The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-03-31


Senator MASON, Of Virginia on the occa-
sion ofths presentation to the Senate OF the
Clergymen's petition, after stating that the
"rght Of all citizens of ,he United States to
petition either the Senate or House upoE sub
jeets properly before Congress was one which
he hoped never to see denied" said
"This memorial, however, was of charac-
ter different from others. 1t came from a
class Of persons who had laid aside the charac-
ter Of American citizens, and addressed their
petition as ministers of the Gospel. They
petitioned as ministers of the Gospel, and not
as citizens. AS ministers Of the Gospel they
had come here and denounced the action OF
the Senate. They did not stop there. In
their character as ministers they had the tenn
etry to threaten the Senate with the venge-
ance ofthe Almighty, whom they professed
to preserve. Such language was not respect
ful to the Senate.
"Ministers Of the Gospel, as such, were un-
known to tho Constitution ofthe United Sta
tes, and God forbid that they ever should!
It had always been the policy of our people
to keep ministers of the Gospel and the Gov
ernment as for apart as possible, and the wis
dom Of that policy was made manifest by the
paper to-day presented. The history of the
world had shown the evil. of ussociating them
in any shape with Government; they always
were arrogant. On this occasion they Ihad,
in the name Of the Almighty, invoked his
vengeance upon the Senate for measure Of
political legislation. Let three thousand or
three hundred thousand citizens Of New Eng
land send their protest to the Senate, and it
would be treated with respect. But these
memorialists do not come here as citizens;
they come as ministers fthe Gospel, and, in
the presence Of their Master, and in his name,
threaten his vengeance upon the Senate for
what they declare to be moral wrong. With
out any dsrepect for the petitioners person
ally or for their 1cloth-which, to say the least,
they did not grace-he moved that the memo
rial be net received"
$50 our neighbor DIR. Guzze, has been
arranged at the bar for drunk rdice," said Mrs.
Partington, and she sighed as she thought of
his wife and children at home, with the cold
weather close at hand, and the searching
winds intruding through the chinks in the
windows and waving the tattered curtain like
a banner, while the little ones stood shiver-
ing by the faint embers. "God forgive him
and pity them" said she, with tone tremu-
lous with emotion. "But he was bailed OUT"
said Ike, who had devoured the residue of the
and laid the paper in a pan liquid
custard that the dame was preparing for
Thanksgiving, and sat swinging the oven
door to and fro, as if to fan the fire that era
ckled and bazed within. 'Bailed out, was
he!" said she; swell, |, should think it would
have been cheaper to have pumpedIhim out,fOr
when our cellar was filled, after the city faith
ers had degraded the street, we had to have it
pumped out, though there wasn't half so much
In it as he has swilled down" ."-She paused,
and reached up to the high shelves Of the
closet for her pie plates, while Ike busted
himself by tasting the various preparations.
The dame thought that the smallest quart of
sweet cider that she ever seen.-Boston Post,