The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-30

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Sermon BY Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr :
European Natienalities. the South, Slavery
and the Future Of America. dkc.
Yesterday morning Rev. Henry Ward Bsecher deliv-
cred interesting and instructive Thanksgiving
before very large congregation at Plymouth church,
Brooklyn tho text-twenty third chapter sixteenth
verse; Of Exodus-"And the feast Of harvest the arst
fruits Of thy lahors which thou hast the nsld
and the feast Of inGaherng which in the end Of the
year. whom thou hast gathered in thy abos Of tho
field" On this text the speaker said substantially
follows
This is the origin or Thanksgiving We SOW and lose
sight Of our grain 1t dies that it may live Through
slow months after termination wheat strives against
storms insects and atmospheric ensmies but when At
length the time appointed arrives with almost visible
haste the harvest rushes into rpeness and enc week
seems TO do more than have six months Human Affairs
like husbandry that have also their sowing and
seeming birth in death They have their organization
and resurrection and growth struggle Then in
some strange year and with unlocked for haste
the event eliminates. and in a twslvemonth
moro is gained than before In . century
apparently. We forget that all the years are
and that through all the intermediate stages Providence
like nature hides Its work. Tho leaven silently por-
yades the mass and has done ITS work before you know
that 10 10 working This has been year OF victory the
world Never perhaps before has there been such
ngatherng and today is the feast Of the ngathering
Of national prosperity have continued Develop and
none have been overruled. Schools, enterprise com.
msrcs and war the great civzsrs q time have been
past workings have 30 much appeared perhaps,
In any single year a. in this Russia 10 world Of itself
yet pass through almost many catastrophes
geologic world did before was lifted for ts present
q men but the tendencies OF the empire seem 70 bs un
towards civilization and freedom that the empire
tends Great Britain y passing through ordeal whose
long TO national independence and that with the
Of the parent land Volcanic Ireland again in
fisg 90 vi. su The %
mngling with other natons They profit all other
peoples except those TO whom they belong. Among
per They bring to other nations brilliant courage,
boundess imagination, overlooking emotions and tough
and hardy n1,v s wa they
Saxon blood they give the carbonic gas and fro the
pulse with genius England don't want them. America
monarchy for q republicf Humiliation and oppression
1t homo for liberty and honor better homo which
their own kindred helped 70 sabdue which their blood
genius will In coming days radiate in our laws and let
terss Meantime the mother Of us all has trouble. in
their sons demand a place and q name
In their own house and among their kindred Can any
doubt that out Of these cloud. which now wrap the go
because more humane. just and trsef Manhood rights
the heresy Of monarchs and the orthodoxy Of the
people, this to be the regeneration OF nations 9TH
erwise going to decay. Nations will grow stronger
they become freer The world must have faith IN man
Faith IN God s mot enough We must have faith in the
sons Of God. Trust man, lay the government on him.
give him education breath true religion into his heart
then lay the government his shoulders and he viii
BY war; Italy, the bcnefactress Of the world, that
seemed TO have gone down 70 the grave by strange
series Of events In which Divine Providence 10 mani
testify TO be traced has boon recalled to life and power
and may yet glow with all the glory Of her ancient re-
Bbwn BY satesmaashp and geneaIship seldom equalcd
and never surpassed In cooperative sndeavors Germany
IN ~ d Euro1. bis s
Of affairs The full political liberty Of united Germany
the bodsst thinker can ors.ei The fsurs Is full Of
hopeful presages The power Of freed Germany will DO
is most here where live % many Of her
ton. Eye6 SSFbJn must At len nh learn somsshins
MEMORABLE necessity will teach her tho secret OF undy
ner Old liberty In the disaster of the empire The iron
crown Of 81 Stephen viii not rule free people, Franco
has NOT cot ia On tho other sns
military despotsm painted with tho colors Ok liberty
Until Capitalization gives place to local and municipal
life, the people will never want for . master. He may
call himself by what name he pleascs-empercr, king
or president--the ruler Of people who don't know
il be considered that European civilization centres
In the oircie which We have glanced upon, 1t
win DO apparent that tho human mind 10 moving in one
direction In times with . steady and uniform pro-
gress All seeming checks and rcvulsons are but mere
winters In this endless circle Of years. followed shortly
o
education Of the whole people, the snranchisement Of
the whole people, and to the absorption Of the whole
lar liberty Is the manifest destiny Of the world free
government rests not Ignorance, but falls unless sup
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the revolution OF the sun ITSELF Cumbcred No
may be- stopped shall mot be- God has set apart this
shown ali that 10 safe In government powerful war
and energetic In the industries Of pssce am NOT Of
;n9'i have wn0 s.n.d mo last ,sa
The South had been utterly ovsrthsown The iurid
fanaficism, - \ was called. Of the Northern
zone, and made Il too hot In the South. Slavery was
abolished and public sentiment had miraculously
sSs q ". United When
sdsrsd how slowly preudcss removed the spectacle
OF -four millions Of black slaves suddenly emancpated
and elevated into the sphere OF law and 10 consider
able extent kindly used BY their former master Is Al
event that has no parallel in history. South Carolina
had gone further In the direction Of justice and liberty,
against her habits and preudicss and all her old record
than Connecticut has with her preudiees Tor liberty
and with her laws and record There viii never b. any
backward steps this progress The arsocrscy OF the
south that rested its command Of labor that pro-
duced staple articles In the markets Of tho world had
been broken up BY the destruction Of that system Of
labor, and the utter bankruptcy. which the war
had created In the South has forced these ten thou
sand shareholders and their sons to labor. and
thereby to commence At the bottom In rebuilding
grandcr basis Of prosperity for ths South Large
farms ana plantations would be broken up and
give place TO small farms and mDrs thrifty and
energetic labor These mon would be forced 70 work
and their minds would thereby become adjusted TO
appreciation OF toiling and their sympathies and
rights, and would be led to look disrentiy on their
former bearing and treatment Of tho colorod slaves
Slavery and oppression Of all kinds void vanish The
duty Of to-day the duty Of educstion ~ more i'm
shar. tha ghould