North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-12-14
TUNKHANNocK, Pa
Wednesday. Dec. IA, 1864
Political Preachers,

We hope our Democratic friends throughout the
country will keep in kindly remembrance the pro-
fessed Ministers of the Gospel who durlng the late
campaign, loft their pulpits and went preaching for
Lincoln and Abolitionism, The time is coming
when these hypocrticai pretcnders will want pay.
Let those whom they have denounced refuse to give
them cent. Democrats remember thsm.-Dems-
Graf, Eloomsburg. -..... ...s
The above suggestion, or something OF sim
liar import, we now find in almost every
Democratic paper. With this difference. it
is applicable to the case of most of the preach
ers Of this region. Here these abolition war
preachers, do not leave the pulpit" to dis
pense their niger doctrines, but rather, use
it, as their rostrum, to give their partisan ha-
rangues show of truth and responsibility.
! We heartily endorse the doctrine, that those
for whom they preach should support them.
When man, protesting to be called Of
| God, to prepch the Gospel, so far forgets his
duty to God and his fellow men, as TO engage
in stirring up strife, contention, and blood
shed among the people, and encouraging ha.
tired, revenge and all the baser passions of
the human breast-we say, when man does
this, We think 1t high christian duty for
every man and woman to wash their hands
Of the stain OF feeding such wolves in sleeps
clothing" We do not Imagine that what we
have to say on this subject, will diminish
the amount that will be given to these blood
suckers these parasites in communities where
they live They will doubtless, be sustained
by those for whom they preach, and in whose
interests they labor. This is as it should be-
If those who do not approve OF their aboll-
ton war preaching, have charities to bestow,
theyscanaOt fail to find arorthier objects on
! which to bestow them.
The land is filed with helpless, half fed,
! half f-clothed, dependent widows and orphans
! Shall bread be taken from their famished
mouths, and raiment from their shivering
worthless, impious, vagabond, abolition
preachers We think il is h;eh -''-'o '"a'
the burthens and respon siblhties of SO doing,
should be taken from the patent, long suffer
ing over taxed masseS. Hereafter, let negro
worshippers. shoddy contractors and govern
ment office holders support npgro-worship
ping preachers Let christian men and wor
men start widows and crphan's aid society
| in every town; and give their mites, to those
who are deserving and needy.
To those who may think that We are want
ing in respect for the ministerial office, we
willEsay; that for the true meek and lowly
apostles OF the Saviour we always have en-
tertained and still do entertain the highest
regard ; but for these Pretenders these can't
| ing hgpocrites, we have no sentiment or feel
ing, but of loathing and contempt. And, if
we can aid in teaching the succeeding gener-
alton, to despise them as heartily as we do,
we think We shall have done good service, III
the cause Of humanity and christianity.
l. The 6lo,cer of tn e nigger organ, OF
this place, gave his readers, last week, long
winded hornily on the duty they owed to
their children to furnish them good, moral
that this self appointed teacher, had by prac-
ticing what he breaches furnished to the
world some very exemplary specimens Of the
:rising generation" We propose, shortly,
time ahd space permitting, to preach-thro'
the columns OF the Democrat, for the benefit
Of this preacher editor, and others of his cloth
a SHIRT, practical sermon on the text "By
their FRUITS ye shall knolc them"
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