The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-03
{" An Infldel stump Orator-Ludwixh
and the Germans.''

Is An Inhdel stump OratOr-LudWl$h
and the Germans"
Under the above caption an article ap'
peared in the Pioneer aud Democrat few
mornings ago, traducing Ludwigh, who re-
Gently addressed the Germans in this city
From the number of gross falsehoods and
hypocritcal halleujahs so strangely inter
mingled in the article, it is evidently the work
at least in part-of that Rer. bowler for
Slavery and Lcwdness, who lately attempted
to turn the Public Forum into an arena of
gladiatorial conflict.
The first declaration in the article is that
Ludwigh is '.the German Black Republican,
recently imported by the leaders Of the black
party to aid in making Minnesota a Republl-
can State" Now, Ludwigh came to this
Territory upon his own responsibility, and to
attend TO his own affairs. The leaders Of the
Back party" which of course is that party
which of course is that party which prOpa-
gates slaves aud Slavery, would have done
much to prevent his coming and addressing
the people after he did come. On the other
hand. there was not Republican leader in
the Territory who knew of his coming, or had
any man notice that he intended to come, than
the Rev. Hero Of the rash charge and hasty
retreat at the Public Forum, had of rev
man being sent to minister to the congrega
ton worshippins in the old Methodist
Church Of this city.
The next charge is, "Ludwigh is an Athe-
ist." The atheist denies the existence Of God,
but Ludwigh recognizes God the Supreme
Ruler of the Universe, and Creator of us all.
He spoke of God with far more reverence
and respect than his name for the last year
has been uttered by that Grand Lama of
modern Democracy, who on Icing appointed
Chaplain of the Council said he was ''going
to pray for Scalliwags at the Capitol.
He did MOI attempt to caricature the
facts and characters of the Bible, but on
the contrary said the Bible was good and
excellent book but in his opinion, not one
that should be adopted for general use in
dorsed by many Of the most respectable de-
nominations, and most exemplary Christians.
Neither did he say that all nuns were pros
tltutes, but that many nuns and white-cra-
waited ministers of the Gospel disgraced their
high and sublime calling, by prostituting their
bodies and souls at the shrine of infamy, and
lending their aid to bring virtue into deris-
::on, and to rivet the bonds of moral deprav-
ity upon the human race. No wonder that
the Rev. defender of slavery and prostitu-
ton WINGED under this scathing rebuke; for
what is American slavery but one grand sys-
tenn of moral and physical prostitution La
Dor which brings beauty out of defornity,
comfort out of misery, and fertility out of
barrenness, is no longer honorable in the
midst Of Slavery. Virtue, that allies man
kind with God and his holy angels no lon err
elcits respect, when surrounded by modern
hondage, as witness the strange intermingling
of races and compilations on Southern plan
tations, in vicinity of which the Rec gentle
man labored previous to his advent to this
city.
Mr. Ludwigh never charged all the evils
under which society groans to the Bible and
religion but that all those evils could find
defenders in the persons of RI. gentry who
throw the sacred garb of religion over their
unhallowed shoulders, and desecrate the iIc-
ly Bible with their unhalIowed fingers
That he expressed his opposition to the pro-
Libiton Of the sale and use of liquors, is ,rie,
but at the same time he advocated temper
ancc in their use, and the passage Of street
laws, and the imposition Of severe pena lilies
upon those who knowingly vcnds the liquors
of the present day iripregnated with disease
and death. This was the ground work up
on which the Rev. fasifier and hS man Fri
day, (who is candidate for justice of the
peace in the Sd ward of the city, attempted
to raise such pyramid Of beer barrels with
n theatre on the top. Such perversions are
to se expected from men who attempt to
turn the pulpit into a scene of conflict and
blood.
Then the Rev. Johnny Bull fancies himself
once more in the pulpit, and with all the
apparent piety of real Christian exclaims:
80 shame where is thy blush!' Yes, truly
where indeed when ministers of the ever
lasting Gospel can make attempts upon the
lives of public speakers in the exercise Of
the rights of free speech, and can malicious
ly vilify and traduce them in the public press,
and slanderously charge them with blasphe-
ming the name of God, and attempting to
uproot the foundations of civilized society;
and still no blush mantle their cheeks, truly
we may say, 80 shame where is thy blush"
When surrounded by the sanctity of the
pulpit, and the holiness of the altar, we sec
men attempting to further the cause Of po-
litical party, by stratagcm, falsehood, and all
the other attributes of the Devil, thus reach
ing the most shameful depth of hypocrisy;
and still claiming to be honest and sincere,
again We exclaim 20 shame where is thy
blush" X