The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-23
Rcecher ON the Union.

hand in anticipation OF row, which happily did not oc.
cur The auditory numbered about 500, the twenty
five cent seats being numcrousy occupied out Of all
proportion than the others At eight O'Clock precisely
thc lecturer made his appearance the stand and was
received with warm applause. The following Ia an alb
stract OF his lecture =
The lecturer commenced his discourse by reminding
them that the occasion the anniversary the landing
Of the Pilgrims and that there scarcely city throughout
The Union wherein that memorable remember.
cd with patriotic ardor He proceeded In his introduce
ton 70 show that the Pilgrims landed here to have free
dom Of speech, and that they have handed down that
boon to this whole nation despite the efforts Of despots
and tyrann. (Applause.) He asked where the danger
to the Unon much talked Of, exisss II was like
in perfect health beginning to consult with himself
considering what would save the Union. (Appause OF
course there always periodical mercantile excite
nents and alarms and imaginary dangers, but those
only resemblance Of the weatherco the steepe
cathedral, which changes with every little breeze
while the great edi1ce beneath II remains soldly
moved and immovable. cloud applause and laughter.
He demanded the unbroken unity Of this country 70
eges to for the sake Of It's past history Ho claimed
The past part Of his heritage This land has been
witness for civil and for moral truth, and this night
wherever Yankee blood beats, in Now Orleans as well
in Boston, In New York as in San Francisco there Is
70 be patriotic Union to night whether politicians will
or not The preservation of tho Union also demand
ed for the sake Of the religious freedom for which
this land achieved much and Is destined TO do much
We're this great confederation of States broken up
should lose what the world most wanted-a witness TO
the safety of nations under free religious conscience.
Let this land be broken and destroyed and the might
forget to RISE rsen to set would be night the world
around; and let whoever would say that this Union
must be discovered his hands should hold
strike in unison with the most silvery tones Of eo
quence Let denounce and invegh against it, but,
said Mr. B., oh, my soul, come thou not into their
Counsels, whether they be North whether they be
South So long as this Union shall stand upon those
up around about il and maintain its integrity, and
that to the end. cloud appause) Notwith
standing all the imperfections inevitable in hu-
OF secular liberty nowhere else largely realized
as here 1t was worth while to wait little to what
would be the final result of the ordination OF civil and
religious life. To despse this Union OF States would be
like killing father mother in growing family for there
were already marke, out score Of States between the
would become Of them In the Union should be dis
solvedf God had made us the father and mother
to permit the power of watching them taken away
from That not all, for there other States
weakened by their own intestinal troubles which we of
the North to sustain and strengthen He firmly be-
leved that the old Scotch element OF Georgia would
show IL ,s love Of liberty q. s some future
that would not know that there saveholding State in
this Union. He would therefore say hold fast We will
rebuke their conscences We will certainly not hold
back the daylight OF our conviction from them We will
be fair and square, Open manly and pungent They shall
hear, for We will ak-(applause)-but ii shall not
difference whether they love mel love
them II makes difference whether they want
sd a. msS s
and them too and If there any States that talking
of going out Of the UDion we must tell them can't
spare you, for your own good. Therefore we know
what talk OF oisunion 10 the North means, and
what 1t means in the South. Any efforts for the
safety o. this Union must not be BY blind and
with any willingness or design to hoodwink the many.
There must be collision nor deceit in the efforts to
than from interest. II did not become intelligent
people, accustomed to schools, books and newspapers
empty wordsio resolutions drawn counting houses
by men who study words not truthswho labor 10 devise
cunning things and home TO roar over their champagne
the nicely OF the threads they have spun to catch
credulity We can't be led by such Uniop salvation
this We are men, and cannot be led by children. We
are men, and demand that those that deal with
should deal with US with fair play open above board
them say what they mean, and let the words that
not be usgied nor tricked by any Of these things for
the men who carry their love OF their country "a
deep their souls as their lives are not to be caught by
hook cuuningly bated and thrown out by any inveig
ling fisher. No movement could be wise that was honest
and did not include in its scope the whole Land and all It's
not countenance nor permit, 50 far had any nau
ence-f had no power to prevent It'll would not fail
leave with my Rros.s-asanss anything ny
terest OF the lowest and remote States and all the
more they could not be present 70 speak for them
Solves on the other hand, would not stand silent
when see who pretend to be leaders OF the people
passing the interest of portion OF the country
and pandering only 10 those who even do not thank
them Therefore detest and most heartily reprobate
any efforts at securing patriotic union; which are,
after ALL but pandering to sectionaism. No movement
could be for the benefit Of this country and for the un0n
which onesded and calculated to farther party poll
tics both parties in politics derive benefit from
patriotic effort SO much the better They deserve IL
but TO affect patriotism only that may deal heavier
blow antagonist is simply mean. The love we bear
TO country too sensitive, too deep, and too re
gious, and We will nothing to do with
those men who are saying "nauonality and
country while they thrusng their hands deeper into
their own pockets and feeling the pulse q their own IN
4erest. We understand such men, and they have been
understood since the world began, and we declare that
such efforts for Union not only spurious butnerna
Applause He asked il the welfare OF the land was to
fevove altogether the axis OF commerce. We do not
dispute the right Of Demetus to make shrines to Diana
to any extent but when they attempt tenn ~. 70 inter
they have right to teach US. We won't take instruc
fion from who do not understand Christianity He
did say thatt had been but they had better watch
lest il should be future No movement in favor OF
union could hope with respect that suspected
20 be antagonstc to those fundamena tai principles
which our institutions founded. They must
not treat the great doctrine OF human liberty
asrich citizens sometimes treat country relations Of which
they ashamed, when they would not exactly turn
them away from the door and did not like to take them
into the house. who not born here, and who
had not through com mon SCHOOLS, might De eX
cuscd for believing in the doctrines which this
country founded but for native born who had
gone through the whole education OF this land to attempt
70, overthrow the fundamental doctrine OF human
rights and to advocate the most abect and detcsta
able doctrine Of human bondage, he would not be
cused any other ground than that he did know any
better (Great applause But he he reverend genteman
free that he was glad to hear such sentiments
He was free to have II known that in New York
man could for hour advocate the EXTREMIST the
Illuminating and wanton doctrine of human bondage and
yet have liberty to speak Let man 20 south
and speak those truths which brought the
Iayhower from England-hose truths that sustained the
Pilgrim fathers in all the troubles Of those early days
and how South would he 90 before he would be stopped
He might get Philadelphia but further than that he
could not Co. Here Mr. Beecher passed high euogium
the Philadelphia and New York police for the protec
ton they have afforded citizens in the exercise OF the
right Of speech. His sentiments on this subject
met with approval from the audience) When
eminent gentlemen, skilled TO the last degree
in making the appear the better cause standing up
and poughing the Bible from Genesis 10 Revelations, rip
ping up the very foundation Of all our laws and nstitu
fions-when they preach those doctrines, which If they
had been beievedn days the Purans, there
would have been Puritan on Yankee so--he was proud
OF the community that would let a man say what
he maintained was right, even II they did not