New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-16
The Unitafian Autumnnl Convention.


On Tuesday evening the opening sermon
Of The Twenty-Grst Uni;srisn Autumnal Conyen-
ton wac preached in the Church of tie Savior,
Penepon: street, corner Of Monroe place Brooklyn.
BY the Rev. G.. G. Everett of Bangor, Ne. He TOOK
for bis text the words;
The Son Of Man came eating drinking st Matthew.
H.. 49,
Yesterday morning, the Convention met in the
same place, and organized by electing the Rev. DR..
Farley, President. The opening prayer W as offered
BY the Rev. DIR. Briggs, OF Salem. The Pierideni
made a short speech, after which, according 10
arrangement, the Rev. DIR. Bellows delivered. an
address on the war, II tie cOuIse OF 0hilS he
isid:
We have. ss ministers, little need 10 foster the
practical tendencies Of human thought and ieehug.
IL il sone dm instinc,ye sense vi this which seeps
tbetdoctrnes aud rites Of the Gospel in form uuIe
lated 10 the common language and use OF The world.
This il L. aud not unpatnOtc thought or dfpo.itloo
which has made the la'e TRIBUNAL Convention Of
The Episcopal Church slow 10 use, directly its &C.
eleriastica or religious powerto turn the wheels OF
the State. Strange enough to some eyes, the House
of Is shops has been reader than the House OF the
clergy and lay yield 10 the pressure, AID 10 con-
vert the session into political insiraI'ent. And
hiisfs natural. Men in tho world feel even more
keeny than men out Of and above The world the ia-
portance of maintaining the special aud unworIdy
character OF tie Gospel. Ibey know that reIis IA
Qrows worldly much estcr than the world gIOws
religious and like fathers watching the unenspec,-
ing innocence Of their own daughters, they forbid
ii the gTeaext alarm, xposure which the virgins
themselves 80 fearleSsly would encounter.
The South was not the despIcabie enemy, uor the
divided people, nor the impoverished country, nor
she Bel VI sIsJles aud brsggaris and feeble folk
physically and morally, We were prepared to find
tusm IL was not wardi lions and tigers with comes
and hares. Mr.. Russell and our English vIsitors Lad
much reason than our pIeJudces allowed uh 10
believe III their description VI southern material ana
Southern power. Our President, God bless BIN,
fsi iy represented our honest and Doet enlightened
feeling. when be called out pOs,c comn2tHs OF
seventy five thousand TO put down the Richmond
mob. Oar Secretary Of State who had made Slavery
and the slave power the principal study CT hs lie,
war honestly promising I'D peace IL notes renewable
every ninety days, till the bask Of popular conideuce
rofuse 10 honor them any longer. Our Generals by
public proclamation announced short but sharp wCI
with the enemy. There wac no sense Of whereo
this cloud no bigger than ID man hand would grow.
Who felt that II was hot "a mere question OF ON
quasbiDg NOT but question Of whether the elay q
lower should be crushed, OF We ss a nation lie
crushed by il Yet 10 that complexion has i; come
nj last.
The only amendmtnt would have made on IL,
proclamation would have been in sbolisAIng tie
ikree months grace. The policy Of the utter de.
s,iucton Of Slavery aad the slave power, once
eyOwed the nexl il TO cashier every General who
dsres to question disregard IT. or who Ii known te
be cool on Indifferent 10 II; TO smlssevery Cabinet
every press that hts its gully columns against ~
The Border States, 80 long tendeiiy borne with
should have no further indulgence. Their Loyalty
las proved far better than Was hoped. Pay ihemioi
their slaves, but leave them option about iieeing
them. You make them wholly loyal only wien
you make them utterly free from Slavery.
Then give the unbounded support OF tho people to
the President. He deserves IL. A Conscientious
saRacious, and humane man. anxious 10 do bis duty,
exercised with greater trials than any man IN Tie
nation-a solitary man in his undivided response.
bility, who has earned the confidence and love OF
tie american people and who ought 10 be reg srded
not merely az the four years President Of party,
but as,tho Abraham OF new political dispensaiion.
/ know that bis gentleness has been mistaken ios
ind. cision bis contempt for pomp lack Of official
dignity and his patience and ponderiug prudence
for Inability TO appreciate the crisi'. These mis-.
Judgments are not shared BY those who know him
nearest and beat.
Beneath all the playfulness OWLS mind burns a
solemn earesness OF patriCtiem; AMID lis prudence
ageat courage IN all his genteuess aud compliance
adetermined grasp Of the reiDs, and iinnes ~ not
Inferior 70 Gen. Jack y, though without iis pas-
son andcapriec. hold him TO be wise, true, sl-
Gadous, earnest, aud formidable leader. l wsli he
were seconded by his Cabinet or bis Generals as lie
should be. The country must rally round him aud
$50 mat he i--see 10 IL that lie assmila,os his
servants 10 bimsef, and makes the Government do
ana be what the nation, the people, detre and de.
III were called on 70 ssy what are the weak