Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-04-13

Court al Washington, to the effect thst
q colored person oil the African race
cannot be- citizen OF ID. United
States, seems to have excited 10 snch
pitch Of frenzy the pious zeal Of some
reverend Protestant c.crics. as 10 tnrn
their brain and render them objects Of
sohcitnde - tho rh.lan,hrop IS. II
YOU enter Iuritanical. Lni'.rsas-t
or Unitarian house OF worship, you Will
hear an irrcvereni, ini'aned and in'oi-
Grant harrangues identieai ith tn. Ia,i,
rf + poli,lca. moubtehank. except ~ 80
l.r As the lstte- has so:ne noGcs..,
and coniiucs himself u es'rssagaut
worldly ecominm, on the ''hlcts q
li. party, ab,i does not invoke the Lur.
u attest lbs Truth. while tic plous
preachers aseuminga iii VI r, llglon,
pos;ratc their rglssiou. and making a
disgusting garbage u sell interest and
'i,nity, pray with Their lips a'i'e they
ar .irsing III Their hearts. Their sole
invocate Of the Creator Is to iaeililat.
the 1is-ovcrance of the tuion, their
only hope to scc the Republic involved
in inextricahlc ruin. citizen armed
against citizen, aud brother thirsting
! for brothers blood. IL would seem
indeed that the Uni, ersal Gospel has
gone ont OF fashion, aud that ONE Of
the needs Of our day is to establish a
new Kcdcemer, who will youclsate his
protecting care only to fourteen or iii-
teen States Of the Union; aud that the
remainder must sink into the curse OF
Seldom and Gomorrah.
Does any one suppose that this ter
riblc fizzle OF piety results from phil
anthropic concern for the African race!
Bah. the poor negroes excite no con
Germ whatever with them; they do not
even empiu, them ~ servants in their
houses; they do not exhibit the siig,.t-
est sympathy for their unfortunate
condition in the free States, where they
are noininally free but actually wret
chcd. Our thcologlabs are simply the
apostles OF the fanaticism which over.
spread a portion Of the Union, and in
hopes Of attracting attention and hay
lng Their names noised aboard, if not
to increase their salaries, they convert
their puspits into the stump, we'll know
my that il they preached on dogmatic
theology or practical morality, they
would set their audiences to sleep in
stead ofinstructing or entertainingthem.
Hence they in effect proclaim, let us
no longer preach Christ clucified, let
us cruelty James Buchanan; let US no
longer inculcatc love. Chart, good
will or duty to country; be our theme
incessant alarm, ho,annas of calumnv
upon and insults TO those who differ
from our policy or desire To- preserve
the mon.
Fifty years ago, in the early and glo-
rlous Spring time of the Republic, the
religious fever Of the North Illuminated
curses and accommodations. Thomas
Jthcr, IN WAS then the object Of their
wrath and entrcatics. They denoun-
ced him AS an unlelieecr, Atheist, and a
trailickcr in human flesh, and all this of
the man who conceived and wrote the
Declaration 81 Independence, who was
second to none hul Georgc Washing
ton. lie needed neither their curses
nor their counsels. He was elected a
second time President, added fresh
luster to his country, lived honored,
and died mourned b, all good citizens.
II our iors clorics could, think you
they would not establish species OF
theorr.tlc Government where the
priest would he all, and the man moth
ing. The idea is not new, for the de-
tractors of Jefferson boldly and openly
hroached IL III 1904. Thcy hoped that
b. eiectng John Adams they would
hc able to establish union OF Church
and State, in other words State
Church; and the father of the roman
ccr-Mrs. Beecher Stowe, n the first
Of November of that year, preached in
Hartford in favor Of Church and State
amt proceeded to demonstrate the al
vantages 10 the Church vi such union.
tht reverend orator, not content with
'hls. inveigicd against universal sutf-
rage lie then wrote and spoke AS his
descendants do now, against the servi-
Jude OF the ncgroes--that of the whites
did not interest him-and he like his
descendants was DESTROYS that his cwn
acct should becomesupreme over every
'tler--should, in fact, be the State
church. The views Of clerical politi-
clans then and now, are identical. this
makes God the instrument, and Nam
| mon the end Of their ministerinu