Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-07-03
CORRESPONDENCE.

Brother GressWger
We did, in all candor, ask you to give
your readers chapter on Jesuitism. And
though We @svs- aware -pou would .4sietiy
decline any such task, yet we thought it be-
come you and your religious profession, to
show that you might be one thing religious
~, and another politically.
We have never read more Jesuitism in
fewer words than in the following paragraph,
an Editorial Of yours:
'The Abolition Republicans are ex-
hausting their billingsgste upon the Demo
cratic party because it is in favor of restor-
ing the Union as it was, and maintaining
the Constitution as it is This is neither
strange nor unexpected. Who ever heard
tell of an Abolitionist who had any rever-
ence or love for the Old Union and Consti-
ton? 1t is not in them. They hate the
Constitution which our fathers gave us, and
have labored to break up the Union which
they made forus, hence their abuse of every
4 man or party who are for adhering to the
old landmarks"
In this Jesui tical paragraph there is not
one single truth in any one single sentence
to be ignorant Of this is to be very ignor-
ant--too ignorant for any editor in this free
State of Ohio.
Now, jesuitism holds that ''the end sane
titles the means that is, that .'evil may
be done that good may Gomez of which
''Thc Book" says,-"Whose damnation is
Just" Again;jesuitism scruples not, un
der indulgence, to tell little untruth, or tc
marke mental reservation, to gain point
Nor does it scruple to deceive under plaus
ible and ambiguous phrases. Let thes.
principles be applied to your paragraph
for it is but a specimen of your issues ir
general-and your jesuitism is palpable.
/. You use the term Abolition" mean
, ing Garrisonianisrn, or as applicable to tina
peculiar ism, only, when you wish YOU
readers to apply the same to Republicans
or the friends of the Union and the Admin
Y istration, and to keep concealed from then
i the distinction il fact. Yet you know, o
should know, there is not single Garrison
ian Abolitionist in all the ranks Of those 70
whom you design your denunciation. Tn
Garrisonians interpret the Constitution a
you anu your purity w iuI tuo uohCut VI VI
South and from you both, the Republi
cans and friends of the Administration dill
fer. The Republicans differ "a toto wit
Garrisonians. You agree with them i
! theory, but differ in practice. You max
/ the Constitution support slavery and th
, slave trade-this is Garrisonianism. Bu
: you-contrary to your religian--swear
support slavery and its extension. Thi
!, Garrisonians can't do. Here you and the
I differ. They have some conscience, yo
politically have very little. Your jesuitisI
, comes in here. ..' &C.
Union Republicans, and Unconditioni
!, Union men, say slavery can BE- restricted, q
8 peculiar institution, to the slave States
. or, aboIished--as it has been done--and th
Constitution remain intact. And here the
differ from you and Garrisonians. WI
' don't you tell the plain truth about it? On
I but while the truth would honor your r.
n ligion, ii would not be the policy of yol
: modern Democratic party! That 70 it.
) 2. You, like an arch Jesuit, use the tern
n the Union as it was" &C., 'the 0
y Union" and, ''the old landmarks" wi,
4 mental reservation, and in an equivoc
= sense. You mean by these, not the 0
"a Union rs in the days and in the Admin
s. trations, principles and aims Of Washin
ss ton, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe b
a as in the days Of modern, pro-slave
- - Democracy--as inthe days Of Pierce al