The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-12-11
Rev. DR.. Bellows, Thanksgiving
Sermon.

Among the Incidents of Thanksgiving in
New York was one whose occurrence has
vexed the righteous souls of the radicals
and left them in state of mind bordering
upon the comatose. They don't know
whether to groan, grumble, grow], or act
philosophically over the matter. A cor
respondent relates the incident:
The Rev. DR.. Bellows, whose labors as Pres
ident of the Sanitary Commission have made
his name national property, and whose numer-
GUS speeches in the interest of emancipation,
abolition and radcalism generally have won
him a warm place in the hearts OF long-haired,
sOft-hatted reformers and unhandsome strong
minded women, has taken the occasion to use
his pulpit for the delivery of what these pious
people term 'Copperhead Discourse" In
other words, borrowed from the Waltonian
classics, the great Unitarian divine has
chopped" from the troubled waters of Repub-
licanism into the still ocean of Democracy.
On Thursday, in his sermon, he reversed his
engine completely and took the back track so
rushngly as to run over about nine-tenths of
his whilom supporters and followers. The
wounded lie around loose in remarkable profu-
sion, and their means are beginning to be heard
in every quarter of the town. In simple veri-
=,
and in his discourse asserted many things as his
opinions, which for months he has taken pains
to root out of the minds of his parshiOners as
direSt heresy. For instance, he now doubts
how the war will issue; he fears and hates the
growing influence (not Of old butt of New Eng
land, in shaping the government policy and
giving direction to the popular opinion; he
believes in General Mcclellan and Oracularly
promises that tie nation will yet wear sack
cloth and ashes for its ingratitude to the much
abused military chieftain. Quite quantity of
this sort of anti-radical talk was interspersed
throughout this remarkable Thanksgiving etfu
sion, and as the speaker predicted at the outset
of his remarks, mot more than half a dozen
of his own people managed to find the sermon
accOrdant with their tastes AS yet the matter
has been confined to whisperings and head
shakings but we may expect soon to see it rs
much ventilated publicly as the Reverend Doe
tors Broad Church" theory was in its day.
Well may the Radicals yelp over the detection
from their ranks of such an Anak!
The Euening Post seems to be recu-
liarly displeased about the, detection of
DR.. BELLOWS. 1t charges him with unsay-
ing nearly all that he has been saying for
the last two years on the subject OF our
national politics; and taking ground in
favor of gradual emancipation of the
slaves in those States in which the Presi-
dents proclamation has declared them
free; that he denounced what he called
radical or New England policy, which
would make an Immediate end of slavery
as the best way of putting an end to the
rebellion, and that he declared himself in
favor of the expedient policy of carrying
on the war, approved by Gen. MCCLELLAN,
of whom he spoke as very ill-used man.
The brief sketches of the sermon that APP
peared in the New York papers, do not
seem to bear out all that is said of it.