Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-06-03

The United Presbyterian, 10 very severe
on the Reverend sccessionists of<he South;
and justly too, because they had much to
do In fonen'ins and carryin on tho REBEL.
ion. But the loyal preachers Of the North
were not blameless; had they lived in the
South many Of them would have rendered
their names no less Infamous than that OF
the Right Rev. DrieaIier Geperal Leoni.
das Polk. The preachers Of the United
States fist split themselves, then infusing
the fell spirit which had been ingeniered
in their conventions into their consreya-
| tons, they split up the whole country
The rebellion, thank God, is over, never,
We hope, 10 deluse this land again with
blood; but if the country is to be united
once more, and peace permanently es,ab-
lished, the preachers Of the North as we'll
as the South must be more Intent on char.
i,y and sectional animosity than they
have been hitherto. Says the United
Presbyterian
"What is to be done with tho clerical
rebels " no La7e been among the most bitter
and persistent ins,igators Of rebellion p
Presiden: johnson, in The euuncia,ions Of
bis policy, discriminate in favor Of the
acluded masses and against enlightened,
deliberate aud conscious rebels. This is
right. But by this discrimination, who
should be held more guilty. than the men
wh", with the Bible in their hands, and
with all their resi- onsibiites as ministers
OF the gospel Of Chris. upon them, did
more than any other class Of men to orig
mate, and foster, and perpetu4to the re
bclion?
"Tbere con be no question, that with
out the Influence Of these men, rebellion,
as it cohvnlstd the nation, could never
have tecn luauguratcd ia the Sou.h. 1t
vas by snch men as Palmer and Thorn.
we'll. "t the Presbyterian Church, ard Dish
ops Polk, Elliott ind Davis, OF the Epis
copal Church, AID clerical d'gni.nres Of
equal influence in .hc Methodist Church,
tina, the popular mind of the South was
! most abused ard male ready for the
wiies of such conspira,ors as Dav S.
! Toombs, Mason, Siie!I, Wise, and Wig
tai. Aud i! men of the latter cIa.s are to
be held responsbic for their great zine,
are men Ct the former really tie most
guilty, to be exruorated?
"What eau be plead in their behalf :?
| Is it said, that it was to be expected they
would go ~ith ;hcir people? They wee
the most tent agents in driving their
people into Rebellion. They used all their
power to perver' tho religious and moral
sentiment Of their people, aud 10 ',tlame
their passions to Il degree that made re
bellion inevitable, while in the proper
* rcise Of their cf1ice they should have
taught the truth and used all their inNu.
ence to restrain passion. We are willing
to make ali reasonable allowances for The
dcmora'izine influences Of slavery under
which they lived We might overlook the
weakness in which they were lead to per-
vert the teachings Of the Bible on the sub
ject Of slavery. But when, in the intcrs:
Of such q sys.er, they become rromircu,
actors in IN attempt to overthrow such n
government n. ours, they place themselves
| outside the pale OF oil reaso nsb!e charity
Verify, they are guilty here. llowev.r
! blinded their minds may have become 10
the moral aud social evils Of slavery, they
knew, a. least. that civil government is An
| ordinance of God, and that in encouraging
rebellion for any cause the the South conld
plead. they were resisting, not only the
| rightly constituted civil authority Of the
land. Blu, sn ordnance Of God which their
Office bound them TO respect and defend.
"Such men should be held to account.
If they do not repent. aud show works
meet for repentance, they should he driv.
en- from the nation which they have ours
ed, and stripped Of an office which they
have disgraccd."