Discourse on the National Crisis

New-York, May 13th, 1861. Rev. F. C. Ewer. Rev. and Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, would respectfully request permission to publish the sermon you delivered last evening. We are so thoroughly convinced of its appropriateness, fitness, and true Christian conservatism, that we think its ficial. dissemination would be highly beneJOHN D. ABRAMS, ED. COWARD, GARDNER WILLARD, JOHN T. HOFFMAN, WM. IL THOMAS, CHARLES A. BUDD, M. D., R. M. MARTIN, CHARLES C. LATHROP, THOMAS GALLAUDET, D. REYNOLDS BUDD, N. B. WHITEMAN, MORRIS FRANKLIN, Charles McDougall S. R. COMSTOCK, R. II. THOMAS, GEORGE R. JACKSON. New-York, May 14/A, 1861. Gentlemen: 1 have received your note of yesterday, asking for publication the sermon preached last Sunday evening, at St. Ann’s. Inclosed 1 send you the manuscript; trusting that such as may peruse the discourse will kindly overlook any repetitions they may find in it, remembering that, though such are out of place before the eye of a reader, they are yet necessary in a sermon prepared for the hearer. I remain, gentlemen, your friend, F. C. EWER. To Rev. Thomas Gaixavdet, and Messrs. John D. Abrams, D. Reynolds Bi dd, Edw ard Cow ard, N B. Whiteman. Morris Franklin, Gardner Willard. Charles MiDoigaix, John T. Hoffman, S. R. Comstock, Cmahixs A Bi DD M D. R. II Thomas It. M Martin, Charles C, Lathkoi*, Geo. R Jackson, ami W m. 11. Thomas.

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