New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-21
Ivr CRIME or EXTENDING SLAVERY.
a 8 e NOM:
Nv TIE REV. oEo. q. CHEEvER, o. d.
Preached in tie Chs,eh Of TIE Puritans, Unionsqaors
Etsc. YerE, on Sunday Ereniag, Oct. 20 1856.

ssith
.rI Bbey one to his brother and every man 70 he
ssslbori behold proclaim hbeI'y for YOU ah The Lord
- sword to the peslenoe aud to the famine and viii
.Is yOu be removed into all the knsdo@s " the earh
Jer. 81, H.
These words constitute one Of the most tremendous
tAunderbolts Of Gods wrath against nations nn'
ever iaued from the culver Of the Almighty 1t came
down with the suddenness Of peal Of thunder IN
~,esr day. The cause and occasion Of 1t were the
ATTEMPTED establishment Of Slavery iu the land IN
place Of free voluntary paid labor Involuntary 'erV-
auds was forbidden by the DIVIDE law and the service
rno;n.d nv the constitution of the Jewish State was
n free service. There had been from tine TO June
great and oss ssions Of this benevolent CON
.,;,ution. and God had necessarily denounced h's
VENGEANCE by the prophets against such oppresSon'
hut never before had there been deliberate oe'en'
nation and attempt on the part Of the nation' 10 'o-
lat. the free constitution defeat its provisions OF Po-
lection and Justice for the laborng cms-eS' es'aoIsn
the ,infu and forbidden claim OF properly u, o.
bind their free servants as boDd-sia' 20 a-N
ever at the will of the MASTER .,u,
Ths dreadful revolution and usurpauoh uIey nov
received upoD-kirg prince, Ss,o1 bsS reI,Ted
nl;c,ychv al masies. They hed nesndeo, hau ieIaAu
r:so from the subjects Of their oppression, wheh
ian.siem was threatened by the invading Chaldeah
80 but the moment the troops dres on ana the ll1-
naJys,e nresswe of fear and danger wa removed,
trIned 10 their impous project the gain in their
ssnb nv making their servants properly, instead OF
b,y,d .syranks, too vast and tue temptation OF
xialdlu
their cupidity and love of power TO resist They had
heen going on ia an immoral sensual, proud vicious
training for this final daring eliminating lnquity for
centuries; but they dld not expect 10 Dc reined anu
blasted by so sudden destruction. IL came Ike
vbrlwipd; IT was an over with them, there was no
more reprieve more fOrbearance the choice OF
Slavery instead Of Freedom and oppression instead o.
ustce and humanity, as the policy OF the natlon, nleo
GptLe measure Of their inquities, and exhausted the
ia,t drop in the allotted patience and long SOLDERING OF
God. ~ ,..
and Gods tremendous almost instantaneous wratiui
iudpu ept against it, were, for the sudden ILLUMINATION
Of vickednt and justice in our fallen world, Ike
eun shot into chaos. If j had time To examine, ana
Won the patience contemplate, the previous steps OF
trap.pr, ssion that led TO this colossal guilt ana pre-
pared the way for it, the gradual sappng ana Hlsng
of the foundations Of morality the corruption OF pr
ciples manners and morals the successive wicked stat
ues and the habit of ntidclIty ana dsoocdie1ce 10
ward God faster ed on the people in willingly walking
amer them the sacrifice and shipwreck of conscience
IN chewing man rather than God and the consequent
loss Of ali dignity power and freedom, the recital
would be full of Instruction, aud of thrilling interest
We have already dwet upon several important points,
and now only, AZ 1t we're take the quadrant ana
getting this orb Of light in the armament of Gods
Word In the right line and reflection bring 1t down ex-
adIy b. our position, to calculate our course OF duty
and of safety II is only by sucb celestial observations
az that great writer, Mr.. COleIdge, once remarked,
That terrestrial charts be cOnst ucod such charts,
AT least as can be relied upon to carry nation safely
through its pers We ourselves are al sea, and sur
he will 90 ii only by reliance ON him, and obe-
Let us, then in the frs place, observation
as TO Gods method in nations probationary trial, and
NJ TO the soleuny of the crisis Ia which we have be
brought and the similarity between our position ana
tbat of the Jews from the lifted lid Of whose sepulchre
there comes such awful voice of wailing aud 81
warning We shall then be prepared to go into the AZ
punent TO the inquiry of Slavery and as to our own
guilt and ruin if We consent to lite extension.
And here bescech you to remark that this mighty
precedent of national injustice aud OF God veneo ,nce
against it, being once set and blazing out Win l9iid
Ere nke barring planet IN Gods word 1t settles INTO
certainty the judgment of God with any Other nation
that thall dare o take Ia its embrace similar MUS
tce as It's policy. 1t settles another matter also that
God will never again have patience with any other ma
ton as be had with the fsr but the wrath that with
the first was restrained for ages, while the Injustice
ws rolling Cd, will come down upon the last, because
OF The der pscd light of the Grrt example, with over
wheming TaIdity and power. II men neglect the ex-
ample ard the warning in Gods Word so much the
worse for them and worse still if they scof at its APP
picaon But there burns the light the fire. The WICK
ednees, the warning, the thundcroo; You can almost
hear il hsipg and decorating anew as sou open these
sacred papes There stands the scorcled, scared,
translated and blasted form of nation once chosen
and beloved Of God, but now a monument to the un-
verse of his memorable justice Dear TO hm once as
the apple of his eye, engraved IN covenant mercy on
the palms of his hands, yet for the crime OF trusting
an oppresson and staying themselves thereon plucked
from his own finger as has slshet rng ana "hified IN
rcorn into the gulf OF retrbutlon.
Nv hearers If We do not mark this example and take
heed 20 the warning there will be such patiencc
and fbe arance of God Inward us, ~ for while rened
an his wrath from i1ing as whlriwind over his
ancient people
Nations have their time and scene of probation as
well as individuals They form character, habits aud
Fixed principles of conduct that in the end, however
things NAV seem to for season, come OUT ac-
corope TO eternal Justice II that be violated by ma
ton TO secure present seeming temporal prosperity
or mower IN, re will be q divine vengeance and retr
button The curse of crime strikes back, and that
which was pleasure luxury and Pc yer III the forward
career wretch. dness ruin and death III Tue edcon
The time must come; il cannot wait Tor ee nity; ana
wba yer distance there may be between the actors o
a present genei ation whom the Judgment for national
crime and those who began the CRIME, or sol
i.s causes in the national policy, the stro&e OF ven
reence is not lisbtned, but falls with renewed and
accumulated, as well as original righteousness ana
free the present actors having adopted for themselves
the sins of their fathers them III the e OF the
nation and made that perpetual which might nave
been temporary. That upon you may como all Tue
righteous blood from that of Abel down to the last
man murdered for his principles. II all comes, and
comes rieheousy for the last act challenges al the
preceding adopted, kgitimaiedi AMI the late tna,
IKE the whiting Of sling, has been swinging round
and round for generations, TO gather iorce ana sFt-
nsts, at length descends with the speed oil ghtnnS
III the oenlrated fury OF vengeance long secuted
and defed. Ages Of uation aud Iebuke OF COM
passionate delay and warning throw themselves into
The blow. The spirits of re!rsuhon awake and hurry
onward from a thousand quarters where the means OF
the injured have been going up 10 God
When the tine comes, when the books are open ior
settlement, In tue tune OF vengeance on the rfenh
Monarchy for ages Of oppression, every outraged prl
cple and every agonzed class presents It's account
The universe seems uproar Of wrath, seems to
have taken f!e God and justice, anu 10 fds upon
the .ne-escAp1g and long defy ing CRIMINAL with re-
joiclng energy and strength. The race OF men IN