Nebraska advertiser., 1863-05-14
The Cincinnati Enquirer Showing
ifs COlOrS.

n following, VIII muCH more VI tile
same sort, is from the Cincinnati Enqui-
rer of Sunday. the 26th of April:
The Church is now embarked in poll
tics. The religious scepter has departed
from the Ceristian Israel, and it has taken
on the political. To be a christian y
seems equivalent to being a rampant
and bigoted partisan. The Christian
minister is a stump-speaker in a house
with a steeple. The bitterest party har.
argues come from the pulpit, and senti-
ments that might put 0arbarians to shame
are delivered N what purports to be SER
mons, and blasphemously in the name of a
holy and merciful God.
This extract shows what DO one who has
carefully watched passing events can
have failed to see, that Northern sym
parhizers with treason are fast becom-
ming open infdels.
The Christian Churches, in the LOYAL
States, the Christian press, the Christian
ministry, the Sunday schools, and the
public schools are almost unanimously
loyal. Hence all these come in for
their share of hatred from such papers
as the Cincinnati Enquirer. These in
~structions are steadfastly opposed TO the
schemes of Jeff. Davis to break up the
Government of the United States. So
the Enquirer denounces them. We are
glad that that sheet is at length throwing
off the mask and appearing in its true
colors as an enemy to religion and TO the
common school system.
We have known, from the beginning
of the present struggle, that the virtue
and intelligence of the country was
nearly all on one side. The Churches
of the country and the schools of the
country must pc destroyed before the
schemes of secessionists can succeed.
Hence The Enquirer says:
I'VE have been for some time aware
that the machinery of party was at work
in our common schools. The schools are,
in rearly every, instance, under the con-
troll of members of the Republican
party. The teachers are mostly Repub-
licans or abolitionists, and generally fan
a,ics
By the machenry of party the Enqul-
rer means influence for the Union. In
DAYTON, where there is larger secession
element than usual in the public schools,
numbers of children have been expelled
because they wore on their clothing the
embIems of our nationality, such as
buttons with the American eagle, flag
pins with the stars and stripes, and red,
white and blue rosettes, These. by the
satellites of Jeff. Davis, partisan en-
blems, and generally in public schools
their is not treason enough to expel the
pupils for showing there zeal for the
cause of their country in this way.
The Eoqulrer says:
1.-The time is not far distant when it
will be obvious that the people Of this
country must rise in their strength and
put down this vast and rrpidly-growing
array of party machinery, or be put down
by it. 1t will come TO be understood thai
schools and State it even more danger
eous to popular freedom than Chuich and
State.
In the South, where the rebellion has
had free course, they have not been tro.
ubled with this hated conlmen school sys-
TEN. If the system can be destroyed al
the North, there is a good prospect thai
the Enquirer's project of leaving New
England out in the cold, and joining the
West to the Confederacy, can succeed.
People can be duped by the enemie;
of the country in proportion to their igno.
rance The rebellion could never have
been successful, in the South, had the
blessings of general education prevailed
there as here.
The course of the Enquirer and kin
dred papers is rapidly separating the vile
from the good in what was the old Dem
ocratic party. AS soon as a man de-
clares Internationally for the Union
these sheets denounce him as an aboli'
zionist, following the advice of their
Southern lords. In this way partie,
are rapidly ranging themselves into their
two appropriate classes, OF friends anC
enemies of the Government. Genera
! B1raSide's order Number 80 has so fal
operated on the fears of Northern tral
tors. that they care not openly uJtel
their treason as they used to do Then
only course now Is to lock around an
see what is the most powerful support o