Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-13
The True Feeling Of the North.

From the Albany q. " Argus, Democratic paper.l
1t is the fashion to impute to the Clergy,
as body, sympathy with the sectional
intolerance of the day Nothing can be
more false OF moro unjustto this class: and
yet the press has done much TO give this
false inference by paradlng the words and
magnifying the character of little busy,
Propagandizing, egotistical clique, who
multiply their monotonOus labors by the
constant reitcration of the same words and
ideas from many pulpits and through NUM-
berless presses. - ft.A ~
The .diEines-who preach, chilling no,
murder" are few indeed. In the city of
New York, CheeYer, Cwho is a pensioner
upon the British Anti-Slavery Societies;)
in Brooklyn, Beecher; in Boston, one or
two of the same kidney, and in the inte-
rior some scattered imitators, are all of
the clergy engaged in this crusade-and
these stand in relation to their fellow-cIer-
men, and judged by their own avowed
standards of orthoxy, in very questionable
positions. We venture to say that not
more than five in hundred of the clergy
attached to congregations join or sympa-
thise in the preaching of the gospel of in
surrection which a few so noiSiIy and
wickedly proclaim.
For twenty years the little knot of Abo-
lltlonists have been wandering from city to
city in the North, repeating the same speech,
es, delivering the same lectures, making the
same appeals. One wonders ut the barren
ness of their invention and the poverty OF
their discourse, which in score of years
has produced SO little, and which has rung
the changes of obloquy with so scant a
variety after such incessant practice Yet
these men, inconsiderable and disregarded,
gathering no converts, and making no i'm
preston on the public mind, have had
their consequence multiplied and their evil
purposes ministered to- by a press hostile
to them. There are scores of clergymen
who preach purer gospel and higher
morality than Beecher; but who hears of
them? Who scatters a half million of pa
pers filled with their productions? Mol
The sermon of a preacher who is true to
the spirit of peace and loyalty to his coun-
try, and inculcates obedience to the laws,
is not worthy of notice, because it is SO
common. Beecher and Parker obtrin au-
dience of the press, because their spasmod-
ic eloquence creates sensation, and their
defiance of Their own creed, their insubor-
dination against God and man, is excep-
tional and strange.
In the same way the papers give the re-
cord of the crimes of men and saw little of
their good deeds. There is no place in
the daily press where the police report is
offset by an account of the ucts of benifi-
cence and sacrifice that men daily make
for men. Yet these acts of goodness in
the family, in the ncighborhood, in the
church, and in the State outweigh the evil
men do q hundred-fold
Among the means by which public opin-
ion is misrepresented the worst, proba-
bly,, is this which has represented the cler-
gy of the country as standing on the side
the obligations of law, and perverting the
gospel of peace into propagand of bale
full passions venting themselves in crime.
The press has been doubly in fault, in
magnifying the fame and disseminating the
doctrine of Al pestilent knot of agitators,
and then imputing to the greet body of the
clerical profession doctrines which they
repudiNte and abhor.