New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-05
THE TIDE ALnEADr TURNING.

THE TIDE ALREADY V9lkNANess
One Or The most pessilsnt Of those pulpit politi-
clans who infest tho churches Of NOW York city i
The Rev. MI Cheeyer. Next To Beecher, who has
attained the vsry highest rank as political psr-
son, Cheever confessedly stands. He Is, it is true,
only an imitation Of Reeeher. and feeble imitation
1T best. But be makes up in malignity for what
ever hs may lack Of intellectual ability.
Both 81 these worthless, 1t appears from the pa
pers, have lately gotten into trouble with their
congregations. Their chsrches profess to be
founded on strictly democratic basis this is
the theory only, not the practice. IN point Of fact
Tie preacher lords it over his congregation with
hiah hand. 1t il besause Of some resistance to
pastoral tyranny and antocracy on the part Of the
| people, that the present imbroglios have arisen.
Cheevers church has been lately having some
stormy meetings, in consequence Of the variance
between pastor and congregation stormy and
turbulent as primary election in the Sixth Ward
Of the Empire City. We do not know that the in
nocent lambs who are under the charge Of shep
herd Cheeyer have actually slaughtered each othel
and eaten each other up after the fashion Of the
Kilkenny cats, or that they have bruised and bat
tered each others !" mugs Ia Heenan and
Sayers, but they have certainly pitched into
Brother Cheever with an extraordinary degree Of
vim, and threaten that meek and pious saint with
consequences dire unless he retreat from his pres
ent position. The trouble ii, the congregation at
Gheeyer's church Il getting tired Of 80 much mig
ger Y from the pulpit, and are foolish enough to
demand little religion now and then from the sa
cred desk, instead of an interminable rehash of
slavery and politics. One of the brethren stated,
at late meeting Of the church, that Cheever was
about played out ii New York, and he did not be-
liera be had Hundred supporters in the whole
city
And no wonder. Religion is one thing and poll
tics another and they can no more be blended to-
gether than oil and water. People in New York
who desire To hear politics discussed go to public
meetings and clubs not to churches A political
preacher may 6 draw for while-but the nov
city of the exhibition soon wears off, and the en-
tertainment becomes fiat failure. The best actor
in the world cannot attract crowd if he plays
the same piece every night, year after year. And
as people are no longer amused at Cheeyers pull
pit exhibitions the spectacle begins to be tiresome
and stupid
Ne have an idea, too, that the sensible people of
New York city, even Of the Black Republican
party, begin to find out that all this fuss about
slavery is simply ridiculous. We believe that the
tide Of antslayery fanaticism has reached its food
and is now turning. When these people look
around them, and ask themselves what harm slav-
cry in the South does them, they must be certainly
puzzled to find IN answer. When they begin to
nd out, as they are now doing, that it il the pro-
ducts Of slave labor in the South that sustains the
national credit abroad, and is the foundation of
national wealth of home, they viii scarcely under
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unceasing war against their own interests for the
sake Of bogus philanthropy. This, we take it, is
the main reason why Gheever's flock refuse any
longer to be driven by SO crazy shepherd, and
even threaten to turn him ont Of the sheep-fold,
neck and heels.
All these things, We think, win regulate them
selves ana come right In course OF time and there
fore, we do not despair of the Union yet Never
before, until the present day, have the Northern
people understood slavery. They were taught that
it was system involving the utmost cruelty and
oppression but they discover now, that this is all
q mistake. They see, many Of them for them
selves that the laboring classes Of the South are
better OF, in every respect Of personal comfort,
than the same classes at the North. Their own
writer's, travelling in the South are forced to make
this acknowledgment They were taught also,
that slavery at the South degraded the poor white
man. They find out the very reverse to be the
case. The white man, without a dollar in the
world, is elevated by consciousness of the fact
that there is class inferior to him in social posi-
ton They were taught that the nonslayeholders
at The South were opposed to the institution, and
would gladly aid in exterminating it. They find
the truth to be that the non-slayeholder at the
South as loyal defender of slavery as his slave
holding neighbor. They were taught that the
negroes at the South would gladly embrace any
opportunity to free themselves, and escape from
servitude. Harper's Ferry has shown them that
slaves will fight and fall in defence of their mas
tiers, against those who come to offer them liberty
They were taught that slavery impoverished
country, and undermined its prosperity. They
find ont that the South, after supporting herself,
ships off to foreign countries, every year, nearly
two hundred millions of dollars worth of agricul-
tural products. In short the clear light Of truth,
on this subject begins to penetrate the clouds |
which have heretofore obscured the minds of many
honest and wellmeaning Northern people--and we
repeat that the tide has turned and we may look |
for wholesome and healthy change in popular
sentiment in that section.
VARIETIES THEATER- Complimentary Benefit of
JOHN 0,reas rendered him by the Company
evening, the last Of the summer season, will be
brought out ANDY Blake, :" /" The Mummy and
6 The spitfre," the last piece to be preceded by
the celebrated march Of the zouayes for Dixies
Land Who can hesitate to come forward on this
occasion and show in substantial manner his re-
membrance Of the pleasure afforded during the past
season by the management Of the Varieties under |
MI. Owens? His many friends will not forget him. |