Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-01


displace him from the leadership or
contessfa point with him. Evans
Is the free whiskey champion,
and the major general Of all the
"nigger haters in the State" At
the head of his editorial columns he
has the motto: Al6um E'maacipa
Populttaa."
jeff Davis and Henry Clay Dean
are his model statesmen, and Vic.
Woodhaall his pattern moralist,. re-
former and angel in petticoats. AS
we said some weeks ago, land he
quoted pur words with pride) it is a
leading point in his creed to hate
Radic1s, niggers and preachers. In
condensation of our assertions as to
the character and principles of this
Anti-19Onopoly leader and party.law-
giver We quote the following editor
ial frop his paper Of last week:
THE METHODIST RADICAL CONFER.
8NCE AT BLOOMFIELD.
We ale enabled through cores
pOndoNt to give few specimens of
the speeches which were made at the
Methodist Conference, lately held in
Bloomfield. Our correspondent
sends - the following:
Bishop Haven said that the recent
upri1ing in Louisiana was an effort
70 re-eslslave the negroes. That the
citizens Of New Orleans needed a
GenerNl Butler to regulate affairs
there. That not only in that State
but eyerywhere In the South dis
position existed to persecute the me-
gro. That outside the Methodist
church life and the purse were not
safe iii the South.
DIR. Kynett, OF Philadelphia, de-
clared shat If the influence OF the
Methodist church were removed,
mankind would drift into condi-
tion morally scarcely better than the
dark ages.
DIR. Rusk, Sec'y Of the Freedmen's
Aid Society, closed the exercises by
a speech on the niger question so
ultra aud disgustingly lying that all
parties, Democrats and Radicals
alike, condemned it in unmeasured
terms.
The conduct Of Bishop Haven here
was such as to verify the remark OF
the .Afta,itd San, that he was dirty
felloW4
The entire business of the confer
ence consisted in raising money and
making incendiary speeches about
the niggers and had it not been for
Uncle Johnny Spencer and a few
other professional groaners, it would
have passed for genuine Radical
convention.
If4t*us were to suddenly appear
on earth M he appeared
when scourging the scoundrels and
money-changers out of the temple
what would Ire do with such charac-
ters and demagogues as those who
thirsted for the blood OF native Lou
isianians at Bloomfield?
These Methodist preachers have a
great deal 10 answer for. They
preached for war, and since the war
closed they have been preaching to
have the ball opened again. They
seem to like blood! They lick their
chops like a hungry set Of blood
hounds and would fain push Grant
on to making "A war Of extermina-
tion in the South. They hate their
Southern brethren because they scce-
ded from the Methodist church and
took the brains of the church with
them. From the time that there
was organized Methodist church
South, their Northern Christian
brethren here have raised the torna-
hawk and nothing less than blood
satisfied them.
In the paine Of Jesus they have
preached "a crusade against every
thing which has a southern tinge and
In the name of Christ they have viii
lifted and abused their cOuntrymen
and now they have taken the side OF
Grant and kellogg and would force
a hateful despotisn upon brave aud
long suffering people.
IL this be Christianity, what think
We of Christ? If this he Meth0dism,
God will surely smite that methoo!
And this is the sort of leadership
under which the Anti Monopoly
party invites to enlistment the farm
ers and grangers, and the honest, pa
triotic and Christian people of Iowa.
To such doctrines are they invited to
subscribe with the assurance Of Sam
Evans himself that the Anti Monop-
oily party will be replaced by the
Democratic party even i'm Iowa be-
fore the next Presidential campaign.
What do ySu think Of it?