The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-06-27
Political Preaching.

Some one who has swallowed Buchanan,
and what the N. Y. Herald terms the nigger
platform Of the Cincinnati Convention, with
all of its develtries of Ostend manifestoes,
border Ruffanism, and Congressional bully
ism, pours forth his chafed spirit in nearly a
column of complaints in the last Democrat,
against what he calls political preaching"
His sensitive nature II seems was stirred from
its profound depths, by discourse preached
by the Rev. Mr.. Nichols Of Saco, a few Sab
baths ago, in which the aggressive nature of
sin was illustrated in familiar way by some
pointed illusions to the aggressions of the
Slave power, as exhibited in the repeal Of
tho Missouri Compromise, the Kansas out
RACES, and tho murderous bullyism Of those
Congressional rufhans, Rust, Herbert, and
Brooks.
The writer Of this paper has ghost,
which, like that which troubled Hamlet,
will never down, but which haunts him on
all occasions, with most unhappy memories.
We did not hear the discourse complained
Of, but we know there was nothing in II to
furnish reasonable cause for offence. The
Rev. Mr.. Nichols is incapable of "outnge-
ing the propricties Of the dcrk," and what
ever he said on the occasion, was general,
and in the discharge of his duty, rs faith
full minister of Christ. The sensitiveness
which some men bctIay when tho subject Of
Temperance or Slavery is alluded to by the
preacher Of the gospel, shows most conclus-
lively the rottenncss of the politicians heart.
We have no doubt that the writer Of tho .
paper has had his sores probcd when the sub
jcct of temperance has been mentioned by
the preacher, and IT the Democratic party
should in Cincinnati Convention, wink at
Poligamy in Utah, under the plea that the
people of the territories have right to form
their own institutions, he would call upon
his minister to ignore the seventh command.
ment under threat of not only cutting Of
his subscriptions for the future, but Of re-
fusing to pay past arrcarages. The writer
Of the paper says, "that not few Of the
Rev. Mr.. Nichols hearers on that occasion,
both men and woman, were quite indignant
at the outages Of the proprieties of the
desk" 1t may DO 80, We do not suppose
that has o manoply Of all folly, although
we are quito sure that few would be found
who would care to make 1t patent, as he
does, in tho newspapers, or would be willing
that the public should know that "op1see-
ism" is not confined to the South nor 10
bully Brooks. AL this complaint about pol
ihcal preaching, whenever minister al
ludcs to the necessity Of an infusion Of q
little religion and morality into politics, Is
worthy only Of the public contempt, and
ridicule. Tho spirit that prompts Il, Is q
mixture of the spirit Of the Dcspot with that
of the bully. Out Of II comes surveillance
of the press, such as tho tyrants and Des-
pots Of the corrupt and rotten aristocncies
of the old world have established to fstter
the expression Of thOughl-legulativc en-
actmcns to prevent the freedom Of tho pull
pit, and the rights Of conscience, aad such
laws rs were enacted BY the bogus Legisla-
turc Of Ksnsas, BY which o person who
speaks against Slavery in the territories, Is
liable to DO imprisoned at hard labor for a
term not less than f,ro yedrs,, Last year the
clergy were asailcd for speaking agains, In
temperance. This year the attempt ismade
to gag tho pulpit to prevent its preaching
against the enormous evil ofextcnding Slave
~, and the outngcs which the spirit Of
Slavery produces. We tell the writer Of the
. paper that the day when ministers win BE-