Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-04-08

OF mankinu as Immortal DeinSs-tha' W
think Ministers of the Gospel have deeI
concern in. "Thou shalt love the Lor,
thy God. and Thy neiyhbor as thyself.
This is Chrst's owa teaching. Slavery
and its offspring, Treason, are opposed Il
all our bes, interests. But we do not rec
ommend-and rarely see-auy active o.
public interference 10 mere partisan issue
or purely personal contests, by Ministers
controversies, having no special mora
bearing, they feel no duty or inclination
to engage in. Questions of merely roridi,
poiicy, or of temporary erpr,liency-whe
ther John Doe or Richard R,e shall b
Constable or Sheriff-questions Of tariffs
banks, internal Improvements, &c. (havius
no particular religious aspec,) are not 'be
themes of pastoral thought or speech.
We have been led to state these genera
principles, by "makipg up the record Oi
some Of the leading men in the ministry
whom this time Of trial, when emo man
can serve two masters''-mislead their
less-iaformel brethren into practical dis
loyalty to the Government.
After bowling purely parti=In mot real)
Democracy, Sin season aud out of season, u
for thirty years, and praying for his party
President and Congress in the U.S.Seuate
as reward for his purely party services,
the "rery Rec" Henry .Siiccr refused, in
the East Bait Conference, to vote for sin-
cere resolutions of fidelity TO the Govern
nent which had fed him so long, although
he was in the very city whose streets we're
red with the blood of Union soldiers slain
by Rebels ..... At the Evangelical CoDte-
renee in Mllheim, Rev. James Barber, an
old olfice-hunter Of Union county, aud
Hengst, Wagner, and Ilun,er-Democra-
tie 'poli,iciaus," all-voted against simi-
lar resolutions
Out upon such Inconsistency, not to say
such hypocrisy. Not one of those "Dem-
ocratic warehouses" refused to vote or pray
for any Prcsiden, of their stripe, engaged
with Congress of the same sort in fos'e-
ring Flllibus,ers aud Slavery-but, with a
Republican at the helm, the nation bleed.
ing a, every pore to put down causeless,
cruel insurrecticn, and needing the pray
ers, the hearty goodwill, and the arms Of
honest citizens, for its very existence, these
"Rcv.' partizans can not give them Reso-
lutions even, to aid them-thn would be
" political ~ Shameful evasion! Thy
acted on h;s point erac,ly as S,taa--and
as Jef Daois-pouid hare them act!
The Word of God and the Discipline of,
every church, eujoius Patriotism, and sin
cere supper, of Governments. Aud what
especial reason have We Of the North-of
all people in Gods universe, in all histo-
ry-to rally to our Government! Com
pare the States where Unionism prevailed,
with those ravaged by Rebellion!
1t would refresh our loyal impulses to
read again the records of the Churches in
The Revolutionary struggle Of &c. Those
good Whig preachers did their duty; they
we're applauded, and are honored in the
freedom they have aided to secure us, and
their descendants are proud Of them. The
preachers of that day who refused to come
,ut squarely for the side Of popular rights,
we're called Tories, and-altbough some of
hem we're pious and well meaning men
heir great error of judgment caused them
o be bauished from the country, or to lose
heir influence and sink into obscurity.
Most of the ministry in the loyal States
re unequivocally with the people OF
'ver 200 in the Pittsburg NJ. E. Confer.
nee, not one was simple or wicked enough !
o be induced by "poli'icians" to vote No .
pon expressions of fidelity to the Union;
nd six Of them are Chsplains in service.
he Philadelphia, New Jersey, and other
rec Conferences were quite as decided
hey needed not the DEVILS "poli,icians,"
ut spoke square up on the right side. The
order Conferences Of Missouri, Kentucky
nd Western Virginia-phere they hare
II the iron hand Of Secesh "politicians'-
'e open and hearty in their preference for
lie Union, aud are men enough to say so
hen they have the chance. ii
Go with us to the Carolinas. A Meth
lis, preacher who would not confess the
ebel Government, would be tarred and
altered, or hung like Bewley and 9TH
$, or driven out at least North, men
10 refuse to vote for the Union are given ,
and allowed to remain. /.
Such are the vagaries of Democratic r
oitician" preachers. Thank God no
publican, no true Democratic Union Il
,acher, fears or fails to own and to pray C
the Union and its authorities.
The suit for fraud in furnishing Army IL
thing in Pittsburg, came up for trial, O.
r. NJ