The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-01

Readng Tor CenCenIudl IaypoclAtoS.
The following brief discourse upon a
salient point in Centennial proceedings is so
.forc,bly just and sharply true that we think
it is due to tile Centennial and the public
generally that we should give 1t as promi-
nent position in the Dispatch as we can.
It IS from distinguished and estimable
Nirginian. Ho, all ye hypocrites and We
patriots, read
A HISTORICAL SERMON on MATTHEW XIII :
.~ 90, 80, 81.
"Woe unto you, ScribcS and Pharisecs,
hypocrites because We build the tombs OF
the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres OF
the righteous, and say II we had been in
the DAYS OF our fathers, we would not have
been partakers with them In the blood OF
the prophets Wherefore We be witnesses
unto yourselves, that yc are the children OF
them which killed the prophets
Luke iv: 81. "This day is this Scripture
fulfilled in your ears"
On Thursday the 10th OF October last, ii
this Centennial year, which, it was pro
missed, should be the epoch OF fraternity ant
Justice, the Puritans Of the United State:
conducted great pomp iii the +" CITY o.
/ l1ONG i HIS w dts CuC -
ton. with august ceremonies and pious elo
ouence, of a statue to DIR. John Wither
spoon, a signer Of the Declaration OF indie
Dendence, president of Princeton College
and member of the Confederate Congress
177G.
The CHEF act Signalizea was DR.. Wlthel
! spoons agency in effecting a secession 0
thirteen sIavc-holding States from the Brit
ish Empire, asserting their independence
uniting them in a confederacy, and Wagin!
defensive war, under a Virginian slave
holder, to support it. The grievances b.
which DR.. WitherSpoon justified these act
commemorated by this statue were such q
these.
"He" the executive Of the empir
seeded from) "has erected a multitude 0
, new offices, and sent hithcr swarms OF OIL
, GERS (carpet- baggers y to harass our people
and eat out their substance"
"He has kept among us. lii times OF peace
standing armies, without the consent o
our Legislature"
Gle has affected to render the militar.
independent Of, and superior to, the clVt
power"
; Gle has quartered large bodies Of armed
troops among u.s."
"He has taken away Our charters, abol
ishcd our most valuable laws, and altered
fundamentally, the powers OF our Govern
mcntS."
"He has suspended our own Lcgisla
lures" dc.
"He has excited domestic insurrection:
amongst US" &C., &c. See Declaration O.
Independence.
On this same Thursday, October 10, 1876
the President OF the United States invaded
the State OF South Carolina with standing
armies in time OF peace" with the purpose
OF doing or perpetuating all the wyong;
which DR.. Witherspoon declared to be
grounds OF just secession. This invasion
was made ''without the consent Of theil
Legislature" The carpet-bag officers in
truded into the State, Judges and sheritfs,
did not believe that any disorder existed
calling for Federal force. This President
has been twice the choice OF and is nov
supported by these Puritans. The Synch-
ronism has a perfect, poetic Justice
Application: "Wherefore they" 1.-THE
Puritans) ''be witnesses unto themselves
that they are the children OF them which
killed the prophets"
They garnish Witherspoon's sepulchre
but they inherit the principles Of those who
sought to hang Witherspooa as "rebel."
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites !" CAD. O.