Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-02

WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Moral Disease Of the Times. now,
the press Of both great political parties are cry
ing aloud against the interminable propensity
Of some of the clergy to meddle in politics. de-
monstrated in this country within the last few
years, and more especially within six months
past. The storm of abolitionism now raging
is nearly altogether of their generating
stump speeches being substituted for sermons
nearly once week in every abolition pulpit.
Pro6ting by, or rather presuming on, the Ii
cense they derive from the respect which the
country has for their calling, and the circum-
stances under which they belch forth their
multitude Of falsehoods and ISLANDERS Of those
whose views on public affairs are not to their
taste, they have this season rushed forward
much more than ever before to become candi-
dates for civil rather than ecclesiastical office,
and large number of them have been elected
to political positions. We need hardly remark,
that this is against the spirit of our institu-
tions-diametrically opposed to it. Their
charge is, the affairs of eternity-not tempo
raj affairs. Wherever, they as a class, have
obtained political power abroad, they have
abused it-never yet failing to use it for
the oppression Of the people, and for other
sinister purposes-or the written history of the
world is false from beginning to end. The
knowledge of this fact, common to all Ameri-
cans who know anything, has generated a we'll
grounded repugnance in this country to priest
ly Interference in secular affairs, which is just
now bursting forth in all quarters of the coun.
try, and more especially in New York, where,
through psuedo-priestly Vaccinations, some
of the church councils and moral and religious
associations of all sorts are openly resolving
to take part in the coming elections, and almost
pronouncing anathemas of damnation against
those acting with them in spiritual matters,
who will not obey their behests in political
affairs. We are right glad that they under
take to thrust their cloven hoofs in the sight of
the public before they have really succeeded
in obtaining tho political power at which they
aim. We are glad of it, for the sake of pure
religion, which has done so much for our
country, as for all the rest of tn world. While
nine-tenths of the Christians-all the true
Christians-of the land deplore with US this
manifestation of yselishness, pride, worldIi-
ness, and other emanations from the counsels
of the evil enc, in the American church of
various denominations, they will doubtless
agree with US in rejoicing that it has been
laid bare to the gaze of free people ever
Jealous of their liberties, and ever ready to
check the spread of practices which threaten
those liberties, Immediately or remotely
Up to few years since, Christianity, in the
United States, was almost without blotch
upon its fair face, and it was doing more for
the regeneration Of man here, than in any
other country under the sun. But human
reason has been set up by many spiritual
teachers as the God for their focks to worship
The conseq uence has besn the very natural
generation of hundreds of thousands of "per.
fectibles''-men who. instead VI walking
nnnnLly 81 L--L1, -. sl4U eisnt VI the Lord,
are eternally chuckling over the idea thatthey
are much better than the publicans and sim
ners, their neighbors and fellow countrymen,
one and all. Another result Of this clerical
abandonment of the Bible as the proper guide
for all men, has been the creation of one hun
dred infdes and scoffers in our land, where
one existed thirty years ago. These are cir
cumstances greatly to be deplored, and their
existence is proved by the 50 much greater
frequency Of crime everywhere in the United
States, and the so much lighter regard in
which what were formerly considered mon
strous crimes, are now popul arly held, though
church edifces have multiplied almost mirac-
ulously in this country, and money is now
given in immense sums nominally for the con.
version and regeneration Of poor fallen man,
here and elsewhere. 1t strikes US that the
evil at the bottom of the existing state of
things, threatening 80 seriously to sap the
foundations of pure spiritual Christianity in
our land, is about to be cured. The act of
those nominal Christian teachers who forget
that their mission is not of this earth, in sud-
denly rushing forward to assume the practical
control of public affairs in this country, can.
not fail to arouse the great body of the Amer
lean Christians of the land to the duty of
checking them in their mad career, if they
would prevent scepticism from prevailing
everywhere, and anti-church combinations
from springing up in every quarter whore
there may be citizens of the United States who
are indisposed to give up the control of Amer
ican nuhljc offaira IN dam ooouos aooLipp ~
itical power under the guise of managing the
matters of moral and religious associations.
The Cost Of Military Transportation.-Fre-
quently hearing and reading comments upon
the enormous cost Of the Quartermaster's
department to the Treasury of the United
States, we have been induced to devote some
time to inquiries into the subject, and think We
have discovered the cause of this heavy pro