Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

ton for preachers now 70 preach against
poligsmy it would be fairly interpreted by
the DE mocratic party as political preaching,
and therefore, preachers should let that
question alone.
The old friends Of the Confederacy, and
still friends to the cause Of Confederacy
at gome future day, all sympathize with the
Democratic party. and therefore neither
Church, nor preachers, nor religious news.
papers should say any thing against the
schemes for q future Confederacy, or anoth.
er rebellion, OF another war-these are all
political natter to be managed by poll
! ticians They all belong to the ''science ol
political econ omy." When a people want
to declare independence, and 90 to war for it,
that is their political business neither re-
ligion nor morality has any thing to do with
it.
Catholics and Jesuits coming from Eu.
rope are generally Democrats, and will join
the Democratic party here-for most OF
them can't read, but they can learn that
the Democratic party opposes abolition
ism," hates the negro and negro equality"
and now, since there are no know moth
ings" among them, the party fraternally
defends Catholics and therefore, for pro-
testant Churches, and Christians, and re-
ligious Editors % oppose Catholicism is to
injuro the Democratic party-all is a med.
ding. With politics Of, at least, very ques-
tionable character; at all events, it is a
meddling at which faithful political Editers
and organs Of q political party canaot keep
silent, aud be true to their cause.
The Bible Society. the Tract Societies
and other Aid Societies-now dreadfuly
'abolitionizsd"-by sending their Bibles,
their tracts, their books. their preachers,
their teachers, their schools South, are
operating against the interests of Southern
Institutions, and the interests of political
party both North and Southland a party
that never was sectional-and why should a
Presbyterian" or any body else think so
strange, or hard that faithful Democratic
Editor should, from his watch-tower, warn
against all these things so antagonistic to
his party, and all 80 directly and deeply
dabbling in politics?
Let all these Societies, and Churches, and
preachers, and teachers cease their work in
the South. mind their own business, let the
South and Catholics alone to mind undis-
turbed their own concerns and then, the
Democratic party and its Editors will let
all these Churches and all their operations
alone. What business have the Bible So
ciety, Tract Societies. the Presbyterian
Church, or any other Church. or Society to
go and meddle with the Institutions of the
South and with Southern politics As we'll
may they 60 to Rome With their political
Bibles-distur6ing the political Society
there-and to India and China with pro.
| tesrant and sectarian elidisturbing their
social and political relations there.
What business has the Bible Society to
J sand ,ts Rihlas RI tho Gla1oco Q Eor tban 4,
| follows that they must encourage teacher.
to learn them to read the Bible, and then
! the slaves must have preachers to preach tc
them, as the Bible says. And all this, No
doubt, is designed to fit them for the enjoy.
ment of rights which Democrats have nc
right to respect; and therefore, all this be-
ing an unwarrantable meddling with poll,
| tics, the Gazette opposes the whole affair,
and, so too. opposes the Presbyterian Church
because she now stands out publicly pledged
to this anti-Catholic. and anti Democratic
policy. This, a presbyterian should
take as an apology for the little dissertations
, of the Gazette.
And now, Mr.. Editor, it appears to us
things are coming to an alarming crisis,
since the spread and ascendency of modern
abolitionism. Every Inaugural, every Mes.
sage and every public document from Presi-
! dent or Cabinet, every report of Major Gt n
eral, every Governors Message, every an.
niversary Fourth of July address, and now
even Platforms and Resolutions of State
political nominating Cenventions-aH have
some reference to religion, to q supreme
Being, to Higher Law, or some sectarian
references mingling up pslitics and religion,
to insult In6dels and even Catholic Chris
tians. .....
And it is becoming fashionable to have
sectarian preachers in these political meet
| ings and Conventions to open with prayer
which is an act of religious worship-and
often to harrangue the people in assemblies
purely political. ....
Mr.. Lincoln has carried this thing so far
that he has again and again foisted into his
State papers, Messages, &c, large Quota.
tions from the Protestant Bible, as if 1t had
some authority in political affairs, and as il
it could spice off political or State Docu-
ment. All lesser political puppets, in imi
tation of political leader, now begin to
quote Scripture and throw something re.
igious or moral around or into their poll
tical and State productions.
Mr.. Editor, please, for once, hear the
other side from
... PoLrTIoAL DEMOCRAT.