The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-11-16
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FROM nav YORK
Nav YORK. Nov.

NS" AokAp NOV. :.
70 the Editor Of the woAEIsoxAss ADvOcArE.
] am q little "behind time,' but send nv
third letter. don't see that it can admit
OF being divided, butJou will see to that.
havs another writfen-snorter shan the en-
clio sed. am afraid am making more let
tiers than should, at any rate more than
promised, but viii do the best I can till !
exha nst my subject matter.
have the ADvoEArS (it did not core to
hand till Thursday previous one was re-
ceived Wednesday, and one was received
Tuesday afternoon). and have read the no
tice under head Of COR Correspondence
win say LAS thought | would) il you are a.
any time crowded would prefer to consider
the bearing that war has upon the labnl
question. 1t may not meet your views fn
me to offer any remarks st variance with Ii.
public opinion, and perhaps your own, Oh
this subject-but il it can be shown that war
has an intimate connection with the labor
question as much 80 Is rehgicl scs-yoO
may bear, and perhaps concur with me in
my views.
There are some things more, 70 finish ID,
that would like TO say about religion, and
will say them now, with your permission
tt is sometimes with peuitence that think
Of what | say against the religion Of tn.
bible, but the course Of the clergy men 10 the
late war has embittered my feelings towards
them, and ended in disclosing to me, ~ I
thing, the fraud Of religion itself. va
brought up, and brought myself up, in the
belief and practice Of the teachings Of ID.
Old aud New Testaments. Ny mother laugh,
me to say the Lords prayer, and sent me to
she Sunday School. After that it was pleas-
ant to me 70 con over the paragraphs in tn.
NeU York Observer on Sundays at my lods-
ings in q chamber over a country store, ID
which store was clerk. Rather this VA.
in the reading room for the operations Of
the WOO len factory Of the village where |
lived, which was over the store and adioin-
ing my sieeping-r0om, 80 that could fiu0
myself alone in it Sundays when 4 pleased.
As the sun would steal in on these pleayan,
Sundays in May or June, these paragraph,
would sink deep in my mind. Subseo uentl,
10 my life l attended regularly, as commn
cant, an Episcopal church. Then came the
war. Then came the somerxault that reli
gion performed in the churches-from Ia,
peaceful thing that had taken IL TO De, Il
srrayad itself on the side Of war. flags Haunt-
ed from Church steeples, and were wrapped
/ QFnnAA xxnls.f-o ~. -.
(bere In the north, and there In th- southl
was pray ed for Ia rns pulpits, and minister,
on poLticat platforms invoked the power d
the Almighty In posting dowi, their enemi n.
one clergy men (let hf- maine Re rsld- hrcb-
| upoa-itt Matters nof Which Vi sidss - ~
talking Of teiieionAbut in tbis case Il 49,,
upon the south Eaough--ouite enouvh--s
y genteel suf6siency. If, thought \. Ihis i
the religion u the cross, 4 an done wfr. Il /.
and have been 6ndinK out ~sasnns for -.
naming done with II ever slnce. / A.re
given you sofne Ok Ihoss reasons, hope 4
may Be laTdoaed for sayinx few NOR
shings 10 shor the psrt II has 20 d wish the
oppression Of labor. II fthe religion Or the
New Testament, or % IL 10 preached teachss
Ne 10 hive for eternssy when We should livi
| for this life BY this s.dodge'' capital (fsr
| il is allied with the church) gets the sssR
ings OF labor and gives Is tbs Bible IN q.
change. Ii ths rerards Of . futare- aFs NOT
enough 10 induce AN o6edisnf life, paaish.
msnis ere bald up-and tnas il bsosghi
about In mems minds the nl0yBte0as
year Of dssth IA falcrnh whlcn toe
clergy (shst 10 the oapisAaists--th y Bang
linked toxsthcrl know ysll hoa 81 wsrk
,,,.y~ - NJ, ffan1rvht far fha susrrnsw
| &s-r-by whAs capitalism this 20 nserp o1ssed
| Toto 10 Bible is 40 matter 70 inquire Ger
4 tAin Il i that capitalists . = hfs ri ieuk-
! ine pnt Iofsfhe morrow H 4. isequally
csrsssn that every ihan must, - esns q
stsrvssioa. I-5y humble rslf 80 I've pstsd
IHp s..if Ners from 3 dream u twenty yeaEs,
6sdlhE tpsf a OF " pockek a1d lhst
kave - thousands of oppps tanideg ~ -
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