Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-12-11
The Rev. Burdett Hart and his Thanks.
giving Sermon.

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giving Sermon.
The Pioneer of Sunday signalized the COM
mencement Of another weeks direct and in
direct warfare on the Rev. Pastor of the Ply
mouth Church, by a dirty fling at that gen.
tleman embodied in a sentence or two at the
tail end of an article relative to JAMES TAN
NER, the travelling halfbreed imposter.
During the previous week it likewise con-
tanned two or three editorial articles on "po-
litical preachers" evidently aimed at the Rev.
MIR. HART, with two communications from
some sore-headed son of the South who Sign
ed himself " National" and another quite
long from one who called himself "Vir-
gnius" being we presume one of the F. F.
| VS., all directed to the annihilation of this
same clerical gentleman.
1t looks little like persecution, and leads
to the inquiry what he has done to occasion so
much bile and gall and bitterness to be emp
tied upon his devoted head?
| 1t is this. In a sermon preached on
Thanksgiving Day he took occasion 1--WE un-
derstand, } to review and contrast the two civ
ilizations of the Northern and Southern States
to show the immoral, irreligious and blight
ing effect which Slavery had on the white
race wherever it existed and the superior
dissemination of education, regard for law,
earnestness in religion and higher moral tone
which pervaded more generally the North
| Sfofoc IIo 10 l.,
which Slavery reduced the poor whites of the
| South; how it denied to them both education
and employment; and placed them in social
position and physical comforts below the ne
gro slaves. That the institution tended to
encourage the growth of all the viler passions
of human nature and that even the masters
were deteriorated by the unrestrained impu-
nifty permitted to their tempers and their lusts
by the peculiar institution" Viewing it thus
as to its moral and religious. aspects; as to
the resulting lower civilization of the white
race it induces; the incubus it was upon the
soil preventing the right development of even
physical nature; as Christian and Cler-
gyman he deprecated its extension and pray
ed for its determination, in legal, constitu-
tional and judicious manner
We were not present to hear the address,
but are informed that. such was substantially
its tone.
This is all the political preaching" there
was in it. 1t was a manly protest against
Slavery as a foe Of morality and religion,
which no sane man can deny that it most un-
doubtedly is. But some Southern-born
"sncAs," who were compelled to leave their
birtn-states because the institution weighed
down its enterprise and development like for
| ty nightmares, and left no room even in those
| sparsely settled communities for poor men
having their fortunes to make who came to
Minnesota to avail themselves of the superior
activity and go-ahcadtiveness and intelligence
which freedom and free-labor infuscs into ev-
cry community-thesc snobs )" must still
affect love for Southern institutions" as
though they were yet amongst the niggers !;
some of them so affect, because they were
thus taught and have not lived long enough
in the world to learn better sense, and others
because they think it looks large and aggran-
dies their own Importance and aristocracy
position to talk of "my fawthcr's plantation "
or "my uncles serUants," or "when we were
in Virginia-M my own black boy Chawles,"
DC. The attacks of all such jejune antago-
nists, Or of such offsets of the peculiar" lwho
have fled for refuge and succour to free insti-
tutions from the pestiferous effects of the
curse upon the land that gave them birth,
may well be disregarded by clergyman of
the ability and high character of the Rev.
| BURDErr HART, whom we arc disposed to
| recognize as an acquisition to ST. Paul-as a
| Christian gentleman who possesses superior
talents, rare education, and highly polish
ed mind-a man frank, fearless, and eloquent,
sincere, devout and manly spoken-and not
in the least bit, that odious and inconsistent
thing, pro-slavery clergyman!
AS for the Pioneer, he need mt mind
what it says either. Its character and its
peculiar monomania we can best illustrate
by an anecdote. Many years ago, so the sto-
! ry runs, when Federalst and Democrat
were the party designations, a substantial
farmer in the State of New York who was a
Federalist, had hired man who was vio-
lent Democrat. The farmer wont to attend
church himself, tried hard to prevail upon his
servant to do the same But in vain. He
persisted in spending his Sabbaths at home.
On being asked aohy he was so opposed to
going to church, his answer was, because the
parson is forever preaching politics. The
farmer, thinking that that argument would be
overcome, if he could only once get his SER
want to hear his minister, hired him on a GER
tain Sabbath morning to go. On returning
home, the man said, "Thcre, it was Just
as told you it would be; all politics from be
ginning to end" "No," said the farmer.
mot so; there was not one word of politics
in the whole discourse" eyes," said the
man, there was; the text was politics."
"Why, what was it ," said the farmer.
"This," said the man: ''If the Federalists
scarcely be saved, where will the cursed Dem
ocrats appear "No, it is not that" was
the reply; "on the contrary, it was: If the
righteous scarcely be saved where shall the
ungodly sinner APPEAR" II know it." was
the answer; but, darn him, l kneao cl.at lie
meant"
That's the way it is with the Pioneer. If
clergyman breaches against any crime in
the ten commandments, some how or other
the Pioneer takes it to itself and its party and
calls it political preaching"-an assault upon
the Democracy. Well-we don know but it
is!
RuNAwAY.-A team belonging to Richard
Marshall of Winslow's Mill, ran away yester-
day. No one hurt.