The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-24
DEMOCRACY.
4 illumination from the AcknOW-
ledged Organ OF the Party.

The following article appears as
editorial in the La Crosse Democrat,
the most popular and widely circu-
lated Democratic journal in the Union
"a paper that has probably twice as
many subscribers in the party as any
other. That the sentiments expressed
In the article are those of the party
at large cannot be doubted, though
very likely nine-tenths of them would
deny that they held any such opin-
ions. When they rush by thousands
to the support Of the beastly, profane
and indecent sheet which INDUCES
daily N such writing, their denials of
sympathy with the articles amount to
nothing:
THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS AWAK-
ENING.
Those lonq-hdired in1pS of Niger
ism and bitter foes to true religion,
the Young Mems Christian AssOcia-
lions (so-called), who infest the State
of Wisconsin, have issued a call y
for general love feast Of the breth-
rem, to be holden at Madison this
week. The ostensible object Of the
pow-wow is to extend the evangelical
faith into the rural districts through
the efforts of lay missionaries, the
brethren claiming that the people are
so anxious for orthodox religion that
the regular ministers cannot supply the
spiritual wants Of their hoeks; hence
the necessity that the lay brethren do
Ian hold and flop round az the Lord s
vineyard until they do lay out the un-
believers. This plausible yarn may
do for schOolmarms or wheeZy Puri-
tans, but to the minds eye of an
able bodied working white man, it
looketh amazingly ike a huge Sab
bath School lie.
In the first place, the demand for
evangelical faith is dull with a down.
ward tendency; thousands of high
pressure divines are out of commits
sion, perambulating the country, sell
ing the lives " of the late lamented,
peddling patent Itch Killer, and pick
ing up precarious subsistence In
various other itinerant callings, for
which their ministerial experience
has we'll qualified them. In the next
place, who ever heard of great mis-
sionary effort being started in the
Spring, at the commencement of a
busy season, when every one is hur-
ried, while the dull Winter mouths
were allowed to pass by uni improved.
No, the true object of the forth
coming Devils Auction, Of Young
Mems Christian Association cam
paign, is to put large force of semi
clerical vagabonds in the field to
proWl through the country, dead beat
ing it all round, sponging their Wet
uals, organizing prayer circles on the
Ethiopian basis, and setting up Grant
clubs IN every town, village aud ham
let. What care the bankrupt scoun-
drels who compose the Young Mems
Christian Association for the oluse
Of Christ and Him cruci6ed? Who
ever knew broken-dewn scalper Ton
the Chicago or Milwaukee Boards Of
Trade) who failed and settled up at
twenty cents on the dollar, three
years paper, that was not a loud
mouthed member of the Association
Who ever knew a man go through
bankruptcy on false afidavits, aud
bogus schedule, who was not a hard
praying member of the A, ISOLATION?
Where is there a defaulting bank
clerk, a thieving railroad officer, or a
dishonored merchant, who is not a
stakeholder in the Y. NJ G. A. cities
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 finished, polish
ed, heartless, rascals is. to be. found
elsewhere on the planet as the men
who compose these same Board OF
Trade. The mongrels are using THEN
religious understrappers to sandwich
bondholding politics in between their
hymns and sermons.
And it devolves on Democratic
journals and speakers to warn the
people against the Satanic white mig.
ger mobs, known as Christian Asso-
Citations, Aid Societies, Mission Clubs
etc. Democrats avoid them as you
would the plague. Protect your chill
dren from their insidious wiles; they
are the bastard foes of your race and
your God. The Almighty is wiping
the foul breed from the face of the
earth. Their missions, their associa.
lions and their reign will soon termi-
nate. White men, we must check
mate these psalm-singing hypocrite:
this year, and their power will be
gone forever.