The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-13

The Hon. Jefferson Brick much exercised al tbs ap
peal and sputtered about good deal, 30 as to draw
upon himself the phias Of DR. Cheever's wrath Over
the signature Of some who authorized the appeal the
pastor Of the Church OF the Purns poshes of the
| hero of Soferino.-
But is not singular that Mr. Raymond should thus 60
out OF his character as conservative to denounce Dr.
Cheeyer Does be not fearful risk OF mourning agi
taton and involving the community in ''turmoii aud
strife" Everybody knows that should DR. Cneever be-
| come popular, no one would fawn about him and his
friends so serviely rs the Hon. Henry j. Raymond II
every body shouted "Chcever Mr. Ray mond would
to 'reiect public sentiment" and there would be sorry
mess OF it, after what he has just said The Times should
take care The time may come when Mr. Raymond WIN
have occasion to apologize and explain and worm anu
sneak around ana he can hardly afford to invest funer
in that line
Now come to a dirty and ambiguous little fb which
reminds US heartily Of the Hon II. J. Raymond Lsen:-
But there other preachers who denounce quite
a. aus M @ o se Se c been aas
send abroad for eeunary support nor would have stopped
TO remove to some more congenis field Of labor
And there is another more Raymondish than the
above
The secession Dr. Cheeyers church. which occurred
years ago The consequence his anti slavery
opinions or sermons ha 80 much MS e the aerd malignant
which aenaes the sympahes even of these who agree with
These will be recognized iby every one at all familiar
with the case, as pair OF whoppers-rery sneang and
ndSyfor eren Mr. Raymond himself to tell 1t is false
charge Dr. Clcevcr with acrid malignant and ntoerant
temper much SOFAS il would be 70 cali the Hon III j.
Raymond noble honest and true What preacher this
country but DR.. Checvcr has lifted up the standard OF
GODS word against the sin of slavery? Has the epastor
where Mr. Raymond has the honor attend done Can
even one other be designated who has done so?
But why should TIE Times spring to resent what il calls
the 'persona character of this appeaY Did Dr. Cheeyer
personally mpcate its editor and designate him lead
ing turnkey and doughface as ''trmmer" whom Halifax
himself would have heartily despised, a sneak, alt
tie villain, Jefferson Brick, parasite upon snobbish
responsibility of the thousand and vermin OF
the press who approach truth except to bleed
for
saying what is false about Dr. Cheever, when Dr. Cheever
never went SO much into details as to say what true
about him?
Then comes reondcr from another churchman signing
himself "a Congregatonalist in which the pastor and
the Church Of the Puritans are dressed up in this
fashion,
Again, ask to express both the sorrow and norlca-
ton feel that there in Christian church in this CITY
man SO ignorant OF what appears Inc the common
proprees OF HE, or else so utterly devoid of all of
shame as to write vaunngly that which only wants the
oaths superadded to make it tit Of the sPew
ter Mug or Cow Bay Is this the legitimate fruit of the
instructions from the pulpit Of the Church of the Purans?
VII lis teacher sanction this manifesto OF his eager
pie? think cannot be mistaken when say there must
be many men in that church, of its Office bearers at
least as much as they sympathize with pastor
in his course) who will not cannot sanction this who
must be greved and ashamed that who sits with them
at the table OF our common Lord capable of sinking
so low If not proper for discipline, appears to
me cannot demand less than expostuation or remon
STRANGE Supposng the writer to arise in the next confer
meeting the Church OF the Puritans aud in an id
church (no matter what provocation he might have)
in precisely the same language, what he says in this
mornings 76ane would the Church remonstrate-would
there be labor with him? How much more, when the
pabe expose made where, instead OF thirty persons to
listen to it, it is thrown before 100, 900 eyes
very well remember, in the early days of the anti.
slavery excitement, that il cost something in New York
TO be an aboitionist remember that then (now some
twenty years sncc) there were several ministers in
this city no not only lifted up the standard of Gods
word against the sin Of slavery but did so at the peril
Of their property and their lives Their churches were
torn TO pieces, the doors and windows of their dwellings
were broken. and they hooted, pelted and mobbed
through the streets and there thea hardly press
that sympathzed with them while nearly all denounced
Them ana almost justified the mobs in their attacks upon
these fearless noble Of God-men who certainly were
the peers of the pastor Of the Church Puritans in
everything but denuncaton and intolerance. 1t my
privilege to know these men Intimately to witness the
scenes through which they passed. and the scorn
to which they subjected: and count il am ing
the chief honors of my life that was permitted in nv
humble position share the early odum which cam. al
most like whirlwind on the antslavery of
New YORK. Aud where, l would ask, was the
abohtionism Of this modern antsavery Goliah
Ghe only man that has dared to slit up
slavery when these ''hunted like partridges
and where has 1t been for than twenty years since
hey bore their testimony % faithfully in the face Of the
oludgeon and the fagscty Il Is to me both motfna and
amusing 10 sdqlir9 in abolionisn assuming The
airs, or 1rhGPs should say ne crelit q being The only
speak after others have fought through long years aud
"by patient continuance therein made it perfectly
safe 10 say anything. is well euough for the writer in
the Tribune to talk in tbs manner, but Dr. Cheeyer ought
have known better than 10 have allowed the credit
10 be awarded TO him. which are ready to accord
and which in the Sturgeon letter he modcsty appro
PIRATES to himself am anti slavery man to-day
than when twenty five years since perhaps mprudeny)
cared the miserable contempt Of men who hated my
views and despised yet believe that DR. Cheever
Justly forfeited the sympathy he has certainly lost and
made as certain that he cannot be sustained except by
the ephemera help of aid from abroad There are hun
dreds Of men in the pulps of all denominations who
have preached just plainly against slavery and long
before DR.. Cheever did
believe that the Of Dr. Cheever and his church,
and their being endorsed they by some other Con-
gregatona ministers, has inflicted damage the int
Of Congregaonalsm in this city that will take long
years to wipe out.
NEW YORK, Nov. IL, 1852