The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1875-03-06
IDAHO CITY. SATURDAY. MARCH s. 1875.
A PREACHER RAMPANT.

Preachers should be better behaved than 9TH
er men, and the churches should require this
much Of them. They are looked up to BY the
communities in which they live Is examp-
lers Of good; and as such, are to great ex
tent, "patronized' by the public. They pre-
tend, too, to very much of the excellence which
the popular credulity ascribes to them, but
for men who claim and for whom il claimed all
the benevoence, morality. humanity, love and
piety in the world, it does seem to Us that
preachers commit some sad mistakes. Their
names have from time figured prominently in oil
of the courts of the land, and as leading charac-
ters in the representation of every crime In
the catalogue: but it remained for one Rev. b.
I. Ives. of New York, to put the crowning IN
fanny ON the towering mountain of their mis-
deeds The Methodist preachers Of Boston
and vicinity are in the habit of holding weekly
meetings for the purpose of giving vent to their
usually crude and frequently revolving
political notions, and to indulge in self-worship
and mutual admiration. At one Of these stu
pid gathers, few days ago. Rev. B. |. Ives.
gave utterance to the most atrociously bar0ar
ous, and altogether devilish and wicked senti-
ment ever uttered in America, and was fre-
qaently applauded The morality, not to speak
of the religion, of convention that tolerates
the utterance of such sentiment BY one OF
its members is at very low ebb; but what
shall be said of the degradation OF men who
applaud i,l But we will content ourseli with
quoting the language as We find it in the VIII
mington (N. C) Journal. No language that
we know anything about is vile enough to des-
cribe the depravity Of the wretch whose heart
could conceive, and whose tongue could utter,
the inAuman. blasphenous and cowardly
thought. 1t remains TO be seen whether the
men of the Methodist church
will endorse the words of the murderer. and
still permit him to disgrace the pulpits of their
church, for humanity's credit we hope they
will not The Journal says:
A
odis, preachers Of Boston and vicinity held at
Weslr,an Hall. Tuesday afternoon. the recent
difficulties in louisiana were discussed at con-
siderable length Bishop Bowman gave an ac
cnun, of what he knew about the treatinent OF
the co!ored people OF Louisiana, uarrating a
number of instances IN which they had been
skamefally abused. and deprived of life even.
B, invitation Rev T. l. Ives, Of New York,
addressed the meeting.
He said We are undertaking now to coax
til. devil out of the miserable whelps down
South. ,rheH nothing bm sTRYCHSINE and can
non ought To be used He rather agreed with
Phil Sheridan's declaration during the war,
THAT il he owned hell and Texas be would lease
out Texas and live in the other place" DR.. Ives
a castigaton to the church. de-
clariug that there is not paper IN the Me'ho-
dist Church that dares discuss the civil rights
bill and asks that it be enforced. He said he
believed the meanest rascals South were IN the
Methodist Church South He declared him.
self a radical Of the strongest kind, and ne.
said he believed the nore he hated the rebels
Of the South the more he loved God
He declared he belie-ed that the spirit now
in the South has got to be crushed out
BY another war, and he longed for the appear
ance Of some colored man able to become a
leader among bis people, welding the sword
and torch. He said the Bishops ought to come
out publicly and declare the whole truth about
the treatment Of the colored people in the
South, but he didn't believe they would. Ii
they did be knew they couldn't return to the
South, for if they did they would De tung;
but he intmated that it was no worse to hang
n Bishop than a minister, but he suggested II
it was done it might wake up the people quick
er than anything else.
He thought the Bishops were too tender
and they reminded him of the man
who wanted to cut of his dogs tail, but was
too tender hearted to cut it of where it ought
to be- so he cut it of an inch at . time. The
speech of Mr.. Ives was received with frequent
of approval; some Of his most
radical uttefances exciting considerable ap-
plause mingled with laughter.