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ile lection be taken up to defray the expenses of printin: the di in Het 4 . pamphlet form. accordingly taken The pastor then offered a prayer for the whole nation, first of all as a visitation of Providence, for manifold sins | legislation, or fre } Pe of which asa people we have been guilty. They come, | ° the relations of woniety. fs veldum however, in the form of a judgment threatened rather | 42 S\P (0 reflect that thay all have F i f Fe ane eee ie perme te justify and promote | for the President, for Congrees, and for the incoming ad” sin and ere eee oF onion one be bound, pat under abaa | ™inistration, He prayed that ihe great influence of the than aeady inficted:’ We are ouftting rather from | netestary’ masteney’ Seen Sl , oF garbled and perwortes, and ine Nos of Fe ES id the nation and for the the apprebension than from the infliction of evil, and whieh is to be found only tn that which saves tan freee Seous. bimoctt or abe Gbost maid woggess some his fervent by on the All Power, iy tae ne I. eppartunity fer the ener- taal tee aay soto acelvces at am of eneren, @oubt to the mind of the slave, or of any other man in the ful to gustain Major ‘and his ‘brave little garri. cise of hope and for every effort which looks towards | not be done by their cmendrene ee i of the perfect vightecumene and the Disins mlssien pag ie heater lg Tay Tard give them faith and an honorable and righteous settlement of the great | hat statrsmen should become preachers of anne Se ae i Sf he bludgeon, the bowie! icnife, the tar-pot, | Christian men, 7 Seamiy, snd a6 hesocne insuee at stake, It is eminently fitting at such atime, | orien to remedy, sucial evils. The true mission of the Exo the pistol ne stake do amazing is its‘presumption | The Rev. Mr. Davis was then introduced to the audi- when dark clouds are lowering over the horizon anda | the existing sta ater of awe be can is ; sie ry te of intelligence and virtue among at i coms eye wall Surrounding States, Seis f ae drawn up for the storm of terrific fury seems just ready to burst; when the | P< ple, But what I do say is, that tho reason why oe der ita foots ‘and if the mass of the people dare ‘oven to | t0 unite in its views, ge ee as ag hy bog spectral hand is stretched forth, as if about te write upon - ee = oe os heart of man je to i! right thus to act, it plauis itself upon the | Rented to, the Hon. William H. Seward, ‘The purport of foked” a Our walls “Mane, mene, ical, wpharsin’”—that wo should | them te beenusey instead of Fecoguiaing. Ms Taste we ees ee raging sa ge ge poly po sireaw 4 val of the Senator's | bring Jeshurun again to take up the yoke? Nothing but | ness. y Dipole Meeherey My every will bumble ourselves before God, and find out what we are to to owen upon what are called soe! reforms,’ and See acer mee morse | Sectimcant er estin Lenstictiay ce | Sapien Acae nme e otia Gniee Rae” | MOMGMS Rs immed Geel | aeniencs ose per odguottores | Bch eee ate het a Se It is nothing that the slaveholders aro only | Sessions whatever that have ben or may be trials here are of Divine n sirche and the wicked © thercarth are | thetabric of our matieaal prosperity and pence le ever. | ene a th © eno x or ‘appointment, a record and warn- | ever ready to 0 present day, and there is no end Serer ares eras ioe memidens | Sete ee oe oe © Hew ras sus: | lag to Carttiaoe, andour ety mtorervetiom ia perteck | "L'bave. just said iat thin eetreordiaary rovotetion, | “ostmed with ruin. Tam fullof hope sto the final re. | schemes for, this narmee hieh ae song ees Mero, when he wished that. all its ti was Rome to | “of. Sem B, Hor approved of the document, but wubmission—so the effect of that entire submiasion is per- which, as it seems to us, has been #0 inconsiderately on- | *Ult, because I cannot believe that this nation will dis- proceed upon the idee. of the innate of he- Seat mighuve ata oy He werest | he Sntmrun rnd eran Steen hore ta | at Ry oa hy ret ay a: | Sao "oe actos aa “at SSW? | tnt were ome osm st deursi Yelopcment, ad the cult will by. perfect" stata 5 tentious meaning sum up the ferial condition of any na- action of its individual members. the it! would ing out the » DY | that we have come toa crisis which is to determine our | Clety. The holy name of liberty is invoked to broak off ‘ton bere slavery ent nts are barbarian tad de ‘The document was then handed round for signaturee, seem Ditter as it appeared, whiten Tnsido and outside plain the faze jn - it ey re soil to future career, and that the teet is about to be applied to | Wee snag of straint, and rave man ‘in overy respect recor: we, a ‘3 | Bee 1 has Ee on mor ety deat ae TWE REV. DR. TYNG. Set oa wi te-gutats ar | sium a aebratt Sip eta | anaes vtantreaeneay |S Ao Gale eM fee Esai, west, ‘est and freont on which the sun of oan ne pore once beret | ing bl more thoughtful States from hurry: | the character of a Christ ives plausibility to such 7 ea exper iindly on to tho same fatal oxtremity of folly and be an Peace and f meseatnas, wail ws Sam Ens ee gif | enrgon Gaarencapcnopauan, me | RR enna ti ames | ME nny rycnmrmr meer egapen | anerietent menoaimmere | Gs led te rib eecoeeat ds sere as decrees are written in heaven, Place. formity of iteelf to the will of God; nothing #0 unravels | any dismember > | tional freedom and high civilization which are ita effects, | 100 often man, when most free, is least to be trusted, } ay h no sibarantine fone thie malice, wok Sei nncliee | A+ Pt George's charch there, was the, wepal service, | pean and euttien Siticalsies and in BS | ceremeh ame ieee this power hia will be taken from us and given unto a nation bringing | Men talk sometimes without {ualtation ofthe univorel pint KAU Lor ee Estat ber only by special Psalms, collect, and the reading of | f,'thytaPrechinarsig inne Putt say, “peak, Lord, | past—and tries glorious in our entrancing prospects fur | forth the fruits thereof.” We havo enough of thoes sing | fo sthesrte ther Femail. at CE oy may “ weatend cows Jn the foot, that thie, people se 5 berg from the Right Rev. Bishop Potter. However we might strive to avert a coming trial, or Tho very, though. of seame ta diinee an oder .0 which are common to humanity, God knows, to repent Wigas and to pure snotty wwe destrable, and yet this lately without difference of both in the world seed mmenced his discourse by remarking | xnder the Divine Guidance, to scok asafe deliverance | treason arcund ua Not that I'would lond the leant sanc- | Of thisday, and I trast that no one will go from this | is the uso which vast numbers would make of tho aB- Mary lately without difareno yqboth in the world | that upon an occasion like this, which arings waco un | Notun fhe wigs ar oath to the ond, | tion to any toaching that would go to revive the elfote | Place, where webave used such solemn language of pent | ‘nun’ fg ‘not to. remove restraints, but to find Sanctioned this mystery of abomination. Let me not be | Wentedly into the sanctuary, curiosty and excitement is Heh Mekial sak ten raoatinnah cat | tesetentinn bc tna raae teas Pach tata eae ease, | Mun and confeenion, wishent fecting the Darden of sii | ox sons “iat ‘amvunt” of freodom’ from restraint a I 9 may eee have: boon no vering everywhere evinced to see what the minister has to say. ion 8 ie cy Prayér—eat it in affectionate praiso— jon of that Pinar ether llgg and the preciousness of forgiveness. But at this time, pe which the community may be trusted. For free- SEE es hep Never was there # land or people in which the “itching | Shi "{in grattule—eat it in unshaken confidence, trust | Locke, from whose writings, as from a treasure ‘houxe of | when our fate as a great and united people may bo trem- | sare or desire Ie te on 1 either athe South; ono party as really as another; tho car? was moro characteristic than in our day. It was a | was a strong temptation to say. it is Bijan” oF “it is pp teem ep mg cee rare oe aun epee elalipaesanphytieve paths oy i degee to th intligenee and vie of tbe Bs truly aa the world Slavery ‘has nover liad more.ar. | sorrowful thing to eay that even when consolence and | Ahab? who Rath troubled, Seri, but it was wisest | and bound together as wo re, tho thing iran’ tamer | Sense, each one of you, of your individual rospousibility, Pee ah bear ath of whee I say when sak yom Se ond, unscrupulous supportora or defenders thas | justice lod public teachers to an utterance of their dia | fig Me, tct? Sade in the lniwge, of the, bi | priety, As well might we, hope to tear asunder the | some ofthe mora) indranoes 10 our destiny as a Chris: | Property Ir suel Wess won tty er ee Shurch members ent'even the cninistey of tueNorts’ bur | timet convictions, it not merely gaveaftrontto individuals, | and. recrimination, to cherish heir own judgments | chine tie human dedy and then-eapest that each; part, | S22, nation. | Ther is very | provaloul in thie | ter atnat freedom nots reanenesoeiee) Ae ees wee Sri en itornce hae tbe mon of the South but was almost certain to make vicleat separations of } boldly and falhfully at men, to utter them with reapeet, | oF an Soe neta adnan expect thateack part; | country a false and unchristion view of the very | then, that fretdom je safe for us ony uo fr a8 we, know De ge ey ar about | Christian comity and affection between the pastor and | With kindness and affechon towards each other-—to per: | usefulness and comfort, icwnot only imposible bur i | origin, nature and object of ctvil government ttsolf.-| What, Tack you attentively teeonsaor brane i aR ‘eur charity; while their co-laborers at the Ni fn | 80me of his hearers. It was for this reason that, in when great eta to utter faithfully his own jadgment | is entirely unnecessary, even if it were possible1 say | The administration of government in any country must | Compe! of Jeeus Christ, furanbi the: oon akan fhe midat’ Tight and ‘knowledge, and without tone | Fplscopal church, the discussion of ‘politica Meoations | Feet ee those ed tare meaeeh, ee Sera | inet Ik nancemnry, and wadenrablo, bocuame there | SOR tho chjectit in dvignod to aubserve. All tbe views Suen, Grongh the eatiiication of elantswe Genel jul a eo > ” Sremendous biases, ure, yiterly without excuse, Let ut | was never brought into the pulpit, as ® rule; and be ap- | futice: “bet thane irs ie nee Pit individual f° | corrected within tho Union, than outof it be far betior | Senich aro held on this subject resolve themselves nally | uit 10 full Knowledge of our uty ands practical de-, Heys dant wing dmnotatn” gave cs aulZu | Pele fost years mitra aeg thi congo | sey andee they cmd tint tnganay | Yurdre fat rr ld Unre aecassbere | govrame, de othe thor nana Nu of coal Foferm. as" fage aad duane. which ar not Fugitive Slave law—that was gution (o testify that never, on a single occasion of minds and one heart; j dae wide is anaes ee are wanamberee | SO0tbs oth ye human, | based, either directly or by impli = ey . "5 . public nd one heart; many judgments, one united line | blessings which it secures to us, quiet and unseen, per- | and the other the Divino origin of government and 80, : o by inpination, mace ihe arent Savocato, Daniel Webster their endorser, and illard Pll | worship, sabbath or week’ day, had ho brought mere | (#ctkR:many views common tapi, one determined | bape. tut yet for iho lone of which nothing onus carta | ciety. All political Selence ant practi must bo mortiied | fuliarbenl (ts ae eee @f Northern men the Missourt compromise and temporal and political questions into the sacred desk. yeas git potest Gain e ud anny, ow ch apis compensate na... Andon gens as tine shall operate | Stowdins 28 Cae te he. cot origin ef tostety and go. hava ter yrs any be taro" that the voton Of mt Dee Leeman oriods; Gat Wiantiin Prostar | Whenever subjecta ‘ef civil ‘te . | points and purposes of truth and duty, to which With its seothing influences, and our Southern friends | The theory of the human origin of society and gov- | will be eaiee ron sae De ove the votes of men Sera ee Tacmnapies, princi; Seas Rrankln, Piocon, of 7 civil interest had been touched | Views shall lead us, thall recover a lite from the {rensy of exsitement inte | ernment, maintained as it baa been by Greck atheists, | [uy'easd eway dischacwed Wills w daner tome ne ahanag of’ Peungyivania as one-of the very least of tho | CPt it was in connection with the great principles of which scheming politicians have thrown them, they are | French ‘encyolopwdists and English matorialists, 8 | Christian obligation icone a higher standard of the Renee bape Ng than any other man alive or dead, | Cbristian duty and the circumstances that the providence THE REV. DR, TAYLOR. ria i AROS BOTORVS Rees ER BaP Upccal eonpesut i briely “thi tat 7° a the | autien which “devotve up ison, Caiman . ie le 5 pe ii men were ‘ Be has renderod'to the slave power, railed the other. | of God had brought out. On the day of national Thanks- The, present excited condition of the publio mind | originally dissociated from o3ch cites, and society" dia | Will feel that in a government like ours Ubey cannot Fven’'W Hares charges a vast ieasure of the re, | S1Ving he had discussed tho single principle that there | Grace Church (Episcopalian), Broadwa: at the South is to be attributed totwo causes. The | Notexist; that the inconveniences of such a stole be- | ties and obligati Dernuse Baader etindatttSapey cast | tree pa man pro connie, wa | Hoven sie et pearay may oo | Sgt Srulahies Manet ea, | Sunset Saat ee Se | bets chanics Sa Sa ee ; re ol ti . ernment, ; and if any other argument be needed than | or national, that did not follow from righteousness; and | very solemn throughout, and a large congregation were which the seibberieh off ts dressed opiate | therefore, has no powers except those whieh result from | $28, pee ® merely Rumen Saste, Gat we hone language of Holy Writ—the smart sayings of others, | the giving up of cortain rights of which each one is natu- | tration of geverenea, Fy A duties of a ‘the observation of every man on this point, y, pti Xow feng that, therefore, to obtain the dominion of peace in this be in byterian, the Reformed Dutch and the Protestant Episco- | and or community it was indisponsible, first of all to ee at ae denominations, in the attitude of the | dig down and ascertain what ‘wore tho principles of abid- z E s ; Present. The rector (Rev. Dr. Taylor) preached the ser. - | bordering always upon blasphemy—in which libels | Tally possessed. Its objects are, of course, confined, as mon, amid profound attention from the audience, from | and denunciations aro clothed,” and Mixed with | Washington says, to the ‘conservation of tho bodies and * Ghatee thas by’ es tone alt a u the following text:— coarse anecdotes and vulgar ribaldry, are fair expositions | the goods of men.” The theory of the Divine origin of the feelings of Northern people for thelr oouety, of society and civil government is —. his: Be — Bose eae ae i rican Tract Society and the examples of an Adams, " order Lord and an H. J. Vandyke. To what ‘of base” ing and everlasting righteousness upon which that peace Isaiah xxi. , 11—Watchman, what of the night? should be built; of the South. I need not say to you how ~ | The germ of the Stato isto be found in the famil of the day, en@ eae many Bos es ee the a nies not a pe built; ie yet, bit ah discussing a subject | He said—In the Scriptures the term watchman is con- | founded is Any supporto Ta thal "T surely need. not which is of Divine institution. By moans of Tanguago, ina hearted ‘Christie " atrot ram enbkatien? mane So bertaeca mopescy irely acknowledged bey: reach of question, | stantly applied to the prophets and ministers of God. | prove to you how slight, how very slight, is the measure | Which was originally a gift from God to man, there is ni wink ia naeded yg sm ot bray d eeeiatat seen vcheeantee ieenion ho found himself unablo to oxprees, in the simplest and | They are regarded as being set apart to watch over the | %fstilueuce exerted by such toichers as those beyond | only the semeration of inet th one tary Di aee | ficulties But cial reforms ‘must aot only reat upon a Siaspheme the Goope! ald the ‘name of Christ to advo. | m0st friendly manner, the sentiments which, as a Chris- | safety of his people, to guard them from threatening the narrow spbero of their own’ tmmediatefallowers, | aeclaton of familie in ong society ‘The fay pages | Cristian bana Dut they must be prosecled ina Carle: @aie and defend a system of which even an infidel could | tian pastor, he was bound to inculcate without nA to, genrd them freee thr dan. } But yet the pres, in giving publicity to inese jumblew of | bys inw of developement into the patriarch. | Cbrietian basis, but they must be uted ina “The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides | sige or the other, a ieaetenie yibeoxs,co.tne one] «eee. sad $0 R¢k uo te ppden.ef.maeann aonteet Weele po.) eee and matignity,futvo produced. tho most wie. | ato, the patrarehate ito the tribe, and the dribe, into | jn gent pee f and ite abettors and defenders.” Is it not calmness Harting up iritableandirrasciblo men, | cubiar sources of temptation or causes of calamity. In | "Zeeruptious fenders ot pulieal parties have "too Otten | Zauch of Divineorigin asthe primary iutitution, Tagsiace | Particularly that, great eippeaic of Tals an'e justification ot "y 01 iv! . not 8] as a, keeping up the figure of speech in which the prophet is | given utterance to the cant of abolitionism, in order to | and the family alike are the creature of God. The ob- | the course pursued by @ portion of the It fur- ‘and moderation to say, in view of these facta, that this | and bringing out a state of relations least of all adapted called a watchman, “the night” is used to denote the | Secure their temporary and selfish ends;and thus the | Joct, therefore, which tho State has to accomplish is not | nishes no such justification. Ionly speak of it to draw ‘whole nation stands convicted of a degree of wickedness | to the blessed mission of Christian duty. He had, there- 90 stupendous that no human eye can depict it, and no aman mind oan fully oomprebeod it, un fore, to-day, nothing to sey upon that subject. Whoever | particular period of time in which he is exercising his of. | WhO! body of voters, who for far different purposes } merely ve protect the persons and the properly of mens | attention to the f great ‘tion of the judgment day shall set it in all its horrible | W&S wrong or whoever was right, a state of things ex- | fice. And the people of Zion are represented papel dhe are ng ‘ters caee mnerge [Pa yp tues Fis one arabe ics Pin invite of po general “hing, bo uneecoetuly minlnained, hs Entormity” deste’ tie ascot the tscomblod univeton? | Inted which domanded a persoal, a collective, a aucal | ly inquiring of the prophet what neve, he had for thees | and objecie, Nothing Gas bo” nero fag thea that, | eneo to lnw, and to exérele them ina aystem of prota: | eeeeaues an mene. fairt, 18 a bok he And this is not the quiet merely of a of the com- | guty, and it would answ Ms pave for them Sant nothine las J * S| Fee fe vem birwrtactplen of treeh and feet Proba- | understood as saying, however, that the principle of Scania Skoss Gis Talla aed atorginee tna hice || ott fer n0 good purpose to inquire | from God?—what meaning he could read for them in the | S24 yet nothing has contributed more to alienate one , in which principles of trath and Justice must be re- | hostility to slavery fas ben ‘maintained universally fiuence ‘and responsibility. ‘There can be no doubt that | Upon whom the greatest amount of guilt devolved. portentious signs of the times? sectian of ous country from the other, sad tp. break aeun- || COU™isting’ them. be culbred. The Die conseqnenc’s | at the North in ‘an unohristian spirit. The exoep- in our different relationships as citizens, as voters, as | Dr. T. took his text from the ninth and tenth verses of | My brethren, assembled bind fuiy sogetbier. 0, po, rant te | method of God’ t.” He calls yor, | tions are most numerous of those who aro conscies- members of sociely and as Christians, we have cach con- | the socond chapter and the fir: sf > |, 88 we are, at the invitation us ogg yon er. | No, no, my friends, I will | © pata ghee: co bo hapa ng to the per- | tiously opposed to slavery and desire that it should cease tributed much to thle general rostit of iniquity and | tor or a srveesoe ia tlcd hap abe Hepers ll ba/to Demabinrpgroeizvdreih ater ee ee ee eee emer ey contin | unperformed. wil Yaad nnd i i imponaibie tat chore | Wheuever and wherever it can safely be brought to am crime. matte wwe been our zeal and Eackiel — and fasting before the God of nati account b= ion end, who nevertheless, gratefully recognise tho Siriatian efforts, we have, after all, fallen far short of our duty, or | And when} looked, behold an hand was sont unto me, econ aspect of the rit yaa t of 96 Soe jo eanrod tar te Boni oe te Jones. lee. 10, interfere || BE ny ie etate, ana erect meraliastirae | character of the couby and, wile tinly bolding and of what we might have done, ‘This is a time for honesty | and lo, a roll of » book was therein; and be spread it be: on account of Passing | ae et ae ae seine exyovlated ant con: | tion, isnot prominent. ‘The difficulties in tho way of tho | ¢xDiessing thelr own vivits ws ocuislan mi yd Bre. and sineerity with ourselves; and no man can be honest | fore me, and it wes written within and without, and there | CVeRt* whieh unfold themselves so ominously to the | rounded with the few noisy and Fward disturbers of | theory of & social compact are of ae | it without Bitterness and in a spirit ot humility and Rive. who does not feel the burden of this guilt and respousi- | was written therein lamentations and mourning and woe. | “ity, peace and happiness of our country—I can well | the public tranquilit; fay and wayward disturbers of | iow. utterly insuperable. In. tho iret ‘place ith i | Butoertainty the most prominen’ aspevt of the centre. Dility resting heavily on his soul. Again, we aro ike orcover be said unto mo, son of man, eat that thou | fancy that 1 hear you appealing to Abe pablo tranqaithy; who'we Know to be ef's contrary || TOTS SS rommiatlons Where are ho: tetoen of a | Lerey bas beam that of bitterness snd titred; dat ie in thht we are now enduring the severe judgments of God | findest. * * ® Then did J eat it, and it was in my “! spe ing to mo, as Istand, @ #er- | rt the second cause of restless easiness to rimeval barbarism, in. which. men were disocia. | *rults are euch as might reasunabiy bo expected. In com ©n account of these our gricvous offences. Like them | mouth as honey for sweetness. - vant of tho Most High God, in his consecrated temple | trymen of the South is to be seen in tho fruit of that Culee Yed'trom each other.’ The indications aro all tho other | *idering this portion of my subject it may bo wall we have clung to our great national sing in spite of warn- | 7, tut ‘ont and before his holy altar, for the words of warning, of | and pestilent teaching which would load them Lo believe | Way, and point to high state of civilization ‘charac. | RAP © sey something 1 réderense. to the position of §ngs, providences and threatenings, until the Divine pa- was perfectly apparent that the subject of this Pas- | coostort, of instruction I m Ol bog peatiions ceeatine-sebhch wand Jeed Shem to believe) | Trlcing-tipe earlleas ages at tbe workd...act not caly are | sna Earks, 2 Temned 10 goaplians of secial seforss, tence wearied, and He has begun to pour out His sage was the Christian use and Divine appointment of trial. | 20" Yt) taney that T may havo to deliver to you, 1 | the Pnion of the tates orth aad ae enue Ceenine tne cari eka ‘primeval barbarism, but ahers | Z,,cousider mo subject which relates to the mo- Bpon us. The signs of this coming storm have been ‘The first lesson to be well fancy you exclaiming, in tones of re ~ - J ral welfare of man as inappropriate in tho Hee con ntonped crbinely or are drageing sowip mea | band from the heavens was brought before the prophetic | WHAt of the night?” ; «When the contituton of the United Statcs was adopted | sense ofthe inconveniences of tiesiatian, met together, | God wil Rally establish earth a klagdom in whieh Dave, een, slopped entirely, oF 26 {TREE omy a ee ee elle ine a ee ne Prophetic | aie impoanible to suppose that such an assemblage of | (He, ommeres, and shipping of Charleston was groater | Peiten toll tis, the oumistakable tacking ot history | Justice and holiness shall prevail and Were aro sdica. Gar population; thousands of men are Qut of employment | Jedging it te be the hand of the living God, the manifest | {ihe erfesninnrs condition of does wee ent | crown aud flourished’ as adopted Garton wana havo | eta there as nover bees «tie tags ce ra ay per ted to ad powe aia sei ning ts resale, es eee ne eee acute | revelation of that Divine power which ruled the world. | the extraordinary condition of things amid which we | grown and flourished ae much as New York. | Broak up anton bes and Cees existed also. | ut there sno such thing, we may be sure, in thie re. ets the Save power and all'ite tillious in several | Whatever might be the instrument used, whatever tho | re called to act, and no thoughtful mind can fail to per- | tural commerce, importing directly from the whole world | ™men have not faventel civil ecciety, but have found | *P0ct a8 manifest and irresistible destiny. God Jarge States of this Union are enr: ‘at the North and | Circumstances ordained by which to accomplish the de- | ceive that at no period within the history of our race has | such commodities fare a nd we cal at yraae themselves, by the operation of natural laws. ts oady I make use of us only as we subserve his purposes. He ng ane gpg oven mtr | wet to took beyond all to the hand of God, If a day at | te condition of the whole world been so extraordinary, | ® mighty “would ‘some over the prowpects of | it. But tho Iaioaitios ‘multiply when we odme to con. | oau,delay the faldiment Be Rome glen mf “ya ive ion. a ’ wi neces, he mi vo: Beate has alrealy declared herself separate and indepen. | tial in the family, it was the hand of God that {| so solemn, #0 ominous. At such a timo it is impossible | {iatieston. Our colonial and tributary commerce with sider the. FECL ere ee Seer hoe et | an clg Greek Proverd, full cf tretht—'The mille of, Ue Bat has alrondy doclarod herself separate and indepen: | tnt ‘a’ dey ot tril to" tho” individual "hott, | for any of us to separate ourselves from tho feelings | the Shui Wore Goekd toe is fee diesd. Gariel weal” | compact, or the human origin of sociay and govern. | OW" Erind Naw, aa 3 tee tnt be ‘penigrebollion; treason is inthe Capitol, perhaps even | it was the hand of God which direeted it; | which are proper for tha Christian, fowr inta a Sines Where I could be used withrehckanoun. | ment, lies atthe foundation of the Troubles wich wo | 62.4 Similar idea when he cays: sod te patient, bocaees See ee ee ee a ant | natin, ‘wo, “shea ook through he whe ‘up | ™2 yshe fick and the | fre the Mics andthe arias wold po bo | Hpreeat sue For hie hery rue thre are to | uy is ry outta sein of Chien progres ri must blind- wi yy . 2 “ ~ by out a noble syste & day may bring forth, | Sad, indeed, must be the blind- | TOMY gracious, divine, infalliblo Hand that held, com | Tt lsalwayaa wrong for the minister of Christ to mix | earth.’ tod it dimealt to persuade myself ‘that. any Cb Cn CCN tote ann civil scclety, muck | nd reform; but if we ‘strive to accomplish it by tne peary Bog ed joe age he = oe God, pe gem capa _ ke hae by Could | himself up with the Ditter strife of political parties, It | man capable of writing the Foglish language oily od any Joss tn any particular form of it, or under any particular ES ras Wea ave wore creas calle ys . was y sadlbnere.drenifel penaliies, if we G0 ot hasten 00 repens | 5 fon to vent our spicen in reviling ihe author | 8 Wroug in him to fan the flames of discord—to stir up | Rinslbiity, believe bis own reaching. | Aud it etill more government. | Tho obligations, 10 remain cuumito | of our folly and guilt. Yea, though He tenderly loved Of our sins ‘and: tern tor Hine i is inthis emergeccy | We8 of the land—of no use to throw the blame upon thie | strife and inflame the minds of his hearers with ran- | could ever havo founds. lo ago of bald nonsense | Cini) Cat es ec gher cbligatieds tian convenfence and | 84 guided our thers and) blessed the work ¢& tele that we are called on by proclamation of the President to | oF that individual. No calamity or suffering can come | corous feel his fello tntelligns a peuple Pdodsing, Place amongst #9 | totorest are Ataifin connection with society | 8in¢, 4‘He will bruise. us with a red of iron, He. will ebeorvo this as a day of solemn fasting, humiliation and | Upon a land without the national sin provoking the judg- ing --to xray w countrymen agains | intelligent a people a8 our friends of South Curolina. And | ‘nites are Tecogn cos se fs peettion that social and ch ¥ | dash us in pleces like a potter’s vemsel.” | Wo have thus Prayer; and whatevr may havo beon bis views and mo- | meat; and 10 people who love righteousness, the solemn each other in bloody war, and thus to become an instru | Seti, Perfectly certain Att « persuasion of the truth | fou fctions have their orgia morely in acompuct,govern- | cutgecttsy'ar's ations ana have: seen, how, they ves in go doing, there can be no question about the emi- of the commandment that mercy’ should be | ment for bringing desolation and misery over ten thou- | snot 'are os the beams Which have thus | ee has uo rightful power to perpetente fis own exiet. | Cur cemtiny sue nation, and Bave seen, Row, they bes ment ity and the duty of such an shown to them for a thousand generations, was certain. sand hom Abt it and suicidal ponds Meyer ling erefeerente rs id ts coakcaa ootne cleave the tnleneen contributed to involve us in dificulties and dangers ono al otere fru woos te thi ome | _, Re ecped. manifest fact, brought out in, tbe wien eo. NL it would bo better for | iste cum aby aaa tell me how and at what time the | Veulence or ihtecoot of ay who aro party i it Si | hich wo are now bosok Tt too late to change any Sie eens ae reg at OO | sarin ara ak ot Tage | We Mls arma moana nie | Res deve seatehontana ans | Seah i ite at Wes ura | Neng ce a eos wt a Dewail our sad condition, to bow down abook.” The illustration of | tunes, to watch with sleepless vigilance'over its avenues | any man tell me how a tariff of duties could, by any pos, | compact, and may rightfully refuse to rocogniss its obit. | Gyn as 'ngiin Coreatter, thet, we have een, called , horeafter, been called i of prosperity and its causes of war, and to strive to ani- | sibility, be framed which would operate against Charles- | §4tions. ’ This idea of the mere human origin of civil together to-day.’ We come to ‘oun sins, 10 ? confers > our like ‘ercige ourselves with all the outward | 82 ancient book,‘ written on parchment and rolled up, the | mate your hearts with lofty patriotism, and to fill them | ton, and would not, at the same time, operate against | @°vernment in # social compact is sure to work itself | a¢ our ingratitude when we remember the une fon and repentance, uad that we make it | Was brought perfectly before the eye. Whatever were : : i acts of humiliat aoe tnt our petitions that God will give usa respite | elements or detail of this Divine government, illustrated | with ‘something of His own spirit of love, unity and | New York? Can any man den’ ' y that the tariff, as we out to such results. It is remarkable that the only ar- from all our diiculttes and troubles, and perhaps lament hapa ellen hag gemini sem RS Tg EA be tmecntiatent with atthe his position | have it, was by South Carolina herself, and yorod | kument by which tbe right of secession on tho sof | Dieesings which God hes conferred upen us, and. to ke. ‘that the question of the uneés of slavelioliing has Te was not enerely tn general principies of Divine }. OF his detten ons religious wacker ie for unabimously by lice representatives im Congress? ‘Con | une of the States of this Union is maintained, is founded | Plots him to avert the Judgments which neem Abus te ever been agitated, or that wo have not, been more com. | jo apd ar tre’ 7 polit Rag! BH! fon we eee bare Ween Sateen etiies 9 5 by any peeatbility be true that the most simple of ail | pun the idea that the government of this coantry 1a | purst over our heads, This is a time when it will be woll laisant to the South and more obedient to tho behests of | but too ready tomy. 18 ep ager Wnete & | the nude ct.pragen, 10 eckenledee owes” ores | ne De hidden from the people Of Seith Cate: | based upon m compact between the several Stajes of | {°F ue ferlously to examine our hearts end Aud sos the slave power? Should wo make it the great and gole | the Lord God of Elijah, that answeroth the ory of faithful ,and to implore his mercy for our country. Every | lina, and be plain and written in capitals for the reading | Which it is Mi, apd oan therofore be dissotved by | Whether the motives by which we are infuenced in. thie im of our fasting to secure our own selfish ease and in- earnest pray’ was a blessed thought that all the | mind is excited, every heart fa alarmed, an¢ gloomy } of every man in the world besides, that the only reason | & dissolution ‘of the compact... The plain answer to which | ,iePect, are such as will be pleasing to God, and di forebodings of calamity fill every eye with the the tears | why Charleston docs not advance 18 commerce and popu. | i8, that in that case we are not living under a general go- | {wt to listen favorably to our supplications. | Why le i a tereats, without regard to the sacrifice of principles and details of human trial, whether individual or social, are injury to the cause of humanity and the progres ts of a Divine plan—that the very hairs of our = 4 2 Read were all numbered. Impossible 4 perceive an ‘volved in such a result? ‘Should we pray that stocks may | 3PPlicaton of God’s ‘idence in details too minute or ‘manufactures be revived and the demand for dry | far-reaching for the fact; nay, everything that may minis ‘increased, that South Carolina may take back hor | ter to the welfare or happiness, or promote the grace of of secession, and that the South may be ap- those vessels of mercy, prepared for glory, is from eter- ‘no matter on what terms such a settlement | Dity—a part of the ‘wondrous plan which guides them receives them to heaven. And did any ask why? of agitation. And for why is ali this? Our country was | lation in proportion to New York, is because vérnment at all, but under a mere voluntary association; never“ moro’ blessed witb all the abounding elements of | has no market for her imported Moods? st “us | whereas the truth in the matter 1s, that tho old srtioled Besional pride may be grati@ed? Is becouse 8 fee. roeperity Our Seasons were never more healthful--our | only ‘refer to a map of the United ‘States, and of confederation were abandoned, aud the constitution | [hes ue with conveniences for wealth? bo Ate gr ted be eons our agricultural, com- } when you trace the almost incredible range of | 2¢opted for the very purpose of giving up a voluntary | or pc gol ig fear that, in the hurricane and eart ercial and fnanci mtereats were never before more country, spreading out in every direction” with | #880ciation and forming a general government, with Ye | have no hy oe ar ae oy tee we admiral y alanced an t every way calcul LF ita denge and ever population—its rich manu. | inherent and inalienable character of government hay- anenaties fy ~ ys these, or [Pop og = most Tae tired tenseupn Suthe Ditiny and, foe ly | factories and countless products of Kind—ail of | 12g the power to perpetuate its own existence. Tho | Yiited litte wim God. He wishes to 3 ated Sith a rs arise South, and the muttering | which is poured into New York, and affords a market in | theory of the Divine institution of civil government, | {olicitude sor eet cam sak seme = iy should be procured, though vo ean LCs take that pro. | Because sho world lived for thom thunder that comes from it speaks t6 us of political dis goods neoph A Pega pete Foagte may ae 4 om. : | return for the that which is the only ue which ‘8 phil a his? fe the Tight of property ritary of tae. inion, fad | _ He loved to look at this trath in ite extreme dogree of | contonte—eo deep and serious as to lead wall he horrors | sold. “When you trace the are Gent 10 Now York tobe | Tocally tree,” paces the, matter HY em tone | 10M lest wokodness ahould mightily provail—and striving MO OY A Ary ee rams said | application; to think that we lived in a world in-which | of disunion. My brethren, I have already said from this | ational Improvemeuts, and that long chain of intornal | and satisfactory light, God has instituted ivi with the whole éhergy of our being for the building up eee We anitcdocal guast Aye, vee may it we wowia | not the least pin of the machinery was by any appoint- | place that if be aly- conead of ‘coauplaint, Well | seat eamact aceite cee eer ae cen entin cticnn | goverament-—act sod” particular form of i, but | Oc.cumes kmegors Of Dente and SieMeesiates le The ee Se ae re God, “sayings it such & fast'as Thave | ment lees than that of tho great Architect who mado | founded and reasonable, then I am perfectly sure that itself, and all of them affording the most wonderful fa. thing itself, and has given to it rights and powers | Teiued world. M is in that spirit, Ons we cum ae. snosent’ “Behold on the day of your fkst yo find pleasure | the whole, Every sorrow and every care was | every right minded and Kindly disposed pereon, of every | cilitics for an interchaage of commodities, can any citizen | which are not therefore Gelegated to it by the governed, | CePMbly pray that our beloved Union may bo pre. chose Batol Oo oes Taehoid yo. task for strife and | & matter of His own pre-arrangement, for the | shade of party, will be ready and willing to correct the } of South Carolina fall to seo that modities, can any citizen | Tt bas the right of capial punishment, which could not | Served. | if such is our spirit, it will not be dificuls foe a eae a year ce with the MA of ‘wickedness, wilt | good of those HR loved. | Were not dur tears | evil in the way most acceptable to oar complaining coun- | in the nature of things never can havo, anything to Gom- | Be derived from any delegation of rights. Tt has the is to define the position which we, as Christians, shoal Shou cil this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? | {8 His bottle, and our wouks recorded in His book, | trymen, But. at tho samo timo, T must say that it is | pare with iff And, consequently, by ao possitility: can | Fight to declare and mako war, which is not an individual | PO," hin® is” ser mul the settement of these dificult, We shall not fut as yo do this day to make your yolce to Therefore, wien the hand appeared, it held out a roll, in | but fair and right that our dissatised friends should toll | ghe ever become tho great commercial emporium that | Fight, and which it could not, therofore, have derived For this is no subject with which we have nothing to bo beard on high. Aye, we may if wo wish our fast to | Which, though lamentations and mourning wero written, clearly and explicitly what they would have us to do? | New York now is, and must continue to be, with perpe- | from individuals. And in the same way it haga right to do, Every citizen should cndeavor to have an en- Be aC oe yee vine most uomiabie or ait | yet the sucodeding prophesies that came out of it closed | What new guarantecs do they require? What laws can | tually increasing’ accessions of prosperity and wealth, | Perpetuate its own existenéo and compel, abedience If lightened view of it, ang thon help to make up thes our acts of wickedness, and to sagment yet the flerce fv ger my -~y> one moet magnificent displays of fT ger gee er ee pe aeeet, mg | them | My friends, it is a sad and painful subject of ht | Recessary to thatend, which it could not rightly do if it Roauty saeciaes,” ry oi Tave a aieponaaes Netuak fore . e mi cl " a of the Lord. If we wish to have our calamities yielding satisfaction and security for all | that the understanding of mankind should bo so trifled | had no powers except those derived from mutual agroo- | iy and decide justly in this matter, we aro bound to en- time to come? But unless they will do this, Qunlest | with,and that hallucinati | ment or compact. Men find themselves, by the exerciso they will moct our efforts to serve them in a'recipro- | bablé to All pony ‘own, uy shoes and pal. | ora power higher than thetrs, In society and under govern. | GCavor, as far as possible with our Northern preposses. cal spirit of ‘concilition and kindness, thon Teamnot | ruin, and suppose ‘that they ate only led by ‘tho ment, They may, by common consent, establish that form | {}™ Suet ts toben of thie anigect far ye anv — r ‘ feelings of reat. fires of . But I must bo done. | of government which they prefer, but when once estab- | Youd load. perhaps, to more kindly and charitable feel. 4 i we tiplied, our jndgments incr and made more terri- Again, a third potnt in this remarkable passage—not Batis, last, like them, to be utterly broken in pieces, | Merely ‘was it a heavenly hand which extended the to Be rejected of God, to sink down in barbarism and roll, showing that infinite wisdom directed our trials, despotism, or to be dissolved in chaos, anarchy and | but these trials were also part of the Divine warning, as will be utterly uscless. If our Southern friends, | Tet me only pet ua ‘as New Yorkers we | ! "and to become a Listing, & by. word and are | Well as of Divine appointment and record. Ezekiel says. Sit enters upon the possession of rights and rr mpeg hh 4 “ye, womay | ‘And Ho spread it before me, and it was writ and irritated as they have been, ehall | bave nothing to fear for oureclves. We-can afford to be | Which the ernment have not conferred upon Wt, but | 126% 08 \ art, and ald a favorable solution of ‘the diti we are prepared to see the cause of humanity and fres- | ten within and without, and there was written therein | rush from us in the frenzy of , and, list to] magnanimous and forboaring to tho last degree. The | Which it derives from the Most High. Tho remedy poe ben dy | change the ground taken hero lamentations and mourning and wos.” From this wo | n0 voice of friendship, ehall proceed recklessly in their | check which the industry of our Nas Coetiecd wit | for any abuse of these rights and powers on tho part | ful tankes! Ag my a By AY » 5 constitutional obtiga- dom, the principies of truth and Justice and religion, fall never to rise again while this nation has a being. ‘Aye, | Might learn that nothing would be concealed; the sin- we may if wo are full ready, like Judas, to betray our | er’s way would be made perfectly clear; the men who Master and our Master's causé for thirty pieces of silver, | Tuled by the law of in.quity would see themselves judged and aftorward are prepared to receive Judas’ fate and to | truly; those who rowed the wind would reap the whirl- go unto our own place, But if not, nover was duty made | Wind; the men who sacrificed principle to expediency, them in their progress by the calm and dignified, and - gy A ee opera pout n | methods of rédreas; if these fail, and the grievances frm and genti remonstrance, that too many and too | geives, and it 18 to be accounted sirteely Tym tete. | ate such as radically to undermine the proseaity and in a frank and generous spirit Vowards the South. I say Imighty interests are involved’ in such s preceding 0 | rence to that extreme and morbid sensitiveness which happiness of the governed, there may be, by common Wofds dhaman, bebsbene hese camane bis aise ittogoon without such opposing checks asthe | Arancial contdence ever evinced. to political disturb. | Consent, a dissolution of the existing relations. If this | °C 'e Jound to dé-—uo lees, no more, Other © my work of disunion and ruin, then it becomes us to arrest 5 us be temporary. There has been bo suiciont cause Yor it in | Of government is to be sought, first, im coustitutional | thong as ioterpreted by. the conatitational. tibanal, and ives, Mee ae et ae ety made | Yrould aco all hie plans fall to ruins ina night. No human | rest of us may be able to throw in. T find it difficult to | ances. Upon the first whisper of alarm, from t is impracticable, and the goverument has ceased uttor! Previs.—is not this the fast that L have chosen? To loose | being could rar ed the God ot justice and of trath | conceive how any intelligent. and thoughtful man, when | troubies in goverument, confidence hides himscif im timid | % Subserve the preat cbjects for which it was ‘stablial Sey, Sete, Oe made, are to be mate, he takes into view all the mighty interests of this vast | dismay, and when most wanted can nowhore be found. | ©, then the right of revolution remains, If the doc } genes lg Th A Ay = — a, the bands of wickedness, to undo the hoary burdens and | an enemy of his success—no living man could afford to to lot the oppressed go ‘ree, and that ye breakever yoke, | detach himself loose from the wonderful sehome of ‘Thon shall thy light break forth as tho morning, and thy | God’s government, Whence came the folly of bealth shall spring forth speedily, and thy righlevesnese men in power—the madness of men who pos- | go before thee, the glory of the Lord shall be say sessed an earthly reputation for wisdom and strength? country, complicated a8 they aro, aud interwoven with | J will conclude by entrea to cherish the all trino of the human origin of government is true, there Seal Sat cay ‘seommmtliy: seams, be, ana, for cum |' Sean trees ais ation Phas inneeny soniae to, tan: can scarcely be uch a thing a8 rebelion Anyboly and | 4 ‘he, fulfiment of | coustitutional | obligations, moment muppose that these overwhelming millions of | Prose you, that if not wanting to ourselves and to our | everybody has a right to disown allegiance to govern- Ft flanged ane ache nae flper mtn Pg are witl arms and listless meekness, God, nothing from without can by any means hurtus very | Ment. But if government is of Divine origin, and bas | toy inman! som Agel - principle on shall feral. We have nced to humble oursclves We might answer, from the blotting out of that which, | while ali their high interests are sacrificod; financial | jong. G Swill Chat rights and powers not delegated to it by the go- , Fe eee a aa neopest sorrow. “We bays | 18 the derision of the day, ts called the ‘higher law," as | contidence, which is the lifeblood of trad all destroyed Se oe ae oe cotnst "mecereity continue vo bs | verned, then there Is such a thing as rebellion, and it isa | (be pert of the North, any giving up of the wed to mourn and lament over our own sins and the sing | if the Word bf God, which is to endure forever, were not | the hum of industry, on the mart and in the workshop, | the centre of capitai and commerce to thie Western Con. | crime of the darkest dyo against man and God, unless | Tights of tree speech and ® free press, and the Nor every constitutional method of redress haa been ut- | Bowld be ashamed to yield any such concessions it they are required, No pride of consist ehould pro- snspended; private bancruptcies carrying crushing | tinent. Blessed as we are with a most unrivalled gco- wretchednees into numberices, homes; tho. gublie | graphical position, commerce has here worn her broad | terly exhausted, and tho government has become actually credit seriously impaired, and the power of the gov- | aud deep channels, and capital has flowed in upon the fund hopelessly hostile to the prosperity and happiuess of | Ynt the North from doing what is jast and right, oven vernment lying paralyzed and worthless, while its pro. | waves of commerce, and it is as impossible to those who, under this stern necessity, are driven irresist- | *BOwld it force her to retrace her steps, ~~] porty is seized, its prerogative usurped, and the flag of | them aa the attempt would be to check or chango tho | ibly to rebel. It is enough to stamp the theory of the sbould not horitate to acknowledge that im the heat of Our pride is trampled in the dust, and ail this is so be | downward flow of the water in the fathor of rivers. Our | #ocial compact as dangerous and false that it tons direct, passion she had acted indiscreetly, and #0 return gladly cause one of our sister States chooses to play fantastic | gister cities of the South may become oat iyto the disintegration of government and society, while | &° her duty and allegiance. There is one favorable fea- rick before high Hasren fh a mimicry of self-govern erful; but just in proportion as they ‘odvance in power ‘theory of ther Divine crigin cannot well be otticrwiae | ture in this case, which faciliates the settlement of this ment. "My brethren, these things ought not so 10 be. | Fist in the saine Will they contribute taawelt | than true, sinco it is so grandly conservative of the | {mont , and that is, that the questions to be sottied ro, ‘These things ought never so to have been. Those things | the influx of emohanges towards this great contro of our | sTeat and permanent interests ‘of both. This view thold | Mate to the copatruction to be put upon our cons ‘ cannot be suffered to continue. Tsay it calmly and #0- | commons this vast reservoir ot wealth, ‘They are as | 10 be the foundation of true patriotism and of that feol- | Cbiigauons. bie may relieve tho case very mach 1a the femniy, nnd after the most anxions and painful delibera. | surete flow tbis way aa tho Gulf Stream flows this way. | iD& almost of reverence which we should have for law, | }1e™, of ‘that Jarge class of persons at the North ombrso, Moa, ald Lpliove that Lpoak the sentiments of every | These thinga, my frieuds, can never be controlled by ANY | tons or eiilgoveraiment amsamo very diirent. anpect visiys who regard, avery in sua of iaelf es as. 4 a state of ions of civil t ji . 4 Wi cecdeakeeiccamamectt each Re pening WL. cites eamaeni sotenged catten aaa core mon vory dilferent aspect | Re Me Treen or “all reaponsibility in reference ‘the whole nation, in thus cher 'd upholdil to be exalted supreme, Woe to the man who discards it! colossal system of wickedness ook cpnrension. It ‘x7 ‘Woo to the nation that casta it out! Woe to the people wonder God's ta are 0 Ube is | that will detach themselvés from it, and rule by any in- bs aval ame ta tee ¢ forior standard of authority than the Word of the ring has they did vot come down upon us like the ‘besom of destruction, “We have need We experience the | God! Sorrow is the daughter of sin, and human suffer- 1 and sincerest repentance for these transgressions, | ing is ever growing out of domestic sin and guilt; and the seep clemnly vow ine God's eight, aad with his help, | Word of God hesitated not to say that this wus tho that we will redouble all our energies, and labor and pray | fact with nations as with individuals, The ‘with all our might and hearts for the entire removal and | $m of the drunkard and of the gambler was abolition of this grand cause of God’s wrath and all our | to be seen in its effects upon the children of the troubles. We havo need to set our faces as a flint second and third generation; the innocont daughter car- ‘against all and every form of complicity with it or with ried about with her disease inherited from a father’s de- its apologists and defenders, and in spite of opposition, | bauchery or licentiousness. While, then, the Saviour , calumny, proscription, social ostracism, or t us that we were not to make the application to ‘even persecution, to reconsecrate ourselves to this great g' 538 which are as certain and as ‘a8 those which secure | When we view them in this light. They become, as it slavery wherever itis permitted by the pe hoe ee ithe ‘clan poaee bp at harshness; 1 would do noth! nk: I woul agent jesmengers: Work’ to let the ‘oppressed go free and to break ov al men,” yet the trut ‘good and ; L would do nothing in unkindness: I would ex. jepberes. were, agents and m of God - eee et odtahole daty thus torepentof this siz, | #orrow never didoome but as the immodiate fruit of | tend forbearance and Drotherty tove to thelr utmost [Coe nermeny of Cheapheres, faling ‘unin wonderful system of" moral discipline, | S24 when that is once ee ee ie serie eaten Me ore inc and do likewise respecting every other | man’s iniquity. Accordingly, whoever might be the | limits; but these things cannot be sulfered to continue. There is every where tho silent and invisible prosence of | #0 to complain, and the convey ea ar fin‘ theland and nation, and. even ur own forsoal | Agent of producing the cay the duty and privilege | | My ‘rothren LeBeau aa, America cin, and THE REV. J. C. SMITH. law. It protects our persoas and property; i€ maintains | "adieturbed. But one thig atioul! be dutwetiy wader. ‘offences and shortcoming. ' Nor can we keep the fast por- the Christian-was to do w were doing this | spenk as a native of South Carolina; I speak a3 one peace and order; it secures material comfort and stood by those who wish to iaveive ee * in footly except as we remember all the rest of this nation, | day—to humble themselves, and fall down before the | who understands well her conditipn and her wrongs, Fity; it harmoniges conflicting intereste and speaks for | the attitude of rebellion, 2 ord it wi ay do Sha pray that God will lead them to sce thoir position | Lard of Hoste, aa eae ee eae ND apeak und | Chueh ofthe Ascension (Protestant pte | trith and justice ten. ‘Thus this idea of the | t2.prewume wo far upon the peaceful vemper ind for, nd there duty ma of Howe of instruction to be derived was the | when speak words. of censure they ‘are spoken | copal), corner of Fifth avenueand Tenth | merely buinan origin of civil government, in what sz | Pearance al a athe Pacey yg gy etn” Py pudy of the servant of God under tribulation. ‘“More- | far more in sorrow in anger, | Sy | seneet, called the social compact, is amoral hindrance in the | Pray thie day thas ne LEW e ‘sabsariee of of ber the appressor, Sver He said unto one, som of man, eat that thou find. | that South Carolina haa wrongs to complain of—she has way of our ‘destiny aaa nation, and i made use of to | Wal Cod would OpFor De cet ch God, we reverent Ration, and pray Uhat God will give ther light anda | est.” What was this dating but an absolute acceptance | injuries to be redrosned. Demagogues, havo assailed her Religious services in observance of the day of national | justify the secession of States, and thus the disintagra. | "Ar. But there tsa polls beyuud wit om, iteolt Detter’mind, awd that our country may be preserved | opening the mouth, that might thrust in his roll, | with the ril of the hustings in the eanctity of the | fast and humiliation were held yesterday at the Chyrch | ‘tion of government. If this government is to be per. EA rip hey Aa eee ie tee rome ton of pre ‘and undivided, and that the curse of slavery | Written within and without. We should not onl, jui- has irritated and goaded to madness by tual ‘and subserve great moral ends,a far higher sey tthe Di. ha of the Ascension (Protestant Episcopal), comer of Fitth | Mew ites this must bo taken. We must recognise tho | thie Union. We lowe all oar power, an ‘speedily be abolished from the North to the Sou esce in God's appointment, but cheerfully accept the the libels that have been poured forth for years upon the tad "rom ‘tho East to the West. Let us | Yinecommand. Whatever wore the trials recorded upon seost cacred ‘and most dationte. Of her domestic institu. | avenue and Tenth street. After the introductory Prayers | nation as an ts various parts not joined mo- | When we Persie UA the’ slave, that ho may . kept | the roll, the simple principle was that they could work | tions, by the mountebanks of the pulpit, who, in thoir | and lessons a sermon on the subject—The Moral Hin | chanically " ‘with a national life, | standing here cnspeak nme lo ¥ We dread than From decds ‘of vioience and blood; that he | nothing’ but roe ST morrast of iho Living | peotitercus carcer, are animated by the most ignoble of | Grances to our Destiny aa © Repablio’”—waa preached by | We, taust feel the incalealabie fmaportanco to all our into. | 10% Leth ory ot pdf Lene tA nay receive the precious light and blessings of the Gos. | God. delightful to dwell the | all the forms in'which worldly ambition ean display reste that its authority should be maintained. We must No act which can in honor Pel, and may have grace to show the beauty and power | freat truth that “Who is he that shall us | itsolf—the ambition for otorlety by An asvo- the pastor, Rev. J. ©. Smith, who took for his text Mat- | chorish » patriotism which is indulgent to its faalts, ho- prevent it shall be left uadone, Bat TT teligion sven itt bondage and to glorify God even in | if we be followers of that which is good?” That was the } ciation with the demons in pan ing to the falso pre- | thew xxi., 43, “Therefore I say unto you the king- | nestly proud of its excollencies, and ready to dio for its Bo fear, and if the issue ie forced upow the fires, Pupecially let us remember that we are all | Principle laid down here. This roll, written with Iamen- | judices and malignant ‘of vulgar minds. And 18 | 4om of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation | defence. We must foel it to be God's instrument for the ity which we canng resiat, Kulty together, the North as well aa the South, and tho | ‘tions, and mourning and woe, could it be nourishment {ito be wondered at if the sons, o€ South Carolina have - My 8 highest and holiest purposes, and uee It atd co-oporate n bitter tears fer our distracted country Church as weil’as tho world, and let ua strive to avoid a | to the servant of Surely, the trials that one bears | sometimes forgotten what waa duo to themeclves, and | bringing fortn the fruits thereof.” with it as such. We are to resist to the last any attempt solemn sternness, as of those oentorious and Pharisaical 5 but let us make this | are the very best food of his soul; nothing so "| the true dignity of their State, and descended to private | ‘This terrible declaration of our Saviour, he said, so | at its disruption, in violation of the principles of order the defence of thelr Bresides and fos the ca ne of the most heart ng’ and faithful seasons of | *0A the heart in duty; nothing’ so ‘encouraged the spirit; | retaliation “and brutal violence. ‘Tho mistakes and | fearfully fulfilled in the of the Jows, might ordina- | 4nd law, and thén we may trust in God that thie Kking- . But ob 0; it cannot, cannot » Gur whole lives, Lot us be profoundly mvarnest and set | Bothing so turned fan adrift from the creature that he | follies and crimes of individnal men, are now to bo y ge gel grit dom of peace and righteousness will not be taken from i te contemplated foF a moment. ourselves with ali our hearts to do our duty and our whole might anchor on the Creator. Where was the loving, Ia- | charged upon the countries to which they belong. We | rily pass almost unheeded by us; but the circumstances | us and given to r. The next moral hindrance to | 9¢ people, Inhab om how vast oa Guty, and to to humble ourselves and ture from our sins | Doriows, Christian man who had not drank from the eup | are now to deal with South Carolina as a State, and as | under which wo assemble together give it an impressive | our destiny aw a nation which I shall notice is to bo | the most uae i aibes anes, Gounae wa iat say sam Consiatantly couse hie face to ahine upon os a Rey My as err esed, | See nee Care See ae 8 ee — that I) signifiéance, and it sounds in our ears « solemn warning a ae bn ost “ye Da poreuce? Do not the woot birds wing their wag <0c oo le » imparts u el cause complaint onl oo reforme. In consider of our subject ‘At the close of the fey jis broken his teeth with gravel stones aa he sat by the side | individual men in the States ae ee ea he bat | Which it ie impossible to disregard. I trust that ail who | giso we shall find thet it has @ fatvect bearing upon ibe | Year from Lop aegee ant Ie ae = ok Pamaieel, ret cinens en sions ‘soene tate’ PGA grave, snd mingled bis food, with woepimg, | against many of those States In thels exeoutive, Vogisla- | are hero to-day havo come with a doop onse of the mag- | difficulties in which we ara at present involved. | Going, Sarthe mmajentle rivers Kuo. ee cane ate . xX, congroga , * 4 capent oe gaid that he fully endorsed every ‘wort that hat fatten | taviouy’ Christian sen open ta mowth wide, tnd wetotens | of South Corctinn ase vrechely then alae ariersnous 8s pre |! nade: cf, thoes dangers; which threnten ge, and ot the Tae ines thera ge, fales meee. Sen ay oy onthe | a8 thay flow Pn Oy jo fe from the pastor. He thougt that the sermon shoald Ue | these tHale-Delleying that tho hand of Divine wisdom | complained of by her slater States of the South. Nothing | *ame time with calmness and a cheorful trust in Gol. | origin of, and consequently ns to the remety for, social | #087 Do not the same vast ranges Of sous cae beard by thqusands, aud bo therefore woved tbat a col. ! will never aflict oF grieve but for a merciful purpoo— | more; nothing les. Why, Yhen, we have aright to ask, | Our political and financial troubles are to be recoguiand | evils. Soctsl evils are #upposod to result from defective JOONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE)

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