The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1866, Page 8

Mt Gia?" 3 Ae 8 NEW YORE HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1866, THANKSGIVING. Its Observance in This City and Throughout the Country. 8 & i i 4} 5: 5s ? 7 i 3 i | i E Ceremonies at the Churches and Be- nevolent Institutions. + KEE At the present time more than half the South are loyal to the U: raat eminem Target Excursions, Fantastical | 504 institutions sont the ‘who are ready to weloome all Preggesigne, Fe sui "ou ‘cot pastes eaiuasar she uth 6o those friend! a. fe. Sa | Se voreiat "eel c's ne een The annual festival of Thanksgiving was celebrated in ‘we city and vieluity yesterday, ina religious, philan- Wropic and civic point of view, in & very appropriate manner. The weather was not ail that could be desired, as throughout the day it alternated between drizzling showers and clear sunshine, s0 that it was considered f ; i : & very unsettied, and the streets were reniered muddy | the United States could recognize no such legislation: and sloppy. ‘The festival as originally established waa senna Recisinenccoened Oh ae ore Ceimeg 4 almoot distinctively of a religious character, bat this has | tie tei Sigbte Dill-nay she ingitae Ne Been changed. Fun and frivolity now divide the honors | lation P Mm ‘would at first plain, juiesce, and in five years ‘with religion and philanthropy, ‘and the event | Tak us for the lesen, We have e Tight eo to-do ss 1s, celebrated according to the peculiar’ and vari- | victors in a war not bet nations, but be- ous tastes and education of the very mixed character of the populations of the large cities of this country, A Yemarkable feature in the celebration of the festival this year is found in the fact that it was celebrated reli- giously by Catholics, Protestants and the ad- herents of Judaism. Nearly all the public places of worship were open, and the pastors wegaied their hearers with the ablest produc- tions of their thought and study. The theatres and ether places of public amusement were opened, in which their managers gave matinées and evening performances. franchise. The giant robber is dead. There is no reason why he ehould be permitted to retain in bia d: py er the fairest spoil he plucked from liberty. le the right that we may make good our sacred pledge. We mised the negro freedom, and pledged ourselves to eelablish and maintain it there is no other means of jntaiming it 80 so simple, and so inexpensive as the ballot. We leveabe right asa means for the protection of the loyal whites. To-day they flee in troops, hunted and, proscribed throughout the interior + ‘The sounds of martial music were heard in the public lantly by the ide aa our own boys. a hfares a erythi we protect them? There are three sat ENS AnA Sey S08. ereeninlng FSEZ Ser, "1 Wiltory penta, Meaulataearote as seemed to pass off pleasantly. The custom of a National Thanksgiving bas now become fully established, and it is hoped will never be permitted to fall into disuse, but to continue henceforth a distinctive American institution. Sermon en Reconstruction, by Rev. Lyman Abbott, at the New England Charch. After the usual opening services the preacher discoursed ‘es follows, beginning with the text from Jeremiah, chap- ter il., and 17th verse, ‘Let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, that they may be no more a reproach :”— ‘There isa legend that the New Haven colonists, when ‘they first assembled, agreed by resolution to adopt the Laws of God for their government until they could find time to form &@ more perfect system. For the truth of this Jegend in this form I will not vouch; yet certain it 4s that they adopted the Scriptures as their first constitu- tion, and lived with no other political system than ‘that which the Bible afforded for over a year. In the South. In other words, we Teverse repul \- iam, and substitute government of many by the few. You might as well attempt to build a pyramid upside down, and keep it from ling, as to & republic on the disfranchisement the oy an There is but one alternative. Republicanize the ath. Give to the loyal white man his natural ally, and you ‘will need no other political reform. All else will follow. But it is objected that the people of a State have an ab- solute right to determine the qualifications of its own voters. Perhaps. But a minority have not a right to exclude a majority from the pole. imagens in South Carolina, where the negroes are num ly in the majority, they should get the political control, and ex- clude white men from voting, would the democracy re- Oceans constitutional? Is it only when the ox gores tho white one?, The univ ownership of land has been one of the characteristic features of Northern civilization. Large landed pi hip isan almost insuperable obstacle to true progress. It creates a state of society where there can be no fruitful agriculture, no active manufactures, except as it de- pends on atoreign market for consumption; no common schools, no popular literature, no widely diffused press. It is to-day the chief obstacle to reform in England and the divoussion of this question of landed proprietorship, but construction, which is and | J will say that now is the golden ty for a re. wast bebe apn it, ene is Cae oo eed moval of this obstacl snobby revol ‘Measures or society, sg Po gue ioe roe ioe = ce | sweeping confiscation, but by emigration, purchase, and ips a wisely devised m of taxation unim- Proved anus “ ie TRE FREB BOROOL is essential toa free republic, ‘This the South never bad except the State of South Carolina, and its system ig utterly destroyed, She had paupers’ schools in which, somewhat different systems, an education was out, a sort of “broken and cold victuals,” to the children if their parents were too poor to pay for tuition afd Not too proud'to beg th“) schools’’ they wero in every ae ye —_ baer Jeg no efficient “4 tem. was provi for the whites, Didden instruction, for slavery tae go the Pons of the many that they might be ruled by the few. ‘the false of their preachers, ole con- | Already the roote of a new school are option of bocety, Teligion and government beginning to be. planted in Southern soll. The deen destroyed in the shock of battle. The whole Soath | freedmen clamor for schools, In Georgia they have asin ‘not only politically, but socially, industrially, ized an educational society, and are arranging to lly aud religiously. And the lem of re- ‘educational conventions in every county. And in onstruction concerns not merely her poiitical institu- tons; it is deeper and more difficult of solution. Thore if Wy ' i H : reconsti thousand declined to it. whit ‘are feel! = ecetdsondh aged, end ze’ bagisning to tema = the school house, This must be encouraged by private Its free press, a free pulpit and a free political canvass. These three seataes ore over a subjugated people need, forthwith, to commission and.send Southward. Ser est: but this ‘THE PUBLIC PRESS fougbt to maintain the right of self-government. We | is first in influence and importance. Since the first eannot complete - | issuance ofa oe a in Boston, in 1704, the f- ly inci till it now has reached a ‘with it have been A Virgimia, casting | circulation of over 13,000,000. Gathering up the history of each day, transcribing {t at night, and employing the ablest fii el ed cay ite discussions pe be ques- tion—polilical, cael a jigious— the it is the indispensable com) air Ubiquitous and omnipresent, it covers Be done, table of the metropolitan mill and @ = eelf-governin, commaney, requires ic Iv food of the pioneer in distant Western ‘more than to endow them with the privileges and pre- | wild or ern wilderness. Fogatives of self-government, or even to frame for them | furnishes ite readers {ita institutions. It requires to develop within them the | mation, and a Anelimation and the capacity for self-government. Ifwe | of thought, every desired to govern South Carolina we could do that in | this public press has Congress; but if we desire to render her self-governing, cireulation at the South. ‘that we must do by processes brought to bear upon the | gregate circulation is a a WHICH MAKE A PROFLE SELP-GOVERNING. erptianed tx’ this tate Consider, briefly, elements out of which « seif- | four times as as that governing pommunity is to be reared. combined. with @ristooracy, who, conquered but not converted, avow, | York, possesses but one-seventecnth ‘with a frankness that is e, their utter and circulation and but ‘wnconquerable aversion to all the ideas and ‘This ie not all, however. of freedom which characteri: cannot be summed up in a statistieal wecond—The ‘poor whites,” so called, are chiefly in the interest of conservatism. debesed than the common of q attack or slaggishly rope, learning of Fg ee’ idleness that Southern press pretty ‘te negro at least to . ey. but four thoroughly radical eubjects for an intelligent self-governing ie. to the cause ‘Third—A middie class of measurably The New Nation at dostrious men. They were loyal throughout the war; | in Augdsta, the Nationalist in Mobile, and the Tribune they now welcome cordially the which revolu- | New top har i. But they are too tm numbers, | west. Their circul is confined almost ‘am too weak in influence to exert any direct power m | to the colored popu! perhaps, Bouthern society; they cannot even es. | Richfnond, and hardly amounts in the aggregate to ten Fourth—The freedmen just escaped-from bondage; its | thousand. : | | ‘THE PULeTT. Yeas their aspirations after education and true free. The moral sentiment of any people cannot safely be dom make hopeful subjects and earnest advocates | ignored. The power of those that speak to the con- of every reform. But the spirit of slavery, not | science cannot be disregarded. In theSouth the pulpit yet wholly dead, denies them all voice in the | is inst freedom, or indifferent to it. The ministry administration of the government and the constitution | live either divorced from jon and a peaceful life, or of {te interior life. Thus the men that could help us will whieh was the handmaid of despotism. hinder us; the mon that wish to help us are w to do been of conscience and ~ faith and resultant influx of infidelity. Consider also the adverse circumstances against hich all civilizing influences have to are utterly infidel, not only in respect to theologic truths, but ip respect to joundation principles of rectitude. We need in the South a new gospel, a free pulpit, a ministry consecrated to teach that religioas faith in the divine possibilities of human natare which is essential to a true, permanent republicanism. Until the Sonth believes this she cannot be republican. isateacher, The weightiest questions in morals and statesmanship are set before the peopie for their deci- sion; and the ablest men the nation can afford become continent and abroad ; and the foreign immigration which we annually welcome is largely composed of men who gympathise with democratic institutions and come here to enjoy them. The South, on the contrary, was first settled Jargely dy the aristocratic element of England, and has ‘been schooled in slavery over since. As a consequence the South has none of the institutions of a genuine repobii- | their instructors in the public debates between the con- caniem, Our land is scattered among the many; hers is | tending parties. The South never has had the benefit in the oye! ae — ieee ao an their doors to | of this education. For she has never Permitted, least every child ship in the great repub- | for many years, ® free discussion, and the very ques- No; note single Southern State, excepting South Caro. tions which concerned her most have been ingeniously liga, possessed a common school system, and that ia de. Our press and oar pubtic halls are, and free, except where violence hae over States to gag them. The South never free presa, a free them all unwillingly Consider, too, that whatever of reform we atiemyt this people we attempt in the face of ine most violent personal prejudice. The overtures of @ friend the South might welcome, but ow of anew life comes from a teacher whom the orrors of a four years’ war, added to balf a nectional strife, has taught them to abhor as ap enemy Our way to their territory is clear; our way to their hearts and minds ia still barred. Add to this that the Chief Executive of the nation, born in the South, nour. ished im {te doctrines, breaking from them upon a single subordinate issue—the right of secession—proves excluded from the political debating grou: These great educators, the free preas, the free pulpit and the free platform, all need to be sent southward. So long as press, pulpit and achool are in the hands of the aris- tocracy, we shall have and can have neither peace, pros- perity or a true Union. These are the trowel and plumb aud mortar with which the American Nehemiah must rebuild the broken wails of bie Jerusalem. Assem- bled on this day of national Thanksgiving, we our God for elds fertile with grain. for streams busy with manufactures, for harbors populous with white winged commerce, for a common je bieased with every com- fort which ingenuity can devise and skill construct, and in whom are developed the qualities of wie et iam, redned culture and manly virtue of which England tnakes her nobles. For in America every man is or ma} bo better than a king—he thay bea trae nobleman. All th growth that has rendered America beatific in peace and Victorious in war is not adventitious or accidental. It te due, under God, to the institutions of freedom—a free ballot, free land, free schoo! and {ree discussion in pulpit, And platform. The same seed sown in other soil will bear in other lands the same blessed fruit. The same inetrumentalities which have made the North rich and strong, faithfully anplied, will redeem the South from ite weakness and poverty. done, 20 framing of external laws and and inst. futons can solve the problem which isla betore ue, ‘This interior reconstruction, this framing anew of the out of whom the laws and inetitations must be is rool, forthe people, shall not quran from avd by whom they must be adi e net be content to the peace of the Lemp hag “gy H¢, and to the perpetuit; Union. 1 GER to the peneet eC eee ee One we will give her Union. jog burke likes latent fre between North aad South, “ Jogal and disloyal, white and biack. So long it will in- ee ek peat aan in flerce flames of | suction violence ‘passion it Tote of New Orleans and Mempine ie to nn eeee' ane BS y 3 arm , We will rear the chureh and the school of a notional authority, bringing the offenders their monument, nor rest content till the church Giese ond eundign pesicbment’ n BO TES ‘schoolhouse belle chitwe the eobdier’s triumph by the ps ‘TRE PERMANERT RewEDy of every fm which # loyal soldier lies. Nay, in such moral processes: oo aa 2 uae feelings Ses, ‘5 is the mations of the carnth by? now efien bi fo cannot + iberty: be topeista “metas, bmoe masse ° to a latent fre to smoulder perpesoaliy in fe accept the trast when our own peo- she hold of the republic. It is necessary to teh. | ple bave well learned we will teach went of repudiicagism in Bouthern x ox Mezice on south, to Cansda + inte. ove must will declare it with © velco which evopved be in ond ball her child. Bodie memories of ber i 5 f 4 i ii il zr Hi yt i F i der S/R iH | fH i AI i i E é z E i i | E 3 s it H of Sage ut iy i Ez F ie & i i 5 iv i it z 2 ee iE a! is and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.” On thie text the speaker said substentially as it S25 Vi it He iy HE g cE i esd 8 E ; 3 i i : & F R' EM ‘This is the origin of thankagiving. “We sow and lose It dies that it may live, Through : f & R i 3 H E é H 5 sight of our grain, 5 | 2 ie a i ee a ty 285 H g a F i 3 3 5 E i i i i i H haste the harvest rushes tnto ripeness, and’ ene week Seems to do more than have six months, Huniap affairs are like husbandry, that have also their sowing and seeming birth in death. They have their germination and resurrection and growth struggle. Then in some strange year and with unlooked for haste the: event culminates, and in more is gained than tly, We forget mooie. Es So, and that through ali the interm: like nature, hides its work. vades the mass and it has done its work before that it is working. This ise Never, pet ap inj of ational prosper of ni none have Roem overruled, merce and war, the vebementiy busy the 80 y single year asin this, Russia An incoherent population of diverse nationali through almost as many ( j i i lr E BE i 4 H if ry “ 28 i é ? & a é Fa: E j L & at i ; Hy £53 i j ] i ‘ i iz : f ot of gra, bul o g Es Our City Gevernment—Sermon by Rey. 2 gi At the Sixth avenue Reformed Dutch church Rev. Isaac 8, Hartley took his text from the second chapter of Lamentations and the fifteenth verse, ‘Is this the city what they were about, shows wn But since their labor bas taken a different turn and breathed a different 1s 20 powerful in rousing the the Renates inhe Dias, ‘THE SIX YEA! SCHOOLING could not but tell upon the consent of the parent land. Volcanic Ireland is again in eruption. A people of brilliant qualities are the Irish. Paes wee the rhom, peo] copt those to wi they th ives they 41 When ‘ggg ey droop. they overflowing emotions and a tough ho with the cooler ic gas and firethe new ’¢ want them, America rept a Pre pnd : oppression honor in a better home which Indred helped to subdue, which their blood bas to rescue in war and which their fervid genius will in coming days radiate in our laws and let- Meantime the mother of us all has trouble in household. Her outcasts ha learned that sons demand in their own house and among t! doubt that out by the affiliation of re- knew how much we could love our Spectable men with the speculations of the day. alone but the whole Sermon by Rev. C. D. Foss, at St. Pauls Methodist Eptscepal Charch. Appropriate Thankegiving services were held yester- day at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, in Fourth avenue. After the usual imtroductory devotional ex- ere the pastor, Rev. cate wate Fejoice.”” The proposi 3 ie ie ition, suede BGS ate eto e model repul as the evan- gelizer of the world.” At Trinity Church, ‘The usual Thanksgiving services were held in Trinity church yesterday, a large congregation being present. The Te Deum Jubilate was splendidly rendered by the choir, also the anthem, was the less imagi and hardy industry, indigenous only by emigration. Saxon blood they give y ise with genius. England does Why not ex = have seen whole at home for liberty and ag trig eon and ietilions of pions, Cannot the action of great armies upon respect affect the wonderful multip! try reflected from the national mind in whole nation, both fand their intense and & ir kindred. Can any jor m6 t er because more hn: Manhood x family history, or as bearing on the deeds of Lord is'Great, The sernf#n who took for his noagh, We, must have faith in the = Tan, government education, breath true religion Into hig bear it. It is easier to subdue men by war. Italy, the benefactress have gone down tothe series of events in which a Divine of our armies, alike by their suffer. breed win inns their lives to te natu: 8 vi rolis Benes 2,609,002 luced to the threo years’ Make all due allow- milhons of men mustered into service, and most of these J seey fond hearts with them tothe war. We At St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. At this church the Rev. Dr. Price preached from the one hundred and twenty-second Psalm, sixth, seventh and eighth verses—'tPray for the peace of Jerusalem,”’ &c, The reverend gentleman eloquently dwelt on the duties of citizenship. Christianity was not antagonistic to patriotism, as is fully shown in the conduct and life of Christ. We who in this country enjoy the fullest Mberty should not place obstack ho sti for the jonal; our nobiest efforts ought to be lidation of the repubiic and for uation of our free government. co Yrere: we, by a strange of her t re- and never surpassed in ¢b-operative e cid fs ba bang The full political liberty Se iy will yet exert a power uy European affairs which not 1. The futore is full of power moat here where live 80 many of her sons, Austria, Will find new life.in ber humilia- ‘must at length learn something. will teach her the wats undy- 1. LIBERTY, that saw God's image in every man, and we were parties to a system toat treated some four as — and chattels, M wishes aod more end iriual guides, Site and gave little if an: and of a humanit; oan ee alent the boldest thinker can millions of human souls papetal presages. Pat forth for the consol ough: lieved in yu) , Chauncey and ou: and we followed Webster, Ev: Calhoun, Pierce and Bi that have been must be, redemption. All this changed entirely, and the act of the enemy. ur ideal thi: ine with our manifest destiny, and the Dec! the first time into the Services at tho Baptiet Church, Corner of Breome and Elizabeth Streete—Dinner fer the Children of the Mission Scheol. ‘The pastor preached an appropriate serinon, taking his text from the fourth chapter and eleventh verse of the Book of Jonah—‘‘And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than six score thous- Hon, Inexorable necess!t; Z hier.) She is a colors of liberty. x pe . id ponte ood sager, poets, lawgivers an jes now need no expur- North or South, and we read the great views of the age in the clear light of to-day. The whole, however, clear, and in that principle takes it not from men, word that calls us to bei! ‘lneation of the young tha yo foowed wit That God always with ion on the young. The the wilderness was for her child's himeelf came on earth he did not descend majesty from the heavens, but slept u infant. And the onl; and destruction was At the Fifty-Second Street Baptist Church. bis motber's breast an stood between Nineveh 5 £ at 4 HF sand siaveholders and their sons to thereby to commence at the bottom in rebuilding e Larg grander of pe: sagt farms tnd paatati “4 z i i cronies the Rev. Dr. sermon by eregation street, Keg pee deen SE } assembled in Sixth E 5 i is i be settled at once and forever, so thst education ma cleared the way, and coaxed, causes which, inherent in out to their ultimate civilismion and regenera. There was cause for thanksgiving to-day in the and boots, in the fact that of the world, in the daily mercies and providences of God, and more than all, in the affairs of the nation. We are alnost thi night—the day star hangs in the fori Tighteousness itself 1s ris 0 out in the fulness of of religious liberty which is ginning to cast over the mountains t# benign rays to fli ft th ; F wide scattering of no cloud rests on 3 g a a it ogEE of that perfect day and is already be. ‘The Day at the Institutions. At the Umion Home for the education and maintenance z = i ess ‘The American f Ongood. The several congregations of Unitrians in thiacity met yesterday morning, in very large nambers, at the Church of the Messiah, corner of Madison avenue and Twenty- eighth street. The usual devotions having been gone through, the Rev. Samuel Osgood effered up avery ¢lo- quent and touching thankagiving prayer to the Almighty for all the benefite showered on this country, at the name time praying for the President of the United States, the chief of the whole pation, and for the Congress which stood #0 well and firmly by the country in its hour of need. The reverend gentieman then proceeded to de- liver bis address on ‘THE AMERICAN MIND UNDER MX TRARS’ ROROOLING—RETRO- SPtct oF THR Past GIX TRARA. After quoting from 1 Timothy, |, 7—"For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but ef power, and of love, end of a sound mind,"’ he eaid:—The six years since No. vernber, 1860, have been the most memorable period in the history of America, more memorable, even, than the siz years after the Dectaration of Independence, 1776, wtnce they have established the (his particular line All of the companies upon parade, and to town until long after the names of number of fae eke <{ HER. 5 Hi Declaration do. and of tbe ae en RT ed Sho 7.0 wah ¥ John E Kanes; “tinea ‘Town Hancers Coptsts Seen ame fol Guards, Captain Arthur Johnson ; seventy - Gentlemen's Sons of the Eleventh ward. THE DAY ELSEWHERE. Breeklyn. The churches, with but few exceptions, were sll ‘opened, but by those to whom churches have no attrac. tion the day was obseryed, if not as is fitting, at least am: ‘an escape from the drudgery that pursues most mortals as relentlessly as the gad-Sy the wailing Io, The various: roads leading from the city which afford a pleasant dnve were thronged with dashing turn-outs in the early part of the day, but after the clouds had drizsled a while, the iy equi were seen the other looking oie dadned thao usual ‘Bamber’ of eouns| try cousins were seen the hospitalities of their city friends, and as best they could whatever’ and the well to do ‘wer for themselves: according to their | the i. ‘were not forgotten. The long Occasion to remember their first Sue a. ther mew lodging house. Tables were set eas igh im a manner that would have: any one who an appetite to satisfy. Itis a ‘thing to know Hook a hundved of thoes orphan, culldsen voanerer Kaew before what was the of this holiday, who have hitherto gone through the streets nd cold, tate'n box orm callarway when niga ere oy a ora have awakened at last to the conscloumnees though they have no home, no firesides, soem Sreetings, eviene not wacily ssumaned, not a for, not entirely that which all want most and can least do without, In the Eastern district the day was celebrated in. ciees, cet antt dauenian sien ea mee ist Episcopal church in Grand street joined with their rome in we South Fifth street chureb, and Ny England obbreb, in South ‘Ninth seen the Rov. re Bacon conducting the exercises, New Jersey. JERERY CITY. tizens, A bali under the auspices of the Fidelity Association : passed of with much éclat and was inced the most ent it and select social ‘ever held m that iy. NEWARK, Business generally was suspended, and the re! wor- vices ee iatray Cnet The uocomf condi. tion of the weather, however, did much to mar the out door observance of the day, but the places of amuse- ment were well patronized in the evening. Washington. Wasurxaron, D, C., Nov. 29, 1806. Thankegiving Day is observed, and’ all the Byisceriay Seward, titended service ‘at St John's _Besteon. x lov. 20, 1860. han been observed in a good old fashioned New England style, The weather was made Baltimore. Baitimona, Nov. 99, 1866. Thanksgiving Day has been observed in thicte by a. of bumness. There were no papers issued this afternoon, and there will be pone pul ’ to-morrow morning. Philadelphia. as ne Nov. 29, 1968. 1 v ‘obgerved here, Fee svay | Ny En Bc Tg ty is warm and pleasant. Richmend. Va., Nov. 29, 1866. Thankegiving Day ves wally observed, business « a every where being suspended. Services was held in ail the churches, and the day has been the occasion of / several excellent sermons, New Orleans. CERTAIN re PILES, BURNS, CORNS, BUN. Sold by all eciea ak 3 ry Bente ate, ‘ Depot, Cedar frost, New Tork. uo RANDRETH'S PILLS SAVE LIFE. The time fe at hand when the whole world will concede that BRANDRETH’S PILLS are the best and surest pur. gative, and most certain cure of all acute diseases, and most speedy easers of pain, whether present in the head, in the Tongs, in the bowels, in the muscles or bones. And beeanes they always abstract acrimonious matters frem the blood, which are the cause of FLAT, Mioug wad Mer afections, 12 Syep es and When used cause no confinement or change from usual “s fine, BRAND} '8 PILLS destroy worms, po mitted and endorsed by a ‘Observe with care, om the a Ce Inqures the genuine ofice, Brandreth House, New York. + QURTAING CURTAING, ez. am BET, How at 647 Broadway. _ RLS ar Ae emma —— yay ¥ Detter or tee tN avenue he oa ‘2s, 70 Rocsns ewreet — ee Yor Counciimes—James WeVeeney, Henry Oberle, Joho Devitp, Dr. Abrem B. Cos, icbaa) trast.