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 It Laving been my privilege to listen tc» the Discourse, " God 
 Uless Abraham Lineohi," and tliinking it might interest the 
 public, I requested a eojoy for pul)licatioii. which tlie Preacher 
 kindlj- granted. Limited means contincd mc to printing but a 
 small edition; but if the Faitliful, to whom it is de<licatcd, dis- 
 cover merit in it. they can, at club or individual cx})cnsc, have 
 rc-printed as many copies as tiiey mf.y deem sullicient for the 
 supply of their own or other Districts ; and if Editors would 
 pul)lish it in their cohimns, it would tend greatly to its pu])]icity. 
 
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GOD BLESS ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
 I.OOA.L P»ilEA.CHErt. 
 
 Brethren : — In those days of piping peace when Filmove, Pierce, 
 iiud Buchanan successively presided at the citadel called Washington, 
 and over all the regions round ahout, the people became rich, wan- 
 ton and luxurous ; and like Ephraini, waxed fat and kicked ; Churches 
 were erected to rival the Temples of the Heathens. Synagogues of 
 Satan, called Theatres and Academies of Music, rose like magic, rival- 
 ing in splendor every thing short of the gorgeous creations of Aladdin's 
 Lamp. The Money and Merchant Princes dwelt in Marble Halls or 
 Brown Stone Palaces, that threw in the shade the Dwellings of Eu- 
 ropean Princes and Nobles ; such at least was the opinion, it is said, of 
 the Heir Apparent to the British Throne, on his visit to this country ; 
 and which was cut short by his Mentor, the Duke of Newcastle, least 
 the Prince should be enervated l:)y Republican Luxury, or so dazzled 
 by its glitter and glory as to make him forget, or hold in comtempt, 
 the kingdom ho Avas destined to reign over. To enumerate the splendid 
 Turnouts, at that time, that set down our females at the fashionable 
 shopping marts by da}^, or at Fancy Balls, Theatres, and Parties by 
 night, would be difficult. Accursed Gold, the root of all evil, was then 
 so abundant that every Mechanic, Drayman and Laborer had it in such 
 plenty, and in such small coin, that it frequently slipped through 
 their fingers unconsciously ; while their Avives could buy four pounds 
 of Coffee, five pounds of Sugar and three yards of Calico for a One 
 Dollar Piece. The contaminating influences of Peace and Gold, 
 culminated in the dreadful vice of Intemperance ; a whole gallon of 
 Whisky could have been bought for a quarter of a dollar, and Cham- 
 pagne, that Devil's fascinating compound, with other ills of France, 
 became so common, that widow, Avife and maid, quaffed them daily 
 as common beverages, turning their brain and maddening their blood 
 into all forgetfulness of female propriety; thus throwing upon the 
 Pious Managers of Mag^lalene and Rosine Associations an unpre- 
 cedented load of care ; and burdening our Courts and Legislative 
 Halls unduly with cases of Divorce and Crim. Con. In this connec- 
 tion I might advert to Female Refectories, fitted up in bewitching 
 style for the special resort of Ladies; where Champagne, Schnapps, 
 
Hock and Soda Water, Ice Cream, &c., were in daily requisition. 
 To recount the abominations of Club Eooms, and Gambling Hells, 
 ■would be an endless task. 
 
 When things were at their worst, a few Wise Men from the East, 
 undertook their reform. — Blessed Philanthropists, who volunteered 
 to do battle against the Hydra, Intemperance ! Prominent among 
 these was the valiant Neal Dow, of the State of Maine, through 
 whose efforts the first Maine Law was enacted. Neal sojourned to 
 the City of Brotherly Love, and lectured the Saints of that City 
 into perfect shame of their apathy and indifference to the Satanic 
 Saturnalia raging in their midst. His mission was considered a per- 
 fect God send, and the Brethren to make suitable return, gratefully 
 presented to Neal a Service of Plate, valued it is Sc^id at Three 
 Thousand Dollars. Verily Godliness is profitable unto all things! 
 Brother Neal is now reaping, it may be presumed, a richer rcAvard, 
 in a still better and nobler service down South, doing battle against 
 the Philistines in that region; for, in addition to Pay and Eations, as 
 a Field Officer, the Contrabands, it is to be hoped, will help him to 
 sundry Bales of Cotton, and Molasses, Quantum Suff., for sauce to 
 his Pork. Another Son of Blessed New England, Eev, Albert 
 Barnes, who had never slumbered on his post, but in season, and out 
 of season, rebuked boozing and tippling in all its phazes, went so far 
 as to hold forth on the Sabbath Day, in the Presbyterian Church at 
 Harrisburg, in an elaborate discourse, in place of sermon, that Neal 
 Dow's Maine Law was unquestionably constitutional, and that no 
 time should be lost in placing it on the Statute Book of Pennsylva- 
 nia. The seed thus sown in the heart of the old Commonwealth 
 took good root, and brought forth the famous ''Jug Law," enacted in 
 the Session of 1856. The Bill was drav*'n by the astute Jurist, Judge 
 Watts, of Carlisle, who, imbued with the spirit of Neal Dow, and 
 assured of the Constitutional Soundness of the Maine Law, through 
 the legal acumen of Eev. Mr. Barnes, drafted the Jug Law, working 
 it into a perfect clincher; stopping forever, as he thought, every 
 bung and spiggot hole, and cutting off all supplies to the lips and 
 throats of Imbibers. This Statesman-like production was committed 
 to the Pious Alexander Cummings, then a leader in the Legislature, 
 who with the aid of a three-mile Petition, wheeled on a barrow into the 
 House of Eepresentatives, engineered it through under the crack of 
 the whip, and our worthy Brother Pollock of righteous Know-Noth- 
 ing memory, being then Governor, signed the Bill in a twinkling. 
 These three Philanthropists, Watts, Cummings and Pollock, were not 
 to the New England Manor Born, but were imbued with all the 
 humility and disinterestedness of the Sons of the Pilgrim Fathers. In 
 merit they may be considered the Faith, Hope and Charity of the 
 Keystone State — Pollock in degree representing Charity the greatest 
 of the three, who for his labors of love, (one in particular, the train- 
 ing of the Patriotic Governor Curtin, of whom it may be said he was 
 brought up at the feet of Gamaliel,) was transferred to the Philadel- 
 phia Mint, where indoors and outdoors he abounds in all good teach- 
 ings — religious, moral and political ; an Israelite indeed in whom 
 there is no guile; one who mantains the inside of the platter as clean 
 and pure as the outside is bright and shining. Brother Pollock is as 
 Gold seven times tried in the fire ! 
 
I should not, my Hearers, have troubled you Avith even tliis brief 
 account of the Jug LaAV, but to exemplify tlie ]\Iutability of Human 
 Affairs; and to show that whether Paul plants or ApoUos waters, 
 we must look to a higher source for the increase. When this well 
 digested Bill, the Jug Law, that had rejoiced the hearts of so many 
 Preachers, Lecturei'S and Petitioners, who for years had labored 
 for its enactment, and to favor its passage had sent so many Members 
 to the Legislature, who never before dreamed of having seats in so 
 august an assemblage ; when, I say, the Jug Law had no sooner graced 
 the Statute Book than the Devil, who you know is fruitful in expe- 
 dients, suggested that ever}' man might without License, Let or 
 Hindnxnce turn his own Dwelling into a Tavern, wherein he and his 
 cronies might swill among wife and children till boozy or dead 
 drunk; likewise that every Passenger on Eailroad or Steamer might 
 carry his Jug, and suck it with impunity on the journey; and hence 
 this Pious and Philanthropic Law became s,o unpopular and infa- 
 mous and such a reproach upon its authors, that the next Legislature 
 was constrained to repeal it, and enact that anybody and everj-body 
 might be licensed to sell intoxicating Liquors ad libitum. And now 
 the old serpent is laughing in his sleeve at the reaction that has 
 taken place through Political Temperance, seeing that nearly all in 
 favor of Maine or Jug Law now swig incontinently — the Dog having 
 turned to his vomit, and the Sow that was washed to wallow in the 
 mire. How it is with Neal Dow the valiant is not known, but should 
 he handle the canteen adroitly, there will no doubt be found a good 
 excuse for him, in the necessity of defending his stomach against the 
 malaria that rises from the savannahs down south. 
 
 The Mutability of Human Affairs has been exceedingly manifest 
 for years past in the JN"orth, as it is now called, with the exception 
 of Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, whei-e the Inhabitants tliereof 
 were inducted into the doctrine of Antimasonry, by that genuine 
 Abolitionist, Thaddeus Stevens, and the erudite Thcophilus Fenn, 
 both worthy Sons of the Land of Steady Habits, and who to this 
 day are sound in the Antimasonic faith; but what is still more re- 
 markable in these degenerate days, the people of that enlightened 
 District, in gratitude for their enlightenment, and for other services 
 such as provoking the Burning of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadel- 
 phia, and the treating an election as though it never had been held, 
 do still uphold and support Thaddeus Stevens, now the respected 
 Chairman of Ways and Means in Congress; an instance of constancy 
 and gratitude that no other people could emulate. All Glor}' to 
 Lancaster County ! Brothers Stevens and Fenn put Masonry under 
 the ban, in the reign of Gov. Ilitner. The anathemas. Pains and 
 Penalties fulminated against it, closed its Lodges for a time; but the 
 Devil, who is said to be in league with the Masons, instigated the 
 Buck-shot war, which overthrew Brother Stevens for a season, and 
 set the Lodges to work again, and ever since they have been 
 manufacturing the Sons of Light, as the}- call themselves, to an in- 
 credible amount. Besides, the Odd Fellows, another Heathenish 
 Secret Society, have abounded till they are as numerous as the sands 
 of the sea. To these ma}^ be added, I am ashamed to say, Know- 
 Nothings, Sons of Temperance and other ridiculous associations ; 
 till it seems that Secret Societies increased and prospered b}^ the 
 
philanthropic eiforts made to restrain them. When we contemplate 
 these sudden and remarkable changes, can we, my hearers, forbear 
 to exclaim. Oh ! the JMutability of Huirtan Affairs. 
 
 But, Brethren, let us not despond though disappointments have 
 hitherto attended the plans devised by the faithful for regenerating 
 this wicked and perverse generation. "Wc must take courage and 
 look to the Higher Law — a Law superior to those codified by defunct 
 political sages and statesmen. And now my Beloved Brethren, I 
 shall reveal to you a scheme worthy the approbation of Angels, and 
 which I must say is almost so stupendous as to be beyond the com- 
 prehension of finite beings, who on account of the hardness of their 
 hearts ai-e incapable of the exercise of that faith that through the 
 Higher Law not only enables them to see through mountains, but 
 remove them. The undertaking presents to the natural eye a moun- 
 tain of difficulties, but looked at by the eye of faith, every difficulty 
 disappears, for as I have just said Faith can remove mountains, but 
 it is written, faith without works is dead; of this we have a striking 
 illustration in the memorable command of the sainted Kegicide 
 and Lawgiver, Oliver Cromwell, who told his soldiers, " To trust in 
 Clod but keep their powder dry," so you perceive the faithful Oliver 
 did not trust the keeping the powder dry to any one but the Soldiers 
 themselves, therefore we must rely on ourselves, buckle on our 
 armor, keep our powder dry, and enter the field where the great 
 Patriots and Apostles of human liberty have already achieved un- 
 dying fame, and in honor of whom the Pulpit, Forum and Senate 
 pour out in matchless eloquence, unmeasured thanks and praise — 
 yea, and wc have a Euler so incomparable, that but few of the Eulers 
 of Israel or of modern times, in all the attributes of wisdom, firm- 
 ness, justice or humanity, can vie with him. I allude, of course, to 
 Abraham Lincoln, our High Priest and Euler, under whose benign 
 sway, through the Inspiration of the Higher Law has undertaken to 
 solve the great Pi'oblem we find in the Scriptures, the solution of 
 which, in all ages, has defied the power of Men and Angels to solve, 
 namely, Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his 
 SPOTS ? Let not unbelief, my Hearers, stagger your faith in the feasi- 
 bility of accomplishing this momentous and seemingly impossible 
 change, that when accomplished will astonish the Nations of the 
 Earth, and all the Dwellers therein ! Let me tell you that this great 
 work of changing the Black Moor, African, or 'Negro, vulgarly called, 
 into white men, is already begun, and you know what is once begun 
 is half ended. Laws to that effect have recently been ordained. 
 Laws unlike the ephemeral enactments made on the score of Anti- 
 masonry and Teetotalism, but Laws like those of the Medes and 
 Persians that cannot be revoked. 
 
 In treating further on this interesting subject, I mean to confine 
 myself to the Ethiopian skin exclusivelj^, as one of our Brethren, 
 the most accomplished and inventive Genius that everJ^Tassa .msetts 
 has produced since the days of Cotton Mather, (I mean Senator 
 Charles Sumner,) has taken out a patent for reconstructing the skin 
 of the other animal, called Leopard, and therefore bars me from 
 meddling with that question. By way of encouraging you into hope- 
 fulness of the practicability of turning the Blacks into Whites, and 
 cice versa Whites into Blacks, let me advert to what has been done 
 
already towards making these grand changes. Fii'st, there was tlie 
 Under-ground Eailroad by which a sample of the Blacks was run 
 into Canada, to try the effect the snows of that region would have 
 in bleaching them; but this process was found too slow ; it had 
 the effect, however, to show our worthy allies — the British Anti- 
 Slavery Society, that we had begun to put their subsidies to their 
 proper use. The next experiment was, when the Border Ruffians 
 had the audacity to deny that every inch of Kansas did not belong 
 to New England, the Universal Nation. To convince them of their 
 grand mistake, volunteers, called Emigrants, were raised at high 
 bounties witli liberal pay, and marched into the disputed Territory, 
 armed with Sharj)'s Rifles, Sabres, and Bowie Knives, with other in- 
 genious instruments in the Blood-Letting line. These patriotic 
 volunteers were led by the venerated John Brown, of Harper's Ferry 
 memory, whose achievements and Martyrdom will descend to all 
 jjosterity to show the stuff whereof the Puritan Blood is made. The 
 Gallant John, having overrun Kansas, was ordered to invade Vir- 
 ginia, the Old Dominion, impiousl}^ called the sacred soil, to feel the 
 pulse of the Ethiopians, and to give them freedom, if they would. in 
 the readiest way imaginable put themselves at once in the place of 
 their Masters. To fiicilitate this the Hero, John, seized the United 
 States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, in order to arm the Slaves to carry 
 out the Avork expected of them; but they not comprehending the 
 object of John's mission, or thinking themselves inadequate to the 
 undertaking, refused to follow up John's programme, consequently, 
 the Noble John Brown fell into the hands of the Philistines, was 
 tried and executed according to their Bloody Code. But mark what 
 followed, and it should encourage all to offer themselves a living or 
 dying sacrifice ! or to wade through rivers of blood, if need be, to 
 gainimmortality in the cause of changing the Ethiopian's skin. 
 John Brown, whom the Philistines called Horse-thief, Cut-throat, 
 Bloody Murderer and Incendiary, has since, in defiance of all these 
 calumnies, been canonized, and the anniversary of his martyrdom re- 
 ligiously observed in the Puritan Churches of Boston, Brooklyn, &c., 
 and his obsequies rendered into sacred verse by the Pilgrim Bards, 
 and sung by Statesmen, Oratoi-s and Divines, in the beautiful anthem 
 "John Brown, his soul is marching on," and which anthem, as in 
 duty bound, I mean to close the exercises of this evening Avith. 
 These, my hearers, Avere but the preludes to the Bloody and Glorious 
 Battles, from Bull's Run to that of Fredericksburg; and even these, 
 though Thousands and Tens of Thousands Avere slaughtered, and 
 Thousands upon Thousands left bleeding and mutilated upon the 
 encrimsoned field, must be regarded as mere trifles, the beginning of 
 the end, to the Millions of White Men that must yet bleed to make 
 a river of Blood, as it were, Avherein the Ethiopian's skin must be 
 washed White; and this shall be accomplished though the HeaA-cns 
 shoul' fall ! There is a virtue in this anthem "John BroAvn his soul 
 is marching on," that none but the Avonder Avorking genius of the 
 Puritan mind could forse^e or ap])reciato ; even now the Churches and 
 Political Club Rooms resound with its inspiring notes; and it is to 
 be hoped that every Church north of Mason and Dixon's Line, Avill 
 adopt this orthodox anthem, and exhort their congregations to march 
 forward to its soul-stirriuo: strain. Look at the encouragement 
 
afforded in this respect by the proceedings of the late Episcopal 
 Convention at New York, and let me ask, when this proud, dogmatic 
 Hierarchy deigned to handle the Ethiopian skin, what may be ex- 
 pected of the more disposable denominations? Yerily if Bishop 
 Mclllvain, with the Divine Alonzo, and his coadjutoi-s Tyng, Yinton 
 and the Yery Eev'd Whereas, would at the next Convention, resort 
 to the same ways and means so righteously practised in the produc- 
 tion of the Pastoral Letter, the anthem, "John Brown, his soul is 
 marching on," might be introduced among the Select Hymns in the 
 Book of CommonPrayer, or substituted for one of the Psalms, the 
 Old Hundred for instance, it being long metre, and so is John 
 Brown, his soul is marching on — not a bad excuse for the siibstitii- 
 tion. When this shall be eifectcd, shall we not shout Hallelula in 
 rapturous Ethiopian style ! 
 
 This retrospective digression has delayed me in bringing before 
 you the greatest Prophet and Ecformer of modern days, the consi- 
 deration of whose marvellous works is essentially necessary to the 
 farther elucidation of my subject, and to whose supernatural powers 
 we are mainly indebted for the progress already made in the great 
 work, and through whose Teachings we look to the final triumphs of 
 our labors. I am, no doubt, anticipated ere I announce this Pro- 
 phet to be Horace, the Greeley, who from infancy was dedicated to 
 the work of smoothing the Woollyvheaded Ethiopian and inaking 
 his face to shine with surpassing loveliness among the fairest of the 
 sons of men. Horace, though bearing a Heathen Name, not found 
 in either the Old or New Testament, was born in the early part of 
 the present Christian century, in the Land of. the Pilgrims, and is of 
 the lineage of Miles Standish; a land that has produced more Pro- 
 phets and Soothsaj'crs than all the States and Territories put toge- 
 ther can boast of or show. His Baptism Avas in this wise : He was 
 taken to the sacred Eock at Plymouth, and pitched into the Bay at 
 low water tide when the Crustacea were disporting in the muddy 
 brine. AVhen the immersion was complete, he was fished out with a 
 pair of can-hooks. This was an improvement upon the plan the 
 Mother of Achilles adopted, who, to render him invulnerable, dipped 
 him in the Eiver Styx, but, being ignorant in the use of can-hooks, 
 had to hold on to her Bantling "by the heel, which part not being 
 immersed, was left unconsecrated, and through that unguarded spot 
 the Eedoubtable Achilles was slain by an arrow. When the Infant, 
 Horace, like another Moses, was dragged from among the Bull- 
 rushes it was found that the impalpable mud and minute scales and 
 shells of the Crustacea, which at the period were shedding their 
 coats, had so blended with the half-formed skin of Horace, that on 
 coming into the sun and air hardened, forming a cuticle as impene- 
 trable as the hide of a Hippopotamus, and which ever since has been 
 proof against the innumerable shafts hurled at him. Moreover, it 
 was also found that, while he was rocking in the muddy waves, like 
 Hercules of old, who strangled a sci-pent in his cradle, ho clutched a 
 naked crab and bore it triumphantly in his grasp to the rock, where- 
 on it was set up and dedicated to the genius of Horace, so that ho 
 miglit hold on like grim death when profitable; crawl sidevra^'s, 
 backwards or forwai'ds when expedient; change coat to suit the 
 times, and nip, bite or scratch in wrath or for amusement. Thus 
 
fortified and endowed for redeeming and regenerating tlie people 
 from iniquity and grpss prejudice, he early devoted himself to the 
 solution of the great problem, Can the Ethiopian change his skin ? 
 
 I can but show in part only how our Great Prophet worked and 
 labored to effect this mighty event. To set before you in detail the 
 whole of the plans he laid and prosecuted to consumate the under- 
 taking, would consume more time than at present is- at command. 
 Like most of the prophets of old, he was abstemious to an unparal- 
 leled degree, eschewing wine and strong drink ; tasting neither fish, 
 flesh nor fowl— but subsisting wholly on a mere crust of Graham 
 .bread and vegetarian diet of the simplest kind. It was said that, until 
 of late, when it became expedient to assume a more common garb, 
 the better to mix Avith the world unsuspected, he was found clothed 
 in sackcloth and ashes, in accord with his exceeding humility. But 
 some scoffingly denied this self-mortifying abasement— alleging that' 
 his garment was only the hue of sackcloth, and that the color of his 
 hair gave rise to the story of ashes being on his head. Bo this as it 
 may, no mortal of the present age took more pains to fit himself for 
 the sacred work of changing the Ethiopian Skin. His first efforts 
 were made in favor of Owen of Lanark's Agrarian Philosophy and 
 Fanny Wright's Marital Teachings, which greatly promoted the rise 
 and progress of JVIormonism and Free Loveism. These were the 
 entering wedges of his reformatory plans, which, with Spirit-rapping 
 and Millerism, opened wide the door for Abolitionism. Nothing now 
 remained but to combine all these isms into one political ism, called 
 Black Eepublicanism, which was easily dond. With Whigism and 
 Know Nothingism he found more difficulty— these proving obstinate 
 and unwilling to part with their cherished names; but his shrewd- 
 ness overcame all their prejudices, by inventing a name for them 
 under which they might rally and fight for the honors— political 
 spoils— which they were made sure to share in when Black Eepub- 
 licanism w-ould be in the ascendant. Our Prophet knew a rose by 
 any other name would smell as sweet, and, therefore, suggested the 
 name of People's Party, which was readily adopted; and to do this 
 party justice, they out-Heroded Herod in the Black Republican 
 cau^. To have seen their Wide-awakes on chosen dark nights, 
 with torches and flambeaux, it might have been thought that Beel- 
 zebub had opened his den and let out his imps to lighten our darkness 
 or to make night hideous. jSfevertheless, these scenes were unmis- 
 takable signs of the rapid progress Black Republicanism was making 
 towards getting control of all authority— executive, legislative and 
 judicial— to be exclusively directed to the great end of changing the 
 Ethiopian Skin. To our Prophet Horace, should be ascribed every 
 advance thus far made — and it would be criminally ungrateful to 
 overlook the means he skilfully employed to school the masses into 
 voting to promote the great object he had at heart. With the mer- 
 chants, bankers and brokers, who are ever in favor of a paper cur- 
 rency, he had only to promise them a superabundance of that staple. 
 AYith the manufacturers ho had even less trouble — for what, with 
 imposts and high tariffs, and the reading of his epistles in the 
 Tribune— thc}^ were already, from Lowell, in Massachusetts, to Glen 
 Echo, in Pennsylvania, as black as the bottoms of their dye kettles. 
 With the Farmers residing in the fertile plains, apart from sterile 
 
New England, he found it no easy task to convert them into the 
 belief of the Higher Law. But no obstacle in nature, or the preju- 
 dice of caste, could check the unceasing perseverance of the Prophet, 
 whose inventive genius was never at a loss for expedients, and had 
 never proved more successful than in winning over the farmers. He 
 assumed the character of an Eminent Promoter of Agriculture, pub- 
 lished Agricultural Periodicals, engaged the services of the incom- 
 prehensible Henry C. Carey, whose lucid essays on the " Harmony of 
 Interests," in the Slagazine called the Plow, Loom and Anvil, convinced 
 the Farmers of the folly of their prejudices against High Tariffs, and 
 showed them clearly that their interests lay exclusively in a Home 
 Market. The Prophet sent numerous Lecturers and Professors of 
 Eural Economy into the farming districts, who so astonished the 
 .tillers of the soil with their ologics and isms, that it never occurred 
 to them to surmise whether these savans had ever in their lives 
 turned a sod or planted a hill of corn ; so overwhelmed were they at 
 the profound knowledge displayed by the Lecturers and Professors 
 of Scientific Agriculture. State and County Agricultural Societies 
 were formed, and the Prophet became an indispensable card in making 
 addresess at their Exhibitions. When these Local Institutions were 
 in full blast he suggested the expediency of organizing a United States 
 Agrictiltural Society to override the State and Local Associations. 
 To effect this he summoned to his aid the renowned Phineas P. Bar- 
 num and the eminent Marshall P. Wilder, both genuine sons of New 
 England, who, though neither of them ever held or worked a farm or 
 raised a colt, calf, lamb or pig, were intuitively endowed with more 
 of the theory and practice of Husbandry than was ever ascribed to 
 Virgil or Cincinnatus of old. I should, my Hearers, correct a mis- 
 take which has just flashed into my mind in regard to Brother Barnum 
 never having raised a colt, as I now recollect the celebrated Woolly 
 Horse raised by him, it is said, on the Mariposa farm belonging to 
 our most faithful Hero, General Fremont. Marshall P. Wilder was 
 placed at the head of the Centralizing National Society, whose mon- 
 ster exhibitions were the theme of every newspaper in the land. 
 Brother Barnum showed the farmers how to plow with Elephg,nts, 
 and introduced premiums for the best display of female Equestrian- 
 ship, or Woman Horsemanship, to be competed for by farmers' 
 wives and daughters. President Wilder inaugurated at these exhi- 
 bitions Horse-racing, called Trials of Speed, for high stakes, called 
 premiums, to be contended for under the riiles of the Jockey Club. 
 These races were attractive, and drew immensely, filling the coffers 
 to overflowing. All were in favor of the Track or Eace Course ; 
 Agriculture seemed never so popular. These Trials of Speed were 
 called by the Boston Divines Orthodox Horse-racing, who, with 
 other Saints, patronized them immensely, including the highest Dig- 
 nitaries of the Church; and for the uprightness by which the stakes 
 or premiums were won and adjusted Marshall P. Wilder is known to 
 this day by the name of the Pious Horse-racer. The National Ex- 
 hibitions were held in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Yirginia and Kentucky, 
 and attracted multitudes from every quarter. The practical virtue 
 of these shows lay in leading the flxrmers into contempt or forgetful- 
 ness of State Institutions ; thus preparing their minds for the utter 
 extinction of political State Eights j the suppression of an element, 
 
Beloved Brethren, indispensable to give potency to the Higher Law, 
 and facility in changing the Ethiopian Skin. It was held by some 
 of the Eight Eeverened Doctors, and other Doctors, that the 1 rials of 
 Speed shSuld be encouraged with the view of improving the Breed 
 of Horses for the Army; and this was not only wise, but prophetic; 
 for the improvement at the present is so manifest in the spirit and 
 mettle of our cavalry chargers that their rearing and throwiiig then- 
 riders have become so dangerous as to cause our Euler, Abraham, to 
 euffao-e the services of the lamous Earey to tame them. 
 
 Let us now, my Hearers, pause to contemplate the wonder-work- 
 ino- genius of the Pilgrim race— view our Prophet Horace Barnum 
 ami Wilder, reared on a rocky and barren land, whose only staples 
 are codfish and granite— teaching agriculture to the farmers oi 
 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky, wherein abound fer- 
 tility of soil, field products, horses, cattle, sheep and swme to_ out- 
 rival all that has ever been claimed by the most fabulous votaries oi 
 Ceres. ^Tis but two or three years, just after Abraham was chosen 
 that the closing lessons were given in Yirgima and Kentiiclvy, and 
 which are now being practically demonstrated m those States. And 
 no doubt the same abundant harvests that are now being reaped 
 in Virginia and Kentucky will ere long be gathered m Pennsylvania 
 and Ohio ; it is said they are almost ready for the sickle, and i am 
 constrained to say that, until their Harvest is past, and summer 
 ended, we will not be able to rejoice in the complete change ot the 
 
 ^ BuTthe crowning act of our Prophet's efforts was the creating an 
 Agricultural Department at Washington, with a salary at ached of 
 five thousand dollars per annum, and the placing that great lummaiy 
 of Agricultural Science, Brother Isaac Newton, at its head Isaac s 
 appointment gave general satisfaction to the farmers, and was re- 
 cdved by them in full for the votes they gave m the glorious elect on 
 of memorable 1860. They were delighted to think f^yj^f S^^^ ^ 
 Department and a Cabinet officer at Washington, and that Abraham 
 had taken to his bosom the intelligent and scientific Isaac— knowing 
 that a more truthful, honorable or magnanimous heart never beat m 
 
 that bosom. , j 4. t i „.i a.,mv> 
 
 I take occasion here, my Brethren, to relate an anecdote I had liom 
 a reliable source in regard to Abraham and his Pet Lamb I«^^^c_ loa 
 know Father Abraham is sometimes playful and {f e^^o"^- :^; .^P; 
 pears that the marked attention bestowed upon the ne^N ^abmet 
 officer, Isaac, in consequence of his profound learning and couitiu- 
 like, statesmanship ability, aroused the jealousy of Secretaiy btan- 
 on fearing that he who held the Portfolio of H^^^^^f'^'J^lf' 
 supplant hhn in the afiections of Abraham. This state fj^^;^^^ be- 
 tween the two Heads of Departments gave rise to much ^o^.^f^d 
 tattle among the Diplomats at Washington, and caused a fi end of 
 the Secretaiy at War to wait on Abraham and_ inform 1"^^ ^^ «^^^ *^ 
 measures were not adopted soon to '^^^l^^y ^hc jealousy of Sta on 
 his services might be lost to the country, ^^^^^'''-7 . Twfnl io be 
 the breaking uj of the whole Cabinet-a calamity too ^^^ !^ ^^J^^ 
 contemplatell.'To this, the amiable Abraham ^cpb^d, sajing that 
 no Member of his Cabinet dare aspire to the ^'.^g^;^. ^", ^^ f^,^; 
 held the distinguished Secretary Stanton, for during this blood> ^^al, 
 
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 no man of his Cabinet was so staunch when carnage was rife — why, 
 Eobespierre was a barking, chicken-hearted cur to the cool, blood- 
 hound qualities of my Secretary at War. Further, said Abraham, 
 this Isaac is a mere milksop, of the sneaking, cowardly Quaker 
 Tribe, whom I took mainly to oblige Hickman, Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee on the Judiciary, who pressed him on me in consideration 
 solely, perhaps (here Abraham threw one of his meaning winks over 
 his left shoulder at the friend), solely, perhaps, he repeated, on ac- 
 count of Isaac's ingenuity in getting Broadbrim votes for him in his 
 district. Furthermore, continued Abraham, Isaac'a name was an- 
 other reason with me for appointing him. You know every Abraham 
 should have an Isaac, and, when the command comes, I will put the 
 knife to my Isaac as readily as ever he butchered an old ram and 
 sold it for Wether Mutton in the Philadelphia market. This sim- 
 ple anecdote is encouragingly suggestive that Abraham will carry 
 on this righteous war till the Ethiopian is made to stand on the 
 same level with white men or above them. 
 
 My beloved brethren, don't think that I have descended too far 
 below the line of the Higher Law in describing things and u^sing 
 words familiar to the unenlightened, for you should know that of 
 old all knowledge was communicated by fable or parable so as to 
 make it plain to the understanding. It is meet that at such times 
 as the present I should speak plainly and strongly; and I mean so 
 to do till the end of this discourse, and may the hearing ear and un- 
 derstanding heart be given to you while I continue to unfold the 
 important truths revealed to me. 
 
 Horace, the Prophet, with other Inspired Men of the East, having 
 carried their Delegates to make choice of a Euler, Chicago, in the 
 Land of Illinois, being the chosen place of meeting, there the Dele- 
 gates assembled. It was plain that the Prophet controlled the 
 greatest part of them; yet there was one Simon, called the Pure, 
 from the Land of Penn, who assumed equal influence with 
 the Prophet, which grieved him not a little. 
 
 To understand the faith that was in Simon, the Prophet held 
 a class meeting — politically, a caucus — and led it. He opened by 
 exhorting all who valued regeneration and the changing of the 
 Ethiopian Skin, to cast their lots for no one save a steadfast, true 
 and unflinching Emancipationist, in whom there could be no guile, 
 and then called on each to speak his experience and show the hope 
 that was in him. All was satisfactory until he came to the last 
 Bench, whereon Simon had placed his people, so that they might bo 
 the last to respond; when, to the Prophet's surprise, Simon arose 
 and said he should speak for those he had brought from the Land of 
 Penn, as he held their consciences in his own hand, to be moulded 
 as Suited neither higher nor lower law, but the law of Barter. The 
 strong hand held by Simon showed the Prophet that he had fallen 
 in with no ordinary customer, and led him at once to ascertain 
 Simon's position, by asking. How is it with Brother Simon ? 
 Whereupon Simon said, "A certain soothsayer, Avhose lineage he 
 knew not, nor cared nothing for, called at his abode, and revealed to 
 him many comfortable things that would come to pass if he Avould 
 lend a hand in making him Euler over the People ; to which he con- 
 sented, because he believed, and continued to believe, he could do 
 
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 that tiling; and the name of the soothsayer was "William H. Seward. 
 The Prophet, on hearing this, became wroth, and rent his clothes — 
 the first time he betrayed the infirmity of anger. But, my Hearers, 
 you should recollect that many priests and prophets, from Moses, 
 who broke the ten commandments at one smash, to Paul, who bit- 
 terly cursed Alexander the coppersmith, had given wa}^ to anger, 
 but, like our Prophet, sinned not. The anger of the Projihet having 
 subsided, he addressed Simon in the language of true inspiration, say- 
 ing: — Simon! Simon! The Tempter has'had you upon high, to 
 show you the oai'nal things wherewith he would invest you. This 
 Tempter was in the shape of Seward; and you know the Teniptcr 
 was a Liar from the beginning; therefore, place no confidence in 
 Seward, for, if j'ou could or did elect him Euler, so soon as you had 
 crowned him, he would turn from' such as you, and leave you to 
 waddle, like a lame duck, for life in the mud holes of Middletown. 
 Hearken unto me, continued the Prophet, you could not make 
 Seward Euler, because I stand in the way; and, rather than he 
 should sit upon the Throne, and I left to the tender mercies of Ben- 
 nett's Little Villain, Eaymond, and the Albany Cormorant, Thur- 
 low Weed, I would set up the Little Giant, or the Philistine, 
 Breckenridge. Seward ! indeed! Preposterous! Iniquitous! If I 
 wanted a Fox, with a firebrand to its tail, to let loose among the 
 standing corn of the Philistines, Seward would be the Fox. But 
 now, first of all things, I want a Sampson, who could slay the Philis- 
 tines with even the Jaw bone of an Ass, carry the Gates of the citadel 
 of the Union upon his back and set them on Bunker Hill; or, if need 
 be, go it blind, and pull down the Pillars of Constitutional Liberty. 
 Such is the man I want, and lo! I have found him! And his name is 
 Abraham, surnamed Lincoln ! A very Saul among the Prophets, a 
 head and shoulders above Seward and all others, a Sampson in 
 strength, a Solomon- in wisdom, and a Shadrach, JMeshach and Abed- 
 ne-go in fortitude and fidelity! 
 
 The Prophet ended this inspired speech by pledging himself to 
 set Simon on a high and lucrative place near the Throne, if in cast- 
 ing lots on the morrow he would follow his lead. To this Simon as- 
 sented, as did all present. Before the class was dismissed, the Pro- 
 phet examined Simon's hand, (I must now, ray Hearers, speak after 
 the manner of the men of chance, called Blacklegs, to show how the 
 Lots were cast that fell most in number upon Abraham, surnamed 
 Lincoln, the mode and chai-acter being "High, Low, Jack and the 
 Game,") and found it composed of the Knave of Spades and Queen, 
 with numerous black spots of the same suit. At this discovery the 
 Prophet rejoiced with exceeding great joy, knowing that he held the 
 Ace and King, and knowing also that the Sewardites held but a 
 motley hand of Blacks and Beds. Behold ! said the Prophet, to 
 which Simon gave heed, I shall on the morrow lead my Ace, upon 
 Avhich you will place your Jack ; the trick will be mine. Then I will 
 lead my ten, upon which you will throw your Queen ; taking that 
 trick gives you the lead with one of your Spades, of course, which I 
 shall take with the King, giving me that trick, and, beyond perad- 
 vcnture, the Game. When this was shown the class was dismissed, 
 after singing John Brown, his soul is marching on. They accord- 
 ingly cast Anchor and wished for the day. The day came, and, as the 
 
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 Prophet had foretold, Abraham, surnamed Lincoln, was chosen to be 
 Euler, which in due time was confirmed by all the Faithful in the 
 Land of the Puritans, and by those who had gone out into the Wil- 
 derness, but who did not go astraj^. 
 
 And it came to pass, when the customary days of preparation 
 given to the Euler elect had ended, the chosen Abraham sojourned 
 to the Capital, called Washington, where the men formerly called 
 Presidents were inaugurated. The journey was long and devious; 
 wherever he came among the Faithful, their greeting was as if the 
 shout of a King was among them. But as he ai^proached the Bor- 
 ders of the Philistines, a change came over the spirit of his dream; 
 and he feared greatly to pass an ancient City of the Moabites, called 
 Baltimore, which needs be passed before he could reach the Ca- 
 pital. In this dilemma, the Prophet, knowing Simon to be a skilful 
 costumer, employed him to so disguise Abraham that the Moabites 
 should not know him from one of themselves. Simon, to do the 
 thing economically, wrapped him in his old cloak, and furnished 
 Abraham's lofty head with a Highland Bonnet, which so meta- 
 morphosed Abraham, the chosen, that he actually forgot what man- 
 ner of person he was, to the great amusement of Simon, who irre- 
 verently chaunted the Scotch Ballad : 
 
 " Come under my pladie, the night's gaun to fa'." 
 The song, however, had an exhilerating effect upon the spirit of 
 Abraham, and gave birth to a gratitude towards Simon as unlimited 
 as the Charity that covcreth a multitude of sins. The Chosen Abra- 
 ham passed unknown through the Moabitish City to the place of 
 Instalment, where the Prophet Horace received him with prayer 
 and thanksgiving, and had him saddled Avith all the Eelics or So- 
 vereignty. And when the multitude saw he was saddled, they lifted 
 their voices and with one accord cried. Great is our Euler Abra- 
 ham ! From this auspicious day, my Hearers, a day worthy of 
 being held in remembrance by the chroniclers of future generations, 
 the great problem of changing the Ethiopian Skin remained no longer 
 an open or mysterious question, but simply a question of time only. 
 Owing to the fatigue of Abraham's journey and the pressure of the 
 Burden wherewithal he was saddled, the Prophet wisely alloAved him 
 time to breathe and recuperate, the better to come up to the work 
 destined for him to perform. 
 
 When the days of rest and training were fulfilled, the Prophet 
 pranced out Abraham, so changed that all were astonished to behold 
 in him a War Charger, caparisoned for the field, and so defiantly 
 proud and mettlesome that never Commander, Knight or Squire in 
 the_ Crusade for the Holy Sepulchre bestrode his like. I speak figu- 
 ratively, my Brethren, that you may catch the idea. Indeed, the 
 best illustration I could give would fall short of the spirit, style and 
 action of the Bucephalus the Prophet had well in hand. The only 
 thing approachable to the reality would be West's picture of Death 
 on the Pale Horse. Every track of Abraham was marked with Blood 
 and Devastation ! On ho flow, conquering and to conquer, from 
 Bull's Eun to the borders of the mighty Mississippi ; thence back to 
 the place of beginning, where he crossed that second Jordan, called 
 Eappahannock, at Fredericksburg, in sight of the Promised Land, 
 where he rests for the winter to refresh and recruit for another 
 
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 bloody onslaught. From Bull's Eun to the Ejippahannoek the 
 streams were made to run blood, and were filled with the carcasses 
 of the Philistines, whose White men, with those of our Hosts, slain 
 arc numbered at Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Souls ! Seeing 
 this, my Brethren, who will doubt the ability of our Euler and the 
 Prophet, when the days lengthen, and they take the Field to subdue 
 the ]\[oabiteB and Edomites, who dwell on the borders of the Sus- 
 quehanna, Ohio, Delaware and Hudson, and who lately have raised 
 the standard of rebellion against their righteous sway, but that simi- 
 lar results will be shown in thinning the whites to make room for the 
 chosen Ethiopian race. 
 
 The achievements in the Field, great as they have been, would 
 prove inoperative tOAvards promoting the great end in view, but for 
 the wisdom of Abraham, our Euler, who from the Throne, in the 
 sj^irit of the Higher Law, made an Edict, and had it pi'oclaimed to 
 all Lands, Kindred and Tongues, that on the First Day of the First 
 Month, called January, (in honor of the two-faced Heathen Deity 
 Janus,) the Black Eace should no longer dwell in servitude, but take 
 rank, have honors, and high places with, or Avithout, White men for 
 ever ! When this transcendently glorious Proclamation was made, 
 there came up threatenings and cursings from the Philistines, and 
 the Moabites and Edomites on their borders, as had like through 
 fear, to have set even the Faithful to cursing Abraham, our Euler; 
 and there was a great stir among the People, in so much that it was 
 feared the Prophet might be constrained to curse also ; but he, like 
 Balaam and his Ass, blessed and cursed not, (understand I do not 
 mean the Ass took part in blessing, for it could but complain, or 
 not go on; no Ass, or fool, or madman can Bless,) I mean that our 
 Pi-opbet Horace, opened his mouth, and like Balaam, who was re- 
 quired by Balaak, son of Zippor, King of the Moabites, to curse the 
 Israelites, blessed them. In like manner our Prophet, instead of 
 cursing, opened his mouth, and cried with a loud voice, God Bless 
 Abraham Lincoln, our Euler! and all the elect, those in high places 
 and in low places ; and the Faithful in general said Amen ! And I 
 repeat, Amen ! and Amen ! ! 
 
 My Beloved Hearers, I had intended, for your instruction this eve- 
 ning, to have spoken on a clause of the second verse of the second 
 chapter of the Prophet Malachi, which reads, " I will curse your 
 Blessings, yea, I have cursed them already," but meditating as I 
 came hither on these portentous times, it came into my mind that a 
 desultoxy discoui'se might, in the range it would allow, be made more 
 pi-ofitablc than if I confined myself to the strictness I should be com- 
 pelled to observe in handling a single text. The text alluded to in 
 Mahichiwas pressed upon me in consideration of hearing the ungodly 
 mock, and ascribe Avhat they wrongfully called defeats of our Armies 
 at Bull's Eun and elsewhere to Eev. Doctor Ducachet's making the 
 sign of the cross upon our flag in the streets, and blessing it, with 
 other holy things said and did by him on the occasion, believing that 
 neither the blessing nor cursing of the Jolly Doctor had tmght to 
 do with the defeats or victories of our Army. I chose the woi'ds of 
 Malachi, " I loill curse your blessings, yea, I have cursed them already," 
 to show that the malediction bestowed on Priests having Bloody 
 Hands did not apply to Ministers of the Nineteenth Century of the 
 
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 Christian era, but those under the Jewish Dispensation; and sure I 
 am that Malachi never dreamed of such a Priest as Doctor Ducachet. 
 And if the Rev. Doctor, after having taken a bird's-eye view of the glo- 
 ries of the battle-field, did feel a little elated, and did cut a few capers 
 before the Star-spangled Banner, I was prepared to show that the 
 Doctor had Scripture authority for his gyrations, for we read, my 
 Heai-ers, that David danced before the Ai-k. 
 
 I fear I have trifled too long with your anxiety and the curiosity 
 of my sisters, in not explaining the mode and manner by which the 
 regeneration or new birth — the changing the Ethioj^ian Skin — is to 
 be finally perfected, but I shall now reveal the operation, as far as the 
 Higher Law will give me utterance. I have shown how Abraham 
 and the Prophet dealt with the White Skins, whether of the circum- 
 cision or uncircumcision. All capable of bearing arms or matrimony 
 are either to be slain by the edge of the sword or rendered unfit for 
 service. This being the case, the White skin females marriageable 
 or widowed will be innumerable. The Male Blacks or Ethiopians, 
 having passed through the war unscathed, and well fed, must have 
 allotted to each as man}'- white females as Mrs. Harriet BEEonER 
 Stowe and the Strong-minded Women of the East,, sitting in Faneuil 
 Hall, as a Disposing Congress, of which Mrs. Stowe will be Speaker, 
 may judge him competent to manage. Those of the white females 
 Avho prove fastidious and who will not take to the Ethiopian Skins, 
 are to be flung out, in Butler Fashion, for the use of the unbridled 
 and unbroken-in Black Oiirang-Outangs, to deal with them accord- 
 ing to their natural instincts. At the same time, the Ethiopian 
 females must be restrained, under penalty of death, from all inter- 
 course with those of their own color. The question then may be 
 asked. What is to be done with those Ethiopian females ? Well, 
 they are to be assorted and classified; those found of proper age 
 and health are to be reserved for white men. Those under and over 
 age are to be shipped from Boston, via Canada, consigned to the 
 British Anti-Slavery Society ,in return for the moneys they so gener- 
 ously remitted to enable us to work out the great problem, especially 
 for the ^old sovereigns so liberally bestowed by the Patriarch Lord 
 Brougham and the angelic Duchess of Sutherland on Mi-s. Beecher 
 Stowe, for her Divine Eevelation in " Uncle Tom's Cabin" — a price- 
 less work, for which she is entitled to a more enduring reward than 
 the British Philanthropists and the players in Europe or America 
 could bestow. Another question, What is to be done with the class 
 of young and competent Black Females? Why, as, at the close of the 
 war, there will be found but few adult Native Americans, they must 
 be reinforced by importations from Ireland, Germany and Enghmd, 
 to make up a supply for these Black females. The Scotch cannot 
 be recommended, for, from their having been employed time out of 
 mind as the Whips to drive the Ethiopians, and having taken more 
 out of their skins and laid more on them than all others, they cannot 
 be trusted; to say nothing of their being so given to filthy lucre as 
 to tempt them, during the early stages of changing the skin to sell 
 it into bondage, to any buyer from the Tropics, to put money in the 
 purse. Time will not permit my going farther into the details of 
 this regenerating process; enough has been shown to enlighten you 
 as to the modus operandi now happily in rapid progress towards fall 
 
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 and complete consummation. But, Beloved Brethren, I cannot forbear 
 to remind you of the Blessings you should ever bereadj', in all grate- 
 fulness, to call down upon the head of our Eulcr Abraham, and to ex- 
 hort you to jDut your trust in the Higher Law, which is sufficient to 
 bear 3'ou through all the trials to which you may be cxposcd,whether of 
 shame or evil re^^ort; in poverty, in nakedness; in war, pestilence and 
 famine; even to laying down your lives as a willing sacrifice ; reckon- 
 ing all unworthy of regard, compared to the incomparable and most 
 glorious work made manifest in this, that the Ethiopian Skin, through 
 those sufferings, has been changed, and made white as wool ! 
 
 By way of application, I must recur to the never-to-be-forgotten 
 Prayer of the Prophet Horace, the Greelc}', uttered when Abraham, 
 the Euler, on the twent^^-second day of the Ninth month, called Sep- 
 tember, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
 Sixty-two, and in the second year of his Eeign, made Proclamation, 
 that all Ethiopians, wickedly called negroes, should be made Free, to 
 enjoy themselves after the manner of" their kind and lineage. A 
 Prayer that should ever dwell in the hearts and be uppermost on the 
 lips of the Faithful, namely — God Bless Abraham Lincoln ! Let 
 the Merchants, when the Ships lie rotting at the wharves, and the 
 Bankers, when the Banks are closed and broken, and when the 
 Money Changers find their tables overthrown, and their occupation 
 gone — then let them, jointly or severally, to preserve their cunning 
 and keep their hands in. Draw, Discount and Negotiate Bills that 
 will be honored at home, St. Domingo and Liberia; provided they 
 bear on their fiice, by way of Legal Tender — God Bless Abraham 
 Lincoln ! And 
 
 When the Manufacturers find the Loom idle and the Shuttle sus- 
 pended in the sley, and the male operatives slain or disabled, and 
 their wives and children houseless and starving — then let them, as 
 in duty bound, cry — God Bless Abraham Lincoln ! And 
 
 When the Farmers find their Fields laid waste. Dwellings and 
 Barns demolished, and all around desolation; no green spot to re- 
 fresh their sunken eyes, no Flocks or Herds in the distance lowing, 
 rendering hill and dale joyous — let them not despair, but with the 
 eye of faith, through the Higher LaAV, look to the glorious future, 
 when their farms will be the heritage of the regenerated Ethiopian, 
 who will repair and reproduce all that till of late was so snug, plea- 
 sant and comfortable. I say, let them not look back upon the past, 
 nor repine at the present, but look into the future, and, with pious 
 resignation, repeat — God Bless Abr.^iiam Lincoln ! And 
 
 Let the Ministers of the Church Militant, from Rev. Henry Ward 
 Beecher and the Sanctified and Veracious Doctor Tyng, of New 
 York, to the Meek and Gentle Parson Brownlow and the Eevcrend 
 and Peaceful Jim Cartey, of Nashville — let them, I repeat, when 
 they have preached the Gospel-loving, Disloyal Hearers out of their 
 Churches, and the Pews are empty, save when filled as Hospitals 
 with the mutilated, Avounded and broken-down soldiers of this 
 Eighteous War; and when their eyes behold nothing but wounds, 
 bruises and putrefying sores, which they helped to produce, oh! then 
 let them lift their Spotless Hands to the Lamb upon the Throne, and 
 exclaim — God Bless Abraham Lincoln ! And 
 
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 Let Harriet Beecher Stowe bring out the last act in her Uncle 
 Tom's Drama, to be put on the stage Tvitli all the eifect artistic skill 
 can produce. In the centre foreground should appear quivering 
 Limbs, once of gentlest, rarest mould, now stained and defiled with 
 foulest pollution; showing also snow-white bosoms, that ever throbbed 
 in angelic purity to Woman's soft emotions, now Blood-stained, in 
 the last heavings of unpitied, untold outrage, woe and wrong! 
 Along the Eight and Left Side-wings should appear groups of fair 
 and gentle creatures, with hair dishevelled, and eyes distorted in 
 hopeless despair, while the Black Ourang-Outaugs are dragging 
 them down to gratify their Brutal Instincts. In the Middle Centre 
 may be thrown the charred remains of Lovely Women, first out- 
 raged and then committed to the flames. Forms, that once moved 
 with grace, dignity and love, nov^ hideous and revolting. Alongide 
 of these should be strewn Murdered Innocents, with brains dashed 
 out and bodies ruthlessly gashed and bleeding. Then in the centre 
 of the back-ground, as climax to the tout ensemble, a Tableau should 
 be arranged, composed of Fathers, Husbands and Brothers, chained 
 erect, so as they may behold the heart-rending outrages perpetrating 
 before them; their eyes rolling in madness Avith the combined pity, 
 hate, affection, revenge and despair that swell to bursting their 
 manly hearts. Then, when the curtain rises, let Harriet Beecher 
 Stowe enter, with lofty brow, to receive the Plaudits of an audience 
 gathered from Humanity's extended Fold; and when advanced to 
 the footlights, let her give, wiih dramatic effect — God Bless Abra- 
 ham Lincoln ! And 
 
 Finally, let Hell open wide its Jaws, and jubilant of the Avorks of 
 Abolitionism, belch forth flames and lightening, and, in derision of 
 the Most High, Laugh out — in Thunders that will shake the earth and 
 startle the ear of Heaven — God Bless Abraham Lincoln ! 
 
 And now let us conclude by singing the glorious anthem : 
 
 John Brown, his soul is marching on, 
 Though his body ia under eround. 
 
 (With the repeat.)