Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-07-14
DISCERNING The Sabbath.

1t is no uncommon occurrence of late days fer tie
Puritans of New England to desecate the Sabbath in
listening to the rantngs of Infatuated Abotonists,
on that day, done up in the form OF sermons. III c
defendants of our strait laced purarical forefahers
now substitute morbid political creed for the Bible.
from which they draw their texts the political hus-
inss Tor the pulpit and set Of oucast political hacks
clothed in the livery garb of Heaven the better 10
enable them 10 serve the Devil in, for orthodox mir
listers OF the gospel We have recently had an illus
tration OF this by the reception of an incendiary
pamphlet with the following imposing title page:-
Massachusetts, in Mourning-A Sermon Preached
IN Worcester on Sunday June 4th, 1854, BY Thomas
wentworth Higginson, Minister of Worcester, Free
Ohurch.' The Reverend divine proceeds to deliver
himself Of loadsof hypocritical cant in the following
manner
You have imagined my subject beforehand far ,bc,o
out one subject on which could preach or you could
listen, to-day Yet how hard it is to say one word Of
,nas lou DO not ask, at funeral that the bereaveJ
mourners themselves should speak, but you call in ono n
little farther removed, utter words OF comfort If com
Tort there be. Blu. to-day is or should be- TO every con
gegsuon IN Massachusetts, day of funeral scryice-we
arc all Inourners-and what Is there for me to saw
Inc above Is the Introductory paragraph to the
deectablc Sabbath day sermon that follows. 1t is a
tissue oil hypocrisy, basphemy and treason through
out We make but one more extract To show the
charactcrof this neiarious production now sent TO the
South for circulation. II is as follows
''Do not despair Of the Republic, says some one. re-
memberng the hopeful old Roman motto Bot tboy had
TO despair OF that In the end-and why not If hia
Que also' Why, when going on stcp by step a.
older Republics have done, should we expect 10 ston ns
"a We reach the brink OF Nsgaa2 The love OF fibStt,
grows stronger every year, think in some placea
InTty years ago, II cost only s25 to restore Fugy,
oiaVe from Boston, and IL costs 500 600 INT sL
M save Te'iord know there thousands Of heart
which stand pledged to Liberty now and these NAV
the sia;e in spite Of her officials and her tntstv bu
Gao ihey save the nation? They may give us disIpior
instead OF despotem, but they give us ANYTHING bet
VT Nah 'hey even give US any thing good -
Ihe miscaled Rev. Thomas Wentworth Hipginsop
In discoursing to his pious New England audience
consoles them with the idea that the South can civ,
them disunion instead Ct 1cspotisn, but that the,
can give them nothing better, and before escendir,
from his eloquent fight, on that occasion osks "Co,
they ever give us any thing so good ?" We think W.
could suggest more deserved fate for ali such rei
gous reprobates and traitors to their country md
would be that they be furnished with rope enopgb :,
hang them, on Boston Common, until thcv NEE,
traitors doom.
For the credit Of the New England States. W
would fain hope that such Sabbath day dissertation,
And reasonable emanations, do not meet with IN
sanction Of all classes Of society there, but from a.
frequency Of their occurrence, we are constrained Z
believe that there is something rotten in the ascen
dency throughout that whole section.