The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-08-11
BLOODHOUNDS OF ZION.


violence toward the South, now being vented
in the churches on Sunday, looks and sounds
ridiculous by contrast with the changed tenn
per and revival of old regards at the North.
Such hot-headed zealots are the exponents Of
the worst passions Of every civil crisis, and
kinde while they sllare violence and a feroc-
ity Of temper to which the laity can rarely at
tain, since most of the laity are less likely than
such members of the clergy to mistake their
irregular passions for diyinely iHflamed ardors.
While the true ministers of the gospel have
sought to so0the the eXasperations and m0lllfy
the hates generated by sectional strife and
bloody war; while from one end of the vast
tbeater of our war to the other, for four long
years, they have comfOrted the afflicted, con-
soled the dying, and borne beside them both,
to the borders of the grave, the only lamp whose
rays penetrate and illumine the darkness be-
yoni, these other fitly-budded ''boodhounds
of Zion" have been galloplng to and fro crying
for more slaughter, and exasperating the meas
ured hostility Of armed combatants into malig-
nant hatreds, fit only for devils This is not
strange. In the civil wars of England, as on
every hand, such preachers have been the ex-
pOneuts OF the worst passions anywhere kin
died among the people, but the oddity and the
righteousness of the thing 20 be remarked among
these creatures just now is, that their brains
are boiling while those of their followers are
becoming cool, and like those Thermometers
whose indexes register the maximum OF tenn
perature and do not follow the mercury down
the tube, they still farcy themselves in the lead
of affairs which in fact have stranded them
high and dry, and they gegticulate as wildly,
and scream for their gut of blood as fercelY,
as ever they did when men believed and obeyed
them AS CATO, no matter what his theme,
would finish off his speech saying: ''and it Is
also my opinion that Carthage must be destoy-
ed" so these pestent fellows finish off their
prayers to Heaven for mercy and forgiveness
to themselves with due distribution of Divine
vengeance on the unforgiven South, and con-
clude a sermon on a Saviour's love with an
exhibition of their own capacity to hate-''5e-
ing also of the opinion that negroes should
vote and copperheads be damned"
Whereas there is now hardly one political
Journal at the North which deems public ne
cesslties TO demand liberal use of the gallows,
there is a ''rehgious" Journal at Buffalo, edited
doubtless, by some noodle who knows as little
OF the difficult science Of politics as many poll
ticians know Of the mystery Of g0dllness, which
cries ont for changing the fends." A reverend
brawler by the name of j. d. FULToN, whose
mental constitution would seem to be such that
whatever the degree of his own piety, he can
propagate nothing but superstition IN one sex
and inlideity in the other, tells hls hearers 10
s'wait few years if you want to see men dam
''ned in this world and you will behold these
'.chivalrlc southrons meeting with their de-
''serts. Really, now, is II a mundane ST.
Paul that we have among usl slavery ''has
gone out OF the South and Christ is going in"
Or. after all, is it John the Forerunner who
speaks: "Up North we had made up our minds
about the southern confedracy, and we thought
it lust about as bad as hell SO that when we
didn't want to say hell we said southern con-
federacy.' Is this ribald tongue sacred, then,
or is It's looseness more shocking and shameless
than the most outrageous profanity OF drnn-
ken Fulton Market fisherman?
In the face of exhibitions like these it would
seem as if the press could not suffer any scru-
pies to hinder it from unfrocking all these pull
piteers whom ignorance drives to teaching poli-
tics, irreverence to making game Of the gospel
and of Almighty God. 1t can serve no ill
purpose to tell the people just what these ribal-
drymongers are. They are false to their com
missions They teach not religion, but irreli-
gion; lot pieiy, but inidelity; not even politics
but intolerance; and in young hearts they make
q stony sterility, where neither faith nor good
works can take root. 1t is these ordained noun
tebanks who think 10 save souls by telling their
congregations that, ''although lamb in the
butchers shops is worth nine cents a pound,
they may all have the Lamb of God for moth
ing" who are SO forward to instruct the Amer
lean people how to restore good government
compose dls0rdered state, dust the balances OF
political power, and how to harness the social
and industrial forces which are impelling these
states along the track of their mighty career.
On themes like these, for which they have nei-
ther faculties nor training, they may, neverthe-
less, continue their effrontery of dscoursing as
teachers; but their cloth cannot long protect
them from being stripped and lashed for their
ignorance and impudence, just as other men al
ways are who make similar exhibition; and
if the result shall be that the stripping and the
lashing exposes not only their incompetency in
temporal things, but shall happen also to lay
bare their spiritual nakedness, so much the
better for all except those who say ''pious'
with closed nostrils.- World.
so much about vice and virtue, that they have no
time to practice either the one or the other.
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