The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-05

Il ry--the very childhood of natural hfeand sud
leLy threatened with dissolution. But TIE best answer
10 settfng against the duty of natio la acknowledg
ment Aim ghty God may be witnessed IN this national
fast day when trouble no wis lom has guarded
gans and no human foresight foil drives the nation
10 mercy seat and compcs the uterances OF faith in
Gods presence and power and goodness. Tor II il be
right aud proper and conservative Of our national being
TO confess Cod day a nation IL is right proper and
conservative 10 confess Him, not merely IL spismodc
way but principle and in the solennity OF consitu
tonal act. Put our fathers, IN their opposition 10
union Church and State with just apprehcnsons OF the
domineerg exactness Of bigory ana the predominance
of socaran intolerance swung back the extreme OPP
posito OF Ignoring God the Ruler Of the nation Il is
q hopeful sign Of the Influence OF Christianity
of the United states observe the Divine law
of Christian Sunday. And IL Is an omen OF dark por
tent that the convention Of the seeding State of South
Carolina prolaned The Lords day in not observing il.
For IL thcro be any truth In physiology, Il is
thar The seventh days rest is wholesome and neccs
sary 70 man. And when Robespierre and his goddess
and bloody band vcntured 10 amend the Divine law,
by appointing the tenth day the decade OF rest, the
French amy both and beast tainted and succunb-
Cd under oppressive toll compelling the First Consul 10
teal truths OF Christianity is the fact that the people
who in the spirit Of Jesus observe the Sunday for wor
ship rest and for deeds Of necessity and charity are
blessed OF Cod both in health Of body and in cheerful
pety Of heart Let il be lesson of this fast day Of the
nation to train public sentiment for the acknowledge
men Of God and Christ in civil constitutions and
the mandates Of our rulers and in the habits OF the p
ple seeondA further of national trouble may
be traced TO our social and political corruption Pride and
bcaspg sell reliance and individual ndependency self
will ana liberty sproutng into RIGHTEOUSNESS; violent
competition in trade and in politics money
and for places reluctance to the slow processes Of labor in
agriculture and in the mechanic arts enterprise pushed
into mpatence, through haste to be rich These are our
national characters in Of which observe virtues
nordnatoly exercised till they become perverted into
vices. But the browning shame and the damnug stigma
the fore front OF the republic is bribery II is hstori
cal that the decay of every republic has begun in the
form Of corruption most subtle, by influencing magis
raes and legislators judges through kind Of
purchase 1t was the case, every classical boy knows,
the beginning Of the downfall Of the republics Of Greece
and Rome II was the premonitory symptom Of the end
Of the theocratic republic Of Israel When good old
Samuel resigned his Vcegerenoy, he appealed TO the
people attest his personal fdelity:"Of whose hand
have received a bribe to blind mine eyes herewith
And they said Thou hast not taken aught OF any mans
handn And be said to them The Lord witness against
you this day that have not found aught In my hand
And they answered, lie is witness Samuel, xii, 35)
SO boldly and solemnly did that public officer purge him
sell any suspicion OF crime which no considered
the fatal bemsh Of character in public man. But of
the cons ofsamuel it is written, that his walked
brides and perverted judgment. q Sam. will 80 And
with this record it follows in the next verse, that the
have not rejected thee but they have rejected that
should not reign over them" In this short history
not the portrait Of our country sketched Our fathers
like Samuel could call God and the people to witness that
bribe had blinded their eyes pervert Judgment
while their degenerate sons in the high places Of the
nation the halls of the State and of the cityand shall
| say in the tribunals of elective and poorly paid
judicaryare, like the sons Of Samuel, charged with
turning aside after ucre and taking brides and peryer
first in the glitter of gold, but in agreement between
parties to help another in some favori.e measure
bribery Next tho promise or the hope Of reward in
some place Of profit, Is the motive to vote. And by
this selfish aim the heart is corrupted with bribery At
last the conscience gets hardened and the people yield to
the apparent aud the public sentiment becomes
defed and the itching palm Of covetous hand s over
laid with the bribe according tariff Of each mans
price Alas are not these things notorious Where is
the pure man in public life who exclams lord, have
loved the habitatin Of Thy house and the place where
nine hannr fvrel AT m
my life with bloody men, in whose hands Ia mischief
and their right hand is full of brides. But as for
Lord FPS. XVI s-12) Where Is such man2 Here
and there he stands in his uprshtness the observed OF
all observers" 1.-THE cynosue of every eye, revered
and hated pattern Of ncorrupt virtue, sending forth
the beams of his light the dark mass Of people, like
the lighthouse the headlands of the coast TO foil tho
wreckers and 10 guide the yoyagers in society Ny
brethren when an honest public agent becomes conspc
Gus and praised for his fidelity, il because Of con
righteous in his generation is 20 fix on him the euogum
accorded TO Noah in the srr'nrss, %eoasse simple
suoS Of society exists, God comes with his deluge
oestsoy them all God complains Of US in pathetic
trains How vs. the faithful city become an harlotl Il
was full Of judgment Righteousness lodged in IT, but now
murdercs. Thy silver Is become dross, thy wine mixed
with water thy princes are rebeous and companions Of
wards; they Judge not the fatheress neither does the
q the widow unto them. Therefore, saith the
Lord the lord Of utsts the mighty One Of Israeli an
viii ease me Of mine adversaries and will avenge Of
mine enemies isaiah, i. 21-2i) Such is the Ian
guagc Of passing events, interpreted as Divine vsaons
AND whcn % at this Day the public conscience becomes
hardened tocrating bribery and in m!nstering
iuption, the nation is surprised, only for moment at
he discovery Of fraud among the subordnates And
startled at the tdipgs of wholesale plumber of
tie national treasury Of nearly million of securities
held in trust Tor the poor Indian ribes-a sacred fund
more sacred than any post in the nations exchequer
Men startled say and then turn to their strong
10 examine their securities and II there be Individual
loss, hear feebh reprobation of The public theft
these tokens amongst of loss OF virtue and
togrty, which may well go to explain why God has per-
mted one star TO be dmmed in the galaxy Of nation
flag lhTd-But now reach third cause Of the nations
IL is the question of slavery Ishould b. IL
such occasion to-day, should avoid question that
momeptous issues. is problem which must DO solved
for veal for woe aud when the pulpit speaks
ing 10 the oraces q God, wc may expect the Divine
blessing, IN the reconcing of opinions into q common
faith. In the extremes Of aboonsm and propagandism
slavery distorted On the side IL represented as
the token Of the highest condition Of Christian civiza
tion;" the other, he Of all inquities" These
extremes are se0nngly rreconciablc, and yet, like
single truths made errors by lack Of union with other
truths welded by Divine appointment they may be
to coalesce when their afntes developed and made
manifest by the chemistry OF Gods word. II will be
the abuse OF slavery, while the Southern propaganda
confines his admiration to the spectacle Of tho bcngnant
aspect OF the Institution And II such be the case, men
the remedy for the evil viii be TO correct the abuse and
the point OF coaeecence will be the mutual ollo by
moral and Christian persuasion TO redress the wrongs Of
the servant by the justice Of the master according
do 10 u.s., under like circumstances Of relationship Wan
this view proceed TO the Divine law and TO the mony
Section And neticng first God constitution of society
we observe inequality ere are everywhere, the rea
tons Of subordination and authority whether in the
family or in the state, or IN the church; But the
characteristic OF society, according to the Divine idea
and Divine appointment, mutual rights and corelatvc
obligations. There is no such monstrous thing
dviduas rrerogative that carries with ID correspond
ing duty but society is framed the principle mutual
benefit, both TO him who governs and TO him who Is
governed. 80 that If il be the duty Of the ruler 10 ad
minister government as the Lords vcegercnt is the
right Of the subordinate TO be ruled accordingly and II
be the right Of the superior to receive the homage
obedience Of the inferior becomes the duty OF tho
ror TO render due homage and obedience 10 the superior
as to Gods minister TO him for good In these social
relations observe differences, both in degree and in
the period OF time, OF the mutual service. In the rela
ton OF husband and wife, tho bonds for ife aud dis
soluble only for In the Of parent aud
child the rights and obligations are in some respects
for uc and in others for form Of years. In the rela
on VI master and apprentice tho tenure of the relation
is by agreement, for specc time and purpose In tho
relation of master and servant the relation Is for q
specified time, AZ WILL for life When the term Of
service for fe and with tho condition OF inheritance
q.