The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-21
F. 4. WATTS, Secretary.
a LYING KyPocRIrE VENTILATED
ScIo, Feb. Is, 1878.

Editor Democrat:
Allow me through your columns to
give little airing to an article which
appeared in the Pacific Caristiaa 4d-
rocrte, concerning the death of Rev.
Joab Powell, over the signature of W.
F. West.
He says that Mr.. Powell, although
Democrat, prayed for the success of
President Grant and the Republican
Congress. Now we are taught in the
Scriptures that we are To pray for
kings and rulers, aud all those in au-
thority, and of course our old brother,
being n devout Christian, would pray
for President Grant and Congress-not
God would pardon the enormous crimes
which they were committing in the
name of liberty. This would seem
strange to Afr. Vest, he being as great
a stranger TO principles OF Christianity
as hog is to theology.
IS to "taking little whisky and
being opposed to temperance organiza-
tions.' that is a plain and paIpable
falsebood. He was a temperate man
and friend to temperance organiza-
tons. AS To demanding the hospital
ity. shelter and corporation of other
denominations, that, too, is utterly
false. He as Baptist minister and
looked TO Baptists alone for assistance;
and as close communion is a peculiar
. tenet OF the Baptist church, of course
he held TO that. Again: He never
was regarded by any one as being non
compus mcntis; and as for dying pos
sessed of a good share of the mammon
! of unrighteousness, he did not possess
one dollars worth of property.
/ Now, gentle reader, We pronounce
Mr.. Vests correspondence lie from
beginning to end; and when he said,
/ in the windup, 81 write this in the in
terest of Christian forgiveness" he
uttered the most damnable faIsehood
that ever escaped the lips of man.
/ This canting, whining, puritanical
bloodhound of Zion had not the cour-
age TO speak out until the old veteran
OF the Cross was dead; and when his
venerated form was laid beneath the
sod, and his spirit basking in the
smiles of his Redeemer, this malig-
nant, eowariIy ass makes an attack
upon his personal character. 81 wrote
this in the interest of Christian for
givenessw That sounds well for a
man in whose composition there is no
more christianity than there is sancti-
ty in hell; "a man who has stolen the
livery of heaven in which to serve the
devil.
We would just say to Mr.. West, il
he makes another such cowardly at
tack upon the dead-and that falsely
we will give his personal character a
little ventilation. There are great
many men in the "Forks of the San.
am" who are personally acquainted
with Mr.. Vest, and we have abundant
evidence with which to ventilate his
foul carcass. And we would further
say, had he been in this vicinity wher
that article appeared in the Aduocott
and heard the bitter curses heaped up
on his head, he would absolutely have
4 had to flee at the hour of midnight tt
have saved himself from a severe cas-
tigation at the hands of an outraged
and indignant people. The Rev. Joat
: Powell was an honor to all such SCALA
wags, liars and hell-hounds as this de
ceitful, hypocritical pup. I'VE woult
say to him, by way of advice, to neve,
again, SO long as God may spare. bi,
Improbable life, desecrate the pulpit
1t is sacri ege and shame to tn.
name of christianity. Meanwhile, w.
"poise our pen in midair" and wait t.
hear from the Rev. loh, God. wha
mockery!) Mr. West. NERO.
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