New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-25

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ton And The Jew feel most strongly feel thst rny rst
and foremor thanks this day Of general thanksgiving
are due 10 Him 1essed be- he holy nnme that the Gov
ernors proclamation which appoints this day and which
Is obeyed by all citizens directs them to givs praise nj
thanks 10 the Universal Father In Heaven This Is tho
fryt great public recognition and triumph Of that imnui
bic truth that sacred principle, which Judaism ha.
maintained that praise and thanks and worship due
solely to the Father In Heaven And while MS children
younger brothers hasten each denomination to its
Iaco Of worhip there 10 offer those ardent and sincere
thanks which the only return the creature make to
his Creator of whom their Father and Father mas
declared "lssae l. my first born son. Exodus w. 22
we minge voices with theirs that vast chorus
OF gratitude and love- ascend from the whole land to
the throne OF mercy, millions of voices chanting Th1a
ye The Lord for he is good, his mercy eniureh forever
lily friends when carefully examine the state of the
world; when compare the condition OF of the Old
monaches OF Europe with that Of the young repabc in
which IT Is our happiness to live cannot fail being
struck with the remark that In the instance
abundant seed Of national crime is producing equally
abundant baryess of national calamity so in the other in
stance the national recognition and practical application OF
part at least Of those principles of justice freedom and
fear Of God which the Lord ands in his law Ia pro-
ducing rich and continually progressing harvest of pub
lie prosperity For there is that intimate connection b.
tween ard effect that the seame blessed result
which promised to Israel from proper aihevance
TO- and Observance Of these prncpes Is also and mani
testify becoming realized in tie United States Nor can
this be oherwise for justice freedom and the fear Of God
the great and Indispensable essentials Of private and
public conscience and consequently of individual ani of
orOiSo ~
the people Of Israel for m adherance to these prnci
PIES namely the Lord viii distinguish thee with what is
good fDeut. % nsSs also been exe.-n "a thse
United States and it is this gracious promise that shall
take for my text trace its fufment in their history
pass presont and to come.
L. And frst as to their rass history No difference cen
be more that oeredto by the two European
races who most extensively settled in the New World
for This vast continent is comparatively new -Four centn
res ago its existence nnknownto the civilized world In
its northern wid-nay, on the very spot where now we
stand tribes of sav8ges roamcd about and carried on
against each ether warfare not less erocous ana contin
us than that which @ waged against the brutes in their
boundess forests. In its more temperate regions dwell
people civilized but thoroughly demoralzed by
superstition that human victims more frequently b!ed upon
ia aars Still further south there dwelt another people
almost civilized but prey intestine dissansions Sach
to the best of knowledge, was the condition OF tne
Hemisphere now called America when it was first dscoy
cred by the adventurous Columbus the servant OF Ferd
nand and Isabella King and Queen of Spain These
archs had proved the purity of their faith by conqerng
the MshOmeans and by expelling the jews from Spain
Their fiery zeal had acquired for them the honorary dog
nation of 1.-The Catholic and the whole Of the newly dis
covered world bestowed upon them by an authority
which at that time gainsaid-the Pope Of Rome.
The Spanish discoveries 9bounded IN the precious metals
world had been given not slow in selzing on Its
treasures The amliars of the Inqusition the exterm
majors of the MoOr' and the desPoes Of the jews mas
Of crocy and fanatcism IN which they had become
almost perfect at home. Alas for poor humanity The
natives bese by demons in the shape Of men, who
vailed themselves Of their superior civilization solely to
run in cruelty and plage and slaughter Alas for the
Of religion In her most holy name the worst out
RACES on humanity sanctioned and committed so that
the ferocous superstition Of the natives appeared innocent
when compared with the sterner fanacsm OF the nqus
ton and their blood stained but unseh priests appeared
absolutely praiseworhy when contrasted with the merc
Ices cupidy of her crafty officials But there is God
"who iudgeh, even earth" Psalm lviii, IL Spain
that with suicidal hand destroyed her own industry aud
commercial prosperity when she expelled the Jews, con
summaied her own ruin when she discovered America
Both events took place in year so close did the punish
ment follow the heels of the crime Her more hardy
active and persevering spirits emgrated TO the colo
MES until the constant drain depopuated the Northern
Country.
All the wealth of tho New World that flowed into the
Golfers of Spain had other effect than to reduce her 70
sbeo and hopeless poverty by choking the last remlin
ing germs of her native industry The cruel but calcula
ing fanacism that had riumphed over the defenceess
nations of the New World was foed dsgracefuly
folod when consistency hurried it into conflict with the
poor but vaOrous fishermen Of Holland conflict that
left the Spanish monarchy on whose wide spread posses
and of spirit And all that which had begun in pride and
power and domination ended in disgrace and weakness
and ruin. The first dscoverer Of America died BROKEN
hearted victim to the ngrattude Of the monarchs he had
served too we'll The first posessors of America expelled
after the horrors of long civil wars do not now on this
vast continent possess one rood Of land While o, It's nun
mother country hope and prepare for the hour that shall
free them from her sway. Thus, arocious crimes com
mtted in the New World were punished in the New
World while national crimes committed ia the Old World
have been and still areviited by years Of foreign invasion
and sangunary civil warfare Such is the brief history of
portion Of the New Word sd ss history Of the
other portion. Verify my thoughts are not your
thoughts and your ways are not my ways saith the
which three short centuries agoI call three short for
what century in the life of world (which, three
centuries ago, the seat OF the most cruel tyranny
Of the most lawless yioence-who would have thought
tia. Il would become the home Of the best regulated
social system of the most innate generation for law and
stable Institutions That this continenon which the
InqHson had tramped in the funess Of her power hnr
to the stake and to the bockthat this continent would
become the asylum Of religious and of civil liberty the
successful asserer Of the great principle that conscience
4 and shall be free Yet SUCH In the inscrutabe but
benefcent designs OF all wise Providence has been the
case Not mid the goldfraught mountains Of Peru nor
mid the rich isles of the Antilles was that great and free
spring up which Providence has raised to be
banner Of nations to the New World and to the Old |
Word likewise. No; mid the prmeyalf9ress OF the rade
North where the whoop the wild Indian aternatei
with the grow of the bear and the hiss of the snake that
10 be found not by unprinciped adven
urers like those who rushed their unresisting prey In
he gold countries not by mail clad warriors whose might
was their right, but by humble hard working yeomen
Who IL their native land and sought asylum even on
hese then inhospable shores, rather than bend their
lecks under the yoke Of ecclesiastical tyranny.
Behold the Pilgrim Fathers OF freedom as they crossed
he mighty OF the Aantc their perseeutors snser
uely called them Plritans Bat, this was the creates,
they could award them for pare their morals
nm their constancy, aud boundless their trust in God
III me not that their faith was based in error
inced OF il that they Misunderstood those sacred