The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-25
pul,i, Psi,sieiAns.

~x.rx Monday nornine The new York
,.,,.r. are In the habit a. furnisAing choice
suecimens of pulpit eloquence, after the new
.tvle. We iud two OF these in the Times OF
Monday last.s One OF them 10 By gsnue
named SLOANE, whose name has sm.cA
ahs PtaesimrlaaA, bat who, as psssenr
liehtentug the heather in CONAN. |
tleunan eoes a bow.shot beyond any P1s.S"''
who he's yet trod the new pata 70
| He boldly takes iasue, not oniy W. o
Convention at Baltimore Waic" 'n"~
pretty plainly that the pulpit was the PsopsI
place for men who preannso On!'s. "nu n.'A
| crucil,ed, and for NO other dcscrip!ion VI ol"'
g.. nm, vith the apostle himself, who pro.
$3.50 20 connns himself to that special duty
| M SLOANE 10 by NO means satisfied with
| conaninR him SELF within such narrow limits.
u. means. he says, to attack the devil in all
his works. and therefore he fires away at what
ne call. the corruption Of the times. Appa-
reutly. hs does not Include In his classincaAon
the various little peccadilloss by means OF
l which two millions or some such snug sum
were raised in Albany for political uses oy
the Black Republicans to assist in elecunS
tSHw.Rp That was but spelling OF inc
Phflistines. and therefore entirely lawful
The work of the devil which he thinks espe
| cially worthy Of attack, is slavenoiu'"s'
| According to him there Is no other san Du'
| that and he who owns not slave Is incapa"'o
OF SHINING at all.
The other preacher who distinguished nim-
self last Sunday, was the Rev. Dr. Chh.~1H'
lie did not say that he differed from tue Apo'-
tie in his opinions with regard to the "uuos
Of a pastor; but he prored it, His sermon W..
, devoted, not to CHRIST and Him crocine"' O"'
to THADDrus HYATT and him imprisoned.
HYATT. our readers are aware, refused 10 give
evidence upon compulsion before the Connl"''
tee of the Senate. raised 10 investigate the JoHr
y BRowN AFFAIR. He published an address TO I'M
u pnblic in w hich he professed himself perlectN
. willing to tell allhs xnew. There was nothing
y he said. within his knowledge. which ne couIe
~ ininre either himself or anybody else BY Tell
10 ing. and he would testify OH one condit'on'-
Do II the Senate would only acknowledge ina
~ they had no power on earth to compei ms o.
n tendance as witness, or to imprison him 10
declining to answer interrogatories, ana ina
8 for the basest of purposes, it had usurped
'e mower which did not belong to it, he woni
II mako a clean breast Of it. As the Senate woul<
50 not accede to this very reasonable proposiuoi
4 he preferred martyrdom to compliance, an
ne 40 he continues to lie in Jail. Dr. CHEEVEk
ne blood boiis at this unreasonable conduct Q
nj the Senate, and he proposes to set everythin
a. right by marching to Washington at the hea
As Of his congregation, and taking HYATT forc'
o bly, out of jail He has no opinion OF any ia'
a which stands between q man and his cor
be science. and Just now his conscience require
Al the rescue of THApDEus HYATT. What it WI
ne req uire afRr wards, we are unable to leari
'le Int we confess ourselves much impresse
ST with the Dr's views of law and politics.
d. There is only one little obstacle in the way
OF his success 1t might possibly happen tn;
no other people, besides the congregation in Unio
Square. might have consciences, ana tho
N cousciences might impel them to resist any a
zee tempt to liberate HYATT. What is to be don
les then? One set of conscences, we presume,
Les as good as another set. One man has as mu'
'pi right to obey the dictates Of bis conscience
&C. another man. 1t will not be pretended tn
1t the congregation in Union Square monopoli
rs; all the article extant Suppose CHEEvER al
me his congregation in Washington, and, und
ny the dictation of conscience, pulling down
BY Jail in which HYATT is confined. And tn
oss suppose the marine corps, and the dozen nj
Jay formed companies of the District, firing
'n- them under similar prompting of conscien
nts 1t is Just as easy and as rational to suppt
but the one, as it is to suppose the other &c
10 science is a two-edged sword. 1t cuts be
Ing wavs