New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-16
FREEDOM OF SPEECH or TIE SENATE
AND OF TIE PRESS.

DISCOURSE BY THE REV. DIR. CHEEvER.
The Tabernacle was crowded 10 overlooking last
evening to hear the Discourse Of the Rev. DIR.
Cheever, on the current topics of the day-Freedom
of Speech, Of the Senate aud " the Press. DIR.
CHEEyER fret adverted 10 the value and blessings q
truth TO the present and TO future generations. They
could not estimate too highly the freedom inherit
in the possession of free schoosand more especially
fee press. with other blessings, which can remain
established by our necessary efforts to publish the
whole truth. But while error and sin remained UNI
checked we were yet in bondage and must be vgilan.
Although Iuiquity in high places should despotically
strive to subvert our power. should remember that
while the Phistines imagined they had outwittod
Sampson within GAIA he had carried of the gates OF
the city. And truth must prevail while a
fearless Ministry brought the of niquity before
the bar Of God. Conscience must not be banished but
the laws rgidy maintained which enacted for the
guilty. The gospel of Christ could not shield evil
without cOnspiring against the souls of men. Con-
cealing mans tin from him Ia hate him aud i'm
peril our own eternal hfe Although tyrants usurped
the SCI ats of Justice we should not quail before them.
Herod was an admirer of John, but not all hs
sophstry could intimdate the heroic Apostle
from preaching the Gospel until the conscience stricken
Tetiarck had been beheaded. Better TO die IN
a glorious cause than live gnobly. Thus did Jeremiah
prove faithful knowing that although men die prnci-
ples lived forever. Boldness and not timidty, must
be our rule OF action. The serpent Soph,siry must be
crushed Suppose publisher OF charts could be per-
suaded by awess band OF wreckers tn leave su-
marked the unseen rocks, could any expense palato
the wrong produced ifthey mlsrsPres.nted the con-
cealed dangers OF the deep, would not ruin be IN
evitablei Yet this was done by those sophists who
picture Slavery a. necessary evil The temple
of Truth must have free ventlstion-no eioaking
Of guilt before God. Edmund Burke once said:
Bad laws the worst kind OF tyranny
How applicable was this to the misgoverleA
State of Kansas. The life Of liberty wns gone under
oppre ssve legislation wherever there was recognized
reign Of terror commencing with assassinatng attack
like that which lately dirgraced our Senate. das-
tardly attack upon deenseess man-an act OF butch
cry by a lswless Rufan-who has not been arragned
before an aveDgpg tribunal Statesmen in England,
with impuny thunder forth their sacasins ana upDrsd
each otheI-as scholars and geneinan-not as buies
The Of the 0ppressed-the claims OF humanity
should only be advocated, instead of which, IN free
America a sanguinary monster can find advocates
among the people willie the Legislature sanctions his
criminaty How long can any country stand where
thOse in power sustain crlminalsf The Government
digging it's own grave Fear miserable fear OF
the repIoachcs Of Slave advocates sppas the bathrooms.
We must the odous system OF, and carry rei-
gon into politics. We NUT sanctify our free press to
promulgate truth and denounce mental as well a.
physical bondage. The Press was regarded as an IN
fernal machine by the despots Of od-the noble Ager
non sydney lot his life in it, defense. II free thought
were stopped the spirit Of liberty would be annhiiated.
Were volcanoes quenched, earthquakes would be uni
versa Could despots destroy the electric huid o.
light the te.gra Of intelligence would be destroyed.
The battle of Thought all that was needed Fes.
I, ring wounds need probing and evil must be rooted
out From the Judiciary to the ballot box, corruption
NUT be eradicated II truth prevails we prevail He
adyerted to the good effects clearly manifest in ksnsas
Fl, IN the den0unce OF free press and In concu
sion said that God would sustain them II their cause
righteous.