Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-09-13
Fromthe Cleveland Plaindea Ter.
REV: DR REECHER.

1
lie seems 70 be the favorAe Of all, both min
listers and laymen. He has been an or
dlined minister for,y-fpe years and is en-
pha,ically the father Of the church. We
had The pleasure OF listening To discourse
from him at the Baptist Church on Sab
bath last He was unassnming, but elo.
qncnt. With that philanthropy which
knows no sectional or seciaran limits. and
with that boldness and clearness Which a
consciousness of right and The experience
of near half century has given him. he
shnns not to declare The whole counsel of
| God His remarks OH that occasion were
mainly pointed at the sins cf the nation
among which he specified dueling, gam
bling and slaveholding. These illusions
were no. at all mys,ifed. as they general
| y are by most speakers from our sacred
desks. but he distinctly pointed to the
man. to whom they applied. and said.
things had indeed come to strange pass
in This professedly moral and religious
community, when an open stakeholder
and duel list was sought TO be placed in
The Presidential chair He said i. was
| an insult 10 The nation =
Not long since discourse of his was
published, in which he points out the
Remedy for Duelling' in the following
pointed manner:
.Permi, me now. my dear friends, to
| ask you, solemnly, will you any longer
pe.sis, in your attachment, to duellisrs 3
Will you any longer, either deliberately
| or ,hough,lessly, vote for them? Would
you renounce allegiance to your Maker,
and cast The Bib e behind your back 3
| Will you confde in men, void of the fear
| of God and destitute Of moral princi pie
| Will you inrusi life TO murderers, and lib
eriy to despo.s Are you patriots, and
| will you constitute those Legislators who
despise equal laws, and wage war with
the eternal principles OF justice Are You
Christians, and by unfolding duellis,s. will
| you delnge the land with blood, and fill it
with widows and orphans! Will you aid
in the prosiraion of Of jus,ice-in the es
| cape Of criminals-in The extinction of
liberty! win you place in the chair of
Siae--in the Senate-or on the bench of
Justice, men who, if able, would murder
YOU for speaking truth? Will you teach
Your children that there is no guilt in
murder! Will you instruct them to think
lightly of dueling, and train them up to
destroy or be destroyed in the bloody
field! Will you beslow your suffrage.
when you know that bv Withholding it,
you may arrest the deadly evii-when this
TOO is the only way in which il can be
done, and when the present is, perhaps,
, The only period in which resistance can
avail-when the remedy is so easy, SO Ell.
,reiy in your power; and when God, If
you do not punish these guilty men, will
most inevitably punish you?
'Had you beheld dying father convey
ed. bleeding, agonizing, to hi. distressed
family, had you heard their piercing
<hrleas, and Witnessed their frantic agony,
would you reward the savage man who
had plunged them in distress !! Had the
dueist destroyed your neighbor had
your own father been killed by The man
who soici,s your suffrage-hat your son.
laid BY his hand, been brought to your
door, pale in death. and weltering i'll blood
would you then think the crime small
one Would you honor with your conf
dence and elevate to power by your vote.
the guilty monster? And what would
you think of your neighbors. if regardless.
of your agonony. they should regard him
And vet such scenes Of unu,,erable am
guish are multiplied every year. Every
| year the duelis, is cutting down the neigh
bar of somebody. Every year. ard many
times in the year, father IS brought dead
or dying to his family. or SON laid
GREATNESS a, The fee. of his parents & ev-
cry year You are pa,ronizing by your
woes the men who commit these crimes,
and looking with cold Indifference upon.
and even knocking the SORROWS OF your
ntighbor Beware-I admonish you to
beware. les, having no feelings for the sor-
rows of another, you be called 10 weep
FIR your own sorrow lest your own kin>
dred fall by the hand Of the very murderer
for whom you vote, or by the hand OF
some one whom his example has trained
to the work of blood
The Wings have fancied that notwI,h
standing this clerical illumination, the Or.
would be found among The friends of Mr..
CLAY. A correspondent Of the Boston
Morning Chronicle. has recently had an
interview with him, and in The course oil
conversation on The subject OF the dis
course, the DR.. remarked:
| II meant 1t for erery Dreich soho IS
| ceiling 10 redde,a his hands NTH his bro
Ifher's blood = and added am not the
man to nullify mig o,on instructions: 4
shall maintain them by my practice.
DEATH OF DlsHoP.--The venerable bIsh'