The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-19

want employment in that line, then let those
European countries-particularly England and
Spain--who possess colonies in the New World,
look out for the avenging swoop of the Ame-
rican eagle.
The Rev. DIR. CHEEvER " AT HOME AN ADO
LITIoN FEsrIvAL-The Rev. DR.. Cheever, having
returned from his church begging and abolition
preaching tour in England, was warmly well
coined on Thursday evening last at an abolition
Iove feast at the residence Of the Rev S. r. Da-
Wis, Is East Twenty-eighth street. The par
Tors were hung with portraits and notices suita-
bic to the occasion" The affair, indeed, was
quite q brilliant abolition demonstration in its
pictorial and mechanical arrangements, and
likewise in its fervent abolition prayers and
speeches. Some of the choice emancipation
agitators who igured'in the late seditious I" Lib
erty and Union meeting" at the Astor House
were present. The inspiring theme of this jubi-
lee over Dr. Cheever was, of course, our South
ern institution of slavery and i" the duty of i'm
mediate and entire emancipaton;' and the
great feature of the evening was, Of course, the
speech of the immaculate Cheever himself;
and our readers may judge of the staple of his
discourse from this single passage:-"f the
claims of freedom, justice, humanity-the
claims of the enslaved-are not made the OBJ
jccts of this war, then there is needed no pro-
phet's ken to know what will be down in his
tory upon this country-infamy, infamy."
The Rev. DR.. Tying. next in order, harped
upon the same string, to this effect" We shall
never take one successful step until we take
the first righteous step" the abolition of
slavery. "That we shall ever come out of this
is, in my judgement, impossible. We cannot
come out but with country free or country
overcome. And l say for myself, much as
loved, in my old federal education, the Union, l
would rather 60 back and live upon the shores
of tie Merrimac and in the single State of Mas
with the South, if the cancer of slavery is to be
in its BOSOM In fact, the reverend gentleman
declared that he would rather see 'the utter ex-
tinction of the whole conlederacy," and resolved
into its elements than gain the glory of great
majestic people at the sacrifice of great princi
ple-the principle of emancipation.
We select these specimen bricks of this aboli-
ton love feast from the copious report of the
Tribune, whose sympathies and labors are de-
voted to the same object. We denounce the
whole affair and all its affiliations as demoral-
izing, sedtious and reasonable; for if it be trea
son to "give aid and comfort to the enemy in
this war, it is treason to be laboring to SOW the
seeds of discord, and to stir up our abolition
fanatics against the administration charged
with the great responsibility of saving our gov
crnment from violent overthrow. We call
the attention Of the government to these
seditious agitators Of abolition. In seeking to
divide our loyal people, to distract our counsels
and to cmbarrassthe administration, they are CIV
ing "aid and comfort to the enemy and hence
we contend that these abolition disorganizers
deserve no less the restraints of Fort Lafayette
than the secession emssaries, agents and CO
laborers of Jefferson Davis and his rebel con-
federates.