The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-12-26
For the North Iowa TINES


Political Preachers
In a late number of the "Norning Star
a leading religious paper, published at
Dover N. H. there is quite a lengthy ar
ticle on the President elect, and the party
who elected him. One or two extracts l
will copy that the people may see what a
TRADE ofabuse, even Minister can utter.
He mourns over the defeat of his party.
and gives vent to the wrath raging in his
breast, in the following strain;-
Slavery has triumphed. The daugh-
ters of the Philistines are rejoicing, the
sons Of the uncircumcised are triumphing.
But, alas sweet liberty is in sack cloth
and tears--She slavery )has again sue
cecded to the Enginesrship of the Ma
tional Locomotive with its train of thirty
one Cars and more, and will soon be at
tempting to drag them all down to perdi-
ton together.
This is the language of man who
ministers at religious affairs, who calls
himself follower of Christ, and an ex-
ponent of virtue and truth. Yet he has
turned his once pious sheet into a political
pool from which, streams of malice, ha-
tired, and all the bitterost passions Of the
human soul flow. ~
On the return of every sabbath lie
doubtless is pouring forth such strains as
the above into the ears of his congrega-
ton. And what are his professions .
He believes doubtless that men have souls
to be saved or lost, and that he has re.
ceived commission from on High tc
warn them of their fate. Is the salvation
of souls of less consequence now than for
merly ? Or are they of less importance
than the teaching of one portion of oul
country to hate and despise the other
| His position forces us to draw one or thu
other of these conclusions To thos,
whose vision is broad enough to see tina
the great fabric Of the Constitution rest:
on every foot of our soil, he applies thu
epithets of "Philistines and uncircom
cised sons"
Well let us hear him farther-"The
Slave power have elected hint Buchanan
aided by the votes of the ignorant and vi
cious in the North, and the Slave powe
will control him, for they constitute tn
vital portion of the party. Where al
those thirty and more thousand freeme1
in his own native State who voted fo
Buchanan ? Are they in mass, set O
ignorant and vicious men? Is that brigh
test star in the coronet of Names grea
men-George Evans-an ignorant AM
vicious man? Is Rufus Choate, the great
est man now living in Mass.-is he lie
on and controlled by the slave power ?
No !. Thank God they belong to that i'm
mortal few, who are not born to die
Yet they have been accused with thou
sands Of others of putting their shoulde
to the wheel of State to roll it to perditiol
Is there an honest thinking and INTEL
gent man of any party who belives tn;
3. North IN freemen voted for the Demo
= cratic candidates through Ignorance {
for vicious motive !? There is not on
They care not where might have been tn
, birth place Of the man, whether amid til
:. Granite Hills or among the Everglades
: the Sunny South this was their mott
: No North no South no East no West BIZ
:. sacred maintenance of the Constitution
q No wonder that churches wane: no wont
: err that the cry goes forth that Zion is la
g gushing, for her Waterman have hur
their harps upon the willow and turne
Il pipers for political purposes.
a In these times of fanaticism every pa
riots prayer should be- GOD gre as mo
UNION LOVING MEN
n NONONA