New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-08
All aOals, Church.
THE REV. IT. W. BgLLOwS's SERMON.


The Rev. Ii. W. Bellows, ID. d., notwith-
standing the uDpropitious weather had large audi
ence whom he addressed from text found in the LIST.
and iih and 9Th of the Iith chapter OF Isaiah
The annual Thanksgiving Day was celebrated later IN me
season this rear than usual he said because no dOunt
the President had view its being Observed not so
much for the bountifn harvest for the triumphant
termination Of the great national conflict the suppress
sion %! Rebellion deemed too vast 10 De su0oued bJ
n Government only known 20 be strong In peace the
overthrow Of system Of Slavery which threatened and
sought 10 overthrow US the return OF what reinains
Of A million aud "a half Of soldiers 10 tbelr
boineS and 10 toe peaceful pursuits OF he snd the
commencement OF what may be called The second sreat
era IN the history Of the American nation IL WERE
source Of honest pride TO become Inc "onoet " We
cyilzed world for uBpar aleied success where Dlugnt
but sure defeat had been predicted. then we coua 30"
taste that satisfaction In sh s completeness Inc
echoes Of our cannon had aroused the drOWss atien
lion and opened eyes that we're hitherto penisently
averted from our importance as naiiol % iohg a.,
we were nervously anXious TO please England ana
France 90 long did they care nothing ABOUT as. put
now all that had been reverted. unt u had become
matter OF Indifference 20 US what the opin.ons-he
would almost say the courseof those nations might
be- Those nations had discovered very sud
denly that we were their best customers,
their nearest ally and the s,ronges, nation
in the world n Europe was never again 10
be this country til the same soioitous De
.ire tor is spprobatory smile 1t would yet be mach
better understood intcigentU CRITICIZED. more
thoroughly appreciated and moro closely connected TO
hy mefre ~ ~ nhu neiorc hllhost
the same unmhssing TO each other that had been ex
parenced between the South and the North had taken
place between America and EnroTh. We had been
pref lousy most thoroughly weaned from their feuoa
customs ard the death of Slavery had broken The last tie
of sympsthy N America with their established caste
The Eoman Catholic Church too. he said. had lost
paver and prestige throu "a the Its friends and
priests a. rule had betrayed, II not dis.
oyal certainly unpatriotc sympathies We oNod
little 20 Irish regiments and COMMANDER, and
nothing 10 pontfcai good. will. Tho decease
OF Archbishop Hughes had deprived that
church OF large share Of its influence In the New
World. and he hoped the elimination OF in poht.cd
rover IN this city and country had been seen: The
ockpg abroad OF Americans since the close OF the war
was instructive, whether II were 10 be attributed TO
the enhanced cost OF living at home, or to long
suppressed desire OF visiting countries where they
were OF late 30 cody though now cordially received
Some hal probably gone enjoy this change OF sent
nent some 10 reestabsh commercial relations. some
display sudden and igotten fortunes wrung out OF the
late msfortunes Of their country Nor was the nunoer
of English people Of sfuence attracted TO our own
country less important fact; Probably larger num-
Der OF Intelligent English. French and Germans had
Travelled through portions Of country since the war
began than during its whole previous history.
Ii was OF even importance Tor Europeans TO visit
and earn to know American than for Americans 10
visit and become acquainted with Europe They would
find that education science and progress oil meant the
inevitable triumph OF democratic institutions Chris
tianty itself Iecesstated. sooner or later political
equality, American democracy and the peaceful tri'
uph Of the American ensign over all other standards
/
rreverent to say Christ that his stripes and scars
change into the stripes and Of that glorious pot
cal ensign and TO- II b. lifted up Will draw oil men
unto me. The flag TINT stood for equal rights FOR Jus
tce and Il human brotherhood. had It's staff hewn out
OF Chriss cross ard In Its folds could be SEEM while
IL foated sacred texts out OF our blessed Sayiors
mouth. IL was that great moral and CHRISTIAN ueasm
that made tho nation willing to give half million OF Us
sons and thousands OF millions of Its treasure 10 hush
the soe note al discord in tho national anthem. and
70 mako It impossible for the c.ank Of chains longer 10
,.r tt.c WIN NH
reemen joined their voices by the hum OF ther VARIOUS
industrial pursuits. in the praise Of Him who has at
length newly chosen people. Referring 10 the many
aspects in which our city the metropolis OF
America presented tho experiment Of democratic gov
TO the people Europe and TO better class oil
the southern people ths speaser hsiS ,.a neser'he
divinity OF equal rights and OF nee Institutions These
things more provo democratic principles TO b.
wrong than did the Increase OF forgery IN England
through the granting Of more extensive educational
privileges 10 the prove II wrong to educate the
people. Universal suffrage. universal education. uni
versal equity. were destined to succeed somewhere
sometime and somehow IL not In this sountry they
would succeed In Europe II not In this century In
the next II not In the manner attempted III thr present
experiment. then IN some other manner. christianity
itself though the salt OF tue earth had boon cor.
rupted in the hands of ITS ministers and disci.
pies. In South America Catholic priests hurried
from tho mass to the cockpit and were often
the most licentous OF men, But despite those ~.
crescenscs Christianity and Liberty were great DIVINE
principles without which coald not have general IN
elgence the highest state Of human existence NO
person hs said lad eyes piercing enough 10 tell what
was behind the Southern oond for the next five years
but our hopes might reasonably predominant over our
fears thai the proposed amendment to the Constf
tuition had obtained the sanction OF nearly the requisite
majority of states. The negroes were showing them
selves have elements of civilization suci ms no III
dian tribe had ever exhibited. The abolition of slavery
was being accepted with far less OF aversion and as
gust by the planters Of the South than any wise man
could have predicted would be the case. who could
have read the address OF Gosornor Orr VI sou.h .ao
lima without foelng the greatest possible encofase
enf A great deal depended now upon the ,niaea s
which the North would exert upon tho minus " W. !,
Southern people, They nbelied principally Tor ear OF
our power 10 Interfering with their slavery p. nv.
we're other causes Their best society had ysteu ,he
North and found In its great representative eilics
thew in tho south djd not snirer and which they
desired to avoid intimate relations with. dney snao
dered at what seemed them our vulgsry our coarse
ness our nparaeled pro1gacy our too papaple want
Of high sense Of honor and Of honesty or .ehaehcy
~ obbery aud corruption In municipal any .'gsausc
matters. All this they were nce 70 ntii :" uni
versal suffrage 10 purltanisin. ana 70 'ne wv"
cratic principles and desired TO cut thcm
nom them, Extending the right u sun