New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-11
Pm yns Tribune
AN .AICUMENTgM AID ROMnSEs.

Let every po be ssbsot the Higher Powers Tor here
no but Of God Tic power. Tho, Dc sSs o's.sS q
IN. srdnsnes tAss .s re.i'' 'hsn receive oH''
tAslnssfsss aamBaiiop.'
Whethe- the Apostle meant this for principle
81 universal application, or only ss wise erpedi
.onry under the then overshadowing Roman despOt
Ism, need not now be inquired. The text va,
strongly called 10 mind Cd seading tie renafss il
.TuE TRIBUTE, Q fow dsys Ago, on the Rev. Or
Togc. In this connection, II suggests SONS Gu
nous ideas.
Perhaps there 10 DO place at which Southsri
elergymans ;,ble would be more ant to open o. II
>e'f than at Romans xiii, l. Taken with few KIN
Assd passages 1t was the burden of all his prcach'
4ny TO the slaves. 1t must have been faiaii'sa "
the most ignorant negro on . Southern pan'A'i'h'
Rarely, perhaps, did he beas sermon iroin Ala'''
VII, H. Christ's goldenlss Os love. IL might hsVe
r.ked M a seirit Of casualty. 1t might hnvs
s,nda him think of something reciprocal IN hu'nar
relations II vss beside, oae Of tho deep Things o'
cha serp,ures; L. was not intsrdod for slaves. but
snly fer the careful handling OF profound al
v1nes Ike DIR. Fuller aud DR.. Palmer. ChrS'
seems to have left il for common uss, but It TO
auires q nice balancing of relations before II
can be adapted to any such purpose. Do unto tho
Niger Is you would bave the Nigscr do unto you.
n he vsers the white man and you were the Niger.
Such refined eIesesis was altogether aboye the
hsek iatel!gsnce. Matt vii, II, was "meat for
The strong" but Rem. xiii, wes "milk for the
Ssebl" The latter very easy text, just level 20
the Negro's capacity. This might seem paradox
cal, when We remember how much discussion II has
oceasioned among the learned and the cnticai but,
then, there was something in the Slaves condition
that gave bin peculiar insight here. "SuIJec-
tion'-" power observation-disclosures II he
did-this be coald understand and such expert
mental insight sas o great help to tho Southern
e1pouIder.
tbs no. difIenl. to imagine the sccne--She Rev.
DR. Hogc or Bishop Leonidas Polk addressing con-
eregatou Of slaves with that" voluntary humility
shat sentimental condescension, which formed the
luxury of Southern piety-coDstiiuting basis ioi
Gle lofticr Christian graces-even as 1t became
the cornerstone" OF an aristocfatic democracy
Calhoun built the State upon the Negro; folk goei
teyoDd this, aud maLos him the pedestal OF thu
Church. lis homoly condition was necessaT!
sustainer Of the pieiy above him; his IN
spestab!e degradation made tho beauty 0
sccnsion and the contrast Our dry Northern
conscientiousness can undorgtand little this bu
what touching picture for the high-toncd religion
km-thess devout and lesrned men comm
Down With this truth 10 tho level OF the poo
Africans, while the eager eyee, and the dark, up
turned faees, show how much they prize iAe Scrip
tural and political wisdom 50 adapted to thoT state
To DO sure there must have been sameness IN Il
even 70 the Negroes limited knowledse; but then II
vas about all the gospel they had, and If they
would avoid the rebels hell, and attain to th'
heaven Of the obedient they conld not hear it to<
eften or learn it too well.
"Thcy that resist shall receive 70 themselTe
ANIMATION" The Negro is very susceptible here; hi
imagination is very vivid in respect to tho fatur
doom. The awful dogma, say some of our profsn
kterat, IL on the wane in our more refined society
It is receding before the higher culture. Il
rot preached as IL was In the days Of jeremy Tay
lor and the Wesleys. The rich man in hell, o
Dives lifting up his eyes in torment" and re
Numbering the good things he had in this life" Il
sot fashionable topic in our city pulpits Times
however, like those through which We are nov
passing, show that this old doctrine of future retr
button cannot yet be dispensed with. Fit has, 70
some degree, lost its hold upon the common faith,
1t has been from silent feeling of its gross Disap
plicstions. We hsvo sent Lazarus TO he'll
And Dives to heaven. There has been SC
much Of this that we need not wonder
ct the effect. Still, no abuse will ever drive wholly
out of the world doctrine coevel with human
nature, but which human nature never invented
When 1t becomes again something moro than
eonserva alive terror held oyer the sins of the poo
end tire tempted-whon its horrors are flashed il
che faces Of the respectable worldly who think NOR
Of cotton and gold than Of the life Of nation
when the direst future retribution is preached fo
those whose lives have been spent in plotting trea
con against a benefcent Government, and Il
teavendsring perjuries, enabling them 10 gain posi-
lions where their trcachery couli be most avalabl
when, instead of canonlation, the deepest hel
h regarded as the doom Of all, whether clerical o
civilian, who 60 down TO uades having on thei
ssG!s the blood of this most accused and causeles
RAbellion-then will the fundamental article begli
20 resume its ancient place and power. For theI
there win be seen a fitness in il, and uDversasm
losing its vantage ground, viii rapidly decline.
BE all this as it may; however, and from what
ever causes, the doctrine may have waned else
where it still thought 10 have It's power for th'
Ignorant African. Especially was it presented T.
his dark imagination as connected with this eDor
nous crime 10 which, it was thought, the poo
creature might be especially liable--this damninl
Gn Of resistance TO lawful authority. lie tina