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Show Edward Everett. "'Tho ruins of these fri ghtful clun:;eons (which hRYO h C'cn drmolished by order of the go,·rrnment) still exist on these plantations; those wllo doubt cnn como and see them.' -p. 64, n oto. "W ~ sec now ~vhat rnus~ have been the meaning of the fearfully sarcast1c provcrb1al expresswn, 'As happy as a slave of Gallifr.t!' "Did .Mr. Everett know the terrible significant facts which I have quote~, and the real meaning of t~1e proverb in question? 'Vho can tell? 'Ve know the extent of h1s knowledge, nnd the perscverinO' industry with which he searches out facts, when the facts are on hi~ side. nut so much as this it is safe to say; even if Mr. Everett had read the pamphlet in question, and had uttered his praise of Gallifet and Odeluc with a full knowledge of the directly and friO'htfnlly antagonistic facts,- even then he would not have told a mot~ deliberate and absolute lie than when he said, at the commencement of the above extract from his speech, that John Drown's enterpri. e 'was an attempt to do on. a va.st scale what was done in St. Domingo in 17 91.' " • II. SERMON BY HENRY wARD BEECHER.* TillS is a terrible message. It was God's word of old hy the mouth of his prophet Jeremiah. The occasion of it was a sudden irruption upon Judah of victorious cncmic~. Go<l sent the prophet to reveal the cause of this disaster. The prophet declared that God was puni hing them because t lt('Y were sclfi ' h, and unju t, and coYctous, and because the whole Church was whelmed, with its ministry, in the same sins. The e mischiefs had been glo ~ cd over, and cxcu eel, an<l palliated, and hidden, and not healed. There had been a ~ pirit that demanded union and quiet, rather than purity and , afety. God, therefore, threatens further affiictions, because of the hardness of their hearts; and then,- for such always is the Divine lenity,- as it were, giving them another opportunity and alternative, he commands them to seck after God; to * Prt>ach ed at Plymouth Church , llrooldyn, on Sunday e' ·ening, October 30. 1 59, from .Jeremiah vi. 12- 19 : "Jo'or r will stre tch out my hanrl upon tho inhabitants of tho Jan1l. !'1\ith thr Lorrl; for from the lt•ast of them even unto the gn'nleflt of them, every o ne is g-in•n t t, ron·ttlUSill'! iR; nnd fr11111 tho propht·t oven unto the priest, every one dcalt'th thlst'ly . 'l'lwy hnvo lwn!torl nl!lo the hurt of tho daup;htr r of my people l'lightly, sayi r.~, l'earr JWat·e, when th e re is 110 p •act•. 're r<' th ey a~<ham ed when th1•y had committed ahominal inn l nay, tht•y wc ro not at all ashamed, 11t'ithc t· could thry J,lush ; ther r forr th' ')' f'h:~ll 1:111 nmonl{ them that f:lll ; nt the time that 1 visit them, they shall llo ca:<t d~l \\' 11 ;.a t I h tho Lord. Thus Rnitlt tho Lord, Stand ye irt the ways, nud s t•, t\lld ask tor the old pntltH, where i" lh t• good way, artd wtdk thon•in, and yo shall tirtd rest for yoo~r ~~·.uls. ]lnt they snill, 'Vo will not walk th e rei11. Also 1 I'C t watchmen ov1•r you , !'ll)' lllg, H earken to tho !'OIItHI of the trumpet. BnL tlwy said, ·n-o will n ot h!•nrl,t•u. 'I' IH•n•foro hear. yc natious, and know, 0 conl-(rep:ati on , what is ~nl<' .. l~ t.h clll. Jl pa r , 0 earth · llohold I will brill "' evil npon this lll'"PI ~;~, 1' \'\J ll tho frlll t ot tlw1r tl1011~ ht!l, l>e- • • n " · 1 · " 011118\J thny lla\'O not h carl<ene<.l unto my wonlH, uor to my law, uut n •J ut' t l'l tl. 22* (267) |