Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-01

sent out during this exciting canvass IS
from the pen of one Rev. George ID. Ball. OF
Buffalo. It is Mr.. Balls evidence against
Cleveland. and is mailed to ''The Clergy OF
The Whole Country" Some ministers have
opened the circular and after reading few
lines have returned it to it's infamous author
with indignant retort. And well they
might. No decent clergyman, if he knew
its contents, would let such document
come into his house, and every decent man
would blush to have his family see and
read the vulgar and obscene details. 1t is
an insult to any Christian minister to mail
such document to his address. Mr.. Ball
proves himself a real night-watchman.
Himself and his friends seem to be prying
around 10 every place where they can see
dlsreputable men and women in their night
clothes. I, is time for every man of God to
blush when minister of the Gospel volun-
teers to unveil the secrets of the private
life of Presidential candidate and become
the champion scandal monger OF the
country. 1t has been great humiliation
ia Baptist ministers, representing the great
Baptist family, to know that this man, Geo.
IF. Bail, is set down az regular Baptist
preacher. THIS is a great mistake. Ball
never was Baptist preacher, and there is
not regular Baptist church in Virginia.
nor in world, that would receive within its
pale in full fellowship George Fl. Ball, the
ministerial scandal .peddler. He belongs to
the brotherhood knows as "Freewll Bap-
tists," for whose principles, practices, tastes
and morals, the regular Baptist church is
not in any way identified or responsible.
Some years ago this same George II. Ball
started paper in New York, called the
Baptist Union whose object was to diride
and break up the Baptist churrh IN che United
States. He then did the dirty work Of the
sore.heads and the disloyal men who were
getting their bread and meat from Baptist
churches which would not have retained
them as pastors twenty -four hours fthey had
been honest enough to sign their names to
their articles in Mr.. Balls paper. A clergy
man, not thousand miles from Alexandria,
while in New York, visited Mr.. Balls Office
and asked him how he reconciled such
duplicity with the honesty aud candor that
should characterize every true minister of
the Gospelp His answer was 1.-THE time
has not come for concert of action, &c." 1t
was about this time that Mr.. Ball dropped
the name will" from his society and called
himself and his followers Free Baptists."
As such he is known to-day, but is no more
q member of the Baptist brotherhood than
an immersed Mormon. The Examiner of
New York, the most widely circulated
Baptist paper in the world, says that the
man who dashed 50 eagerly into the Presi-
Dental campaign in the character of
scandal monger has not had much success
In his proper line Of duty. He has sought
success in another direction aud has sue |
eeeded as no decent man would wish to |
succeed. He is well qualified for service In
the Blaine administration, should the latter
be elected, and is doubtless as proud of his |
nasty circular as Blaine is Of his Mulligan |
letters, and feels that there is nothing In it |
out Of harmony with the strictest ideas of
purity and genuine refinement It may be |
proper to add that Balls New York paper |
died in 1877 and its obituary was written
by true representative of the church he
tried to divide. From that time till the !
present but little has been heard of him.
But the party of great moral ideas resur-
reefs him and brings him before the coun.
try floating high upon the scum of scandal
and vulgarity.