Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-06
IS THIS OUR COL. SHEPARD.
TIE REV. THOMAS DIXON SAYS
HE is A TIN SOLDIER, IN
LEAGUE WITH TIE
DJyIr

DEVIL.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Dr.,
spoke yesterday morning to the
members Of the Twenty-third st.
Baptist Church on "Thc Sectional
Newspaper which he denounced
as national curse and - disgrace
to Christianity. at has no mis-.
sion to PERFORM he said, "bccause
the causes which separated this
country into sections have disap-
peared. Talk about the COnled-
crate flag! Why, was horn in the
South, and lived there twenty
three years, and { never saw Il
Confederate flag
Speaking Of the recent flag cdi
torials in Col. Shcpard's ncwspa
per, the preacher said:
'Thc Mail and Express so dis
tOrts and lalSificS the facts as to
make it appear that the only flag
to be seen was the Confederate
flag. This was done with the de
llberatc purpose OF deception. 1t
deals in yitupcration, abuse, cpl
thetS. The words traitor, rohcl,
and such are ever ready for Use;
they arc ridden to death. Such is
the resort of small natures. Think
Of Abraham Lincoln, whose life
meant "charity toward all and
malice toward none" Think Of
Gen. Grant. Hear the message
that he sends from Mount Me
Grcgor. III have Witnessed since
my sickness just what wished to
sec ever since the war-harnony
and good feeling between the sec.
tons" Shall vandals destroy this
harmony and good feeling! The
man who would seek To destroy il
III the face Of this message OF
peace and fraternity that comes to
liz from the lips of the great chief
tain, is unworthy OF tho inherit
ance Of such Il man, and for such IL
revilcr to dare to pay tribute to he
grave OF Grant is the Height of
sacrilcgc.
Such IL paper assumes Il l.iouS
whine, nausc;lting in the extreme,
and poses as n representative OF
Christianity. II could not live
without the assumption of some
moral force; it would moi be tolcr.
ated, and so it steals the livery nl
heaven. In thc name of God and
OF trnh, of honesty and of intrgri-
ty, /, for one, rcpudiatc this so. call
cd newspaper as in any sense the
representa- tlvc of ChriStianitv.-
The God that prrsidcS over the ed
ifoPial' Office Of the Mail and Ex.
press and such papers is not my
God. do not know him, | never
knew Him, do not want to know
Him. About us rear as can make
1t. his God is the devil, whom |
fight and fear, with this exception.
that the devil is shrewtler and
more artistic in his methods. [Ap-
plause.
Hear this quondam editor shrek
for all army Of million men to
march on Richmond For what
To rob the dying of the memory
of the dead. Such men are neither
brute nor human; they are ghouIs.
twenty-five years have rolled away
Slnce those awful days of the war.
Peace and prosperity onward flow
over mountain and plain and sea.
And now i'll the midst of all these
things this little tin soldier wakes
mp suddenly and wearies the cars
of heaven and earth with his little
tin horn. EAppIausc.1
Keep such papers from your
homes as you would pest. If you
want vicious literature use the bald
vnlgarity OF Swift or the naked
realism of lola. 1t will be less
dangerous than the hatred and
bigotry and malice and fals6hool
of such sheet wrapped up in a
Scriptural text.
Men OF the North, and men of
the South, we are brethren. Let
us hear today the voices Of the he
roic dead. They all speak for
peace and for harmony. The brave
and true never fight after the bat.