The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-03
The RsLIeIous WAR ON THE FIR n PoNrs,-A


religious war has broken out among the rival
missionary societies Of the We Points Of q very
violent, antiC Christian, ar ID somewhat amusing
character. So far has che controversy extend
ed, that some OF our daily contemporaries are
taking sides in the quarrel, and are giving II
the precedence over the Nebraska question
The Erpress Is arrayed on the side Of the
Methodist lodies, and the Times is the cham
pion Of the recanting Mr.. Pease, who has turned
Presbyteria and has set up an opposition es-
tabljshment TO that Of the Methodist ladies, the
founders of his original enterprise.
AS far as we understand the case, Mr. Pease
was first set up in the Old Brewery by the la
], dies of the Methodist Home Missionary Society.
The experiment prosperea. Money came flow
ing in abundantly. A large and elegant build
ing was raised on the site OF the Old Brewery,
and set apart for the reclamation and amelio-
ration, reigiously and socially, Of the miserable
outcasts OF that horrible locality of crime and
Dretchedness Then came the split. Mr. Pease
| either abdicated, like Napoleon, or was turned
adrift, like Louis Philippe, we don't exactly
know which. At all events, the pre-
sent imbr0glio at the Five Points is
the result Of his having gone over to
the soft she'll Presbyterians, aaa set up
q philanthrepic institution in opposition to that
of the Methodist ladies, by whom he was first
brought into public favor. Now the rival es-
tablishments are wrangling like conflicting
| politicians over the spols. Menifestoes and
counter manifestoes are issued so that be-
tween the representations on the one side ard
the statements on the other it is impossible 10
tell which is right and which is wrong We
rather think that both parties are wrong, for
while they are quarrelling over the plumber
the devil is regaining his sscendaucy in Far
lows Court.
The merits of this religious exposition are
about the same as those which broke IN the
Baltimore Convention of 1913, and sent the
Van Buren, free sellers packing off with the
Wilmot proviso to the Buffalo platform. Tho
animus Of the matter is the spoils. The Me.
thodist ladies, abandoned by Mr.. Pease. have
been struggling ON in their good work without
him. But Mr.. Pease under his new alliance
with the Presbyterian Church, and backed up
by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Uncle
Toms Cabin, the New York Tribune, the
Times, W. II. Seward, and the Hot Corn'
society of the Five Points, has been too much
for the Methodist ladies, and has been getting
the bulk of the dividends well as the glory.
! The Hot Corn war RACES, therefore, as vio-
lently as did the fight among the spoilsmen on
the discharge Of Collector Bronson. The origi.
nal ladies in this missionary cause among our
local heather have appointed another clergy
man; and their original clergyman has gone
! over to another society of ladies, commanding
more puffery, more powerful allies and more
| of the sinews of war. than the Methodist pio-
| neers. But it seems to be the rule that the
original movers in any great discovery, nven-
| ton, or enterprise, must give way to after in
terlopers, who carry off the glory or the profits.
Thus Columbus was cheated out of America,
and thus Fitch was tricked out of his applica-
| ton of steam to navigation; and thus the modest
| Methodists, it appears are to be crowded out
| Of the Five Points by the powerful Presby-
| terians.
How much money has been collected between
| the two societies We are not informed. Per-
haps as much as fifty thousand dollars, Of which
there appears to be no doubt that Mr.. Pease,
| the ulHueuCc VI Ndlu pttCutI CUClc
Tom. the Tribune, the Times and the Hot
| Corn" associations has carried off the lions
share. How much of this, in hot corn or cold
victuals has been distributed-how much in
"old clo',' blankets, and fuel how much in
Bibles, how much in Scion Robinson's Hot
Corn" rehash Of Ned Buntline's denominations
we don't know, and it may be none Of our bus-
| In ipcpira Wa Hasarihipy tho ua4 NC
| it stands-this war between Methodists and
Presby terians, ladies and cergymen, and clergy
men and ladies, and rival daily journalistic
Catholic organ Of Archbishop Hughes, mean
time, fighting them all, with the desperation Of
| Turk and the JUNCTION of Jesuit.
Now, we should like to have an exposition of
this''whole business, from beginning to end, from
some well informed and impartial historian
Capt Ry nders, who has thrown such q food Of
light upon the Missouri compromise question
or John Van Buren,, who remains in the dark
on that subject, might perhaps be able to
enliehten us and the public upon this FIVE
Points controversy. They know that Tammany
Hall has always depended upon the locality
they know the necessities existing there for
missionary enterprise; and though they may
not be an tait in the nice distinctions between
Methodist benevolence and Presbyterian phi
lanthropy, they know all about the spoils, which
is the main question. Between the Tribune,
the Times, the Express. and the Freeman's
Journal, we are completely befogged. viii
not some benevolent and impartial person step
forward and clear up the mystery. We have
1 had enough of Hot Corn charity: now let us
know the exact merits of this religious quar-
rel over. the plumber. Let us have the truth.
and the statistics OF the spoils.
| GEN. SCoTT AND THE LIEUTENANT GENERAL
survive perceive that the Cabinet organ aud
/ its echoes throughon the country continue