The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-02-14

TELL Cry, January rs, 1878.
To the Editor OF tbs Courier:
Coming home from long trip,
found it quite a treat TO peruse your
paper. l see that you are still batting
away on the Greenback Question, point.
ing out the main cause of our hsrd
times, and also favoring the community
with liberal views ON theological queE-
tIons, the chief of which seems 70 be
about hell and eiernl fire. l thought |
had suffered somewhat Cf an earthly
hell in trying To run an old horse and
buggy across from tie Mississippi TO
the Ohio, in the present state OF road
and weather, to which the hard times,
which / have experienced with others,
had compelled me; but though u WAS
somewhat like purg8tOry, Yet / con-
sOl6d myself all the way that the suf
ferings of this world are not worthy OF
all the glory that shall be revealed 10
us hereafter. To take from an humb g
Christian, VINO lives perhaps IN poverty
and distress, the sweet consolation that
all his trials and sutierings in hell ar,
nothing To be compared with the rich
mans sufierings in hell, who would not
even get drop OF water TO cool his
burning tongue, rs a dangerous expert
ment. 1t will Injure the religious world
Just in about the same way ne forced re-
sumption and contraction injuries our
material prosperity.
This may look like mixing up re-
lgion and politics, to which many OBJ
jsct. In one way IL is very objection
able, that is, If in politics We III, uld tn
deavor to enforce the peculiar tenets
and doctrines of a particular religious
body or prefer one church against an
other, but in another way il is but to be
lamented that no more religion is mixed
with our politics. 1t is the conservative !
power of our religion that we want in |
politics. Every religious body has "A
right To advo ate ITS religious opinions,
but let them be tried by their friends !
and by fair and sound argument.
Whoever studied our late strikes and |
the accompanying excesses must have
learned somt tbing thereby. II Assumed
very threatening aspect, and the very |
fou ndstiOn Of society was shaken. 1 do
not wish TO go into details about this, but |
would only ask question: IL some OF |
our fashionable, hOwery and popular
preachers are not 70 blame for this To
take away ono iOt4 from the word OF
God, or to pervert its meaning. will
work very deliterious upon society. II
one preacher tries To soften the eternal
punishment and wrath Of CD over the
wicked, II will only make himself pOpu-
lar with that class who, 10 turn, carry
out the argument by themfelves, scOl
10 such in extent that they don't be-
lieVe 10 any punishment hereafter ri
all. OF all the different views Of eter-
nal punishment that fad in your pa
pers, find that OF DR.. Talm4dge, in
your Sunday issue o: the 2O.A, the most
consistent with the divine revelation.
Bus it lie net my intention 10 write more
about this subject for the present, but
rather 20 inform you and your readers
what / have seen and heard coming
over two hundred miles across the coun-
,ry. The wheat looks excellent oil the
way from the Mississippi TO the Ohio,
md everywhere / Learned that more
wheat is sown tnan in the previous year.
expecting larger prices on account Of
ne European war. Corn in tho west
'rn part Of Illinois is scarce, and de-
hands up 70. Mount Vernon, Illinois,
ifsy cents per bushe; bat in Fairfield |
hey say only twenty-five cents, aud % |
Albion, Mount Carmel and Princeton,
Indians, hucluates between that and
hirty cents.
And nov as 10 politics. / hnd that
he farmers everywhere are alive to
heir interests. They perfectly know
rom whence our hard times CONT; and 4
topping over nights over q dozen
lines, on account Of the badness of the
Dad and my health, and more with Re
ublicans than Democrats, they were !
Il in for paying of the bonds in greet .
AckS, with The exception, perhaps, OF
&c, who was not very hard either way
Is have heretofore been rather hard
money DemOcrst, some times argued
gainst It, but they soon got me on the
osd question, which could not deny | 4
nat some Of them coat me only $40 =
! gold. II l could have kept them .