New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-24
Tsy CONFLICT BETWEEN FREEDOM
AE6 SLAVERY.

DISCOURSE OF TIE REV. GEO. F. MOVES
Yesterday morning tn. Rev. George +. Eoyes, pas
hr Of the First IbsspsIdent Church, which meets 10
Hep Cospel, delivered a ovca use on The Irrspfes
ss,be Cor hc. bet ween Freedom ard Slavery" Tho
services ere commenced with prayer and music.
Mr. Coyes announced that as theirs was fies
Chrroh with Free Speech, he desired ihst others
shsuld give their views upor the suoJecs ~elcn nc
hss announced when he should honn vha' ne na1 70
say. Ire community had been tbrilled with the news
a m ir,urr,con. l. was terrible thing that our
ks,by.p should be soot down il the streets II VIZ
sus could By this even. be raised TO the very extreme
Fl tear What bali exiting uisn.d volcano must thsi
~. res uDop and sven citizens he'd become
sxc,,sd up IN this sutjed anc men dd not neel'es 70
"A, that they would seDd any ouSpOkeD opponen; ~
esvery to sf,lon's doom VINO, oy ne ehpfossoo .,
eIs TO desclse the South Bat wns they talked about
Ne TRAGEDY q to-day should they forget the tfsseny
81 this burdr.d years which hsd been enacted 10 the
Seufs; ~ben hey th1ogbt Of those brethren slain IN
tse streets ~ Hapers Feny, should they iorgst Tue
4ssolson. and misery, add outrage and oppreseion,
mere than desh, vhch had been laying is hesVy
hspd On the {. utherD ,lsve Tor these many years.
9be American people had become 80 sccast0m1d 70
thl, fearful story OF ~TJns that is ear bsh oscCne
dssf.ped aDo !; VA only when some tragedy Ike mat
st Esrperis Ferry sssk.pe1 pubic at1nAop, ue We
ss~ the two AM fJrcss Of Freedom On The one
hand ard Slavery the other. lie pted these ms
xAlded ner from the bottom OF his hear, out they
81 the North bsd an actual duiy TO perioi N IN thr
1attsr-a religious duty upon this qoeetion OF
Slavery. He did not stand here 10 give unsrsnce
70 excited feelings. There we're several proportions
offered by those With whom he hsa covered
en- tits question. One was that 1t was tho
Suty OF the North TO let 1t alone. But Gcd
had ensc,ed that this question should not be
let alone at FIRE and gunpOs der shoud no. 1--we To-
r,tber without explosion; that there should be eternal
Sostty between sntsgotistic principles, and TIA. men
must Ia eide the eide the other The three
slsssss question we're thete: thoee who looked
1t the freed,m If the slave, those who looked sway
from the fro edom Of the slave and those who shu, tneI
eyes ard did look AZ all. There were but rev ~
tie lat sss, fOI somehow ginUerng OF hgnt wouid
come n and then would fix themselves upon the
r.tpa and the mind must axe sides, one gay or ne ON
ar n they vie we'd the ater in the light ofpnlosophy
aad his Dry ard examine the la vs. whco Go1 han pii
down in the development If bumatiy, they shonld NOD
Mis- thng sesr and positive ,hst the CON- CT
history Mr. NOyes then alluded 10 the decline OF the
Roman Empire and the principles involved 10 tnst
event; the one hand was ION oil power AGA
on the other the instinct Of the barbananTblch
manifested Itself ia municipal freedom. Cenhaizst'
fell before the Freedom. England vas cited ss An In
stance D which the municipal freedom bad early OBJ
tsir ed CONCESSIONS and had been gradually gaining its
poip,s ever since There the struggle partly over.
Here It almost wholly over. We 6ad obtained
poi,ieal freedom. He oontrssted the condition OF
affairs in England with those OF france ana asKso
The pin ople settled there The foot OF Napoleon
Wa not always TO be pressed down upon the necks oil
that people. 1t only an intenegnum-a calm that
prec. dec storm In Italy the leaders OF the Repnoc
were working for wbet-for a Republic No; but Tor
the right 10 choose King for themselves. But there
for TO evsde Gods handwriting on tue
wall There God of justice, and ne believed
that he had made liberty the brhTght OF his children
and they would struggle until they sHaned It, The |
second ioes which was evolved dunng tne osSAness
Of the middle sges was on the one hand the central |
eb ~ cb and on the other the freedom OF the human
soul Psssrg through the phases of the Protestant
Yefor alton Episcopscy, Presbytersnisn Congrega-
toIsh m were now standing on the opposite ex-
treme of this great queeon IN the ree courcn "here
eyery an was a church unto himself. The struggle |
must continue, and must work 1t on, a, our perl.
TIE third idea on the one hand sosolu suootdi-
nation and on the other absolute ndeperdencs. Thus |
Struggle nos practically brought before inc |
people Of this country. We hsd tour MUNYON'S Oh msn
degraded 10 the position of human chattels, ana Iod
lad placed the issue before US de nsd gwen tety
distant from the old despOtsms. with 10 question Oh
bslspoe Of power TO trouble rs. lie ha1 gwen us
free constiiutiol and progressive advance IN htsIa
tsse AID knowledge that no other ration enjoyed ne
haa raised among US great heroes ana apostles, anu
the issue was 70 day Shall We have freedom IN the
Church-shal We have freedom for the slave Wnat
VA the foundation for human instr utoos-what tue
true b.ss upcn ca TO build the State or the Cnurcn
We must come down the foundation of human hts
70 decide, and build upon that we hsd state ana
Chueh which revolution could trouble, ana 20 w.
rant could invade. Viewed In this beht the slavery
aoe<ton could not be let alone, and the srus-
9ie must continue. As Napoleon hsd SAD that ID
tine +" Europe must become Cosssek or Rspnohcsn,
Il needed prophet To p-edlct tnat the TINE WOMB
come when America would be bound hand and loot by
he slAve power, or would be truly free MI Noyes
then rsvs we'd the progressive steps OF the encfosch
nens Of The slave power from the high snn-siavsry
GROUND. taken by jefferson and others al the inception
Sfour Government Our whole history Sss the history
q the struggle and brought face to face
with this tragedy. Three sets of victims spPeAed
upcn the stage. He pitied, from TIE bottom OF HE
near. the for be knew how they had been
sSsoat.d and how hard it vas for men thus
blbd.d 10 see. He alluded 70 the influence OF
slavery upon the institutions Of the North, dsarhog
the rentinen, Of free thought and speech IN Cnucn
and State. There another csss of victims OF TINS
injunction. He would like 10 know what It was that
h.d transformed John Brown, peaceful New-England
farmer into man Of blood. he had seen hls sons
sbo down by bis eide by the slave power his dearest
Yshs invaded and he bad found necessary to ssod
up in oeieIos Of his nights against the sggressors
Nhsiever might be the impoicy, the insanity OF the
act tina. root grew 10 the garden OF Aooh
tionism, but in the garden of Slavery
hr. Noyes urged the founding Of religious pubic