Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-01-30

plreu IN lnteDSe paln.
A PLEA FOR PEACE.
Let dogs delight TO bark and bite,
For God hath made them no;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For tits their nature too;
"But children, you should never let
Your angry passions rise;
Your little hands made
To scratch each others eyes"
We have observed with many tears that
our democratic contemporaries on each side
of us, have Of late shown very naughty
disposition towards each other. The Mes
senger calls the Democrat broken down
hack, and the Democrat rctorts by insinu-
ating that the Messenger is the Devils spec
ial organ in this region. Finally the Dem
ocrat caps the climax of its iniquity by ad-
vising the Messenger to stick to the pig and
poultry business, as more likely to succeed
than its present undertaking. The case of
the Messenger must be hopeless indeed, ifit
succeeds no better than its editor did in OBJ
tanning eggs from ganders and pigs from
bauows. That was most unchristian cut.
If we did not know Bro. Flaugher to be a
true son of the faith, we should say he was
no better than an unconvcrted republican.
Now if the republicans who show down to the
uncircumcised Baal of Anti.Nebraskaism," !"
(see prospectus of the Messenger) had be-
haved thus, it would have been nothing
strange; but when such pious members of
the democratic church, one and mdiUiSible,
as Bros. Botefur and Flaugher, get by the
ears, the public are awfully scandalizcd-
For our own part the grief of our soul is in
expressible, as we behold hatred, strife and
all uncharitablehess, where the charity that
covereth multitude of sins ought to abound
Surely there was never greater need of it.
! Dearly beloved brethren, suffer the word
Of cxhortation. Why should two original
"dyed in the wool" democrats fall out p
Do not both of you stand square and i'm
movable on the Cincinnati Platform q
Don't you both believe in stocking Uncle
Sans farm well with good fat niggers p
Didn't you both lie up hill and down during
the last campaign? Didn't you tell the peo
pie that all the outrages in Kansas were
all miserable political clap-trap7 Arc you
not brethren of one faith and one baptism
Consider, we bcscech you, the scandal caused
by these quarrels among brethren. Shal
the uncircumcised Phiistines rejoice Shal
the Gentiles triumphl Dearly beloved
what will become of the Union and tn,
Constitution, if two such pillars as the Dem
ocrat and Messenger destroy each other7
Is there not some son of Anak in tn
Democratic host, like Bishop Hedding O
the Methodist Church, who in the last re
sort will take the reconciling of these quar-
reling brothers in hand? The goodBishol
was almost giant He was once sent 70
: to reconcile feud of long standing bctwec
} two brothers of his church. After warnn
and expostulating in an earnest and christia
spirit (as we have done above) Intellectually
the good Bishop seized each brother by tn
collar and kncelng himself, dragged thcr
down with him. Then he cried to tn
brother on the right. "Brother A. prayT-
, Brother A. hesitated; but again the Bishol
!. with hearty shake, thundered in his ca
"Brother A. pray" Brother A. findin
t there was no escape began to pray. The
o followed the same discipline with Broth
B. After prayer the feud was reconcile
at once. We commend this example to Il
G imitation of some mighty man in the den
ocratc church. We fancy we see Gen.
i scizing Bros. Botcfur and Flaughcr by Il
= collar and crying out, "Brother Botefu
e pray" "Brothcr Flaugher, prayp W
d have strong faith that the prayers of Bro
q Botefur and Flaugher, aided by those
the General, would produce an amazir
y effect.