East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-22
Tnc Rer. pr, pewer on John Blown.

nNefed a discourse on the text, ne HNaI'
not strive nor cry; bruised reed shall ne
not break, and smoking FAX shall he not
ouench;" and in the course Of his sermon
remarked upon John Brown and ms sym
YCthizcrs as follows.
~ grave question has been presented
% Us during the past week, which must
Be bought 10 the same test and tribunal
of Christian iaw-thc highest law wc
know. 4 hind Of men went down from
the North, by force and arms to carry OH ,
a body Of slaves from the State Of Ny
ginia. They were appyeheaiedand tried.
and their leader has been executed. y [
pallc expression o. our sympathy for him
Is demanded " some Of our fellow ciIi-
zers and some even Of our clergy, at the
North. / say public expression; and
such an expression OF sympathy means
sympathy with his enterprise. Nhatev-
er private reserves any may maGeln their
own minds, II cannot, in the circnmstan-
ces, mean anything else Certainly Il
can mean nothing else to the people OF
the South.
There is many man, every year, who
suffers the death.pcnalty; there are iami-
lies wlom every public execution involves
in great distress Ii Is not for John
Brown as a riet.m oftls lac that our pity
Is invoked and our help for his family but
for him as a man who attempted TO pro-
duce a slave instruction in Virginia; for 1
the attempt to carry oil hundreds of slaves, I
and the collecting Of arms 20 put into /
their hands, can bear no other construc-
tion. II was not the secret carrying OF /
Of a few slaves that was proposed: but It
was a bloody fght-and armed slaves to
take part 10 il.
"Now give nc a moments candid hear
ing, If I speak 10 any that differ from me
in regard TO what this case demands If
rs. agree with YOU in much and let
the system OF slavery DC cvcrso wrong
ever 50 much at variance with Gil natural
Justice. a gree with YOU that it is
wrong. I agree with YOU that IS q
most fearful anil threatening calamity 70
this country. And I trust and believe
with you, that in some way there is tobc
deliyerance from it. But IS tbs tie way
by stirring up and arming the slaves
against their masters: Do YOU consider
what slave Instruction is:-to carry
fire and slaughter, rapine and murder
horrors worse, ii possible, than those
of the Sepoy rebellion-all over the South
country? If you do consider it, and II
you delibcratly say that you desire to see
a slave Instruction, then YOU may con-
sistently gather meetings in the North
10 express sympathy with John Brown
If you DO not, then surely every public,
patriotic, brotberly, humane and Chris
tan consideration torbids it to be done
"But NAV not one sympathize with
John Brown-honor him in that he per
lied his life for his convictions-call hin
a hero and saint-exrress sorrow for hi'
fate, and feel and say that the gallowI
should never have been the doom OF sIcl
man, ,0ith0a approving Of his actions:
Ianswer, not, in the present circumstances
by public meetings. | must confess, IN
deed, that / DO not very well understand
this separation Of the actor from the act
but what private thoughts Of the matte
man may have, l do not now consider
This is what | say-that to cal pubh
meetings 20 express sympathy for hin
under the present circumstances is TO hol
~ plaeard to the South, and to all Tia
world, that says, we approve OF his ~
deriakinc.i Aud every public meetIn
so held takes the responsibility of Pre-
duoing another John Brown. o-a
care we prepared for this? This yer
enterprise, with the wide agitation it ha
aroused ] VIII not say is likely but it
liable, to briag down other ASSISTANTS
the same character upon the South. u
we wish to see other John Browns gon
down to the South for such q purpose?-
But I know not what could AFFORD great
err encouragement TO them than theS
public meetings.
'No, we must distinguish here, an
must say that, however much we ma
dislike the system Of slavery, we shOu.
look With inexpressible horror upon
slave insurrection, and upon any man tina
would open the door 10 such inetlabl
miseries This must be the pTevailin
sentiment Of the North, and il should |
uttered, in unmistakable tones, by til
press, in the pulpit, and, if necessary,
public meetings convened for the pu
pose ta -evrTe ~
E4The y. y. correspondent OF ii
Chaleston Mercury, thus speaks Of "a fe
low" whose income is 100000 yea
Elias Howe, DR., the lucky fellow wi
gets $4,000 year royalty on SEWN
machines, IS one ofthe oddities on Broa
way. Hc IS the parsonage whom no "
itor 70 our city can fail u see, dressed
Quaker cut coat, white erarat, and Z
most ext;nauished under gigantic Ia
which might have been tie companion
the supornat helmet in the "Castle
Otranto." Beneath this flows heay
stream Of rich brown hair reaching 10 q
shoulder blades, and inviting people b
hind to give it a pul.--an invitation whi'
have, with ditiiculty, resisted on mar
occasions. Mr.. Howe was the invent
of the sewing machine though he is no
engaged in It's manufactare. his pre-
ent income is derived from FIVE doll
commissions, which other persons pay /
the use Of his lock stieh principle. i
patent runs out in two years and stranI
TO say, the manufacturers arc anxious
have his extended.
An IGNORANT PREACHER. = We G.