The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-06
SALT AND PEPPER.
How the Agitation that Has Troubled the
Country Has Been Kept Up.
To THE EDITOR OF THE CoURIER-JouRSAL.l

To THE EDITOR OF THE CoURIER-JouRNALl
VIcKsBURG, Miss, Dec. 3, 1879
From my standpoint, and with the convic-
tions cherish, the future Of this continent
will be-aside from its material growth and
magnificent development-anything but cheer
ing to the Church. And this, to my view,
springs out of the unnatural violent and
abusive pursuit of the South by the pulpit
and Protestant press of the Northern and
Eastern States.
Consider, thon, for moment the alarming
chaA ge that has come over those States with
in forty or fifty years. Then their pulpits
dared not preach political-partisan sermons.
GIChrist and him cruei6ed" was the constant
th,sme of almost every clergyman in the land,
Now sermons are tolerated IN which the name
of On, rist never enters, even by indirection.
They nay be rank and bitter party discourses
mn elec tOns, candidates and the accursed
South-t.he inevitable negro-the grossest
misrenres, sntatiOns of his real and true condi-
tion-wickrd eXaggerations OF facts, distor-
tions of crinNe, and whatever engenders hate,
40 fan the fires of discord, rouse the animosi-
ties, awaken the resentments OF thelr sudl-
ences Consequently, in travelling, Southern
neople rarely attend public worship in those
States They do not care to listen to opolitical
aneeehes with text hung loosely at one end ;
10 exodus harau CUES, and the incredible stories
of negro wrongs; 10 hectorings ON ferocious
Kuklux or the dead issues OF know-nothing'
ism Grant for the third term, or Gen. Butler
for Governor OF course they would be COM
nelled to hear the 0utrag e0us perversl0ns OF
Vazoo affairs. and listen to the shocking
traoedv of Kemper county, OF which they get
a surteiC through the political press, and care
not for the unseasoned pulpit rehash on
Sunday. ou,
The millions outside the church see these de-
monstrations of un-Chrstliness, might say
diabolism and break out in protane oblurga'
lions of all such preaching and preachers as
wolves in sleeps clothing ana the deiuded
.clacquers of ambitious, selt-seeklng political
partisans. The Northern pulpit ana Protest.
ant press are, to our Southern people, source
of profound aversion. The political press is
savage enough, but it is always seasoned with
a little Pickwickian grace chat makes apollo
pies and explanations faclle and becoMlpg
thing. But church journals, great religious
organs, denominatiOnal oracles, ofhcial advo-
cafes, out-Herod Herod in relentlessness, un-
charitableness and readiness to present the
worst side of every error, blGnder, misstep'
crime. miscarriage or misfortune of bogthesn
neople They speak and write as if they DIV cit
In a sinless Paradise, and we in the South
were damned, and it was part OF their celes-
tial duty and pleasure ts keep on damnlng us
.-outcasts from heaven, branded as parlabs
shut cut as lepers, hopeless mass OF moral
putresenee which it would bankrupt the
fountains Of mercy, 8s they measure it, u
save.
the Christian Advocate, New York, expresses
it mildly thus:
tions of the South start the question whether
IL has not been cut off from probation,
+ towed down stream, and anchored fast tC
/ wonder if the Doctor teaches that the
souls of the lost simply migrate South when
Northern sinners die?
He'll is a feeble picture in the ewes OF such
tJivines compared to society in the South.
Not long since, in large Northern city,.
ysoiourned over the Sabbath, in one Of tht
most estimable and widely-known families Of
Hhe place. At breakfast was asked If woulC
sttend church atday. said;
~ would like to, but South it was never per
1nstted TO preach politics or negroes
The excellent lady of the house begged me
o hear her minister, who was free from all
ueh improprieties. / went. And as lucl
W 1uld have it, that day he unsheathed nj
s,v ord and marched through the Soutl
NJ, \ an open commission from God, as b
tho ght--
ssTo DEAL damnaton round the land
On each he judged a-foe."
THE rapidly growing infdelity Of the Amer
CONTINENT is due to the gross outraRes 0
lct ,uInit and press of the Protestant Chure
tne Christ is toe tame subject. Love 1
North. r nurseries. Pity becomes tn
suited 10 the weak. But stalwart piet
breasts o Nrrest, indictment, arralgnmen n
demands the ,tion and crueifXion of tn
and trial, convi,
South. .ho cb.;o,;o,
well remember the sr Of Christian truth
Advocate was a messens source of real in
promoter of piety and Il seems to be
struction and comfort. Now rti1aa iourna
politico-religious and purely pa. Tbe The mex
with an ambition that Grant shat. Episeope
President, and the Methodist
Church become the National Church der
Out of no little material, | ask your rea =
to say what must be the feelings of Southei
people who read the following sweet token Of
CalYary's thrilling compassion, from d.
Fowler pen: -, nj,
verdict of the jury in Kemper county, MISS
has been reversed. Gully goes free, but th'
murderous spirit that demanded the release
of this Barabbas has been sentenced by th'
ballot of Ohio. Sherman, who has CONDENSED
muah of the property of the poor into tn
antfors ~ the rich need not claim the honor
Rlaipe. who gave away the record oil MS NE II
str;tino the Chinese, need not clatm IN
honor Cornelia Chisholm's soul, by the sld
of The soul Of John, is marching on. 1t ma.
he expected to report at every Northern eiec
t;on till murder shall be an outlaw In ever
State Of the Union ~
The Doctor is, thing, little wrong IN u
companienship of Miss Chlsholm- ing At.s ts
IN sfIigenee am able TO obtain says she ha
met Mrs Surratt on her journey and the goo
and sainted old lady congratulated MISS 20
.nelia on having been accidentally 'h0L VIM