The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-19

and incorruptible patriot lacks one very essen
tial element of success. The public can have
no confidence in his sincerity. He comes too
fresh from the stump on which he has been
advocating the very party which is respou-
sible for the public and social evils over which
he Is now shedding crocodile tears, TO receive
any credit for good and honest motives. He
feels that he has offended morals and decency
to such degree, saying nothing of his put
ting to shame the Master whom he PROCESSES
to serve, that5he must make some atonsmsnt
to public opinion for his o6ense. A lifetime
of the humblest confession and severest pen
ance would not atone for the evil that he has
done. ...
The parsons theme on Sunday evening was
the 'Money power of the country" He
speaks feeliDgly OF the "money power" for he
has felt it. A year or two ago, when he wrote
that letter to the "Soldiers and Sailors Con-
vention" at Cleveland, he denounced the vio-
lence and prescription practised by the Jaco-
bin party towards the South, and, like neigh
Dor Raymond, recommended moderation, con-
ciliation, and the immediate restoration of the
Southern States to selEgovernmept. But the
"money power" of the Plymouth Church con-
gregation soon brought him to "back down"
and "fall into line"
Now he sees the "money power OF the
country" looming up in tremendous proper
tioDs, and threatening direful evils. He ad-
mits that it controls every thing, and is de-
stroyipg us. 1t produces the stealiugs in the
'wbisky rings" the bribery in the legisla-
tive halls, and the corruption everywhere.
All, say you so, parson3 Very good. VINO
created this money power" and who uphold
itY You and your party. Your war for the
abolition of slavery has built it up. Had it
not been for that we should have had no pub
lie debt of two thousand five hundred millions,
creating so much untaxed capital, and a pri-
vileged class holding it, acting as a unit
against the people, and ready to use its power
to coerce or bribe, as may be deemed neces-
sary to uphold its interests. Nor should we
have had our banking systems de-
stroyed, each State creating and man
aging its own, with no interest or ca
pacity to combine against the people to a
common end, while now we have one oonsoli-
dated banking system, created by the Federal
Government, and controlled by the Jscobin
party for its purposes, And the "whisky
ring" which 30 alarms the parson, defes pro-
secution, debauches public officials, and
spreads moral malaris throughout the COM
munity. What created the "whisky ring p
Your abolition war, your abolition debt, and
your abolition taxation. And now, after you
have brought all this about, and behold it with
your eyes, with refined Puritan hypocrisy you
eXclsim:-'1 say we are in more danger now
than before slavery was wiped away; for truth,
justice, and honesty are departed" Not salts
fed with stating this once, he repeated it,vsry-
ing the form of expression in this wise: 1--WE
are in more danger now than by being over
whelmed by slavery"
All, ha! That's the confession you make
since election, while, in the canvass you
raised your old abolition howl, and carried the
election by means OF it and this same "money
power" which now so alarms you. Ah, par
son, you have told the truth for onee. Your
abolition war has produced more evils in a
single year than ever existed under the slave
system, and in eight years more than would
have sprung from slavery had it lasted until
the final blotting out OF the sun AMI dimming
of the stars.