The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-20
Address ON tho Irreligious Character OF
the Rebellion.

Address ON tho Irreligious Character OF
the Rebellion.
Cooper Institute we'll filed last evening with
large respectable audience assembled hear Parson
Brownow the character Of the rebellion in religious
point Of view the lecture being given under the auspices
Of the .Young Mems Christian Union"
Professor ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK being called to tho
Chair, made few eloquent Introductory remarks exceed
ngly appropriate TO the OCCASION and then INTRODUCED
Parson Brownow to the audience who, on coming for
ward to address them greeted with hearty rap
turous applause.
Tho PARsoN then spoke as follows
LADIES GESrLEMEy:-Appoaring before you this
evening. sha!l perhaps BIO brefer than usually
on similar occasions II So 1t will be however OF
sity. will, moreover on all ether occasions, make
no effort whatever at display, but Mark Antony
terms it, " round, unvarnshed tale deliver" will
state facts to yoa Of which have personal knowledge.
and in doing try to avoid repetition Of tho speech
delivered at tho Academy OF Music Thursday
ming Az in all my addresses, such they are, while
speak to tho audience before me and Northern audi
at that shall take particular pains make such
remarks founded fact aad in fact alone, as when
repeated-aad find many Of the papers are very
accurate and very correct in their rcpOrts-and
carried way down to yondcr DiXio will make
them know and that utter denunciati ms
agans: them here however bitter and however vindc
tive they may be- that have not for the
twelve months uttered through every number Of the
widely circulated paper have issued in tiat country.
(Applause.) will mako no statement whatever will
utter no denunciatons whatevor that am not willing
to go back into the very town where live and expect
to live and die In aud utter the hearing Of the vlest
sccessonst that God His providence His mysterious
providence, has permitted to live II IS known many
Of you and will now be known 70 you ALL do not make
the announcement by way OF any advertisement-that
am bringing out book OF some five hundred pages,
and which will make its appearance next week illus
their hangings, shootines. whippngs, Prisons cru.
cities and savage barbarltes, aud now having
plotted 1t and ready to send before tho people, they
shall not say down ia Eixie that crossed Mason and
Dixon line to conure up terrible bOOand tell you
II Is tsrrblc dosumcnt-they she not say thatI took
TO my hco.s and ran beyond Mason end Dixons line to
publish -hcso charges and all these violent dcnuncia
tOns them; hut intend God being my helper, to go
back among them iakc thousands Of copies Of chs book
it, road at homo aud trenble in their boots give
fair and honest but scahny version OF their vuny and
end. In presenting brief Outline OF the lrfegon OF
Secession shall not look at II myself through pair of
jaandiced spccticles else should parade before this
largo and intellectual audience huge Minerva sprung
from the brain Of these boastfrl Jup!ters OF
the bogus confedcracy Soutii--a 20. OF men, take
them one and ALL who have, under all circumstances,
from first to last, wherever they have spoken OF any
thing done said North Of Mason aud Dixon's line,
looked at il through magnifying cotton stalk telc-
justice, by way Of denouncng Thorn and exposing their
unmitigated vilanics and revolving corruptons am
prepared and have always been prcpared-thongh pro-
slavery man and advocate in days gone by-to do the
people OF the North Justice despite the peculiar insttu-
ton. We havo mado in the South the institution sa-
and bringing about all this dovil.ry and confa.
sion, and all this abomnabls conduct with
which the country abounds, more particularly
In the South. We have done without any cause. We
oil the South-as have said at home and say here
night, and shall always say, while have ccnsured
few OF the violent agtators at the Nort-arc blame
for this revolution We brought IL about nothing else
would do US; compromise you could offer US would
satisfy u.s. IL was fuss generally that we wanted,
and in Gods name hope they shall have fuss to their
hearts content. (Appauscl Why, when you were all
anxousas was, and as was cvory gentleman and lady
who reads the papers and keeps posted in regard to the
ttinua md fhO
failure OF that Peace Congress In Washington you
rscoloct the despatch that Pryor. OF Virginia homo
and Petersburg, saying that they could get tho
Crittcnden Compromise, but they did not intend to
have II. NO. they did not intend to have any com.
promise. Judge Douglas, you will recolect, over
heard Mason say in the senate Of the United Staes-"No
matter what compromise the North may oer the South
must so contrive.t as to reject any offers they may
tender" Douglas exposed him publicly in the Senate Of
the United States for having said this. Fourteen
Senators in the United States Congress, representing
cotton States acting under oaths solonly admin
istersd upon the Holy Evangelist Of Almighty God and
having sworn they would support the constitution and
confidential advisers Of President Buchanan night after
night holding from eleven until three
o'clock in the morning scsmg and plotting to overturn
tho government sending dispatches home upon
the wires, which had then not been captured
by the federal authority as a military necessity
hcr friends in the several states pass acts
Of secession once plunge their States out Of the Union
and seize upon Fort Moultrc, Fort Morgan and this and
that formen who in short time Afterwards occupied
mtigatei and Infamous villains who ought TO have.
thor tongues cut out by the roots, and they them
hung (Applause) II was announced that | would
appear before you this evening, and that would say
something to you about tho "Irregion OF Secession
tho irrsligon OF this great rebellion In Gods
where shall ! commence where shall begin, and
where and when shall cnds 1t originated in telling
writing and swearing lies, and in stealing. and
the time improving these niquitous offences
and practices they grow older and broader the
religion with NJ the South. We going, churches
the way ducks went in olden time, hel-w laugh
,sr) The churches ateraly throughout the South
broken up and destroyed. The Union will not sit in
the church and hear secessionist preach pray The
seccssonsts will not hear unionst. Union shreker
they call IL, exhort, preach pray and the test OF
qualification OF the gifts Of minister now FOR proac hing
the Gospel down South Can you lie without any con-
scsntious scrnpcss Can you as minister, drink mean
whskey by the quartz Can you boast Of your ability to
fight head army and lead them to victory and
glory in the rebel armys Allow me to say
TO you Of my personal knowledge-mauy OF
you arc Episcopalians, and doubt worthy and
acceptable and pious members Of the churchallow me
TO say TO you, and always uss Names always give
dates, times and places, that there be mis-
tascsif you want TO detect me. In faschood, will
help you to do so-laughter)-one Of your bishops
the Right Reverend Honorable Major Isonidas Pok-who
with his cooked hat. epaulettes on his shoulders and
sword hanging by his side Is strutng about tho swamps
Of corinth, Mississippi, has been for months drinking
mean whskey by the quart and swearing profanely.
Taking the name OF God Ia vain is a common thing with
him. That Is what secession has brought him to. Mo-
thodst preachers throughout inc South are entitled TO
more than the ministers OF any other de-
nomination, for there IL more unanimity among
them. They are all nearly, without exception,
rascas. (Great laughter) They have all pitch.
cd In when, the other day, they held an annual
conference any miles above whore reside in the town
OF Srecnvle, presided by the venerable Bishop
James o. Andrews who split the church in 1884,
and whom electonecred for in the General Conference
in Philadelphia 1882 when he ordained and elect
ed Bishopsoms Of the preachers dsgraced themselves
on that OCCASION render themselves conspicuous and
acceptable 20 the secession family In which they
were boarding, brought upon the carpef being at
homo, nrty miles distant. had been present IL was
about the last thing they would have undertaken Mel
Their Bishop Andrews the parliamentary rules Of the
occasion would have choked me or Had they mounted
me, should have mounted them in return
flaughtcr)-and sswhen Greek meets Greek, then
comes the tug Of war;" you know. They
denounced me by name. and my paper
the infamous and the other Q traitor to the
South and ciamored for hanging me- and such cheering
and cappng OF hands you perhaps heard this
proposal called forthand the bishop enjoyed II we'll
~ anybody else. lie enjoyed It equally well he had
tho hospltali;ies OF my house many occasion.
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