The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1865-11-30
Political Depravity.

newspaper was the vehicle through which
fierce attack was made upon Rev. r.
Audley Brown, Union Senator elect from
the Twenty-Seventh Pa. District. The
attack was embodied in au article written
with the avowed purpose OF attempting to
prove the Republican profession of love
and respect for the soldiers hollow and
insincere; and it was cited, in support of
this position, that Mr.. Brown had never
been a soldier, whereas certain competi-
tor for the nomination which Olr. Brown
got had "seen service" The attack was
SO utterly unprovoked and so eminently
untruthful throughout that we took some
slight notice of it at the time, and dem
ouStrated to the Dem. 6 Sent. that it was
an error in assuming that Mr.. Brown had
not been soldier-for he had been one,
and brave one. 1t appears to US that,
its error having been exposed, common
courtesy and a regard for its reputation
as journalist, ought to have prompted
the Dem G Sent. to hasten to maze the
umfnde. IF it had done so, we would
have taken it for granted that the attack
and the entire article containing the at
tack were the creation of that disturbed
state of mind incident to defeated 2olIti-
clans directly after an election ''gone to
thunder" and would have attributed the
error to the head and not TO the heart
But no. Playing the gentleman not being
the cue of the writer in the d. & s., he
proceeds to show himself in the character
of playing the blacks guard. Having sig
nal!y failed in attempting to pin the
charges of Inconsistency to the skirts of
the Republican party, he jumps the ono
soldier cry, and, like the boy who could
make mouths at comrade If he couldn't
lick him, assails the personal and eccle,i-
astical reputation of Mr.. Browne in coarsest
terms. II he cannot deprecate the gen
tleman in that he did not strike blow
for that Union which tied. 6 s. and its
friends tried their small utmost to destroy,
he can at least maign him in that he is
greacher, and not qettifogging lawyer
And so the d. d; S goes in, and makes
the most of the f,h market vocabulary.
The theory that ministers of the Gospel
should have no voice in common with
others of their fellow citizens in the man
agemeDt and control Of public affairs
that by the nature OF their calling they
are practically disfranchised and deharred
the exercise Of the rights of freemen-
that the cut of their coat and the color Of
iLeir neck-tie condemn them to perpetual
silence as regards the political economy
of the country-this theory is pretty eff
fectually exploded. Years ago, the shrek
OF political parsons - and clerical dem
agogues ~ served very we'll for partizan
earch-word; it will not do now. The
same agency which robbed the raw head
and bloody bones of "Abolitionism" of its
terrors, divested this of the dreadful gui,e
with which it had been envelopcd. Com
mon sensc has asserted her empire, and it
is come to be accepted that ministers have
abont the same political rights which ether
men have the attempt tc prejudice p2blic
opinion to the contrary can only succeed
when bigotry and intolerance regain the
eceptre.
The d. & s. pirates glbly about the
"slimy pool of politics" as though that
most useful and intricate science were
necessarily corrupt and hideous. We
have yet to learn that the study of the
regulation and government of the nation
is wrong of itself, or that a participation
In the directing the policy of tha. nation
is disgraceful to either clergymen or lay
men If the pool spoken of be indeed
shiny, then may VIC truly say that it is
owing to the extraueous circumstance Of
the precept and example Of such men a.
he who writes for the Dem. d; Sent that
such il the case
.sWith their grabbed faces, and sly tricks,
Leeerdemain, Gucks, cringes, formal boards,
Crisp'd hairs, and punctaal cheats"
And we can only restore the ''pool," it
shiny, to is pristine couGition Of purity,
by choking him and them to death in It's
putrid waters, and afterwards setting up
urexcePtionable men in their places.
Phe obeervant reader has undoubtedly
noticed that all the complaints entered up
az against tho right of ministers OF t"e
C,I "a sth;,k and act for themselves,