New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-05
A sOUTH.sIDE yuRw.

knew in the same month OF last year, STANDS
conspicuous the Rev. Nehemiah Adams, d. D..
of Boston, sometimes profanely styled the Rev.
Southside Adams He is noted, mainly, as the
author of two very vile and disgraceful Pro-
Slavery books, and as having been for many
years the religious teacher Of the late Mr..
Choate, who, on the occasion of some ami
versary festival at Essex-street Church, Q few
years ago, bestowed upon the pastor the
equiyocal compliment of saying That he, Mr..
Choate aforesaid, had never had bis medita-
tons disturbed by anything in the way Of
pulpit ministration which the pastor had INDUCED
in. The English pumpkin complimented bis
religious teacher in o similar way when he
said: 81 cocks up my heels and thinks
" O. nothin'm This reverend defender of Slavery
aud persistent preacher of the Gospel Of
NothiDgness TO his rich and influential parish
oners, lately visited the White Mountains, and
on his return visited upon his people the
results of his tour, in a sermon, which reaches
us in the columns Of The Boston Courier. We
began to read it with strong expectations Of
finding something rich and juicy, for almost
the first sentence we read was this: "For
" selfdefense against each other, if for no
" other reason, the North and South must be
one people," This is worthy of Sir Boyle
Roche, the Irish blunderer; or does it
mean that war and separation will eventually
compel the defenders Of Slavery here in the
Free States to cease wagging tongue and pen
in the cause Of barbarian, and SO the South
be finally deprived of its most willing aux
iliaries in it, war against civilization and CON-
mon sense Either way the remark is
curiosity, and led us to expect other novel
things in the sermon. But We find it
made up in about equal proportions OF foolish
sentimentaism, melancholy fancies, and NAL
apropos similies drawn from the White
Mountain tour, and the repetition, in cautious
but offensive form, of the old PrO-SlaSery
theories of its author.
1t seems that the Rev. Southside was re-
lapsing into morbid state before he started.
f" Feeling sick with every days report of the
" war" he says, ~ had no heart to take the
usual vacation this Summer until the time
4" for it was half expired. But remembering
" how bad a symptom as to health is an apa-
" thetic indispositiOn 10 change of place and
scenes. / left home" etc. No wonder he
was sick of the war. For dozen or twenty
years be had been preaching and booS-writing
from the Satanic text, "EYil, be thou my
" good" trying to show the people that Slay-
cry was as good thing as Freedom, and on
tie whole little better especially for black
folks; and instead of convincing anybody, he
had found half million of men in arms, and
ready for deadly conflict, on opposite sides OF
this to him very unimportant and insignificant
question. He found himself cut off from his
sweet communngs and correspondence with
his beloved brethren of the South, good Chris
tians az himself, and better, because more
patriarchal and less hampered with modern
customs as TO the sacredness of family,
and marriage, and property relations. He
found infdeity spreading-infdelity, in his
opinion, consisting in a disbelief in the right
cousness Of Slavery, the good effect of uniyer-
sal concubinage among four millions of people
and the equity Of cheating lsbOring men out of
their wages. He 1ed TO the mountains. There
he saw a 6-pOunder drawn by four horses to
the top of Mount Washington and he heard
it fired in honor of the opening OF the new car
rage road, and because the gun awoke no echo,
but only gave forth a sharp bark, he came to
the profound conclusion that "the nearer we
-" get TO heaven, cannon are more and more
4" out of place." Undoubtedly the plains are
more fayorably situated for warlike opera
tons; yet musketry may be used in the noun
tains to great advantage, and the absence of
an echo is no indication that Heaven looks I'M
fayorably upon the struggle that is going on for
their defense. We regret that the listener
from the window of the Glen House, could
get no better lesson from tho cannon. Next
he tried the mountains, and seems to have had
no better luck. He found several peaks which
are known by the names of Southern states
men, such IN Washington, Jefferson, Madison
and Clay. "What a story does this contain
&" he ejaculetes); what mighty witness and
81 what great reproof docs it bear! We were
- designed to be one These mountains have
:" an eternal covenant Of baptism joining the
" North and South! ;" Well, this is maudlin
enough We don't dispute the conclusion;
but the reasoning is quite unsatisfactory. We
dare soy some sickly and moOn-struck Tory
parsons of the Revolutionary era used to ex.
cuse their lack of patriotism by similar rhapsO-
dies over the impOssibility of making enemies
of two nations, each of which had town OF
Boston aud county of Worcester. There is