The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-18

NVENDiAhf IAhSONS.-lne DISCOURSE uellVeicu
by DR.. Cheever, at the Church of the Puritans,
on Sunday last, is exciting great deal of in
dignant commentary. 1t is asked whether the
government, which is compelled for its own
safety to oppose limits to the abuse of the
right of free discussion in the press, will tolerate
unbounded license in the pulpit.
In no sense of the word could the discourse
to which we refer be considered sermon 1t
was from beginning to end political trade
and that of the most violent and inAammatory
kind. 1t had not even moral bearing in the
character of its facts. Replete with falsehoods
and misrepresentation, it is doubly dangerous
from its quasi religious complexion and un-
scrupulous perversion of the truth
The preacher told his hearers that the reason
the sympathes of Great Britain were not enlist
cd on the side of the North was because the
latter was warning for the defence of her mate
rial interests and not for the abolition of
slavery; were she to proclaim unconditional
emancipation, England would be cordially with
her. This is not the fact; it is very far, even,
from semblance of truth. For the last thirty
years England has been endeavoring to stir up
the elements of internal strife in this country,
under the cloak of a pse,ulo-p philanthropy. Her
concern for the condition of the slave was
merely a hypocritical pretext to advance the
political object which she had in vew-namely,
the division of the American confederation.
The proof that this was so is to be found in her
conduct on the breaking out of the rebellion.
The news of that event changed in an instant
all her pretended sympathy with the negro and
arrayed it on the side of the slave owner. 1t
suffced that her cotton supply was endangered
at once to convert her from the creed
which she had for years been so loudly
protesting to q covert, but not the
less cordial, support of the new slave empire
founded by jeff. Davis and his associates. Ola
similar untruthful character are the other as
sertiOns made by the reverend gentleman.
"Slavery," he says, sis held to be right in those
who are faithful in their allegiance, and only
wrong on the part of those in rebellion" No
thing can be more grossly false than this state
ment. Philanthropical considerations have not
been allowed to exercise the least weight in the
decision Of the questions arising cut of the dis
posal of slave property by the government
They have been decided exclusively on the
constitutional and legal principles involved; and
the recent action of the President in modifying
the Fremont proclamation, although it did not
outstep those principles is sufficient evidence
that the administration is determined to guard
against any misconstruction of their policy in
this regard After the utterance of such senti-
ments the transition to broad treason was of
course easy. "The military proclamation of
the Secretary of War;" added the preacher, 4" is
military usurpation without the pretence or the
form Of excuse of military necessity"
Now we would put it to the authorities
whether there is anything in the language that
has been used by the secessonist editors who
have sent to prison which surpasses the above
in its unfair perverson of the acts of the govern
ment and in its general violence? Are such
sentiments the less dangerous because they are
uttered in church and by a malcontent in ca
nonical garb? 1t must not be forgotten that
we are in the midst of a tremendous rebellion,
and that if we do not put it down it will put us
down. To deal leniently with reverend incen-
diaries like Cheever and Beecher at such a
time is to imperil our own safety. Away, then,
with all false delicacy in the treatment of those
who, to crafty their fanatical longings, would
destroy the government. AS beginning, let
the mad priest Of the Purtans be sent to keep
company at Fort Lafayette with that rival fire.
brand of sedition, heAbbe McMaster.
S.A-- '. s-.7---Aes
THE TROUBLE BETWEEN THE BLARs AND
GENERAL FREMONT IN MIssoUR-The public
have become very much interested, and, natu-
rally, very anxious; to know the secret of the
present extraordinary, quarrel between the
Blairs and General Fremont, in reference to his
management of this war as the United States
military head over the department of the State
of Missouri, &c. Our special telegraphic adj
vices from Washington of this morning give lis
an insight into this mysterious business.
President Lincoln has officially promulgated
the important fact that he does not approve the
late emancipation proclamation of General FREE
mont, and has instructed that officer to conform
his action to the limitations Of the act of Con-
gress confiscating the property of traitors and
rebels. In this the President has acted very
properly, in holding General Fremont to the
eApTcsS aiiu SauSle oDJeCt vi Ins war ON Cne part
of the government" the integrity of the
Union;" its integrity including the slave States
and their Institution of slavery under the con-
stitution. The President expects and desires,
when the time comes, the support and co-opera-
ton of the loyal Union men of the South, slave
holders and all, in behalf of the Union. Hence
he desires to avoid, as far as possible, any act,
even as military necessity, calculated to alien
ate the loyal men of the South. Honest Abe
Lincoln" has no sympathy for this abolition
heresy of emancipation or separation" His
policy is simply ''the integrity of the Union'-a
policy which commands the approval and sup
port of every honest man who is not fool or
fanatic. Accordingly every bona .fde Union
man will approve the instructions of the Presi-
dent to General Fremont on this subject of
emancipation. The General acted without au-
thority and without discretion in the matter;
but as this business now appears to be settled,
the only remaining trouble with Fremont APP