Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-21
THANKSGIVING PAY IN NEW


The 29th of November was generally
observed in the city of New York. All
,be churches were open, and sermons
appropriate to the occasion were preach
sd-abstracts of several Of which we
find published in the newspapers. We
have only room to-day for the following
brief sketch of the sermon Of Henry
Ward Beechcr, which we find reported
in the Chicago Republican Of the LIST Of
December:
Henry Ward Beecher's sermon was on
the Origin Of Thanksgiving, and the
Year Of Victory. He declared that we
never had more cause of gratitude than
in the present hour, and added: "Great
Britain is passing through an ordeal
whose issue none may predict. Her
colonies seem destined to national indie
pendence, and that with the consent Of
the parent Island. Volcanic Ireland is
again in eruption. A people of brilliant
qualities are the Irish. They do well
everywhere but at home. They thrive
by mingling with other nations. They
profit all other people except those to
whom they belong. Among themselves
they droop. When they emigrate they
prosper. They bring to other nations
brilliant courage, boundless magma
ton, OVERLOOKING emotions and tough
and hardy industry. They are parasitic
at home; indigenous only by emigration.
Mixed with the colder Saxon blood, they
give the carbonic gas a FIRE, new born
with genius. England don't want them.
America does. Why not exchange an
island for a continent, II monarchy
for q republic, humiliation and op-
preston at home for liberty, respect
and honor in a far better home
which their own kindred helped to sub
due, which their blood has helped to
rescue in war, and where their fervid
genius will IN coming days rebound in
art, in letters, and all civility? The
American people had been educated to
an active adherence of slavery, and to
a fiery love Of real liberty. Men who
once said to us, Why do you protest,
and preach, and lecture, and teach on
the subject of liberty in the North
were now answered. We had kindled a
fire in the North and had made it too
hot in the South. Would this advance
in the national conscience be lost-this
spirit which had but broken external
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industrial avocations, purge the shop
and purge the sex, and work for eman-
cipation everywhere; not alone Of the
slave, the black slave, but for woman,
for the operative, for all. 1t has but
begun. Let those who were afraid OF
losing all we had got not trouble them
selves; they would yet get all that they
wanted. Was ever heard so great a
change, so suddenly made2 When he
considered of what stuff human nature
was made, how slowly prejudice and
educated habits give way, he esteemed
the spectacle of four millions Of slaves
emancipated and lifted into Il sphere OF
law, and TO so considerable an extent
protected and kindly used, as n Of the
miracles Of the age in which we lived.
1t had not its parallel in history. He
did not mean that the decree had not,
but that the degree to which this decree
was carried out by the parties intimate
ly concerned had not its parallel. He
was bound to say that not only had the
conduct of the blacks been beyond all
praise, but with the exception Of a few
districts that had been noted for scores
of years for decentralization, for lax gov
eminent, and lawless population-with
the exception of these few districts, the
conduct of the Southern people toward
the freedmen have been kinder than
could have been expected beforehand,
and was worthy of a far higher appre-
citation, praise, and encouragement than
it had yet received in the North and
he marveled at that goodness Of God
which tempered the change so immedi-
ately to the objects which were most in
need of the kindness.