The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-10-23


their ways and make up their minds to return
to the ancient landmarks Of their Constitution
"a departure from which is the cause of our
present misiortunes.
The day WAS observed by the whole people
as fast day or festival was never observed before
But what part do the clergy play on this great
national occasion? How do they improve the
opportunity offered TO them OF helping to save
The country from the pers OF which it is beSet?
Not man OF them exhibits any craftsmanship;
not one OF these moral and spiritual physicians
seems to understand the disease which he pro-
ecses to treat. They hit upon every cause OF
our troubles but the true one. Some attribute
1t to this sin, some to another, and some to all
the deadly sins combined. But to give one OF
the most active agents of Satan his due, Chee-
yer refuses Gll their theories, while he fails to
establish his own. He says:
"Our teachers gravely tell US that God is an.
CRY with us on account of our Atheism, our
Sabbath breakings, our pro'anenesS, our intem-
perance, and. in fine, every one of the sins that
has characterized all the generations of man
kind in nations down from Adam, ssye only the
one glarng sin peculiar to US as nation.
"Nearly all nations on the earth have dan
ced chewed tobacco, drank ardent spirits,
forgetting Cop in many ways and profaned his
ordrnvnces and his Sabbaths but We have no
proof that God ever judged a nation with des
olating war or rebellion out of any one of these
sins, OF any sin that characterizes us, except it
be oppression" ..
Beecher, it seems, was afraid to preach but
Cheever, who has just come over from England
with his trunk full of British soyereigns, am.
ply makes up Tor the omission. He is more
impudent and auiacious than ever. lie main
tans that slavery Is the damning sin which
has brought affection upon us, as it brought
si,ni'ar judgments upon the jews OF old; though
f wa a,,e to believe the Bible, that institution
was expressly sane ioned and provided for by
the AImigbty in the laws which he gave to Mo
ses for the Israe lites This seditious ianatical
preacher assaiis the President and the States
and CITY government because they do not ac
Knowledge that ala very is the national sin
that which has involved us In civil war. lie
says.
"a very great sin at the present tlne'-an
aggravation Of the one prominent crime OF our
naton--s the refusal to acknowledge thae mi
Quity, not merely the refusal to repent OF IT,,
but even to acknowledge it. In the piocla ma
tion for fast chere IS no mention Of It. W.
have the extraordinary phenomenon of ma
tonal, State and city proclamation Of fasting
and prayer, beneath the judgment of God in
civil war, produced by slavery, calling to peo
ple to repentance on account OF their SINS in
which proclamation there does not occur an al.
fusion to that great comprehensive, outstand-
ing iniquity ofour nation, which all know to be
the cause OF oar present Distress"
Among the most violent OF the abolition
clergy who took the same ground with CheeVer
was Rev. Mr.. Sloane. who attacked the PreSi
dent for his patriot letter to General Fremont,
and denies him the credit Of saving Kentucky
to the Union, because iorsooth, that State has
always been we'll leavened with anti slavery
ideas, and he had no doubt that "in Kentucky
the cause would lose by the unfortunate mod
ifcation Of the PreSident.' Binder than the
verest child are these parsons to the meaning
OF the political events of the day, and to the
signs Of the times, and yet they undertake to
dabble in the details OF politics. This clerical
demagogue has the presumption to hurl his fu
limitations at the head of the President In such
language as this. ....
"Why should we not strike the enemy in
that point in which he was weakest, and do
signal act of Justice while we loved the c0un
try? Politicians were AFRAID that by such a
course they would lose in the border States, and
influenced by this consideration, the President
had committed the sad and grave mistake OF
modifying the proclamation OF General FIRE
act which had allied loyal hearts
with grief scarcely second to that which the
disaster at Bull Ran had occasioned"
This same meek gentleman advises not only
the crushing Of rebellion, but the crushing OF
the cockatrice from whose eggs the serpent OF
had been hatched' in other words,
he advises the utter destruction Of slavery by
the armies OF the North. He denounces "the
mean business ofreturnng fugitive slaves and
boasts that he "had never glored in the Union
and the Constitution believing one 10 mean
union with slavery and the other to be full of
de tects." He there ore looked forward to the
time not when the old Union shall be restored
but when we shall get rid Of the South and
I'VE shall have more glorious Union, the
Union OF free States in one proud empire;
better constitution-one in which God shall
receive ali the glory and man all his rlghts."-
Said we not truly that this was the object OF
abolition traitors of the pulpit and the press,
either to abolish slavery by force, or to cut off
the sltveholding States from the Union? For
such minister Of the Gospel as Mr. Sloane it
was but natural TO read with appreciation to
his audience the assault on the Constitution of
the United States in the editorial columns Of
the Independent ofthis week, and equally char.
acterstic of the hnaticism which animated his
discourse was The denunciation OF the sentiment
of Napoleon as an infdel, that Providence is
always ON the side of the strongest battaions
and the heaviest artillery
or the same rabid type was the sermon Of
Mr.. Thompson, of the Tabernacle, who said 'it
is necessary to wipe out slavery or our dearest
rights are Imperilled. 1t is preying upon our
vials and must be cut out with the sharp edge
of the sword. 10 similar effect IS the Ian
guage of Rev. DR., Vinton and Rev. DR.. Tying,
the most violent Of all who describes slavery as
the most unreenting, most bloody tyranny
that ever cursed the earth,' snd insists that we
must press forward, in the name of God and
to the utter extermination of the
cause of the war 1t was no wonder that
portion ofthe congregation arose and walked
out in the middle OF this TRADE, shaking off
their feet the very dust of the church. l7-.
Amidst the barren and burning desert OF IA
naticiSm presented by the reports of these ser
mons in the Tribune and Times destitute OF the
waters of charity and oil life, there is one oasie
one green spot. 1t is the discourse of Rev.
Mr.. Newman, of the Bedford street Methodist
church. In speaking of English Jealousy and
hostility he says: su.a.ss .aes. az ag3 te4 J.
"First, the nobemen Or lords Of the land are
not n sympathy with the North but are saying
and doing everything they can against US. The
Earl of SALISBURY stated to him very explicitly
that the policy o: England was not to allow
the existence Of any oVershadowing govern
Inrnt They are jealous o. our rising greatness
and are determined that England shall be the
greatest na,ion on earth, When you are co..
100000 people, said the Earl YOU will come
over tere and dictate to us, which contingency
we must and will, if possible, avoid The sec.
i .faaa n ~. tho. Enlrlish. ahnitinnictn ,rhn o.,