The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-31

BEE6BER ON THE HARpER'S FERRY OUT
BREAK

THE PULPIT AND THE PLOT.
BEE0BER ON THE HARPERS FERRY OUT.
BREAK.
Iaet evening Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached In his
church, Orange street, Brooklyn, very thronged
congregation He took for his text the sixh chapter Of
Jeremiah, from the twelfth the nineteenth verses in
clusavc,-" For will stretch out mine hand upon tho
Inhabitants Of the land saith the Lord God" &C. After
dwelling for time the bearing Of the passage up
the rights or man. according 10 his peculiar vews the
preacher launched out as follows upon the Harpers
Ferry insurrccuon;-
avail myself of the present state Of land utter
sentiments on the subject Of slavery though have
done 50 for considerable time. ensson great
" excited and deeply about the recent sudden
aud unexpected attack at Harpers Ferry Seventeen white
men, without organization without military basis Of op
craoas without tho or approval Of any To-
gal deliberative body unexpectedly and openly
attack entire state release and rescue an cnsIavcd
race. They not called upon By the sufferers nor
expected by them They undertake all themselves
Yes thcse seventeen white men summoned thousand
people TO surrender TO them and they did they
required and these seventeen men held them all in du-
for two full days They waited until the forces of
two states wsre massed to release them. do not won
der that the VirgiDanS feel Inundated. Every feels
for them No doubts the bravery Of the virgnians-
not At all GAughter) But people may be
ever this may be. it US strange that this
vason of seventeen should have caused so much
asim 20 much confusion and noise 1t is wonder tho
Vreinans try to make the most OF IT, They feel ashamed
OF the facts, and every one il sympathsng with them
There was full enough of the matter, and think
shant have any of it, any thing like it, There
something in the which cauuot be got over in the
fact that seventeen men held two thousand people prison
ers for two days They cannot hide the significance Of
this single fact TO what they will cannot DO conceal
ed These seventeen invaded State, seized upon
the government armory and held two thousand Of the in
habens o. that State prisoners for two days till twosuns
had risen and descended their actions The Vrginans
feel pqusd 70 be sure, but they only remind Of the
story Of the fox which got his tail cut or 10 trap and
then endeavored to get tho other foxes get theirs of
in like manner, but none Of them would do It. There
is something, there must be something underlying all
thie which caused 1000 vgnians TO submit TO the
OF seventeen men ill tho forces Of two whole States
should be brought against them-til volunteers should
assemble from every portion Of these two Staestl the
United States forces should arrive at the with theft
arullery--tll the whole South should BIO excited AM
alarmed and till the North should won Ter and sympa
uise Will notsay any more about this riot There was
one who figured throughout however, TO which al
fusion Should be made An old, honest, industrious
man peacefully went to settle with his family the West
Ills lot was cast Kansas great slave State adjoining
the Territory mar ches her armed In among the
peaceful settlers 10 dragon them to uphold slavery by
force OF arms They the boundary and subvert ~
laws, the order and commence civil They pollue the
ballot box, and carry obstruction among the harvoss and
death amoDg the quet cuvaOrs of the soil There
no marines, no militia, sent TO oppose tlepno. There
were forces there but they acted their side il was
the side o the wronpdoers, the invaders II here
that Brown learned his first lesson the slavery system
here that old endured his first sulerngs the death
Of bis drstbcrn, who was dragged manacad the
country hy the slavery men III the beat Of q broing
and afterwards beaten by nhuinan officers OF these
men Another shot down by the same men.
Revolving the Indignation in his mind against the system
,hat would tolerate and countenance such cruelty and
boodshod, be is 2osded by his feelings mad but
Fixed discrimination To oppose 10 tho end of his life
now as he is in the most depressing the most trying cir
cnnsnoes, no one can fail to discover in this old
manly straightforward. independent soul which
rises high above all those among whom be is present
however inaane he may be- i shrink from tho folly of
the bloody fray which he engaged shrink farther
IRON the bloody fay which viii follow it. but while 90,
feel that byeand-bye, when people will read the record
of the whole taagc scene, they win wonder at and
admire the bearing of the Old man who,
tanned dignity and independence and sentiment which
only shines in full brliancy when contrasted with the
conduct of his accnsers who possess their But
word more for those States which have powder
their cargoes Suppose seized the Armory
Springfield, Mass do you bink they would subject
be Inhabitants Of that place; that ali tho militia Of New
York and Massachusetts, and other neghborng States
and ihe federal troops would have to be called 10 re-
lease them ana overcome the seventeen? 10 YOU sup
pose that the government would be alarmed, and
that the President would have TO deliberate with
the Secretary of War on what to be done2
Uapghter.) Not at all You cannot You aud every
ono eFe would rest satisfied that the people OF
Springfield would be fully able manage the business
themselves, and nobody would feel alarmed But there
dread hanging over the Southern Staes;whch parayzes
them on the very shadow OF danger arising The preach
or now pushed forward into the subject of slavery his
usual warm and animated STYLE taking the above dsser
taton on the Harpers Ferry outbreak a He in
formed bis congregation OF their duties according
opinion towards the slave and his master, and the best
method Of beneing the condition of both the course
OF his philippe be expressed his opposition to encouraging
slaves to revolt but strongly endorsed the actions of those
vino afford them shelter and protection in the face of the
Fugitive Slave laws when they endeavor to effect their
escape.