The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-11-26

for preacIerspoliticians. The Church
Journal, published in that city, thns
continents upon the singular innoya-
tlon
What is the reason Of all this p
Has the old-faslioned Gospel-wI'ich
we have been accustomed to believe
was the Ererlnst,pa Gospel-been
at length exhausted aud worn thread
bare9 Is no text fresh enough now
for preachers and people, except it be
taken from the Gospel according to
the daily papers Is it that the min
listers are tired Of the old topics Of
grace and salvation and no longer be-
lieve that Gospel of which they pre-
tend to be preachers 7 The point we
now wisl, to make, however. is. that
in the country where. as we had fond
" hoped, Church and Ystste Relig-
ion and Polities--we'eth thoroughly and
forever divided, popular preachers are
rapidly rising to be the leaders of ro-
lltical parties and pulpits are found
to be. DIS in times of old the best re-
cruiting drums to beat MP voters for
political partzans. And correspou-
ding change has taken raee in poli-
tics, too. as well as in religion - both
Of them rising and FILLING upon one
Democratic piyot--rou popui. As
the pulpit, therefore, has grown polit-
ical, the stump has waved pious and,
if Nebraska rings out Justify from the
meeting house, it is only in sonnrous
unison with the Higher Law,' re-
sounding from tbc Halls Of Congress-"
EE After sentence was pro-
nouucod againsteDr. GRAHAM, for xii
ling Col Loring, he is said to have
made 4 statement tn the editbr uf the
Wall street Journal IN reference 10
that unfortunate affair, which is con
clnled in these words.
What | did arose from the promp-
tings Of that universal instinct Of ani
mattel nature, se'f preservation. My
conscience il free from guilt, and al
though doomed to suffer the penalty
Of the laws Of man. | feel that III The
eyes Of the Divine law nm mt anii-
tp No ote regrets more than my
self the painful circumstances of his
DEATH and there is no sacrifice that ]
would not make to restore him to life
and to his family. ....
TT Tho Untou says-speaking
Of NIr. Soule's s case that the President
will at all hazards maintain the pledge
he has already given to protect Amer
ican citizens in foreign counties.
The grounds Of tie refusal to allow
Mr.. Soule to pass through France. it
says, must be very grave to rescue
Louis Napoleon from the charge of
having intended to offer deliberate
insult to the United States, whether
Mr.. Sould be regarded as a Minister
or d citizen. Apd it finally declares
that the President will protect him.
1t is to be presumed, that after this
article, from the Union, reaches the
minister. that he will not only fee
sufficiently protected to 60 through
France, but to GO orer it. |
The difficulty between the Post
office Department and the South
Carolina Railroad Company is not
yet settled, but the Columbia cores
pondent of the Charleston Courier
writes, on the 10Th instant, as follows
"The difficulty between the Depat-
ment aud the South Carolina Railroad
Company is not definitely settled,
but affairs are in train for adjustment,
and the mails will be carried beyond
the ten days to give the Department
time to accedo to tho proposition
pending" -,-----
Nor THE REv. MISS BRowv - As
We expected, the Miss Antoinettc
Brown, who became Mrs. DIR. Merritt,
ot Corp,el rceI- hofrrn 1oet ,vor ,,of