New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-11
ArarrageG9laOn Lectures,

The announcement of alecture under this formida-
BILE caption drew togethera very respectable audience
last evening in the Lyceum Room of Odd Fellows
Hall
The lecturer, DR.. Baldwin, has made something of
figure in theological research and is generally re-
garded by his readers we believe, as man Of great
powers of mind and deep study His proposition that
the ORIGIN history and destiny of the United States
Of America as nation form subjectof Divine Rev.
eation is rather startling. The principle of Republi
canism stands arrayed against that of Despotsm and
between them will be the great final battle which is
to precede the reign of universal peace. To that
| tremendous struggle the Western Republic stands
committed On the one side and the empires and king
| doms of the earth leagued together on the other
This 5momentous business--as we understood the
Doctor-s to be confined to ciuize6 nations of the
earth the peoples of Europe will become merged in
one grand total and then is to commence the Titanic
| conflict between the great principle of Democracy
and Autocmcy. Either the former must be swept
from the earth or the former must fall and we i'll
| ferred from the tenor Of his remarks that in the
opinion of the learned lecturer the issue was not at
all doubtful. He is not we believe, the only who
has protested to believe that all Europe would finally
| come under one rule. Napoleon (not Louis,) it is
said, expressed that opinion The q Coming of the
Gifted as symbolical of a power which should hold
dominion over the entire earth and as the Repub-
can power of Government is that to which the
whole world must come when the time of its
political redemption shall arrive, "a proposition which
| Lord Palmerston would probably deny) it leads of
course to the conclusion that American ilbl,sterism
will prevail, and American political institutions take
the place of all Others. The Doctor did not exactly
say this but appeared to be what he was driving at
We cannot follow him through the complicated and
extended chain of argument which he presented to
support his theory it evnced vast deal of research
and ingenuity. He fixes upon a method of comput-
ing the mysterious periods in Revelation, and then
proceeds to make the Examinations of these periods
agree to the hour and second with certain great events
as the Crucixion the destruction of Jerusalem and
finally the Declaration of the Independence of the
North American colonies, which was the first step in
the great train Of events foretold in Revelaon-the
downfall of the union of Church and State the propa-
cation Of liberal opinions, the overthrow of despotic
rule, etc. 5,5 l4rt E
TWAS not necessary, the Doctor stated, that he
should show direct ausion in the Divine Word to the
American Republic, for it had eoz declared in the
prophecies that these things Should remain hidden
until the time of their fulfnlent, whereby We
infer (f the learned gentlcmans Interpretation be
correct) that the consumnation of these desirable
events is at hand In fact, the termination of the
next period brings us to the 4th of July 1876 and
another to 1878. We shall watch anxiousy for what
ever astounding events these portentous dates may
have in store trusting that is not because of then
disastrous nature that the Doctor wtholds specific
information concerning them.