Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-22
A FREE THINKERS FANCY.
Strange Inscriptions on n GravestOne a
Buchanan, Mich.

strange Inscriptions on GravestOne at
buchanan, Mich.
Never has anything created such uni
versal excitement and aroused the in
dignation of the citizens in the usually
quiet village of Buchanan, Berrien
county, as has the erection in our ceme-
terry of monument on which are sew
eral inscriptions, indicative of great
want of reverence for sacred things.
The monument was erected by Joseph
Coveny, a returned Californian, and
wealthy farmer of this vicinity, who
though of sound mind in othef matters,
seems to entertain peculiar views in re-
gard to religion. 1t is from the marble
works of Sewersten & Schultz, of Niles,
and is the most beautiful one in the
cemetery-when viewed at distance
and also the most expensive, having
cost Coveny nearly 50, 600.
On the front side is engraved in large
letters the following:
Joseph Coveny-The More Peace-Jbe
More Plenty-A Free Thinkers Monument"
Below this, in smaller letters, can be
seen the following:
g The world is my country, to do good MY
| religion. A word to the Wise. God in the
Constitution is the end of liberty. Beware
how you unite Church and State. Catholics
| will burn heretics and Professionals hang Quak-
ers aud witches. The Bible God is not all
powerful He drove out the inhabitants of
the mountsin, but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley because they had
chariots of iron-Judges i. 49,"
On the second side under the heading
of "Free Press" is inserted this: "The
More Saints-The More Hypocrites. y
and below this under "Sunday Reaa-
ing is verse credited to Numbers, 81.
IL reads:
"Thrty-twe thousand virgins given by
command of God 10 an army of twelve thou
saud 70 debauch." "A poor consolation &c
mothers" 1.-The 7th chapter of Isaiah has
| no reference to futurty. 1t was eign given
to Ahaz OF victory over his enemy, but the
prediction was false. See 2Sth chapter OF
Second Chronicles. Don't forget Cotton
Mather aud his reverend associates. AL
Christian denominations preach damnation to
| the other"
The third side begins:
Free Speech The More Religion-The
More Lying" " Remember Mary Dyer hang
| ing ON the big elm tree on the Boston Com.
mon. victim to Christian superstition
| Priestcraft and exemption is a source OF
danger to republican governments" The
heathen's prayer is 20, Lord. forgive my
enemies and then me-" but the Christian
cries amen to their damnstion. - The Chris
tian religion begins with dream and ends
with a murder"
| The fourth and last side is headed:
Free Religion-The more Priest-Tht
More Poverty. Nature is the true God
Science the True Religion. John Wesley sale
unless you deny God and honor the Kin.
| George you will be damned. l say let tn,
arts and sciences supersede kingcraft, priest
craft. superstition and bigotry. The hol,
prophets said the tree that does not bear goot
fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire
| (Science tells you graft it, And veil did thu
| holy inquisitor obey the order. But the time
| is not far distant when the old book of de
bauchery will be burned in place or men all,
women"
To persons who have not visited tn
cemetery since the erection of thi
monument, the foregoing may seem ut
terly improbable, but the inscription
were copied verbatim by the CORE
pondent of the Free Press. Last Sun
day evening sermon was preached il
the Presbyterian church by Rev. Mr.
Wells, in which the vile lot of bias
pheny just mentioned was denounced
in the strongest terms. Popular indig
nation runs high, and should the monu
ment be blown to pieces some night
the public here would not be surprised
Detroit Free Press.