New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-04


instead o. the present expensive and demorH!'
izing mode Of appointment at albany, npou Ire
nomination OF Governor who has little or no
personal knowledge of the candidates, procured
through the exertions of bcrers who maze any
representations calculated TO ensure 'heir tr'-
umph. ..o.. ..-,
.we nv giving 10 the County Boards OF Su
peryisors power lesisla.s on all subjects OF 3
,,,r ,t abnson Of ali needless Offices the retrench
men; of all exo1bitant Salaries and Ep1oin-
ments and the creation OF efficient barriers
against unwise aud improvicent Expenditures
whether Of money rsise3 b; Lcans or by
Taxation
u The Convention assemblies 81 Albany Mon
day June lst
RELIGION, Morality, Temperance and Civil
Government
There has recently been some rather 'ocse discss
zion between several OF cur C;ty journals respect
ing the propre,y of Clergymen's treating OF Poi;i-
cal questions, either in their puipi,s or through the
Religious periodicals with which they may be
connected The Globe has assaied and the Erp'ess
justified such discussion, while the EUealUg Post
if we rightly retein ts drii', found it expedient
rather to crticise the EXPOSES logic in defence
than tho practice defended. The whole controversy
thus far has appeared rather calculated 10 'darken
counsel than TO elicit and establish truth. For the
real question ne il seems 10 u.s. is not, Should Cle-
synen convert their pulpits into arenas Of Political
strife7 but Should Clergymen refrain from com
mending the dictates OF Morality and Religion TO
their bearers because those dictates happen to con-
-Rict Witb the measures Of thiS or thct Political
PARTY ?'-For example, Religion condemns Duel
ing Two candidates for Office are in nomination,
Quo of them mn avowed Guest his rival not
Ought that circumstance to shut Tho mouths OF
Clergymen with respect to the atrocity OF Dueing
Clearly not. Il is very true that the candidate OBJ
iectionable on this score may other grounds, and
in view of the whole ground, be that one OF the two
whom Religious men ought TO support The cler-
gymsn, therefore, who should make such personal
application of his remarks as &c declare Dazzling the
only question 10 be decided in the pending Election
and anathemotize all who supported the duelist s.
recreant 10 Religion, would be guilty OF grave
error Of Judgment, to say the least Butte deny him
the right, as public reproyer Of sin, to denounce
Duelins, because Of the immediate Political bear
ings of such denunciation, would be. in Il possible
case to narrow his sphere of action inconvcnientyi
SINCE in case candidate were presented who had
violated all the precepts of the Decaogre he would
he precluded from denouncing arg actual ;Tansgres-
-
the abstract, or organic sins
Take the case of War: Who can doubt chat it is
utterly hostile to the whole spirit and scope of the
Christian Religion that it naturally leads TO and
virtually requires the violation of every precept Of
Jesus? We do not here assert tha; Gorcibc resist
ance TO wrong and expressions nerer justihabc-i;
IS not necessary TO 20 far ia maintaining hot wars
for National Honor, ;or remote. Unnhabited terri
tory, or any such cause, utterly condemned by
the whole tenor and aim of The Gospel. If this DC
not eeEevident, what can DC And yet the clergy
man who poinedly condemns and denounccs Wax,
with whatever clearly conduces 10 War, m c hris
tan and horrible is denounced as imperncnt in.
tsrmeddler with Politics!
The discussion on which we are commenting WINS
provoked by strong article in the Eraageiist,
demning the refusal Of Messrs. Polk and Buchanan
submit the Oregon Question to the decision Of any
arbiters whatever Mr.. Pakenhams repeated pro.
posas were broad and 80 unequivocal as TO leave
President and Secretary alternative but to
cept them say, they virtually aid, I'VE vii!
not submit the matter to any tribunal-You must
yield implicitly TO or fight This the Evangelist
condemned most thoroughly We; not merely Chris.
,ianity and Religion but every cminen, writer OF,
the same thing. The objection implies essentially
that Christian ministers mast not condemn any VIC
laton, however haSran.. of the principles of Reli
gion and Morality by Governments or Rulers. e.c,
cep. at tae ;okea no S,scb rotation hGS recently
taken or IS about to take place. Ii the wrong Is
going forward before their eyes they must hold
their peace TIL some forty years afterward, when it
viii be open TO their eensures il nobody shall then
De doing or about 10 do something like H. Mean.
time, they are at liberty to make amends by bela.
boxing any other peccadiiio which nobody now
thinks of COMMUNICABLE cannot help thinking
the salaries Of clergymen lnsy well be saved a.
together when this plan Of avoiding oil topics said 10
be Political shall he generally scquiesced in by
them.
The RICH, side ofihe general question is torcibiy
presented in brief tract now before US written BY
Rev. c. VAN Loon of Poughkeersie designed 70
operate on the Temperance Election 10 be held spe,
cially in every city and township OF State tkis
City only excepted on The second Tuesday in May
next. This tract entitled No Biso.ry No In,ol.
ersnce! but Ne License ought to be universally
circulated, and we wish means could be found to
oIacopy in every family il the State, including
oven our prescribed City l: carefully separates the
MOTIF ana Religious considerations which cluster
aioaliu ana ehtwtno themselves with Temperance
soa hum Selling pats ihesc all aside 70 be usei in
tnoif proper places, and grapples with the pertinent
questions hat are the powers, duties objects and
proper limitations Of Government, Eovv s,a ,bos.
objects ac''ee by the Gale of Intoxicating Liquors.
What duties doessach interference,
These questions answered tbe Who'll. -. :,
settled beyond farther cavil The sunaa,ne,,,, e..
drawn from official sources, are indspu,able In,ox.
icang Liquors cause threefour;hs OF The Crime and
Psuperism which exist or have existed in our State.
Now the repression of Crime and the support Of
PauPerism are among the mos; imminen; duties o
Government; they the sources of its most press