The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-04-18
A SPEEDY RETRIBUT1oN.


The strong hold which Robespere undoubtedly
had upon the Jacobin clubs may in part be attributed
to his frugal habits indifference to wealth, and the
supposed rigid integrity with which he administered
public affairs. Handling millions of the peoples
money, il is said of him that he not unfrequently
lacked the means to purchase dinner. True or
false he had the credit of being poor when he could
have wed himself untold riches of being infexibly
honest, when adeparture from the path of strict in
tegrty could not easily have been detected and his
admirers, consequently, disposed to regard his
brutal, bloody excuses, not as the workings of
wicked, dcpraved, and malignant spirit, but the
Jealous acts of who appeared 10 be free from
all selfish motives, and who willing TO sacrifice
his own life in the sacred cause of liberty.
AS long as the three thousand clergymen of New
England" were supposed to be men of pure morals,
of upright lives, and sincere in their peculiar con-
structions of the duties of the ministerial Office the
great mass Of their followers disposed to coun
tenance what we deemed and others deemed desc
Grafton of their pupis and to adopt views which, il
carried out, would have led to anarchy, disunion,
and civil strife 1t was in vain, during the late pres
idential canvass that the democratic press protested
in indignant terms against the dissemination of the
widest and most reasonable doctrines from the
cred desk it was in vain that they protested against
mingling of religious with political affairs; and,
for the time, it was in vain that they pointed out
the serious injury which would be inflicted upon
the cause of true Christianity by this attempted
union of Church and State. But acts speak louder
than words and the acts of too many of these po-
ltica priesy dctators revealed to an astonished
and disguised public within few weeks have open
ed the eyes of no uncomfortable number of their
dupes to the monsrous character of the frauds which
had been practsed upon them by their dissolute and
hypocritical advisers. We viii not shock the decacy
of readers by following the subsequent career of
several Of the most notorious Fremont clergymen of
the East. Although juries have failed to agree, and
in other instances the cuprits have become fugitives
Of justice public opinion in all sections Of the Union
is pretty well agreed regards the infamy of their
acts.
In more than one instance has retributiye Justice
overtaken these priestly firebrands. When the
sectional party in the State of Maine celebrated
their election last fall, they showed their depend
ence the few clergy who chose TO soil their
hands and garments with the mire Of abolitionism,
by inviting them to prominent place in the cee-
bration. One Rev. J. S. Kalloch was called down
from Boston Rockland to be the orator Of his par
ty. He INDUCED in the most abusive language that
could be used in regard TO the democracy Common
decency would have dictated the respectful mention
of The name Of Mr. Buchanan the successful chief of
great and triumphant party and the long public
services of General Cass, from the of 1912 to the
present moment would have called for respectful
mention, if mentioned at all. Such common decency
demanded; it would have come spontaneously from
the lips of gentleman; the lower impulses of Chris
tian duty would have restrained any man from vul-
gar abuse. But this Kalloch, political priest, made
the vest illusions to the President of the United
States and to General Cass. And he took occasion
to extol the republican party one that contained
the scholarship, the piey, the purity of the land.
In less than six weeks from the time that Kalloch
made this speech he was advertised in the Boston
press fleeing from justice; was summoned to
come back and stand his trial for adultery was not
acquitted but is pronounced guilty by Twenty-Five
papers out of twenty-four and is in all respects
dead man morally--more so than if he was in the
grave; while Mr.. Buchanan is the foremost man
in the world and General Cass is in position sec
ond only to the President in point Of dignity and in
huence. So speedy a retribution and so forcible
contrast between the accuser and the accused, sell
dom occur. Justice in this case has been swift of
foot.
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