The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-11
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This gentleman delivered discourse atApollo
Hall, on Thursday evening, teeming with scrip
tural erudition and nothing else. Other du
ties prevented my being present, more than
about fifteen minutes during his sermon His
voice and whole manner came upon the senses
of his audience with a delightfully."- soporiic
effect. an infant might have slept undisturbed
throughout his whole address. While was
present the Reverend gentleman, was reading
the laws of the United States from Levitt
Gus; the acts of Congress from the Acts of the
Apostles; and from one of st. PauPs Epistles
proving clearly that the Apostle of the Gentiles
was an orthodox Democrat His vivid imagi-
nation became very much excited, and he
drew picture of the wonders then and there
pictured to him. Striking an attitude anI
modulating his voice to the intensely pathetic,
he undertook to prove from the Holy Scrip
lures that there was no salvation promised to
any who were without the pale of the Demo-
cratic party Said he, ''let US go back to
about the year 1847, when Ireland was starv-
ing and law existed in Massachusetts,, pro-
hiblting emigrant vessels from landing paupers
on those shores. see;" said he, still maintaining
his heart rending atttude-''a vessel approach
ing the shore, its decks crowded with human
beings. l see standing on that deck the ema-
ciated form Of the poor emigrant, with his wife
stricken with poverty and disease and worn
with watching, pressing to her bosom helpless
infant The vessel approaches nearer and nearer
| see standing on the shore the authorities and
hear them saying, go back, go back, you mustn't
you mustn't land here, go back to the place
where you come from; and do you think those
people can ever go to Heaven! Jesus Christ him
self passed sentence on them. for he said l was
a stranger among you, and ye took me not in;
sick and in prison. and we visited me not
hungry and ye gave me no meat, naked and
we clothed me not; was athirst and We gave
me no drink, for inasmuch as ye did it not
unto one of these, my little ones ye did it not
unto me. Depart from me ye cursed into
angels" Melancholy applause.) After hav-
ing Numbered the anatnemas Of the church
at ali Know Nothings and Black Republicans
he asserted his respect for ministers of the
gospel; was willing to aid and encourage them
and to pay them, and really understood him
to say, 'to pray for them" 60, ye clergy,
wear sack cloth and fast to avert this calamity
but he was loud in his denunciation of those
ministers who dared to expose political sins.
because the Bible no where says give ye unto
the Old Liners particular jessie.'
e1'or"i o0I1tlsunAn who entered the hall
during this theological lampooning, enquiIoa
whether he had yet prayed, and one said she
will surely close with long metre doxology"
The learned divine, then undertook to tell a
good story, showing whereunto, political
preachers were likened unto Deacon BIS big
horned ram; but the stupid Democrats present
couldn't see the point, thereby compelling the
poor speaker to go over the whole thing and
point out the funny part, whereupon, there
was laugh clearly audible, but whether 1t
was at the story or at the judge was difficult
to determine.
Now in all eandor, do think it exceedingly
unfair for the Judge or any other political
DEMOCRATIC speaker to steal the livery of heav-
en- to serve the Devil in and carry theology
into the hastings and yet deny poor preachers
the privilege Of telling people of their political
sins, because these sins form large portion of
the stock in trade of Old Line Democracy.
give Judge Hovey credit for mind far
above mediocrity, but when he takes the hust-
ngs he is entirely out of his sphere. If ever
he expects to go to Congress, advise him not
to attempt to make political speeches like
to see such minds act where they will stand
out in strong contrast with the sickly glow of
the droves Of faint luminaries, who obtrude
their brawling nonsense upon communities
and form nebulee of absurdities for people to
laugh at. OF course, we have not attempted
to relute by argument nything that was said
on last Thursday evening, the whole affair was
too rich to be treated seriously.
They closed without even doxology. Mr.
DENLY pronounced the male-diction.
JOHN.
o. Capt. Dryden the old Falls pilot at
Lon cuilla