Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-04

have been eyaded at least fol- few years
The true cause Of the war is slavery, but
the responsibility for the power Of slayeryto
.beget the war restsupon the leading church
es Of our country, the Presbyterian, Epis-
copel and Catholic especially, and to some
extent other orthodox churches that crayed
tho wages of SIN rather than forego the
luxuries Of life. Whether God will be so
mercilul 10 churches apd government as to
allow of their resurrection to purity and
life remains to be seen. Setting up idols
to worship. after having once accepted
the true God and Bible, is an awful crime,
one that, to make the least Of it, requires
the greatest sacrifice Of blood and treasure
as a condition Of forgiveness. Imagine a
fancy theologian offering a pretended pray
er to God, for the preservation Of the
shackles, the whips, the bloodhounds, the
abundant increase of negro stock and a
prosperous time with slages---showing one
eye to God while he other eye, the soul,
the heart is upon the everlasting niger"
and we have a good picture Of fashionable
and so-called loyal religions worshiping the
churches which supported the great Amer
lean Tract Society," True, the preacher
don't say ooh Lord, give Us shackles and
whips, bloodhounds and good auctioneers,
and great increase of nigges-pretty well
bleached ones" and all that, but be means
it all, otherwise how could he pray for the
cotton crops, 70. rain, for all that giveth
increase upon lands worked by niggers,
said niggels managed by whips and
shackles and bloodhounds! Then the
demagogue supporters Of such churches,
they talk Of the Constitution, the Liberties
bequeathed by our fathers--charging the
abolitionists with preaching discord and
The likel The facts are, thoughtful read
ers, and we write for none others, we are
all in most ludicrous predicament, in a
condition that hardly any can plead limo
cence; all most all have sinned, even those
who have all along meant we'll We have
consented to vote for the negro idol dema-
gogues and then have voted for themy
knowing them to be idolators; we have
sat under the hearing Of the American
Tractarans and heard them plead for the
heathen--far away, and have patronized
4 4 he g
many years ago at least; we have in a
thousand ways sought God under false
preteuses and sought to be patriotic by
voting for the best men, such at heart trait
ors to humanity, God and liberty; we
have rendered allegiance to parties so deep
ly baptized in the ocean Of Slave sophistry
as to be purged Of every moral sense, and
so beduled ard bedamned with devotion
to negro idolatry as to stink as carton fed
on rot gut, skunk cabbage, raw onions and
horse leg tobacco. Readers, we are guilty
hardly any free from these worst of all
sins, all must suff.r, how much is for God
to decide We think He will yet save the
country from total ruin, not for the sake
Of The guilty though, but for the sake Of
the few who never Bonded the knee to
that idol of which we have spoken-that
few the old patriot fanatics who STOPPED
voting party tickets, at the close of Jack
sons administration, and the slaves who
never committed SIN against patriotism,
government, liberty or constitution, and
who never made false prayer, nor prayed
to idols since throwing off African heath
enlsm; for these and their good Almighty
God may save the cpuntry-not for any
Others, though as usual others may be
most benefited by the salvation. We close
by summing up the closing fnalities;
Some Of the prostituted, idoatrous church
es, by their whoredoms with the beastly
masters, have lost all but Pickering exis-
tcnce, that existence only in form, that
form skeleton that had better be buried
than linger in hopes ofimpossible recoye-
ry. The Catholic and Presbyterian
churches arc trying to throw of their idola-
try and be loyal 10 God, country, humani
ty ard constitution; their priests are at
work in the reform, and we hope God
may help them. As fer the Episcopal
church, it follows It's afistocratic superior
in England which sympathises with the reb-
els and is therefore lost to all eternity.
The Tract Sociery aims at recovery from
merited infamy by sending fly leaves to the
soldiers that are neutral sthl upon "the
sum Of all yilainies," but orthodox upon all
the small sins. Judge fancy still lives in
his affections, pretty much as ancient Her
Cd, the Almighty allowing him to survive
and be tortured by seeing the maggots ii
his own carcass, while the traitors he has
served for long life are tearing bis coun-.
try to pieces. The democratic party Isl
struggling to survive its own disgrace, and
is in the hands Of leaders who are neutral
upon democracy but faithful to treason
the party masses flying from it as the idoi-
ators fled from Sodom. The last heard it
was conducting mob il N. Y. City, muir
derng the niggers and robbing citizens.
So endeth the chapter
a Dpnl.t -.