Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-06-04
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Our neighbors up the way are furri-
ously fighting the war of the reb ellioH
over again and again and although they
do not pretend to be- ministers oft gos
pei or even believers for that matter, ,yet
they may pick up few good modern
ideas and have instilled in them bit o
the milk ofhuman kindness, by persuing
the following from the Cleveland Press
independent Republican. Now let all
the Signal editors join in reading:
"When ministers of the gospel mix
in politics they almost invariably make
asses of themselves or disgrace and dis
gust their spiritual constituents. The
examples of Revs. Ball and Burchard
are well known, but a Plymouth o.,
preacher has broken all previous re-
cords. A methodist preacher of that
city, named Stubbins, made speech
during the memorial service of the
Grand Army of the Republic, the other
day. After fighting the war of the
rebellion all over again, Stubbins Bit
terly denounced the administration for
appointing to any position "thOse who
had intrigued and raised arms against
the United States.n There was no Oc-
casiOn or excuse of Stubbins' attack. 1t
was at meeting where good fellowship,
and kindly feeling toward all men
ought to have prevailed, and would
have prevailed had not this alleged
emissary of the Great Peacemaker vol
unteered his TRADE. 1t is about time
that bigoted cranks like Stubbins were
cried down by the sensible members of
the G.. A. r. The war was over years
ago. The rebels who have not since
died have been forgiven by all the peo-
pie, with the exception of small tribe
of the Stubbins sort. That great sold
ier Grant, whom the members of the
G. A. r. revere, appointed to an inn
pOrtant mission one of the most noto-
rious of those who "raised arms against
the United States" The G. A. r. if
we remember rightly, did not censure
Grant for the appointment and the diff
ferent posts of this association have of
ten met their old foes in social enjoy
ment, the old time bitterness being for
gotten or only revived to brighten re-
of the great struggle. In
view of these facts and the established
amity between "North and South" it
does not become man who has been
called" by God to preach peace, hu-
and gentleness to take advan-
tage of social occasion to encourage
bitterness and sectional strife. To-mor-
row we will be mourning our soldier
dead. Tears will stand in the eyes of
the mother, widow and sister of the
'South" as we'll as the "North" but
they will feel no bitterness toward
each other. There are heroes sleeping
the sod in Tennessee and Vir-
yinia as we'll as Ohio and Illinois who
must be remembered and honored to-
morrow. There will be "flowers for the
blue" and 'fowers for the gray" The
whole nationwill be at peace and Stub
bins, if he is a christian at all, ought to
be preaching everlasting peace. The
fellow who can, at such time, rise up
md preach eternal discord ought to be
run into the woods and fastened up in
! hollow tree on Decoration day. He
must be creature with soul that the
owls, woodworms, ants, snakes and
,ther vermin of the primeval forests
would appreciate, but one that is too
small to be at large in this nation of
and christianity.