The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-05

far had no enc TO nsand up order hose who should
have spoken IN decisive authority have been @rAa.
ii ughter) seyerer worcs have been used; . y /
enough for 10 say that N a time when Goa |
nd providence and patriotism ind humanity demanded
courage thew had nothing 70 respond but fear. The |
heart had almost ceased 10 beat and TINS govern
meLt is III to day for want OF pusaon az the centre,
and while the most Illuminating rear pafas hcs one
part OF the government the most wicked treachery |
Is found in other parts Of IL. Men advanced TO the
highest places by the power Of our constitution are,
or have been employing their whole force 70 destroy
that constitution They using their oath as soer
uses his shield, TO cover ana proIec. snsm ~ n1
they mining the foundations opening the doors ana
tening every protection by which ooludng traitors
may gain easy entrance and fatal success Ggantc ais
bonestes MEANWHILE sta abroad almost without snamo
ard Is Puritan land this free government these United
States, like Old Rome IN her latest imperial days and
dotsge-bepless at the court and nor own
and about to be swept with the Jury OF war ana
revolution IT. at such solemn crisis as TINS, men re-
fuse to look at things as they are, 70 can tnen
sins 10 remembrance and TO confess and forsake
them; if they shall ceyer over the great SINS oil TINS
people and confess only in sentimental way, as
sweet ano minor melody then we may Tear that oou mas
indeed iosaken his people, but We shall honestly con
Tess real sins IL purpose 10 cleanse ourselves from
them il do not mako prayer substitute ior action,
but Indictment to it; We rise from our knees TINS
day jealous for temperance, for honesty, ior Ica
brother hood for pure and aneed rcgion and Tor that
which js the OF Them all-regniatod liberty 70 an
m.r-then will the chords begin To break, we snal see
The blue shining through, ana the sun ere long, driving
away the umutrss clouds, shall 80 back ~ triumph
like one for movcst down, but now lifted up Tor
final victory.
every man should consider the tendencies Of his own
conduct also when men should take an &C
count OF guilt Of the growth Of social hxty, vice and
crime in or large cities Neither should they refaso
consider the growth OF corrupt passion "a this
connecticn with the increase OF commercial pros.
perity; for luxury, extravaganza, ostcntaSSon and
the corruption Of morals in social life Had given
alripg evidence OF premature old age IN this young
country There was for alarm, for humiliation be-
fprc odd
people and they Likewise given to much boastms
ard battery Men who told unpaatablc truths dis
liked, and IL they had power TO make the pubic con
science uncomfortable they we're sad 20 be abusing inc
liberty of speech. II We were TO be healed, must
there n es was %0 tome in things hat men did no.
love TO hear, and there was damnation IN tho
10 great people what winds oceans and malaria
regions and when speech stepped miasma breeeed
and death came fast. Upon da. Of misunderstanding end
confession they called to consider alone their
individual and soca evils, but Ghosc that naisona
Justice required that they should make mention 81 the
sins this nation csory side past and present lie
We uld violate his own convictions in speaking III the
sins OF the nation If he failed to mention the sns Of tho
American peopIe against the Indian, who dumb,
of him aud to speak bis wrongs The spdker en-
rged upon hs topic, and also spoke OF our s,nu treat
ment Of the Mexicans Our civilization had mot begotten
respect others rights 1t was quite in ran TO say
that land from which sprang did thc same things
A weak daughter was rot excused because she had
wicked srother. We Soastcd Of the AngoSaxon race.
IL has bone and muscle indomtable seEo OF personal
/
those were themes of Christian recioirg then the
Anglo, Saxon might well rejoice. p1iere were sins
that belonged to hations, ana me sans .has ne emu
But have TO the most ALARMING cause OF ma
tiona sn--slavery. This is day upon which we arr
called here by Chief Magistrate tohomble ourselves
before God by reason This is not only sin
but IS fountain out Of which haye flowed so man,
sins that we cannot name them without q discussion o
| that In one and tho same year, 1870 English ship
landed the Pnrans in New England and the negro slaves
m Nryna-two seeds of two systems
drA haro rovxfh MI a
tory would have seemed almost theatrical arrange
met had these repagnant eiementspurGn Liberty ana
very; American slavery borrowed every one Of its fea
from the Roman statutes for the fundamental prn
ciple of the Hebrew system IS that servant is man
while The fundamental principle OF the American system
is that he Is chattc the old 3osaic law is that the sav
is man. and nla he shall be instructed in religion bu
the fundamental element OF African servtude is this
they shall be, TO all intcnts and purposes chat
| tolls, goods, cattlc)-it would have seemed alnos
theatrical arrangement, say, had these repusnan
ecents-Puran liberty and African servitudc-divided
tac hand between them and establishing different govern
ments grown up different nations in CONTRAST that tb
world might this experiment fairly compared anc
worked 10 the bitter end But il was not to be SO
The government has nourished both clements Ou
constitution nonrished twins II carried the African
It's left bosom and the Anglo Saxon it's right bosom
and these two drawing milk from the bosom, hay
,yaxed strong and stand today conedcrated into
public one side of the body polite has grown up fair
healthy and strong the other side has grown up as wei
grows the waTt, vast and the vaster the weaker
This nation is like strong with side paralyzed
but nourished and carried along by the help q tn
slavery We who dwell in the North no
| without responsibility for this sin. It's dreadful
growth, the arrogance Of it's claims have been IN par
through delinquency. Our business to-day is not 4
ind fault with the South. | am not to-day discussing
tis MASTER with reference to them at all but with reie
renee individual profit. | am speaking as th
pastor Of Christian people, and am endeavorng 70 I'm
occasion in all the phases OF your experience, and IN a.
tie points where YOU have touched the times IN wbic
you live; and ying To find that which every homes
iran employ 10 day as reason Of confession and r,
pentance before God only discuss the slavery qucso
i n y
loved money they have augmented this evil because th
North loved money they have disrogardcd that oqui
which behts industry and commerce. IN days past sll
has yielded 10 every demand carrying slavery forward
in this. nation. You and are guilty OF the speed
snvery unless have resisted lcgtmatey every Gle
| mcnt In power against II. If We said IT
agilsto the question imperlls manufacturing, shlt
pmg and real estate, anu then sacrifice qrbet peace
purity; IL We have bought the right TO make
here and by letting slavery spread aud grow there, "
have ben doing the thing ths they have, 20
the have held slavery for the sake oil money aud AZ
have permitted them 10 hold i for just the
IL Is gigantic bargain, only working out direren
North and South. IL Is for Just much ~ f.
tbayn tina, slavery works and acquicsce. We cloth
ourselves with cotton which the slave cutvates. T. h
scouIgedl Is he lascd does he water IL with his
and tearsi u you and that the shirt and tina
carry.he ramcnt. We co.he orselves at his expense
and our social cup is swcctened by is toll Our loom
and etoies are largely built the slave bopos
| we Eve bis ioii l confess that can see ~
| WAY 10 escape a part OF the responsibility foi
| slavery. feel guilty in part for this system
and II the rcnquishing OF articles which cop'
| from labor would tend even remotely
every a.cje Of food Of clothing that may b. paric
paul ut ldcalt that II would do any thing. an
unwilag pat 0er OF this slave STEM and take t. my
sell part 81 lie sin il before God nut pray
that way maybe opened by which may b. freed
IRON ula. which hate bitterly. IA state OF facis
makes IL to-day crouety proper for ~ 10 confess our
wrong aud sin done 70 The slave. All the wrongs AMI tbs
criIes, the neglect tn misuse, the Do ihe sepa
ration be scourgps- -esc cannot be rolled i,D cloud
TO nveiai,g The south alone, one o. US has
thug confess Ihtae who have been fupI'ous
Tor Cod Judge thor lie, motive ana conduct ind
thet ticy TOO had cospt this great b q ndct
Iucut q Elarry The whole nation Is guilty. There i
| not iunlbgymDn The verge Of Nome, n
| stfi!er On the distant prairie, cIt
of thu Pacific, That IL not poltclily and
\ commercially " alliance with this great evil. II
sou put IoscN !no yo system any way, there u not
that il nOt.fcneo by IL. there is bot muscle
hat docs not by til. circulation feel II there rl not be
bone tissue single part parcel Of The
whole stem thai escape ". Our whole tdy vol
pcryadcd by tbs black injustice and every oIe of ~
~ css dnaGtly Indirectly, willingly unwil.
1rrly, implicated Ia IT. And when u c5nics-
have grrs, deal u confess before