New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-26

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who were prssent on the oeeasions-
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Ssgg@H-ksfgs Porter
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CoIYoysL-sincIsr, saIisI,, Bu1Tss williams Greene
The officers together with the Corps present. numbered
enc hundred and forty.
The Chaplain Rev DR. Van Pelt opened the services Of
the evening by Prayer, afer which
Rev. HENRY WARD BzEcHER came forward and sa
dressed the assembly as follows
THE CAUSES AND EyESTs OF THE WAR OF 1872
If /. be INQUIRED why minister of tho Gospel should
arpear at this time announced 10 speak upon such sub
ject the Causes and Events OF the war OF ls reply
that such ennuncaton was without my kn3wedge Or cen
sent in far the subject concerned and undouct
edly by mistake. consentsd 20 speak before the
Veterans the War Of 1912 but the subject OF my remarks
not stated BY II is peculiarly inconvenen 10 ne
TO iuteec another service such this upon week pre-
occupied by Thanksgiving Not that feel STILL any p.
culiar inconvenience of the Thanksgiving dinner for
may say that | have safely recovered from that;
but because the labor required for the intellectual
banquet Of such day makes 1t anything Du' a
day in which clergyman have anything to DO thanS.
full for in the way Of rest But when, q week or
two ago ny venerable friend and brother the Chaplain
Of the Veteran Corps of 1912, called at my house "h
body guard Of three soldierly looking men-ocer,-
made known their WISH my first impulse was 20 decnne
the honor Of this service But when they spoke OF he
poverty Of many Of their old companions oil the near ap
proach Of winter Of the necessity in some way OF relsv
ing the pnclngs Of poverty end want-my near' tsueu
ne, and in moment Of weakness consented 10 appear
e. night Of which basy promise have repenel az leisure
Not that would withhold any effort for the relief OF those
who are necessitous but because had resolutely de-
cined other would surely have been FOUND 10
assume this task and with better preparation thah nave
made. Wherefore, If the short coming OF my lecture
shall rise mp and condemn my rashness in promising H.
prey you to put the blame upon my venerable enu mere
whose gray hairs plead with my eyes, WINE nus tongue
which age has not yet scOrched, plead WIN my ears
Ii may seem TO many that in when Peace IL De
coming declared doctrine Of Christianity ana W
and more regarded as an utter outrage u Wouid DC Jun
cult for clergyman 10 find matter OF enogy or c0ngau
laiOn in annals of between such NATIONS az EnSahu
and America | shall therefore, preface my remarks by
few considerations this subject Inc progress Oh
Christian civilization has been marked Dy great caahse
In the opinions Of men in respect TO War 1hat sanitary
horror Of will go until the predicted ana un'VersaI
peace will fill and bless tho world Nothing 100 much mas
h.sn enid bah of gt
Ii is the rudest possible method oil adJusuhs ny
tiona differences If private citizens were TO se''e the
DISPUTES In the sire ct with their nails and teeth that would
be to civil process wsat war between neghoong nations
negotiation and peaceful arbtramen Asprt OF rea
SON. in distinction from passlon-a spIrlt OIL e4"y, "a
distinction from seliishness-would make war ihPos
stle Let all good men unite in exposing inc Dat
bority of such adjudications as are made on the
the battle field let the principles OF the Christian rel
gion be more perfectly developed and applied to ques-
tons of public policy and national difference Lot our
citizens the camp not in the mellow light Of romance
but hard and fgid it is i'm reality let them thnk OF
armies not they glitter in holiday parade but a. they
are in actual campaigns torn and ragged from me con
fic Let them think OF glory not as the con
ce and noisy boasles of unreiecting men, tne ehI Oh
mere carnage but the result offortude temperance io
bearance and the child Of moral virtues Bat after all may
there not be way Of speaking of war that Is untrue
because in its analysis of il partial and superficial
The outburst upon the battlefield may be, bad as II 49, the
very best pant OK the whoe history OF which carnage me
climax ard relief Wars of savages which are Ike the
wrangling Of dogs in the street. the mere irritation OF
brute passion wars of conquest wars OF national AFRO
eance and pride the Of which the strong SCI
the weak-such war upon Mexico ana me Russian
war upon Turkey-sre utterly unjustiiable. lhey WIN
bear neither the test Of Christian humanity nor OF poca
expediency But the which the weak wage 70 man
tain or acquire TO the liberty OF being men-bad as he ne
cessy H. terrible then their mldest experiences
ere not only justifable, but humane and merciu as
compared with their alternative, oppression Inc evls
Of war-blood, lacerations, outrageous disorder, IA
pine, lust, cruelty, drunkenness, robbery disease
famine plaques and uncounted are obvious
to the senses These horros which require 10 seh
by 10 the spectator They force the citadel OF the con
science and set every emotion Of honor in array against
them But the evils Of shameless degradation are voice
less obscure and without appeal 10 the senses Inc nope
less decline Of public spirit the discomfort oil 'he ndas
trial classes the exacons and expressions wrought upon
the laboring classes the cruelty OF Yranacus Jutcsi
the ten thousand ueles and horns with when men are
laeeraed In affection and manly pride under the pretene
of GoreTRneRt; the decline Of honor the washing Vi
courage the progress OF gnmsniy cr1s1g ahu supto
cunning upright conduct and manly lrectuo, tu'
wasting away OF agriculture the decline OF ietterse ars
the laDguishng Of the retrenchmem OF ihle
gence the growth Of social deprayues anohs hoid
constructors: the formation 81 clandeshne cuDs th5
growth of state Of society in which rulers are every one
scoundreltyranis law but organized Oppression .e ~
pe half animated sponges, to be squeezed by e1or9n
and the better part Of them eagued and sworn against Jaw
and eovernmenare all these things better than the cap
Of battle There : unueraoe cruey ~ ane III ~
the field buf who shall tell the woes OF dungeons anu son
tary prisons Does the shock OF Datue ruley rehu .o
fame Of societyl But muonn expressions pierce Ihe
frame work a. worms eat cut the t1bes OF the snip Inc
ov NJ the rack the torture chamber the gbbet and the
wheel the miserable army Of the dungeons and ne son
tar nons whore battle l. with solitude disease and des
pair the silent wasting and pershng OF popular n'en
eence and couragethese ten thousand times worse
than all the horrors of the field DO you tnnA al tne no.
BE but unfortunate campaigns Of Hungary against Au,
ta ard her rider Russia the gigantic realization IN moa
EN- history Of the classical myth Of the Cenaurs-horcs
that and men that are horses-were us corruN
ing az cruel as demorazng that dsributiye Cypress
ion which converts every house into torture char
her sends police after every mans heels suck,
cut the fife Of maninoss. and corrodes me state
Though Turkey were to bleed until the Bosphorus ran
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