Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-09
PIETY AND THE PRESIDENCY.


The Rev. j. r. Herrick comes to
the support of Wheeler for the Vice
Presidency in the New York Times,
on the ground of his 'perUasiUe piety.
He must have meant aaUdsiUe piety, if
we are to judge his ''true inwardness"
by his late speech, which, from a
christian standpoint, would be worthy
of the old Spanish Inquisition.
The Rev. Herrick informs grateful
world, that Wheeler sat under his min
istratlons for thirteen years and a
half, and that he was lone of
the best of hearers that
may mean. But best of hearers, "
wont do. Is not Grant to be found
as one of that class of hearers, sitting
under the Rev. Supervision of Consul
ates, whenever he can snatch little
time from Long Branch? And is he
not the most conspicuous failure of the
country?
Herrick says, and truly, that it is of
the last importance that the chief of
State should believe in the Supreme
Power; that he should be Christian
man; and that the history of the past
should make US careful in jurisdictions
of Vace President. It is evident that
the Vice President who succeeded to
the presidency, had no ''pervasive
piety," for he had a horror of Carpet
baggers, bloody shirts, and violated
constitution.
But how stands the case with Ruth
erford Birchard2 He is merely bre-
vet christian; only zone of the best of
hearers" He escorts the excellent
Mrs. Hayes to church with commend
able regularity, but there his christian
experience ends. 1t would be some
consolation to pious party of high
morals, to hear that he carries his
wife's hymn book to church, and when
there assists her to the hymn to be
sung; but history is silent here. Is
there no way to shove Rutherford B.
from the vestibule into the amen cor
ner? Cannot the highisaints of the pious
party unite in long, strong, altogeth-
er-pull, and put him through i? Where
is the devotional Oliver p. that emf
nent pipe clay disciple. Roscoe G. and
that gushing christian, Blaine, j. 3
Is there no help in Bristow B? Will
not Butler B. and Chandler z. come
to the rescue? Best of hearers wont
do. Why Grant beholdeth his natural
face in the Rev. Supervisors clerical
glass every spare Sunday; and when in
the solitude of the white house he
turneth up his face to the heavens
with his own glass held at an angle Of
forty-five, he straightway forgeteth
what manner of man he was Best
of hearers" wont do Men and breth.
rem just think what uncle Silas Biz
chard would say, if he were here, and
go in on Rutherford B. and VIM
AS for our own Tilden, he is moi
only nearer, but dOer of the work
It is we'll known that as an old Pres
byterian, he believes that he was pre-
destinated from of old, to send public
thieves to the penitentiary. Specially
called and sent, he shows his faith MOI
by hearing alone, but by his works
He maketh the way of the public
transgressor mighty hard. No high
influences, no money, no high position
can stand for a moment in the way o.
his predestined purpose. He causett
the dishonest functionary to lay aside
his robe of honor, to put on the we'll.
earned zebra suit, and contemplate the
beauties of nature through the bars O
prison. He is the man to lash the
money changers out of Washington
For this purpose was he chosen. Lee
us make his calling and election sure
o. C. X. JR.