The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-14
Here's Your Democracy.

We are able to give our readers
today two lovely specimens Of mod
ern Democracy from the great organ
of that party, towit: Brick Pome.
roy's La Crosse Democrat.
The first is howl against Young
Mems Christian Associations, and
Christianity in general, and is as fol-
lows:
These long haired imps of aigger-
ism and bitter foes to true religion,
the Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton (so.called), who infest the State
of Wisconsin, have issued a scall"
for a general love-feast of the breth-
rem, to be holden at Madison this
week. The ostensible object Of the
pow-wow il to extend the evangeli-
cal faith into the rural districts
through the efforts of lay missiona-
ries the brethren claiming that the
people are 90 anxious for orthodox
religion that the regular ministers
cannot supply the spiritual wants Of
their fiocks; hcrce the necessity that
the lay brethren do lay hold and flap
round in the Lords vineyard until
they do lay out the unbelievers.-
This plausible yarn may do for
school marms or wheezy Puritans:
but to the minds eye of an able bod.
led working white man, it looketh
likea huge Sabbath School lie. In
the first place, the demand for Evan
gelical faith Is dull with downward
tendency; thousands of high-press-
ure divines are out Of commission,
preambulating the country, sslling
the olives" Of the Late Lam sntea
peddling patent itch killer, and pick.
ing up a 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
missionary effort being started in the
spring, at the commencement Of the
busy season, when every one is hur.
red, while the winter months were
allowed to pass by unimproved.
No, the object Of the forthcoming
Devils Auction, or Young Mems
christian Association campaign, is to
put large force ofsemi-clcricRl vag-
abonds in tho field to prowl through
the country, dead beating it all around,
sponging their victuals, organizing
prayer circles on the Ethiopian basis
and setting up Grant clubs in every
town, hamlet and village. What care
the bankrupt scoundTels who COM
pose the Y. NJ. G. A., for tho cause of
Christ and Him cruciied2 Who eyer
know a broken-down scalper on the
Chicago or Milwaukee Boards OF
Trade who failed, and settled up at
twenty cents on the dollar, three
years paper, that was not loud
mouthed member of the Association?
Who ever knew o man 60 through
bankruptcy on false afiidavits, and
bogus schedule, who was not q hard.
praying member of the Association ?
Who're is there q defaulting bank
clerk, thieving railroad officer, or
dishonored merchant, who is not o
stock holder in the Y. NJ. G. A. cit
les ? In the Western cities their
rooms are generally located near the
Board of Trade, who com pose most
Of their membership, and it is notori-
GUS that no such collection Of finish
ed, polished, heartless rascals were TO-
be found elsewhere on the planet as
the men who compose these same
Boards of Trade.
The mongrels are using their re-
ligious understrappers to sandwich
bondholding politics in between their
hymns and sermons. And it devoives
on Democratic journals and speakers
to warn the people against the 3d.
tanic white niger mobs known as
Christian Associations, Aid Societies,
Mission Clubs, etc. Democrats, avoid
them as you would the plague. Pro
tect your children from their insidi-
GUS wiles; they are the bastard foes
of your race and your God. 1hcAl-
mighty is wiping the foul breed from
the face Of the earth. Their mis-.
sions, their associations, and their