The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-08
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Satanic Preachers.

r-,o,,, uBr.ek" Pomcroy's ". Y. Democrat.
n;odorus Siculus informs us that IL was
law of the ancient Egyptians that II any man
cow another assailed and distressed by thieves
and robbers and did not do all i'll his power to
,rotect the victim, he was himself adiudged
Worthy of death. If the politicians of the
Nortb who look almost passively on, aud see
The helpless people of the South preyed upon
"a doomed by the vOraciOus sCoundrels and
tools of Congress were to he Judged by suoh
= IaU how many of them would escape hang
;pgP The law of Christ in this same matter
"a shout as severe as that of old Egypt. IL Is
nudepiably based on the reason OF things.
The enlightened mind OF man enforced IL
+,aneratiops before the birth o. Jesus Christ;
ssu5 bv him Il was reatfrmed with all the sub
H. ,a,hos of divinity. What kind OF Chris
tians then. are these furious bulles OF the
nnInit. who cry aloud for vengeance ana tor
turs upon disarmed aud suffering psop'e
They are such Christians as the Oe'h hlone
reioiess in. Such Christians as VIII crowd tue
bsttlemepts of hell, just rs fast rs our proIane
political pulpits are dlSmaptleo Oh Ihelr sa'a-
mic presence: .,.,.s,.,s 49,. l.,
tbe French Assembly :-"Room room there
in he'll for Maxjmilian Robespierre !" So
when one of these satanic preachers vacate5
his mortal battle ground, 65uds may roar out:
1,Roomi room here in hell for q soaIawag pO-
1itical preacberl" If hell does not rejoice st
snch an event. the earth ought 10.
While we yield to no one in reverence for
tho nrsacher who breaks the bread Of peace
and. goodwill to mankind, We confess that We
have no words to express our detestation OF
the canting scoundrels OF the Beecher and
Bellows type, who desecrate the pulpit with
harangues which are meant to stir up the pas
sions OF hatred and revenge against the whole
people. The satanic preachers have done aud
still are doing more TO prevent the restoration
of that spirit of compromise and good feeling
in which political union alone is possible
than even such furious implscables as Schenck,
old Ben Wade, and Sumner. Such reverend
rascals cannot exactly be called "blind guides, 4"
because they are leading our country to perdi-
ton with their eyes wide open. Their
pernicious ministratlonS are inspired
not by blind zeal, but by
an intensely wide-awaks malice. When
Beecher, some years ago. declared that 'the
best Gospel missionaries for Kansas were
Shsrp's rifles" be struck key mote to the
psalmody of our political or sat lnic pulpits
which has been sung without intermisson
ever since. 1t has rolled Oh like an accursed
anthem of the Devil driving the spirit OF devo-
tion and love out OF the bos0ms OF the people,
and filling them with thirst for murder and
revenge. We have ceased to hope for either
repentance or reform in these satanic pull lplts.
They will drive on their car Of destruction and
death until death himself shall mercifully re-
heve the pulpits and the world of their pre-
sence. Then will be heard, roaring down the
flaming avenues of psIdition, these awful
words OF Danton, Room room there in hell
for Beecher, and Cheever. and Tyng" Let
the whole earth respond "Amen ~