The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-22
Fsom inc Louisville Democrat.
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From inc Louisville Democrat.
TgE PULPIT PROsTITUTED TO POLITICS
rhis generation has not Witnessed political canvass
tore the one Just past 10 which pulpits were converted
INTO political platforms and prayer meetings made party
oventeles Ii is certainly step IN depraViy OF the
bic taste and morals that country has not seen
80 The act of the three thousand blasphemousiy pro-
- in the name Of Almighty God against the action
- bs Senate has been followed by general crusade Of
M clergy against the democratic party. We shall not
op the right any clergyman to act as he sees ut In
es; we only claim the right TO treat him aud his
st AZ We see fit and the rest of mankind will claim the
came right with respect TO him that we do Whilst the Of
e Of the clergy sacred il confers saeedness upon
h man; il gives him neither piety wisdom. If he be
fool without the Office he will be fool with III and II
rogue without it, he will be still worse with IT, lie can't
dgrsee his calling with rght-minded man, but he may
agraee himself and incur the contempt instead Of
rng the respect of mankind Upon the advent OF know
tbngsm the weak minded and ambitious OF the Protes-
,nt clergy were tempted into the lodges. There they
ore to prescribe all Catholics and Foreigners and pretty
ctace they presented before God and mani The Phar-
,ss thanked God that he not as other men, and the
LoUpotbng oath is complete counterpart of the Phar-
s prayer The Pharisaicl clergyman rolls up hi eyes
il the lodge and thanks God that he is not other men
ID nat az the poor rishm a. that poor Catholic His
chosen Master that he pretends to preach spent his life IN
ost aaainst the mean selfrighteoGs instincts of his
ons He told them Of the vineyard let out to husband
men and how they abused their frost lie told them OF
the urodga son. 1.-THE Gene He told them Of the good
whose race the Jews hated. He told them that
anv should come from the East and from the West &C.
u rebuked the impudent serghteousness OF
r. and finally commissioned his followers to go into
all the world and preach his Gospel to every creature lie
was himself foreigner to people and country and
we appreheud that the home TO which lie is gone VIII re-
main foreign country to know-nohing preachers gener-
aIy Only think of pretending to follow Christ and
to teach Others his humble sedenying doctrines taking
an oath in the midst of selfish politicians against foreigners
and Cathocs See the miserable Pharsee protesting that
bv the grace of God he is what he u.s. and the same
time trusting in himself that he is righteous and despsng
others: learning signs and grips and passwords to
reach other men, not TO teach them better way How
must the unsuspectng mad look at the preacher who
Sunday exhorts TO ruthulness and sincerity with all men,
when be finds him at the polls with his sisns, winks, and
bnks not 10 teach other men, but to overreach them
Beautiful exempfcation of the character and doctrines
Of Christ these pretended followers OF his give the o.
mankind No wonder the honest man looks with disgust
and contempt at such spectacle.
But there is another class Of clergy who have been
greatly exercised of late with the condition of the African
race AID the destiny of Kansas Most Of them began with
the Pharisac development in the know nothing lodges
bat in addition that sin, they have put this world
before the next msrusting, probably whether the
is IN
consider the condition of in this world of any inn
portance They did make it their business They
thought that the great object of life be ready for
eternity; time short period of existence ia
be worth their efforts But modern saints have very diff
ferent ideas is their mission to protest against po
cal action, aud send Shapes rifles to Kansas to kill
and slay in the of the Lord, and curse the
Ter to free the negro. 1t does not to them
that the road Heaven is just straight through
and tba;r
concerned ii makes difference whether a man be
save free poor rich. They think free Kan
Heaven, and that they especially ntrus with
it, and at the time they won't let the negro go there
il he be free Temporal affairs must be attended TO
but it does really seem that who pretend to
think much OF Heaven Sunday and little of earth
cut ridiculous and Inconsistent figure when they
become exercised about the Pope Foreigners and A
slaves They have been preaching about Africa pray
ing Africa and crying Africa and sending mis-
aonares Africa but the rude black sll worship
bis idols in his native ungies If they believe they
PRETEND that knowledge Of Christianity is necessary
eternal salvation then slavery has been the occasion
saving of the negro than all the missionarie
that will be sent TO Africa till the sound of the
trumpet
But the worst features Of the story are still untold Thes
pretended saints appeal the passions descend
the lowest level of political tricsers SeErghteous
ness stained with the darkest malgniy beched forth
in vulgar rufsn phraseoogy fit for the coeehouse or
gutter; and when it does not reach so low depth its in
science marks the Pharsee, and shows the low instincts
the reverend sinner. The lay politician is
done in vulgary and profanity by the pulpit demagogues
In Judgment the Protestant clergy have dsgrsced
themselves and lost the respect which lifetime of good
conduct will hardly regain White cravAts, black coats
and sancmonious faces will not blind gross i'm
morality shallow hypocrisy and the giIded malgnity of
depraved heart OF have no reference to men
who have had hand in these ndeeencies and this un
christian conduct but the number Of clergy who have
dsgraced themselves in the late political is very
large-shamefuly arge-and IL they have any conscience
le they had better have day Of fasting and prayer and
thereupon confess their SINS other peoples.