The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-01-10
WHY IS IT.

Ing the principles and practice Of that party
and receive in return the abuse Of those pol
itcans whose evil courses will not bear IN
vesti.ation. What is the trouble? Are the
ministers all wrong. and is the party all
right? TO judge from what we find in the
democratic papers one might be led to inter
that ministers were VIGOROUSLY addicted to
the commission Of some awful sin. The last
Patriot is grievousIy afflicted because the
Rev. Mr. Bond responded to toast at the
recent Republican Levee in this place, com
plimentary to the three thousand clergymen
who protested against the passage Of the Ne
braska Bill. The Patriot echoes the Post,
the Post copies the Union, and this three
headed Cerberus snarls at "priest-ridden
New England" The care which these pa.
pers take lest ministers NEEDLE with their
dirty business is highly edifying. To be or
thodox is, in their opinion, to believe in the
Nebraska Bill, and vote for James Buchan-
an. The only evidence of piety which salts.
fees them is belief in the gospel according
to Frank Pierce. They are at liberty to
pitch into the devil if they won't mention the
names of his friends. Reverend gentlemen
who fail to subscribe to such docmas are in
fdel," and promoters Of "strife and blood
she'd"
Now, in relation to the clergy, the spot
less purity of their lives, their intelligence,
their ability, their learning, their devotion to
the great interests Of truth and humanity.
are most convincing relutatiOn of these az.
cusations OF what. and in what manner,
ministers ought to preach.it becomes us not
10 speak but as to the freedom of the cieri
cal profession from any and all inter
ference with its duty to uphold
the right and condemn the wrong, the
whole community is interested. We new
sr supposed that the great end Of preaching
wa. to excite p'easurai,le emotions in the
pews. The Rev. Cream Cheese is not cur
dea Of Gospel Teacher. and VT believe the
faithful pastor vii! follow his people with
words of warning wherever the devil leads
them. II in so doing. he crosses the track
of interruptions politicians, we ask who mer-
its censure. the devoted pastor, or they whom
he exposes?
But, says the Patriot The three thousand
clercymen who protested agains: the passage
of the Nebraska Bill caused, primarily. all the
fearful and hur,iul slavery agitation which
followed" Just as If, Mr. Patriot, we threw
stones at you. and when Won protested
charged YOU with creating all the agitation
that might follow The statement is too evil
IDENTIFY false TO need a reply. 1t isa very
characteristic specimen. however. Of tie rea-
>oEinH OF that paprr->wear to ilr,and then
stick to it. The Patriot further says that
"!hev protested in the name of Almighty
God; ty which cant they hoped to in'lml-
date a Democratic Senate" That w1s a pre-
sumptuous hone, surely 10 hope thai any
considerations of Justice. honor. dcrcnrv. the
fear of God or love Of man, coul! influence a
d" Democratic Senate" was vain dclusion
4 Democratic Senate" WAS proof against
al! such weaknesses. SO it pushed through
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
God" a2ainst the wishes of three fourlhs of
the petite of the United States, and reopen
ed the whole vexed question Of slavery
Since then Democratic Senate has seen
one of its most honored members nearly beat
en- TO death in its very hall, for words spoken
in debate, and dared not to cen.urc the vii
lain who struck the blows; the same "Dtm
ocratic Senate y has upheld a" Democratic '
President in his schemes of outrage and
crime aTains: the free citizens of Kansas
ard a" Democratic Senate" stands ready tt
do to day anything which is necessary to in
crease the domains of slavery. Intimidate
a Democratic Senate by any consideration.
of honor or justice? We think nobody ex
poets any such thing nor or if they do I'VE
fear they will be srevously disappointed.
A UNITED STATES VESSEL OF WAR AT
CoNsTAHrINorLE.-TheP Paris correspon
dent of the Independence BeIoe of December
says that it is true that an American man
of-war arrived in the waters of the Bosphoru.
in order to protest against the presence ofthe
British navy in the Black Sea- However, saw:
the writer, no one knows what kind of les
son the American vessel would teach to the
mother country. This steam frisate-the
SuppIy-dropped her anchor at Tenedos. and
sent from there to obtain frman to enter
the Straits, which are lie tucfo free to every
navy. This respect for the rights of the Porte
had produced certain sensation. at the latest
dates, in Constantinople. The answer of the
Sultan is not yet known.
CLOTHING FOR KANsAS.-The committee
appointed in Boston Sept. 9th, to collect and
forward clothing to the destitute in Kansas,
report that they have received and expended
for clothing $500, Ind have sent twenty nine
cases containing 1900 garments besides fifteen
cases of shoes, three cases of blankets, and