The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-28

put, after all, not as bad as we anticipated; and
as for the conclusions drawn from existing facts
by the English press, we are at a loss to under
stand how sober Englishmen can so easily ar
rive at what to us is the height of absurdity.
The measures-undoubtedly oppressive to q
few-which have been adopted by the govern
ment in order to prevent aid and comfort being
given to the enemy will be Withdrawn as soon
as the war is over and we shall then resume
our normal condition. Meanwhile a strong go
vernmeEt Is necessary to the purpose Of sup
pressing the rebellion and preserving the vitali
ty of that republic which our English contem-
poraries already announce to be dead. But a.
the phoenix rising from its ashes, as Minerva
springing full armed from the brain of Jove,
this republic will emerge from the smoke ok
battle in all its original strength and grandeur.
The Recent National Fast Day-Treason
and Mutiny I'm tho Pulpit.
By the intrigues of the British AntiSavezy
Society and the gold of the English aristocracy,
by the propagandism of American abolition
societies. playing into their hands for the last
thirty years, and by the anti-slavery disunion
doctrines preached from the pulpit, and reiter-
ated by the fanatioal press, civil war has broken
out in the American republic, and two hundred
thousand insurgents on the banks of the Poto-
mac, stimulated and infamed by the abolition
crusade against Southern domestic institutions
stand ready to march against the
Union army, to seize the national CAPT.
tall and to advance as far northward as the
80 los. w.
not the moment when the terrible collision win
take place between four hundred thousand men
in arms, all Americans and brothers. In tho
midst of this national calamity the President
whose wise, patriotic and conservative courss
has won golden opinions for him throughout the
land, issues a proclamation for national fast,
in the hope that such Of the people as had been
led astray by the demagogues of the pulpit and
the press would consider the error of their ways
and make up their minds to return to thS
ancient landmarks of the constitutions d,
parture from which is the cause of our present
misfortunes.
The day was observed by the whole people
as fast day or festival was never observed be.
fore. But what part do the clergy play on this
great national occasioni How do they improve
the opportunity offered to them of helping to
save the country from the perils by which it h
beset! Not man Of them exhibits any states.
manship; not one of these moral and spiritual
physicians seems to understand the disease which
he processes to treat. They hit upon every
cause Of our troubles but the true one. Sons
attribute it to this sin, some to that and some to
another, and some to all the deadly sins com,
bined. But, to give one of the most active
agents of Satan his due, Cheever refutes all theia
theories, while he fails to establish his own He
$780,
says
Our teachers gravey tell us that God is angry with ~
on account of our atheism, Sabbath breaking, o
tho sins that has characterized all the generations q
mankind in nations down from Adam, save only the ON
Slarlng sin peculiar to as as nation Nearly
all nations on the earth have danced chewed tobacco
drunk ardent spirits, forgetting God in many ways and
proaned his ordinances and his Sabbaths but we have
proof that God over judged nation with desolatna
war or rebellion growing out Of any one Of these SINS o.
off. $500
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IN CIVIL war; lie Says
very great ain At the present tiuean aguravaton a
the one prominent crime OF Our natonis ihe refnss Il
acknowledge that ipouty not merely the refusal 10 r.
pent Of b. but even TO Acknowledged IT, In the nrocans
ton calling for fast there Il no nseon of n We he -
the extraordinary phenomenon OF national State and
CITY proclamation Of fasting and PRAYER beneath tha
can~ neoDs ~ Sv Of
in which PRESENTATIONS there doe. not occur an ausion
nation which ali know To- be- the cause Of our presss
distress.