New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-03
TIE NATIONAL FAST.

proper and timely, and We trust it will be gen.
orally needed. Our public trials and dangers
are very grave; our bravest and best are dying
by thousands for the salvation of their country
and dying, it may be, in vain. A mighty and
venomous Rebellion, based on Human Slavery,
, aud having for its avowed object the justifca-
ton, extension, and perpetuation, of the glgah'
ito and barbarous Injustice which degrades the
image of God into merchandise, and SOILS vic
from husband, child from parent, at the beck u
another's ayarics or lust, boldly defes the con-
sttutonal authority Of the Federal Omoh' GOV
ers the land with carnage, agony, ana de'oia,
ton, and, no longer daring to meet the Na'ionai
forces in the open field. covers and dod5es De-
hind formidable earthwOrks and battiements,
whence it hurls death with comparative IN.
punity upon tho heroes who struggle and
die that their country may live. Our
public burdens are fearful our Taxes are
enormous; our Public Debt, already fright
full is steadily augmenting; we are
freshly summoned to send Half Million more
men to the battlefield: Never since the dis
covery Of Arnold's treason have blacker clouds
hung over us: our trust is in God alone. Never
was a solemn National appeal to the Father OF
Mercies more appropriate than now.
The President, we believe, used no word in
Lis official recommendation that could be
twisted into q reflection or an assault on his po-
liticsl opponents: and this was right. 1.-THE
whole people are invited and expected to join in
such a National solemnty, no part OF them
should be assailed OF insulted in the language OF
the call.
Gov. Seymour appears to think otherwise.
Among the subjects which he enumeratcs and re-
quests our people to seek deliverance from are
sectional hstred;" "all hurtful ambition or par
tisan purposes which tend to discord and strife.
He wants prayers offered that " fraternal alice
ton may be restored; and that the clergy
may be imbued with "meekness and charity
No one will doubt, whatever lie may affect, that
these arrows are barbed with partisan malice;
that the Governor means to insinuate that we who
are rot Of lis party are specially aud repre-
hensbly given to sectional hatred" that we are
impclled TO oppose Slavery by "bigotry and
malce;" that ours Are the "hurtful ambition
and partisan purposes which do " tend TO dis
cord and STRIFE" and that ire are the obstacles
to q return OF +" fraternsl affections" and SO
| to harmony and peace; and that lack oi
meekness and charity" among those clergy
men who have counseled and inspired resistance
to the successive exactons and encroachments
of the Slave Power, is one main cause of our
Civil War. Thus Gov. Seymour will be under
stood and applauded in every groggery through
out the State he will be interpreted through.
out JEFF. Dayis's dominion as maintaining the
substantial righteousness Of the Rebellion and
the injustice of the National resistance thereto.
And thus, whie calling for prayers THAT
Almighty God will put down all rebelliOus re-
sistance to righyd authority" he will be under
stood in Dixie as holding the authority of JEFF.
Davis & Co. "rightful," and condcmning re-
sistance thereto as iniqutous. So, while
affecting to pray that the Rebellion may be
overthrow, he is giving it powerful and palpa-
bic support.
The Governor urges prayer for "our people,
THAI they may be rendered "saie in their per-
sons and homes from all violence and op.
preston, "and to gire the protection Of lao 10
Ill conditions cfmen."
No man knows better than Gov. Seymour
that Four Millions Of "our People" have never
been safe in their persons and homes from all
violence and oppression;' that they never EN-.
joyed "the protection Of law" but were Liable
to be beaten, tortured, manned, rayished, sold,
at the caprice Of Others, whom claw" pro.
nOunccd their absolute owners and masters,
forbidding them to resist any abuse or outrage
inflicted by those masters on penalty of death.
Of this Internal, God-defying system Of whole.
sale wrong and wickedneSS there has been,
there is, no more crafty, INSCRIPTIONS, efficient,
acknowledging upholdcr than this same Horatic
Seymour, who nevertheless talks as above
Why does he not ask for prayer that "rulerS'
may be blessed with honesty as well as "wis.
dom1"
| The prophet Isaiah, having in view some fast
prescribed By the Seymour of his day, indig'
nantly eScamed-(lviii. 6) after a stern dc.
nunciation Of merely ceremonial fasts--
"Isot his the fast that have chosen to loose the
bands Of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and
let tie oppressed go free, aud that 20 break every
yoket"
Gov. seymour-intent on fastening and tight,
ening yokes already half broken-hints at no
such fast as this.
loyor Cupfhar of onuruo sav, ditto IN NJ