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CjjaiiliSjibing jltrman. A DISCOURSE dkliveked dy REV. THOS. A. HOYT, of Louisville, Ky., January 4tii, 1861. Jonah iii: 9, 10.?Who ean tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from Lii fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw tlieir works, that they turned from their evil way ; and Cod repented of the evil that he said that he would do untu them : aud he did not. The observance of a day of Fasting. Humiliation and prayer is not an effort of despair, but of hope; it declares that con? fidence in man is lost, but that confidence in God is revived. Having exhausted ev? ery human device, and struggle in vain to release itself from the toils, a whole peo? ple learns the lesson so often taught the individual?that it is better to trust in the Lord that to put confidence in man. Fasting is the outward sign of the hu? miliation and penitence which we should feel and express this day; hence it is idle mockery unless we really repent and are humble. Have wc not enough to humble us ? The foundations of our country tire being broken up, the noblest temple of liberty in the world is being demolished ; one column has fallen, and while I speak, the crash of another may smite upon our cars. It is a spectacle that might make angels weep, and should wring irom us tears of blood. We are on the verge of civil war; passions are inflamed, violence is ""threat? ened, States arc arming, and we are in hourly danger of collision; tit any moment, brother's hands may reek with brother's blood. It is a time to proclaim a fast and a solemn convocation. Be hung in mourn? ing, ;re heavens, and be clad in sackcloth, ye earth ! The great lighthouse of the world, whose beacon sent its rays across the waters, guiding the wandering barks into the haven of liberty, is growing dim, and is rocking to its base. It is as though the Polar Star were suddenly to plunge from its steady resting place ami begin to "wander darkling in the eternal space, ray less and pathless." // is <i <lnj of trouble, of rebuke, and of blasphemy?a day to be marked with black in the world's calen- j dar. But wc feel that this, the Iliad of our woes, it is not an accident or a bare mis? fortune, but a punishment for our sins. The conscience as well as the heart is burdened, and'a sense of ill-desert aggra? vates our sorrows. We intuitively recog? nize the connection between sin and pun? ishment; we know not precisely what that connection is; we cannot say what sin or whose sins have brought the infliction.but punishment implies sin, and "the sin must be enormous where the punishment is so fearful." This vast, imperial Rcpublic,bc qucathed to us by a noble ancestry, con? secrated by a noble history, the work of illustrious statesmen and patriots, is falling a prey to national degeneracy and corrup? tion. In less than a century, we have ? spoiled the legacy of our fathers. A Chris? tian people, with Christian institutions, the envy and admiration of the world,have not lived to the age of pagan Greece. Surely God has a controversy with us. and it becomes us to inquire with all solemnity into the cause of his tierce anger. Surely it is time to come to ourselves; to look our follies and wickedness in the face ; time for every patriot to rend his garments, cover himself with sackcloth, and comeiu to the house of the Lord. Let us deal faithfully this day; let us survey the sins of the land, not to accuse one another, but to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. Sins may be styled national sins, when cither they are committed by the State in its organized capacity, or are so generally perpetrated as to become characteristic of the people. We have in? curred national guilt in both these ways. As a people wo have been guilty of vain? glory and boasting; as though by our own might and wisdom we had done all this, we have said, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built ?" Wc have not ac? knowledged Cod, aud He now leaves us to ourselves. Or if we have referred to him at all, it has been to intimate that He was bound to bless a country which was so manifestly indispensable to His plans. In the next place we have deified " the people," regarding them as the fountain of all power and proclaiming the blasphe? mous adage, '-vox jwpuli, vox Dei," as the last expression of political wisdom. Thus Jehovah has been dethroned and a hydra headed monster set up in the stead, and never was a pagan idol worshipped with more abject and crawling devotion, than this their god. by the whole tribe of office seekers. Two results have followed : In the first place our rulers have lost the sense of responsibility to God. and instead of endeavoring to do what was right, have sought only to propitiate their idol. The whole notion of a representative govern? ment has become perverted. It is regard? ed simply as a method of giving expres? sion to the popular will, as a contrivance for finding out and doing what the people if assembled in massovould do. This doc? trine is utterly false. '; Representatives are appointed not to ascertain what the will of the people is, but what it ought to be," not to do what the people think is right. "The people are not permitted to legislate en masse because their passions and caprices are likely to prove stronger than reason and truth. To secure delib? eration, to protect themselves from their own prejudices and passions, and to causa the voice of reason to be heard, they re? tire from the scene, and leave the inquiry and decision of their duty to chosen men, in whose wisdom they have confidence. This is the true theory of parliamentary government." Had this idea been held, our representatives would have guided public opinion,instead of being swept along by it, they would be pillars of the State, and qg? mere weather-vanes to show the course of the popular breeze. The next evil result of the undue exal? tation of the people, is the unlimited doc? trine that the majority should govern : whereas the authority of God is supreme, the authority of written constitutions next, and the authority of the people last in the series. This error is sufficiently in? jurious when applied to the legislation of a single State, but is utterly ruinous when forced into Federal affairs. Hie'conduct of which should depend not on the popular will of the whole country, but on the in? dividual utterances of the several States. According to this monstrous notion, the weaker holds its rights and liberties by the bare sufferance of the stronger. Xow, God will not give His glory loan other, and as France atoned in bitterness and bloodfor itsitnopius apothesis of reason in the guise of lust and in garbof a harlot, so we are reaping the rewards of our idol? atry of ourselves. Our Federal Government, so complex and so nicely balanced, required for its ad. ministration the sternest virtue and the highest wisdom; bur. alas! it has too often been the tool of party, the instrument of sections, and the engino of corruption. Its highest offices arc no lon? ger regarded as serene and lofty positions into which the wisest and best of her citi? zens are placed to guide the destinies of a great country; but in accordance with the vile battle-cry, "To the victors belong the spoils." they are sought for the benefit of the loaves and fishes. As a consequence of tins, the government is corrupt, votes are bought and sold, and in the struggle of factions, the interests of the country are overlooked. The great Federal Par liment appointed by the Stales to In- the minister of justice and protection, lias been perverted from its high ends, and has be? come a fountain of corruption, or a source of alarm. The States united in a holy bond, sealed by blood, instead of loving each as them? selves, and discharging the common offices of respect ami good-fellowship, have rush? ed eagerly into tin error against which Washington so emphatically warned I hem. and stand arrayed in the desperate -strug? gle of sectional animosity. That portion of them which has been constantly growing relatively weaker, in? stead of (irmly uniting, nol for aggression, but for self-protection, has all along been divided upon questions of mere party and personal politics. Now. I mention these things not as mere slips and blunders in the conduct of our affairs, but distinctly in the light of sins against God, who laid us, by U s Pro? vidence,under the most solemn obligations to preserve our free institutions and our prosperous commonwealths, and to trans? mit them to future generations. Let us add toall this the other manifold grievious sins which afflict our country? the profanity, the Sabbath-breaking, the fraud and the violence, aud we have an array of guilt that may well startle us and arouse God. <), our offense is rank; it smells to Heaven. But, in this day when the land mourns, I wc arc called upon not only thus collec? tively to confess our national sins, but al? so to.mourn, every family apart, and eve? ry man in the sccresy%f his own heart.. V"o must not excuse ourselves with the plea that we are obscure, and our sins but as a drop in I lie ocean ; remember thai a single Arehan brought discomfiture on the armies of Israel. God says : ?? I. the Lord.search the In-art and try the reins of the children of men." ami it is only by each man's confessing and forsaking his own sins that thisgreat act of national hu? miliation will l>e rightly done this day. If. as God looks from His throne on the spectacle of a nation sitting in sackcloth and ashes. He sees that genuine penitence fills every heart, lie will say. 1 repent me of the evil. I will not do it. 1 exhort you. therefore, as you would not fail your country in this her time of need, that each one of you really humble himself before God, and repent of your sins. This will be true, in whatever light you view this dispensation, whether as an infliction of wrath or as a stroke of mercy. It must proceed on one of these two principles; God either regards us as His enemies,aud is about to destroy us. or He looks upon us as His people, and is chastising us in mercy, according to the sacred diction, ??whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth." In either case we may hope for hearing and for pardon. As to the former, the ease of Nineveh, as related in the text, shows that even heathen may escape judgments by timely repentance. As to the latter, the history of Israel is full of instruction. When the army of Senna charib at the gates of Jcrusalcm.Hezckiah "rent his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth,and went into the House of (he Lord," and the Lord delivered him. If God promised Abraham to spare Sodom for the sake of ten righteous,will He not spare this guilty laud because of His people that dwell in it9 And can His people look up? on it in any other light than as the smit ing of a Father's hand? As we lie here at the feet of the Al? mighty, the question presses itself upon us, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of Clod who givcth liberality and upbraideth not. What shall we think of this great struggle, and what is the path of duty | for us? Speaking in His name. 1 will en? deavor to answer so far as I have God's authority for what I say : And, first, wc should settle in our minds that great principles underlie this whole matter; we should avoid superficial views, and strive to see the mighty issues that are pending. This is no temporary though acute tlisorder of .the body politic, but a chronic- distcmpcr.now breaking out afresh and throwing the patient into convulsions. This young giant would not writhe and perish under a mere functional derange? ment, an organic disease prays on the vi? tals. The different portions of our coun? try could not come into such hostile and deadly collision upon the ordinary ques? tions of public policy. One section of tins country believes that its dearest rights arc injured?the right of self-government, the right to con? stitutional liberty, the right to equality in the common Government and domain ; she believes that along with these rights is implicated the truth, the truth of God, the revealed truth of ( Jod ; and believing that these priceless treasures are gliding from her grasp, she is struggling to regain them. If all this be true, if our liberties and our religion are in danger, what have we to do but to stand up boldly for our rights, rights that wc inherit as English? men and as Americans, rights thai began to bo secured to us when the Barons wres? ted Magna Charta from the nerveless grasp of King John ; rights that sought revenge for their violation in the royal blood of Charles 1; rights, tho vindi? cation of which, hurled James JI from the throne5 rights, that rising to still grander proportions in this new world, found a champion in Washington.ami embodiment in the institutions of our country. God gave us these rights; they are sin? gular marks of his goodness, and wc can? not with impunity throw them awav ? I they are the inheritance of our chil? dren, which wc are not at liberty to define or waste. Questions of great magnitude and dilii culty arise as to the time and mode, the when and the how of discharging our du? ties in this matter. But these are purely political questions, and as such can not properly be discusssed in the pulpit. Asa man and citizen. 1 have my own opinions which arc well known by you ; for without obtruding my sentiments on any one. and while pursu? ing steadily the duties of my high and ar? duous vocation. 1 have not hesitated to utter my thoughts when called upon to do so. Born on the soil of South Caroli? na, and educated in her views. ] have not abjured the convictions of a life time and professed to have received a new revela? tion, but I have been true to the instincts of nature, and have cherished the lessons that I drank in with my mother's milk. But what I may think as a man. is of no consequence to you on this occasion and in Ibis place; you only wish to know the message of the Lord at my mouth. The terms of my commission are limited?1 am commanded to teach religion and am allowed to touch on olhcr'topics only so far as they, touch,on religion. Were it othei wise, were 1 allowed full scope, my natural feclings.would spring forward with alaetrity to discuss this whole matter. But I dare not do it; my commission forbids it. Like an officor placed with his regiment atparticular place in the held, though'he nun- frequently think that he could do great service by leaving bis post and engaging in the battle, yet lie dare not do it without orders from his comman? der. In so far ministers of the Gospel have disobeyed "inarching orders." con? fusion has been the lcsult. I shall not imitate tin example fraught with so much sin ami mischief. For these easons 1 cannot take up those questions?liiey are civil and not tit all religious. But there are other aspects .''^he mat? ter which rightfully tall within i.i,.- scope of this day's discourse?aspects which tire so strenuously urged by every dictate of humanity and religion, and which so ex? actly tally with the precepts of the Gos? pel of peace, that I feel bound to press them upon your attention. The question that lifts its solemn presence amongst us ' this day is, '? shall we have peace or war?" * The responsibility of its answer rests up? on you as a citizen of Kentucky, ami as a portion of the middle Slaveholding States, il is for them to say whether blood shall be shed. They may have delayed their answer too long, but I trust not. These great Stales should rise up from their knees this day and hough the horses of war. They should say to the North, you shall not attempt force towards the seced? ing States?they must be allowed peacea? bly to go out, if they choose. It is not necessary that you should ad? mit the right of secession. You may re? gard it as a revolution, but as a revolution , accomplished. You may say. if you choose, that wc do not admit that our Constitu? tion contemplated secession, and that we I i do not think the Cotton States warranted in what they have done; but as they have done it, we will not permit them to be as? sailed. And is it not a revolution accom-1 plished ? Docs a revolution ever go back? wards ? Can force compel South Caroli? na to return ? No! the whole power of the Federal Government is inadequate to the task. She ma}- be overun by invading ar mics?her cities may be demolished, and ; her churches may be deserted to the moles and the bats; her classic halls may echo , the hoot of the midnight owl; her sons may perish on an hundred battle-fields; her women and children and her old men may fly from their burning dwellings? but she can never be conquered?never ! never!! The same mountains that pro? tected her soldiers in the Revolution, still lift their majestic heads and stretch out their giant arms; the same trackless swamps that sheltered Marion (the swamp Fox) and his men, still invite her brave defenders in the hour of defeat to seek their friendly and secure hiding places. Four hundred thousand people, with the spirit of '7b burning in their breasts, and believing themselves to be fighting for God's truth and human rights, arc invin? cible by any force that may be sent against them. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the trong. But should she fall like Lconidas and his Spartans, a second Thermopylae will rival the glories of the first. But she will not fight her Laities alone Her sons scattered through other lands will fly to her stricken bosom like clouds, and like doves to their windows; her sis? ter Southern States will rally to the res? cue. As then force cannot stay the revolu? tion, why should it be attempted'? Is war so pleasant a pastime that we can af? ford to make the experiment'/ Is the spectacle of these States striving to de? stroy each other not enough to appal you ? You wish to preserve the Union?that is the passionate desire of most of my hearers this day. I cannot tell whether any means will preserve it; I do not know that Cod intends it to be preserved, lie may see that it will be best for us to separate, and may have so ordained. But one.thing is certain, the only pos? sible method of preserving or rather of rceonstrnCting the Union will he by avoid? ing bloodshed. If the Slates that secede are allowed quietly to go out?(hen when the passions of the hour have cooled, and reaction has taken place at the North, it may be possible to reconstruct the Union upon a surer and more lasting basis. But war will forever render this hope lass; the attempt on the part of the Gov? ernment to coerce a seceding State will j unite the South in a solid column'; ii will ; become a war ol sections?fifteen slave holding against eighteen hireling Stales; a great gulf wdi he fixed between them. I across which they can never pass. Lei all those that love the Union strive for peace. The providential attitude of this and ! the other middle States is very remarka I ble; they occupy the central' portions of , the country; they are washed by the j Beautiful River and by the Fatlwrof YVa j ters : Eliey are great and powerful Com? monwealths; i hey are siaveholdhig, but ? in the course of late political events have been estranged from their natural allies; I hey are inspired with a profound love of the Union; they have carefully abstain? ed from threat- of resistance, and. from everything which could irritate the Northern States^and-.now wcre^fhev to ; rise up in their majesty and say to the Federal Government and to the North, no force shall be employed; ii' dissolution must come, let it ho peaceable ; were Vir? ginia, Kentucky. Tennessee, and -Missou? ri to do this, it would at once arrest the ? danger or at least ii would clear their skirts of the responsibility". "And who kuowei h/vvhefher thou art come to the Kingdom for such a time a> this?" It may be that God has Leen preparing you by his mysterious workings for this very task. "Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the King's house, more than all the .lews." Should war com? mence you will be among the greatest sufferers; the battle will rage along the borders; the Ohio will run red with blood ; your fair city may become a heap of ruins, aud yonder blue grass fields may again become the dark and bloody ground. If you would save yourselves, pray for peace. . . And after having done all this, after haying fasted and prayed, humbled your? selves, und repented of your sins, what remains but that we -stand in our lot and look the future fully in the face." that we prepare to endure with patience and fortitude whatever God may send up? on us. Let us if need be. bare our backs to the rod. and uncover our heads for a baptism of blood! Let us not do this with social indifference, but let us "en? dure as seeing Him that is invisible!" And finally, as we leave this place and say, one to another. ?? Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that wc perish not?" j may we not hope that it will be again re? corded that " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways, and God repented of the evil that He had said He would do unto them, and he did it not ?" B?f A man in love has very little need of victuals. So if your landlady doesn't give you enough to eat. fall in love with her daughter. THE GLOBE, TUE OFFICIAL PAPER OE C?NGRES. IPUBLISH now my annual Prospectus of THE DAILY GLOBE, and t'ic CONGRESSIONAL ULOBE, io remain subscribers, and inform hose who may desire to subscribe, (hat Congress will niccl on the first .Monday of next December, jrhen I shall resume publishing the above-named pipers. They have been published so long, that mostpub lie men know their character, and therefore Idecm it needless to give a minute account of the kind of matter they will contain. 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Relieving that the Constitution under which the Confederacy of the American States was formed, h.vs heen repeatedly and grossly violated, and that "the Plantation States" have been the only sufferers?that the Union of these States is nolonger a policy founded on the principles of right and justice, but that the bond of Union is "tho cohesive pewer of public plunder"?the proprietors prefer that their journal shall rather seem to be a Southern Extremist than appear an unconditional advocate o:.' the Union at any price. TERMS.?rThc paper will be regularly mailed (e subscribers out of the town of Ncwbcrry a: the fal? lowing reasonable rates of subscription : One copy- per year, - - $2.00 Three^''cs, - 5.00 Five cop ^s, - 8.00 Ten copies, . - - 15.00 Twenty copies, - 25.00 ?vf The money upon these terms always to b paid in advance. 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