The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-19
TREASON IN THE PULPIT.

Cheevcr OutdOne by WhecIock-Froo-
dom has Become the Asseilant-Practi-
cMbilfty OF . Permanent Armed Insur-
rection In Vinginia-Brown's scheme
mo Failure, hat y solcmn succcss--New
Era In the Anti-Siavcry Causo-Other
Devoted Men TO Follow I'm Browns
Wake-BrOwn Would Receive . Million
Northern Votes for the Presidency, Sc.
The Boston Libvator publishes extracts from
preached in the Unitarian Church Of Dover, N. H.,
Sunday the 9th inst, by Rev. Edwin wheelock, and
says OF it,
Has anything quite equal 70 Il been heard in any pulpit
since "the that tried mems sous"Y II is
cannot approve its warke one yet respect for It's
spirit Is mmeasurable compared with the inconsistent,
twaddlng shutting, falsely peaceful tone of the
Of henry Ward Beechcr on the same subject
We give the following extracts from the discourse
Can ye not discern the signs Of the times iMaa. is:
Without shedding OF blood there Ii remlssionHed. o. a.
Nsa great mistake 70 term this act the
beginning Of boodshed and civil Never could there
be greater We have had bloodshed and civil
campaign began the 7th Of March, 1850 The dissolution
Of the Unior dates tyOps that day. and haze had
tuition On that day Daniel Webster put 70 de th
ah, and such death And from that time 70 this there
has not mouth that has not seen the soil of freedom
invaded and attacked, our citizens Kidnapped, imprisoned
or skot, driven by thousands into Canada.
No. that the conflict of Harpers Ferry is the
beginning Of civil That would be like saying that
the capture Of Yorktown was the beginning of the Rc
voluonary struggle The meaning Of that sign this
Freedom far ten years ,oakiy Standing he defensive, and
for years detected, has become the assad,t and
ooa Ike Sereiem has been fought and % the second @ warren
has paid the glorious forfeit OF his life John Brown felt
that 10 enslaye man rs TO commit the greatest poss
bic crime within the reach OF human capacity He
therefore, with the slave system. He felt that its
vital principle the most atrocious atheism withhold
inc the key knowledge abrogatng the marriage rea-
ton, rendng families asunder at the auction block max
ing the State that protects 1t band Of piraes and the
church that enshrnes 1t baptized brothel He knew
hat thar dad nnt fak h.Aa.tt
life principle walking on two feet He had small faith
politics. He that the beau ideo of democrat was
who could poll the mott votes with the fewest men,
and that the object Of republicans during the year
would be TO find the most available candidate for the
Presidency; and he decided that the barbarsm which
holds in bloody chains four millions Of people for the
purpose Of lucre and lustthat makes every sixth
and woman in the country liable to be sold at
auctioD-that forbids by statute every sixth man
and woman IN the nation 10 learn TO read-,hat
makes it an indctable offence to teach every sixth
man and woman in the country to read the alphabet
that iorbds every sixth man and in the nation
TO have husband wife; and that annihilates the
sancy of marriage by statute systematically, and Of
purpose in regard to one sixth part Of nation calling IT,
self christian; he decided say, that such barbarism
itself organized and perpetual against God
and could be best met by the direct Of
For he was sentamentast and non resistant. He
believed in human brotherhood, In George Washington in
Bunker H and in God all of whose attributes take sides
against the oppressor He Puritan both sides, snd
that blood is always revolutionary He had the blood Of
English Hampden who rather than pay unjust tax of
twenty shlhngs, began that hurled aking from
tnfOne 10 lie tne DlOOu
Adams, who, when King George laid his hand the
American pocket, reused every New Highlander to be
revolution in himself He knew that the crimes of the
slave faction against humanity were more atrocious by
tar than those which turned England into a repub-
lie and the Suarts into exile and his glorious fault
that he could look calmly while four millions OF our
people trodden in the bloody mre Of despotsni II
the fashion TO call him crazy fanatic But history
will do the head Of John Brown the ample justice
that his enemies give to his heart tn,possi
be fedt 10 plant permanent armed insurreon in Vir
gtnid wahs~ t1c days march Of Harper's Ferry hes
untfodden ty heeet Of fgitirs saor fen resorute
achte men, hdrtored ' its deep recesse raising the flag y
conuule he whole State uih pan,c and make sercie
Of te inaparatle feiicities Of slavery. Let
US not forget that three hundred halt armed Indians,
housed in similar swamps in Florida, waged seven years
against the whole power Of the United States, aud
taken at last not by warfare but by reachery aud
brides. single year of such warfare would unhinge
the slave faction in Virginia. Said Napoleon, when
preparing for the invasion Of England, in 1905, ~ do
not expect TO conquer England, but shall do moreI
shall ruin it. The mere presence Of my troops her
coast whether defeated nat will shake her government
to the ground and destroy her social sysem With equal
reasoned the hero and the martyr OF Harpers
Ferry He knew that slave revolt could be planted upon
as permanent and chronic basis the underground
railroad and that once done, slavery would quickly bleed
to death. We who have the knees Of great slave
State shifting together and her teeth chatterng with fear
while wild and craven panic spread far and wide, from
the slight skrmsh Of single day with less than
Of Judge somewhat Of her positson insurrecton
had become institution in her midst. II Brown had
not in pity his prisoners, fingered in the captured
till beset by the federal bayones, he would now have
been lodged in the mountains or the swanps, We erery
the State ,coutd hare famed av revolt HIS scheme
failure but solemn Wherein he failed his
foes haze his aid Thegredness their fears repealse
ertet Of his triumph John Brown has not only taken vr
gina and Governor Wise he has captured the whole
slave faction North and South All his foes have turned
abolition missionaries. They toll day and night TO do his
bidding and no President has many servants he.
The best Sharpes rifle in all his band could scarcely
throw bullet single mile but in every Of every
township OF thirty three States the press of the slave
party is hurting his living and inspired words; words
EllaIv h EldfC frufh and and
deadly to despotsm than hosts Of armed men, The Spar
tan band of chvaiy fifteen hundred strong quakiDg
to look the old the face then numbering prisoner
unM med and bound hand and foot, who could find in
that Eambles no man, and but one woman to vany plead
for his life; then blowing oil the face Of man who cried
for quarter then hacking with wounds the body of
the gray haired leader after he had yielded then before
the eyes of the bereaved and bleeding father crowdng
the body Of his into box for dissection; then, with
obscene rage and threats, insulting the aged chief
he lay wounded and manacled upon his cot; the mock
trial Overlapping with indecent haste the ancient forms Of
law the hurried sentence the mastering of hundreds Of
armedsmen filing with horse, foot and every
nue. to the JAIL the whole South on tip toe with apprehen-
son great States in ecstasy Of fear Virginia
ing herself into ARMED garrison; the slave journals Of
the North shrieking in full concertbehold what
platform the insane rage and fear of his foes have lifted
this anti slavery veteran the stars His aim ,pds to
render slavery insecure ana he has succeeded He has
forced the telegraph the press the stump, the barroom,
the par0 to repeat the dangerous story Of nsurrecon
in every Of the South From Maryland to Forida
there slave who does not have the idea of free
uom qulCkcneu Wtnn MIN Dy tle outbreak AT harper
Ferry Like the Druid stone, which the united force
hundred men could not move, while chid's finger,
rightly applied, rocked TO its base, this dark system
OF outrage and wrong which has stood for thirty years
novoess against the warnings of an insuted Chris
tanity, aganH the political power Of the North, and
against the moral sentiment Of the world rocks and
trebes the finger of this Godfearng Puritan presses
against its weak spot The fatal secret has now become
public news. lnvulnerable to all moral appeals,
IT yields. dissolves ii dies before the onset of force
Like the Swiss Valleys the first clash Of brings down
the avalanche. From the mdrtrydon Of Broon dates
era Of The anti slavery 10 moral agitation ,viU
be added physica-to argument dcio. The appeals of the
North VIII now be applied to the terrors well to the
conscience OF this great barbarsm. Other devoted men
uu tooto in the ,rdke Of Bro,, avoiding his error, and
tc ay7y 10 lis f results the tUork he has begun Slave
propagandsm we have had long enough. We likely
now TO have some liberty propagandism. rejoice TO
whose banner bears uncertain sign. The North
wants no more cornstalk generals, but a real gen.
era, who is both platform and party in him
self. If an honest expression Of the iDishes Of the
North could be taken tomorrow John BrOpn lcould
be NE peoples candidate for tie nezs Presi
dency and he toould receirc million votes. He had
live religion also. He believed that God spake him in
visions Of the night Yes, incredible il may seem,
this man actually believed in God. - The