Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-13
SUNDAY READING.

There has been II good deal Of denun-
citation of political parsons during these
past twenty years or more. Whether or
no there WAS more or less conscience
than now exists in the North forty years
ago when tbs aboiitronis.s OF New Eng
land first began Il agilnte the slavery
question, is not for d to decide, but We
do know that Theod1 Re Parker and VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison pa Wendell Phil
lips sought to arousAthat conscience
and that there was no end 10 the curses
they received in the South. and by a
very large majority Of the men OF all
parties ia the North. The sting OF
reproacb is in its truth The proba-
bility is that if these anii-slavery aGita-
tors had not been SO strongly fortified
behind the barriers Of truth they would
no, have been so violently sssaiied. Le-
comp,ouism was desperate fraud.
Parker and Garrison and Phillips, Henry
Ward Beecher and bis bro.her-in-iaw,
Professor Stowe, and Ms. Stowe and
many less conspicuous men and women,
preachers and stump orators lnvslghed
against Border Euiii4nism and Its at
tendant lawlessne-s of dealing with the
ballot. They sided with John Brown
and helped raise money and Sharpe :
rifles for his men. lou couldn't 90 into
n barroom but you heard them cursed
for everything detesta0le. When Starr
King and Bishop Simpson and theis fell
low loyalists of the pulpit preached
crusade against secession and rebellion
these curses multiplied. The burden of
the complaint against these preachers
was that but for them there would not
have been any war, but that the South
would have continued to remain IN hap
py. peaceful possession Of its slaves and
there would have been no strife between
the sections. All this, as If the vast,
illustrating, irrepressible and ex-
panding philosophy of events; as 1t
progress and wider enlightenment could
have been rspressed without first stop
ping the New Worlds growth and turn
ing back the wheels. Births Of new
orders Of things come after the danger
aud pain of travail. as man Is born.
There is no stands;ili save tho s.andstili
OF the dry rot, for active humanity. We
must agitate and be asitated or grow
torpid and indolent and moldy. We be-
Heye it to have been tho heGlthfulest
thing ever occurring IN American pulp!ts
when thess so-called political preachers
smote the great crying iniqulty OF the
times. When the people, from selfish
motives and sectional iealousies and hot
patriotism did act and, acting, took arms
and marched 10 the field of battle, they
had these preachers brave words to JUS
tify their consciences with and con
science hes great deal TO do with cour-
noe Thrice is he armed who hath his
quarrel just.
We are not preaching the sermon Ne
meant to preach. We thought out a
line of discourse, and then, bethlnking
of the preachers who used TO DO such
good service for the cause during the
war, we fell into this stain. We had
intended to take q text and preach s
sermon on Original Sin. The cOntem,
plation of Original Sin brought to mind
the Democratic party; and tho De,ao-
cratic party being before our eyes We
quite naturally beheld the names OF
TilGen and Hendricks; and thinking of
what might best be taken for the text OF
a discourse upon those representative
Democrats, We pitched upon those words
OF the New Testament:
Ye cannot serve God and mamnon
Tilden has certainly made showing
OF a desire to serve the mammon OF hard
money in New York. Hendricks has
certainly shown a disposition to be very
loyal to the Bambino of the West, the
Rag Baby worshiped by the idolators OF
Imitation. But a change has come over
MIR. Tilden. When he ran for Governor
of New York he had only to spread him
self out over the acreage OF his native
State, Now he must not only make
himself reach out over the whole Repub-
lie, but he must adapt himself to the
Inequalities of a very variant geography.
Lately be was free AGENT, and took his
own courses. Now he is one of pair
of twins, and stands on exhibition Tor
his countrymen to probe and poke and
pinch and compare. Like unto those
colored female twins which one used to
be favored with sight of at sideshows
at agricultural fairs, these Democratic
twins are Joined back to back, and not
like the late Messrs. Chang and
Eng, by an inseparable hsa.ure ut the
sides of EN-. Their disposition Is, each,
to advance in the way toward which bis
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