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Now it is to be re-argued, and a final decisionjendered b the citizens of this country, the last and the greatesi of democtatic governments. The N Y Herald hitherto a strong sop porter of the Administration, erges the fol lowing among other reasons for opposing Mr. Lincoln's re-election : We do not object lo Mr. Lincoln because he was once a railsplitter, nor because bis associate nominee was once a tailor, as one of our contemporaries diil. We know that aome of the greatest men in ths world have risen from a low origin, and in a nation like Inrt it tiA hon. . . . , . " et. is no bar to his future advancement. ; ,. .. , I .1 has been tried and found wanfing,. and be cause his re election would in all probabil ity seal the fate of republican institutions. We concede everything that is tine in re gard to hie personal character, his good in tentions and his honesty, so faras pecuniary maitera are concerned. But a iWe per- j sonai character does not exeose his official misdeeds ; a man's good miention do not remove the effrtcta of his-blunders and his follies, and a man's honesiy in regard to money mailers is no offset to his dishones ty in regard to nearly everything else. Snch wesk palliations of Mr. Lincoln's conduct, therefore, do not weigh with us, and ought not to weigh with the people. I'resioeni Lincoln nss proiracieo .n-s r.r for four years, when he could have ended.it in one. He has committed the criminal er- ror of allowin- qoevien of political expe- diency to intetfere with his management of military af airs. He has removed generals for party reasons.when such removals gave great advantages to the rebels. He ha. is- ; aea ?rocismauons w.vn mo earn. moi.Tca, . when hisietter jndament. aa expressed in private conversations, disapproved, of hit official acts. He has surrounded himself with s Cabinet notorioos for incapacity and containing some of tbe most imbecile men in the country, as an example of whom we may instance Gideon Welles. He has re- tained this Cabinet in d-fianee of the ni- versal remonstrance of the people and m sp-i.eof the criminal blunders his Secreta-; ries have committed, He has permitted po- ' liticai squabbles to so d.sorganize and d"" tract hi. Cabinet that no C.bh.et councils have been held for weeks at a time during this great crins of the country, thus leaving nimse.i, pracucai.y, u,Clior, sou r-vu ou- retsry at liberty to blunder unchecked in; bis own department' He has arrested thous- j and. of loyal Americans, and incarcerated them in dangeons.withoot warrant, judicial procedure or reasonable cause for so doing. a-i a n at inamnpn ri aw iiinriM ni mirimi ia w i. - :.. j i r s ; in loyal cities of the North, without pro- Claiming' ji ana wuaoui ine Btignteo. pre text for enforcing it. He has truckled to England and to France, thos soiling the na tional honor almost irretrievably.- Upon these grounds we shall oppose bis re-election. . m By the acts which we have j'jst enomrr at ed, and by many more of the same odi ous stamp, President Lincoln has nuneces earlly prolonged tbe war and strengthened the rebel cause at home and abroad. He has allowed thoasands of brave men to be slaughtered ia rain. He has squandered millions of the public money uselessly, diverting it from its proper channels to en rich corrupt satellites and favoritea. He has cfT&stro&sly disarranged the finances of tbe country, '.hrongh his Secretary of the Treas ury. He has eeen our commerce swept from tbe seas by two or. three pirates, and our proud flag tbosteriibly dishonored, with out an effort to prevent it. He has robbed our people of tbe protection hitherto af forded by that grand formula, "1 am an American citizen." In a word, be has com bined imbecility with despotism, afflicting os with almost all the evils of an unlimited monarchy without giving ns any of the compensating advantages. In all this bis intentions may have been good ; but we mns: judge the tree by its fruits. Besides this, the fact that he tas accep ted the renomination of a convention of office holders and contractors, carefully packed at bis instance to secure -this very end, argues but little for tbe parity ef his motives. Sluing aside motives, however, we only ask a candid consideration of Mr. Lincoln's acts. If the people approve these acts they Will have lhe opportunity of en dorsing them in November- If not, they caaoot conscientiously vote for Mr. Lin cola. Whether they haTe the intelligence 1 1 ... , ?0 decide rightly, and the independence to register that decision at the pollfe, is the is soe of the day ; and open that depends the lutore of this great issue. From Washington down to Jackson our Presidents were men who had been taught statesmanship and the most devoted patri otism in the school' ol the Revolution. With Van Buren-a politician from ibis State came into power a class of more political Presidents, and these political Presidents have been growing small by degrees and not beautifully, but disgracefully less, un til Abraham Lincoln now occupies the seat of .Washington. Aa no smaller candidate than Lincoln conld be dicovered, the poli ticians have agaia chosen thia Presidential pigmj as their nominee. Now it remains to be seen whether the people will ratify that . choice, or whether they will declare that our government has sunk qnite far enongh and must be again elevated to its grandeur. It is a sad thing for a. republic when its highest representa tive office degenerates to the level of it most petty politicians ; but it is a sadder thing to find a people so degenerate as to a?ain select an official who has proven him self grossly incompetent We do not hesi tate to assert, therefore." that the approach ing election will be a critical lest of the ca pacity of oar citizens to govern themselves. If Ihey unite upon some pure, honorable and able candidate and especially upon some of those generals, like Grant, McClel lan, Sherman, Hancock, Thomas and others, who have shown signal ability, trne patriot ism and practical statesmanship upon the battle-field they will vindicate their title f to the freedom beqnenthed them by their j fathers, and prove to the world that Ameri cans can rise superior to the prejudices ot . . ' J party when politicians seek to ue party ties and partisan power to enslave their constituents. Cealh ic Battles and by Disease, B. F. Taylor's last letter lo the Chicago Journal contains the following : Let me gjrg j-oo a ftSogeiie fact which possesses m deep ,iKnificance . Froin November 24, . . ( . rent monlh. out of one thousand and twsntysix who have been in the Soldiers' Kest at Chat'anooga, one hundred and sixty-seven were killed on the field of battle. When, with my fin ger running down the long list of names, T , came to the end of the roll of honor, and ray thoughts. rested at one hundred and six- y JOO be!ieTe that i cood no, ct9djt the connt nd wen( oref a ,he pgge nre ,nat , phon,d finJ a ,?w mort oppott9 who!,e nameB cvrrente calomo with a ranning pen ,nd . flODrigh now and !hen ,he cerk, h.d riUen the three words, ,ki!Ied in- t,a,tIe. But the sixty eighth was nfll her , Ther(J u w one hundred gnd fj fe Qn fc fie,j fire nua dred and seventy eight died from wounds, five hundred and forty in all frOni rebel bul lets ; only fifty three per cent, of the thous and and twenty six. And what of tbe four hondred and eighty one ! Hardship expo- the WMting feTer..the tin?i ,nd Por. row 0, rheomatif mi tnd tI, ,he l(t of lhe empty box that ftand, wid-0 opn in ,b midllt of camps, 'bnl at whose bottom is ,Home Jhe charmer ; eTjn , phe ,in. fhere ig h? Qd jme ThJ batt,e endfld !he do,rdonBf now d0es the wofk of pnTsician ,nd Sanitary Com. m;ion r5(ia almos, ,e ,he digoity pf ,he ar. . faTa,ion. I bim the faithful, skilled d ,roein bem ,adea wj,h lhe b!eM, ings, so many beatitudes from home is . BHi,. ho. or q.. Generals. . , . f B fc . , fee hat ha phyiician ia eqoa, to ,ha troM . let . . nr.ntic hmnd and ... . journeymen in blue As 1 nave told yon before; tbe b,uIe lbe red b6.som of war, but the roots dark and bitter, run beneath ten thousand tents and cabins, creep thro wards of hospitals, and ieel their way like the fingers of a hand in all this ground we tread upon, save that great, solema acre, rich in soldiers dead. A Stern? for Mr. Lincolm. At the Re publican State Convention, at Springfield, III., on May 26th, a Mr. Breckinridge, from Will county, spoke in favor of Mr. Lincoln in the following blasphemous style : ''That great man, Old Abe Lincoln, is a special gift from God Almighty, and, if we reject him in this Convention, we reject God Al mighty. He is God's annointed, and he has now got to hang on lo the freedom of the slave or God Almighty : if he lets go Of ei ther, he is a goner ! (oara f laughter.) I am a John Brown Abolitionist, (great ap plause.) aad I believe that God Almighty has appointed 0:d Abe as the means of carrying oat his mission as begun by that glorious man John Brown ! (Long ap plause.) Old Abe moves slow, and it is because God Almighty gave him such long legs (great laughter ;) but he has an awful big foot (great laughter ;) and when he puts it down, it stays then, and never slips back ward." (Applause and laughter ) "Saw," said an interesting young mother to her youngest hopeful, "do you know what the differeuce is between the body aod'thesoal? The soulrny child, is what you love with, the body carries yon abocf. This is your body (touching the little fel low's shoulders and arms ;) but there is something deeper in j yea can feel it now. "What is it!" "Oa, 1 know," said Sam, with a flash of intelligence' in his eyes, "ihaVf roV fiannel ihirt" ' : -. " .. ' . Tbe Purpose Cnmasked ' Resolved, That as skvery was the cause, and now constitutes the strength of this re bellion, and it must be -always and every where hostile to the principles to Republi can government, justice and the national aaiety demand its Biter and complete extir pation from the soil of the republic, .and that we uphold and maintain the act snd proclamations by which the governmeni, in its own defense, has aimed a death t low 'at this gigantic evil; we 8re in favor furthermore, of such an amendment to the constitution, to be made by the people, in conformity with its provisions, as shall ter minate acd forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits or the jurisdie tion ot lhe United Slates. This is one of the resolutions of the Bal timore convention.' We are not surprised to see it. He must be a very poor casuist, saye the Union Democrat, who has failed to see' that ihia haa been an abolition war from the siart. It was precipitated by an Abolition trick While the great and good men of both sectiona of the, "Union were earnestly struggling lo maintain peace, the Abolition managers, ender the lalse pre tence that it was necessary to provision Fort Snnzter, against the earnest remon strance of General Scott, and fi ially with out his knowledge, and against Mr. Sew ard's solemn pledge, took a step which ihey knew would precipitate war. They wanted the rebels to "fire on the flae," for the purpose of creating the insane horley burley which followed, and thus head off all attempts to effect a settlement. They reasoned that, if pession on both sides could be thoroughly aroused, war would follow, and they intended to use that war for the overthow of slavery. Of course, it would not do to make a pub lic avowel of such a purpose; nay, it was necessary to deny it, for a time, that Dem ocrats could be drawn thoroughly into the war. This they did; and the success that attended their duplicity is the great marvel of the age the only point upon which we have been Ihotoughly deceived, in connec tion with this matter. We did not think it possible that intelligent and patriotic men, who bad always regarded Abolitionism with the abhorrence it deserves, who un derstood the lurk ing treason of its purposes, could be induced to lend their aid, in any way, to any extent, under any pretext, to its infamous schemes. The war was begun; and every act of the Administration has tended to irritation. It did not try to win the sympathy and aid of the Union men of the South, for thereby the war might have been brought to a close long ago; but it has repelled ihem," that they might hereafter have.no pretext to ask jhe protection of the Administration for the rights they held onder the Constitution. It has songbt to make all men rebels, that it might punish all the rebels. It believes it can do it now; and it haa therefore thrown off its dignise and publicly committed it self to an abolition war. Sach.a war does not commend itself to our judgment and our conscience, and we shall not support it. It has no warrant In the constitutions of heaven oreanh, and no man is under any moral cr legal obliftstion to pray for it or work for it. The resolution is based upon a lie. It is rot true that sla very is the feuiltv cause of this war. Sla very was always ready to abide by tbe stip ulations of the Constitution. Abolitionism woald not do this hence the war. This is the troth Of history, and the man is not worthy to be a freeman who will not otter it from the dungeon, the scaffold, or from amid the blazing fagots. Abolitionism is the cause of thi tear ; and every Democrat sho'd be ashamed of himself who for a moment forgeis it, of admits tbe fallacy that lhe cause may also be the core. It is time for people to look at this matter in lhe light of common sense. It is pro posed Jo destroy slavery that is the "ob jective point' of all civil and military pro ceedings. Stephen Clark proposes to over throw the institution with a goose qoill he is going to have the Constitution amended. Very well ; but how does he expect to get the assent of three-fourths of ths States ! It can't be done ; but suppose it conld be 1 What does it amount to hile the Southern people successfully defy his Abolition tin kering 1 It can only be dane by military power in defiance of the Constitution ; and this wi'l fail unless some of these resolu tion makers shoulder arms and lake to the field. It will fail then, except so far as master and slave are ''abolished" together. We de rot deny the power of extermina tion ; butwedodeny that anything short of ibis will abolish slavery. ' Exterminate then," do you say ! Very well ; let those who like the policy do the work. We de net object to lhe resolution rn ac count of any partiality we entertain for sla very. We do not regard that inautution as necessarily wrong, yet, there never was a moment when we .would not have been tiad to see it disappear br oroper agencies, and with a due regard to the interests ot both races. We object lo the resolution be cause it is ferolutionary in itscharacter and tendencies. The Constitution cannot be le gally .changed new ; yet it is proposed to changt it, nevertheless.- Thata revolution. Or, it is proposed to accomplish a purpose in spite of the Constitution. That is revo lution also. Are the people ol thiscoantry likely lo submit to the usurpations of an obnoxioua party, accidentally in power f Can one revolution prevail without opening tbe way for others T Shall this-, generation establish a precedent of lawlessness whose certain, frnits will be perpetnal anarchy? Shall our Stephen Clarkes, for the sake of a liule diseased ppnIirittMjajjiz a wto. lotion which will cost millions of lives to establish, and millions more to overthrow. If thi is to be our future, we shall be glad to snsnend the "Monroe doctrine." not on ly in relation lo other tiations, bet to our : own , and we should hail another Maxi milian as a deliverer from the reign of dem agogues, fanatics and fools. Scene In an Arkansas Dolt!. A contributor to the Spirit cf the Times thus describes a scene at the Anthony House at Little Rock, Ark. : . Laie one bitter cold night in December, some eight or nine years ago, L came I into the bar room, as usual, to take part in what was going oc. For some reason the crowd had dispersed sooner than was ens tomary, but two or three of the town folks were, together with a strange man who had arrived half an hour or longer before, and who, tired, wet and noddy, Irom a long; Arkansas stage ride, his legs extended and shoes off, was consoling himself with two chairs and a nap, opposite the centre ot a blazing fire. Aoy one who has traveled until ten o'clock over an Arkansas road, car. appreciate the Iruition before that fire place. The drowsy example of the stran ger had its eflect on the others, and L , who took a seat in the corner, for lack of conversation was reduced to tbe poker for amusement. He poked lhe fire vigorously for a while, until thepoker goi red hot, and" becoming disgusted, was about lo drop it acd retire, when he remarked the great toe of the stranger's foot protruding through a hole in one of bis socks. Here was relief to L . He placed the poker within a foot of the melancholy sleep er's toe, and bezsn 6lowly lo lesson the dis tance between them ; one by one, the ethers, as they caught the joke, began to open their eyes, and being awakened, mouths expanded into grins and giggles and one inconsistent fellow into a, broad laugh. Closer and closer the red hot poker near, ed the unfortunate loe. The heat caused the sleeper lo restlessly remove his foot. L waa about applying the poker when a souDd of click ! click ! arrested his atten tion. He looked at the stranger the latter with one eye open, had been watching the whole proceeding, and silently brought a pistol to bear on L . In a voice jusi audible, he muttered in a tone of great de termination : 'Jest burn it ! Z?irrn it I Jest burn it and I'll be hung if I don't stir yon up with ten thousand hot pokers in two seconds V L laid down his poker instantly, and remarked : . 'Stranger, IdT lake a drink in fact, gen tlemen, all of yon." L afterwards said that they were the cheapest drinks he ever bought. Drafted Again. It seems Father Abraham is desirons of having os serve him in a military capacity. We have received a pressing invitation Irom the Provost Marshal of the 21M district where we formerly resided asking os to be- present on the 20th inst., at Uniontown, Fayette county ; adding, in rather an un civil way, that if not there in out proper person, at the date mentioned, we shalle considered worthy of death as that is the penalty for neglecting to respond to Abe Government's invitation. This seems l.ke . . . ''crowding the honors" on ns.as we receiv- ed the same kind of a document last July, and had to dance attendance on Abe's Mar- thai at Greensborg. But there's no slterna- tive. The greenbacks ronsl be rai-ed, and the commutation paid, for we have not much notion of putting ourse'.f Bgnin under military authorities, with the chance of be ing need by Picayune Butler for stealing cotton, or Banks for catching niggers. We shall begin to consider ourtelf quite a vet eran having been, within two years, twice in the military service, twice honorably dis charged and twice drafted. Load it on, old rail and Union splitter ; you can take our money, but while oor pen and tonsue remain free, we shall be con tent. Fossibly dnring the coming political campaign, we may be able lo partly repay you lor the manner you have oppressed us, as well as many others of our fellow coun trymen. Yon and your party could have prevented the war ; and even a?:er it was begun, yon could have long since ended it, had you no) changed the object to freeing . i r . i I T m! niggers insteau oi restoring me union, wo conscriptions would have been needed for', men lo fighl for the Union and the Consti-J tution. Clarion Democrat. Lincoln fintforcs. I860. "Lincoln and Free Speech." The Constitution a covenant with death. The Union not worth preserving, in connec ion with the Sooth, economy and reform. Good times and light taxation. - 1861. "War for the Constitntion and the Union." Nobody hart and nothing going wrong. 1862. The negro must be free The crime of silence is what I fear, free speech danger ous. Bastiles and arbitrary arrests. "War for the niggers." 1863. "Vote for Curtin and avoid the draft." The war over by Christmas. 1864. "Tyranny, rascality, conscriptions, taxation and ruin.' . . u ,.m ,u "u"uu' " wivugu eon ipiratorg for an othw four-years. . t Our Grnerals. Congress has passed an act mustering out of service all general officers not' em- r'o)'ed in active doty at a given date This will give Lincoln an opportunity to mnster oot M'Clellan. Fremont has resigned, leaving Dix as ' senior Major General and Butler second. To escape ihe eff ct of this law, we note that Carl Schurz, a Major General, is josudotailed as commandant at a convalescent camp -.heretofore under charge of a captain and one of the most in ferior positions in the army.- General Franir SigeJ is detailed to eup-rintend ihe i Baltimore and UIno railroad, witnout any array ; and he has Major General Julias S'.a'eht or Stahl, to assist him in " his ar duous duties. Major Gsnerai John A. Dix is superintending the ''War Democracy" in New York, and Mjor General George Cad waliader is superintending all the fine feeds and fun that is now going on in Philadel phia. A Major General is at Memphis, the stra'egic Banks at New Orleans, and others scattered over the couotry from Maine to California,- literally without employment But all il.ese generals are Lincoln's Iriend. j Those who are rot will te sure to come under the operations of this tyranical mus tering out act. In the meanwhile, every one of them, except the former are not soldiers bred, but are controlled by an et pensive adornment, koown as the "staff" an ornament so expensive that sholJy" rotts up bis eyes in fine horror, whilst counting the cost. Corning of Alexandria. If the accounts of the foaming of the city of Alexandria, by Gen. Banks's troops, are correct, it was the most infamous transac tion to be found in the records of the war. The dwellings of Union men n!diers in the Union army were given to the flames, and their unprotected inmates women and children left without shelter ot food. A A letter from Cairo, Illinois to the New York ll'orjd, says : "As might be expected, the women de sired to go along with the Federal army, where their husbands had gone. ' They applied lo General Banks with tears end entreatiss lo be alloweJ n go on board the transports. They were refused ! They be came frantic with excitement and rage. Their screams and piteous cries were heart rending. With tears streaming down their cheeks, women 1nd children begged arid implored the boats to take them on board. The officers of tbe boats were desirous of doing so, but there was the peremptory order from general Banks not to allow any white citizens to go aboard A rush w)eld have been made upon the boats, but there stood the guard with fixed bayonets, and none could mount lhe stage plank except ihey bore the special permit ol the Corri manding General. Yei room was found for five or six thousand negroes lhat had been gathered in from the surrounding country ! But no room could be found for white women and children, whose hus bands and brothers were ' in the Federal army, and whose houses had just been burned by the Federal torch !' Europsan IsTfckFKHtNcs The eleventh resolution, of the Abolition Conven'ion is as j follows Resolved, That we approve the position taken by the Government that the reop!e ! r. TT . JC.. mill. of the United States can never regard with I I indifference the attempt of any European power io overthrow t7 force of to supplant by fraud the institutions of any republican j government on the Western Continent, and j thai they will view witrr extreme jealousy, as menacing to the peace and independence of this our coontry, the efforts of any such power to obtain new foo:ho!ds for monar chal governments feostained by a foreign military force in near proximity to the Uni- ted Malts. j ferocious passions of men and in canoniz- Bravo ! Now what is "the position taken ing ,he red hanjej fieild of lhe 5att)e fieJd , by the Government" that is thus approved ? , Where is bar former haired ot Abolitionism A few weeks ago the House passed a joint now lhal fhe js CAUgin? :hem her own chi. resolution declaring that this country "can - dren to pa9 lhr0U:h the fire o( Moloch.and never regard with indifference" foreign in- j i(, sioatiIlg over the prospect of servile in tervention. The Senate not only neglected j parrection t What shall we say of the dis to reaffirm and vitalize that resolution, but , i linguihed clergyman who so loudly api Mr. Seward sent an obsequious apology lo i p!auded Mr Van Dke's t-ermon on thai France for lhe action of the Honse ! Un- . eut'ject, and who no-v lift op their hands der suvh circumetances.and while the thing i and l their eyes, in pious horror at Ihe sin condemned is actually transpiring in the ! fnost open manner at our very door, what a mockery it is to talk such twaddle as this ! Lonis Napoleon has by force and fraud erec- ted a throne in Mexico, and sent & foreign prince to fill it ; and "extreme jealousy" is the only barrier this Abolition Convention intends to interpose. - - A Mormon Settlements Virginia. We learn that there is in the town of South Wheeling a society of Mormons who prac tice all tbe doctrines of that sect excert that of. polygamy. We have" had a conversa tion with an Englishman who belongs to the society, and who firmly believes in all the peculiaf notions of the Latter-Day Saints. He says he was converted to the faith since his arrival in this country. In his opinion all the chcrches to which Gen- J t i le usually attach themselves are wonder fully corrupt. He has not had a physician in his house for five or six years. Cases ot sickness are cured by annointing and laying on of hands according to the customs of the New Testament. Wheeling lnteili gtneer. Mrs. Partineton-thinks the pillows of lib ertv are stuffed with the feathers ol" the imAriin a rr I a Tha innrintnflAnij ff ihe United States Mint are ittyesUgatinf tho matter V. '"' ' By Their Frnits Ye Shrtli Know Them--Keligion and Politics. - - Religious journals in all sections of the country are complaining of the general de ficiency of zeal and interest among their members of their respective churches. The administrations of the Gospel are not well attended church metnterships'are decreasl ing in numbers the ministry are not sopi ported and worse than all, veneration for religion it -elf is failinz, and immorality and unbelief are rapidly undermining the foon- j dations of society. Sone of these journals attribute this tendency to the excitements of the day, calling away the attention of the public mind frd-n rel igioas or secular pursuits ; some speak cf it as a visitation of Divine displeasure, and a punishment lot national sins by the withdrawal of grace. These papers seem to sedulously seek for any other lhan the true cause for this dcay in religious growth They need not go so far it is in the pulpit itself where the e?il lies, and where the remedy must be appli ed if any is desired. This lack of interest -in religious matters is c evil with the intro doction of political topics in the sermons of the ministry ; an J not only in the ser1 -mom bet in the prayers with whicn the God of Truth, Love and Mercy is insulted weekly from ten thousand mouths, spew ing oot profanity, hatred and revenge. From the lirhe pulpi's were tnrned into political platforms and the dispensers of Gospel truths became the special advocates of a particular A Jministraiion. the cause of the present complaints bejjari to accrue. And they have gone on accrning, and will continue to increase as long a this course is continued. . . . . We tielieve that the writings of Paine, Voltaire, Rossaau, ' Velney, and the whole list of that class of writer, have produced a less injurious effect upon the church thai the preachers of the various denominations have inflicted upon it b) theifactioa in this matter. Thousands of them have publicly displayed feelings and sent'ments so en tirely in conflict with the first lessons of the great Teicher whom they profess to adore, and so incorisistant with even ordi nary charity that they have made, in the minds ot many of their hearers, both them selves and their cause objects of disgust and contempt. Men possessing common sense and any knowledge of the world, with its errors and frailties, cannot sit, even in cushioned pews, and listen o these pul pit diatribes overflowing with ignorance, conceit and malice to discourse such ai the devil would pfeach, where he in the pulpit. It is too great a tax upon either the good sense or tbe gooi morals of any com munity. The consequences are seen in the universal depletion of ihe churches. Thou sands of men and women can hear more true chistianity at home than they cat hear under a chorch bell, and they stay away; Many men arejdriven by the demonical ratings of these Abolition howlers, for more blood to find recreation in enjoyments that lead them far from the influence of either home of church. The effect is ra mous. The destroyer of the church, and the age is unfortunate in not having anoth er Saviour to purge them from the temples 1 " they deecrea'e. This subject is beginning to attract the at tention of some ol the religious journals whose denominations have suffered largely v from this error. Thev are late about it, bnt I " ' I f i s tj orn tvia t e mnr nrrm rilkts k n aiill , . Amnnn ihm w. nnti,.a ..;-t,,i- the True Presbyterian. In a late scathing article upon this subject it remarks : "Amid this furious bubble of politics and war, we I mk in vain for the Magna Charta of the Annunciation, 'Glory ta God in the highest : on earth peace, good will to men. j It is appalling to see the Church of God fpne from her mouth the Gospel ef peace, and bawl herself hoarse in stimulating the of flavery i Shall we say. aa Ihe world says of ttiem, itiai they have ei'her been practisiaz a gross deception all their lives, or are now basely yielding-tu unmanly fear! Shall we adopt the hamiliating charge so freely made, lhat as a body, the clergy of this country have been less reliable, more unwilling o sacrifice their positions to prin ciple, more shufiling, and cowardly, and bloodthirsty, than any other class of men in it ? Shall we repeal lbe sneer, that rath er than give up their places and their sala ries, they Will preach and pray under ;he dictation ol a turbulent faction in their churches ; or ihe bitter'taoni of the soldier, who on being reproved by one ol them for swearing, replied : I will not be rebuked by you, sir! I have exposed mf life foi three years in this war, and but for the preachers there would have been no' war !' We desire lo bring no railing accusations, . neither to judge any man ; but by their fruits ye shall know them and the froit ot all their labor is that they, the Chnfch, and religion itself, are brought intd contempt among men. The Lord Jesus seems to have averted His face, and the Spirit ot Grace to' have departed from the scene of strife and fanaticit-m, and bouuJ in the loila of the devil, aiid exposed to the hooting of tho world, nothing is left to u but a 'Dead Faith and an Apostate Church '" Happily there are some whos'ill remem ber Ihei they are calied f preach '-Christ and II im -ructneil," hi1 who sieadiailr have preached them amid all the tomalt and clamor of war. Fortunate tor CbrlatU anity in ibis couotry that it has been to.- '"-'UWn Express.
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