Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-22
EDITOR OF THE JoURxAn:-SIR-

EDITOR OF THE JoURNAI:--SIR-In the
matter of the Rev. G. R. Brown, the editor
of the Messenger, true to his instincts, like
the SOW that was washed, returns again to
the wallow. He having without inquiry or
investigation published list of falsehoods
against this gentleman, when confronted
with the evidence of their falsity in the let
ter of Mr.. Fish, devoted democrat, instead
Of making an immediate correction Sf the
wrong, as every gentleman would take pleas
ure in doing, he could not even give that
letter to the public until, like loathsome
reptile, he had covered it with the slime of
his filthy secretion, and tried to devour it
as he did his brothers substance. He evil
IDENTIFY is philosopher of that school who
believe that lie we'll stuck to is as good as
the truth.
In the senate of the United States, when
Douglas was laboring to extend the slave
power and slave territory, and was driven to
the wall, sweating and smarting at every
pore, under the influence of the powerful
truths brought against him by the New
England clergy, as the last resort, he, ruff
an like, turned upon them with vituperation
and low abuse, and among other things re-
viled them as meddlers in politics. Imme-
diately every little locofoco print through
out the country took up the cry, and like a
pack of ours have kept up their yelping and
bowling, and every little screw-eyed, cross
road politician has joined in the wall I
have no doubt but there are some who have
Joined in and prolonged the cry that are so
small that they really think there is some
thing in it and of this class, very likely, the
editor of the Messenger is one. But the
great majority know that the clergy, as a
body, are intelligent and honest, that the
people have confidence in them and that
therefore they are dangerous to their cause
and must be silenced. They also knew
that the clergy were tender of their reputa-
tion and sensitive to their attacks; therefore,
to drive them from their good work, every
dog from the locofoco kennel, every @mon-
grel puppy, whelp and hound, and cur of
low degree" were let loose on them. But
1 it IS of no use, the clergy have in all past
time stood up against oppression in this, our
happy land, and preached against sin, no
matter in what garments it clothed Itself
they will scarcely be deferred from it now.
Is it to be said that because slavery and
oppression are blended with politics the
clergy must be silent, that if our liberty is
about to be eloven down by political means.
that the vast body of the clergy must stand.
aloof and not lend helping hand, and that
if vice and corruption stalk through the land
in their worst deformity, blighting all as
they go, but in the name and under cover
of politics, the Bible and sanctuary must be
closed and silent. Out on such shallow
nonsense, and the whole pack of Douglas
yelpers I would that some kindly spirit
would but elevate the mind of the 1lessen--
ger man so that he might see and appre--
eiato his ignorant presumption, in attempt
ing to administer corrections to tho
clergy, and in debating to them what they
may and what they may not say.
Poor man, if he was in the presence Of
Theodore Parker or Henry Ward Beeeher,
but for few minutes, he would be so op-
pressed with a sense of his inferiority that
he would feel like calling upon the noun
tains to fall upon and hide him from their
presence. Yet this driveller, behind their
backs, presumes to slabber over aad defame
them. I think I know Mr. Brown, and will
; undertake to say that he will not ask You,
Mr.. Messenger or any of your scurvy COM
panions, what he shall say or when or where
: he shall say it.
G 1t IS said that the democratic clergy do
l not meddle in politics. No think they
do not, for do not know one that IS base
e enough to stand up for slavery extension,
d even though he be loeofoeo.
5 CLYDE.
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