The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-06-13
SECTIONAL NEWSPAPERS.
New York Sun, June ID.

ANbh ANhh h@Nhi y 49, ~NA'
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr,
spoke yesterday morning TO the
members of The Twenty-third
Street Baptist Church on The
Sectional Newspaper" which he
denounced as a national curse and
Il disgrace TO Christianity. "lt has
no mission 10 perform he said,
"because the causes which separa-
led this country into sections have
disappeared. Talk about the Con
federale flag! Why, was born
in the South, and lived there
twenty three years, and | never
saw Confederate flag"
Speaking of the recent flag edi-
torials in Colonel Shepard's news,
paper, lhe preacher SAID:
The Mail and ErpresS so distorts
and falsifies the facts as 10 make it
appear that the only flag TO be
seen was the Confederate flag.
This was done with The deliberate
purpose of deception. 1t deals
in vituperation, abuse, epithels.
The words traitor, rebel and such
are ever ready for use; they are
ridden to death. Such is the re-
sort Of small natures. Think Of
Abraham Lincoln, whose life
meant "charty toward all and
malice toward none" Think of
| him, and then think of this foul
| TRADE of abuse. Think of Grant.
Hear the message that he sends
| from Mount McGregor: II have
witnessed since my sickness just
what wished TO see ever since
the war-harmony and good feel
| ing between the sections" Shal
vandals destroy this harmony anc
good feeling? The man who woulc
seek to destroy il in the face o
this M sSage of peace and lraternl'
ty that comes 10 us from the hp'
of the great chieltain is unworthy
of the Inheritance of such a man
and for such a reviler 10 dare t.
pay tribute TO the grave o
Grant is the height of sacrllege.
Such a paper assumes a plou
whine, nauseating in the extreme
anG poses as a representative o
! Christianity. 1t could not liv'
without the assumption of SOM
moral force it would not be tOl
Grated, and so its steals the liver.
of heaven. In the name OF Go,
and of truth, of honesty and integ
rity, |, for one, repudlate tins sc
called newspaper, as in any sens
representative Of Christianity. lh,
God that presides over the edito
rial Office of the Mail and ETpres
and such papers, Is not my God.
do not know him. | never knew
him. | do not want TO know him
| About as near as | can make 1t
his God is the devil whom | figh
and fear, with this exception, tha
devil is shyewder and more artistic
in his methods. Applause.
Hear this quondam editor shrlel
for an army of a million men Il
march on to Richmond Fo
what? To rob the dying of The
memory of The dead. Such meI
are neither brute nor human; they
are ghouls. twenty-five year
have rolled away since those awlu
days Of the war. Peace aud pros
perity onward flow over mountain
| and plain and sea. Aud now ii
the midst of all these things thl;
little tin soldier wakes up suddenly
and wearles the ears of heaven
and earth with his little tin horn
[ Applause
Keep such papers from your
home as you would pest. IL you
want vicious literature use The
bald vulgaritv of Swift or the naked
realism of Z0la. 1t Will be less
dangerous than the hatred and
bigotry and malice and falsehood
of such sheet wrapped up in
scripture text.
Men Of the North, and men oil
| the South, we are brethren. Let
us hear to-day the voices of the
heroic dead. They all speak fol
peace and harmony. The brave
and true never fight after the bat
| tie is closed. The time has come
for us to take each other by the
hard and crush those influences
that seek to perpetuate strife for a
base, iguoble purpose. God hell
us that we may have, in deed and
trust, one glorious, united nation