The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-07
JOSHUA r. GDDu0s IN fuwN.

oBoD0A1eAn Som keoeWerS - - nevo-
". Csadhgs q ne Dudes Of nanan
csvsrnnent,'- Exciting scenes
bCesgressE Crises q
tho Government,
- Methodist Episcopal Church in Forsyth street was
vel filed last evening 70 listen 10 the Hon. Joshua K
OSSuSs Who vps received with enthusiastic applause
snd spoke q follows
LApus AND GKsrExKy-Tne subject to which your A.
ssnsssn Aas been invoked this brief hour s a has
Been announced to you in Congressional Life il
due 10 myself however, that should say that do not
travel through the country address audiences for
nere purpose OF attracting momentary attention. My
design is 10 impress upon those who listen 70 the m
yWtsnce Of what deem great and enduring principles
principles which lie at the basis OF government without
which we have hope Of maintaining free nstu.
sns. The scenes 10 which about to call your atten
6ss from the reganing Of rights which had been
abandoned by those who had swayed the administration
81 eur government may remark, by way OF llustra-
sn That at age Of the world has despotsm ruled the
destnies Of with such unbridled sway when the
Pspe processing be the vcegerent Of God upon EARTH
usmyed domination the temporal az we'll
~ the spiritual government of the earth-over
ne temporal - well NJ the spiritual welfare Of
mankind. And among the hrst fruits Of the
great Reformation, the partial separation of the
sptit1al from tho temporal governments Of the world
anA when the domination Of the church removed-I
speak Of the church Of that day-the minds Of pho
sOphers and statesmen began investigate the rights
which held from his Creator 70 ascertain what they
wers order that governments should be based upon
1880 principles which great, immutabe and eternal
u Their Investigations they attempted to be guided by
nd thav lv IN md
portant results. Those results proclaimed by
asvernnent its baptsmal font fathers the
u the United States had loog turned their attention
- We philosophy which had originated in Germany and
whieh had occupied the attention OF writer's of the
Christian world for q century and half. We have par
rod The Fourth Of july 177s when our fathers IN con-
assembled stood forth before the Christian world
Ne representatives Of this mighty nation and acknow
bdged that ell the rights OF derived from their
0Feator-that human governments established TO
sure The enjoyment Of those rights part OF the
government had been established upon those great i'm
nutabe and eternal principles, the adinstraton per-
and prosttuted 70 the purpose Of destroying
svsrturnng the very principles upon which had been
established. know that you will at once say that
soargmg upon tIm so ,a S camesM,nM am
thas yoa are not mistaken for ] do Applause)
say unhesitatngy that the powers Of this government
which ordained by fathers to insure the enjoy
nent Of Me have been prosuted to the destruction Of
Me The powers which ordained for the maintenance
Nero himself could scarcely exut the despotsm which
has been exercised in this Christian land. That you may
1y me records Of the nation BY the nabe
evidence resting in the archives Of the nation will
repeat what probably most Of you already know that in
s1syhg innocent people who had fed from their pro-
1ssed owners in l705, more than a century previous
Territory and were there colony holding lands under
ne spansn crown, and being loyal subjects Of the
sSumsTa.S smons the military defences Ae 81 rs aa
1sIrkory. They were there with their wives, their
% their s aocss and o their herds ,.T The IS
Aad passed away Another generation, and third and
1srtn generation had passed away But the Shareholders
hey indignant that they should enjoy life, liberty
md happiness So they called upon the federal govern
Them to slavery; not that single man Of them could be
proved TO be slave-and yet two hundred and seventy
y offence Were buSered IN cola blood Sy the srmy Of
e UnIed States because they loved liberty you and
I've liberty hsrs the ,ss
a. sovsrnnens sustaining sse oo..sviss siaye trade,
nrheYn savebreedng and carried south the
E Of the United States, and sold in the barracoons Of
sugar plantations, where upon The average
Shey driven hard that they die i've years and the
cotton plantations where they die In years Here
are 27,ooO human beings annually murdered by This
slew torture; ana Is upheld and maintained by the
Of The
sustain this infamous commerce, which, - nation,
Antc and for which those who perpetrate there are
hing n will not do for me TO trace the slave trade too
FAR; for did you might find representatives
and Senator's sustaining commerce which, according To
Geir own hdrment renders themselves worthy of the
sallevs and halter feel a degree of deicscv upon
fhat MONT because II is wrong 10 rob and steal and
nnrtsr and II The man who commits these acts should
.,snc man ths e.iious tossher nth him vho sr;Sos
- No.. ,hon ,hy ho sspS wan 20 Cnnn,e"s ho tI
- ~. ,h ny aI th Ind;o. ~ $500 III h .un
- ss .y d 10y NJ NJ nv, tSoh ,h t 80
y h ssmh,a ,rhb f. SI, - ss .,.n2 hsy 49,
quitsea Ao ~, IN th ;I. - , Ss,I ooio.s nsm
Heaven reekn. sn te gun TS, a s. ''oyeIy
AID theft Appla,.s' LUIS 0v .h Is. slAve
trade was sustained. Sla, ny VIC D y. 49, "a
Oslumbn was sustained and H. 1A'n v ~ mo =.
I have referred were brought from 1"Soa W
Georgia and South Carolina and ensaved. The %
srdaped by government TO secure liberty were pross
~ tha cnsl.vennt al man Tho slave trade becsme