Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-07-11
The 0dious JpgLaw.

!" When the Preachers begin to legislate. 10 is
time the people begin 10 Preach"
The above was the inscription on banner
carried at the head of an immense delegation
to the recent Convention held at Lancaster.
against the Know-Nothing License Law.
There was much sober truth and sound sense
in the remark. When Ministers of the Cos
pei once forget, as many of them have done,
the dignity due to their stations, and leave
their pnlpits for the lodges and the Legislative
halls, it is time for the people to speak out
against them Far be it from us to say one
word against ministers of the gospel as body,
nor would We deprive one man of his political
rights The members of that highly honora-
bic profession, in this vicinity, so far as our
knowledge extends, confne themselves strict
ly to the exercise of their political privileges
and the discharge of their ministerial duties.
They do not turn bar-room politicians nor
sdl their regulations by an active participa-
ton in the political movements of the day
But in other portions of Pennsylvania, the
case is different. In many of the Northern
and Western counties, the leaders of the
ow-Nothing lodges are Ministers of the
Gospel Quite number of this class found
their way into our State Legislature last win
ter, and this miserable liquor law, which the
people are every where condemning, is the
invention of their diseased brains. No such
law would ever have passed, had these fanati-
cal priests been left at home to 's mind their
own business instead of being allowed to turn
their attention to making laws Ministers, as
a general thing, are not fit men for legislators.
Their avocation units them for such work
They do not miugle enough with the great
mass of the people to know what the people
want. Law making is out of their line of
business Is Der Schumacher sticke zu sein
Ioeste.
We have indeed fallen upon evil times, if
the pretensions of these impertinent and offici-
GUS black coats checked. Tn tho Now
England States, majority of the clergy claim
it as a right to regulate the political affairs of
the country Full one half of the last Mas
sachusetts Legislature was made up of such
men, and Henry Ward Beecher, the great
abolition declaimer says, every man should
go to his preacher for his political opinions"
Just as he does for his religious information
Such doctrines suit better to the monarchial
dominions Of Austria or Prussia, than Repub-
lican America. They are ,insuited to our in
stitutions. Any man who utters them will
only be regarded as fanatic and a fool, and
laughed at by sensible people. The citizens
of every community employ a minister for a
certain purpose. His duty is to preach the
gospel mot politics If they wanted to be in
structed on political affairs, they would no
doubt tell him SO. AL congregations are
composed of men entertaining every shade of
political opinions a minister has no earth
ly right to thrust his own views upon his con-
gregation. The clergyman who does this.
de'neanss i.saisen IN the eyes of all good men.
The duty of ridding the people of this odi-
GUS law, now devolves on the Democrats. We
must send enlighted, hberal-minded men to
the next legislature. who are unconnected
with any secret lodge, and who will honestly
and faithfully carry out the wishes of the peo-
plo.--Easton Aryus