Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-01
From the New Orleans Delta
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM In new YORK.

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DR.. cHEEvER AND THE CHURCH OF THE PURI
TANs-wHAT THE SOUTH SHOULD DO.
| The wickedness of some of the Abolition
parsons of the North in their wild and reckless
crusade against the moral and constitutions
rights of the people of the South, and in thu
profanity of their heartless diatribes agains
the Southern members of the Supreme Court
is only equaled by the stupendous blasphemy
Of Cromwell, who labelled his cannon with thu
words: "Lord open our mouths, and we vii
show forth thy praise"
Conspicuous among these pharisaical revilert
of Slavery, and the good, old man who occupies
the exalted position of Chief Justice of the
most august judicial tribunal in the nation, i
DR.. Cheever of the Church of the Puritans il
New York. The late politico-religious diatribe
of this individual, was disgrace to the pulpit
Iahd to the Congregation that sat quietly in theil
pews and listened to it. That person profess
ing the liberal doctrines of the great Teacher
.EEWho; eighteen centuries ago, preached on the
shores Of Gallilee, and on the hills of Judea
the sublime doctrines of peace, charity and
good will towards all men, while the tramp o1
the soldiers of Rome, bearing her victorious
eagles, was heard daily in the streets of the
HOLY City,-should invoke the curse of God
upon millions of the South, and seek to subvert
an institution guaranteed by the national COM
pact is proclamation Of the scared desk which
would be permitted only in cities such as Bos-
ton and New York.
But what shall we say Of men, who, after
the indignant rebuke which Chcever has re-
ceiyed from the conservative journals OF the
country, and the effort of few conservative
members of the Church of the Puritans to
eject from the pulpit the offending and offensive
re7iler of the South,-what, we repeat, shall
we say of men, who, with deliberate intent
sustain him, and hold the language which we
quote from q report Of the Committee appoint
ed to amend the Standing Rules OF the Church
They declare that, in the midst of abounding
treason against God and humanity, of silent
consenting, or of striking hands with the op-
pressor, there are ministers in this city who
stand up unfaltering in the power Of truth and
the Gospel. All honor to such. Their out
spoken words shall 60 down to future ages.
They are doing their part to redeem the nation
from error and falsehood and wickedness and
shame. They know too well that this redemp-
ton will never come from political parties with
out holier fire in the heart than can be caught
from'the fitful torch-light of expediency. To
these political parties present success is every
thing. Not so with those who proclaim to the
understanding and the heart the great truths
of righteousness. They know that these truths
belong to God, and are lasting as his throne.
They fight battle with a certainty Of victory,
though q thousand fall at their side and ten
thousand at their right hand.
Among the champions of right against wrong
of the oppressed against the oppressor, OF
christian principle against selfish cupidity, the
pastor of this church has taken prominent
stand. Here, on Union square, in the heart Of
the CITY, he has fought the battle against Slave
ry, its abettors and apologists, with brave
heart. With powers Of logic and illustration
rarely matched, raised up by God to do work
for the nation, for mankind, and for the age, he
has sent his thunder tones from the Atlantic
to the Pacifc-from our Northern to our South
ern border, calling men to be true to them
selves and to their God-holding up to scorn,
contempt and loathing the principles and senti-
ments which brand our nation with iniamy and
make it reproach among all people. His tones
have reverDerated beyond the Atlantic, stirring
the best blood of the heart, wherever that
heart is true to freedom.
God has honored the pulpit of this Church
by making it great watch-tower for the ma
ton. It's guardians have duty to perform be-
fore the world All eyes turn to us to inquire
whether we will be faithful to our trust. 1t is
ours to shield, to sustain and to encourage the
man whom we have placed in this pulpit. Shall
we ask of hcartless despotism-of those who,
in the stolidity of their hearts, fear not God
nor regard man-leave for our pastor to speak
for right, for truth, for equity? Are we so lost
to manly courage as to take counsel OF our
fears2
DR.. Checver is pastor of this church; his
nilsson extends wide beyond the precincts of
little parish. Through him and in him we owe
duty to the nation-the duty of upholding,
sustaining and encouraging. And to this senti-
ment of duty this Church, before the eyes Of
Christendom, watched and noted by the good
and the wise nay, by the tyrannic and the
wicked-this Church, set by the power and
God-given fidelity of its pastor, on pinnacle
so high, will not, cannot be false. Of his honor
as the champion of liberty and right-as the
messenger of God to the nation-he will go
unshorn. He has made mark which we can
not blot out. He has proclaimed truths which
shall live when We are forgotten.
Here is a deliberate declaration that the
Church must be brought into requisition to re
deem the nation from Slavery, {" the aboundng
treason against God and humanityw Here is
venerable, lawful and useful institution de-
nounced as ga heartless despotism," and the
ministers of Northern Churches called upon
to be true to their God, holding up to scarn,
contempt and bathing the principles and senti-
ments meaning Slavery and the opinions Of its
advocates which brand our nation with in
famym
The laity Of the Church of the Puritans have
hitherto been considered anything else than
Garrisonian Abolitionists. Before the Dred
Scott verdict and the iniquitous outburst OF
Cheever, the men who sanction this Infamous
"Report" were chiefly regarded as respectable
conservatives, who attend to their own busi-
ness, and did not meddle with that Of the peo-
pie of the South. Does not the abolitioniza-
ton of the Churches and religious societies OF
the North indicate the policy to be pursued in
1860?
Be assured, o! men of the South when
that ominous year rolls round, and the two
sections are pitted against each other for mas
terry, that, like the French legions at Saragossa,
we will not only have to combat the Black Re
publicans, as political organization, but the
powerful influence Of frenzied religious bigotry
"a blind, mad horde of religious fanatics. The
true Evangel of Christ is no longer preached in
the Northern States The moral suasion, the
beautiful precept, the glorious example, is lost
| in the dreary fog Of poitico-religious fanticism
and its whiom ministers mired down in the
boggy Azoph of Abolitionism:. 49,.
These are the people-people Of the Cheevel
stamp, that the South patronize-who are the
factors of Southern merchants, and of whom
| are n,1rchased the slnnlies for our markets