The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-02-08
A Political Gabbler.

tor q the Methodist Church, ID Ashland,
having laid aside his sacerdotal robes, and
convertedth the pulpit into an Abolition rcs-
trum, he belcbes forth, from the depths
Of his depraved and malicious heart, a
mesa Of his ~pot-house slang, which no re-
spectacle person ought to listen to. In
the course Of his TRADE, on last Sabbath,
be hurled ut the Democratic portion Of
bis audience such ehaste and elegant
phrases as "blood-hounds, I" "Copper.
head, = that. emo oro-slavsry personpeould
be- 4 Christian" etc. Such a spirit is
not religion, bu. bigotry.9 Its only ten.
dsncy is to breed contention and hatred.
He ia enc Of that brainless, fanatical and
blood.thirsty class of preachers who pre-
tend to be the followers of the Prince Of
Pence, while they denounce as traitors and
incorrigible sinners. oil who are sincerely
desirous Of peace. and who do not believe
in tho prosecution Of q murderOus, re.
lentless civil war, carried on for the
ayowed purpose Of giving nominal free.
dom to one class Of persons ut the cost Of
~enslaving another class eight OF nine
times more numerous, by entailing upon
them an everlasting debt, making them
hew0rs Of wood and drawers Of water to
those who have coined and ore still COIN
inc the blood and tears Of hundreds Of
thousands, if not millions, into money,
through shoddy contracts, peculation,
fraud and fayoritism.
Il is a lamentable fact that the Demo.
cratic portion Of many churches have
frequently either to leave the house Of
worship or submit to having thrus. down
their threats q ormon den mandatory Of
themselves and all who are so sacriligious
ns to believe that the sin Of slavery con-
sists in its abuse and not in the relation
itself, or else that the Saviour and the
Apostles were derelict in rot only omit.
ing to deDounce the practice so prevalent
when our grea. Examplar was on earth,
but in giving directions for the guidance
of masters and servants-one of these
holy men ever advising the return Of q
fugitive slave to his master. A minister
who has no more respect for the feelings
and sentiments Of the Democratic portion
of his Pensioners than to set up q test
Of Christianity not warranted by the
word of God nor the example Of the Sa-
vior OF mankind, or the holy Apostles,
gives skeptics reason to believe that he is
tinctured with the leaven Ct infdelity
which constrained BURLINGAME and men
of his kidney to cast about for "an anti
slavery bible and an anti slavery God"
For the especial benefit of this Rcver-
end pimp Of his Satanic Majesty, We
make the following extract from the ad-
dress Of the Hon. D. A. OGDEN, a Meth.
odist and a Christian, on political peach
ing. Read it; a, la5 4yflsR
"With snarling madness aud low vitu.
p%eration they trampl0 Christian charity
in the dust and set the very bad example
of INDUCING evil tempers and u%ttdrirg
wholesale ISLANDERS. And yet these men
are our pastors, shepherds Of the Chris.
tian flock. God defend the flock and
save tho people from the example and
teachings Of this arrant lanaticism. Then
my weak and misguided political buck
sters, these reverend gentlemen soy we
seek to unman them by denying to them
rhe right to indulge In partisan discus
sions. Not at all. We did not ask them
to become ministers. They claim to haze
been called Of God. Their VOWS were
self-imposed. They were set apart to the
holy work of the Christian ministry by
their own consent. It is a peculiar, spe-
cial and holy work. Honestly pursued
it does not impose restraints. And If
they have become weary in we'll doing,
tired of their work, and long for the poll
%tician's work, and desire to become stump
orators and partisan political preachers,
let them, like honest men, doff their
robes aud enter the list, and take the
rough and tumble Of the strife. They
have no right, like towards, to skulk be.
hind the pulpit, pnt on sanctimonious
airs, and then utter their s~nathemns
against all 10 the pew or church who diff.
fer with them in political opinion. Such
10 not gospel preaching either in spirit or
worll Such was not the import Of their
ordlnaiion VOWS. Such was not the holy
work TO which they we're solemuly dedi-
Gated and set apart, and woe to them if
they leave the Masters work Cor this 9TH
er work" t.1r
The pulpit is not the place to preach
murder and ill-will, and the sooner these
political gabblers are scourgcd from the
Church, the better IL will BE- Tor the
carso IN Chr;o, ~ '"