Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-04
IapreaebiDg and greepbscksl-pOsitivsly

preaching and greenbscksl-positively
nothing else. That We are not mistaken,
we give tie exact language Of the
World: 6
The causes Of this hideous lowering Of
the moral tone Of the community, are
not difficult 10 trace. One or the prin.
cipal and most operative Is the great
revolution which, within the last ten
years, mas taken place in the ministrs-
tions of the pulpit by the absorption of
their occupautsIin sectional coutrover-
sizes and party politics The pulpits of
the land have been invaded by the spirit
Of the hustings This
secalarization, this desecration, Of the
pulpit has diTested it of its spiritual
authority, Of its power over the con-
science, of its-aefficacy in impressing4
meu with sense of the unsSsn world
Now if religion be the main prop of
public morals, ought we TO wonder that
the sinews of virtue are SO alaTmingly
relaxed when the ministers of Chris
preach to carry elections instead of to
win souls2 alg q
Having thus satisfactorily fastened the
responsibility Of Ketchum's frauds upon
the preachers, in part, the World then
proceeds to prove the completely cf
"greenbacks." We quote paragraph
on this point: id
Another powerful agency in debauehe
ing the public confidence is lhe tamper.
ing by the Government with the sense
Of commercial honor When the Gov
eminent becomes the patron Of trans
parent and notorious LIE; when it de-
clares, in the face of common sense,
that an oblong piece of green paper,
which could, at one time, be bought for
thirty-six cents, is equivalent to a gold
dollar; when it proeiains to debtors that
they may, with perfect impunity from
legal consequences, CHEAT their credit.
ors by paying them in this debased cur
rency - this LEGALfz ED LIE - what can
be expected but the breaking down, in
young and unrefecting minds, of all
sense Of truth and falsehood, right and
wrong, as distinctions existing in the
immutable nature Of things and the un-
changeable principles Of absolute just
iee2 3 Ii 10 thus that the oundations Of
public morality have been undermined
BY those whose duty it was to add to
their strength. ~ --'a -'34 z-' g
II may never, have occurred to the
World, but many intelligent. people do
assign different reasons for the state of
society in New York from those it fur
nishes. Some attribute the " low state
of morals to the base psndering of the
press to the morbid appetites Of the pso.
pie for excitement and sensation. 1t
was not the want Of money, or desire for
it, that induced young Ketchum to com
NIT fraud. It was the excitement aris-
ing ftom constant gam Sling at the Stock
BoaSd, and the By no means excusable
insanity resulting from daily games of
hazard and chance. And what has con-
tributed more towards keeping up and
inAaming the Stock Board than the lead
ing editorials in the New York Dsilies,
written expressly. in the interest of the
contsnding gamblers7 sat The World
need search no farther than its own edi-
torial columns to find the most potent
cause for the present debauched coudi-
tion of New York commerce and ner-
chants. The attempt to fasten II upon
the preachers and currency is both silly
and futile. e aHt adioD