The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-29

fogies have always lodged the Cuba question
| Get out Of the way, you don't understand your
own business" This is getting to be amusing
and we shouldn't wonder If this sectional demo-
cratic controversy were to become very exciting
on and after the fourth of March. Hoping for
the best while preparing for the worst, we are
decidedly of the opinion that our Southern dis
union brethren will have the starch taken out of
them before many months are over. All the
appearances of the sky at Wheatland indicate
that better days are coming to Kansas and the
Union.
The Protestant sects Essentially Disuni0nist.
| A hasty perusal Of this weeks file Of pious
papers abundantly justifes the severe remarks
We had occasion to make day or two since in
reference to that branch Of journalism. We need
hardly refer to particular instances; we will
leave it to every intelligent layman who shall
read them attentvely to say whether the whole
Of them, from the Puseyite CAurchman to the
canting muffiing Observer, are not imbued with a
thoroughly mean base, dishonest, hypocritical
and grasping spirit and whether their circulation
| among the women and children flor no men, we
take it, ever look at them) of this growing coun-
| try, can be conducive to the maintenance and
| right education Of sound manly American
mind We leave it to any person Of sense to de-
eide whether the wretched puerilities which con-
| stitute one-half these religious sheets, or the
miserable bigotry which fills the other, can be
fraught with anything like advantage to their
readers, or whether they are not, at all times
and in all places, positive nuisance.
We hear surprise expressed by observant per-
sons at the general Indifference that is evnced on
the subject Of religion by the leading minds
and intelligent classes Of this country. But it is
in reality, the simplest thing in the world
| The sects-with the exception Of the Roman
Catholics and EpiscOpalans which for obvious
reasons can never include a majority of the
| people Of the United States in the present age
have not only pursued persistent course of in
suit to their congregations by refusing to move
along with them in the current of human pro-
| gress and by wasting their energies in mending
barren conflicts with each other, but have SUI
| peradded the enormous mischief of uniting-and
that in the most pernicous manner-in the politi-
cal questions of the country. The sects were the
first, as they the most sincere disunonists of
the day. They first set the example Of dividing
this country geographically, on the question Of
slavery; and having done 80 they have never
ceased to applaud the act, and to point it out, in
ferentally as an example to follow The Me-
thodists for instance, had q Book Concern
in which the worthy fathers turned an honest
penny las they know how, by publishing pious
little tracts with such titles as-"Spiritual But
tons for Believers Brooches and SO on; well,
one day, these pious tract publishers discovered
that they couldn't possibly remain in communion
with each other because some Of them thought
| niggers should be paid by the day or the week,
while others believed in capitalizing their wages,
and working them compulsorily. On this ground,
| the Book Concern split, and the Methodists
| South and the Mtthodists North went to law with
| each other, and fought each other for a good
many years, and the lawyers got the best part of
the proceeds Of the pious little tracts at that
line. Now, we believe, the quarrel is settled,
nd each section has got its fair share
of the spoils but the moral effect Of the division
is to suggest similar operation in the political
world We have no question, in truth, but the
split in the religious sects has been far more po
tent teacher Of disunion among the people Of the
country than all the rawlings Of Garrison and
Wendell Phillips at the North, or Keitt, Wise and
Toombs at the South.
We draw attention to the fact the more gravely
because some of the people Of this Protestant
country attach more weight to the teachings of
their religious pastors than to those Of any other
| or secular authority. These should ponder well
the slope down which the disunonist sects are
drawing them. II is q very easy thing to be q
fool can acquire in given time; few texts
learnt by rote a habit Of speaking intelligibly ;
| Concordance and volume Of Tillotson or other
old sermons, are oil the stock in trade that Is re-
| quired. Yet the man thus ACQUIRED and set up
| acquires over the mind OF women and children
| an authority such as the highest genius cannot
claim, and uses that authority, in the instance
| we have mentioned for the promotion Of the very
achievement that would be most destructive Of
Of the prosperity and order and well being and
permanence Of the United States.
W. III. SEWARD IN NEW BusINEss.-Mr. Sc
ward not having been very successful in politics
Of late, has gone into a new line Of business, as
win he seen by the subjoined advertisementsfrom
the Auburn papers,
| Notice N hereby given, that william B. Rhoaies and
william H. Seward who respectively reside 10 the city OF
Auburn, Cay nga county, New York have formed limit
Ell psrnershp continue for the period Of three years
from the nrst day OF October 1885, pursuant tbe pro-
visions Of the Revised Statutes Of this STATE for the buying
and selling Of paints and oils, and other articles Of whole
ssle trade which al the parties Interested
Il are hc ea.d m r.
per and said William II. Seward who ,he special
FARMER; and the said William II Seward has contributed
the thousand dollars capital towards the
1 common stock. WILLIAM n. RHOADEs
/ WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
Dated the lst day Of october, 1855.
/ LIQUORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
\ Cosnsc brandiee varying in age from 1858 back 10
1872 vipe gin rum, London porter Scotch ale, cham
payne or the best brands, among which the Charles
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