The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-20

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| she North.
| From all the aigns " the times, from every
| thing that we can sac and hear around u.s. there
atpears to be anosher serviie insurreoxion on
! TOO mt the North, bus on larger and more ex
iensive scale, and OF q more violent character
Than the late outbreak ut Harper's Ferry. The
republican leaders in Congress and in the
press and above all the lights of the pulpit,
are preparing the way for the coming events
which are casting their dark and omnous
shadows before. They all endorse John Brown
AS far as they can, and some of them make him
hero, u demigod, second only to Jesus
Christ. They mix up religion with the move
n,ent, and thus add another combustib,e and
dangerous element to the political fanaticlsm
Of the "higher law"
Take, for example, the sermon Of Rev. Edwin
NJ. Whecloek of Dover, N H., published in yes
terday's HERALD. This man, who boasts that
he is "of Puritan blood on hath sides--blo0d
that is always revolutionary that the
Bunker Hill of our second revolution has been
fought and won by John Brown, the second
Warren, who has paid tho glorious forfeit Of
his life; and that Ibis scheme is no failure, but
solemn success;r that ssfrom the martyrdOm
of Brown dates new era OF the aad-slavery
cause to moral agitation will now be added
physical, to argument action-other devoted
men will follow in the wake Of Brown. and will
carry on to its full results the work he has
begun" ~ think the time is fast coming, con-
tinues this apostle Of treason, "when you will
be forced to do as be has DONE"
Such are the sentiments and the very Ian
guage uttered in the pulpit. Nor is this all.
We are told that "John Brown had live reli-
gion also, and that to be hanged in Virginia is
like being cruciHed in Jerusalem, and that the
gallows from which the sainted martyr ascends
to Heaven will be sign and symbol in our
politics as the cross is in our religion" When
we couple this indammatory harangue from
the pulpit and similar appeals Of other traitors,
lay and clerical with the fact that collection
is now started by the same parties who raised
former subscription of Si00, 900 to purchase
revolutionary rifles aud pixies, to be used in
Kansas by John Brown and his associates, we
can come to no other conclusion than that the
money now collected will be applied in the
same way, and that the phrase "Johu Browns
family" is to be understood igurativeIy, and as
| meaning his followers, like the expression,
"the family Of Christ" SO often used by di
vines. According TO Rev. Mr.. Wheelock, john
Brown has a very large family in the rnctapho-
rical sense; for, says he, if an honest express
| sion of the wishes of the North could be taken
| tomorrow, John Brown would be the peoples
candidate for the next Presidency, and he
would receive million of votes And this
is the family for whom the subscriptions are
raised to metamorphose them into a million Of
men IN arms, like the dragons teeth which
were scwn of old iii the esrth and sprang up Q
crop of armed men.
| By some Of the sympathizers with the cause
Of John Brown he has been pronounced insane
because they are not yet prepared to fully
identify themselves with the overt acts Of trea
son at Harpers Ferry. But Rev. Mr.. Wheelocl
repudiates the idea of this God fearing Puri
tan" being mad; and, indeed, SO does Brown
wife, who declares that he had this tragedy in
contemplation for the last twenty years, which
is from the time the anti-slavery agitation be-
| gan. He is, therefore, no more mad now than
when he WAS being prepared for college and
the gospel ministry by Rev. Moses Hallock,
father of the editor Of the Journal of Commerce.
From all the indications of the times there is
an evident design, settled purpose, in the
abolition element Of the republican party, to
follow up in due time the blow struck by John
Brown, and to plant another servile iasurrec-
ton in the South, more comprehensive in its
character and more enduring in its effects.
They do not disguise their intention to achieve
the dissolution of the Union, and they are la
boring hard in their vooation--the propaganda
ism of the gospel of John Brown, the living
Washington" whose banner bears no uncer-
tain sign"
All the conservative classes, therefore, no
matter what may be their party designation,
| ought to lay this perilous condition Of the
social and political fabric seriously to heart,
and consider what is best to be done to stay
the fast spreading revolutionary plague which
carrying away with it the Union "iike the
baseless fabric OF VISION, ana leaving mot q
wreck behind" When bad men combine good
men ought to unite, and when the bloody ban
ner of fanaticism is unfurled to the breeze,
| and when treason, grown audacious and de-
! fant, no longer sknlks in secret, but with
shameless front proclaims its principles and OBJ.
jects to the world it is high time for the friends
| of law and order at the North to rally around
the constitution, and to raise aloft the flag Of
! the Union, while yet We have constitution, a
Union and a flag, aud before the revolutionists
encouraged by the silence and inaction of their
neighbors, inaugurate a reign of terror with a
massacre like that on ST. Barthoomew's night
in France, or the carnage Of ST. Domingo-be-
fore the federal republic of North America, rent
into fragments, has become thing Of the past