New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-09
THE FRUIT OF TIE FAST.

The precise pecuniary purport anu uPsno' vi
fasting was many years ago set forth by hegino'
Abbot OF Prume, in his 1.-TWO Books Of Eccle-
" siastcal Discipline" Of which we find some
account in D'Aubgne. For seven days
fastv says this erudite person, "you shall pay
twenty pence if you are rich; ten if you are
lees wealthy, and threepence II you are Poori
Z" and so on for less matters" II we consider
this tariff as still in force-and why not since
among other ancient remedies coming into vogue
in these troubled times the Rev. Rabbi Raphall
proposes to save the State BY general cir
cumcision IF we follow the above mentioned
standard of computation, the man who rig
idly restrained his molsrs upon the Presi-
DENTAL Fast Day did the country just
one-seyenth part Of twenty cents worth OF
good, which may be decimally stated thus;
25I42557142t, the last character not being the
sign of the cross, as some. from the nature OF
the subject might apprehend, but r,ther the indi-
Gator of the surplus piety which il is impossible
TO present with numerical e1actness Every
man woman, and child in the country, there
fore, either earned or had the opportunity of
earning, last Friday. little over two cents.
DuI RlsQODi supptlbs TO- ''Vh
than that yellow amalgam which has pushed
copper out Of circulation. The newspapers swarm
with the reports of sermons preached upon this
Day of Fast and Humiliation, and il is a singu-
Lar fact that however rgidly the Fast may have
been observed the Humiliation is not particu.
larly apparent. Thus we are informed BY the
Rev. DIR. Raphall aforementioned, that whereas
the Jews were bound by their law to surrender
runaway slaves belonging to Jews, and were not
bound to surrender similar fugitives from Edom
or Syria, 80 We are bound to give up those alb
scondng from South Carolina bat not those
fleeing from South America-all which we e1-
pect to understand when we can also comprehend
the case of Corporal Trims brother, who was
cast into prison by the Inqusition for marrying
Jews widow and selling sausages. What
gem is Slavery in our Christian cross, which even
"Jsw, may HI. and inhdel. adore"
So much for DIR. Raphalls humiliation"
which the uninteligent might regard as pride
of caste. .. .. 1910 .......
Pass we now from this Light Of the Old 10
the Rev. DIR. Vinton, who is Light of the New
Dispensation. Here we principally notice the
Doctors excellent amendment of the Declaration
of Independence, and his plump and point blank
contradiction Of the " self-evident truth" OF
that poor, forlorn, and much-refuted document
All men free and EQUAL STUFF and nonsense
Hear the Trinity Doctor 'And noticing first,
quoth be- Gods constitution of society, we OBJ
!" serve INEQUALITY" Here is clear case
then according to DR.. Vinton, Of God against
IA. n,,t ia moth, IN tha
amiable Rectors parallel between the holy and
honorable state of matrimony and Slavery, which
is novel enough to make q misogynist grin sar-
donicaly. :" In the relation Of husband and wife,
I" the bonds are for life. In the relation
" Of master and servant Ii. e., slave1 the rela-
% ton is for specified time, or at will or for
"Ife." Marriage is Slavery, said the Comic
Dramatists of the Restoration. Marriage is
Slavery, say the Free-Lovers Of modern times
Amen |" says DR.. Yinton; marriage GER
tainly is q kind Of Slavery" We leave him
to the tender mercies of the youth Of his parish.
There is one passage now before us which is
such gem of rhetoric that We will give it en-
tire. 1t is from the Discourse Of DR.. Taylor, and
ia az follows: 81 say that South Carolina has
wrongs to complain of-she has injuries to be
"redressed. Demagogues have asseiled her with
{" the ribaldry of the hustings in the sanctity OF
" the Senate-she has been irritated and goaded
{" to madness by the Ibels that have been poured
4" forth for years upon the most sacred and most
+" delicate of her domestic institutions, by the
" mopntebanks of the pulpit, who in their pes
"tiferous career are animated BY the most isno-
"ble Of all the forms ia which worldly ambition
"can display itself-ths ambition for securing
notoriety, by an association with the demons,
tho good Doctor "a getting rather warm
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