The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-21
From the New YORK observer
INFA NTICIDE APPLAUDEDl

&c., - sls a nnblie of sentiment prepare
tory the convention 20 be held al fhiaaepna ~
the nomination OF the republican Candidates ~ sne ~
roaehne ursidenta election Is represented and we be-
neyetruly as an immense assembly embracing many OF
the most eminent and respectable e,tiAshs u Nem
Intelligence earnestness says the New YORK pune
were written in unmistakabe characters upon inc eoun
tenanees the than three thousand people who were
present x.,.,,,
Tbe great speech Of the evening made by William
Eyars esq., of this oty, Of the late jeremiah Eyar
esq known and honored throughout the Christian wor
us the able and devoted secretary OF the American boa
Of commissioners for foreign missions and grandson
Roger Sherman, one of New Engands wisest CHRISTIAN
statesmen and sgner Of the Declaration OF American IN
dependence There In Mr. Eyarss speech some nue.
which merted applause but we were
when read from the report Of the New York Tribune
the following passage;
the last winter The unwontcd rigor OF the season NAG
bridged the Ohio with free bridge poor ve.nosns
with all that she had In the wodher cnaren
from growing boy to an infant upon her breashaa passed
over free bridge, without let or hndanee ana was on
the free soil Of Ohio lApplause The power OF the federal
government under law OF which have no complaint to
make pursued send her back TO servi
and not able % release herself let the spirit Of
her child into the free light Of Heaven even me dah
h The stern Cato 70 Senate With their long
delay as which Of the two they would OF
mother by quick decision and flashing execution, deter
mine that question for her posterty prolonged cheers
An gentlemen one touch makes the whole world
Kin and there are many who feel greater pride in
shafng the bright red blood that through heart bound
pg or freedom under the dark bosom OF that poor slave
otherar greater than that share in common with the
pae faces OF the of the North loheeIs
and iaughter.'l
4 intaatieide-a mother who murdered her babe
aptaued 10 Christian church. by proessedly Chris
II assembly embracing "mans o. the mes
ineft ada ftpel talr catzens Of New York; appaudeo
with loud applause with prolonged cheersF An eio-
uent orator with the blood 81 Jeremiah Evas anu Roger
Snermann his veins proud Of sharing the blood q slave
mother who murdered her own child And why ng
cause she noby preferred for her child death TO the pros
pect Of life of degradation and mseryp Because she
dared snatch the sword from the hand OF her
lcn,., anl HaRh
me ones,ionn Of the supremacy of her will His law
In china the female part Of the population are doomed 70
life OF degradation and misery and TO save them tro,n
.h dsadation mothers there often murder their female
infants In part of India the old age OF the poor ana
inrm is hopeless wretched and parents there are oh
murdered by their children In the same country .hs
widow is held in conept and to escape IT she purns he
self or compelled by her relatives TO be burned 70 asa
on the funeral pile of her husband CHRISTIANS ~ Ehsaa
and America were shocked the recital OF these revolt
ing deeds that they combined to raise money en sena
missionaries duse the light CT Christianity In these
dark iands and no man did more TO lhese T.
the lis life to efforts for the suppression OF
crimes springng from ignorance OF Gods law and de-
PRAYED public sentiment in heather lands can the son be
worthy Of applause for encouraging Inc same crimes IN TINS
Christian country
If we wished to illustrate the unchristian and awfuy
dangerous character of the sentiments liberty and
slavery held by large and growing numbers OF pro-
esedy evangelical Cristians in this country could noy
better do than by referring the feeling of approoa
ton expressed the great meeting in the Tabernacle on
the by Mr. Evars OF the passage above quoted
Suicide nfantcide atricde and the reckless shedding OF
human blood in every frighul FORM the natural fruit
of the doctrine Of the right of every TO liberty as
maintained modern abolionists and by others who
repe Indignantly the name OF aboonsts but who prove
by appauses at the recital of such deed as that
of the poor mother that they do in heart hold to what
Is most horrible in the sentiment of their doctrine This
doctrise dethrones God who is love- whose law is love-
and who makes good the highest good the rule of right
and deifes liberty the liberty of every man. the will Of
every and regards every man as noble who proud
Iy asserts the supremacy of that will reckless of all good
of his own good and of all good The doctrine is the
most insulting of all violations of the first commandment
in Decaogue 1t claims supremacy for the will Of every
man over the will of God and God win surely visit with
his terrible judgments the people who assert such
doctrine 1t the assertion of this doctrine in France
nearly seventy ago that led to the reign OF terror
from which the French people fed for refuge TO military
aesposm e-assertion of the doctrine by
the socialists 10 ls4s that led to the ntoeraole evils rom
which after brief and bitter experience the same people
again delivered themselves by adopting almost unan-
mously despotsm under which they voluntarily
suffer the privation Of their former liberty And no
rejecting American view without deep concern for
the welfare Of his county the progress which men who
hold this doctrine have made within few years
bringing under their control the pulpit the press the
great beaevolent institutions and all other means OF form
ing and expressing public sentiment in our land
Milton understood well the connexion between the
proud assertion cf personal liberty and equality and the
reckless shedding Of human blood he preserves the har
mony Of the attributes in bis devils and it is
"Mooeh, horrid hing, besmsar'd with blood
vi human sacrifice, and parents tears"
Of whom he says
90 His trust was with the Eternal to be deem'd
EgEql in strengths and rather than be less
Cared rot 70 be at all. With that care lost
Went all rs fear Of God, or Hell, or worse,
he reck'd not
Deightin ablood Of human sacrifice recklessness Of
bis good and Of all good, willingness TO be annih
lated and desperate revenge" huy associated with
the proud spirit that claims equality with God.
Mr. Evars regards the unanimous applause with which
bis sentiment received by bis audience as evidence that
he had touched chord which yibraes strongly In every
human bosom. One touch of nature" he says makes
the whole world kin" True alas true Ever since
the fall Of through the temptation of the devil
has bad proud depraved deyish nature and Il is
this devish that disposes him 70 respond with APP
pause loud applause and prolonged cheers 10 every bold
attempt to place mans win the throne Of the universe
and TO maintain IL there reckless Of Gods law and Of all
good.
BIT mau Is not al devil &c was made Originally IN
the no y image o. God Whost grrat mora atTtute-
himself oy sin and is now in ruins God stI loves him.
end stu sometimes inspres In this ruined creature love
which makes him again truly "noblea love which de-
Lights in eoodn the highest gooda love which, for the
accomplishment OF good swes the soul ots sub
ject with courage with virtue sublime than that
OF any hero of the Satanic schools love which srins
from no suffering and danger which offers up life free
~ and encounters death, arrayed in oil its error not
only earlessy, but oyully and trumphanty. This love
u noble IN action and 1t Is especially noble In suffering II
sufereth long beareth all things endureih oil things
gores IN fluctuations knowing that trbustion worketh
patience and patience experience experience hope II
goriee in sefsacrhce and above all glories in suffer
ing wronafpityfor ne good Of others.
IL was this ivve which prompted Roger Sherman and
his eow-patrots Of the American revolution TO pledce
their lives and fortunes not to deliver themselves ndvd