The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-05-21
Thaddeus stevens as a ScOHer.


can party He forced Congress into the I'M
parchment business, and dares the Senators
in Congress to disobey his demand for con-
viction Not content with playing autocrat
in the halls of lie ylslation, he has, of recent
wears, undert AIKEN to run the Eighteensh
Congressional District of Ohio and it is due
the old demagOgue to say that his edict, so
far, has been obeyed when issued. Two
years ago he favored the nomination of Judge
Spalding, and wrote letter in his favor;
now he orders the "trooly lol'' of this
district to select Colonel Parsons as their can
didate Ifthe RAIDS, like this kind of dicta-
ttion we do not propose to complain, but an
article in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, In
telligencer, of Nay /, gives rs an insight into
the character Of the old aut0crat which the
Leader SAYS does not like 10 endorse Ben
Wade for the second office in the gift of the
people The Intelligencer says:
During all his life Thaddcus Stevens has
openly scoifed at the christian religion. A
few years since, while trying case at Il
town in another part of this State, he and
some other lawyers were couversng one eve
Mug, when one of the party adduced the
Bible as authority for some statement he had
made"
ooh" said Mr.. Stevens, "the Bible is no
authority. 1t is nothing but the obsolete his
tory of a barbarous people"
the best lawyers in the State in whose imme-
date presence it was uttered. Indeed such
ieers at religion have been habitual with
Thaddeus Stevens all his lie. That is g well
known fact, and those who have been most
intimate with him know that such has been
the case.
Though now lettering on the very
verge of the grave, and suffering with dis
ease which may prove fatal any hour, h G
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which the christian world holds sacred A
political friend related to us how the old
wretch met minister with profane Joke,
when he was lying on his ped apparently
past recovery. The story, as told to us, was
characteristic of him.
Yet this is the man whom we have seen
lau1ed to the skies in the organs of certain
christian denominations in this country. In
their eagerneSs 10 a0aSe themselves at the de-
mand of a political party, these professedly
religious journals have hcaped their lauda-
tons upon Thaddcus Stevens 1t has not
mattered to them that he has lived all his life
in utter disregard of the obligations Of moral
ity, and has been an aYowed intidel, and scot
fer at the bible and christianity. How leading
religious people reconcile such action with
the professions they make, is past our com-
prehension. Sure it is that those who Pro.
fess to call themselves teach rs of morality
anu IcIioiOH III THESE idttCI U'IJ are IIeQueu1-
ly caught acting very strangely.
And this is the character of the man who
more than any other, has been the perSecu
tor of Andrew Johnson. The msn who has
Openly scoffcd at the christian religion" is
at the very head ofthe party which claims all
the refinement, intellectual culture, morality
and religiOnl And this bad old nan who
still clings to his in6delity" and who regards
the bible as the Obsolete history of Il barbar-
GUS people" is the man whose "letters of rec
commentators" are sought after by ding re
publicaus of Cleveland who seek nominations
TO congress.
| We commend to the clergymen who pray
ed, a few sabbaths ago, for the speedy con
victiOn" of Johnson, the case OF Thaddeus
Stevens. Why not pray for his speedy con.
version to christianity, and while at it, offer
up additional prayers that Butler, the gold
robber, and Bingham, VINO sent an inn ocent
woman to the scaffold, should repent tn ell
sins.