New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-12
Professor Cnirnos's Lecture on the Amer
irar Revolution in Dublin.

TIE DuJ},n Ezamia6r thus speaks Of the lecture
Of Professor Cairues, delivered before the Dublin
Young Mems Christian Association y few weeks
since. Those who wish to read the lecture nseli
will Gnd il at Gro aen,, who has repub.ished 1t in
cheap forms
Prof Cairncss lecture delivered last night 10 the
Metropolitan Hail. il Nudoabtedly very able one
sngularly clear and forcibe, and as convincing ~
any dis,Ourse Of the kind coud te where opnoh IA
10 much divided. lie is an ardent advocate OF the
North and sad everything IN Is favor that became
judcious and trutb-oving advocate. II was uu-
res souable 10 donb, TO expect, many did ~ this
country that the FEDERAL Government should have
commenced and carried out The war IA Abohtoalste.
They gave DO ground for the expectation that they
were going Soutbward on u crusade agHinrt slavery.
Mr. Lincoln was not elected as an AbOlitionst. HE
return il IL true The defeat Of the Slave Power.
Bu be did not propose to cut IT down or TO nproot H.
but eby TO prevent its extension lie would not let
Dip il branches into the soil OF the Territories, or
of any Of the Free States. But regarding II
~ part Of the Consiituonas OF tho nstt uIions
oil The oOunt ry-be would let II alone. Ills object
was TO defend the Constitution, and ~ preserve the
Uuion fair aud legitimate object. Ia seeking to
attain /, be war only doing the duty he had sworn
70 perform. IL not biz fault that he bad snch
bad materials 10 work upOn--tnat the dry-rot OF
POLITICAL cOrrurton had eaten into tJo heart OF the
Constitution which he would save. He was placed
In the White House 10 perform certain duties, and
u
Lave been well n he symDath zed with the NegfOes
ii thew lad bad any reason TO re, ard Lin de-
liverer-if be could show them that he had para
disc Tor their recop ion whenever they could escape
from their pOrgatOry, and that they wou md white
men aud white women in the North 10 watch over
them with Is tender interest az the angela feel
for sinners 0f az inferior race But II The Nortern
whites were not angels nor even good Sam nltans,
bu; pIics,s aud Lvyltts, who, seeing their poor
! Ii ok trOihers and sIsteTe OF humanity with The
Ks of the their bleeding backs ua4std
tby on the other side, that not the fault OF The
President. He could easiiy wash Tie LegrOes
whte go eradicate the auupathy which caused
he whites to shrink from contact with the blacks,
us they would from the touch OF a toad.
Pie Mouth, not L. 8 r'lan the South, regards the
neyroes as All inferior race Bat tie o,uth 10 more
consistent than the Norm. " Thorough Is r mot
TO- j. - not afraid ashamed 10 carry out It's
pin i,les. IL shrnks from 40 conse queuces IL
translates anti pathies into principles aud write,
them IA its statute book Jei Davis IL Tie MOhamned
Of the South. IL VOIhDll but enc BOd-Sl"vcfy,
and DAVIS IL lis Prophet. IL has discovered a rev
Gospel, wOrse than Joe Smlth's, aud npon tins ~
POUNDS its theocracyl new order OF Society" The
Gospel OF Slavery 10 very different IRON Ills who
proclaimed liberty 10 tho captive, wno would break
evc-y yoke and let lie oppressed 20 Tree. tie Wee
President Of the SOur ern Con cdertion breaches 10
d manner worthy VI his prophet. There arc two
fOHa VI society, be shys, distinct and incompatible.
One l. based on equality, the other Oh inequality.
One suys all men are born tree aud equal AMI it-
o. iety Is Hat democracy Tho other says all meO
Ire tot torn equsl or Tree, Tor Nature made the
uegTOes inferior, and cOlbigned them To Slavery ar
their proper position. Hence Southern society rests
three pillarstbe reau jishIp Of husband aud fe,
of father aud cd, OF master and slave. The result
Is an arieloehcy-a ordly and cbivairous race,
I'd TO shoot game 10 rue horses, TO whip slaves
10 propagate uegr)es, and 10 travel III EnrODe-DOrn
10 consume the fruis Of the enrth, To houfsh like
the ill., without toIiIng OF spinning upon tie labor
o! tie slaves. For more than eighteen hundred
wears ChfistendOm has beon i8uOrsnt oil thls pro-
found truth snC tue edlce If society has existed al
that tine, aud long beiore, without its msih pillar,
or rather i.a cuief sorner-stone Slavery. The
deputy Ut n. DAVIS proclaims 10 the unbelleying
world .hat tits stone rejected by the rst builders,
has be ono Tie chief cOrler-oLOne. lie justly re-
marks that this is new tliing III the eaih slavery
existed tolerated, was approved aud sanctioned,
but We ore told, truly enough, tLht was never be-
fore "sIopOunded AS a principle aud preached US
Gospol.' ia fact, IL j. new revelation reserved
Tor those L,ttef-day saintsJeh. Davis aud John
S1ratt.
There was time when tbeee monstrous doctrines
would have startled and horrlhed The world. hnd
woald have used Christendoin 10 crusade against
the in iuu- sect that adopted them. Bot they are
now regarded with tho same indifference hh new
invention in machinery. No church thinks oil ex-
communicating tho clergy who presch thein' VINO
tIcat cLildrc. Us chattelo VINO give inc Couihu-
mon ~ fathers who sell their own Offspring 10 bo
worked and gshed Us donkeys are worked ana
dashed in This country. The AS knows his master
crib aud 20 does the negro. Ii the donkey ana tue
negro b1te ruo away from their mister me 4,ua-
raped will Aci only few lashef, or none hI AL WINE
the biped WHY be logged almost u DEATH or possibiy
banged or Du,hed Tie posuoo Of tito human Coat
tel 10 fur the AeSs envsble VI tho two Alter MI,
they cannot whip human nature out OF tbOre poor
anlmals Could thcir souls be- crushed out OF them
by trampling and t6Ature, they would DO simply
bruies. Bot what, above oil things, sxcitss The