The Portland daily press., 1868-04-18
POmeroy's DiscOurse on the Younu Wa.
Christian AssociaIiOns

The La Crosse Democrat, a paper which has
double the circulation of any other Democrat
ic organ in the United States, and may there
fore be assumed to be true index of the gen.
eral Democratic sentiment of the country,
says
These lOag-haiyed ilnps Of nJggerism and Bit
ter foes to true religion, the Young Mems
Christian Associations (sO-called), who infest
the State of Wisconsin, have Issued "eall'
for general love-feast of the brethren, to be
holden at Madison this week. The ostensible
| OBJECT OF the pow-wow is to extend the evan
| gelical faith into the rural districts through
| the efforts of lay missionaries, tue brethren
claiming that the people are SO anxious for
orthod0X reilglon that the regular ministers
cannot supply the spiritual want of their
1Ocks; hence the necessity that the Law breth-
rem do lag hold and flop round in he LORDS
Uiaeydrd until they do lay out the unbelieyers
This plausiL le yarn may do for school marms
or wheezy Puritans but to the minds eve of
an able-bodied working white man, it looketh
amazingly like huge Sabbath school lie. In
the first place, the demand for EUQRgeiicdl faith
as duH loith a dO1onU0Td tendency; thousands of
high-pressure divines are out OF commission
peram6uiating the country, selling the "lives"
OF the Late Lamented, peddling patent Itch
Killer, and picking up precariOus subsst-
ence in various other itnerant callings, for
which their ministerial experience has well
qualified them. In the next place, lcho euer
UttoctOItUTU started
an the Spring, at the commencement Of The busv
season, 1chen eUe1y one is hurried while the dull
winter months were allowed to pass by uniln-
proved.
No, the true object of the forthcoming
Devils Auction, or Young Mems Christian
Association campaign, is to put a large force
of semi-clerical vagabonds in the field to prowl
through the country, dead beating 1t all around,
sPo1a9tag their gtctudtS, organizing prayer cir
cles ON the Ethiopian basis and setting up
Grant clubs in every town, village and hamlet.
What care the bankrupt Sc0updreis 9chO coDlpose
the Y. NJ. @. a. for the cause Of Christ and Him
cTucfed' Who ever knew a broken down
scalper on the Chicago or Milwaukee Boards
of Trade who failed and settled up at 20 cents
on the dollar, three years paper, that was not
a loud-mouth member OF the Association?
Who ever knew man go through bankruptcy
on false afidavits, and bogus schedule, who
was not hard praying member of the Assc-
cation? Where is there detaulting bank
clerk, hieUing Railroad officer or a dish0nOred
merchant, uhO is not a Stockholder in the Y d.
@. A. citieS2 In the Western cities their rooms
are generally located near the Board of Trade,
who compose most of their membership, and
it is notorious that no such collection of fin
ished polished, hedrtleSs rascdls are to be found
elsewhere on the planet as the men who COM
pose these same Boards of Trade.
The mongrels are usir their religious under
strappers to sandwich bondholding politics in
between their hymns and sermons And it
devolves on Democratic journals and Speak
ers to warn the people against the Satanic
ioItite Niger mObS kIl0acn as Christian Associa-
tionS Aid Societies, Mission Clubs, ETC. Dem
ocrats, avoid them you would the plague
Protect your children from their insidious
wiles; they are the bastard foes of your race
and your God. The Almighty is wping the
foul breed from the face of the earth. Their
missions, their associations, and their reign
will soon terminate. White men, we must
check-mate these psdlnl-singing hupocrites this
year, and their power will be gone forever.