The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-27

needed to carry the war into Africa Henss
the soulrring over the new ticket |, republicsn
circles.
TIE IMMORAL EFfEor OF SUNDAY LAws.--H
1t were for no other reason than fer tie iuuorai
tendency Of Sunday laws, thwarti,g le beasa-
cent purposes Of the Creator, injuring the health
and marring the happiness Of naa. while thev
engander hypocrisy and secret vices Of Tie
most degrading kind, public meeting ought 70
be held In this city 10 denounce them, and 70
originate movement to have them wiped o.
the face Of the statute book.
The Sabbath Committee of New York DO.
clare that the tyrannicd aud puritaaieal Oh.
servance CT the Sabbath, upcr which they in.
sist "is Of paramount Importance to the purity
and perpetuity of our free insdtutions,' end
that 1t 10 vital to the prosperity Of true rcti-
gion." Now, let Us examine this sweeping al
sert'on by the test Of experience and by g refs-
renee TO facts In what other il this country
has the Sabbath been made sc rigid ~ law
az In Boston, the hot bed Of fanstieism 60 t.
rest of the unicn. But what are ~
statistics CT morals in that picus cityf By no
are told that In Massachusetts, Criminals have
trebled in fourteen yesrs,r that /" the criminals
are not made from foreign bnt from the homo
made article" and that unless there Ia prso-'
teal reformation before half century is over
we shall be ruled by the criminals themsslves.w
The report further says that in the past four
teen years efforts for reforming criminals saA
Furnishing crime have been more active than Il
any previous time, and yet crime haa trebled"
Ia the same year what dc facts and figures
show ntout New York. 60 filed with churchee
and With Al army Of clergyt The arrests wera
81 ,45J for criminal offences, 40 cases Of which
were for murder; and this is ia city bounding
With Sabbath schools, associations for The
observance OF the Sabbath, reetr sinec by Sab
hath laws AID liquor laws, and q police ap-
pointed through the puritanical influence upea
the republican Legislature. And as for orr
free Institutions which the Sabbath Committee
say are in danger from Sabbath breaking the
only peril tina. impends over then OF present u
the anti slavery fanaticism CT the puritanioal
republican party.
The same rule holds good OF puritsaicAk
Scotland. In the city Of Glasgow thera
is more Of drunkenness and other vice taaa
In ary Other city In the world and theres
ii ia boosted In one Of the Sabbath Com
rit!es documents Of New York, that IL M
other place il Christendom IA the Sabbath 80
well obsetved--ait is like the older tius.w
England has comparatively emsrcipsted her-
self from this spiritual thrsldcm, ahd there
crime L. proportionstely diminished In France
and German, where the Sabbath is enjoyed in
rational wa as day CT recreation there b
fer less drunkenness and fsr less crime and vice
than In Epgland or the United States.
At the time that the Sabbath wa most rigidiF
observed in Scotland and England, then ala
hypocrisy aad every vice most abound. In
1850 the Scotch Puritans are described By the
historians as INDUCING in much fslsehood ead
cheating" and 'thers was daily hanging.
scourging boring oftongues; ard "A for adultery.
fornicat!on, incest bigsny and ether urcleaa.
ness and flthiness, It did never abound mors
than at this time" Those who desire fur.
the information Of this period may consult |
Carlyle's Life of Cromwell Hume the
historian, say, Of England at that time.
that the gloomy enthusiasm which pre-
vailed among the Parliamentary (Puritaa, |
party Is surely the moet curious spectacle pre-
sented By any history and the most Instructive.
a. well a. entertaining, tc . philosop hicAl |
mind Though the English nation be naturally |
candid and sincere, hypocrisy prevailed among
them beyond any example l. ancient c. modern
imes.r
The same hypocrisy exise in this country !
roF; 1t L. the remnant Of Puritanisn Imported
by the Brownists CT Nassac hr.setts, and II u
bearing the same deadly fruit that Il did Ia dAys
OF old. The Upas tree must be rooted up be-
fore II overspreads the land and poisons al
who Gene under Its shadow. Let a public
meeting be held at once &c overthrow this a.
cursed blighting system which u now Identified
With the republican party-tae only party In
the United States who give II any corrte1aI =.