The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-03-18


ly on their guard. There may be some honest
political preachers and f Il win be any satisfAe-
ton to j. S. N. !, we viii give him the benefit Of
ihe presumption Of innocence" which he is so
anxious should be extended to his failOa broth
eF. and presume that he is one Of them. But it
certainly is a.Gery pregnant circumstances, to see
so many Of these brawlsrs turning out such ar
rant l1naves. There must be something "rotten
in Denmark"
1t was bad to publish the above as ''tstOs,"-
'there was no necessity for it." But to make
"oossments'' on it that IS not to be endured
That is very fine. How often did our clerical
friend, during the last Campaign, make "cons-
nalts'' on items of ''ne,os' in the 7riJnne, fur
nished by its lying correspondents, charging
Democrats with murder robbery and arson,
without any proof without any trial had, yet you
took it as true, and commented" on it as SUCH
ing and sacking of Lawrence" as true Did you
not ''commsnt' upon the news that several free
State men" were murdered in Kansas, and take
tae News as true, when it turned out that these
very men were not in the Territory at all, but
quietly enjoying themselves in their homes in the
States, or in some of our eastern cities And
do you not comment" upon the Burdell mur-
der case Do you not refuse to extend to Eckel
and Mrs. Cunningham the presumption of inno-
cence? And have you not commented" on the
fact Of their guilt ?
a. The clipping Of the above, by the Sentinel,
was basely sl1;,derous" A modest charge in
deed Then follows very learned exposition
and definition of Islander, which will no doubt be
very edifying to the public Judge righteous
Judgment" ave slander when we give undue
publicity to trae rsbo,4." That is something
new. The very word itself implies falsity.-
ISLANDER is to utter false and malicious tale of
another" A true slander is certainly a curiosi-
ty. To be slander, the tale must not only be
false but malicious. "But the crime Of one man
is charged upon whole class, who repudiate it."
We don't so understand the Comment
Among certain class ofpolitical preachers, much
rascality, and knavery begins to show itselE-a
rascality that was expected to follow such a
course, and the comment" is to beware of that
class. Religion must get stab" We hope
not. When politics get the upper hard with
one Of this class, religion takes her flight to
more genial tenement. You might as well ex-
pect figs to grow on an iceberg, as religion to
prosper with any such craft. Quite fine ruse,
Is it not, for one Of these fellows, when he is
stripped Of his Sleeps clothing, and stands ex-
posed in his proper colors, to fall back upon the
shallow pretence, that iwhen you touch him you
stab religion" !" Religion, we hope, will live
many day, after all such scamps are shuifled
into oblivion.
"Are we religious p Do we ever attend
prOslaUery cjEuches3" he anxously inquiries
What does he mean by ''pro slavery churches p
Happears then that we have pro-slavery church,
es here. What churches are pro slavery p
Those that do not have politics preached in their
pulpits he modestly characterizes as -slaUery!
We thank God that we have churches and min
listers here, who have too much love and respect
for true religion, to turn their pulpits into polit
ical rostrums even if they should by not doing
so, incur the fearful displeasure of S. M, their
churches be denominated pro-slaUerB and the
ministers, who will not preach politics, called
"dunJ-dogs, by his modest Reverence
Having got through with the firstly, secondly and
Justly of his elaborate article, he approaches the
climax, when he calls ministers who do not preach
politics "dumb dogs" and feeling that he had
done a great work, he rubs his hands with much
complacency, as he remarks, "my pro-slavery
friends may not agree with me, in my views
about 'aeacs, oonsmea,ts,' or 'slander,' but
one thing they must admit, and that is that
those 'oho preach sohat is popular1y called politics,
are large, increasing, talented, respectable class
Very modest indeed. This is the grand perora-
ton. IA talented and respectable class" of
whom, ]. S. M. is chief His article, no doubt,
confirmed his belief in the talent of part of the
class. Without undertaking the ''talent' of his
class, we think that those who refuse to preach
politics, and whomh he denominates dumb dogs"
will not suffer much in comparison with the
best Of his talented and respectable class" and
that they can do, and are doing perhaps, as much
to advance the true cause of Christianity as any
Of them.
In conclusion, we would just advise our cleri-
cal friend to attend to the duties of his ooa pro-
fession, and not trouble himself about the items
Of "news'' we may choose to clip from our ex-
chaRges--in short to attend to his own affairs.
Our article is rather longer than we intended,
but our apology is to be found in the dignity of
our subject and in the fact that we have been
paying attention to one of ''o0 gerry large, inaeas-
sng talented and respectable class !"
F. 5. We direct the attention of j. S. NJ. to
the article on our outside, entitled pulpit poll
tics; I" as giving our sentiments more fully about
preaching politics in the pulpit. 1t won" up ITO
say that preaching politics, is simply "pr@..atsn
against slavery telling the congregation that il
is not right Besides, ifit be sin, it is one that
his congregation is not guilty Of and as to its
merits or dement's, every one of his congrega-
ion have, no doubts as much information and
know as much about it as himself It is there
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