New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-08

can the danger be Averted and nghts maintained
LEI thieves and sssassne and ncter., know Ast
their schemes Of violence would never cs rcneed ~
cept BY moral means, ana soc'e'y o'us n0' @s0a .
month! ,,-,n -.
We are quite enchanted with this unwordly spiritso
eraeiously assumed by The Obsercer. In thus bard,
knowing world innocence soon loees ITS srteences II
Il therefore altogether refreshing TO ma map who
has the ingenious simplicity 20 say that Bibles are bet
ter for the defense Of a city than trench and rhe-i
We fancy TO ourselves the mild and bengnant editoT
Of The Obscrrer walking his rounds az sentinel IN
Lawrence, armed with folio, and committing 10
memory night those texts which the neIt morning
are TO prove potent with raeble OF drunken
bandits than Sharp's ndesl
If The Obserrer had only lived earlier, VIVA. eesons
of wisdom might it not have given to Cromweul He
gave bis soldiers, 10 be sure, pocketpiece IN the
shane of collection Of texts-a sort OF pockepfstol
Bible But no one ever heard OF their using them In
bsttle instead of sword and musket
Onr ancestors too had real long ugy-looking swords
made of stee and sharpened on grndstonee and when
the Indians attacked then they used them me O~
,erey would have said 10 them az it has said 10 u.s.
1.-THE Word of God, brethren, 10 sharper than any two
EDGED sword such sr0rd IS better than any r2Se.'
The old church at Norwich CT, was originally bulk
upon great rock or Cliff not far nom us pTesen. 10
cation and the Puritans used TO carry Their moskeN
and Bibles with them TO church, the one i0r tne inside
work and the other for outside work. Wnen tne SEN
tinel as he did in several instances uereeu en isa
c these ned men unblessed with Ooserres,
laid down their Bibles and took up their niles and went
a, the Indians just a. the Lawrence people would have
GONE at the heather Kansas bad not Their discretion
ran away with their valor The edtor OF nc y0.rrtr
mad he been there would have done no such thing.
IL would have been seen going down 70 the Indians
with a Bible, reading English texts to Peqnot can,
and SAYING TO all who expostulated, " such sword 10
hett.r than rife" This course might not have been
inconsistent with selfpreseyation, for all supesltious
ssyages have kind Of respect for the insane, as
they were peculiarly inspired.
One thing is very certain, that II the Isconinehus-
a 1nrfa III
cacv weapons of war in the day OF battle be sin,
sin in company with pretty much the whole NewEn
gland clergy in those old times which tined mems
sous And we have not forgotten that eloquent ser
mon of Robert Habitat light of piety and eo-
ouepce in the age Just completed-in which he sent
forth the armed band before him to war, ana INVOKED
the aid of the God of battles in their behalf. we
have not forgotten, and shall not soon forget, the
record and the legends of the atstirring exhota-
tons made in our land to those who were 10 defend
heir country And we are willing 10 part COM
pany with The O6serrer, that we may keep company
With the venerable New-Engand clergy from the days
of tie Mayfiower.
made upon u.s. beside this of The O6stTeer and
there are besides, some topics not touched IN Inc
O6serrer's article, which call for further remark al
And we shall only add word, now, upon the
'cannon-ball" story, which has had such eircula-
When Gov Kossuth was in America il was pro-
posed that the surplus funds derived from pnbhc din:
ners should be given 10 him for Hungarian Fund. L
was one OF the committee that was requested TO act IN
getting up Banquet of the Press. The tickets were
sold afmOst at dash. Hundreds said: ave do not
care for the dinner We will give tive or ten dollars
to come in when the Speaking begins" IL occurred
10 MS that this might be turned to good account, and
instead of consuming the money in ccsty dinners, 1t
would be better 10 have Gov. kossuth speak In some
large hall, and charge five dollars ticket and thus
raise large fund proposed the plan to oy; NOS
the trustees the Plymouth Church. StI thousand
dollars raised thus and paid into the Hungarian
Fund This was the 6ft move. After thae dinners
that the event happened whose history now give:
When Gen. Jackson President of the United
States visited Boston, Gov Everett publicly presented
him with relic of our Revolution, viz: a ball which
was found upon Bunker hill, accompanying u WIN
appropriate remarks.
This sixpound ball had been beautifully incased in
a mahogany box, and suitable inscription OF the cir
tances engraved upon q plate within it. When
Gen Jack.on died. he left this relic to his personal
friend, n. i. Trs, Esq. This gentleman proposed to
me to employ this revolutionary relic, which had come
to him in way memorable, for the benefit Of the
Hungarian cause. Two gentlemen, upon my sohcita-
tion offered to give thousand dollars for it, the
same TO be paid to the Hungarian fund. In addition
to this they requested me to present tbis memorial Of
our struggle to Gov. Kossutb, as Gov. Everett had
presented it to President jackson. did 20, and said,
in substance, this: "ODce this peaceful land was
stirred by war, as now Hungary is. Then this ball
messenger Of death. But now the fields where
TINS Ddl carreu uedtn waving win pehceiul mar
vests or covered with streets and houses; may Il
be long with Hungary. This emblem of old vio-
lence now spent, may be mute but eloquent prophet
to Hungary. Where now des0ates, there sball be
peace. The sword and cannon that now destroy, shall
yet day become memorials of victory and peaceful
glory. Then the implements that 70 dreadful now,
will be handed from father to child precious relics
ofpatriotism.' We saw nothing wrong in the act or
in the speech then, and nothing wrong in them
now II it were to be done again, we should do Il
again just "a heartily az did it then. Nor would
any man have dared to find fault with ne before the
public for this act if he had been honest enough TO ten
the truth of the facts But TO produce the desired In.
jury it required that the truth should be suppressed,
and il suppressed; and then the story told a.
il now appears in The Observer.
HENRY WARD BFECHER