Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-03-13
SflistlIImtous S.saalnp.
For Tie Sentinel.
THE REGISTERS REPORTER.

Mr.. EDlTOR.-Once more ] ask you 10
grant ine space enough 70 say few more
words concerning the Registers verbose
reporter, who, IN the late issue of that
paper, presented to the public another ar
:icie, characteristic of coarseness and vul-
garity, and if words be criterion, sufii-
cient t. justify one in forming an opinion
OF the feelings and passions of the per-
sons who express or write them, then we
think We can justly say tha; the reporter,
Hazlett, wrote his late article under the
influence Of do!amatory spirit, coupled
with another spirit Of which we will not
here speak. His miserably distorted cl-
forts to exoneyate himself from the cen
sure Of all honest men for his former ar
ticle, simply becomes ridiculous when he,
by base pervcrsion Of the true spirit,
aud language in which we wrote, attempts
to create the impression that We have lit
tie or 10 regard for ministers, unless they
be ''Pasters Of large and influential con.
grCgations." We never spoke or wrote
word to any one living or dead that could
be construed to mean that we favor one
"icspccIable minister" above another
To-be sure we reserve the right to exer-
else our preference for tie diguifed
minister, the minister of fine social quality
or the minister or exceeding piety and
enterprise, just as any one Of these par
ticular qualities may accord with our taste.
Further than this we make no distinction
and know not one respectable minister
from another, and we refer the reader to
cur former communication upop which
the reporter grounds his declaration, feel
ing confident that ii also will yinGicate Us
from his vulgar charge, though the reader
should bear in mind that his charge or as
sertion is not even supported by an effort
at proof.
As to ihc "dcspised itiaerant" of whom
he speak, we caunot definitely settle in
our mind who he means. The term is too
indistinct, but we think he refera to the
''circuit preacher" and if he means that
class we would Ike to know where he gets
the quotation with which he designates
them, or IS it an invention of his own p
Certainly the "circuit preacher" if in
standing with his brethren, is ''respecta-
bic minister" and has the regard Of all
just men, and we are confident that this
class Of ministers would as likely second
Mr.. Uazlett's manner of abuse as they
would second the peculiar form of civil
za;ion advocated By Jefferson Davis and
his friends. The reporters deficiency in
discernment is as manifest in his latter as
it vas in his former article, and those per.
sons who expressed a doubt Of the "sourd-
ccss Of the judgment Of the man who in
such manner assaults respectable min
ist2r," will have this doubt brought almost
to a conviction by his late ctfusion.
But men will not only question lis
judgment and goodness Of heart" but
viii also look with suspicion upon his
pedantic pretension, when he SO inaptly
the Emperor of Germany,
Henry the ", of the NI century, and
styles him the representative man of the
class to which we belong, when it is so ey-
ident that between his royal historical
character ana ourseif, not the slightest
analogy exists in any particular. But let
US lock briefly at the facts and clear up
this, another perversion. When pope
Gregory, the seventh, came into possess
ion of the Papal throne he declared his
purpose to exercise his full authority in
all things, temporal as well as spiritual,
throughout his jurisdiction. Previous TO
the assumption Of powcr by this Poten
tate Of the Church, the Empcrors, of those