The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-01-03
Rev. Dudley A. Tying.

sentiments.
Rev. Dudley A. Tying.
Since our notice of the expulsion
of this gentleman from his pulpit, for
preaching politics, we have received g
copy of the Objectionable sermon. Il
is mastery production, and decided
ly the best thing of the kind, coming
from the pulpit, we have ever seen
Our Kansas readers would hail it with
pleasure. if we were to publish it en-.
tire in the HERALD.
His subject is "0ur Country's Trou.
@es, and his first query is, how far a
minister may rightfully go, in his Sun
day discources, in his allusion to cur.
rent events, and in discussing thei,
morality. Having satisfied himself
that glaring outrages ought to be no.
ticed by the pulpit, and held up for the
consideration of the good, he brings
out most vividly and truly the condi-
tion of Kansas-the crimes perpetra.
ted here-the means by which they
were perpetrated-the actors in the
drama, and the justification and pro.
lection afforded by the Executive Of
this great nation. He shows, most
clearly, that Slavery was the instigat.
ing and propelling power of all the
outrages which we have suffered, from
the hand of violence, for the last two
years. 1t is this, mainly, we presume,
that has lost him his pulpit. If, in
stead of shareholders, he had discov.
cred that it was the abolitionists who
had brought all this mischief on
themselves-or that the Mormons OF
Great Salt Lake had been the melting
cause-or the Chinese in California
had excited alarms which had reacted
on Kansas, and caused all these tur-
moils, and suferings, and crimes, all
would have been well. But the Amer
lean Dervi was touched by the spear
of faithful minister, and all his sat-
elites were aroused for his defence.
To pacify him, the minister was ex-
PEELED. Slavery is omnipresent, in
the free ss well as in the slave States,
and it is a mortal sin to speak evil of
it. This liberty cannot be tolerated.
Whoever does it, does it at his peril.
Ministers are hurled from their pull
pits, editors are imprisoned, printing
Offices are demolished and presses
thrown into the river, private citizens
are expelled from their native State,
or imprisoned, or killed, for no other
crime than showing or expressing a
preference for Liberty over Slavery.
How slavery has come to be so great
a power, the sermon before us clearly
points out. 1t says -
at is the neglect of political duty
by respectable citizens. The whole
business of nominations has been
given up to csucuses, chiefly eompos-
ed of the ambitious and the vile. Pol
itics have become a trade, SO low that
few respectable men dare touch it.
Not an election can be carried without
and bargaining. and rum.
And in consequence, not a bill can be
carried through our National Legisla-
ture without bribes. Yet orderly and
citizens see these abuses,
without troubling themselves for their
And yet they boast of
heir political rights. But God has
given no right, without obligation of
use. The right Of self-govenment In
volves the duty of self government.
"How few christian men ever think
of taking counsel of God in questions
of public affairs, and giving religion
he control of their politics. How
iew men of principle bring their poIit-
cal conduct to the same test as their
ordinary intercourse. Yet the ulti-
nate responsibility of every measure
rests with the people, and each one
must answer for himself. Caucuses
If the idle and dissolute may nomi-
iate whom they please-leaders of
political parties may venture on what
niquities they will-but 70 the people
belongs the responsibility of their
ldoption. Without ths sanction of
he people they sink into that obscurity
which they deserve. It is on this
that God s dealing with us
IS a nation. The American people
nave been characterized By blind and
mscrupulous adherence to party-the
political morality Of our country has
become aby-word and hissing-the
whole people, by negligence. Or parry
spirit, have become partakers in the
guilt Of actions, which, IL they had
not been in politics, must Be = losth-