New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-17
az INTIsLAYERY LECTURE.
ovx,,r-r OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
ruEoRIys OF MAN AND SOCIETY.
nv HENRY WARD BEECBER.

=. ..h;.., a, the present time, ia one Of peculiar
l,.,.,, a. touching the questions Of Slavery and
V,.v.Eo,hingsm and, together With The popularity
.1,,. lecturer drew togeh bouse-fa Of a1dtors-
There were number of gentlemen Of distinction
..eupyipe seats on the rostrum-among whom were
De Hon Joshua r. Giddings, james Mott, Of Phila-
Selplis, and Mr.. Dudley, Of Buffalo.
Mr.. Beecher was Introduced n the audience by
III. OLIVER JoBssos, who raid:
I.pIys AND GEs1LEMES TIE speaker who occu-
pied this platform on Tuesday evening last in the
eewte of bis remarks upon the wide oegenerscy of
the American Clergy on the Slavery question, re-
minded us that there was in Brooklyn pulpit,
nAr We ihoul hit you would be glad TO ses and hear
sseh auss aud therefore have besought MIN 10
come hitler to night 10 instruct ue by his wisdom snd
nsye Ne b, his eloquence. | trus. that, whatever
yeu nay think Of other paris Of the lecture OF
KTsDELL PHILLIPS, you WILL when tms evenings
ceJfurmance over be ready at least to confess that
h what he said Of the Brooklyn preacher ne vas not
more eulos istic thsn truthful.
Mr. BrEoHER, on prescntiog himself, was received
with loud and hearty applause. He spoke as fol-
kvs:
The questions which have provoked discussion
snsrg Ne for fy years pact have not been questions
Of fundamental principles but Of the Application OF
mipeples already ascertained- Our debates have
been between eDe way of doing n thing and another
way Of doing it-between living veil and living
better and 20 through i, has been iesi)o bet Teen
good and better. We have discussed Policies not
Principles. IN Europe, The other hand, lifeques-
nopt have sgitated men. The questions OF human
uebis Of the nature sn1 true foundations Of Govern
mept are to day, in Europe, where they we're with
our fathers in 1880.
In this respecf there lie a moral dignity, and even
.rspdeur in the struggles secretly openly going
On in Italy. Austria, Germany and France, which
never can beloI the mere questions of mode and
manner which occupy us-boubdary questions, banks,
tariffs, internal improvements, currency; all very
peeessary but secondary topics. They touch nothing
deeper than The pocket In this respect thsre would
be marked contrast between the subjects which
OCCUPY u.s. AID the srander hfe-themes that dignity
European thought we're it not for one subject
Slapt,y THAT is the ONLY question, IN our day and
IN our community full Of r,tai struggles turning upon
Fundamental principles
II Slavery were plaDtaiionia question concerning
only the master and the tlave, dconneced from US,
and isolsted-then, thouf h ne should regret it, and
apply moral forces for its uitimse remedy, yet, it
vsud be- las are questions Of the sane kind in India
or South Amesics, remote, constituting single ele
psnt in that globe of darkness of which this world
n the core, and which Christianity is yet to shine
through and change to light But it is not pianta
tor. question. 1t is a national question. The dis
putes implied by the violent relations between
the owner and the chattel may only morally
touch Us. But the disputes between the
matters and the Government, and between
tie Government, impregnatei with Slavery, aud
0e Northern citizen, these touch us sharply, and if
at wisely met will yet tcourge US with tborns In.
deed, / cannot ray that believe that New-Eogland
and The near North will be affected locally, and
iumtoiattly by an adverse issue Of the great
u0Dal struggle now going on. Bot the North will
be an utterly cead force in the American natl n She
viii BE- rolled mp in a corner, like cocoon waiting
for it's n al smigraion The whole North will beco
pfoviI citl; it viii be but fringe TO nation whose
legt " i'll beat i'll the South.
BstNew- Eng ana not raised mp by Divine Prov
dtbce 10 play mean part IN the worlds Affairs.
Remember that Ntw England brought to America
those principles which every State in the Cnlon has
more OF less thoroughly adopted.
New. England fret formed those Institutions which
liberty requires for benedcen activity aud from her,
both before and since the revolution, they have been
copied throughout the land Having given to Amer
he ts i'd and ts institutions, think the North
b bouI TO stand by them.
Until 1900 the North had distinctive national in
hssDee, and gave shape in due measure, to national
pshey as she had before to national institutions.
Then che began 10 recede before the rising OF
al other power. For the last fifty years, upon the
pstODal platform have stood array two champions
n mortal aptagoRism-New- Engiaod and the near
North representing personal freedom, civil liberty
uhy ersal education, aud reig ious spirit which al
ways sympathises with men more than with Gov.
eIImtIis.
The New. England theory of )verpment has al
vs,s been in It's tement-hrst independent men; then
democratic townships next republican States, and IN
DE end a Federated Union OF Republican States.
Alber economies, her schools her policy, her indus
NV her wealth her intelligence have been at agree
mtni with her theory and policy of Government ie,.
New. land, strong at home, compact educated,
nc ht minded has gradually Loaf influence, ana the
vbole North with her.
The Sou hern League of States, have been held
together by the cohesive power OF Common Wrong:
Their industry their policy their whole interior, vital
economy, have been at variance with the apparent
principles OF their own State Governments, and with
The National Institutions under which they exist.
They have stood upon marrow basis, always shaking
nndef them, without general education, without gen
sIal wealth, without diversified industry And yet,
since the year 1900, they have steadily prevailed
sQsipst Representative N,w-England and the North.
The South, the uuest representation OF Absolusm
under republican forms Is mightieI in our National
Councils and Policy to-day than New. England, the
neither and representative of true republic Ansm and
he whole free North.
And now it has come to pass that, in the good
providence Of God another opportunity has been
prcssntsd to the whole North 10 reasert her place
and her influence and 10 fill the institutions OF our
country with their original and proper blood. do not
DEERE that she should arise and put on her beautiful
gsrnents because she is my mother, and your moth
or; not because her hills were the fret which my
childhood saw, that has never since beheld any half
90 dear; nor from any sordid ambition, that she
shculd be great in this worlds greatsess nor from
any profane sish to abstract fron The righuui place
and IL 6uepce Of any State, or any section OF our
whole country. But think that God sent New-Ens-
land to these shores his own messenger OF mercy
TO days and ages that have yet far 70 cone ere they
are boinl She has not yet told this Continent all
hat il in her heart She has sat down like Bunyans
Pilgrim and slept in the bower by the way and
where abe slept abe has let her rol-God grant that
che hath not lost il there while she slimeeFed'
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