Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-18
A rrIo of nfodeI OIersymen b. Kanaas.

it is to be made the victim Of party changes.
A Trio of Model CIersymen In KanSas.
Several godly clergymen in Kansas, and a
Judge. and two or three locofoco editors,
have undertaken to head off the public SYM
pathy for Kansas, and stop the contributions
for relief and have publishedsa statement,
which was villainously imposed on the public
press through the medium Of the Associated
Press news report. We speak advisedly
when we call this act of the Associated
Press villainous imposition. To begin, this
self constituted committee of godly men
warns the public to place no credit in the
statements of Thaddeus Hyatt that $4,000
people are exposed to starvation unless they
have relief
After having thus done their best to de-
feat the efforts of the only men who have
made any exertions to procure any relief for
Kansas, this committee of clergymen pro-
ceed to disprove Mr.. Hyatts statement as
follows: "There have been no authenticated
cases of death by starvation" No authen-
ticated cases of death by starvation! By
that they prove that there is no danger of
starvation and therefore Mr.. Hyatt's state
ment is false. Nice men these they want
the cases of death by starvation well authen-
ticated. A crowner's quest " must sit on
the dead family and find whether starvation
came to it, or it came to starvation, before
they will admit a necessity for calling for
help from abroad.
They say further, 'if the contributions
continue as bountifully as heretofore, until
June next, as we hope they WILL there will
be none;" that is, no we'll authenticated
cases of death by starvation. Who aroused
the generous people of the free States to
make these contributions Mr.. Hyatt and
his associates, whose statements this clerical
committee now pronounce fragrant false
hoods, even while essentially substantiating
them, in order to crush their effort and stop
these contributions.
Let US take the statement of this clerical
committee, in spite of their evident purpose
to defeat the measures of relief They say:
"About one.ffth of the people need help
from abroad"
Ope-ffth of the people Kansas had at
| the last census population of ll6,0 900. Then
according to the estimate of this depreciat-
| ing committee, over $4,000 of the people
need help from abroad. What do they mean
| by "need help2" Is it merely lack of some
of the luxuries or comforts of life? Then
| they do not need help. American people
will stand severe privation before they will
call for help. They do not need help, un-
less they are exposed to the want of the
actual means of subsistence, of food, first
and of clothes. This is the only need that
this clerical committee mean and having
admitted this, how dare they say, under
their clerical character, that these 1000
people are not in danger of starvation?
How are $4,000 people, who need food
from abroad, to be saved from starvation,
without relief2 By their own account these
clergymen have lied; and lied, too, to pre-
vent suffering people from being relieved.
If these are not the wolves.in sleeps cloth.
ing, that Christ described, where is there so
good an imitation? only23,O 900 people, very
much scattered, the committee say4-which
of course very much mitigates it-and who
suffer very much from the weather, they say,
in reaching the relief furnished-which of
course mitigates the evil still more--Only
$4,000 scattered people, emigrants who
naturally have expended all their means in
reaching their land and in improving it, who
have not made a single crop Of any sort fora
| year, and who, the committee say, need
bountiful contributions from abroad till June
next; therefore, they warn the public to
discredit the statements of all those who are
laboring to procure this relief
This is sweet gang of clergymen, using
their godly profession to give character to
their effortto prevent relief for the suffering
people of Kansas. These names should be
preserved. They are set down with their
holy calling appended
A. W. Pitser, Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church; VIM. W. Backus, Pastor of the
Westminster Church G.. G. Bartholomew,
Psstor of the Christian Church. A Judge,
W. O. Mcdowell, is also appended, to give
the thing glay-respectability. If there has
been any title that above all others was the
synonym for atrocity to the people of Kan
sas, it was that of Judge. Now it will have
to vie with that of "Pastor.n PASTOR Shep,
herd. Ravneing wolves.
Let the people of the East remember thC
names of these pastors. They will hear frOu
: them. Help from abroad is always needed
, for the pastors in Kansas. They are alwsy
: starving. Perhaps their anxiety is lest tn
! Eastern contributions for the salvation @
the souls Of the Kansas people, may be di
5 rected to mere temporal relief. New En-
} gland, New York and Ohio churches win b
: called on TO contribute to support these pas
f tors in Kansas; and their sympathieS wi
: be wrought on by stories of the privs
J tions of these missionaries in the wilder
ness, cut off from the re6nemsnts an
o Injuries of civilization; and of the anxiet
o Of the emigrants for the gospel, VIII
: can all surely be saved with a little NOR
o money; garnished, of course, by frightfl
: stories how the Roman Catholics are builG
], ing churches there to hive the people VIII
!. are wandering without a shepherd; all f
E the want of little more money. SAbbatl
q school children will be called on for the
cents every week, and told how much bett,
t it will be for them to send their money
d support the gospel in Kansas, and go
r Heaven, than to spend it for candy and {
o to the bad place. Probably there is not OF