Fail,O Lord God of Ierael, why is this come to pasa in pose—a fraud in sbort, and that a most base and im- | “Who shall escape unto thee”? likewise meaning | Israel, that there hould be to-day one tribe lacking in one—should nevertheless continue in force and be | the whole people, and nota ef the , in op- | lerael.”” My bret! » Zour thoughts doubtiess antiei- carried out during four, or three, or even two thousand position to another part of people. And as the ex; - | pate the suggestion of a likeness betwoen the dark amd Fears? for a (hourand years, more or jes®, can hore make | sion remains the same throughout the precept, niet revolting era of Israel's luwl-ssness and this present Re difference. Noah, on the oveastion in " jestion, bestows | thee He shall dwell even among you in the piace Ii ce in our country’s history. We have not yet reached om his son Shem @ spiritual blessing — Biossed be the | shall choore in one of thy where it liketh him | the extreme of wickedness, where law and government ‘Lard the God of Shem.,’’ and to this day it remains a fact, | dest,’ it ly shows that whole of the land was | and public virtue and private seourity, wrecked and which cannot be denied, that whatever knowledge of God to him, aud the whole of the people were to protect | abandoned, were left a prey to the surging billows of a ‘and of religious truih is possessed by the buman racs the fugitive, which could not have been carried out if it | stormy sea of wild passions and slimy lusts; but we hear bas been promulgated by the descendants of Shem. Noah | had applied to the slave who escaped from one tribe Into | the storm howling around our ship of State, and behold bestows on his eon Japheth a blessing, chiefly temporal, | the territory of another. Had the precept been e: confusion and dismay in those appointed to the com. ‘Wut portaking also of spiritual good. «May God enlarge | jn any other than its strictly literal sense would | mand and pilotege of the constitution, wherein we are ‘th, and may he dwell in the tente of Shem ;"’ ant to | have caused great confusion, since it would have nulli- | all embarked with life's choice treasures, And while day it remains w fact that cannot be denied that the | fed Segotaer Bevel of God’s law—that which directs | the staunch versel ia yet sound, we are summoned by ants of Japheth (Ruropeans and their offspring) | that “slaves, like lands and houses, wore to be disinherit- | the President, in one national voice of prayer to Him have been enlarged so that they possess dominion in | ed forever,” and that which commands property, lost or | ‘‘who bath gathered the wind in His fiste,” (Rev. xxx. ,4,) every part of tho earth, while at the same time they | strayed, to be restored to the owner, Any inter- | ‘who stilleth the voice of the seas, tho noise of their Share in that Knowledge of religious truth which the | pretation would, moreover, have caused heartburning | waves, and the tamult of the people,” (Ps. ixy-, 7,) to descendants of Shem were the first to promaalg ite. Noa! | and strife betweon tho tribes; for men were aa tena-iaus | implore His divine guidance and protection and deliver. did not bestow any biessing on hit sou Ham, but uttered | of their rights and property in those days as they | ance, that, as in the ark, the world’s hopes may be saved ‘a bitter curse against his deevondants; and to this day it | are now. Hut no second ‘opinion was ever en. | nd we may come forth upon the mount, under the sun. Femains a fact which cannot be gaiusiyod that inbis own | tertained. Tho slave who ran away from | shine of His mile, united once more around the altar of ‘Bative home, and generally thronghout the world, the Dn to Bersheba had to be given up, evon | thankegiving. Thoone bright spot that illumed [eracl’s fortunate p is indeed the meanest of slaves. Much | as the runaway from South Carolina has to be given up | night is reflected hero to-day, and throughout the laud, thas been respecting the |norjority of his intellectual | by Massachusetta; whilst the Teanway from or | from ceean to ocean, where, with the single exception » and that no man of his race has ever inscribed | from syria found an asylum in the land of Israel. as the | of one tribe—a loved one to whom our love would fain ame on the pantheon of human excellence, either | runaway slave from Cuba or Brazil would find in give Benjomin’s fivefold portion. ental or moral. But this is a subject I will not discuss. | York. Accordingly Shimei reclaimed aud recovered r knowledge allegiance to the nation’ 1.do not attempt to buik! up ® theory nor yet to dofend ‘Achish, Gath, at that dience to the nation’s Chief Magistr be moral government of Providence. I state facta; and phil ier ne 7 Nits ves er int ¥ ing & vatsul of Isracl. (1. Kings, fi., 30,40.) And Saul of | selves together in the house of and lit) Having dene 86, Lremind you that our own fathers wore | Tarsus pent buck the renatrey slave ‘Uneoiusae aces bie | voces, eeyings—"0 Lord God or oft fathers why te Unis ‘Maven in Feypt and affiicted four hundred years: an 1) owner, Philemon, But to surre me t in these United States, that the iid phihey gm Sree tee tempted bs " surrender to @ ruthless, law. | come to pass " there should bo with water; thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts and followeth after re- wards; they judge not tho fatherleas, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore, saith the Lord, the Lord of Hests, the mighty One of Israel, ah! I ‘will eave me of mine acversaries and I will avenge me of mine enemies.” (Isaluh, i, 21—24.) Such is the lan- Lege of pussing cvents, interpreted as Divine visitations. And when, 98 &t this day, the public conscience becomes hardened, in tolerating bribery and in ministering to cor- ruption, the nation is surprised, only for a moment, at he discovery of traud among the subordinates. And so we are startled at the tidings of a whoiesale plunder of the national treasury, of nearly a million of seeuritics, held in trust for the poor Indian tribes—a sacred fund, more sacred than any deposit in the nation’s exchequer. Mien are startled, I say. and then ‘turn to their strong box to examine their securities; and if there he no individual lo we hear feeble reprobation of the public theft. 1 tokens are amongst us of a loss of virtue and in- tegrity, which may well go to explain why God has per- mitted one star to be dimmed in the galaxy of our nation’s fog. Thir’—But I now reach a ause of the nations woe, It is the question of slavery. I should be remiss if on such an occasion as to-day, I should avoid a question that £0 absorbs the public thought, and is freighted with such momentous issuce. It isa problem which must be solved, for weal or for woe; and when the pulpit speaks accord- ing to the oracles of God, we may expect the Divine blessing, in the reconciling of opinions into a common n they separate a family in the tenderness tec? Have Northern fauatice fuiflled the Christian law | {fom which may spring that graceful exaltation, in when a. celaim wi.qualified rn and lure ser- ' national rectitude which for Christ’s sake will send vants from their masters, or interpose hindrances to the ] happiness to the most secluded hamlet. God grant tha: fugitive’s rendition? Public sentiment at the South is fast reaching the truth that separation of families is | 4!! those who are called upon in their official position to bene 1 and some States bave already forbidden the out- | speak a few earnest words to the people may have grace rage by their sta‘ute law. Public sentimentat the North | to bring down tke hearts of their hearers to the is sober and just and scriptural on the question of slave- | valley of humility, for it is only from this position tha’ TY, und profoundly respects the responsibilities, the rights | genuine results can come in the direction of y ant and the duties of master and servant. But passion has | love. Could all those who so recently acted at the polls now usurped the throne of reason on bothsides. The | in the election which has superinduced the constitution of the United States still spreads its majestic | present crisis be found with their loved ones = “yon our country; it regards slaves as persons | upon bended knees before their compassionate Father in javing heman rig] sad wep? sore protection and of representa. | Heaven, ‘there would steal over the nation such a hol! tion, yet as servants owing a life service to their | calm, such a heavenly tranquility, that a few wise is masters, But the fury of political partisans bas trans- | at the national capital would be enabled, by God's ferred @ question purely gpiritual from out of the | blessing, to devise a simple expedient which should moral cede into the arena sordid calculation | harmonize conflicting views, and make us once of selfish profit and sectional pre-eminence. And in that | more @ great nation of brothers. Oh, that some lustful controversy, the battle of the tribes is re-enacted | mighty voice, surcharged with the Divine teaching in our country ,and one fair State is lacking in our Union. | of the organization which outranks all the governments Shall other States follow im the wake of that one? I saw | of man—even the Christian church—could make itsel the meteor of last summer evening rige in light from the | heard this day, in tones of genia! majesty, throughour horizon to the zenith; and at its highest ascension it | the lamgth and breadth of our beloved distracted coun- exploded into two beaut but divergent ——— and | try, saying to all, from the shrewdest statesman to the then they were both quenched in night. ‘as that the { lowliest freeman, be still, and I will set before you. omen that presaged our country’s doom? Have we reached | honestly yet charitably, the sins which have brought the height of our gramdeur and pro rity to break and | your political heritage to the brink of ruin. be ext ished? No, no, ‘The lackini 48 a whole, you have in these latter years tribe of in was not lost to Isracl, but came hacl forgotten the God of your forefathers—the great reformed and purified. And the eleven tribes who, like ua | Being of whom the Washington was wont upon to-day, wept sore before God and asked of Him wisdom | bended knee to ask guidance and agsistance. kof out- and _{orgiveness, learned to be considerate and kind to their seceding brethren. So, if it please God that we 1b acknowledging God in public study the lesson of that record, shall our Present dis- | worship, yet the a of your have taken turbances promote our future welfare as re-United States | but little in ; in the more perfect bonds of Christian brotherhood. I co not, 1 will not, despair of the blic. Collisions of Lint and steel produce sparks of light. The storm puri- fies the air. The hy lightning, whose voice is thunder, a too generally light i the vapors of miasma, This day's piety, at ly regarded. Yes, you have forgotten God, and hee of the Chief Magistrate of the nation, com- | baye too often set up in His place the Goddess of Liberty manu Ged's biersing. And our children’s ohildren, in | under whom you bave grown proud and self-complacen' thet better civilization which is in t, shall reear | trusting to your own threwd plans and to yourown to these timer as to a beacon which ‘warns and | worth right arms. Read over carefully the guides tho pilgrim traveller to eternity. speeches which have thundered in the halls of logistation Titel ‘compaignesmark well the, oratioee inhi ee cal cam —mark wel THE REV. DR, FRANCIS L, HAWES, teem vitered “upon the onal anntvermaren aad ne rot the ‘greater portion of what has, teen tatuah Calvary Chureh (Episcopalian) Fourth er Portion of what has been publicl, said in relation to this country and its instit Avenue. beg Deen in the direction cr bid oy ae A large congregation assembled yesterday morning to | f¢lf-reliance. And thus you have lost sight of Sole ih bidet ot sha aay: a truth that all human ss oe eee powers that be are or of have After the conclusion of the regular service, Rev. Dr. | that yon were subjects of A ¢ faith. Inthe extremes of abolitionism and ism, élavery is distorted. On the one side it is represented as the token of ‘the highest condition of Christian civiliza. ticn;” on the other, ag ‘‘the sum of all iniquities.”” Theso extremes are & ly irreconcilable, and yet, like Pree i Bg in ‘by lack of union with other trut appointment, they may be seen to coalesce, when their affinities are developed sad mato manifest by the chemistry of God's word. It will be found, 1 think, that the Northern abolitionist reproaches the abuse of slavery, while the Southern > confines bis admiration to the epectaclo of tho benignaot aspect of the institution. And if such be the case, fien the remedy for the evil will be to correct the abuse; and the point of coalescence will be the mutual oifort, by moral and Christian persuasion, to redress the wrongs of the servant by the justice of the master, recording to the golden rule of ‘doing to others what we wouk’ they shoul! do to us,” under like circumstances of relationship. Wi this view, I proceed to the Divine law and to the testimony, Section 1, And neticing, first, God's constitution of suciety, we observe inequality, Where are, every where, the rela- tions of subordination and authority, whether in the family, or in the State, or im the ‘church. But tae characteristic of society, according to the Divine idea and Divine appointment, fa mutual rights and corelative obligations. re is no Buch monstrous thing as an in- dividual’s prerogative that carries with it no correspond- ing duty; but society is framed on tho pr: of mutual benefit, both to him who governs and to who is governed. £0 that, if it be the duty of the ruler to ad- minister government as the Lord’s vicegerent, it is the right Of the subordinate to be ruled accordingly; and if it be the right of the superior to receive the and cbedience of the inferior, it becomes the duty of the infe- rior to render due homage and obedience to the superior, 48 to ‘' God's minister to him for good.” In these soc! relations we observe differences, both in degree and in the period of time, of the mutual service, In the rela- tien of husband and wife, the bonds ure for life, and dis- luble only for one cause. In the relation of parent aud child, the rights and obligations are, in some respects, for life, and in others for aterm of yoars. In the rela- ticn of master and apprentice, the tenure of the relation is by agreement, specitic time and relation of mast ind wervant, the r is for specified time, or at will, or for life. When the term of ice in for fife, and with tho condition of inheritance attached W property, the tenure is that of slavery. But in each of these ee the principle of ‘mutual benefit, to either party, is ordained and uprevoked constitution of focial life. In none is either party inde- pendent of the other; in none is either party competent tw take couneel only of his own will, Bat each is servant to the other—bound by the sepctions of Divine authority to study each other's good, and to be governed by the principle interest : | Bawns, instead of preaching a sermon, briefly addressed | have thus been led to ‘ovil, to use re the congregation as followe:— marks of those filling high offices; elections, 4 ‘Lave not been held with Perpetuat- The large audience assembled here this morning, not- | ing tn all ite integrity the be, erat motive ot 99 4 withstanding the inclemency of the weather, is an indica- | ment whicb held such a gracef tion of the deep interest taken by you in the question iy j ¢xtehded country, but to obt which this country is so deeply affected. It is Almighty pa = Sone for there have of God who maketh all thinge; man is but an agent of ive <i ry men it God, and therefore, in all our troubles, our first | }ovghly imbned with religious patriotism and reverence retuge should be to Him who ruleth over all. | ing true and fenbrore , teoegh tay oe ne noe, We have bowed ourselves here before God in | perhaps to be heard. the confersion of our sins, and bave improved of thie * His mercy, And it befits me as a minister of the Prinoe | seared your catiences faut Earaenea vs of Peace, not merely to exhort you to this course, bat | thie grand national ecremble for wenlth too many of to encourage you by my own course. J therefore will | Aine, have forgotten to be just and honorable, to be Speak words of pence and love to yeu. While Iam not | Fidstate of Gols poor and needy —ti . disposed myself to mingle in political strife, yet, hav’ orplanr—too many have been fn my opinions, the expreesion of those opinions - | to the earth im your harsh etruggles to be bly help my Chrisuian brethren, particularly as they | (mong the millionaires, In this feverish struggle to ge" the goide Sway over this widely : £ tend to pesee, Dear brethren, | doubt not that there is | clcnd in worldly matters hae ther diversity of opinion among those of you now hore be- | in the vast agricultural regions of the West, fore me. But] stand here to say that it is idle to discuss | mountains of the Pacific coast, the vow the diversity of opinion which may oxdist, | of the North as well as the cotton bearing savannas of “8 iu would Aw a y deny thas thore are | the South? Aye, too many of you have by oe ‘wulte upon both ea, m: lear hearers, | nd set up ineatiate marmon fouite vpon both sides. As in alt family feuds, | 0 the Goddess Liberty, sabe cr lees heathen the wretched slave who had escaped from | '0 day one State jacking in ourjUnion’’’ Let us listen to | of nutual benefit. All are, fome sense and degree, | Oo in this great family feud, both sides a Too many of tinnes voice, have 3), ee ‘woghfs are not your thoughts, neither his cruelty woud have been to give up the fugitive to | the oracle of God's word. Let each consult the testimony | povirnore and masters; all’ are, in rome fense and de- | to be censured. Wo are in’ the condition oF ellea ” auty, You have iavunly expended "* y8 My ways, caith the Lord.”” certain death, or at least to tortures repugnant w the | Of his conscience und observation, aud trace the sure line | gree, servants and subjects, Such is the Divine constitu. | the occupants of an edifice which is burning. It isidle | ating and drinking and apparcl what you haye eet Aisne thus, on the authority of sacred Seripture, | gpirit of God's law, the tender care of wh ected | of effect and cause in the law f Divine retributio of , a. 1 6 het be to the remotest period, T next ro e bird in its nest, the beast at the plough, ‘and thoslave | let your preacher try to guide your moditations in ae i * ton to the question: “Is slaveholding | in his degradation. Accordingly, the extradition was not | bic dependence on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, with Ton cam at all arine tn ret Seripturet’ How this quca- itted im Palestine apy more thon it is im Canada, | ull governess and truth. Why, theu, is this come to pass, ~ L - " — +h the mind of any man that bas ro. Witte thua the owner possessed full right over, and se- | that there ehould e to-day one State lacking in our fedo- eee eee etication and is scqnainted with tho | curity for bis property, the exercise of that piwor was nion? Firat~Wy first answer to this inquiry is an- at’ § pa tony vane phenomenon 1 cannot explain to | conflved within certain limite, which he could aot out- uestion:—W hy should wo expect Got's bicssing on Ge Wclive ih tne vies en, ago bo man dreamt of, | step, His female slave was not to be the tool or of | our Union a8 one uation? There is one constivutional do- Last Sunny an cocinane ROL be surprised at | his#ensuality, nor could he sell her, but was to | fect im our organi: law. Tt cutaina no acknowledgment Sarin, haat Funday an crninent Preacher is ropartod | “let ber go free," because ‘he had humbled ber.”* 7 jou of Joaus Christ. I am awareor only adi pn hd pe the Old Testament | (Deut, x., 14.) His male slave was §protectod against | ono provision in our constitution which distinguishes our isi quate developement of moaning, ondwwne, excessive pul t, for if the master in any way muti- | civil polity from a heathen organization—that provision to nagar neonary oon when we were to Vegan lated hie slave, even w knock asingle tooth outof his head, | is the oath of office. It has heen noticed that the normal the superior doctrines of the New lo the margtile! by | the slave beeaine free; aud while thus wo of the wor principle of w nation’s polity, is stamped on ite coins. Sen tee sean bokcxnoee ion re nctetTtc: | passions of human nature, Tust and cruelty, wore kept | Look at the coins of Europe and you observe the logend, : ts Agree cme due restraint, the third bad passion, eapidiy, | Let Gratie—“by God’ ” “Look at our's aud you moral instruction of ” “ . vs gract iSeptth beriphares ant Chrition Seriptore ne ee hot permitted frve scope, for thelaw of Gad scurnd | read "Liberty" man's independent tree agency, In eo tion of society, Aud if amy man should rebel against it, ‘browgh the arrogancy ot #elf will, he would be rushin, “the thick bostes of Jebovah’s buckler,”’ and woul crushed between the upper and m ther milistune of the fociat rights and obligation# of mankind. If, then, slavery be subject to thie law of God, wherein the master murt govern with an eye to the servaut's as well os jor his own interest, it will come to pace ihat emane) tion may be wrong, becanse ankind and unjust to Biave. M not for the slave's bevefit, abokitioniem wouk be a sin and a orael ee. And hence the ques- tion of «mancipation can neve determined justly as a general proposition, but must be deait with in each par- ticular coe, Fo neithor does the responsibility of dever- mining this question of emancipation any per- Fon but the master or some supericr authority that repre. sents the master. Any foreign interference ‘is, of neces. for we, inthe midet of the couflagration, to ask what massed by uni . You caused tho fire. Gur first business, as joint occupants of | atisied with receiving your daily bread the edifice, is to extinguish the flames, and then we be hands of your Heavenly Father, but you Ciseurs the other matters, Our duty as Christians is 4 ampered yourselves and your families that sensual de epeak peace; as a peppy people heretofore, and one, frees have made elaves of your immortal souls, ly Dieeed oF God, our duty ix to cultivate peace. the | wille have been made captive by things whieh li tuldiinent ef the great purposes which God to | perish in the using. You have Seid tard to make have had in store for ug, it more emphatically becomes | world, and eepecially this ‘ious land of libert; our duty to cultivate peace. Then the question is, what | to be "i yf the is our duty? My dear people, T do not think that God’s | ; iene whi beve poms Rremeren for people can meet threughout tho length and breadth of | By fer too many of those have rasioked th {bie and, praying for God's blessings upon us with bey yd toward sensnal a united walge=I do 2a Sine . step tBings can, op, | Out In oe rece for national faine, car without peace wing. t God. ed down be thick I Goh ste, evdae hore’ the "of carth in coms depertiaont of sefouce oe the dawn, aithough we may have fustinge and ‘of ccmporition or eloquence, or as gallant tiene. Bot, my brethren, | think peace will come, be | country’s battics. i i i i i é 3 E i self from any suspicion of acrime which ho considered | for it is axaong the dreary punishments denounced Gallaudet, ascended the pulpit and proceeded to address the fatal blemish of character in a public man, But of | against the apostate tribes, that they shouid be gold into e : ee ae it puritien, that his sous walked | bondage:-—“Thon shalt be bronght again. into Faypt, and the congregation. The following was his text, taken " . he #lave his Sabbaths of rest; while public | lonial timer in this country the bills of lauding wero print- | sity, obtrusive end tyrannical, and ersive of sociery, | cause God will have merey ; for it is im the hearts Too many of you, alas'—the serene ye . ‘Gory, tht te a justice, Ler tann irom murder, thett, wtul- | opinicnwhich in a country £0 densely peopled na Vales. | ed with a recogu tion of dependence on tio for the ship's | except such persuasions as are derived from theespelet | ci the voct majority oF therinbabitoute of tie beloved | say—have. sbused ‘your Freedoms of syoch Sout vatneh re Bly with God, wore “requirements” oqually imperative in | one omnes Rave been all poworfut—=s not allow any | favorable wr but nowadays the bills of lading righteousness and peace, which the master is willing to | laue thal there should be and tust be peace, Of the ten | it into licentiousness. Every 1 + and whim Taz ono cones of aston ma ae tA mPRFative in | one owner to impose heavior taeke Of his slavesor to foot | prees trust in the strong bolts and timbers of the erate | lear. Fur, i the master's car be heavy ur his heart be | millions of voter ia thia great country, 1 fool a perfeet | sud notion and irm which it has entero tuto the heart pears | was mistaken. “We have altered ali that mae?) | (o°m, Worse than what all his bors did. This, indeod, | and on the skill of the shipmaster. But the | hardened, t is no apology for reverting to force to plerce | conviction that, were the question distinctly presented to | man to conceive in the exereiso of unitmited, Rive this eminent divine, Iu herpy imutaom or acne; | J the great distinction which the Bible view of slavery | roorver will ok:—What profit Is there in tho ac: | the ear aid breuk the heart, We murt tush in God to | every one entitled to it his vote he. do- | private Judgment, has been blamany tose ee taaer yveician, ‘abene naw thecey a ren the oo on iere's | derives from its divine source, The slave ia a person in | knowledgmeng of God in the fundamental con. | awaken and convert him, Jobn the Baptiet might ret uke | sired the perpetuity of this Union, fraternal feeling, | 'he ceger press to the extreme of land. as gery wy eed boay ta the righ. pest’ from the » the dignity of hutnan nature is to be respected; ho | stitution of “@ vation and iff the ordinary ventures | lerod on his throne. But it wae not everybody's t | peace and Jove between all its members, eight millions | scouring the country for news, so intent their oeca-. smember that the ‘‘now’” refers to a period of As 4 re. ight, hercas the heathen view Of slavery which | of commerce? Are the old nations any the better for | ond duty in Judca to usurp the office of Jobn the Rapti utof the ten millions would anewor yea—North and | pation thet much of their time is in correcti although no very aged mon wimensed th Pony oo, | prevailed at Rome, and which, 1 am to say, is | their pious form: las and pretended recognition of God? | Aid £0 likewise, on the other hau’, if the master boli | South would anewer yea. Now, I hardly eonoetve that in | the rumors which they co hastily dreat tp into facts, moreover, I pte Me sy that’ tho ‘we the ‘©; Whon, | adopted in the South, reduces the slave to a thing, an a | i wnewer, the protit is in telling the troth and not hiding | the slave for tht master’s exclusive interest; if he den such a state °° facts political demagogues, professed poli- | Fxtrome notions are worked uy into pring . Trrepress|: , bpeaks of To limited to-n few delpula _— ad | thing can have no rights. Tho resvit to which the Bible | \t. Tle profit is in Keeping before tho eye of the nation | bm the privile ges of mental and moral and relicous cul- | ticinne of oll parties and from ali jatitades, the | ble contlicte thus arise in relation to matters apon whi arn, gifted with great zeal but little knowledge rants | Lit of slavery leads us is, first, that slavery has ex- | the truth of God's presence and power in the world, and | ture: if he fail te recognise his manhoot and withhold | purpore thus Ceoply ented im the hearts of eo of those | the Breat Saviour and his apostios were silent. Too man eloquent than feufaed, better able t0"e edge, moro | isted ince the earlicst time; secou+, that sheyebulding fy | thos educating the people so far asa witness forGodmay, | the rights of manhood to be trained for tao servies of | who hove a ripht to & pan this eudject, if wild | perple talk at random, ring worda in an ‘shan to satiafy our ree und wher no sin, and that siave property Is expressly placed umtor | And if yout ask if the old nations are any better for it, | God ard for the happiness of Leaves: if he iret him | but speak distinet!y — The time hes cme foe the people | table epirit at their neighbors. Yer, the people of th the orn with which sacred =r pt the provection of the Ten Commaty'ments; third, that the | 1 swer, bow ceme they t be old nations? With gov. | ouly as a tute, OF ag a chattel inanimate; if | to act. We hove seen what has beon done by one of tho | corntry have talked ton much, have written too mudb- epenks of “new fangle! “Nat Slave is & person, and has rights not contlicting | ernment pes ive to fife and depresrive of Hberty and ; he prefane the relationship of mars.age ' the | moet patriotic and trne States that thie confederacy has Tborenese 's one of the national sing, y ‘ang ‘ with Wwhal exercigg of the hig | quterpiite, Job old nations wieee Cup uf talguity | serctty of the fermily, by violewly ®undering og | Cyor had, and ber condugs cught to enggent to mon of all Hay ing 1 theegand various other ways forge Hen Gods I OO eee EE —— ee