New-York daily tribune., 1862-10-11
defenders? Thi, is DR.. Hawkes. Little, Dirty
Question, No. 1.-Two.

Question, NO.t
Shall the Loyal States see the rolls of their
citizens decimated, the flower of their youth
slain ia battle, the homes OBly little while
aeo the happiest in the world made desolate'
the honest accumulations of industry scattered,
the enterprises of benevolence arrested-nnd
all without hope of indemnity or OF security
This is DIR. HAWKES. Little, Dirty Question,
No. Three.
Shall the widest and the wickedest perjury,
the most Satanic defiance of the Majesty OF
Heaven, the cleare.t aud least defenslble OF
crimes. flourish and bloom in the establishment
Of great empire, and out of the dissolution
of society secure tho prosperous fortunes of the
turbulent and the ambitious 7 This is DIR.
HAWKES. Little, Dirty Question, No. -Four.
Shall the great experiment of political self
government utterly fail, who we, crOuching
aid crawling through the vlcissltudes OF anar-
cly, frd refuge at last in blind obedience to
the edicts Of an autocrati This is DR..
Hawks's Little, Dirty Question, No. Five.
Shall system Of labor be perpetuated, which,
without regard to its abstract equity, without
consideration Of its injustice to the employed
has SO demorallzed the employer, that treason,
robbery, and murder seem to him to be Chris
tan yMtuesl This is DR.. Hawkes. Little, Dirty
/ Question, No. Six.
Shall a system Of labor be perpetuated which
so utterly degrades the spiritual nature OF the
ensaved as to expose it, in its very ycarnlng
for sacred culture, 70 fanatci'm analogous
to idolatry This is DR.. HAWKES. Little. Dirty
Question, No. Seven.
Shall a system Of labor be perpetuated, the
very essence of which is denial of the fun
damental principle of Christian ethics-that the
laborer il worthy OF his hire This is DIR.
HAWKES. Little. Dirty Question. No. light.
Shall those acts 6e considered by the Church
mere peccadloes when perpetrated by It's
Southern, slaye-holdiDg members, which, IN its
Northern commandments, it would at once visit
with its censure, and even its excomunlca-
tons This is DIR. HAWKES. Little, DIRTY
/ Question, No. Nine.
Shall q Church which every Sunday prays
[ the tIpud LOru 10 Us iIbi r'Ni-
ton, pryy conspiracy and rebellion" and, " to
give to all nations unity. peace and concord.
,till hold communion with Church which Is
full of scdition, prisy conspiracy aud rebellion
against the unity, peace and concord of the
land This IA DR.. liawkss Little, Dirty
Question, No. Ten.
Shall n church which every Sunday prays
for The President of the United States aud
all others in authoriiy'-not merely US they
are fellow men but became they are " IN
authority shall this church Withhold ITS CEN
sure Of those OF its members, who, in con-
tempt OF authority, are waging iclonious war
again-t Law aud Order' This is DR.. Hawks
Little, Dirty Question. No. Eleven.
Whether, finally. those COMMITMENTS of the
church in the Rebel States who have been 50
disreeardiul of its discipline, and 80 false to
its teachings, as 10 yowedly violate all laws
Divine aud human, are entitled 10 anything
more than Cbrlsiinn pity, are at all entitled,
IN their double tort to Christian fellowship, In
Little Dirty Question we'll worth the con-
sideraiion OF every Christian Patriot; and is
DR.. Hawks's No. Twelve.