Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-11-06
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MEssRs. EDIToRs In o Il last issue
my name appears as a candidate for Joint
Councilman forthe counties of Burt, WASH
ington, and the Southern District of Doug
las, at the approaching election. To those
who know my sentiments, | need not say
my name was placed there without my
knowledge or consent. As politicians,
however, are not very good T~heologians,
| presume no harm was intended but
they must permit me to differ with them
in regard to the propriety or expediency
of trying to serve our town and comfy in
that way, as | firmly believe | can better
promote their true Interests by continuing
in my present position, than by entering
upon another, which | do not want, which
my conscience cannot approve. and for
witch so many, (solne, at least, qualified,
| hope are willing TO be candidates. |
frankly confess | have no sympathy with
those laws which deprive clergymen of
any of their political rights, but | as freely
confess that | see no reason why minis
tiers should even desire to exchange their
appropriate laborS, for any others not
connected with their calling. am not,
therefore, a candidate for that or any 9TH
er Office. Respectfully yours, ETC.,
WIN. H,MILroN.
Bellevue, Oct. 30, 1856.
We find the above in the Bellevue Ga
zette of the Both ult., and cannot but no.
tice the difference between the honorable,
manly position of Mr.. Hamilton, and the
course many of the Eastern clergymen
have thought proper to pursue. As a
minister of the gospel. Mr.. II. thinks he
can better promote the interests of religion
and society by a faithful discharge of his
Legitimate ministerial duties, than by dab
bling in the turbid pool of politics. and
what candid person of either party does
not approve of his conduct?
How different the position of those cler-
gymen, who at a time when our country
is agitated by the greatest political excite
mem known in the history of this union
when the most laneful passions of man
are reused to their highest pitch, instead
of pouring oil upon the troubled waters !
instead of tryinp TO allay the dangerous,
excitement, have used their best endea-
vors to fan the fame of mutual aired and
discord have prostituted their high calling
to the basest Of political purposes, converted
their pulpits into hastings, from which the
most illiberal political ~harangus have beer
delivered Sabbath after Sabbath, ant
hurled anathemas at the heads Of all who
professed a different political faith than
their OWN,
We have written this freely, because j
has long been a notorious fact, that il
many churches East, aud in some Yves,
a supporter of Mr.. BUCHANAN or Mr.
FILLMORE, could not sit a single Sabbath
without having his feelings injured b,
paltry filings at his political faith; and W,
are happy to know that there is at leas
one clergyman in Nebraska, who think
it his duty to attend to the spiritual inter
ests of the people, instead of telling then
how to vote, and trying to control the pc
lltical action of the country. Who doe
not admire the course of conduct pursue
by Mr.. HAMILTON in this matter? WI
will not condemn the action of the p%olitica
Observation-Disclosures.
We should be careful how we condu,