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r. GhtvjTfto-llotlt SatarAfrtv dMimrn ififil. 1 are preseit involved. Going then, at mmmm vm mm vw ml lav DOW ItttU BOSt ISt there are false very pnTkkMuloUi erigia wl and consequently as to the reaiejy for social cvLa. ftoaial svtls et uppoa td result fro defecrir teg blalion, cr from a aaal aa harmonious the relations of society.

Very seldom coet the Hop te reflect that they nil isv their origin sn em, and to toe depravity of tuo aumaa heart And a necessary consequence, be mine toe true renv afy, mate Ik is to be toiad aaiy in that wrack, sate man from tin, and purifies toe heart. 1 do not mean, of course, that law may not a dfctve, and Out great good way mm be ae by their ataendjoent I do aot propose Itfcnt atuesmea akoald', become preacher the gospel la order to remedy social evil. 1 be tru sll1 of uta sta'ts-anan I to km the ost tyrtem of lwe he can ia the listing stile oj tidfence and virtue among tie VHcle. But a 1 do aay it, that Ue reason wcy bare tocial est at aJl it oceans tae heart of maa a tepraved, and Ue reaaoa wby wa onX bare lea of tLinli because, instead of reoog blziu- tola fact we ttly toe touch upon what are caited tocial re-(orsta. and too tittle upon tee renovating power of tbe ot pl.

Tbe idea of aciU reform it a ry pular oae at 11 present day, aad there bo eud to tbe scheme for this purpose wtikb aie suggested. Son proceed opoatLe Ilea of tbe innate leciitude of busman nature, and that we base oaly to alio it free dcvelopswent. aad th retail will be a perfect ttate of society. 1 be aame of Deny ia invoked to litak off tbe thacales ef rostra at, aad leave aaaa la every respect perfectly untreataaaled aad free. Our feeliar aad tympanies are at bm ilkely to be atixica by etub principles aa these.

We hv aa III ate love ef freedom which gives plana itoUlty to such reasonings, aaul we Add by bitter ex-perieaee tbat tbey proceed apoa a ftUe idea ef tbe nrcUtude of tbe priaclpioa of oar ature, and taat loo ol Bias, wbeo euoM free, least io be trueted. Ilea taJb aomettotes without qualification of the oiil-verral reign of feedoa, ana kn cape all inetita fteaeaoa io tutaerre tbat'ieaiU But freedom to do wrong and to injure society ia not de alrable, and yet ihta is tbe nse bicb rat a ambers wooid make of tbe abeence of reUalnt. The probleae mi tae wite statewiaan is not to remove restraints, but so and out jest that amount of fioedosa from restraint wiia bleu tbe eimrnanHy may tm uutcd. For free-doiole not, in l'slf, witaout a thing oltber sate or deahable. It is aie uid desirable jut aa it la adapted ia its degree to the intelligence and virtue of the people.

And tee tbe uoxb of I ay, a ken I ask you wba. would become of dometdc Uet and the inter est of property if aucb Ideal were fully oarried out and all toe restraints on tbete points re-noved to-day It it net true, then, that freedom ia eafe fo aa only to far as we know what Is right and have the dispoaiUon to practice it? Aad what I ask Jea attntiviy to conelaer is thin, that tbe Gospei of sua ChiiU fuiaUnea tae 0BI7 method by which, through tbe sanctincation of tbe heart, we can attain to a full knewielee ol our duty ami a practical desire to perform It. may dismUa at once ailtchemea ol aortal reform as lalse and delusire which are not bated either directly or by linpiieaiioa upon the great funoaniental facta of tbe depravity ot man and his redemption through Christ Would that we night all feel more deeply thena-peakable importance of the Gospel of Cnrtat as tae great engine of "reform and progress in our it it upon this point tbat God, we may be tare, would have us eonceatrate our efforts. Leaven tbe com in j-aittet throughout tbe country with tne life of the Gn-pel. aad we need hare no fear but tnat talutary re-fomi will speedily to made.

Raie the tone of Curlst-tsn ehsracter, ana you mty be sure that tbe votes of snea will be right, and taer various duties at citizens be Ullhluily and iaely discharged. VVrJb a deeper tense of Christian obligation will come a higher stand ard of tbe duties whfrb dero.ve upon us as citizens l.sritlans will feel that in a Government like -ears tbry cannot be absolved from the most serious rrspnlDilitif and obligation, it it because religion hat bera too muck di forced from eoclil reform, thus Vatlng ltupoa a merely human bsis, thai we have Mfl'eieU so much from the irmptioo and Gorernmect. One or the first duties of a Christian is to bit country, and if he fails to discharge tbat by bit act and bis Influence ai a citizen, he need not wonder If scheme of reform which bare bo religious baklt become tbe ordgrof the day, and work themselves ot to their results. A practical, laree-bearted Chrlirtian TmUiotiam is emobvloairy what it needed now, ia the aeUlement of ealaUnar di-Aruitles. But social reforms must not only rest upon a Christian bails, but taey in jet be pro-ecuted ia a Christian spirtf.

Reforms, It It trve, are brought about at tbe point of the cay net and by the keen edge of tbe eword. Tll It sooiet'taet unaroidabie, but I believe that in most casei tbe most powerful tntrumeat la anrter of principle, uxl el with me-sanaas and a spirit of love. lam compelled to admit for I must be Just and, true to aU concerned that suck a spirit has been conspicuously deficient la our method of treating tbe questions of the day, and particularly that re at question upon -which we are at a nation divided, do not apeak of this as a justification of the course pursued by a por.tcn of the South. It furnishes no sack justification, I only speak of it to draw attention to tbe fact that even a great principle will, as a general thing, be unsuceeoluily maintained, if It it maintained ia aa unckrtetiaa eniiit. Let me not be aadertiood at lying, however, tlat tbe principle of koiiilty to Slavery has betn-miintaLne 1 universally tbe North la an unchristian spirit.

Toe exceptions are most numerous of Those who are conscientiously opposed to Slavery, and desire that It should eate whenever and wherever it can safely bo brought to an end, wbo nevertheless gratefully recognize the Chris iaa character of the South an 1, while aimly holding and exprebaiug thef own views as occasion may require, do it witn mt olrtcrrg, and in a spirit of humility and love. Bat tr.e most prominent aspect of tbe eoutroversy has been thai of btuerress and hatred, and lis fruits are such at might reasonably be expected. Ia con'luertng thi portion of my subject it mav be well, perhaps, 10 ssy ia retereuee to the poaluon of the pulpit In retard to questions of social reform. I icntiider no subject whtea relates to the atoial welfaie of man as inapproprixte in the pulpit, and the prescherof the Gospel cannot oe iodiderent to the progress of great measures of reform. Tbe osly question it, horn- h- may best promote the object which be has in new.

Moral surjets fall under two heads tlwse which relate to absolute truth, and those which relate to matters of opinion, lu dealing with the art, the preacher speaks with authority. Ia dealing with tbe econd, be commands only the attention aao respect which and power may excite. He attracts pretett interest but loses in permanent influence. btn we reflect, tnererore, tbat by I ing absolute truth be is all the time enlightening con-! science and raltiog the tone of Cbrlstiaa character, ana thus preparing men to act more witely and justly asciiizeus, it must appear desirable, jr tne very ir-pnae of promoting great reforms, that he should confine kimelf to tbe proclamation of what it revealed ia God's word aa true and then, when in some crisis like tbe pietent the influence of the pololt la nee led to be brcvgbt to bear directly upon tbe lsuet at suae, he ran sr eak witn something ot authority, as one dis. aneiatea fiosn'tne lnteretta of party, aad trie dlrtarb-tng luflueuce ol psrUsan strife, and claim taat be aptaks only in tbe interest of and truA.

God v. ill I ally establish on earth a kingdom in which juttlce and holiness abail prevail, ana tnere are Indications that this nation, if she la true to herself, may be permitted to aid powerfully in aceampUahittg this result. But there is no surb uiiog, we may oe sure, In tnls retpect, as manifest and lreal.ible destiny. God wUl make use of us only as we subserve his purpoees. lie can delay the fulfillment of deigis a kick, but for our wickedness, ho might speedily have petlormed.

There Han old Greek proverb, mil of irth Tbe mills of the gods grim sla wiy and 8u Augustine beautifully expresses a similar idea wben he tats: Cod patient, becaute oe is eternal." Gd is ready to give ut a glorious deetiny in carrying out a aobie yitesn of Christian progress and reform, but if we ttile to acrompiisi It br methods of our own, and in ways of our owa devising, Ue will take It from ua aad leave ua to reap tbe inevitable effects mi our folly and guilt. Yea, UKicra He tenderly loved aad gul'ed oar fathers and blewed the work of lis vtili brnUe ui alui a rod of Iron, he will slath ua la pieces like a potter's vessel." We have that considered certain moral hindrances to the fulfillment of our destiny aa a na'ion, aad bare at an how they have contributed to involve us in thediffi-cables and 0 angers by which we are now beset. It is too lte to ebaage aay thing, 00 either side, which has been done lathe past. We may summon ourselves to tbe performance of duties in the future. It is that we maybelto do God will, as a nation, hereafter, that aelanr been called together to-day.

Wa come to confess cur stas, to wonder at our Ingratitude ben weiemaibertbe unexampled blensngs whle God has tenAtied apoa ua, aad to implore him to avert the judgments wbieh teem about to burst over our heads. 1 ait it a time wben wtll be well for as seriously to exantae our hearts, aad find out woe the the notices by a kick we are Influenced, In thU repect, are such pwoie; to ux, uia ait pose iitm 13 usten ravoraMy to our auppiisaUoaa, ny Is it that, we t.h tkis Valos to be preserved Is it that our national pride may bo gratified la It beeaoaa for-aiabesua with coaveniences or amaaainx wea'tht It It because we fear that, ia the EUrMcane aad earth-eaake ol civil war, our pesae-aioas wlii be WTecked aave ao ntgoer motives than taese ot if these art atoct nromlnrat In our herta, our prayer, this day. hat prevailed little with God. He wishes 10 tee a filled wnh solicitude for the Interem of truth and lest wickedness should mightily nteveliv-aad tuiving wlia the wtoia energy of our "'a nr in puk up iar-st a amgaom 01 peace aae ilcawoatneet In this ruined world. It ia la that tlrit alaae that we on acceptably pray that our be-teved I'Dtoa may be preserreo.

i li took is ear rplrlt. it wU tot be difficult for at to which we, at Chrlatuuit, should be Uiu to take la the settlement of these dirheultiea. or ibis la ao subject wrtk which we bare nothing to Avery citltea should endeavor to have aa en-aligbteaed view aad thus kelpto saaae ap that pabiic onialoa by akich whose qaaaUoa null h-hej be cectded. 1 disposition to think 'rly and decido boucd to endeavor, as far at pouible vnu er Northern p-rvoasewlcnv, uu-ei iMaad aad aporeeUta the vtaw which, ia tae Ruth. uir guch aa eadeavor would fcao perkaps kindly aad ckeritatfe reeliae ta ouraartaadaltfafavoraaie soluUoa ef the 1 11" ckaaga tbe around taken tkJ ftY ta towaroa Me ftoutb, I aay the- cxtgeaey teaMaua-I mean utter mt todependeatl, of aay r'iXn" caa iu xms we are aocnatoa-aiM.

aa. OtVr coaoessiua. if they are to be taadeT r-" asaca, aoranae taey a-e die aa a rirttl Mt ar to gfasted at a favor. Tte Scutk hie rt UluJtoal ofXitrana! ft to alrad end f-aaraaJ traataeat. She tat no ethel Tm snoOd be aaUtted to ak i i41', aay taHice of prlnia aTta vpeeb aad a freo Pre, aad tbe! slaaTt Fiid acyeccl eonet- thf tJ 1 wqelred.

No prW eaUttary ti.v,rV"i '-ww dog wtat it aad frtt bar tt'iatt ktl ttefa. The South skeuld iwbe iMlfW to akknowledn thai la the heat ofpaaslon the had acted ladiscrecuj, aad ae return gladly to duty and aUegtaace. Tbete ia oae favorable feature ia this case, Which lacUiUict the settlement of thta diOcalty, and that is, that the quefticcs to be settled relate to tbe te be pat apoa oar constitutional obli tattoos. Tbit tr.ay relieve the care very muck la toe view ef tbat large claas ef persona at the Nona embracing, at It cee, many men of the big beat late) ltgenee aad ptety, wfco rig ard Slavery in aad. of It1 elf at a sin.

The 7eriB free of all reepoaaibilltr ia reference to. KUvetr wherever It is per milled by the Conatituuoa and when that It or.ee settled, the South has ao reason to complain, aad the conscience of the North re msiat andiaturbed. Bat one tbtrg should te anderstood by' tbore who wish to involve tbe entire 8ouh tn the attitude of refttliioo, aid tbat it tbat it will not do to retume too far upon tb peaceful temper, aad for-bearaace of the other por tiona of the Republic. We abouid pray thia day that we may be ready to do everything that God wouid approve, to avert tbe tniieiies of civil aar. But there it a point be you 1 which Gcd, we reverently bell ve, would not let ua go.

The cause of peace Itself will net permit ua to content to forcible dlrruption of thia Union. We lei all our power aad Influence for good when we permit that. There it a clear understanding hereof the unspeakable horrors of civil war. We dread it and shrink from it more than it Is poetible to express, he act which can In honor and juitice be done' to preveat it. tba'l be kft undone.

But we know no frar, and If the Utue is forced upon ua. by an Imperative duty which we cannot reatat, we shad meet it la bitter fan for our distracted country, but with a calm and solemn sternness, at of those who nnheata the a rd fur the defence of their firesides and for the caure cf God. Bat, oh ao it cannot, cannot be. It It too unnaiu-ral to be etuten plated for a moment. Are we not one 1 eople, inhabiting or vaet and glorious territory, the most ntaanificent heritage of any nation on earth Does not Nature bertelf ia a thoasand tones counsel us to peace? Do not tbe tweet birds wing their way each year from North to Sotth, and from South to North, and warble In tbe quiet morning their peaceful notes Do not our majestic rivers kias peacefully each alster State as tfiey flow gen'ly bf on their calm progress to tbe sea D.i not the eauie vaet ranges of mountains stand as giant guardian, aad bow tbeir hoary heads la benedictions I peace over tbe whole land Doet not the old ocean himself, which tiace creation's morning has cashed upon these shores, and who brought here upon Lis besom the old colonies of Plymouth and Jamestown, now moan and sigh and shed bis briny tears upon the rocks of every State frtiiu Florida to Maine Does not the far distant surge of tbe Pacific come booming over toe mountain and deiett, and calm our angry and impas-atoned hearts Are we not r-till brethren Does not one great Christ! aa heart stall throb throughout the landt And shad we aow, ia the very season eahen we commemorate the coming of the Prince of peace, at nose advent the conflicts of the world were hushed to rei-t ehall we take up the brother against bre'her, and bathe the liad which our fathers conse-c filed to Christ with blood which will, like that of Abel, cry terribly for vengeance from tbe ground It caanot, thai net come, unlesa God kas alreaay cast tit off and will not hear our prayer; for we will lit up our supplications to Him we will confess our sins-we will beg to be delivered from pride aad prejiWice, and and to have our patriotism sanctified by the pure spirit of religion and thus earnestly desiring that peace and righteousness may here the blestrd Vinmtnm nf rut mill k.i.w.

revall, the blessed kingdom of God will not tnkon from ua, but will be our heritage and the heritage of our children, and of our children's children, to the latent generation. BET. DR. CANFIELDS DISCO CUBE. CORRUPTION IN HIGH Rev.

Dr. Canfiild preached a dlacourae In hie Church in Brooklyn, from he following text 1 The nation and the kingdom tbat will not terve tbe shall perish yea, those cations shall be uUtfilj wasted." Isaiah it. How strikingly it this soU mn declaration verified by the history of the past Tbe fulfillment of the prediction will be equally true in all coming time. Reason alone forbids the belief tbat tbe declaration of the text can ever be falsified. Our nature and the circumstances in which that nature it developed and exercisedimake it lmpoeaible that It should be other wine; Nntlott are but the aggregate of the individuals who compose them.

What God requires of one in hit Individual capacity he demand of the whole in their associated character. He requires each accountable being to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before God, to look for honor ia honoring bim, and for prosperity in seeking hit blessing. He makes the tame requisitions of nations, and la ease of disobedience It sure to visit with punishment. 1'he law which governs nations Is as inevitable at the law of gravity. This is written In the plainest language all over the history of the world.

At nations have no existence aa such In another world their retributione must be meted out and suffered in this. Tbe wisdom, the justice and the perfection of Goi's government are strikingly illustrated In the fact that the great fundamental laws of our humanity and of our tocial being execute their own penalty when violated, vindicate themselves as certainly at any law of the physical universe. Their constant, because their natural tendency, is to punish wrong and reward the right Up to a certain point ax may appear to escape, in some instances, the results of our wronr-doing, but the appearance It always a delusion. 8 In against Gm1 or man it always the teed of sorrow. The harvest may, in a measure, be gathered at the very time of sowing, or an interval may be allowed, to enable it to mature its result, and present them at once, with awfully accumulated force, aad In the most crushing and destructive form.

As la the individual human system, so in the great body politic, vices cut Its sinews Injustice and impiety dig to grave, Under the just and inevitable operation rf these great laws of our nature and of God. we liad ourselves ttMlay involved in commercial disorder ai treasonable guilt, excited aad Inflamed by plans and ncovenkentl for civil revolt, threatened with fratricidal war, and In one portion of the country pank-atruck and appalled by fears of a servile insurrection, whose horrors no Imagination could conceive. W4. look upon all this to-day and see in It all the fulfillment of God's word and truth The cation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall peri3h yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted." We have been considering the history and the let-aunt of (he Roman tate let us turn for one moment to our own nation, and see how these lessons may be applied here. At a nation we have all the materia: elements of greatness and wealth.

We have a domain which extends across the Continent from ocean to ocean, and emcraces all of Its territory that It of great value as a source of national power or wealth. Its bound less prairies, aad vast valleys and hill -aides, are fat with the undisturbed deposits of aget, en-aoitng ut to feed the work). Its mountains and many of ita plaint are stuffed with coal, Iron, and every variety of mineral substance. Thirty thouaand miles of railroads bind it together at with bands of iron, 00 which are constantly seen cart freighted with life and wealth, flying over our prairies, hooting across oar rivers, panting ap the sidet and piercing through the hearts of tbe mountains and a hundred river, laden with commerce, whitened with sail, or bearing Teasels propelled like living beings ny a power within taemselvea, aa it were, fold and clasp all In their long and shining arms. Universal health bletset the more than the thirty millions of people who enjoy these material advantage.

Tbe labors of the huabandman are crowaed with saeh aa abundance of the fruits of the earth that we have not the kbs in which te bestow It nor tbe means of conveying its excess to other landt In want The world all around ut are oar debtors. The opprestod In other lands are turning to us with instinctive longings, and tbe oppressors are regarding our example and our prosperity with tm tine tive dread. We have no thousand years of history, trailing their glories and their glooms, presenting their associations, their prejudices, aad tbelr forms of thought aad feeling, to throw such strong lights and shadows apoa truth, and practical questions at to bewilder aad deceive us. We are placed la aa elevated poaitlon, aa it were, between the old world, to profit by their example, and reflect back upon both a highly advanced Christian civilisation. A common necessi ty ac aueguac to the Word of God, which deciarea that be hiia made of oae blood all the natione that dwell on the face of the earth hat made ut allfacualt.

We are homogeneout ia ancestry, ia language, literature, la moral and Intellectual training, aad in ele-meats of personal character. We are Interfaced by ties of kindred and a community of lnteretta, at every point. We are a Christian people, aatong tbjb fore most In art, education, cMllsatioe aad commerce. We are proud of our Government and eoneciouv of the grr atneea ef the bletaiaga which a a ilea heritage have beea transmitted to at from our fathers, There never was a nation of such power and promise earn eate 4 by so many bonds. Thare never was a nation te likely io arbleve a glorious and a prolonged aistoy to buataa judgment ao likely to anarch majestically and triumphantly forward to its high and commanding destiny, la a rpirit of affectionate ani fraternal cot-cord.

But what in the' place of all this is, at thai? moment presented to the view? I have no heart to dwell upon the humiliating aad disgraceful nor to look foiward to the desolating and fiery tides of woe and 'misery and death which seem al-atnet ready to be poured through all the channels and currents of public, tocial aad domestic intercourse; I ao not desire to inflame to any extent the public mind, i would much prefer to aid la calming It, but lam forced, commanded by a Tolceto which would aot be heedless, to call year special atteo tion to tbee circuntstanret to-day, and to ask what ef all this Is tie cause -A geaeral ana war would, be human Innimity. and sin. If I am asked whose tin my answer ta, (a various degree the tint of ad classes aad sections sin 1 of our ancestors as well at ef their children. Car material prosperity ha become ear aare. W'e have grown rich and powerful with) anez amp led strides, and at the same tine we have grown boastful proud, itaolest, selfish, and pmr'icaJry atoeis-tic.

I mig htpresent aa arpailrag catalogue of rices tHat stalk tablusklagly three a the htad, uaretraiad try law aad aiaaoet anno tic 4 by public opinio a. Many of oar legiUailte bodies. State and Municipal, hare nag bywerds cf Tonality aad eorrcptioa. Am apt ia pied bat powerful Prose devotes itself ta the ehetUbiaa- ef parry and eecttoaal aaixaasldea, fe terlag prejudge aad JaeiLng Its readers seven day ef he wa onjpervcVKeaaexairtexationa aad falsehood The faeneraX Uevenswat tariakea of sxd (rtirfi tae ceKkgiea, JajiuU, rut cf prr aad concuer i 'J it -t JlfJf7 Tf fctted in marauding eipe-diiione late feeb.e titter States ia Central America. raraguay, ana into Cuba.

abettot ViMtl G.TrfttIlt' Pro-deed by the Goveri-mtnt rUeif, ask tbe late unholy war with VI ex too. yorrupuca in all quarters grows apa-e. Party ta-trlgnaa aad party rancor encourage aad use it, aad are in turn aggravated by it. The public mind aad dtbaucbed. Tbe meet uavrupclou political jugglers, notorious rafSans, deUoerato mar-deiert, men who by ceatmon consent ar banl'hed from all deceat aad vtrtuous society, are exalted to tbe highest poets of honor and repoaaijuiltty.

The Lttb, the great object of attraction. atiiltitodes live by plundering it under aojte of the JJLui 'hoery. There ia surely enough In this imperfect and feeble picUre of eur national cuiit te Wake ut tb Jdder, (ta view of the prediction of the lexL) but this is alt Thete ee-tneritaof demoralizatWn aad dev.h are h-frGtened by drrumstances which never theuii have been associated with out aational politics. Tbe system of African Slavery, fastened trio the country durinr its Colonial existence, wt at firt limited in extent and unprofitable at the irxo, aad 00a after the Revolution was confined to the other section of tbe Union. When tbe Constitution wat adopted, was, ia all sections, geacrally depreeited at aa evil, but one ao complex ia iu character aad re latum, that any immediate practical remedy for it was felt to be beyond tbe reach of human wisdom to coW only adoptaame men vures which looktd to its final removal, undr the Providence of God, asd leave tbe ode of hs accomplUhment to the future.

Contrary to this expectation it ha Louisiana, MUrourl, florida, Arkansas and Texas have been added to its ccmain. It has proved fr the present respect to some material in teres-a, profitable. Manufactories and commerce at tbe North, the wave trade in some of the Middle, and planting in the Southern and Gulf States, have thrived under it Tne tame Government has fostered two social systems one characterized by contempt the other by respect for labor two civilizations, anted upon not only diverse but antagonistic principles. The predominant sentiment of one section is that tbe peculiar latitu tion, waich underlies the social system of the other, and which they latterly claim to be Divine, beneficent and tbe only perfect social condition, is apolitical evil, asocial and, in tbe long run, will prove to be an economical blunder, that a system which Brakes it a felony to teach a fellow man to real, denies to him the right of property, ignores the relation of boaband and wife, parent aad child, asd the aad right! grow ing out of these relations, Is founded in Injustice, and works mischief to the oppressor as well as to the oppressed. A system which abstracts from hum beings, all tbe attributes of humanity that can be reached and affected by human legislation, tbey still regard as an evil extension, where they are responsible for it, ttiey are bound to resist They claim no rtgbt, taey have ao purpose or derive to interfere with it where it it already eetablii-hed by law.

If the question were this day at their disposal, the overwhelming public stntimeLt of tbe North would forbid any interference with it Tbey are happy to be rid of it they are desirous of leaving it unmolested where it is and they only ark not to be made responsible for its extension it aationalixaUon. It wat impossible that the demagogues and unprincipled political adventurers who twarm all over the land North as well as South should fail to tee ia this question an element of imsreDse political power. The Constlrutian had wifely banished it from national politics. Tee South were anoply protected in their rights, and tlie North had no control over it The dutv and the interest of to leave it where it belonged, and was best nnoerttoos. But this would sacrifice tae verv capital on which politicians in both sections trade.

No other isue of such magnitude could be raised. None could so readily or so thoroughly inflame and agitate the public mind, and for more than thirty years, by one adroit manoeuvre after another, this bat been tie quei-tkm that in tome form has furnished the hobbies on hieh men have ridden into place and offiie. All our filibustering, as It It called, whether on paper aad on a Urge scale as at Ostend, or our inglorious l.ira-eiots actually undertaken, our Mexican war, oar a quisitlon of Territories by conquest or purchase, lor more than thirty ears have grown out of tbe cease-led agitation of thia question. The Issues hare been presented Lu raiious forms to perpetuate party power, or receive party How many timet within the memory of many who hear me have we bten told that at ln; the question it dead and burled but ia every instance, in the midst of ear ooncTatuiaUons, the hateful form ia again thrust before our eyes In s-me new shape by aome new aspirant to be wrangled over and settled anew, until at last, in the midst ot geaerl political degeneracy, amotion and corruption, a small fctate, whose entire white population It abaut equal to tbat of our city, threatens to plunge the while country into tbe honors of civil revolution because an Immense majority holds opinion unlike thelrt in regard to this question, and have elected to the Presidency a man that represents their views the views of the Fatbert of the Republic both North and Soutn. On an apprehension of what moy happen, bated on a total misapprehension of what anyone who will ever be In power will desire to do, the masses follow their ambitious and disappointed leaders.

Misrepresentations, ryatcavaticaliy made through all the organs of detraction and abuse, bare dooe their work, section it arrayed against section. Blind passion take; tbe place of reason. Alienation, estrangement, enmity, are the result in a million cases, where, If views could be calmly compared and hearts fully understood, all would be mutual iove and helping. Sin In various forms hat been spreading and growing over the jnation like a fungus, loosening all its Jolats, and, as it were, preparing it to fail in pieces. The Government itself seems to be tbe abettor and tbe victim of treason and And to-day we stand on the verge, not only of dismemberment and dissolution, but confront-ibg ail tbejborrors of a civii ar.

Nothing bat an Omnipotent arm stretched out with great power to order the unruly Ui and passions of sinful men ean avert It. An excited multitude are beyond the control ef reason. Ambition, Interest, revenge, disappointment, route up the ever-watchful passions within us. The tru ret sounds to arms, and its notes thrill through all the kindling frame, the surpassing pomp of martial array glitters before us to dazz the senses and madden ihe soul the rapture of the strife burns la our bofom the false and emulous jlove of a glory wr.lc!i should be our shame, hurries us forward into trie field, where death gathers bis great harvest and navoe lords it over the smoke and" clash of battle. Like tae race bone without bridle or lider, with streaming ribboas on his head and bells with lagged points over bis back, who might stand still, but, tne bugles souart, tbe thiong shouts, be mores, the bets jingle in bis ear, the points prick his fleso, and be dashes forward in the race for life or death, saif-spurred and self-impelled, so we In ail the wars that have convulsed the world are the self immolated victims of oar own headlons oasslons and unreason- I ing animal instincts.

In tbe mioet 01 thii wiid excite ment ana proniaey notion 01 popular right sprung up and spread, which are false and dangerous. The prtple have a right to do as tber please, and whatever they please to do is right It seems ta be forgo--ten that political rigku imply political obligation. It is God's law and the necessity of man's nature that nan should exist ta society. This Involves a State-that is, a community in which justice and social order are maintained. Government is the powers of the State organized, embodied and put in action, aad the form of government is the mode in which this is done.

Society has the natural right to selert their term of government and the people are under an obligation to select that form which will bet secure the eaos of government This the people of Ihle country have cone in defining and cUtributing the powers of the State in the Constitution. Taat, and not mere popular will, it now tbe supreme law of the land. To this Constitution at this moment we all owe an allegiance, as loyal and as profound, aa was ever claimed for the divine right of kings. No i State kas any political right but those that are allowed therein. The uita of the State with as is ail tbe people acting under and aeeordinR to the Constitution.

A pur Democracy, lih tnat cf Athens, wbeie all the people acted mntkout a Constitution, is a totally different thing. These are the simplest elements of our political science, but la the face of this there is a blind feeling, widely prevalent that the will of the majority, however expressed, ought to be law that the voice of the people is the voice of God. The tendency of thete practices and theories is to snake popular will overbear ail moral considerations aad constitutional limitations. It is seen in all sections ot the country. rom the days of Peb'oiis to the present time, there never was a country which furnished tuch unbounded scope for the demagogue as this, and there never has been a land carted with the tribe as we have been.

From the Presses which they control, the people seldom hear the truth. Ths blind and bitter spirit of party is continuily stimulated by provocatives addreased to the ignorance, the prejudices aad violent passions of the people. This tends to a Democratic absolutism, the worst form in which it Is known, the most pervadiag and the least conscientious. Theermtof tbe Roman Republic its Senate, its Tribune, aad its Consuls remained for gee after ail tb power ot the State had passed into the hands of aa absolute executive, supported by pre-tori an guards. Oar only safety lies in the of sound constitutional opinions, a true spirit of loyalty, a genuine reverence for law and order, ati as the basis of all an enlightened pervading pat) lie virtue.

Free governments have lmmenae power over the moral of the nations. Where Tiolcace, licentiousness, falsehood, gross ml'repreesntation fiirrparty purposes, are teea ia our elections, in the party Press, aad evea ia our bails of legislation Natioaai. State aad Municipal It most tend to eat out of the heart of the people all loyaltv all reverence for justice, law and public order. Will any cae say that the increasing corruprion, aad bribery, and robbery, and lawless violence that are seen in nigh places, and the comparative apathy with which they are looked upon and forgotten, ought not to startle us When political corruption becomes an organised element in the political action of a nation, it cannot fail to corrupt -the private morals ef the people. I do not say that thia is the ease here but we have certainly, within the last few years especially the last ten months had startling devel rpmeste enough to overwhelm ua with shame, and ail cs with horror.

There it nothing In the human nature the Nineteenth Century there is no charm in tae frame of our Government which can insure us against the faie of rtber nation. Our true wisdom is to a either despite ior exagfw' dantei but to extend and quicken all thoee influences which tan and rtf secure the permanent welfare aad ta giory mi the nation. Otrr Liaerutions ia Ceaaseives have no ininsic pe rer snake ae wise, and good aad harpy. RJctea, knowledge, power all these together cannot do it -Nothing but large and liberal views of public poi.eyi, and the general diffusion of that moral latejrritr aid Christian spirit which usable. us to tee what is dtry and faithfully to perform it can save oe.

Let cs do a' I In ci power to check the ova ra wing tile vi Ucentieusttss and vice which it bearing otr most preeione Mesung to destrcetoa. Let as ask our selves what we can do towarls eradi-culing this spirit ef self-dependence, this ef Ged, this practical AtbeLttn, this root f-oaa whtca. all eur dangers had eviiaftsar. Let cs begin wltfc cur-serve If the people are reformed thonughry sad radically ia heart oy the grac of, God, tbe auUicrat of public opiatow will be enlightened, and car laetii't-tens, dtil aa4 rel'cicw, be (laced, finely on a biait ef peraaaBesee. errultr and truth.

"What eveaH the future may meal, we are not permitted to know. The charges that have taken place ta the dvilired world within the Ut lew years are doubtles precursors of others stU snore important Many ef the signs of the time are truly portentous. Oar only hope and help i la God. to wromwe would flee for succor and for guidance. Ike Lord God Or mi potent retgneth.

He ran sake evea the wrath of man praise aisn, and restrain the remalnJer. While we mourn over our own sinfuinesa, and over that of tbe nation, and implore Almighty God ia hi? mercy not to deal ith us after ecr atn nor reward us according to our 'iniquities, bat in the miet of wrath to mercy, let as remember his promise to hit children iht for them all thlirs shall work toother for toed. Let us discharge faithfully every personal and, relative duty, aad leave all Him, asd then, even in the greatest extremity, we can say, God Is our refuge and stieBgih a very present help in trouble. Therefore, wilf we not fear, though the earth be removed and the mountains be carried lata tbe midst of tbe sea though tbe waters thereof roar and though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. The Lord of Host is with us tile God Jacob is eur refuge.

RET, DK. BAPHALIVB DISCOURSE. HIS OPINION OF SLAVERY AND OF REV. I HENRY WlRD BEECHER. Re.

Dr. Rapball delivered a discourse in the Synagogue, In Greene street yesterday. His text was the 5th and 6th verses of the 3d Chapter of Jonah. He commenced by saying We meet here this day under circumstances aot unlike those described la my teat Not many weekt ago, en the invitation of the overa-orof this State, we joined in thanksgiving for the manifold mercies the Lord had vouchsafed to bestow upon us during the past year. But 44 coming events east their shadows before," and our thks wero tinctured by the foreaodiajr of danger impending over our country.

The evil we then drea4 has now come home to ua. As the cry of the prophet Yet forty days and Nineveh stall be alarmed that people, to the proclamation, the Tnion is dissolved." has stirtlod the inhabitants of the United States. The President the chief Officer, pi ijed at the helm to gaide the vessel of the Com nonwcaltit on its course stands aghast at the signs of tne times. He sees the black clou gathering overhead, he hear tbe fierce howl of tbe tornado, and the hoarse roar of the breakers all around hjm. An aged m-in, his great experience has taught him that man's extremity is God's opportunity and cocscioas of his own inability to weather the storm without help from on high, he calls upon every Individual to feel a personal responsibility towards God," even as the King of Nineveh desired all persons "to cry unto God with all thlr strength" and it isjn compliance with Volt call of tbe Chief Magistrate of these Uni'ed States that we, like the many millions of our felIow-altizns, devote this day to public prayer and humiliation.

The President, more polished though lesa plain spoken than the King cf Nineveh, does not ia direct terms require every one to turn from his "eril way, and from the violence that Is in their hands But to me these two exprestians seem in a most sigual manner to describe our difficulty, and to apply to the actual condition of things both North and South. Tne violence In their hands is the great reproach address to the sturdy fire-eater wbo in the bearing of an indignant world proclaims "Cotton is King." King indeed, and a most righteous and merciful one, no doubt, in his own conceit siace he only tars uA feathers tbe wretches who fall In kit poer, and whom he suspectt of not being sufficiently IcyaJ and obedient to hit sovereignty. And the em of bis ways is the reproach we most aldress to the sieah rhetorician ho in the kearia ot Ood-fearlrJg world deciarea Thought ta King." Kityr indeed, and a most aaisbry aad magnanimous one, no doubt In his wn conceit all-powerful to foment and augment the strife, though powerless to allay. Of all Ue fallacies coined la the North, tbe arrogant assertion that Thought la King is the very las: wi th wtich, at tils present crisis, the patience of a reflecting pec pie snould have been abused. For, in fact, tie material greatness of tbe Untied States seems to have completely outgrown the grap of our most gifted loin-is to that urgent as is our need, pressing a is too occasion, no man or set cf men have yet come forward capable of rising above tbe narrow horizon of sectional influences and prejudices, and with views en Hjtueiied, jmt and beneficent to embrace tie entirety ol tbe Union and to secure its prosperity and preservation.

No, my frttnJs, Cotton is not ug. and Human thought Is not King. Admoi H'l it. -The Lora alone Is King I malkootko oako, misAula, and His loyalty reigneth over all. This very day cf humiliation and ol prayer, what is it bit trie lecogui-tloa of His supremacy, the confession of His yuwei and of our own weakness, the supplication wiilib our distress addrest es to His mercy But in order tnat these supplications may be graciously received, Uiat His saprtme protection may be vqucusafei unto our Country, It is necessary that we enotild oegln as the people of Niiieveh did we must bclie.e lu GiKl." And wben 1 say vi," I do not mean merely ue handful of peaceable Union loving 1 mean the whole ol tiie people throughout the Umted Stas, tte President and his Cabinet, the President elect and a.s advisers, tae.

leaders puolic opinion Njito and South. If tbey truly sxd bonasUy desire 1 1 save our country Jet tt.em believe in God aad in His Holy Word: a.iu men when the authority of the is to be set aside lor a higher Lir, they will be able to appeal to the blghett Law ail, tbe revealed Law and Word of God, which affords its supreme sanction to tbe Cods itution. Alter saying tbat tnere con no doubt that the origin of the prese.it oetwef the tao great sections of the Common wea tb was the difference of opinion respecting sla-etoldlng, be placed the subject of his investigation under tte three lollowtng beaos 1st. Hew far back ean we Usee the existence of slavery 2d. Is slavebolding oondemted as a sin in Stcrtd Scripture? 3d.

What was the codiuon of At slave in Bibliral times, and among the Hebrews and say ic; win eur Father Jacob for Tny help, I hope, Lord I proceed to examine the question, ho far tack caii a tiace the existence 01 slavery la relation te the fir.t be said it was evident trat Noah't acquaintance 'wits trie word "Slave." and the nature of Slavery must date from before tbe Flood, and ia bis memory culy until tbe crime of Ham caJed it forth. And he leit justified, when tracing Slavery a Ur back as it could be traced, in arriving at the centu-sion that aext to the domestic relations ttcsoand and lie, parents and children, the oldest relation of society with which we aie acquainted taat of master and slave. After having considered briefly tbe Bible history of Siavery, and remarking that Noaft, while biessirg bis other sons, tid not fcesuiw any upon Ham, but, in bit ad thereof, a bitter curse against nls descendants, which to tois day remained a fact which could aot be gainsay ei that his own native borne, and generally throughout tbe world, the negro lode ea, the meanest ol slaves he passed to a cousid-ei alien of whether s.avebelding is condemned as a sin in sacrtd Scripture, and said: do this question as at all arise in tne mind of any man that lias re a relig ous education, aad Is acquainted with toe history ot the Uloie, it a phenomenon. 1 cannot explain to myself, ana which fifty years ago no man creamed ot But we live la times ween we mttst not ce surprised at anything. Lact Sunday aa eminent reacier Is reported to aave declared from tne pulpit that toe Old Testament requlreaents served their purpose during Ue physical and social development of and were rendered no longer no when we were to be guided by the superior doctrines of tbe New in the moral instruction of the race." I bad always thought that la the moral inr.ru nloc of the race the requirements of Jewith Scriptures and Christian Scriptures were Hectically tbe saree that to abstain from murder, theft adultery, that to do juitice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God," were requirements" equally imperative in the cae course c-f instruction as in the other.

Bu it appears I was mistaken. We have altered all that now," says this eminent divine, after the high example of Mouaaa's physician, whoe new theory removed the heart from tne left side of the human body to tbe right Bet wben 1 1 em ember, that the aow refers to period of which you ait though no very aged men, witnessed, the rise when, moreover, I remember tbat tbe we the Rev. proaeher speaks of, ia limited to a few impulsive deeiaimert. gifted witn great seal but iiuie knowledge more eloquent than learned better able to excite our passions than to satisfy our reason and when, lastly, 1 rememtier the scorn with tka Sacred speaks of- newfangled notions, lately wrung up which your fa'bers esteem aot ween I consider ail this, 1 think ycu arid. 1 had rather continue to take oar requirements for moral iaatrociicn" from alose aad tit Prophets thaa from th eloquent preacher of Brookijn.

But atsthat reverend gantiemaa takes a lead among those who Boost loudly and most vehemently denounce slate-hiluing as a sin, 1 wished to convince myself a bethtr hehauaay Scripture warranty for so doing acd I ether uch denunciation was oae of ttiose ''requirements for moral instruction advanced by tbe New rettaaaent 1 have accordingly examined tte various books of Christian Scripture and find that tbey afford the reverend gentieman and. his compeer ao authority whatever for bis and their declamation 1 be New Testament no wfcsre, direstlj or indirectly, coadeatas slaseboiding which Indeed is proved by the ual vassal practice of all Caristtau tattoos during many eentkles. Receiving every as one of the coo-dtftoasof society the New Testament nowhere later fere witii ex eon tradfcrts the slave code cf Motes: it even pre ewes a letter written by one of t'e aaost ml seat Christian teachers to a slavo-owaer on send-Ins back to hisa his runaway slave. The Rev. Dr.

then referred to the lecogtitlcn cf Slavery 'in the ten temsaandseats, and said, I would tseiefore asa the Rev. gentleman ef Brooklyn aa hi compeers How dare sou. ia the face of the aa action aad prefer Cioa afforded to urt property in the ten command men -s dare ycu deoccx.ee ilavehoieinf at a via When yea rerne sober that Abtebasn, Isaac, Jacob, Job the saea wufc tom ta Alaaighry can verted, with whose aasr.es emphatically eonaeets His own snort holy suae, aad to wbom Ue veoctwed to give the etaractor cfpr est. upright, fearing Cod aad etchewtagevll'-HJoO -that all these men were slaveholders, doee it 1 00 that you are gu'lty cf very little or- o.pn my 7 And ou aas er see, ia their time slave hoidiajr wa lawful, not aow UkMb-eo a ia my tura. ask ycu.

when and by what eta art! yoa draw th Uae Teil cs tae precise tier woe a slaveSoidiag ceased to be csaittol.vvd etetiafir Weea wereweanber the aoiseiief whie this taveatiaga T.ewitu. aot kacwato th Bib', ia caaatof kcw tt baa exasperated the sselingf ef the CenSe, aad siaawM) it enaatWaee af Out NnrtV to a rf J1 shoald he brothers arw oathi point ef laabvUt tkei haads ia each other's btood, 'r i5 Uud to ask the Re, pv eacher of 10 sult and exasperate 2T lT law aMJiagcidxea. whose eral worth aad 1 aairtotia- whoso parity ef coo- w2f.iM a1 "aii esnU to yoW seat What right have jaa to eudr crrr headei philaathreplst oa a level wuaTmKrerf 7 yonder vtnuout mother of a faEy oa a Una with aa alui-trers, or yonder honors aad hoaost man ia one rank ita a thief, aad all this solely bee! tn ei-rs aright wbfeh your own rather and payors during many generations, held and 1 eOwiVi, re-rrosch orcompuacaon. You prof to frameTvour sporal Instruction of tbe race according to taa ra quire menu of the New Tettaaaent out ten ua where sad by whom it was awl. Whosoever sha'l ay to hU neighbor (wortblcas sinner) shall ba in darger of the Couauil but whosoever abail aay txou foot shall be ia danger of the iadgmeat" My friends.

I find, and 1 am sorry to find, that I am deliver Ug a Pro-SUrery disurse. I am ao fxtcad to Slavery ia the abstract and still less frtily to th practical working of Slavery. But 1 stmt here as a teacher tn Israel; not to place before yon my owa fe lings and opinions, but to propound to yoa the God. the Bible view of Slaver. Wuh a cue sense of my responsibility, I must state to you tt truth aad nothing but th truth, however aasaia-tabie or unpopular that truth may be.

Tie then eon- tfered at some length ihe condition of the slave tn Bibl eal tinr.es and among the HeOrewa, aad conclude 1 as follows Tne result to which the Biol view of Slavery leads us first that Slavery haa existed since tbe earliest time second, that slavvholuing Is ao sin, aad that slave property expresry placed under the protectlea ef the tea commandments talrd, that the. slave Is a person snd has rignts not conflicting, with the lawful exercise of the rights of his. owner. If our Northern fellow -citizens, content with follow In the word of God, would not Insist on being rtthteott Lvennuch," or ceEounclng Sin' which tb Blole knows aot, but which is plainly ta-iht by the precepts of men tbey would entert tin more equity and less Ill-feeling towards their Southern brethren. And If our Southern feliow-citixens would adopt the Bible view of Slavery and discard that heathen siare code, which permits a few bad men to indulge in an abuse of power that throws a stigma and disgrace on the hole body of slaveholders.

If both North and South would do mhatis right thta God would see their works, ani that they turned from the evil of their ways," and in their case a in tbat of the people of Niueveb, would mereifaliy avert the impending evil, for with Him alone is the power to do so. Therefore. Lss ct Paar." 6EKM0X OF REV. J. P.

THOMPSON. THE FOLLIES AND SINS OF THE TIMES. The Fast-day services at the Broadway Taber-aacle consisted of a prayer-meeting la the afternoon in the chapel and public services ia the church ia the evening. On Sabbath Jast Dr. Tiioa-pses real the President's proclamation and Gov.

Moaoaa't, and thea announced a Proclamation ay Jehoi oh 0 Hosts, and read the fifty-eighth chapter of the prophecy given by Isaiah, the son of Amox. He then invited the people-to acinole under tbe last proclamation to consider the "crimes and follies referred to by the first. He seleetedne his text 1st chapter, 23d to 27th verse, Inclusive "Thy princes are rebellious, and eonpisdons ef tbievt-s every one lovetb gifts, and followeth after rewards they judg? the fatherless, neithrrdoth the eaase of the wioow come unto ih-m. Therefor saith tbe Lord, tbe Lord of Hue's, ti Kiirhty One of Israel ah, 1 will ease of mine adversaries, and avenc me cf Boine eceauee. And 1 will laru my haaJ urD thee and a rely purge away thy dross and take aeay all tbr wn.

jiia win res oreinj judges at at the flm. and thy counselors as at tbe beginaing atervard tbo iha.It. be called ths city rightcouaoese, tbe falUifal C'iy. He said History becomes pertinent and almost personal tc present times, because two of the principal factors of history, the depravity of man, aad tbe righteous Providence of God, remain unchanged. It is true to-day, aa it was in Iirael two thousand five hundred years ago, that the lust of weaith aad po aer will lead a people of even the highest religious ideas sad institutions to apostatize from God and tbat such apostaey will be followed by political and social corruption and degeneracy, and by the righteous judg-meats of Jehovah.

The root of national corruption and decay it corn tnonly found I11 some departure from public rectitude, through tie lust of aggraaiizement audth pi ide ol power in some general defection from principle in the public mind, through covetousness, lax lry, or poltticai expediency. A breach of morality, a violation of some fundamental law or laws of ethics, aa applied to society and nations, as surely leads to degeneracy and corruption In the State, a a breach of conscience tends to the defilement of tbe Individual And the great law of retribution, suffering that attends all human wickedness, and also by special Providential manifestation of God's moral government over the world, come evils to society and the State that no political sagacity can ward off, and no political constitution or combination can reiisti 8uch an epoch of abounding wickedness and consequent calamity and perU this nation has reached before completing the first century of Independent exlsteace. The proclamation of the President of the United States, recommending this as a day of Humiliation and Prayer," in view of tue present distracted and dangerous condition of the country, sets forth wirh some exaggeration of de-ail, and a melancholic strain of language, yet with a substantial basis of fct, that the Union of the States is at tne present moment threatened with alarming and immediate danger that oar actual and irnpendUg calamities are the result four own crimes and follies -ur om ingrati-ttde and guilt toward our Heirenly Father, and that therefore, it becomes us to humble ourselves before the Most High, confessing our lndiriduai and national sins, and the justice of our puniah-mentn The morality of this recomrseudation Is of a higher grade than that of the Ostend Manifesto, which was regarded as Mr. Bcchahah's poid for ths Pres.deucy which openly ad rot a ted the robbing of a weak ani ae inning netgnoor, in order the more securely to hold in bondage a poor and oppressed race whici insisted that either by purchase or coercion should acquire Cuba, ae a means of supplying our alae-market of increasing the political power of tne country, aad of guarding Slavery at tb South agiiast the possibility of another St Doiuingro so near its 1 w'i'i uj wen snicker alto tbsn that of the inaugural address of the same tmhlitf- fiiwftlm.arw whlrh wwuv mjum tmiwm MMI U'human dogma aosoon to be ulcered fro the beuch of juicmw wm ui. ujo ousutuuou 01 tne ederal iwvjicc we 1 1 i wi property in man it is higher than tbe proclamation ot toe satn public funo- tlvaary ui bolting the alavehoiaere' constitution ivrcea upon rvansas oy iraua and an armed invasion, ana declaring that that instrumeat pt perjury and vio-ler ce Should be misutined hv tH kAl.

Uoverainent it la quit aoov the recent messages luv kihjcui luijjuuii ui pre'eit ciscontent and the threatened destruction of til Uaioc, to the long-centinaed acd intemperate interfereaee of the North ern people with the quesf on of Slaver in to Southern States." The lesson for today ia pitched on quite arvnher key. Instead of a plea or steadeg Cuba; for iegitimiatcg human chattelism in tbe Territories, for Imposing Slavery upon tor as by armed ruffians snd perjured voters for the vigorous enforcement of negro-catching as the only me in of preserving the Union from revoiutioaary resistance, instead of saeh topics which have fcrmd tb supl of our Presidential Uterattre for the past four years, we have now a document which distiacUy traces the present oistracttd and dangerous condition of toe eoumry to the crime aaot follies cf toe nation, not excluding lu Executive head, aad which seeks a renv edy for this calamity and peril, not la the old sjec.fi.j of stealing negroes, whether in Cuba, Kansas, or New-York, not by interpolating Positive Slave laws aad Dred Scott decisions into the ConstitiTon. but by confessing Individual and nttional sins; by abandoning aay also pride of opinion which woild imoel US to neraevere In mmi evils we suffer to be a Just paetehmeat fro vornemtij raiaer, anc i ooorae.u we are not hypocrites though toe President forgets to say this by openly renouncing and forsaking th crime and follies that bav brought this h-wr ef danger. Ittctmsaloflgway L-omthe plrate't creed Issued at Ortead, and the buccaneering manifesto against Kansaa to Calviaiatic humility and dependence of our Fast Dsy jessaa. Yet thete is a logical connection between these extremes the criie medstaW against Cuba.

the bloody rail cpoa Kansas, aad aa almost unbroken course of pud isjirrtiee aad wrong ptiraeed in the interest of Slavery, have necessitated the marked judgments ef Jehovah aad these have startled the muansaified coaecieaces of public fuactioaaries into aa energy all the- snore terrific, becsase so ioag retrtralned. fader the lead ol our rulers we, as a nation, have followed Israel in boldly rebelling against God. aad mocking at His higher law, we have beeoin a people ladea with iniquity, a ed of erij doers, children of eon apnea." keeping op toe routine of rebgious observance, and invoking the name of God. wilie oar hands were foil ef blood, aad the wages of oppression, and reit till length evea our princes hare fce-rom rebels and fh eonpaatoes of ih'eves. I not recall public cocuxeuts so offensive to the moral tense of Chi! eadom, witn a view to crhaiaato their ladlvidnal aithcrs 'or I would aot forget that aahiury precept, Taoa hK at speak evU of toe ruiex of thy people;" bat tuch document, emanating front such a source, represent taat toae of the putnis salad aad that court ef aational policy wkks prectphaUd tyia us our pre- eat can fesis-a and distress they exhibit that reea-less oisrerard of justice and of mora! obiifition which ba marked our puolicf ptizy since tae sysm c-f Slavery, which eur fathers outlawed froeaih Federal CDutut'or.

and fenced ia ty the Ordiaaa-te of 17, has bees swsTered to dictate Its owa term to polite al eroTaaizatioas, aad to retoe its own order frwsa the Senate Chamber, the Exec oil Cabinet, and th tunteae Beach ef Justice Ta Proe.bet Isa'ah trssrgst eerruptieuef tie per-pi and their rtr as th rats of tvi csianvtie that bad overtaken I vaet Aad tae specific iestractuo he gtves a to the way ef reformation mow the ekar-acieref telof which they had teea i'Jf aaitoav Seek juJgmtmt aaak jMbco ato naai ird of yoar aationai poUcyt ek jmauca. Am Dr. A tax-ass sa raraphrase Be not tM wtta aati araee Craea- awewg. kwi seek ccif-arraeilie of dome; Jwotiee. rsreelilly to too who aaaot right th solve JirUn the oppressed, redress wrccg, dg iAwt CMkris, 4si jttytT haa and gvetact kii ww.

uriog pexwi oblfrt of divine crapasaton, and reaeveeating; the wholeu helpless inaoreats." The ti the MtkaCtaert- fore, were presmiaeatiy the stas ef tojaattoa7hJtosT. cmetuoursesa, and oppresstoa; of th poor-. nndZi Ueir poaciUiousobaerrare of th external daVf 1 religion was rot ony vain and worttdew. a stock- ery of God. white their haads weva atatood wtiA 00- i prcMloe and wrong.

If th PmWJeiU had transevtbed the first chapter of Isaiah woo Id be not have saade a faithful catalogue of our public eri met and follies, not I omitting iu special anplicatiosi to tuagistratea aad rulers. la coskidena oar national ertaM ui follies aa rrlated to our caiamitias. wa shall be aided. by a glance at the present state a the country. 1 be speaker then proceiced to evmrar fas moral, social and commercial condltioais of tne two great aeo-tives of the coaatry, recti lug lie s-ateiaenui of th President's Messave at to the vaneraj prevailing catv rok-n, disucss and disntay.

lie tail hs did not et Ixe this picture I a ia accordance with fact, aa4 Proceeded io a defir.itkn of tb natur ef our troahle aad their extent There la, he tali, no general di tresa sdmilx the working peopl of the North there Is plenty rood la the bad, and pleay of saoaey for uoee bo knew hat to do wit it We are at peace amor oursetvea, there are signs cf a social levoluiionj ao tart at ef ftoleaoes btad or armed mem La oar street; no appreheasto peooio: are paaoeiulry aad do not even stint iaa yet, ia aa Mother sft-tton of our eosnaonrountry the picture' orawn by tbe Prcttdeat at fearfuliy true. Taeee' r. 1 iaat terror ay sugar. that li ar of one a owa servant and denenieatt hlfh fi hit hXA food bordering upon starvation; titer hope ha deserted the best ana purest of the cl'ixen7wailmad-nras mas riot nooa every aid tiWe all are ia a rU'e of confusion ad dauatay there are the laa- peauiog borrotsof dU war; an erased mobeoeretor public opinion coercing the Press coercing saea -substance and to g4v their couatea-ante and mcney- to th etoprort -uie tbey dare aot oopoa There ta bank-mptcy and financial ruin, gand the hoarty rerU of anarchy. Dr.

Ttrnvrao quoted at kcglh from Jtrritsea, Chief Juitice Jat, CoL Ma--tot rf Vlrgirta, Dasiil Wrastra, and otMra, to show that just thes evilt hav ail along aeea pro-dieted, and concluded thus: But God is now educating tbe nation by terrible discipline to know what mammmm. ww lratitTMrJsl Is-IHtIbI thiaaW utatta iv ttey have so long refused to hear. First he at re- 1 Puking our idolatry of tbe I nion aecoud, God it re- tniaing our prkle of maiertai reaource third, Ged -rebuking all political expedient desired to harbor and perpetuate Iniquity. What ha demand ia ns. ting away the crime, (tome are ready to iwak peace on any terms but yon can't have- peace if yoq keep the sin If you eora.iromise.

pad men will art- Ute for more-; It i like pat ing black-mail to buy off a conspiracy against your character. Yost lose jour money and your character too. To yl14 now is to put every thlott iato the power of bad men. Good men ill agitate till the wrong i put down, and God will agitate till the Iniquity toovertbrowa. This is the golden hour of the nation, If we hav principle and courage to go through now, we shall ere ioag as a country from ocean to ocean" uittd, pnnptrou axn raxs.

BEY. P. fTROBELS DIfsCOrEPE. THE POLITICAL CB-ISIS. Rev.

r. Stkobil delivered a discourse in taa English Lutheran Church, in Fifteen th -street froaa tbe following text Ut Timothy, Mchspter 1st verse I exhort, there-foe. that first of all. suepllcationa, prayers and riviair of thr ks te made for all that are authority, that we may kad jaiet and peaceable lira aa all godUaea a4 honesty." ti Ue commenced his discourse with a reference to the unusual circdinstaace under which the coagrev. gallon had been called together.

1'he Union whlcjk" they loved was in jeopardy. The president, dirpalr-Ing of all help which might be afforded by auraaa counselers, called upon them to draw near to God, asking Ills Interposition. They had responded to that call, and he need not tell them how deeply he entered into the spirit of the day. The socedlog State was Ms birthplace the home of his mother and dearest kindred. Must not then, bit sou feel some r-sympathy tor it Here, now, was hi, hpme, aad the Pirinpiace 01 nis children, and hoar could he feel otherwise than alarmed at the dread seoaratlon.

which seemed to be impending. Let them look, then, together at the hopes to jchsafed of Ood't interpo dtiott in these dark days, la seeking a proper solution of the teat they must recur to the age In which. It wa written. Rome wa then the niistrjkfct of the world her procurators and governors everywhere ruled hex captuted provinces her officers and. soldiers every- where displayed the Imperial stanoard, and commanded an unwilling obedience.

fPublicant were engaged in the thank lest office of levying taxes upon the industry of the and -tending tlrm np to tbe Metropolis to swell the tide of wealth which flowed at the feet of tiie Ctesars. The religion of the day was a superstitious idolatry, the' immorality the moot debasing and beaMly tbat eves: dif graced the world the anatemeata, on the on hajni licentious, and on tbe other cniei aad inhuman tbe bondage of tbe slave iatolentbleUbe punishmeat ol Ute priit ner baibarous and wh'le lnere was Intel-' ligence, It air ing. lelinement la the better classes, could scarcely conceive of a state ef society so de-! graded, iaumoral and destmaive to the bet interests of religion aad humanity, as the yule of despotic Rome. Here and there throughout that vast empire there wss to te louud little clusters of Christians who had given their hearts, to the service of -ILm who had been crucified, adopting hi precepts, as the rule cf lite, and trusting to Hit romisesas an; unfailirg source of happiness. Persecutions laau- rberaDj turrt unaea u.elr path.

To the duareoa and 1 the cioas thousanos of them were tniicbed, prescnt- tug ion cauuugus 01 mmrrrn caiieu to saner and ciefortiie sake cf Jesus. What was their duty ia tneu saio condition 1 be great Apostle answering. (aid I exhort, therefore, first of alt supplicatidus, pra) ere, and giving of thanks to be mate for all men." The Clulstbu-s prayed in faith, a Ltd the result was at gieat change, a great reform. Evert evil, perhan, was not reformed 1 than, wn baucheea, unfaithful public servants, cruel 1 i.ii,fw eiwi ue aim rtueuious naves out tne woatl ViUOiWlCit and the world was Christianlxd. And bow was- there not a much neglected duty brought before them as citizens of the great Ileuuolie and be aked that God might give thern grace toe afore that duty and 1 educe it to daily practice.

Front the Capltot from tbe great metropolU, from every quiet village and little hamlet, from the extreme North and South notes of alarm were daily wafted to our ears. 1 bey told us that tit interests, cemented by the blood of our Fathers, rose in jeopardy that toe affectioos, the patriotism hich had stood the beat of more thaa three-quarters of a century men's hearts wero quaking tor fear, and that the future looked dark aad ominous. Prejudice and passion seemed to hare Limped the place of truth and reastm, and lathe pretest unhappy dilemma public jben seemed to have lost the power of steering the ship of StAte out of the qtlcksands upon wbich she was in danger of being stranded. Uder such circumstances it was the duty of Christians not to leave tin rondo led tbe amuIIu wsitnm of their faith to avert th dangers which ihey foci and- car. vv uv unaer tne okmh oenignant uorernmeat i.y tbat ever existed rnew blah gave us eitii and yellg- fous liberty, and protected our rights, ranted, that i it had its evils, that bad men wr sometimes ta orBo, tbat things were permitted which did not approv sbli, would we exchange with all Ba tatperfee- tiops, for any other under tbe mat Thea, wha' these notes ol alarm reached their carsi what should tbey.

as Christians, do? They should just what tbe Christians la Kotaedid awler clrcusnstaac ia--' finitely noor nnpreplUou aad fortthtoiats. They ii i snoula pray for tbe President, for CoajtTees, for Ue Governor, the Legislature, for "thep tbe RepuMicau. for the laveholor and AboJitionlat. tor ail torU and eondttioas of aaen or ta Chnatiaa should have a heart large exuugh to earry thee ail i with him. In th arm ef toe to a thron of aaorey.

5 Let them then pry for the peace of Jerusalem, Vi cify every feeling which should be banished trout the lai ge heart of tbe patriot Christian, and took apon toe'" 1. whole people of oar country as brethren. The saor dire tbe coaftukm, the taorw earaUyaouid they' pray, for he knew that 11 that stilled the tempest Kill beard prayer, and could produce peace oat ef I uKiwoip out i otx, nna, as toe now trtrsatealng clouds beg tn to disappear front our political horixnu. would gi as fresh aaeptranec that bteaaad I that pop whose. God lm the That wru th great hope of the Christian fur the perpeufty ef KEY, DR.

DI8C0Ult8E.t THE OBJECTS OF GOVERNMENT, i Rev. Dr. AVAMi, of the JladlsxiQ-sQar teriaa Church, preached a dmcours appropriate to the occasion, to a very large audience, tie took af conservative slew cf the national diftoiltiee, aad ar-' 1 gued that object asd aim of government was to 'J promote the bapp'nest aad welfare ef the people, and w-t that leylslalion upon moral nneetloos did eotae wUhia the legitimate spits of iu datiee, and wwdiaorfan- ix sg in its arndeney. The dtsoouree. which oecaptod aa hour in its deilvery, is aaavotdably cswirdedeusVt ..1 1 i AK FOR LEA Ms PEERINS 1TCBCES--- TXKJSIU tUCOt-Ta saest sepalae aad iimmm kaewn debcaswa wtsst i sf tbos Sao la all srtf thavorU bm tsssfasna wade the naase Wisssisrshlra Iaa rnliaais dcatrraf ta gramma will shserns the aai sf LZA at arse em tl a4 Iwrayfer.

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