New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-08
i. homeless. effort to resenerate the unwieldy and
decsyiDg empire Of the Sultan.

ho,,;lty .o the encroachments OF SisveT. IN COM
narin0 some of the speeches made . ne floor of
the ias. General Assembly IN. 8 }, ara --'ore she
different General Associations o. New England In
the course of the present season, with tue senti-
ments which were uttered 10 Thanksgiving sermons
after the Fugitive Slave bill was passed, We see
tbst change Of sentiment has taken place. Right
pobl, have many of this class sp ken for Freedom,
and DOW we hear q loud outcry from the South,
AID from some portions OF the North as if these
out-poken ministers were guilty of an unusual out
rage. This whine and cant about the " sacred
"ness Of the pulpit the minister's duty to
preach the Gospel" "his prostitution of his
.biph Office to the low business of fGrtsering ths
lends Of party politics "a mode by which these
Tremendous conservatives describe the homes.
eoits of ministers to arrest the progress of Slavery
and to ssyc the endangered lber les of this country
we say tbis whine and cant have called 70 mind
the conduct Of ministers in our Revolution, and The
Judgment which history has passed on that con-
Duct.
In 1850. ,JoDa.hsn Mayhew "tae bodest and
"moss fervid heart in New England declamed
in Il Boeton pulpi. against tyranny and priest
"craft" He said, d" If those who bcar the
"title Of civil rulers do no. perform
"lhe duties Of civil ruers-f they inure and op'
"press-they have no! the least pretense to be
"houored uud obeyed.' He preached that under
certain circumstance rebellion is lawful and
"gJorious, not II crime but = da'y' Bu' May
heg was not content merely to preach these things
he turned politician, an wrote to Hollis that " 1t
"is nv fixed resolution, notwithstanding many
"discouragements. in my little sphere to do all
"csn for the service Of Iny country, tha' neither
"tbe Republic nor the churches of New-Eng and
"may sustain any injury Bancroft in one of his
strsi passages gives us the following; " MAS
"the Bible quoted as demanding Difference to al
"in authority This, i. was insisted, is to
"sdd dullness to impiety. For tyranny, they
"cri.d is no government; the Gospel promises
"Hberty, glorious liberty. The Gospsl, so
"pIcached Ma;hew of Boston, always, the Cos
"pe permits resistance. And one OF his last
"acts was to write 10 James Obs, one Lord s-day
"ruorning, urging the great use aud Importance
"cf communion of colonies, And what gays
our Democratic historian Of this political preach
err "IIe died " says Bancroft. sin the unblem-
oished bssuty of manhood, Consumed by his fiery
"zeal, f,reseeipg Independence. His Character
"waS 20 deepl! Impressed on the place of his ac
"tvi:y, iha, il is rot yet grown over. Whoever
"repeats the story Of American liberty, renews
his faIue
The name of the Rev. James Caldwell 0t Eliza
bethtown is repeated with ycueratiOn by ail who
read the hi-toiy of our Revolution. The R-s.
Nicholas Murray, ID. ID in bis memOif OF Cad
well, says that, possessing warm feelings, aud hue
genius, and trtat muscular energy, and sioeplrss
perseverance,, hr entered vith all "his heart iato
"tbe controversy betw. cD tbis country aud Great
Bltsin. lie teil Us that, "infasils his spirit ni9
til, b, aud lis Pc pie Ieie sjon branded az
"retels; a1d richly they deserved the nana.
Caldwell b,c ,iue tcs Oh plata of DaytOn's regj-
meut ut the north and Col l. mer, who was
presrr. whtu The Declaration of Independence
reached the regiment, gay. that "Parsoa CallSell
"gsve the following toast; Harmony, honor. aud
"',ll pIoeper,y to the free and independent United
3" States OF America; wise legislators; brave and
"yic,OriOus aruiieF, both BY sea and land. to the
"'Urited States of America This beigereut
toast of the palscn was received with three
hearty cheers.
Dr. Murray, in reply to the suggestion that 4" IL
GUS in these days, all this locks yer, strange in
" minister Of the Gospel Of Pesce'-:he parson
always carried HE pistols, sometimes laying them
down on the pulpit when he presched-says: - He
belonged to class of ministers, who, almost 10
man, consider cd it their duty to tod 70 aid their
" country in every wa. possible in the existing
struggle; some of whom raised their Own CON-
" pants, and marched NJ their head to meet the
" enemy" At the battle Of Springfield in June
1850. Caldwell, finding our men sh )rt of ~adding
d" flew TO the Presby yterian Church, and filling his
pockets andarus with Watts Psalms aud Hymns,
" rode back to the company, scattering them
amopg them, rying out rs he flung one here and
- another ther,, 'NOr pvt Batts INTO h'm, boys >"
This msn was declaredb his cOtempOraries TO be
rousing Gospel preacher, old DR.. Ashbel Green him
sefssyug that ue never ceased to feel the mpre
made Oh him by a sermon delivered by Cald Veil.
He was alIerward shot, and DR.. Murray, in con.
Guiding lis memoir Of him. uses these ignltcant
words: "a question has arisen, aud perhaps II
will present itself to many minds, as to the pro-
"prie,y Of a minister of the Gospel taking such an
active part in the secular affairs OF the country.
.'On h suitable occasion should like tO mcc; the
"man WHO woald take the negative OF the ques-
" tiou. We owe the ir, edom of this country to
" the religious ministers oi the country. IL all the
- ministers had taken boldly the ground assumed
"by some, that there could 40, b, State without
- king, tie lien aud the unicorn guarding the
Grown would have been the emblem Of o IT SOW
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