The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-29
rue OTHER SIDE.
Arguments Against the Cincinnati Re
ligieus Convention.

ligieus Convention.
T AMERICUs, KAN, March /. 1872.
/ EDIToR NEWS: You say that you
columns are open to the free discus
sion of all public matters. Enclosed
l send you some clippings. hop,
you will give them a careful perus
al, and place by the side of you
report of the Cincinnati religion
convention.
.. LAMBERT.
Freedom, even of discussion, hai
newspaper limits. The extracts
sent By Mr.. Lambert have beer
crowded out for several weeks past,
for lack of room. We give such OF
these as space permits. "Both
sides" is our motto, and we will
carry it out as far as practicable. I'm.
fortunately, our pace being limited
there is limit to the room any ar.
ticle or series Of articles can occu-
py:
The Boston Post says:
GThe recognition of the Trinity
and the Biblein Government is put
forward for adoption precisely like
any political dogma, and deserves
TO be treated with no more intrinsic
respect. Ifthe trainers of our Con-
stitntiou studiously RETAINED from
laying any sort of ecclesiastical bar
across the conscience of the citizen
they had the best of reasons for it,
derived from the same observation
and experience, whose exercise
stamped their work in all its features
as a model of Thurman wisdom. The
! lifting of a mere corner of the his
torie cnrtain revealed bloody In
| QUESTIONS. st. Bartholomew Mas
sacres, Thirty Y ears Wars, and
frenzied, maddened, murdered peo-
peoples, as the fruit of struggled
for perpetuating the Christian faith
by force.
The New York Sunday World
says:
''Who IS Mr.. Justice Strong, and
what special virtue authorizes him
to launch his condemnation at his
conntrymen? Our first forcible
Recollection of Judge Strong is
connected with his judicial career IN
Penn sylvania, just prior to his ele-
walton to the Supreme Bench. AT
that time certain of the great rail-
way corporations of Pennsylvania
found themselves hampered in an
attempt to create coal famine by
certain provisions in their charters
which rendered imperative the tran
| TrdW To
per ton. Mhe miners were digging
| out the coal at one end of the line;
at the other were millions ofpeople
eager to receive the fuel; between
| the two stood the great corpora
tons. anxious TO charge such exor-
rates of freight as to forbid the free
| transmission of the article; and, by
thus engineering, q coal famine at
one end and coal glut at the 9TH
or, grind down the coal miners wa
ges and force the coal consumers to
pay greatly EXCHANGED prices for
their coal. The charters, with their
positive requirement OF toll OF
but so much ton for transporta-
ton, stood in the way of the opera
ton of this scheme. How to evade
that requirement became the ques-
ton, and Judge Strong found the
answer. He decided that 'tolP did
not mean rates of freight. So far
as tolls were in question the COM
panies must conform to their char
tiers. But coal was not an article
made amendable to tolls : the COM
panies might lawfully charge what
they would on this article and, for
tilted by this decision, the coal fam
inc set in ON one side and the coal
glut on the other. Consumers were
robbed mercilessly by heavy adj
vance in coal, and the miners driv-
en- almost into instruction by the
reduction of their hire. The great
corporations profiIed by the THEFT
aud oppression, and Judge William
Strong put il into their power to
perpetuatc the wrong. He would
pretend to vindicate the divine law
Not so he can hide the scandal, the
| injustice, the braZen trucking to
power of his conduct in the case of
the Pennsylvania coal troubles,
where he wrestcd the law of his
country to purposes of extortlon
and fraud. This
unjust Judge, this perI erter of the
law, this servant of Mammon makes
himself the head and front of an eff
fort TO procure, foPsooth, the recog-
milton of Almighty God in the Con-
stitution of these United States.
Out upon the whited sepulchre!"
The Boston Evening Traveller
says: "a great deal of fanaticism
was manifested at the so called RE-
| ligious' Constitutional Convention
| i'm Cincinnati this week"
The Boston Journal says; The
whole object of the movement IS so
close to the border line of fanad-
cism, that it is no wonder some of
it's advocates, although with the
best motives, turn up on the other
side. The question was fully con-
sidered by the trainers of the Con-
stitution, and was upwillingly re-
linquished by many of the best men
of those DAYS. The churches of
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire
convened at Newburyport near the
close of 17S9, in address to Presi-
dent Washington, stated that they
should have been glad to have seen
some explicit Acknowledgement of
the only true God. and Jesus Christ
whom he has sent, inserted some-
where in the Magma Charta of our
country but added that the defect,
in their oplniod, has been amply
remedied' by the religious acts and
expressions of Washington's Ad-
ministration. The President, in
his reply. observed that the path of
true piety is so plain as TO require
but little political direction to
which consideration says, we
ought to ascribe the absence of any
regulations respecting religion from
the Magma Charta of our country
Washington added a hearty tribute
to the ciergy-to whom the relig-
ious interests of the people were
wisely left-saying 'In the pro-
gress of morality and science, to
which our Government will give
every furtherance, We may comb
IDENTIFY expect the advancement OF
true religion and the completion OF
our happiness These are sound
and still pertinent expressions not
TO be improved upon, certainly, by
anybody in tbs Cincinnati Conyen-
ton"
FIsrIcuFFs IN CHURCH.-A church
pew ought no more to be made the
subject of n partnership than a
toothbrush. Witness a recent ease
ut Cohoes, New York One Kelly
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