The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-05

TO such dungeons as the humanity of
Beast Butler and his kind might assign
them. The scouters at lawful power
became the sticklers for the most iron
despotism. The polluted rag" and
the Haunting lie,'' to which Greeley
had addressed his beautiful ballad, be-
came "the dear old fag," and men who
had bled under it when Yankee blue
lights We're Turing the enemy to our
coast, were beaten and imprisoned be-
cause they refused to degrade those
grand old colorS by yfiinging them to the
breeze at the bidding of brutal mob.
Canting wretches who had Wept over
the separation of young niggers in the
South; whosepOcket-handkerchiefsha had
been soaked over the agonizing recital
by some fugitive Sambo, of the shock
which parting from his grandmother
had cost him, clamored loudly for a
law which rent every dear domestic tie
known to our blood, which tore husband
and wife, mother and son, brother and
sister, asunder and forever; which sent
the boys of a household, not to seek
their subsistence in some new field of
| labor, but to lay down theiryoung lives
amid the hideous scenes Of bloody bat
tie, or the want and misery of South
ern prison! The ''party Of freedom"
as they still style themselves, proved
to be the party Of Slavery whose shack
les bound the wrists of their own race.
| am not discussing the merits or the
success of the late war, nor will it be
time to do so until its fruits shall have
ripened. If it was for the Union, the
| AbOlitionists are seeking with all their
might to make it ineffective by shut
| ting the gates OF the Union ON the
States which are seeking in good faith
to return to its pale. If it was for the
negro, when we see the negro safely,
satisfactorily and finally disposed of, it
| will be high time to congratulate each
other on the good work and award to
the Abolition party the praise of hav-
ing brought it about with such an eco
nomical expenditure of blood and mon
ey. My object now is simply to show
the marvellous inconsistency between
their sentimental philanthropy when
out of power and their brutal inhu-
manity when they gained it.
But grossly inconsistent as the aboli-
tionists themselves have been, what
shall we say of the reverend clergy who
have struck hands with them? One
would fancy that there could be little in
common between men who claim to be
ministers OF God and eXpounders of his
word, and blatant infdels who spit on
| the Book and defy the master. Grant
| ing even to these clerical gentlemen a
spirit tolerant enough to edure insults
| =. ---~-- -..eIAvI, tIlc >CUIInIUuesU respect
for their own cloth would seem to re-
! quire thatthey should be somewhat shy
of a party which could so recently find
no more endearing name for them than
evolves" and ''impostors." But it
would really appear that affection for
the negro is a stronger sentiment than
love of God or self respect. Half the
| pulpits of the country have echoed du-
| ring the past five years with the ha-
rangues Of wondering intruders who
never had a Bible in their hand, except
when they sW0re on one that they were
| too old for the draft. Reverend gentle
men have suffered their 1ocks to be adj
| dressed by class of men whose morals
| would exclude them from any decent
household, not to say any pious one.
| The blasphemer and the big0t have
fOndly embraced leach other, and sit.
cheek by jowI, grinning overthe blood
shed and ruin of the most terrible of
civil wars. Stump-speakers have turn
ed preachersan preachers have turned
stump-speakers in such vast numbers.
observation-disclosures hassometimes,
tOinspect thepulpit, examine the hymn
books that lie in the seats. look curious
ly up at the organ, and trace out the
sanity figures on the painted glass TO
satisfy himself that he is not in pot
house, or at ward meeting. Aisle and
chancel, transept and spire, mere az
chitectural outlines-are all that are left
to identify hundreds of churches in this
land as temples Of God.
The consequence of this alliance be-
tween the infidel and the clerical Abo-
liti0nist, has been the production of a
new class of books, tracts and papers.
There are tens Of thousands of pure
minded and conscientious women, of
honorable and reverent men, whose
minds could never be reached by the
blasphemous arguments and appliances
of the original, Sc0ffing Ab0liti0nists.
They have been reared in the fear of
God and taught to respect Gods Book.
To impress their minds, appeals must
have the gloss of religion, at least, even
if they have nothing of its spirit. This
want has occasioned the production of
by far the greatest mass of publications
that have been issued in the Abolition
interest. They are written sometimes
by feeble-minded divines, who really
believe what they say, sometimes by
well-meaning females, who mistakethe
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