Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-14
BIasphemy of RadicaiiSm.

No better indication of the character ofradicaI
ism can be found than is given by those radical
newspapers which profess TO be gous papers
and vet devote themselves TO the propagation of
bid political doctrines by those clergy men Who
profess to be teachers OF the pure and peaceable
doctrines of the Prince of Peace but who devote
I thir labOrs in the church and in pastoral visits
To the inculcat'oa of the radical creed.
! The Independent newspaper may be taken as
the illustration of the first class and its editor as
the illustration OF the second class.
! The faith of the sincere Christian the earnest
believer in Gods word. torbds that any man
should trihe with il. especially that any man
should reduce il to the vile uses of common po-
litcal brawling. Basphemy is, n the mind of
the Christian. one OF the most henious OF sins
approaching indeed TO that mystery which the
church speaks of as the "unpardonable sin" Yet
blaSphsmy is the language OF the IndependeHf,
and of its editor, the former ultering IL in its
columns. the latter in his palpit aud palliating
the offen>e because it is done in the interest of
the radical cause az the polls
In all the history oil the walk of the Son OF
God with man, there is no more sublime and
mysterious passage than that in which he is de-
scribed rs ascending mountain of Galilee and
assuming in the presence of three chosen disci
piles. the features and the Illumination of his
Fathers and HIS own Divinity To what end
that strange yet glorious manifestation was
made, 10 what purpose II pointed, was well a sub.
iect of deep wonderment u the disciples who be
held IL The ancient prophets, the teachers of
Israel under the old dispensstiOn, stood again on
earth. with the apostles (and to-be martyrs) of
the new. and rendered homage to the Divinity
that with the Father before the world was,
and which, in the mystery of the Atonement
bad appeared on earth for mans redemption
With what emotion the living disciple PRAYED
that he might remain forever in that sublime
presence; with what profound awe. and vet de-
lighted affection, he desired that Moses and
Eli th. and the Master. might rem In in r,bernA
Giles together Oh the mountain top while he and
his companions heard their holy converse we may
not understand. Snce the Lord walked in the
Garden of Eden, there had never been a more
sublime. more Solemn. my sterious and awful
meeting Of man with his God that that meeting
on the summit Of The hill in Galilee when Moses
and Peter. md Elijah and John. did homage 10
Jesus of Nazareth. TRANSPORTED before them
Yet this scene is used by the THdependeRt
newspaper in rdicule, ant gives CHASTITY charac
ter 10 a pointie>s Joke against Gen Mcclellan in
the following shocking sentence.
The terrible fight Of Antetam md its half
victory. through the fatal. hopeless and ineradi-
cable timidity OF Mcclellan, (who j. more panied
10 have one man shot than thousand rot in the
ho~pitals) who seemed 50 amazed that tie had
tie H'shts oi Sfarpsburg as another Mount Of
Iran~hs uration. aud be~oueht the AdminiSira-
ton that he might make three tabeuAcles there
for winter quarters"
But. Rot eoA,est With this horibl. profsaitv. /