Year: 1862

the Cooper Institute last evening, to hear
Parson Brownlow on the Irreligious Char
acter of the Rebellion. The lecture was
given before the Young Mems Christian
Association. The Rev. Dr. Hitchcock
presided.


Parson Brownlow was received with
repeated rounds of applause He said
that he should be briefer than usual OF
necessity. He would, as on all other
occasions, make no effort at display, but
state facts of which he had personal
knowledge, trying to avoid a repetition of
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
that when reported his friends and ene
mics in Dixie should know and see lhat
he said nothing against Rebellion Iii 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, his mysterious providence,
permitted to live. Laughter andapplause.
He intended to go back amongthem, and
take thousands of copies of his book,
and they should read it, and tremble in
their boots as they read In presenting
a view of their irreligion, he would not
look at it through a pair of jaundiced
spectacles, else he should present a Cot
ton Minerva, sprung from the brain of
the boastful Jupiters of the South. When
ever they looked at anything North they
did it with cotton stalk telescope. They
had made in the South this institution of
Slavery the occasion of bringing about
all this fuss, and all this deviltry. They
had done so at the South. He said 60 we
of the South, - he was prepared to say
that they were to blame for the revolu-
ton A fuss they wanted, and fuss
they would have, and he hoped in Gods
name they would have a fuss to their
hearts content before they got through.
While they were all anxiously watching
at the sitting and the iailare of the Peace
Congress at Washington, did .they not
remember a dispatch OF Pryor. saying,
Z" We can get the Crttenden Compromise,
but we don't mean to take any compIo-
mise" Judge Douglass overheard Mason
say the same thing. Fourteen Southern
Senators, representing seven Cotton States,
took solemn oaths on the Holy Evangely
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 over
throw the Government. These infamous
villains ought to have their tongues cut
out by the root, and be hung on a gaiows
as high as Haman. This rebellion-where,
in Gods name, should he begin with Its
irreligion ? Laughter. 1t began with
perjury and stealing. They We're going
down South the way Wards ducks went
in the olden time-helward. The Union
lists would not hear the Secesslonists
preach or pray, and the Secessionists
would not hear what they called Union
shrieker preach and pray. The tests Tor
preaching the Gospel down South were
Can you lie without any conscientious
scruples Z? Can you drink mean WHISKY
by the quart Can you boast OF your
ability to lead men on to victory IN The
Rebel army /? Many OF his audience We're
no doubt Episcopalians. One of their
Episcopal bishops, the Right Rev. Hon.
Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, laughter who
had cooked hat, and epaulettes on his
shoulders, and sword hanging by his
side, was about in the swamps in Corinth,
drinking mean whisky by the quart, and
taking the name of God in vain that is
what the rebellion has brought MIN to.


The Methodist preachers in the South
were entitled to more consideration Than
those Of any other denomination, for there
was more unanimity among them. rhey
were nearly all, without any exception,
rascals. Great laughter and applause.


They had all pitched in, and when, buJ
the other day, they held an annual con
ference, fifty miles above where l reside,


in the town of GreenvilIe, on the railroau,
the venerable Bishop, James y. Andrews,
the man who split the turkey in two
when the General Conference was held in


IA. presided. know all about that,
for eectioneered hard for him in o32.


fhey were holding An annual con erence,
and u faction of preachers, to di>tlnsu's


themselves, to render themselves MOI
acceptable to Secession families ia o.I
they were boarding, brought him upon
the carpet, he at home some fifty miles
distant for if he had been there, it
would have been about the last tning they
would have done. No parliamentary
rules of Bishop Andrews could have