Year: 1862

From the N. Y. Tribune, Goth.


A very large audience was gathered


in the Cooper Institute last evening, tc


hear Parson Brownlow on the Irrelig


ious Character of the Rebellion. The


lecture was given before the Young


Mems Christian Association. The Rev


DR.. Hitchcock presided.


Parson Brownlow was received Will


repeated rounds of applause. He SAID


that he should be brieler than usual 0


necessity. He would, as on all othel


occasions, make no effort at display, bu


stale facts of which he had a persona


knowledge, try to avoid repetition o


the speech he delivered at the Academy
Of Music on Thursday. For in all his
addresses, while he took care to speak to
the audience before him, he spoke also
so that when reported his friends and en-
emies in Dixie should know and see that
he said nothing against rebellion in the
North, which he would not say, and had
not said, away down in Dixie. He would
say nothing here that he would not say
to the vilest secessionist which God in
his providence, mysterious providence, J
permitted TO live. Laughter and APP.
plause. He intended to go back among
them, and take thousands of copies of his
book, and they should read it, and trem-
BILE in their boots as they read. In pre-
senting view OF their irreligion, he
would not look at it through a pair of
jaundiced speetacles else he should pre-
sent cotton Minerva. sprung from the
brain of the boastful Jupiters of the
South. Whenever they looked at any
thing North they did it with cotton.
stalk telescope. They had made in the
South this institution Of slavery the oc-
casion Of bringing about all this fuss, and
all this deviltry. They had done so at
the South. He said " we Of the South :"
he was prepared TO say they were to
blame for the revolution. A fuss they
wanted and fuss they would have, and
he hoped in Gods name they would have
fuss 10 their hearts content before they
got through. While they were all anx.
iously watching at the sitting and the
failure of the Peace Congress at Wash,
ington, did they not remember dis.
patch Of Pryor, saying We can get the
Crittenden Compromise, but we don't
mean to take any compromise" Judge
Douglas overheard Mason say the same
thing. Fourteen Southern Senator'S, rep.
resenting seven Cotton States took sol.
emn oaths on the Holy Evangely that
that they would support the Constitution
OF the United States. During the day
these men went through the forms of that
support, and at night they plotted to
overthrow the Government. These in
famous Williams ought to have their
tongues cut out by the root, and be hung
on gallows as high as Hannah. This
rebellion-where, in Gods name, should
he begin with lis irreligion ? Laugh
ter II bega1 with purjury and steal
ing They were going down South the
way Wards ducks went in the olden
tlme-hellward. The Unionists would
not hear the secessionists preach or pray,
and the secessionists would not hear
what they called Union -shrieker preach
and pray. The tests for preaching the
Gospel down South were-Can you lie
without any conscientious scruples
Can you drink mean whiskey BY the
quart? Can you boast Of your ability TO
lead men on 10 victory in The Rebel ar
my Many of his audience were no
doabt Episcopaians. One of their Epis
copal bishops. the Right Rev. Hon. Ma
lor Gen. Leonidas Polk, laughter. who
had a cooked hat, and epaulettes on his
side, was about in the swamps in Cor
in'h, drinking mean whiskey by the