Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-09

The Reverend 1cOISc d. NhecVSi 10
AGAIN in trouble with his congregation.
Il viii be remembered that very large
number Of the most respectable men,
bers Of the church of the Puritans. were
compelled to withdraw from the church,
in consequence of this Cheever's violent
and oft repeated diatfibes against the
constitution and people OF America.
Cheever ought in decency to have joined
Garrison and Phillips, and abandoned
his flock, but he was no such fool. lie
had a good thing of it, and he knew 1t,
for a handsome salary with perqulsites
for marriage ceremonies and burial SER
vices, are not entirely valueless, even IN
the eyes Of a disintcrested philanthro-
pist like Cheever. The merry jingle Of
q silver dollar is music even TO the ears
OF follower of the Lamb and Parker
Pilsbury, and SO Cheever wouldn't re-
sign. At last, the funds ran low, and
Cheever found that he had played too
strong game, and exhausted his back
ers and "bursted" himself. He had dis
gusted the moneyed men Of his congre-
CATION, and their places we're not sup
piled by wealthy recruits, for phlan-
thropists are generally distinguished by
chronic impecuniosity. Cheever was
too thoroughly committed to the niggers
to recede. He was obliged to 60 on
with his labors for Africa, and that was
in fact the part prudence, for it is uni
versally agreed that the hair of the dog
which bit will cure the bite. 10 Eng
land the good people are still in the
habit of contributing for warming-pans
and moral pocket handkerchiefs for the
heather Of the tropics, and to them
Cheever determined to appeal for mater
ial aid, pecuniary comfort, and aurifer-
GUS consolation. OF course, he tried the
Martyr dodge, and despatched a beg
gar to Exeter Hall, 10 solicit aims and
peter-pcnce for this nasal Saint, who
was being starved to death for preach
ing Sambo and him deitied. Exeter
Hall did not respond quite as promptly
a. the exigencies Of the martyr required,
and that worthy became impatient and
i'll tempered, and vented his spleen upon
the remnant Of his flock. Even the es-
oteric disciples of the angry parson could
not stand everything, and meeting has
been called to discuss the propriety of a
parsons being bribed with British gold
to stir up discord and disunion in the
country of his birth. 1t is possible that
the decent portion of the congregation
may kick Cheever out, as the apostles
Of old used to cast out devils. If they
do not, they will sink to the level heir
wretched pastor, and even to a lower
depth, for they will get nothing for their
treason, whilst he is turning his into
solid gold.
THE Gazette claims that the "princi-
Piles" Of the present Black Republican
party are the same which the Democrat
ic party advocated ten years ago. Ad-
hitting, for the sake of the argument
that that statement is true, why do the
editors Of the Gazette to-day support
those very principles which they, as
Wings, must have opposed ten years
ago? At that time they denounced the
principles Of the Democratic party with
the greatest bitterness, and now they
claim Office and power, on those very
principles which they then denounced.
1t becomes the Wing Republicans, Ger.
tainly, to charge the Democracy with
changing their principles.
The simple fact is, that the anti-Slav-
cry dodge was resorted to by the Wing
leaders as the most available expedient
for rallving the old Abolitionists round
their banner, after the disruption of the
Wing party on the defeat of poor old
Scott. As proof positive that their
movement was mere dodge, We point
confidently to the fact that in ls4s they
voted for a Shareholder, Gen. Taylor,
and opposed Mr.. Van Buren, and his
Buffalo platform, which is the very one
upon which the Black Republicans DOW
stand. II the Wing leaders were sin
cere' how could they adopt in 1854 the
very same platform which they had re-
pudiated in '4s? Both AT. and Add.
Sanders at that time secuted at the Buff
falo PLATFORM. Now a change has come
over the spirit of their dream, and this
despised platform has become panaces
tor every i'll the Union is heir to. In
the palmy days of AS, when that noble
Old Roman, Harry Clay, ruled the Whie
party with a rod of iron, and anathe
matlzed the Wilmot Proviso as an un.
ciean Thing, such underlings as Add
and ALI. Sanders would not have dared
even 10 the solitude of their own closets
to whisper to themselves the mildes