Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-11

We sermon was on bne UeNeM sudgWtntt
uadcr three heads, viz the fact, the uniDersaliy,
aud the personality Of the judgement
Two applications were made Of these truths
First, that that was the occasion of the text be-.
ing spoken, viz that men should not SIT IN
jadgeme.t one upon another. After some re.
marks under this, Of a general character Mr.
Brown said
OF ten thousand forms in which this sin is
committed, | will say nothing; OF one form of
It will speak, as being pertinent to the time
aud the slavery excitement in this city. was
born near the dividing line between the North
and the South, ] have lived in the South,
have travelled over nearly all the Southern
States have relatives in several of them, and
friends in nearly all of them | have lived and
live in the North, have travelled over nearly all
the Northern States, have relatives in several OF
them, and friends in nearly all of them By
reason OF these mercies Of God, feel that |
am in condition 10 speak dispassioDately con
cerning both sections Of our country | 20
south, aud find the minds of the people in.
hamei against the North, bitterly preiudced
against Northern people, believing nineteen out
OF every twenty OF them TO be unprincipled ab-
olitionists, who wish 60 destroy the institution
OF slavery at once, even though the results are
wholesale rapne and murder an asking
"What is the worth of Northern Schools and
Churches aud Progress if these are the fruits
they bear 7" ] return North, and find the
minds of the people inhamed against the South.
bitter preiudced against the Southern people.
believing nineteen out Of every twenty of them
capable of doing any thing to live in idleness
aud wickedness themselves, and coin money
out OF the bodies and souls Of the slaves and
asking--''What is the Southern religion worth
that eountenanees such things and what is the
GOOD fellowship of such Southern mscreants
worth to usi" South and North l see the
same prejudice, the same fanaticism, the same
unjust iud dgements Southern men say TO me-
81 do not see how an abolitionist car be aChris
tian Northern men say 10 me-"I do not
see how a stakeholder can be a Christian Nv
answer to both is--"Neither do | see how the
STAKEHOLDER, or the abolitionist, can be Chris.
tian, taking either as the other paints him
| see readily how both can be Christians taking
them as they really are-with the exception, OF
course, from both classes. Now know, if
know anything, that both North and South
the sin of sitting in judgement one on the
otner Is a common and hagrant SIN for waich
God will bring the sinners unto Judgment
And one of the bitter fruits of this sin, North
and South, is a most offensive intolerance il
is as much as a man's life is worth 20 speaI,
his sentiments freely concerning SlarerV in some
parts of the South, it as much as a mans hulng
is worth to speak his sentiments freely concern
ing abolition in some parts of the North As
it respects intolerance, Charleston, in South
Carolina, and Cleveland, in Ohio, may fairly be
considered twin sisters. And, as Northern
man, say it in shame, that never ia the South
! have | heard good men of the North SO dcnounc.
ed, as at the North have heard good men from
the South denounced. In this very city, for
example, l have heard our good friend DR.
Thomas Plumer, formerly of Richmond, Va
now of Pittsburgh, one ofthe nOblest and best
men | have ever known, spoken of in terms
that would fitly only characterize a lelon of the
blackest dye And, on another occasion, a
! lady, even, VINO was asked if she would not 90
to hear him preach, in case he came to the
city, a5 we then expected he would 10 attend
the dedication of this Church, felt herself in.
suited, and answered with indignation-''N no :
| would as soon go to hear the devil preach as
that man" This was the same spirit, under
another name, as that that was shown recent
ly in Aiken, $. c., of which one of our own
citizens (Mr. Jno. Severance) was so nearly the
victim. DR.. Plumer owns no slaves, andis no
more Of pro-slavery man than your pastor
| his only sins were that he was from the South,
and was not AN abolitonst Now this sin of
one section Of the country sitting in judgment
on another section of the country, and rice
UerSa is one that all honest and good men
should look fairly in the face aud repent of
before God. After sin itself, consider Afr.
can slavery as perhaps the greatest evil there
is in the world hut who is here that can show
us the door by whchit may be thrust out inte
outer darkness! The fugitive slave law is odons
aud abominable to all Northern men tramplinp
upon and defling some of the nohlest feelings
of human nature; but it is the law of the land,
and when Southern slave catchcrs demand of
Northern officers and judges that the law be ex
ecuted in their behalf, execute it they must
or else do one Of two other things, viz pcriure
themselves or resign their offices. And these
things being so concerning slavery and the fugi.
tive slave law, till slavery can be abolished and
till the fugitive law can be repealed, il is very
clearly the duty of all to remember that God
has said" Judge not that ye be not judged
Vengeance is mine | will repay, saith the
Lord" The wrath of man wOrketh not the
righteousness Of God, either North or South If
my own cause is a good one, | may safely com
NIT its Defence without glurihcation. to God ;
and if my adversarys cause is a bad one, may
safely commit its overthrow, without vilhcl-
ton, to God In no case are hard words and
harsh judgments arguments that God will per-
init me TO use.
The second and concluding application was
that, in view of a General Judgment, that was
universal and personal II tTas the dutV Of all to
prepare to meet h.
With due Difference to the motive that may
have influenced the Reverend gentleman in Civ.
ing public birth to such a Union-Saving dis
course as the above extract appears to be, we
must say that it does not do credit to him as a
Minister Of the Gospel, as a man of general OBJ
servation, or to his perception of what is right
or wrong It is a sermon that might be preach
ed with prOpriety in the pulpit Of a Union
Savings CottonOcratiC Church in New York.
Boston, or Philadelphia. IL might, also, with
local alterations suit congregation in New
Orleans, within sound Of the Slave whipping
post, aud in sight OF the Slave .barracoon, where
fair Quadroon women are sold sometimes as high
as S9O0O-where the infant is torn from its
mother breast to be sold by the pound But the
reverend gentleman made a sal mistake, if he
thinks his sermon, filled with fallacous sophis-
try and apologies for the "Divine Institution"
is adapted for the meridian Of the free Western
Reserve, or for the locality of the twin sister
of Charleston" as he insultingly calls our beau.
tifu Forest City
In his sermon the Reverend gentleman has
advanced the idea that " men should not sit in
judgment one upon another" and then, with
modesty most profound, he informs his audi.
ence that he was born near the dividing line