, 1868-12-25
Selling Out.


to sell out. Some will sell at dear rate,
some at a cheap rate. The time was when
every man had his price, aud some even
held themselves at premium. Now you
can buy men at your own price. The mark
ct is glutted with men of mereenary motives.
The supply is even greater than the demand.
MONEY is now the white -robed goddess be-
fore whom the plant millions bow. Truth,
aud integrity, and conscience are now not re-
garded as elements of success. The biggest
rogue seems to evoke the largest share Of
admiration. The cunningest churl seems to
be regarded as the greatest hero Of the day.
The man with the pile is the man of the
age. He is monarch of a world Of FOOLS
Thousands of simpletons come at his bidding
Even men high 10 life sell out their princi-
Piles for mess Of pottage. Multitudes bow
before the golden calf, while here and there
a solitary soul ascends the mount, to talk
with God. Men babited in sacerdotal robes
stand ready to be caught. The ermine Of
digni6ed judges and Of magistrates is bespat-
tered with the foulness of filthy lucre
Low groveling politicians ind poor souls
further down the social scale than themselves,
whom they can buy with a glass of grog,
while the lamentations of deserted women 60
up to God, and hungry children cry piteously
for bread. The courtroom, where justice
and equity should preside, is contaminated
with the leprous touch of bribery and chi
canery. There the man who commands the
largest pile of glowing greeubacks buys the
largest lot of unpriDcipled souls Justice
hides behind green screens, and there, over
the flowing bowl of Internal torments, he
stipuates with the devil for place and power
The business of selling out is carried on ex-
teusively in the halls of legislation. There
it can be seen as one of the 6ne arts. The
style of the thing there, if not strictly parli
mentarian, is to say the least, Machiavelian
The procedure of buying sOrdid souls goes
on as softly as running oil. Grave senators,
bewildered by the glitter of a presidential
chair, or fascinated by the glimpses of for
eign court, descend to the low grade of SELL
ing out public honor and self-respect, obivi-
Gus of the fact that they once rose to emf
nence by means of honor and truth. Csndi-
dates for office, in conventions, are bought
and sold by their partisan friends according
10 the whim and caprice of expert money
changers. These conventions are transformed
into national gambling saloons, where the
man who boasts the biggest pile of public
plunder, or appropriates most adroitly the
revenues Of the State, or plies an illicit trade
with the mast accomplished shrewdness, at
the expense of the Government is acknowl
edged TO be the most successful and vrtuous
man of the age. The successful man, no
matter by uhdt means, is trumpeted before
the world as conquering hero, and is de-
vouty worshiped as the great Mogul of na-
tional prosperity, and the banner he bears
before him bears the inscription Money
answereth all things" and the multitude Of
stupid starers throw up their caps amid wild
huzzahs Once the time was when all men
were supposed to be honest until proved to
be dishonest; now all men are marked as
rOgues until proved to be the opposite. De-
lectable state of things
The pulpit, tOo has caught the contagion
The professed followers of the meek aud
lowIy Savior. elevated to the pulpit, banker
after the flesh pots of Egypt, aud propose to
sell out for worldly honor aud places of pres
fermeut. High salaries induce them to sell
the truth, instead of buying The truth at a
great sacrifice AID keeping it sacred. They
are hired to tell the whole truth. They hire
themselves out to please the people, not to
please God. Not satisfied with humble
spheres to work .iu, they offer themselves to
the highest bidder, on the condition that
they may be placed in easy positions among
refined and popular people. They stipuate
with His Satanic Majesty not to hurt sinners.
The preacher may talk about temperance in
general terms, but not about the poison of
alcohol in specific terms he may talk about
the follies OF extraVagant people at an en-
chanted distance, but must say nothing about
the fooleries and fashions Of his own flock /;
he may speak of the cunning and cupidity
of oppressors in distant lands, but woe be to
him if he perchance rufies the sleeping con-
sciences of avaricious Shylocks in his own
congregation he may speak lovingly of the
distillation of rain drops and dew drops, but
be must be forever silent on the distiHdtioR
Of whisky. If two thousand dollars fail to
buy the putty preacher, three thousand dol
lars will superinduce the poor tool to surren-
der manhood and conscience. With shut
mouth he goes like q sheep to the slaughter.
What is friendship, aud plighted faith, and
sacred promises AID pure principles with
such an one, compared With human exaita>
ton. worldly pride, the pomp Of life, the
temptation Of sordid gainl But bis soul is
for sale, and be sells body and brains, to the
highest bidder.
Disciples who leave home and humble
churches, where they have dwelt for many
years, and locate in towns and cities. and
there seek the patronage of popular sectarian
churches, and never inquire for Christian
church, are supposed to sell out for very
small crust Of bread. Surely they shall have
their reward (which in the end will be but a
naked souI). We pray the Lord for men OF
backbone and moral stamina. = American
Christian ReUieIo.
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SoFr SOAR FOR ALL--For lieutenant,
call him captain; for a middle aged lady
kiss her snd saw Won mistOok her for her