The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-07
SALT AND PEPPER.
How the Agitation that Has Troubled the
Country Has Been Kept Up.
To Tue EDtroR OF THE COURIER JOURNAL

To TIE EDIToR OF THE CoURIER-JoURNAL.l
yIcKsBuRG, Miss, Dec 8, 1879
From my standpoint, and with the convic-
tions | cherish, the future Of this continent
will be-aside from its material growth and
magnificent MISUNDERSTANDING 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, then for moment. the alarming
change that has come over those States with
in forty or fifty years. Then their pulpits
dared not preach polIlcai-partlsan sermons
Christ and him crucIted was the constant
theme of almost every Clergyman in the land.
Now sermons are tolerated in which the name
of Christ never enters, even by lndlrectlon
They may be rank and bitter party discOurses
on elections candidates and the accursed
South-the inevitable negrG-tbe grossest
misrepresentation of his real and true GondI-
tion-wicked exaggerations of facts, dlstor-
lions of crime and whatever engenders hate,
TO fan the fires of discord, rouse the animosl-
ties awaken the resentments OF their audi
ences. Consequently, IN travelling, southern
people rarely attend public worship in those
STATES They do not care TO listen TO political
spe eehes with text hung loosely at one end 5
to exodus hafangEes, and the incredible stories
of negro wrongs; to heGtorIngs 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
PEELED to hear the outrageous peryerslons OF
Yazoo affairs and listen 10 the shocking
tragedy of kempSr county, Of which they get
a surfeit through the political press, and care
not for the unseasOned pulpit rehash on
Sunday.
Political sermons are not tolerated South.
The millions outside the church see these de-
7 monstrations of un-Chrisiiness, l might say
! diabolism, and break out in pl diane obJurga-
+ tions of AL such preaching and preachers as
wolves in Sleeps clothing, and the deluded
! clacauers of ambitious, seli1seeking political
partisans The Northern pulpit aud Protest
/ ant press are to our Southern reOple, source
/ of profound aversion. The political press Is
I savage enough, but it is always seasoned with
/ a little PickwIckian grace chat makes apollo
pies and explanations facile and becoming
thing But church journals, great religious
. organs, denominational oracles, ofhclaI adNo'
s Gates out-Herod Herod in "reminiscences un-
( charitabIeness s2d readiness TO present the
worst side of every e4rov, blunder, misstep
/ crime miscarriage or misfortune OF Sou hern
/ people. They speak and write as II they dwel'
( in sipless Paradise, and we IN the Soutl
! were damned, and 1t was part OF thelr ceres
| tial duty and pleasure to keep on damnlng Us
! -outcasts from heaven, branded as parlabs
shut out as lepers, a hopeless mass ST mora
putresence, which 1t would bankrupt us
/ fountains of mercy, as they measure 1t, Il
Dr. C. H. Fowler, D. D., IL D., the editor o
the Christian Advocate, New York, expresses
it mildly thus: H..
lions of the South start the question whethel
II has not been cut off from probation
lowed down stream, and anchored fast Il
/ wonder Il the Doctor teaches that thu
souls of the lost simply migrate South "Eer
Northern sinners die
He'll is a feeble picture in the eyes OF sIcl
divines compared to soclety In me south:
Not long since, in large Northern city,
F.; ssiouPned over the Sabbath, in one Of th
most estimable and widely known families o
the Mace At breakfast / was asked if woul'
attend church that day. said
Il would like to, but South 1t was never per
mitted TO preach politics or negroes.
The excellent lady of the house begged M
"a hear her minister, who was free from al
sueh incorporates. l went. And, as Iucl
would have II, t1St gay ne uhsheaoheS M
with an open commission from Tod, Gs
thought
, ITO deal damnation round the land
On each he judged a-foe
The rapidly growing in6delity Of tbs Amer
icen continent is due to the gross outrages Q
the pulpit and press of the Protestant Churc
North. Christ is too tame SUBJECT Love l
| suited for nurseries. Pity becomes tn
breasts of the weak. But stalwart piet
: demands the arrest, indictment, arralgnmen
and trial conviction and crucihxion of tn
) South,
we'll remeuber the day when the Christian
: Advocate was q messenger of Christian truth
/ a promoter of piety and a source If real IN
| structiOn and comfort Now il seems TO be
politico-religious and purely partizan journa
with an ambition that Grant shall be the mex
President, and the Methodist Episcopa
+ Church become the National Church.
, Out of no little material, ask your reader
IN saw what must be the feelings of Souther
, people who read the following sweet token {
Calvary's thrilling compassion, from DR.
Fowler's pen;
ssThere has been an election in Ohio Tn
verdict Of the jury in Kemper county, Miss
, has been reversed, GHlly goes free, but tn
) mnrderous spirit that demanded tbe reieas
: Of this Barabbas has been sentenced BY ia
: halIot Of Ohio. Sherman, who has condense
! much of the property of the poor into IN
golfers OF the rich, need not claim the homo
Blaine, who gave away the record OF has NE ]
strikine the Chinese, need not claim %
, bonor- Cornelia ChishoIm's soul, by the SD
D ~ ne eoul Of John, is marching on IL ma
3 he expected to report at every Northern eiet
q fien IN murder shall be an outlaw In ever
|. State Of tbs Union- :. ~
: The Doctor 10, thiBg, little wrong n -
= companienship Of Miss ChisnoaIs, 4ne latea
!. inteIlirence am able TO obtain says sne y
1. met MPs. Snrratt on her journey ana the goo
q and pnintcd old lady congratulated MISS ~ Y.
? nelia % AeEipg been acadsssalty sass Hp''