New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-11-27
Gcd',yifh Us.
A Scranton rY PROF. MATTIsOs.


(rhe Mount Oyet sid Forty second stree; Baptist chu-ehe'
and Prof Madison car IA n ory-.rlt street. he'd
ls services together ~ the cry seeoad bsg'
Toe Lord Of Host /. witt Us; tie God q JasoS
re!uge.-Psslm XVI,
After an appropriate introduction, and brief
exposition Of the text which explained 70 mean tie
Lord Of Hosts is sdc the speaker Observed that
our right to apply this ourselves, OF tie NoTa In
TIE present national conflict seriousy questioned
b. some. The Coufcdelacy claim that God Is via
them or On their side in tie strife and build thereupoa
their hOpcs OF final rinuT Indeed. orc u their own
fYophets namely the IL. Rev. Stephen Elliott Of Sa-
vannah. has q Published is'.d1y sermon oniiueu
Gods presence win the Southern Co1fedeficy T.
which be f4rnistes tie IroOs q this most ni iiCi
The South Las been long and systematically sandeTcq
b. statesmen ard ministers aid editors and poets enc
novelists and families totl IN this country ana 10
Iurope for other Oenso than doing v lat Auialan
and Philemon did; end ct length deep plot lad been
lad twenty years ago, by SggacOGs and upllOls
tatesman (Wm. IL. Seward. We suppose 10 d.sG n.
rhise ana ensaYe tho Southern people. And bow could
God fail TO sympatize win and defend people thus
Ualgned and devoted 70 ruin The further proofs Of
the Divine favor and ai cited D. tbs Southern clergy
man are the great uIaliEi'y With which the >sltl
seeded; the harmony a. hortgomcry whom their Con
stuton adopted; tho production o. t.eir hnare a
cheme upon which onircncy Has % be issued tat
would be always par and the smiling oil our seele
tary Of tie Treasury with Judicial financial blindness
Upon this point lie sGys: " In MS very matter. cur
liOd does seem q have smitten our enemies win Jl
dicial blindness. just when they most needed sound
wisdom they have inaug urated financial system when
must cripple tlcT resources winch clrfeAc! Is
always par and which system is crippled. others
must Judge; but II tie perfection and success Of i
two systcins be the proof Of divine nerpOsion
A. that with Confederate scrip at Elk cents u
the dollar and groenbacks az % cents the argument
Is not with tbs COliederacy OF tier diYinciy
originated system Alex H. Stevens, of their nheft
political economists bss told us IN The Hiolsond Uhfg
u only week ago that DO government on earth
etnnd such system There INST be radical refOrma-
ton We are done for 50 1t seems tie 'iudic al
blindness" fell upon the southern instead 0; to North
ern insDcia Secretary. Finally. TIE nnaccountabe
ferzor that seized Ieet OF ChnreeOn. while Fort
Sumter being sl5ducd. IN April o. preventing the
firing OF single shot aad tho equal terror at The
evacuation Of COspOIt week afterwaTd, cited as
conclusive proofs that theS Hel " the Lord IS chasing
orr armies and will make them Ike the hosts Cf
Pharaoh or Sennacher5 Upon these pGorie arguments
will not dwell. They seem Ike solemn triling. And
yet the question j. grave one The race ~ not % tic
swift the battle 70 the strong and God by
many or by few. II tie Lord 10 no. with US We e!o
wrong and shall fail AID Should 90 over al 10 the
other s!de Every Christian at least should wish 70 De
on the Lords side What evidences, then. have wc
fiat God is with ~ OF On or side IN TIE pending srgg
glet First. God IL never Indifferent or neutral,
but always takes sides every issue. Jc
onors tho right AID BIS holiness aud jurtce
eteriniAe him ever 10 the ride Of right lie is either
Nth the South therefore With tie North IN the pres
ct conflict. IN tho second pLice God knows tai our
anse is lust We did noi begin tbs Thoy opened
pon henatiou ~ Srinter murdered three and wounded
ght Northern ci;zers At Batisorci Sunday, May
I56l openly declared war npO1 the United States.
They and not We took tie sword. Nor have we pro !
, ned tho war Onr Revolutionary fathers Igado their |
Ladictsnent against George ILL., and eyeclod their
.ievaDces in thirty different counts. Where Is
g list Of prOyocations 10 offered by the North
here 10 no such list for wrongs have been Inflicted
on the South by the Free States IL Just ground
ni oense that We disappToye o. aud write and speak
,anst Slavery. IN is our constitutional right 80 10 do
Il We are told that free speech and free press In
Tie Slave States are Ike tTebrands Ia magazine"
4 much the Tor the magazine. 1t h moral
md political right " carry the torch Of truth wherever
Dlr Tag floats Slavery Slavery and ue are tie in
ed parties In that We have long been deprived Of
10 constitutional right throughout tho Slave Staes
c rant IT, and what tbeni Why, we have powder and
Ire In the political bombsbe, and while free.
dom must risk the fire slavery must risk the powder
nd " there DO any elements In our political social
organization that cannot survive the light OF universal
tdncatiOn. with free speech and free press lot IL perish
Inc sooner tie better. But did not John Brown An.
yade Virginia. Certainly. with twenty men. and held
he arsenal at Arpers Perry for thirty hours against
he combined forces Of Maryland and Virginia IN his
,jtadel was stormed by United States Narines Euf
Ohn Brown was not the General Goyernment Neither
gas lis act Of invasion approved by tho North lie was
nrrIed 10 trial with his wosnds yet fresh and bleeding
vizsed and iDsulted by sncb men Mason and Yalan
CHAM and Wise and Lefoher, whose hearts were AT
Nat moment full Of treason and compared with whom
10 was an exchanged and finally eIpiated hls offenss
the majesty Of Virginia law upon the eaog, ,
,urely that ofense. wiped out with blood, furnished
~ ground for war 5pon Va. Lyen the Roy I
ir. kuiot admits In bis very bill 0f g!eY.