, 1863-11-06
Ut)ifo9t> Nril,une,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1868

~)tkAsO @Aao<*'S
:. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1868
VARIOUS SORTS OF BEASTS. n
We have never heard Of fellow who
kept on an average two women, race
horse, bob-tailed, fighting dog; who had
an interest in faro-bank and a grog.shop;
who never gave a cent in charity save to
some brokcn-down and broken-nosed prize
fighter, or some other object equally un-
worthy who never sees the inside of i
church or decent mans house. fellow
whose business it is to live by his wits and
politics to whom bnllot-box stufiing
or bRllot-box smashing are equally easy
an impudent, ignorant, graceless ana VICE
stained scoundrcl,-wc have never nearo
of one such who, if Democrat" IS
7;nctv.,,inc of each hundred OF these ornn-
monte of our civilization are, was not
snecial1y strong on the Bible argument in
faror Of slavery, and the obligations Of
all good Christians to buy and sell men.
We have never heard Of one such, who, if
making q speech in 8 Copperhcad club
room, or its next Of kin, q bar-roona, did
not 10 the extent Of his small learning
and little ability 60 at the Sacred Book
and its texts perverted to pro-alayery uses,
and make them the basis Of o harangue-
q compound Of pious. calculations, and
frantic cursings Of the poor devils, the
Abolitionists, whose offence ia in the fact
that they will maintain that days
work should Always be paid q days
wages. We state what our readers must
have recognized as a curious phenomenon
But ne might 60 further and say that JUS
tidcations Of American Slavery On Biblical
grounds, no matter by whom rendered, are
to Us indubitablc proofs Of the moral rot
teuncss Of those who make them; and We
do not except from the sweeping condem'
nation The yinegs1-visaged gentleman in
the white czayat, who drunes ont his yer
sion Of the blessed Gospel, at the rate Of
five Thousand per a1snum, any more than
the other pro-slavery gentleman with the
bob-tal1ed, fighting dog, who is himself On
thelook-out 10 "punch somebody s head
somebody weaker than he. There is much
In the odor Of sanctity which black cost
when worn over white choker e1halcs;
and there is nothing quite lovenble in
aBo.e'' or " Buu'' cropped and ready Tor
clinch with somebody's else "1'ger o..
~1stescr" nor yet in " Bulls" master. We
do not expect 10 cling to the coat skirts OF
either the men, OF the tail Of either Of the
dogs, for our hopes OF blessedness here
after; but out Of the lot, were we to hitch
to any, VIC should tie to the four legged
beasts first, and then, should the fasteninss
break, to the dogs masters; but never
ueycr-nerer-tot that sublimated rascality
and distilled and clarified rottennest
which, in the likeness Of q priest, abuses
Gods word to crystalize! inhurnanity ane
Atheism into statute which men shnl
support as the will Of the Most High
Such men know better. Not all the soph
ims Of the schools can take out Of them tn
uobler erinstincts with which they were born
instincts which education, the society o
the good, and professions of love for al
men ought to have exalted into unquench
able passion for the happiness OF the race
The prize~dghter who, all his life, has beel
at work to deaden and Supply his bette
nature, has the plea Of Ignorance, whic]
the clerical Atheist cannot set up; an
while pity may drop tear over th
ignorant degradation Of the frat, it ma.
wonder why the visible wrath Of Heayel
isgyerted from the head Of the last-th
impious blasphemer in the name Of th
Lord.
It should be cause Of deVout thankful
ness that, in these latter days, the religio
nay, not religion, but the theology:
which sanctifies the ownership Of one ma:
by another man, and which covers Wit
the ordinances of faith the unutterabl
horrors implied in human chattelism a
this country knows it, has nearly run il
race; and that its priests are hunting 70
holes in which to hide the shame that ha
come upon sham.- We expect one NOR
, chance to bid them adieu. When. the da!,
- for the settlement Of this national troubl
comes, and the effort to save slavery, a
the heathen and cannibals cling to thei
gods OF baked mud when temple falls, j
at it's height, we shall see them again
perhaps in full canonicals; shall hea
their solemn droneing out Of prophetic
= of vengeance if their Interpretation Of th
=, Word is not needed; shall be witnesses {
the way in which the fellows Of man
wives and multitudinous bob-tailed fgh
ing dogs, stand at their backs; and last
ali, we shall know in advance how tht
will, for the last time, be put to flight.
THE OUTLOOK SOUTHWARK.
A few more turns Of the screw, and t
/: expected revolution in the South agar
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