Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-09
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A ErigbIiuI Example In Missouri.


LDPresbyterian divines were never, that we
know, regarded as disciples of, EpicuEus,
| though there are hints thrown out here aud
| there in what one reads of Chalmers and
| Hugh Miller, and other-Seotch worthless,
which tend to Justify the belief that in
| Scotland, at least, men eminent in the Kirk .
have sometimes had fine practical notions
about what DR.. Franklin, ina letter TO the
| Abbe MOrellett, calls "a pleasing miracle,
styled punch" But in our most reveren-
tial and ascetic conceptions OF the Presby- 5
terian theory OF life, we had never imagined s.
that General Assembly Of the Presbyte-
| rian Church would consider it tie severest
| chastisenent they could infict on,a man, 4
! to throw him down stairs into the arms of IN
an enthusiastic mob ofladies "''" '-'"O
Yet such, it seems, was the deliberate Z
sense of the General Assembly now in ses-5 "a
sion at st. Louis. The remarkable fact
sees the light inthe letter OF d correspond
eht OF the New York Times. The said cor-
respondent, after. telling the story. of
small hattle which took place in that atI-
! gust body between the s'lovaln and a,lis- %
| loyal members thereof-(we had ignorant- 8,
| ly supposed that Christian men owned but
one supreme loyalty" to their Lord and
Maker)-goes on TO say that a solemn re-
| traction OF some particular statement made
! by one Of the "disloyal" divines was de-
manded blythe "lOyal9 majority of the body. z
The offending member, who bore the q
sturdy Scotch name Of Ferguson, seems to
| have been warm, too, with the ''perferyid
Scotch temper" and stuck to his statement
| like Habakkul .Mucklewrath himself.
| Thereupon "the Rev. DR.. Krebs moved that
! he be expelled" The motion was carried,
and" concludes the narrator with appal-
| ing solemnity, 'ue miserable man, thrust ont
Of the house. fell into the arms Of the fair rebels
lebO lgt the galleries 10 meet lm at tile dooro,,d
crOloR him toith their lalTels." .onG p,
| Now, we have no doubt that is is a vpry
delightful thing TO sit in one house with
"Dr. hrebs' anda ''loyaln General Assem-
bly, of Presbyterian divines. But we must
frankly confess that to the unregenerate
mind the calamity of being 'thrust ont" Of
such house and such company would seem
to be rather mitigated than enhanced by
the circumstance of falling into the arms
| of fair rebels" and being straiohtwavL
crowned with laurel" by the same If the
example of the General Assembly i'm this
case should be generally followed, we fear
that 'dlslOyalty may be rather encouraged
than put down thereby. The narrator of
the doom of Ferguson of course does NOT
see the thing in this light. On the contrary,
be assures us that it sis the general opinion
that in the action OF the Assembly,a a black
guard, eNcelling even that prince of black
guards who fills the gubernatorial chair of
Tennessee, has met deserved fate" I'D rE
1t is hard thing to say of any man that
he is worse than "ParsOn BrownlOw - but
it will be long time we think, before any
number of ''General Assemblies" can suc-I
ceed in convincing mankind at large that it
is the observed fate" of an eminent "black- .
guard" to- be embraced by score of lovely
young ladies, batled as to his temples with
FarinS cologne by the whitest of hands. aud az
crowned with laurel" under the smiles of
beauty. -.'1 e' '1 ~