Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-27
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THANKSGIVING AMONG TIE pURITANs.
Thursday last was The dsy set apart for Thanks
giving il most Of the Northern States. As far as
we can learn from the abolition papers it was con-
verified into day for Kansas Missionary preaching
The New York Tribxns publishes two lengthy
sermons Q)-oBe on "TEE TRUE IDEA OF Con-.
xoxwEALrH," by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher--
the other on "THE UsURPArros IN KANSAS, AND
TIE PLEA or GRATITUDE AND GoD AGAINST IT. by
Rev. DR.. Cheever. The first was delivered at
Plymotah Church, and the second at the church of
the Paritans These Thanksgising-day produc-
tons, which we have taken the trouble to read,
made up of the most disgusting balderdash, the
most senseless political twaddle, and the most
pharisalcsl preudices in behalf of bleeding Kan
sas that their filthy tongues and the grovelDg
instincts of their authors could well produce If
this is %the salt of the earth 10 the Northern
States, what is to become of her people2
The Tribune also publishes an abstract of SER
mon delivered at the Jewish Synagoge of Bui
Jeshurem, by Rev. Dr.. RaphaH, which is model
in comparison with the two preceding ones. We
copy it as matter of interest to our readers who
may be curious to know what Jew would say
on such an occasion.
After the usual preliminary exercises, the Rev.
Dr. Rsphan addressed his congregation in SUBJ
stance as follows:
alt is meet Oh day Ike this, set apart for pub.
lie Thanksgiving to Almighty God, that the Tsrs-
elites should join with their Christian brethren in
its observance. They offer praise ard thanksgiv-
ing to the same God, and derive their religion
from the same Bible that we do. The difference
between Us is difference of opinion, and not of
morals. One Of their own writers, st. Paul, has
described Judaism as perennial olive tree. From
the trunk of that tree have sprung sspling which
has overshsdowed the parent tree. Still Judaism
is the root which bears it, and must live forever;
for its roots are planted on the rock of ages The
| good deeds Christianity teaches, our religion
commands the misdeeds which it condemns are
prohibited by ours. When, on this day, therefore,
they thank our God, we are ready to join them,
for it is good to give thanks unto God, to sing
praises unto the Most High. And when we give
thanks, it is not merely for the blessings of the
| year that is gone-not merely that our enterprises
have fourished that the fields have yielded of their
abundance, and the fruits of the earth have been
| bountiluly bestowed-not that famine and pesti-
lence have been kept from entering our homes, and
wars from devastating our country--not alone that
| the wilderness has been made to blossom, and the
| primordeal desert reduced to cultivation and rem
dered useful for the purposes of man. Far beyond
all these immediate blessings must we look for
| cause of thankfulness to our Creator. The New
| Highlander to day will remember with gratitude
the providendsl care which safely landed the pill
| grim fathers at Plymouth; the Pennsylvania that
| the Almighty guided the footsteps of the mmor-
tai Penn; the Vlrglnian that the lite of Smith was
| spared, and the Marylander be thankful that CAL
vert was enabled to plant civil and religious liber.
| ty. And so must the Jews look with gratitude to
the Most High, that in the day of His wrath He
remembered mercy. The same year that Ferdi-
nand expelled the Jews from Spain-where they
| had dwelt and prospered exceedingly for thou
sand years-thst same year America was discov-
cred by Columbus. God provided them with sno-
tner home, where they might enjoy degree of
| freedom and prosperity, and even attain to emf
nence, such as they could no where else even hope
4 for. The reverend gentleman alluded to the cru
elites practiced by the Spsniards in South Amer
lea and t1e ruin that had overtaken Spain by rea-
of her cruelties lusts and expressions and pro-
phecied that ere long the scsnty possessions which
| yet remained to her vast colonies would rebel
agsinst her tyranny and assert their independence
1t was true the first settlers of America although
| flying from oppression at home, turned zeslots
and fanatics here, and prosecuted all who differed
| from them il matters of faith with bitter ami
mostly; yet they lasted but generation, and a
race OF men sprang up in their stead, who, while
pious and jealous of any infringement of their
rights of conscience still respected the same
| rights in Others. From that time the Jews have
| had an abiding place here on an equality with
every other citizen. For these mercles we owe
thanks TO the God of our fathers, and we owe to
our adopted country best efforts for the preser-
walton Of the blessings we e2joy.
The speaker closed with an appeal to his hearers
to remember in their prosperity those upon whom
the hand of adversely had fallen, and to give OF
their abundance to those who were suffering ard
| in need of relief"