The New York herald., 1870-11-07
ALL SOILS, CHURCH.

Ani jesus welcomes them TO heaven.
The Rev. Dr.. Bellows In commencing his sermon.
said lie held In his hand an appeal from respectable
citizens, begging the pulpit to come to the md OF
political morality and purity. He had not been able
to shake from his conscience the obligations OF
giving heed TO that appeal, and he would speak
without regard TO party. He would take for his
text the words or ST. Paul.
ar AM CITIZEN or NO MEAN CITY,
Preoccupied as he was with the Gospel, st.
Paul could not conceal his pride In his cit,-
zcnship Those were not the days Of popular rights,
when men had votes TO give; yet there never was
time wnen an honest aud able man was not power
In the community and able TO oppose tyranny ana
corruption Virtue is not possible in free countries
only. Every nation has men ready to die for IT. and
the man who does not love his hOme--hs DirtE-
place--and wish to see IL respected, a dull and
dangerous man. Having alluded, In passing, to the
Patriotism oi
THE MEN WHO TOOK THE FIELD
to prevent nai the land beng placed under another
nag TO The ardor OF German devotion, TO honor OF
fa.neriand winch impeis the Prusslan 10 pursue
tie Frcnchman through his walled towns ana TO tue
gates oil his peasure-sOdlen capital; and 10 tie he
rosm of the trenchnan IN struggling 10 prevent |.
partition OF French territory, the preacher said
therea re some in New YORK VINO would sooner see u
nee OF British iroa-cads In the narDOr ana British
army On Washington Heights tnan their city aDln-
ouLed 10 the political and social criminals who FOR
twenty years have made politics game wsth loaceu
ulce, 5tNuclflG
THE IGNORANT FOREIGNERS
wno under pressure .. SAD condition OF affairs in
their naive land seek asylum here to become
sconsy the assassns OF our liberties. The unscrupu-
lons ploiters VINO get the management Of public al
fllrs INTO their hands Use alien Church iur th cir
ambitious purposes, Inducing OF every rank
from me policeman 10 the Judge. from the tide
waller TO tue Governor OF the state, to lend them
selves TO acts Of rapaciy ana fraud I'LL no man iceis
sure OF protection for his rights or security against
political assault The robbery OF millions from the
pubic treasury shows IN those monspolists an ex-
ample OF prosperous crimnaiity that has democrat
lHing ensct. 1t IS the national honor shat suffers
most, and all patriotic Americans must blush with
shame or chafe with Indignation as the eyes OF the
world are turned TO the metropolis or science With
contemptuous wonder, and say, '.Thls, then, is
THE DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM
OF million oil people at the very gateway OF your
empire. You boast OF your commerce and steam.
boats and telegraphs and printing press yet you can
from del5ing your knowledge OF their crimes, and
using tie ignorance and superstition OF portion OF
your people to control you and place you at their
you with soJr belp'essness Men who would not be
permitted to enter respectable private parlor revel
IN the wealth tney slea IRON You; aping The worst
manners OF aristocratic countries with vulgar n5o
leDce and ostentauons. Thus IT was that nendaci-
ols plotting men, who sanA il the lostfs OF every
FRAUD AND TRIcKERy ASD BAsENEss
have reached the highest pinnacle OF power. What
corrGptlng lessons 10 young men choosing tneir way
OF Lie The example OF those men seems to say.
away with the non sense and the can't taat honesty
Is the best policy and virtue precious inheritance
y
nudacy that succeeds; the cleveresL thief becomes
sha rchest man. and the most plausible rogue Is the
best Candidate" In reply 10 the foreigners who
'cslsslse US we can only say, 1--WE suffer most RON
n, HGNORANT AND SUPEBSTIrIOUS FOREIGNERS
y61tirOve mere TO claim the iai priyl eyes o. our
lnstibuoas without the education, seif-rcspecG and
scjlelance tnat our native population commonly
possess. We are driven 10 give these ignorant
peasants, with precipitaEe generosity, the sacred
rights OF citizenship, and poiitcs mas come to mean
the management oil those lgnoranu foregn-born cIL-
IzenS.o
Politics has become trade like the corner liquor
store and the corner grocery; a class Of men are
bred up 10 it; those vampires plot with patience
that an0eis might admire. Tney can afford TO spend
one hundred thousand dollars which probably comes
tine reoccupatlon OF posts OF legalzed robbery.
Some who would never yield to dozen
ENGLISH IRoN-CLAUS IN OUR HARBOR
yield to robbery IN high places, submitting to 1t as
they did to cholera or smallpox. The preacher
spoke OF the efficacy OF the cannonading against
coiruptions recently commenced by the press, and
said II We cannot elect men Of our own political
views we can elect men OF personal integrity. lie
would prefer man Of good character, irrespective
lians. without honor and conscience In the State
private m0caiiiy must fail, and religion become u
aeniliGated hypocrisy. The preacher then referred
TO the printed circular In his and and approved Of
the opJecL OF the association from which Il ema-
naed-viz., 10 exam ne into the moral character or
the candidates from each party. He concluded by
impressng on tie congregation that the quest Oh in
this election not mere political one, Dut u
moral and religious one, and they would serve Iell
whether good men or the very worst men should rule
Them.