The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-19
HORRIBLE FANATICISM In THE Pull
PIT.
An Impfous, Blaspheming Priest.
From tn. Springfield Qlls.,) Register.

From the Springfield Qlls.,) Register.
We have been more than astounded, we
have been utterly horrifed in reading the re-
port of so called sermon preached by one
Ellis, (Iaererened Charles Hurbert Ellis) on
the 23d of April last. in the city of Blooming
ton. This blood-thirsty, monstrous fanatic,
almost in the presence of the illustrious dead,
calls him to an accounts as though he himself
were a God. He villi6es and abuses the
dead Lincoln in most unmeasured, most in
decent terms. Not only SO, but he, hyena.
like, snatches from Immortality the glorious
names of the fathers of our country. and con-
DENNIS them alike to infamy. He extois
in one sense the assassin Booth, and amxes
his crime upon the foreheads Of Washington,
Jefferson and Adams. He exhausts the foun
tains of mercy upon the memory OF Booth,
and blames him less than he pities. lie orit-
icises the conduct of the deceased president
with malignant ferocity, and gives his memo
nv to obliquy with the gladness of demon.
1t is incredible that the good people OF
Bloomington could endure such a barbarian;
we do not believe their endurance will contin
ue 1t is monstrous to suppose that such
fanatic, out Heroding Herod, out-Beechering
Beecher, out-Garrisoning Garrison, Will be
permitted, anywhere in this state, to poison
the moral atmosphere with his atrocious cal
umnies. to do villainous sacrilege to the great
names whom grateful country has embalm.
ed in our heart of hearts.
That our readers may judge of the aninsus
and manner of this so.called teacher OF the
people, we append 80 much of his TRADE as
we have patience to transcribe. Hear him !:
"Yes, believe to day, before God, that as the
primary of this horrid crime, Adams, Jefer-
md Was admitting slavery into the
constitution, are more to blame than W.booth
say nothing of the guilt attaching to the per-
petrator of the deed, nor of the guilt as belonging
to those illustrious dead l am speaking OF the
principle which prodced It."
Listen to the blasphemer as he glorihes
John Brown and interprets the will OF Proyi'
dence:
"God said to Abraham Lincoln, 'obey me and
thou shalt live' Doubtless Mr.. Lincoln knew
that, morally, it was his duty to release the slave,
but he ignored call from God and stood upon
the shallow pretence of duty written upon Parch-
ment with the blood of the black man. He knew
that the trainers of the constitution did not desire
slavery; he knew that God could not away with
it, yet he had not the moral courage to step iorth
like stong man in his might and do what MS
better nature told him was his highest duty. He
sacrificed the demands of God that he might not
offend a political party in the land, and permitted
to live that always damnabe wrong which hnally
murdered him. John Brown was, IN this matter
to do what God demands every man to do. He
had the sublime moral courage which made Tor
him an immortal name and decked his memory
with the evergreen OF herolsm'
Ellis seems to glory in the assassination
OF such material are assasslns made:
ssThus looking upon Mr.. Lincoln's character
exhibited in his life as our chief magistrate, al
though wise, conscientious, large hearted states
man. he, yet, is not the great man whom the ma
ton sees to day through the bloody lens of martyr
dom, the multiplying glass OF sorrow. His treat
ment of slavery reflects but little credit upon him,
and / believe it altogether his own fault that
enough of that cursed institution existed In Wash
ington all through these four years OF bloody war,
assassinate him in the hour ofIts fnal overthrow
in the southern confederacy."
The senseless, raving idiot accuses the
late president OF being his own murderer:
ssI repeat it, no man living the past four years
did much to further the consummatiOn of this
foul conspiracy as did Mr.. Lincoln himself! OF
course it was only through sutferance that he did
it, but none the less fatal, because he did
not what he was doing. He held IN his hand
the power to strike down the assassin by vigor.
policy in regard TO slavery at the beginning,
but he id not have the moral courage to use that
power"
Strange to say Ellis does not desire the death
of Booth he deprecstes his destruction -
One would fancy that so bloody butcher
would not sickle at whole hecatombs, to ap
pease his thirst for blood. He wants him
punished but only by a lifelong, solitary
Imprisonment. He says capital punishment,
is a violation of the law of God He is not
only preacher but lawyer. TRAITORS and
fends deserve the most terrible punishment
THAT is solitary confinement.