The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-09-22

public men. Acting and reactihg one
another they go down together in the d.
rcction Of the pit that is bottoiiless and
both are found to have "a strange alac-
rity Mt sinking"
fully; for he must hate ohe if he loves the
other. A minister who admires and fol-
lows such men as these who have lately
ruled and ruined this country must nee.
essarily despise the character Of Christ
If he glorifes the cruelty, rapacity and
falsehood of his party leaders he is com
PEELED by an inhexible law of hhrhan ma
ture to "deny the Lord who bought him. /"
The experience Of fifteen centuries
proves that political preachers are the
great curse Of the world. More than
half the bloody wars which at different
periods have desolatcd Cbristendom,
were produced by their direct instigation;
and wherever they have thrust them
selves into n contest commenced by 9TH
ers, they have always envenomcd the
strife and made it more cruel, savage and
uncompromising. The religious wars,
so-callcd, had nothing religious about
them except that they were Kissed up
by the clergy. Look back and sec if this
be not true.
The Arian controversy (the first great
schism) was followed by wars in which
millions Of lives were lost. Do you sup
pose the real quarrel was for the inser-
tion or omission Of ftiogue in that part
Of the creed which describes the process
ion Of the Holy Ghost Did homoou-
sian slaughter his brother because he was
a hoD,oiousian No, it was not the diff
erence Of dipthong, but the plumber of
an empire that they fought for. 1t was
the politics Of the Church, not her reli-
gion, that infuriatcd the parties and
converted men into demons.
The Thirty Years Var in Germany is
often supposed to have been a fair stand
up fight between the two leading forms
Of Christianity. II was not so. The re-
ligious difference was a false pretence Of
the political preachers for the promotion
Of their own schemes. There was not a
sane man on all that continent who would
have felt himself impeled by motives
for believing or disbelieving in transub-
sanitation. Ifproof Of this were want
ing, it might be found in the fact, that
long before the war ended, the sectarian
cries were abandoned, and Catholics, as
we'll rs Protcstants were fighting on both
sides
1t is utterly impossible to believe that
the clergy Of England and Scotland, If
they had not been politicians, would
have thought Of waging bloody wars to
settle questions Of election and reproba.
ton, fate, foreknowledgc, free viii, and
other points Of metaphysical theology
Nor would they apart from their politics.
have encouraged and committed the 9TH
er horrid crimes Of which they were gull
ty in the name Of religion.
Can you think that the Irish we're in
vadcd, aud conquered, and oppressed,
and murdered, aud robbed for centuries.
merely because the English believed in
the Protestant religion ? suppose you
know that those brutal atrocities were
carried on for the purpose of giving to
political preachers in England possession
Of the churches, cathedrals, globe lands
and tythes which belonged to the Irish
Catholics The soldiers were rewarded
by confseations and plumber. The
church and the state hunted in couples
and ireland was the prey which they
ran down together.
Coming TO our own country, you find
Massachusetts, in colonial times under
the sole domination of political preachers
Their treachcrous wars upon the indians
for purposes wholly merccnary; their en-.
shaving of white persons, as we'll as red
ones, and selling them abroad, or "swap.
ping them for blackamoors;" their whip.
ping, imprisoning and killing Quakers
and Baptists for their conscientious opin.
ions; and their base treatment of such
men as Roger Williams and his friends
will mark their government through all
time as one of the cruelest and meanesi
that ever existed
Political preachers have not behaved
any better since the revolution than be.
fore. About the commencement of the
present century they were busy in their
vile vocation all over New England, and
continued it for many years. The wilful
and deliberate slanders habitually uttered
from the pulpit against Jefferson, Madi.
son and the friends who supported them
were disgrace to human nature. The
immediate effect of this was the Yankee
plot to secede from the Union, followed
by corrupt combinations with foreign
enemy to betray the liberties of the coun.
try. Its remoter consequences are seen
in the shameless rapacity and bitter ma.
lignity which, even at this moment, are
bowling for the property and blood of an
unarmed and detenceless people.
You and both remember the politica
preaching which ushered in and support
ed the Know Nothings, Blood Tubs and
Plug Uglies; when Maria Monk was q
saint and Joe Barker was Mayor of Pitts
burgh when pulpits resounded every
Sunday with the most injurious false
hoods against Catholics when the pub
lie mind was debauched by the inculca
tion of hypocrisy and deception; wher
ministers met their political allies in Sc
crecy to plot against the rights of theil
fellow-citizens. You cannot forget wha
came of this--riot, murder, church-burn
ing, lawless violence all over the land
and the subjugation of several grea
States to the political rule of a party des
titute alike of principle and capacity.
I could easily prove that those clerica
politicians who have tied their churches
to the tail of the abolition party, are Grim
inal on grander scale than any of theil