The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-25
The Herald and the Blasphcming
sectarians-The Sunday Tyranny Cues

Sectarians-The Sunday Tyranny Cues.
ton.
A brutal blasphemous and stupid set of sec
tarians, headed by Chevalier Watson Webb.
that renowned hero Of half dozen ducls, be-
sides being the instigator and cause of the Of
fair in which Cilley was murdered by an
another Congressman, and who, with supreme
cgotism, claim to represent the Almighty on
earth, and to be the true and only opponents
of His will, have the folly to call upon the
clergy of the land to preach from every pulpit
crusade against the New YORK HERALD.
A labored article, half balderdash, half
blasphemy, which we reprint in another
column, from the Courier and Enquirer, sums
up the blasphemous argument of these self
elected judges of righteousness, claiming
to possess the true and only knowledge of the
will of Heaven, and daring to brand the HERALD
and its millions of readers as licentious nfides,
bent upon the destruction Of all social order
and religious feeling. The sum of the argu-
ment is that the HERALD is the widest read
paper in the world, has more advertising patron
age than any other, and that its editor has more
power than any other one citizen, because this
journal " is daily and every day purchased and
read by more clergymen and protesting Chris
tians than any other one newspaper in the Unit
ed States" This fact is too clear and ire
fragable for even the stupid dolts who make
the attack on US to ignore; but their blind and
blasphemous egotism prevents their under
standing its deep portent
From its first appearance to the present mo-
| ment the HERALD has been conducted in strict
accordance with the dictates of reason and
! common sense. Applying these in its judgment
| of men and things, without fear of power or
favor to partisanship of any kind, its course has
merited the appreciation of all classes of men,
who are the more ready to throw off sectarian-
! ism in proportion as they become more enlight-
| ened This approval has taken the effective
form of the greatest public support ever at
tanned by any journal, including that of pro-
Tossing Christians and clergymen Of every de-
nomination, as the fanatics cannot but recog-
Mise. Recognizing the great truth that religion
is thing for family incubation, and devotion
one for closet practice, as our Saviour told the
Pharisees, in our labors as journalist we have
recognized no Roman Catholics nor Protes-
tants no Jesuits no Presbyterians, no Metho-
dists, no Baptsts-nor, in fact any of the
numerous sects. who each claim the
exclusive right to send all the rest
of their fellow creatures to hell. We
have looked upon all as fellow Christians,
worshipping our Creator under the same high
dispensation, with petty differences on doctrinal
| points and church discipline, which neither
make nor mar the divine teachings Of the
| Saviour. II is this independent course-inde-
| pendent Of all sectarianism and all fanaticism-
that has made the HERALD the powerful journal
that it Is, and which has brought to US the APP
proval of our fellow citizens in the most sincere
form in which appreciation can be bestowed
a continued and constantly increasing
patronage.
The blasphemous fanatics who attack us in
the columns of the Courier and Enquirer are
incapable Of comprehending the spirit that
guides us and that animates the present age.
| They are nothing more than the excrescent re-
mains of that sectarian and fanatical spirit
generated in the decay of Judaism and Pagan
ism, ripe in the darkness of the middle ages,
and disappearing before the blaze of human
Intelligence garnered and accommodating through
the art of printng-which beheaded John the
Baptist, cruci6ed Christ, stoned Stephen, mas