Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-01-26

IOunueO statement Win winch he con
cludes it." Laughter. He kept hi
promise by printing the article, and h.
kept his reputation by printing tn,
protest. Laughter. 1t is no insult t.
the shovel to say it is not a hoe
Laughter 1t is no insult to the edi
tor to say he is not an apostle. That i
not his function; lean on him for wha
he was made.
/ Ministers as Citizens.
BEECHER'S OPINION OF THEM.
The following remarks are from Mr.
Beechers speech at the Itai an Unity
meeting in New York.
1t is the opinion of this American
that, of all governments, there is nc
other so bad as the ecclesiastical class
Applause. 1t might be presumed be.
fOrehand that the body of men careful.
ly educated to moral ideas that they
might be moral teachers would make
the best citizens not only, but the best
rulers. Yet must say experience has
not borne out the theory. Laughter. ]
1t has not. Is it because clergyman are
SO spiritual that they cannot get their
feet to the ground on which they are
living? Laughter Is it because they
are so given to divine studies that they
have forgotten human? think not. /
think clergymen make just as good cit
izens as any body else. 1 think they
ought to take part in citizenship just as
anybody else. They ought to read,
they ought to debate with proper mod
esty. Laughter They ought to vote,
they ought to be taxed and without
grumbling to pay their taxes. Laugh
ter. They ought not to be diScrimina-
ted from other citizens in any single re-
spect. They are no better in the eye of
the law, and they are no worse in the
eye of the law. They are simply COM
mon people before law and before the
Government, and as such they average
very well with their fellOw-citizens.
fApplause. There have been those
that attempted to say to the clergy,
Your business is such that you should
not be found in these lower walks of
life; you should not dabble with poll
tics, but give yourselves up to holy
contemplation and bring calm
into the house of god, where men, for
acting the duties, the troubles, ,andthe
burdens of daily life, they shall have
visions of immortality and bliss.
Laughter And after time those
good and holy men are, with velvet
praise, made to think that perhaps they
are better than they thought they were.
Laughter And when they are told to
put their dainty feet upon the privi-
lodged shelf to lounge on as if they
were made of different flesh and blood
when they find themselves incensed
and praised in sweet suggestions of
compliment "divine men," and they
begin to feel the altitude of God in
them, it is not surprising in my mind
that they live it. Applause.] Now a
man that is neither citizen nor traitor,
neither man nor woman, neither angel
nor minister, but certain parasitic
have no opinion of. When
they are made and rounded out like
dough, properly pricked and stamped
with somebody's name, they are very
nice men, and warranted to keep. /
{ Laughter. That Is the way the Demo-
Gratis make hierarchs. TCheers.1 But
Democrats like myself say
to these people, "Out with you a man
Is man, and he is only a man." I
stand upon the apostolic declaration,
Men and brethren, we are men of like |
professions with YOU" We get mad |
just as you do, and sometimes feel like |
fighting as you do. We are citizens, |
having our cares, our temptations, our |
part of public business and public duty, |
bound to it not because we were minis |
ters, but men, and because we are citi=
zenS.
Lewis WhetZeI.
Hon. Thomas Ewing's letter to a
friend in Cleveland, contains the fol-
lowing account of Lewis Whetzel:
Lewis Whetzel, who preceded Nc
Arthur by several years, was the terror
Of the Indians on the Wheeling frontier.
He was little active fellow, and it
happened that he was fired at and
missed so often that they considered
him under spell. The usual remedy,
/ piece of silver driven into the bullet,
ailed, and he was deemed proof, even
against magic; but at last, in one of
heir excursions, he was surprised and
captured, and they bore him off in tri-
Imph in Sandusky, where they held a
council and sentenced him to be burnt.
An old Indian who had lost his son on
,he expedition wanted to adopt and
,ried to save him. The night before he
was to be burnt, he slept between two
Indians, his legs and arms tied with
,hongs, TO stakes driven into the ground
the Indians lying on the thongs.
Late at night when all were asleep, the
Did Indian came, cut the thongs, got
lim out without disturbing the sleep
srs, gave him the gun of his lost son,
;ook his own, mounted horse and led
;he way, signing to Whetzel to follow.
They Travelled two or three days with
,ut interruption, when they came to
he two branches of the Muskingum at
Joshocton. The old man carried Whet-
.el behind him on his horse, and when
,ver the East branch, said he now
Knew the way, and turned with his
horse and gun to return to Sandusky.
When he had fairly entered the river,
Whetzel shot him and he fell dead
;ook his scalp, and his horse and gun,-
t being the best of the tw0-and made
lis way home in safety. Whetzel told
he story himself without an apparent
of its atrocity, but his BROTH
n rangers refused to shake hands or in
my manner associate with him after
Hards,
The Rival Regiments,
A very piousand jealous chaplain of
Confederate regiment, called on a
colonel not particularly noted for moral
,bservances, in order to talk about the
.alioiOuS interests of his men The