Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-07-30
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ordained for specific and exclusive duties
should be exempt frem all liabilities to mil
itary service, that it may be devoted 10 The
duties Of its calling, and thu, best sustain
the interest OF the State"
Upon the above basis it was
Resolued, That we respectfully and earn.
estly petition the Government Of the Uni
ted States 10 enact such exceptions to the
general laws respecting enrolment aud
drafting as may leave the clergy in these
States secure in the administration of their
respective offices aud further.
RESOLVED, That we cordially invite the
cooperation Of all religious and civil Or
ganzaions, as well as all right minded cit.
zens, in the furtherancc of this loyal and
reasonable petition.
The New York journal of Commerce
does not seem to be very deeply impressed
in favor of this movement. 1t remarks
that resolutions of this character call to
mind the famous fighting manifesto Of the
$4,000 clergymen' who have gone into
history in lump as one of the causes Of
the war and also the numerous instances
in which clergy men have shown not only
bclgerapt towards all Northern peo--
pie who differ from them) but q persecut-
ing spirit in the pulpit. While il must be
confessed by every candid man that min
isters Of this description arc entitled TO no
exemption by virtue of their sacred Office,
yet the honest and conscientious protest Of
clergymen who have done nothing in th cir
pastoral works, to set the North and South
; by the ears or TO heighten the sanguinsry
= and vindictive character of the wal, is enti-
tied to respectful consideration and kindly
!, judgment"
u LET us look at the argument by which
IS these reverned gentlemen of the Episcopal
al Diocesan Convention enforce their claim
,e to exemption from liability to military ser
o vice. "The ministry" they say, sis Di-
y vine institution" True-ordalned by thl
4 Prince of Peace, the author of the Sermon
At on the Mount, whose teachings this "min-
a istry" lin the proportion of at least nine.
nc tenths) have utterly repudiated. I his min
:. istry should be exempt, they say, in order
10 Chat it may be devoted TO the duties of
81 its calling'-whch duties it has neglected,
of and which calling it has perverted, until
H. many OF the pupits in our unhappy land
have become the rostrums from which po-
bo litical Abolition stump speeches are enun-
= ciated. These speeches breathe not one
h' word of ''peace and good will''-they are
re- sulphureous-they smell of gunpowder,
is. blood and carnage-from exordium TO per-
ce Grafton they brislle with bayonets and
swords and "sharp pointed in<truments of
death" And thus have these pious men
as "lulflled the duties of their holy calling"
at One would have supposed from their teach
et- ings, that they would have leaped into the
do ranks eagerly, upon the first intimation
=, that those ranks needed repleni hing
'u that, when they spoke so c0mplacently Of
OF blood shedding, they could not have had
os- a mental reservation excluding each one
IN, his own precious carcass from the chance
of having its crimson blood poured out Oh
the ensanguined battle field. But it seems
g that any one who would have come to this
ln' very natural conclusion, would have done
I'm the 6ery-tongucd pulpit orators more tina"
JUS justice. They prove, now, by their efforts
49,. to escape the conscriptOn, that the ''blood
'p' and treasure which they disrosed of G.
OF atorically) with such princely liberality
&C. we're the blood and treasure of other peopi,
his the shepherds were not to be exposed tc
N. the fargs and claws OF the wolf; the sheep
nov only were to encounter all danger to flesh
W. and fleece. For Emancipation, Miscege
nd nation, Negro Equality, they would do al
- sorts of magnaninous things, endure all
ion suffer immensely, and devote themselves
me body and soul--vicariously
=, Let us see what sort of sacred creature:
'Ao are those who put this claim to exemption
OF from the perils of war on the ground tina
it is inconsistent with ther high calling al
ministers of the meek and lowly Nazarene
III From hundreds of specimen fulmin alton
we present this
Law Said tha HeuerpM Parson Br)wnlow, a
~. a meeting held in New York, in aid Of th
aI, Sanitary Commission, the Reyrne3 Heur,
.on Ward Boecher, and ether distinguish
"A cle.gymen, being present and approving.
-, II had the power. sir, | would aCu
and uniform in the Federal habiIimentg
nc every wolf aud panther and catamount aut
ing tiger and bear in the mountains of Amer
ary ca, every crocodile in the swamps Of Flor
ted ida aud South Carolina every negro il
.oc. the Southern Conlederacy, and every devi
~ in hell and pandemouium
p'' OF course-he would arm every bod
10 and every thing on earth and in hell-ex
UD cept Parson Brownlow and his reverne
WV brethern.
'''' This war, say to you, must be prose
('n cuted with a vim and a vengeance, ant
the rebellion is put Gown, if it extermi
rn- mates from the face Of God Almighty
and green earth, every man, woman and chil
, TO south of Mason and Dixon's line. Cheers
rice,
sub We can whip the Southern Coufederi