Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-03-18
POLITICS AND RELIGION.


POLITICS AND RELIGION.
The freesoil "clergymen" who signed the
anti-Nebraska petition, and sent it into the SEN
ate rs an emanation from the Deity, are catch.
ing it on all Sides They deserve to be dashed
with a whip of scorpions, and they are in a fair
way to get their deserts. But they have great
pluck and fierce resentment They will not
turn the second cheek when the first is slapped.
They'will not throw in their cloaks when their
coats have been taken. II is not in their hyena-
like natures to bear with pate mt humility either
justice or injustice and we do not doubt that
they are brushing up their bible-texts, nursing
their wrath and hunting after foul epithets for
regular pulpit warfare against the Senate and
against all the papers that have rebuked their
insolence. We do not doubt that in few
days these immaculate saints, the salt of the
EARTH" will make their churches ring with the
thunders of scriptural artillery and trucuent
anathemas.
Some idea of the ferocity of these 7" wolves
in sleeps clothing" these political parsons
may be formed from the following extract from
the Boston Post, which contains an excellent
article on the subject. The Post says:
"Nor is this the first appearance of the
clergy in the political field. Several times they
have come out at the bugle-call of party Rod
erick Dhus. In all cases it is to sustain an
anti-democratic party. Their services have
been called for, both to sustain alien-and-sed-
tion-law federalism when in power, and to aid
the same element to obtain power. If we re-
cur to the blackcockade times of sc, we find
them exhorting to submission othe powers that
be, even though they led to war; in the time
of the Madison war we find them ready to
dissolve the Union rather than fight Great
Britain Your public characters exclaimed
DR.. Parish in 1898, ARE your oicn choice.
Watch those unrateful souls that murmnr
about taration and oppression, the burdens Of
government and religion. They hare .telloac-
ship aoiM our enemies; they are traitors to God
and Christianity. Bejealous Of those acho DE-
CLAIM AGAINST ALIEN AND sEDITIoN LAWS.
They PROBABLY HAVE HANKERING AFTER
LYING AND REBELLION THEMSELVES! And the
political doctor called for war with France;
CURSED BE he THAT KEEPETH BACK HIS SWORD
FROM BLOOD, was his ejaculation in 1891 But
in 1874 when Madison had the helm, when our
JAcKsoNs and our HARRIsoNs were pouring out
their blood for their country, this same political
priest declared Let eUe,y man acho sanctioned
this arar By his suffrage or influence remember
he ,cas laboring to coper himse!f and has coun-
try ,oith blood; : and, in denouncing the repub-
icans, he said: "A NEW LANGUAGE MUST BE IN
VENTED BEFORE WE ATTEMPT TO EXPRESS THE
BAsESEss OF THEIR CONDUCT, OR DESCRIBE THE
RoTTESNEss OF THEIR HEARTS Here is but
specimen Of this class who now step forth in
the name of Almighty God.
columns Of such theological stuff might be
quoted. In the reign of terror these political
priests stood forth as the champions of huge
wrong; in the glorious days Of Jefferson and
Madison they denounced those illustrious pa
tfiots when they sustained the right; they cried
for blood in 1898, and were guilty of moral
treason against their country in the war of
1912. They Illuminated against the admission
of Texas; they preached against the 1850 COM
promise; and now they are doing their utmost
to inaame the public. Listen to one Of these
men. Rev. DR.. Elan Smalley said on Satur-
day, ut Worcester:
"tSooner let those noble rivers roll down to
the ocean in streams of blood; sooner let those
beautiful valleys generate only those mephitic
gases in which the bird of the wilderness
would expire sooner let the breezes which
fan the leaves of those lofty old trees be In
tensifed into gales, and the gales becomes
hurricanes, shattering the pride of the forest,
and marking the whole land with desolation,
than that slavery, with all its blighting curses
and atrocious crimes, should enter into that
heaven-famed land.
!" The slave power Of this country is one
and the freedom power is also one. If the for
mer acts unitedly to promote its peculiar in
stitution, let the latter also act unitedly to
promote our peculiar institution. If, as Chat
ham said the cannon of tho British navy is
the thunder Of the British throne, let us say
that union is the thunder Of the north
compare with this stuff the way Rev. DR.
Osgood Numbered against the war of 1872:
"sIf at the command of weak or wicked
rulers, they undertake an unjust war, each mar
who volunteers his service in such cause, Of
loans his money for its support or by his con
versation, his writings, or any other mode o
influence, encourages its prosecution, that ma,
!, an accomplicc IN the icickedness, loads HI.
conscience ,oih the blacklist crimes, brings tn
QUILT OF BLOOD UPON HIS SOUL, AND IN TIL
SIGHT OF GOD AND HIS LAW Is MURDERER.
"Does this look like infallibility2
Nothing the political clergy Of to-day cal