The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-09-13

strong as TO effectually pervert your better
judgment. In either case, you are the victim
of diseased nature, and an imperfect educa-
ton; and when removed from the high position
you occupy and discredit to one where your
influence for evil shall be more limited, will de-
i.crve the sympathy and COMMUNICATION Of the
public rather than it's abhorance and condemna-
ton. Your experience, Reverend Sir, as re-
llgious teacher and politician, in this city.
ought to have ncucated a lesson'o of loitier NOR
atty and christian grace, than your connection
with the Chicago mob, indicates you as the pos
SCISSOR Of Did you not behold the Church over
which you presided for some years, in this city,
and which at one time was in a most hourishiDg
condition, gradually lose its influence and It's
numerical strength Did you not behold the
effect OF your course and teachings, in a divided
Church, the most wealthy and influential portion
Of your Congregation formally separating from
you and erecting house Of worship for them
selves? Was you not compelled from the loss
of your influence and the wreck Of your Church,
to seek new field of labor, in the editorial
sanctum of the Congregational Herald And
will you with the light Of experience before
you, continue in a course. which your own en-
lightened judgment ought to teach you is dis
reputable 10 yourself and destructive of the
best interests Of society and the cause of hu-
man salvation? But, Reverend Sir, you may
be disposed to question the force of these inter-
rogatories, should fail to direct your attention
to such points in your public course while here,
as produced the results above described You
surely have not forgotten the deep interest you
took in general politics while here; the ia
natical madness which characterized your advo-
cacy of Abo!itionism the ardour with which
you seized hold Of the Prohibitory Liquor Law
question, and raced it around the country in
promiscuous assemblies; the violence with
which you assaled from the Pulpit the
secret order Of Masons and Odd Fellows,
the unrighteous manner in which you de-
nounced from the Pulpit on three successive
Sabbaths the war with Mexico and traduced the
gallant men who were engaged in it; and the
p;ous farce which you enacted in this city, to
protect bankrupt from his creditors. All
these facts must be fresh in your recollection
and you certainly need not be told, that they
layed the foundation for your downfall and de-
parture from this city. Such experience ough,
to have its effect upon rational mind and a
christian heart, which you claim to possess
but when we are told that you were one o.
the instigators of the Chicago..mob and We
read with bitter ehagrin and modification
in your paper-instituted for the noblel
purposes Of retaining mankind from sir
and moral bondage-that, "aoe (you) re-
ioice to chronicle this result''-meaning thu
conduct of the mob which deprived an Ameri
can citizen and Senator Of the privilege of vim.
the aspersions Of his encmies-we are irresista
bly, forced to the reluctant conclusion, that tn,
solemn teachings Of experience are thrown
away upon you; and that by nature and educa
, ton you are infinitely better fitted for tn,
world than the church, the rostrum than tn
Pulpit, the politician than the Priest. II j
unpleasant Reverend Sir, to come to so harsl
conclusion but il cannot be avoided and d.
justice to myself and you, to our common coun
try and TO God. You stand guilty and con
, demned man before the searching tribunal o
your own conscience and you certainly have n,
) right to expect more leniency from others, thar
you would presume to accord to yourself, wer
you summoned into the presence of your Make
to-day You are to be pitied, although you
misfortunes are traceable to your own impru
dence and folly.
With high respect for your talents and hop
that your malignity will be Modified by the su
blime influences Of christianity which you pro
fesss, remain very humbIy,
ONE or YOUR FORMER HEARERS.
p 8. Mr.. EDlToR send you the articI
from Mr.. HoIbrook's paper, together with al
extract from the "Chicago Journal (whig an
anti Nebraska) which desire you to publish
1t is apparent that the editor Of the "JournaI'
has sympathy, and but little, if any respect
fer Mr.. Douglas, yet he feels sensibIy the in
justice done to that gentleman and the stigm,
, visited upon the citizens Of Chicago.
The whitening rebuke which he visits upol
the editor Of the Tribune" will apply will
equal force 10 the editor of the Herald. Pleas
insert the extracts in such order as your judg
ment dictates, with appropriate comments.
. Yours,
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