Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-04-27
CLERICAL LAMBS.

FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL q, 1877
CLERICAL LAMBS.
Just, as we suppose, every communl-
ty has its turbulent spirits. SO it is with
religious denominations. Before the civil
war restless clerical spirits at the North
were chiefly to be found among the Con-
gregationalists and such wonderful intel
lects, as HENRY WARD BEEcHER, were
enlisted on the side of strife. To-day 9TH
er political parsons have taken up the
cause where their predecessors left off, and
these are to be found in the New England
Conference of the M. E. Church. The
foremost among them just now is the Rev.
DR.. MALLILIEU, gentleman OF decided
opinions and very strong way of express
sing them, an instance being that at re-
cent meeting Of the conference in Boston,
he compared Mr. TILDEN to the traitor,
AARON BURR. and thought that he would
have been elected, but that U. S. GRANT.
who DR.. M. thinks is a. imam of iron,"
sprung forward and seized the ''raging
Southern lion right in the midst of the
NAME" Another clerical gentleman, the
Rev. ISAAC j. LANSING, Of the same de-
nomination, is the agent for the Freed
mans Aid Society, a position to which we
take it he has been recently appointed, from
the fact that we do not find his name men,
toned among those who did business with
the Freedmen's Bank. He made an address
before the New York M. E. Conference,
reciting the wrongs of the colored race and
his own wrongs as well, for we learn from
him that Christian ministers in the South
refused to fraternize with him-but chiefly
the colored mans wrongs, the most griev-
Gus of which Is that the methodist South
draw color line"
It would seem from all this that the lion
having laid down the sword the lamb Of the
pulpit is about to take his turn at banging
it about. 1t has been very truly said of
those divine lambs that while they profess
the principles of CHRIST, their practice
may be often found in the two men who
were crucified on either side of him. They
don't seem to prefer clear water and can
only live peacefully in turbid stream; and
now that the whole nation beside is anxi-
Gus to stop quarrelling, they are trying to
stir up another row from the bottom in
the hope Of finding few offices stuck in
the mud beneath. They will all support
HAYES if their friends gets the same show
ing at the clerksh1ps that they had under
GRANT, through the Rev. DR.. NEWMAN,
as court chaplain, and if they don't these
lambs will be found on the side of BLAINE
and MORTON.
All this would have been better year
ago, when the Freedman's Bank was in
full blast, and the poor colored man was
depositing his greenbacks, and getting the
Freedman's Bureau clerical due bills in ex-
change; when the Rev. DR.. Newman was
praying for ''the party" every morning.
Sundays excepted, in the Senate; when
ULYSSES tossed away the stump of his
cigar at tie Metropolitan church, Sunday
mornings, and listened with stoical re-
verence to the White House parson, and
when scores of the M. E. clerks were padded
into soft clerkships, on clerical recommen-
dations But the times have changed; the
agOU Us VI UIl0 IeGuudu 5 Afu OOCletlcS
from which the freedmen down this way
never hear, must go to work.-and this
work won't be taking the Southern lion
he has been pretty badly s sSa. It is true that
ed about, but these gentry don't take any
thing by the name, except a fat govern
ment Office, and when they get this they
walk in, sit down, and look out of the win
dow at the other fellows going down to
take him, and then they go and get their
certificates and draw their pay It's great
pity that the ''Methodists South can't be
induced to abolish the color line, and these
broad minded missionaries at the North
we don't like to write that sectional word
for we had all begun to think that this sort
of talk was out of fasEion-should come
down and see them about it. But perhaps
they won't; perhaps our Southern Metho-
dists might think these men, who rise and
sing THE tie that binds," and weep, and
send fraternal messages on the adoption of
the plan Of settlement, and then abuse
them afterwards, might be open to having
their sincerity suspected.
If HAYES don't give these MALLAL1EUs
and LANs1NGs some clerksnips they IL want
another war.