ARGUMENT. The right and duty of ministerial utterance on national questions proved from Bible history and orders. Especial obligations in view of the enormity of the national transgression. I. What has triumphed? 1. Not the Democratic party. 2. Slavery. Study this victor; trace its power in a human being from birth to death. Robbed of name, of parents, of education, of property, of religion. What shall the end be if the victors retain their strength? Enslavement of Kansas; because of their purpose, their necessity, and the fact that this is the center of the conflict. This won, all is 2. Extension of slavery to Oregon. 3. Annexation of Cuba and Central America as slave States. 4. Reopening of the Foreign Slave Trade. 5. Suppression of freedom of speech, everywhere. 6. Adjudging slaves as property everywhere. Slavery must make these attempts. It must advance or die. III. What has caused the defeat? 1. No real national sympathy with the slave. 2. No earnest prayers for the victory of Freedom. 3. More anxious to conquer a party than to abolish slavery. IV. Encouragements. None in the ruling party. 1. First organized success of political anti-slavery in a single State. 2. A stimulant to friends of liberty in the slave States to organize against slavery. 3. The growth of the religious sentiment.

V. CASTE THE CORNER-STONE OF AMERICAN

SLAVERY.

Delivered on the occasion of the State Fast, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in 1854, and at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1858; also delivered at the Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, New York,

We are verily guilty concerning our brother."

ARGUMENT.

Genesis xlii. 21.

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Foundation for American Slavery. I. Not in man as man, but in his color or origin. Scripture stolen to array an idol. This color is declared to be a mark of degradation, and separation. II. This feeling, 1. General. 2. Deeprooted. 3. Unnatural. Because, (1.) Not towards any other class of men. (2). They have the gifts of music, manners, the culinary art, aptness of imitation, wit and humor, patience, and sunniness of temper. (3.) No repugnance to this color, as seen everywhere else than in America. (4.) No disunity in spiritual nature. (5). Caused by social condition. (6.) Contrary to the Scriptures. 4. The feeling is the chief bulwark of American slavery. South could not resist the North were she free from this prejudice. III. How shall it be cured? 1. Cease to dwell on the distinction of color. 2. Welcome those of this hue to your society. 3. Encourage them to enter all branches of trade. IV. Result, intermarriage; its right and fitness. True marriage. Shakespeare's foresight and courage. Othello and Desdemona.

VI. THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

Delivered at Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 6, 1859, on the occasion of the capture of Captain John Brown,

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad." - Eccl. vii. 7.

"I am not mad, most noble Festus," Acts xxvi. 25.

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"So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun and behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive.". Eccl. iv. 1, 2. ARGUMENT. Opening of a new act. Its influence. Its purport and effect. The beginning of the end. It has taught the slaveholder his weakness. It has strengthened the heart of the slave. His right to liberty, even through blood. It will tend to unite us to our enslaved brethren; stimulate all peaceful modes of assault on slavery; abate the haughty assumptions of the slave power. The benefit of his death, if he dies. Honors the American scaffold, as Vane, Russell, and Sidney did England's. His future fame.

VII. THE MARTYR.

Address on the occasion of the execution of John Brown, December 2, 1859, .

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ARGUMENT.- A new date in American Annals. A national day in character and interest. The righteousness of his deed. His right to interfere to save his fellowmen. Its wisdom. He wins the fight in his dying. The slayer slain.

VIII. TE DEUM LAUDAMUS.

Delivered at Cambridge, November 11, 1860, on the occasion of electing Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency,

. 177 "I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea."- Exodus xv. 1. “But promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another." Ps. lxxv. 6, 7.

"Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, the Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner ; This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. - Matt. xxi. 42.

ARGUMENT. Difference between this year and last. The conflict. One quesThe tion, Slavery or Liberty. I. Cause. 1. The growth of conscience as to the nature and effects of slavery. Begun in colonial life, developed in the Revolutionary era, but postponed because of the pressure of another duty. Decline in the post-revolutionary period. Revived under Garrison. 2. Fear of the slave power. II. Consequences of this victory. 1. It will suppress efforts to extend slavery. 2. Sets us right before the world. 3. Insures the speedy abolition of slavery. III. Progress of this work; its certain consummation. Future blessed condition of the free South.

IX. LETTERS FROM CAMP.

Written from the army at Washington, the Relay House, and Baltimore, during the first three months of the war,

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I. TO ARMS. · -The Gathering of the States. A war night in Faneuil Hall. First war Sunday. Opening the way to the Capitol. Camp in the Capitol. Camp at the Relay. Smoke before the Fire. II. SLAVERY DYING. The Look of the Land. How Slaves Talk. The Carrolton Manor. A Slave Pen. A Rational Beast and his Possibilities. Arlington when first Captured. A very Tender Conscience. III. PROFIT AND LOSS AFTER BULL RUN.

X. THE DAY DAWNS.

Delivered at Newark, New Jersey, March 9, 1862, on the occasion of the first Abolition Proclamation,

“The year of my redeemed is come.' Isaiah lxiii. 4.

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ARGUMENT.-I. Effects of this proclamation at home and abroad. The begin ning of this movement at Boston. Opposition. War. II. Results of this proclamation. 1. Erect the national mind on the nature of slavery. 2. Rob the slave power of foreign support. 3. Encourage the slave. 4. Unify the Republic. 5. Subdue the earth to liberty.

XI. ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Letter to the London Watchman, written from Paris, July 4, 1862, . 291

ARGUMENT. — Interest of England in the American war. Ignorance of its origin and aims. Her conflict of ideas with America. Why America did not abolish slavery at the beginning of the war. The rebellion struck at the Union, and the Union must be defended. England never extirpates its cause when suppressing a rebellion. Ireland. Sepoys. The United States devoted to Freedom. Her struggle for Democracy against monarchical ideas. Difficulty of European peoples to understand this struggle. They are in a lower plane of civil life. America fighting for

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the liberties of the world. European kingdoms to become European states. The British People versus British Government. America no quarrel with crowned heads as such. The advent of British democracy; its conflicts and victory. The ultimate Democratic oneness of England and America.

XII. THE STATE A CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD.

Delivered before the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the High Street Church, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the occasion of the annual State Fast, April 27, 1863,

317 "Let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Cor. v. 8.

Arise; shine."

Isa. lx. 1.

"All nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of Hosts." Mal. iii. 12.

ARGUMENT. Conceit of nations as to their mission. Ours. I. Universal toleration with acknowledgment of Christianity. Difference between the first idea and all previous national usage. In Israel faith and loyalty one. Christianity conquered Paganism at the Milvian bridge. How it has ruled Europe since. Nowhere equality of faith except in America. French Protestants; English Dissenters. Late development of it here. Colonial union of Church and State. Evils this toleration breeds. 1. Irreligion of public men. 1. Irreligion of public men. 2. Forbids all pulpit utterance upon national sins. Difference between this course and previous support of the government by the clergy. Charles Martel; Cromwell; Geneva. It brought about the alliance of slavery and the Southern Church. It bred infidelity. Christianity must be acknowledged as the American faith. II. The second mission of America is to exhibit the fraternity of man. Our detestation of this demand. Our duty, to expunge the word "colored" from the Church; to give the man of color access to every field of effort. Its obligation and real popularity. Peter's prejudice; how cured. Lybica Sybilla and Sojourner Truth. The Church the redeemer of society. Each must esteem the other better than himself. The Brahmin taught.

XIII. THE CHURCH AND THE NEGRO,

An address delivered before the Church Anti-Slavery Society at Tremont Temple, June 10, 1863. 361 ARGUMENT. — The unity of American and Hebrew abolition. God's decree of liberty for Israel. His like decree to them against caste. The position of the New

Testament against slavery. Its Gentile church, like the Mosaic, composed largely of slaves. The European church abolished slavery. The mixed and weak position of the American church on this sin. Its duty now to exhibit penitence, by abolishing the root of slavery, caste. The absurdity of this feeling.

XIV. THE WAR AND THE MILLENNIUM.

Delivered in Boston, on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1863, . 373

They shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them." —Revelation xvii. 14.

ARGUMENT. What is the Millennium? The triumph of Christ over Satan. Its progress in the earlier ages, in the times of, and immediately after, Christ. It has destroyed idolatry, or man's disunion with God. It must destroy man's disunion from man. The forms of that disunion here contending against Christianity. Chattel slavery and servility in civil governments. Artificial social barriers must be removed and Man unified. The struggle to work out these ends in our war. Their happy result. The influence of our success upon the advancement of the world. The victories of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.

XV. WHY GRANT WILL SUCCEED.

Delivered in Boston, May 15, 1864, on the occasion of General
Grant's Advance on Richmond, .

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"And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed; take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land." - Joshua viii. 1.

ARGUMENT. - The excitement of the hour. Propriety of dwelling upon it. God in the battles going forward. Why Joshua was defeated. Why we. How he repented and conquered. How we are repenting and shall therefore conquer. McClellan's refusal to let the soldiers hear anti-slavery songs insured his overthrow. The later failures because we would not treat all our soldiers equally. Grant refuses to advance on Richmond until their pay is equalized. Congress delays, and then refuses to give colored soldiers the same pay as white except they had been born free. The President shoots one for mutiny who refuses to serve on other conditions than those under which he had enlisted. Grant will not stir till this change is effected. The nation no consequence to God unless it obeys His will. This obedience wins Hfs approval and insures our victory.