The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-30

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Thanksgiving ana the Wharf.-The Clergy
ON the Stump.
The event has proved that we did we'll in not
publishing the Thanksgiving sermons of tho
clergy of New York. The abolition journals have
spread them before the public; and never did we
read any compositions 80 like sour beer. "stale,
fat and Improbable" with the addition of some
poisonous ingredients highly deleterious to the
community, and requiring the administration Of
strong antidote. A most remarkable negative
feature, common to the whole batch, is the total
absence Of one lucid idea, one grain of states
manship-in short, anything of a redeeming
nature to compensate for the mischief they are
calculated to produce. Among those who have
signalized themselves in aiding and abetting the
abolition conspiracy to defeat the objects OF the
war, to prevent the restoration Of the Union,
and to superseds the President by revolutionary
violence, unless he will aocede to measures for
the emancipation of the negroes throughout tho
Southern States, are Beecher, Chesyer, Thomp-
son, Tying Bartlett, Burchard and Sloane.
The Satanic tone adopted by some of these
clergymen would 60 far to prove that their
mission is not from Heaven, but the place below.
One Of them, for instance, rejoices in carnage,
not because It will restore the Union, but abol-
ish slavery. He says:-"Let US put in the sickle,
and thank God for the harvest before US, terrible
with DEATH" Another-Henry Ward Beecher-
says:--"Our country, like the LAGOON, had long
lain in the ever-tightening serpent folds Of
slavery; yet the government could not break
the pact made in the compromises of the consti-
tution.'" "But what the pen of the legislator
could not do the sword Of the warrior would
do;" and "these two antagonists, liberty and
God, slavery and the devil, were to fight out the
matter between themselves" Cheever sings
halleluiah because Of "the great opportunity
mercifully granted of God, not merely Of re-
union or reconstruction as before, with slavery
as Q central element which may God forbid, for
separation and war were better than that-but
the opportunity Of resurrection and transfgura-
ton into higher life and indestructibie unity,
the old sole cause Of disunion, crime and evil
being cast outn Another-Rev. Mr.. Thompson-
thanks God that we have . war which will re-
suit in our ceasing to be "a nation of slave
hunters;' and '.it should be known everywhere
In the land that righteous, loving and praying
men demand that not only the rebellion, but
that slavery incarnate In the rebellion, be de-
stroyed.- Rev. Mr.. butcher proclaims that
before God Is done with us not one shall be
left who shall wear the shackles Of the slave;"
and Rev. Mr.. Bartlett, sensation preacher
rivalling brother Beecher, depicts 1.-THE glory of
the Union hereafter, when every slave will not
only be free, but educated" Snch is tho
millennium 10 which these visionary ia
natics look forward a. the result Of
a war which one Of them describes as "fratrici-
| DIAL. the worst of all wars" And Is II for this
that million Of the white race are destroying
each oiher-,hat the blood OF their children
and Of the friends who survive them may be-
| come tainted and corrupted by admixture with
| the negro race! God and nature forbid.
| IA 4 remarkable that oil the abolition clergy,
however they may differ on other points, agree
with Summer on the three following:-First
that negro slavery Is the cause of the war.
/ Second that the war can only be successful by
dsetreying slavery, aud that this 10 its proper
and leg innate object Third, that slavery is q
sin OF the deepest dye--so much 10. indeed, that
Cheevcr does not scrupie TO say that the pre-
sent war and It's consequences are . judgment
Of God against the nation because OF its sane
ton Of the sin Of slavery. This Is the burthen
Of all the sermons Of the abolition clergy, Of all
the harangues Of the demagogues, and the stock
In trade Of the anti-slavery press. Now we hold
that the true cause Of the war IN the revolu-
tionary propagandism carried on by such men
~ Cheever, In alliance with the British arstoc-
rAcy, and that one Of the most potent means OF
bringing about the war was the denunciation Of
Southern negro slavery rs national sin which
Il was the duty Of the general government to
abolish, II IL this moral and political war on
lie instifations which has kept the South in q
state u constant irritation and which. under the
guidance of ambitious leaders, has driven 1t to
arms. Had Northern pulpits, presses and politi-
clans le, Southern slavery alone, secession would
have been impossible. Negro slavery is part
Of the constitution, and the attempt TO abolish
or impair II by Northern mAjorities In Congress,
or BY the influence Of the Executive, Ii violation
of the federal eompact--the incipient treason,
The egg Of the serpent from which rebellion has
been hatched. II IN, moreover, m imputation
upon the character Of Washington and Madison
and the other founders OF the government, who
agreed. by solemn league aud covenant, that
protection Of the rights Of Shareholders should be
guaranteed forever 10 the Southern States.
As 10 negro slavery being sin, not one Of the
cicrgymen who preached against ID on Thanks
giving Day attempted 10 prove II. IL We except
Mr. sloane. who quoted the case Of Pharaoh be-
ing punished for refusing TO let the Iraelites 20
from under bis yoke. There are two points,
however, 10 be remembered; first, that the Is
raeli,es were white men, superior to their en-
slavers; and secondly, that II was not the inst.-
tuition Of slavery that was complained Of In their
case. but the abuse Of Il, and CALLING oppression