Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-05-04

OF virtue anu mofehsy "oiS
perate as now. The lovers Of tenn
perance and the bible, desiring to
bring the law to favor their cause, IN
stead of the cause Of intemperanae IS
it had from the beginning, have devo-
ted their energies. Of late. to the enact
ment ofprohibitory laws in the sever
al States. The. success Of temperance
being indispensable to the success OF
the gospel, III is not strange that CHRIS.
tians and Christian ministers should
feel a deep interest in it. Nor is It
strange that religious papers should
have spoken plainly on the same SUBJ
ject. To have been silent would have
been to have deserved the execration
ofall good men. Indeed il is for just
such purposes that good men support
religious papers. II Is to bring the
power and influence Of the press to
bear against vice.in every form, wheth-
or bulwsrked by laws or mere Gus
tom. se as
That such q course would bring up.
on Christians, and ministers and reli-
gious periodicals, the maledictions Of
evil men, was to be expected, and he
who enters on any career that calls
him to combat wickedness in high or
low places, without counting, as part
Of the reward he is to expect, the
curses Of those whom he reprovss, has
studied human depravity too little to
be qualified for his position. "The
servant Is not above his Master, nor
the Disciple above his Lord" and no
oousidsrate man will expect to meet
with better fare than He did, nor will
a true man shrink because Of the OPP
position he encounters. Neither is 1t
to be expected that the opponents Of
such mon will be truthful in their ac-
cusations. Truth would not subservc
their purposes. When the Pharasees
desired to be reyenged for the reproofs
which Christ had administered. in.
stead Of reforming their lives that
such such rsproofs might not be de-
manded. they LIED. to Plate about him,
charginghim with inveighing against
Cesar and the Roman government
Thus ID has ever been. False charges
arc made, instead Of meeting the stern
truths that cause the squirming.
Our readers are already aware that
during the canvass last summer in In
diana, the war cry Of the leaders Of In
temperance was, "stop the feed Of the
preachers, unless they desist from
meddling in politics. Preachers be-
Ing citizens and freemen. felt they had
Alright TO express their opinions and
vote a. they chose. Moreover they
felt that whatever influence they
possess should be devoted to removing
the scourge Of intsmperance, and re.
buking those who would Danish the
bible from our schools to please o few
foreign born. un- Americanized papists.
But the feed was not stopped! When
freemen saw these prescribed, while
the whole army of liquor sellers and
the most abandoned papist were set
forth as examples. they rallied to the
cause OF truth, and never were the
panderers to rum and Rom anism more
signally rebuked, than in Indiana, last
October. They neither stopped the
feed. nor sPurned them from their So
ciety.
But the end is mot yet yet. Fail
ing to silence the preachers, they in
tend to spike at least one cannon that
for years has hurled hot shot into the
ranks of rum and Romanism. The
wsstsnlC hristian advocate has long
been q constant and able witness
againt slavery, whisky, and the grow
ing papal power. all VI which are now
brooded over by few who claim that
they are political questions" and
preachers and religious papers may
not disturb them. And by most re-
markable coincidence each Of these
vipers nestles under the same wings.
All other questions are forgotten, that
these may be warmed and enlivened
In the language Of the Sentinel, "the
issues Of the past are buried with the
past" and these question: are the
living questions ofthe day.
A few weeks ago the Adroeate, in
giving an account Of the riots in Gin.
cinnati, failed to entirely exculpats
the foreign population. and their sd
yisers and abetters. This was an un
pardonable offence in the eyes Of thu
Enquirer. and it devoted a column o
so to call the old Irishman who edit
the Advocate, a Know Nothing. Poo
old mani Had he suppressed the ties
timony that the Enquirer suppressed
and he had charged the riot who'll
on Americans. had he escaped Ties
hard names. and much abuse.
But what next? The New Alban
Ledger. little paper published belo'
the Falls, takesup the shelalah an
thrashes away as follows: e
The Western Christian Advocate
This paper as it is well known, a.
sumes to be the organ Of the Meths
dist Episcopal church. in the west.-
Il is evident, however, that the Advc