Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-22
THE 1RRE11e1oN on POLITICS.

and Improvement of their morals, such topic
as this would never have become supJect Oh
theological controversy, or part OF the less
fastidious discussions of secular newspapers.
Unfortunately, it has loose and pernlclous
meaning as well as a correct and vlrtuous one
Perhaps no word which came into the language
honestly has been put to SO many immoral
uses. 1t is not surprising that some who re-
gard departures from rectitude, even IN phllol-
ogy. with sorrow, have come to regard 1t as
wanton, and fit subject for moral reform so
ciety, or hospital. The Rev. DIR. Bellows
suggests the Broad Church as the best remedi-
al agency. The Boston Courier-thc ever
sIeepless sentinel on our battlcments--pauses,
with alarming selfdenial, in the midst Of its
noisy and monotonous jeremad of grief and
danger on account of the decline of great mem
to enter disclaimer against too hasty conclu-
sions on this subject of immortality and irrelg-
ion, and sets out to prove that it is only the
Republican party which is irregious, after all
Let us not be charged with seeming to mis-
state its position. "We are all of u.s." says
Mrs Darlington, "unaccountable creeturs."
Absurdities are not the less certain to exist,
because we cannot explain tkem, or even think
of them without smiins, Rel dibly. It'll the
Courier's position cat them alone ely days of
the Democrssssc party, the infdel tendencies OF
TIE age were on its side. 1t was the radical
party, and, aryal, the wicked party. But in
the course of events it has become conserva-
tive and cts former radical position in poll
tics and religion is occupied, and far more than
occupied by the organization which calls itself
Republican" But the Courier's process of
transformation out-marvels the Arabian Nights.
The Wing party-peace to its dust was COM
posed of two elements, one radical and the
other conservative the former was the basis
of the new party, which also attracted many
from the extreme Democratic section; while
the conservative Wing element went to raise
and invigorate the Democratic party, to &C
cord with its own beautiful and unspotted
standard Thus constituted, the Republican
party embraces, eff not almost altogether, yet
in the greatest Masses the various irreligious
orders of the community, the infdel, the iu-
different, the unreflecting, and the superficial
body of the populacep While, per contra,
and to save its supercilious logic from be-
ing contemplate, the Democratic party takes
in the organized piety of the community, the
devoted Christian, the much-thinking and
comprehensive intellect of the age. In what
book of fables, or most passionate burlesque,
was ever assurance like this Marching
boldly up to the gates of the temple and af-
fectng with infinite impiety the ways and
purposes of Providence, the Courier dispenses
awards and punishments among political par
ties, as if it were commissioned with special
prerogatve, and sits in Judgment as if it were
crowned with special glory. Ard such a
judge!
To leave this rehearsal of sole mnly spoken
absurdities, this pretentious division of men
into classes of believers and inf1dels, this cool
rationale of the religious degeneracy of the
free States, and, by Inference, the marvellous
growth of the slave States in grace and in the
liberty of the children of God, we come to the
fact of the immortality Of our politics, or of the
contests of political parties for power-a fact
which is too gross and too patent to be trified
with, or denied. In view of the developments
treachery of accomplices. in dishonorable con-
duct bring to light, of the personal immortality
which public life DEVELOPS in many of the pet
products of political excitement, of the broken
faith, and denial of the best of causes for the
sake of immediate emoument-crimes of
which no party is guiltless, and faults from
which no organization is wholly free, it is moi
has
ed to rough usages, should upon slight provo
cation raise the signal of alarm and warning
Heaven knows there is need of such prophets
And there is nothing enviable in the moral
condition of that man, who can look with en-
tire serenity on the intrigues the folIies, or the
vices which, in greater or less degree, have
marked the progress of every party old enough
to have place in American history, and
which may prove the rock of ruin to many
that will come after them.
The practical atheism of our politics, how
ever, does not consist in the machinery of DO
litical organizations or in the plots of ambition
men. Both may be immoral, but they canno
in any sense be called atheistic. 1t consist
wholly and altogether in the denial of God
authority over his creatures, and in the recog
milton of the entire subsection of one race tt
the power of another, as a condition of correc
social economy, and its incidents of robbery
incest, and murder, as consistent with higl
moral assumption and pure religious culture
La one form or another, the question of the
perpetuation of this organized atheism applied
to humanity, thrusts itself extensively into ev
cry political contest and demands the homage
of every political party which it does not in
stantly destroy. In other systems of question
able morality, there is generally an intermix
ture of errors that are to be pardoned and vir
tues that are to be admired. But this one is
system of unrelicyed infamy, with no incident
of heroism, of selfsacrifce, of friendship, o
any manifestations of worthy emotion, to com
mend it to the approval or oven the federation
of the civilized world.
The REVISION CoMMITTEE.-The specia
Legislative Committee closed their labors Fri
day night, and adjourned to Monday, Scptem
Der 9TH, two days before the re-assembling o
the Legislature. The chapter on wills wa,
amended by stri KING ont tt,., .,:; - .