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PA., will promptly attend to collections of bounty, hack pay. Ac., a? 1 all business entrusted to his cure in Bedford . and adjoining counties. Cash advanced ou judgment*, notes,. miiitary and other claims. II is for sale Town lots in Tatesville. where a oid Church is erected, ami where a large School House shall-be built. Farms. Laud and Timber L ore. from one acre to 500 acres to suit pur cha-"rs. Office nearly opposite the "Aleugol Hotel" and B.nk of Reed A Sohell. April 6. ISO6—ly J. MCD SHARPS. E F. KERR. DIIAKFK A KERR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BEDFORD, PA., will practice in the courts *>f Bedford and adjoining counties Of fi-e on Juliana St., opposite the Bunking House of i A BeMI. |Muffh 2. '66. J R. DPR BORROW. | JOHN LCTZ. TAORBOR RO W A Ll* TZ , | f ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to j their care. Collections niude on the shortest 110- i tiee. They are.a'so, regularly licensed Claim Agents : and will give special attention to the prosecution i ofc'aims against the Government for Pensions, B . k Pay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the •Mengel House," and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. JOHN P.REED, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA K spe*'fully 'enders his services to ihe public. Office second door North of the Mengel House, i Bedford, Aug. 1. IML \ OHN PALMER, ATTORNEY AT J LAW, BEDFORD, PA Will promptly attend j to .. RLOGDV , # Krs. PH.. (1 s6th P. V V..) ten- . der Ids professional services to the people of that j .. . und v ciiii'y* Dec. 'll. '•••- 13 * \\ JW* JAMISON, M.D M BLOODY J t T BON. PA., tenders bis prtfes-ional servi ce- to the p op!e "f thai place and vicinity. Office one door west of Richard Langdon's store. Nov S4. '•>—ly nR. J. L. MARBOURG, Having! permanently located, respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens ot Bedford j and vicinity. Offi c on Juliana street, east side, nearly opposite | tb* Bmkit : H utse of Recti A Schcll. Bedford; Feb;uary 12. IsOI. C S tllCStoK, 1 J - G - MINSICH. JR., ni: X T I S T s, BEDFORD, PA. ! (iffice in the Bank Building, Juliana St. Ai) .iperations pertaining to Surgical or Me- ( •bant-.* .1 Dentistry carefully performed, and war- I li.if'-d T.ioth l**iwdi*rs anil mouth Mashes, ex- ; eelleut articles, always on hand. TFH'MS— CASH. Bedfer 1. January ti. 1865 InUHITS. J ICOB itEEn, | J. J HELL, j I) E E I) A N I) SCII E 1< L , J Bankers and 1 EAL ERS IX E X VIIA XG E , BEDFORD. PA., DRAFTS bought ami sold, collections made and •v promptly remitted. Depoeiti solicited. I 0 V, . RL'PI* O E. SHAV.aOS F. BBREDICT! pri'S', SHANNON* & CO., BANK i \. ERS, BEUFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, Wes. North ; n I -outh, and the general business of Exchange j '"attracted. Notes and Accounts Collected and | h : - aittanses promptly made. REAL ESTATE j L a-ht and sold. Oct. 20, 1865. | J \ANIEL BORDER, i ' Pi rr STREET. TWO DOORS WEST OF IDE BKD ; RD HOTEL, BEDFORD. PA. MATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. II" keeps on hand a BlO< k dI fine Cold and Sil "r W;< : h. >. Spectacles of Rrilliunt Double Ke fii.-1 Ui-iv-es. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Cold M Ri Chains, Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best 'iU ility of Gold Pen*, lie will supply to order Si) y thing in his line not on hand. Bet, 2t>, IHfid- II F. lit VINE, i 1 . ANDERSONS ROW, BEDFORD, PA., i' ■ ilcr in B""ts. Shoes. Oueerisware. and Varic """• i J Order? trotn Country Merchants rc ! 'fully unlinked. Oet 211. lHlio, 11. ANDERSON, l-ifrnsert Sb-rivencr and fonreycncer, ' F.MRKVILLK, B DI'OKD ' ♦ NT**. [•*., attend fo the writing of Deeds, '• Articles of Agreement, and ail busineSß ;i 'lv transacted by a 8-riTener and C"nveyan l lie patronage of the public is respectfully • i -ited. Apfilg- 'M-tf. BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TcmUrarc, &(. GEO. BI.YXIYER. | JOHN F. BLYMYER. / 1 FORGE BLYMYER & SON* " I having formed a partnership, on the 6th of March. 1866, in the HARDWARE y HOUSE FURNISHING BUSINESS, respectfully inTite the public to their new room*, three doors west of the old stand, where they will find an immense stock of the most splendid goods ever brought, to Bedford coanty. These goods will be sold at the lowest possible price*. Persons dedrons of purchasing BUILDING HARDWARE will find it to their advantage to give u? a call. II HITE LEAD.—We have on hand a large quantity <>t \\ bite Lead, which we have been for- Mmate to buy H little lower than the marker rates. H* particular brands to which we would invite attention, are the Pure llnck f^ead* Liberty White Lrad. Snow Franklin White Isad, Washington White Isad y II ash/nrrfon Z't/r White Lead, JYriu York White Lead. ALSO: — French Porcelain Finish.* Dim ■rr Varnt sh; Varnishes of all finds. Flaxseed Oil. ( parr.) Turpentine and Alcohol All kind* of IP.OX and NAILS. No. 1 CIIRYSTAL ILLUMINATING COAL OIL. LAMPS in profusion. We would invite persons wanting Saddlery Hardware, to give us a call, a.* we have every thing in the Saddlery line, such as Buckle*. Rings. llames and Webbing Leather of all kinds; also a variety of Shoo Findings, consisting of French Calf Skins. Morocco Lining*. Bindings. Peg*, etc. Housekeepers will find at Blyrr.yer & Son's store a great variety of household goods. Knives anfi Fork of the very be-: quality: Plated Table and Tea Spoons at all prices. Give u* a call and we can supply yon with Barn Door Rollers, the latest improvements; Nova Scofa Grindstones, belter _ than any in use; Shovels, Forks and Spade#. Grain and Grass Scythes and Snathes; Fishing Tackle; Brushes of all kinds; Demi-Johns; Patent W heel Grease. Tar and Whale Oil, and an infinite variety of articles. 820 000 VI ANTED —Would like to get it if our friends would let us have it. Less will do; but persons having unsettled accounts will close tlieui up to the first of March, to enable us to close our old books. This should be done uiay4,'66. GEO. BLYMYER A SON. §rif*, 4r. JL. LEWIS having purchased the e Drug Store, lately owned by Mr. H. C. Rea mer takes pleasure in announcing to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity, that he has just returned from he cilies with a well selected stock of I)R ITGS. MEDICINES. DYE-STUFFS. PERFUMERY, TO If FT ARTICLES, STATIONERY, CD A L OIL. LAMPS AY 11 CIO INEYS, REST ERA YDS OF CIGARS. SMOKING AYD CHRWIYG TOBACCO, PR EYCH COYFECTIOYS, hr. Toe stock of Drugs and Medicines consist of the purest quality, and selected with great care. General assortment of popular Patent Medicines. The attention of the Ladies is particular y invi ted to the* ock of PERFUMERY, TOILET and FANCY ARTICLES, conshting of the best perfumes of the day. Colognes. Soaps. Preparations for the Hair. Complexion and Teeth; Camphor ice for chapped hands; Teeth and Hair Brushes, Port Monaies, Ac. Of Stationery, there is a fine assortment : Billet, Note. L-tter. Leaf and Mourning Paper, Envelops, Pens. Pencils, Ink. Blank Deeds, Power of Attorneys, Drafting Paper, Marriage Certifi cates. Ac.. Ac. Also, a large quantity of Books, which will be sold very cheap. Coal Oil Lamp Ilinge Burner, can be lighted without removing the chimney—all patterns and prices. Glass Lanterns, very neat, for burning Coal OH. Lamp chimneys of an improved pattern. Lamp Shades of beautiful patterns. Howe's Family Dye Colors, the shades being light Fawn. Drab. Snuff anil D irk Brown, Light and Dark Blue. Light and Dark Green, Yellow. Pink, Orange, Royal Purple, Scarlet, Maroon, Magenta, Cherry and Black Humphrey's Homeopathic Remedies. Cigars of best brands, smokers can rely ou a gtHoi Hgnr. Rose Smol ing Tobccro, Michigan and Solar. Fine Cut, Nut iral Leaf, Twist and Rig Plug. Finest and purest French Confections. PURE DOMESTIC WINES. Consisting of Grope. B/arf berry and Elderberry FOR MEDICINAL I'SE. 2 attention of physicians is invited to'he stock of Drugs and Medicines, which they csn purchase at reasonable prices. Country Merchants" orders promptly filled. Goods put up with neatness and Care, and at reasonable prices. J. L. LEW IS designs keeping a first class Drug Store, and having on hand at all time# a general assortment of goods. Being a Druggist of several years experience, physicians can rely on having their prescriptions carefully and accurately com pounded. [Feb 9,'66 —tt Jftsrg sterrs. T> EM O V AL-—CALL AND SEE | \ NEW MILLINERY STORE l-Mrs E. V. MO WRY would respectfully inform herold friends and customers, as well as the ladies generally, that she has removed her store to the fine rooms, immediately opposite the Bedford Hotel, formerly occupied by J. Cessna, where she h s just received a large and carefully selected assortment of * NEW MILLINERY and DRESS GOODS, and NOTIONS, consisting, iu part, of BONNETS and HA TS, RIBBONS. FLO VERS. J-/*., ALL WOOL DELAINES. POPLINS, BERAGES, A/, PA C.4 >'. LA WNS, CA LICOES. Sec . LADIES' 'CDATS end SHAW RS, BEST KID GLOVES. SILK and THREAD Gloves, COLLARS HOOP SKIRTS. HA LMORA LS. CORSETS, \c., \c. Also, a fine assortment of LADIES'. MISSES aitd CHILDREN'S SHOES, made specially to order. These goods will be sold at the lowest prices, but for CASH ouly. .Mrs. Mowrj return* her thanks for past favors, and respectfully solicits a continu ance of the patronage of the ladies oT Bedford and vicinity. pipr.27,'B6. \ | ISS KATE DEAL & MBS. M. 31 R SCIIAEFFEK have just return* d from the eitv with a fine assortment of fashionable BONNETS. lIATS. RIBBONS. FLOWERS. GLOVES. ladies' and gents' hose, ladies' and gents' hand kerchiefs stu*l collars, fancy neck-ties, ruttling. dress buttons and trimming, machito silk and cot ton, hair brushes, tooth brushes, clothes brushes, soups, perfumery, enamel, skirt braid, embroider ing braid, ladies' corsets and hoops, li.tlmoral .skirts, lace veils, tissue for veils, cloths fur sacks, dress goods, poplins, lawns, ginghams. Ac., Ac. Mantua-making and all kinds of Milliner work done in the cheapest and best, manner, may 11'66. f > ICHARD LEO, ll „ , Manufacturer oj CARINET-WAItE, CHAIRS, AC., BEDFORD. PA., The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet making business, will make to order and keep on hand everything in his line of manufacture. BUREAL'S, DRESSING STANDS, PARLOR AND EXTEN SION TABLES, CHAIRS. BEDSTEADS, WASH STANDS, Ac., AC., will be furbished at "II prices, and to suit every taste. COFFINS will also be made to order. ; Prompt attention paid to all orders for work. t v Shop on West Pitt Street, nearly opposite the residence of George Shuck. July 10, 1803.—tf __ RICHARD LEO^ PR 1 XTER.N' INK has made many a business man rich Wo ask you to try it in ihe •oiumns of THE GAZETTE rpilE Local circulation of the BED- I FORD GAZETTE islarger than that of any other paper in this a-ction oi oountry. and therefore of er? the greatest inducements to business wen to fdvenise in its eolunv'S- It VERY VARIETY ANl> STYLE j OF JOB PRINTING neatly executed at low rates at THE BEDFORD GAZETTE office. Call and leave your orders. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10. 1866. A GREAT LETTER. Political Parsons on the Rack. K M RI PIA TO TIJE REV. IHMTOIt \IVI\! I'olii lo* in the i!l>I Handled With out Gloves. To i/tt Reverend At/red Nerin, I). I). MY DEAR SIR: Your letter address ed to me through the Philadelphia Evening iiiiHetin disappoints pie; be cause 1 did not expect it to come* in that way, and because it does not cover the subject in issue between us. But if 1 am silent your friends will say, with some show of reason, that you have vindicated " Political Preaching" so triumphantly that ali opposition is confounded. 1 must, therefore, speak freely in reply. In doing so, 1 mean to say nothing inconsistent with my great respect for your high character in the church and its the world. The admirable style and temper of your own communicat'on deserve to be imi tated. I fully concede the right you claim for clergymen to select their own themes and handle them as theyplea.se. You say truly that neither lawyers nor phy sicians nor any other order of men have the least authority to control you in these particulars. But you will not j deny that this is a privilege which may he abused; you expressly admit that some clergymen have abused it, "and by doing so did more than any other chats of nun to continence and continue the late rebellion ." While, therefore, we can assert no power to dictate your conduct, much less to force you, we are surely net wrong when we entreat you to impose upon yourselves those restric.- tions which reastyi and revelation have shown to be necessary for the good of the church and the safety of civil so ciety. 1 acknowledge that youreommission is a very broad one. You must "de clare the whole counsel of God," to the end that sinners may he convinced and converts built up in their most holy faith. Truth,justice, temperance, hu mility, mercy, peace, brotherly kind ness, charity—the whole circle of die Christian virtues—must be assiduously taught to your hearers; and if any of them be inclined to the opposite vices, you are to denounce them without fear, by private admonition, open rebuke, or by a general delivery of the law which condemns them. You are not bound to pause in the performance of thD duty because it might ofiewl a powerful ruler or a strong political par ty. Nor should you shrink from it when bad men, for their own purposes, approve what you do. Elevate the mora! character, enlighten the dark ness, and purify the hearts of those who are under your spiritual charge, at all hazards; for this is the work which your great Taskmaster has given you to do, and he vviii admit no excuse for neglecting it. Rut this is precisely what the politi cal preacher is not in the habit of do ing. He directs the attention of his hearers away from their own sins to the sins, real or imputed, of other peo ple. By teaching his congregation that they are better than other men, he tills j their hearts with self-conceit, bigotry spiritual pride,' envy, hatred, malice | and all uncharitableness. Instead of' the exortation, which they need, to I take the beam out of their own eye, he | incites them to pluck the mote from their brother's, lie does not tell them what the\w*haii do to be saved, but he instructs them very carefully how they shall act for the destruction of others. He rousesand encourages to the utmost j of his ability, those brutal passions which result in riot, bloodshed, spolia tion, civil war, and general corruption of morals. You commit a grievous error in sup-1 posing that polities arid religion are so mingled together that yon cannot preach one without introducing the other. Christ and his apostles kept them perfectly separate. They an nounced the great facts of the Gospel to each individual whom they addressed. When these were accepted the believer was told to repent and be baptised for the remission of their sins, and after wards to regulate his own life by the ruies of a piye and perfect morality. They expressed no preference for one form of government over another, they provoked no revolutions, and they proposed no legal reforms. If they had done so, they would have flatly contradicted the declaration that Christ's Kingdom was not of this world, and Christianity itself would have died out in half a century. IJut they accepted the relations which were created by human law and exhorted their disciples to discharge faithfully the duties which arose out of them. — Though the laws which defined the authority ot husbands, parents, mas ters and magistrates Wire as bad as human perver.ii 1 y could make them, yet the early Chiistians contented themselves, with teaching moderation in theexereise of legal power, and uni formly inculcated the virtues of obedi ence and fidelity upon wives, children, slaves, and subjects. They joined in no clamors for or against any adminis tration, but simply testified against sin before the only tribunal which Christ ever erected on earth ; that is to say, the conscience of the sinner him self. The vice of political preaching was wholly unknown to the primitive church. It is true that Paul counselled obedi ence to the government of Nero; and 1 am aware that modern clergymen in terpret his words as a justification of the doctrine that support of an exist ing administration is "part-of their al legiance to God." Several Syuods and other ecclesiastical bodies have solemn ly resolved something to that effect.— But they forget that what Paul advised Wiis simple submission, not active as sistance, to Nero. The Christians of that day did not endorse his atrocities merely because he was "the adminis tration duly placed in power." They id not go with him to the theatre, ap plaud his acting, or praise him in the churches when lie kidnapned their br thren, set tire to a city, or desolated a province. Nor did they assist at his apotheosis after his death, or pronounce funeral sermons to show that he was greater than Scipio, more virtuousthan Cato, and more eloquent than Cicero. Political preachers would have done this, hut Paul and Peter did no such tiring. There is nothing in the Scriptures to justify the church in applying its dis- Ife WBOmL EON. EIESTSR CLYMER, Democrat it' (Tandidat e We present above a portrait of HON. HIESTEB CI.YMUR —the coming man— the .-iieet sor of Amhew G. Curtin. It is a good likeness of a good-looking man. As many of our readers will feel interested in the lineage of the Gover nor that will be, we will give them what we know upon thai subject. liiester Glymer is the grand-son of George Clymer, a distinguishini patriot! of the Revolution, who was one of tic signers of the Declaration of Indepen dence. Gn the maternal side, Joseph Iliester, a General in the Revolutiona ry Army and Governor of Pennsylva-| nia, from IS2O to IS2*'l, was hi - distin guished ancestor. Mr. Clymer \va hred to the law, spending a part of his: early life in legal pursuitsin Pottsviile, Pa., but afterwards returning to Raid ing, where he soon rose to the front rank in his profession. He was twice elec ted to the .State Senate, in which body he soon became the recogii/.ed leader | of the Democrats, a position fully de served hy his integrity of character, de votion to principle, and ability as a legislator. a candi date forthe Democrodc nomination for Governor, showing greut strength in cipline to any member for offenses! purely political, much less for his mere opinions or feelings on public affairs. — The clergy are without authority, as; they are often without fitness, to de cide for their congregations what is 1 right or what is wrong in the legista-l tionof thecoantry. They are not eall-i ed or sent to propagate any kind of [>o litical doctrine. The Church and the! State are entirely s, para'c and distinct. in tlieir origin, their object., and the sphere of their action; iittomuch thiit tlte organism of one can never he used for any purpose of the other without injury to both. Do I therefore say that the! hrist-lan religion is to have no itiUm-n on tlie political destiny of man r From it. Notwith.-taneliiJg ti;e u:.faitld'iili<:*ss o! many professors, i! has air ;.".y chang ed tlie face of human soci; : y; and it will yet accomplish its mission by spreading pea -e, itnlependence, 1 ruth, justice, anoseof converting them from the error of their ways; a politi cal preacher speaks to one com in unity; i one party or one sect, and his theme is S the wickedness of another. The latter eifeets no religious purpose whatever; | but the chance# are ninety-nine in a i . hundred that he excites tlie had pas sions ofthose who are present, while he slanders : he absent and undefended. Both cias*es of preachers frequently ! peak upon tin- same or similar sub- j jeets, but they do so with ditferent ob jects and aims. '| I will make my meaning more clear; k hy taking your own illustrations. You ' believe in tlie first day of the week as i a Sabbath, and so believing your duty undoubtedly is to exhort ail persons ) under your charge to observe itstrict (lyi.hut you have no rig!it to preach a *ru- :de against the Jew * and Seventh day Baptists, to get intolerant laws en '! aeh'tl against them for keeping Satur j day as a day of rest. If drunkenness! [be a sin which easily besets your eon gregation, ymt may warn them against kit,and inasmuch as abstinence is al ways easier than moderation, you should advise them to taste not, touch not, ai ! handle not, but your position : gives y<>u no authority to provoke vio- i ! lent ho.-tilities against tavern ktcpt rs, 'I liquor dealers or distillers. If any of )! your hear'!> he ignorant or course e-! noiigh to desire im re wiv-'s than one ' apiece, you.-houid riainly teach them j 1 j that polyganij is the worst feature oik k Asiatic manners, inconsistent with: Christianity a I dange on- to domes-! k tic lu'tj pii;.. s; ;ut you cannot lawfully '.I urge tta in hi carry fire ami .-.word into ; tlie Territory ofuie 3fovnin- merely ; it;cam e some of the Mormons are in "j this spe. t less holy than you. If tlte holding of slaves or bond-servants j [j he a practical question among the members of your church, 1 know of no "i tiling which forbids you to teach wliat - 1: ever you conscientiously believe to he ; k true on that subject. But in a commit-1 * 1 nity where slavery is not only un-| '; known hut impossible, why should any 1 i preacher make it the subject of ids' weekly vitupennion? You do not im i' provi ;he relig] ;:i of the slave-holder ; I hy traducing iti- character, nor mend 'I the spiritual condition of your own pee pie by making theni thirst for the i, b'k)* i of their feliow-meu? i, If any person, to whom the service II of another is due by the laws of the j 1 State in which he lives, shall need your r instructions to regulate his personal • conduct towards the slave, you tire -j hound in the first place to tell him, that ijas long as that relaxation exists he -! should behave with the utmost human- ; #i ity and kindness; for this you have tlie - clear warrant of the Apostolic exatn rj pie and precept. In dealing with such r a person you may go as much further J! as your own conscientious interprota -t tionof the Bible will carry you. If - you are sure that the divine law does, -i under a. I circa instances, make the mere 1 existence of stlco a relation sinful ou r the part of the master, you should in eiducehimto dissolve it by the inmie i!k duite einancijttitioii of his staves; for - that is truth to you which you believe - to be true. Bui where is the authority o for preaching hatred of those who un •-iderstand the scripture differently? ' VVhat'privilege can you show for ex- VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5.359. citingservileinsurrection ? Who gave you the right, to say that John Brown was better than any other thief or murderer, merely because his crimes were committed against pro-slavery men ? 1 think the minister, in his pulpit discourses, is forbidden to touch at all upon that cla-s of subjects which are purely political: such for instance as ! the hanking law. tariff, railroad char- I ters, State rigiits, the naturalization ' laws, and negro suffrage. These are ! questions of mere political expediency: religion takes no cognizance of them; they come within the soiejurisdiction of the statesman ; and the church has no more right to take sides upon them I than the civil government has to use ; its legislative, judicial or executive I power for the purpose of enforcing principles wholly religious. In short, if I am not entirely mista ke!), a Christian minister hits no au thority to preach upon any subjects ex cept those in which divine revelation has given him an infallibleruleof faith and practice; and. even upon them he must speak always for the edification I of his own hearers, "rightly dividing j the word of truth," soas to lead them lin the way of all righteousness. When I he does more than this he goes beyond j his commission, he becomes a scurvy I politician, and his influence isaltogetii j er pernicious. The use of the clerical office for the purpose of propagating political doc i trinesunderanycircumstances, or with j any excuse, is in my judgment noton i ly without authority, but itis the high- I est crime that can be committed against j the government of Bod or man. Per j imps i ought not to make this broad us- I sertion without giving some addition -1 al reasons for it. In the first place it is grossly dishon- • j est. 1 employ you as a minister, pay j your salary, and huiid you a church j iiecause 1 iiave confidence in your tlie i ological doctrines. But you may beat j tiie same time wholly unfit for my jo i iitical leader. Now," you are guilty of I | a base fraud upon me, if, instead of | I preaching religion, you. take advantage ; | of the position 1 1. • v given you to ; ventilate your crude ami ignorant no i tions on State affairs. 1 have asked for i bread and you give mca stone; instead ; of the fish 1 bargained for, you put in- j | to my hand a serpent that stings and j | poisons me. It destroys the unity of the church. ; : There is no room for rational dispute a- I i bout the great truths of Christianity ; | ! but men will never agree upon politic- | j al attireels, for human government is | at best hut a compromise of selfish in- j | terestsand conflicting passions. When j | >ou mix the two together you break ; the church into fragments, and Instead | ; of "One Lord, one liiith and one bap- j , tisin," you create a thousand warring i sects,and substitute the proverbial hit- j i terness of thv odiion (/Hvlot/icum lor the "charity which tliiiikelh no evil." No one will deny that a Union of j ; Church and State i sal ways the cause of ! I bad government, perve'rted religion and corrupt morals. J do not mean i merely that legal union which exists' i in European countries. This is had e- | nough; hut you have less common j sense than I give you credit for, if you j ; do not see, that this adulterous con nex- 1 ion ;• '■sumo* its inns- p.oilntiug lorni j when the church is voluntarily prosti- ■ luted by her own ministers to a politic- ! I al party iii a popular government. The evii influence of such connex ions upon Church and state is easily ac counted for. Botli of them in coinbi- . nation will do what either would re coii from if standing alone. A politi cian backed by the orumiseof the cler- : gy to sustain him can safely defy lion- ) (.■sty and trample upon law, for do what he may, he is assured of clerical sup- j port hereand of heaven hereafter. The ci< rgy, on the other hand, and those who are under their influence, easily j I acquire the habit of praising indiserim- j finitely whatever is done by their pub- i lie men. Acting and reacting on one 1 another, they go down together, in the direction of the pit that is bottomless; j ' ami both are found to have "a strange j ; alacrity at sinking." No man can ervetwo masters faith fully ; for he must hate one if he loves ; the ;!ter. A minister who admires j and follows such men as those who : have lately ruled and ruined this couti- j try must necessarily despise the char- j acterof Christ. if he glorifies the | cruelty, rapacity and falsehood'of his ; party nailers, he is cum |tolled by an in- : fiexibielaw of human nature to "deny i the Lord who bought hint." Tiie experience of fifteen centuries j proves that political preachers are the great curse of the world. More than : lialf tiie bloody wars which at dilferent ; periods have desolated Christendom, j W( re proiltieed by their direct instiga- j ! lion; and wherever they have thrust ; tlu'iiiseives into a contest commenced! by ot iters, they always envenomed the strie and made it more cruel, savage aud uncompromising. The religious wars, so-ealied, had nothing religious ; about them except that tfiey were hiss ed up by tiie clergy. Look hack ana see ii tins be not true. The Arian controversy (thefirst great schism j was loliowcd by wars in which minions of lives were Jos . Do you suppose the real quarrt-i was for the in sertion or omission of Jiiiotfiif m that ' part of the creed whicii u< eribes the procession of tiie lloly Ghost, tid a homoousiun slaughter his hi other he ( cause he was a homoaiwiiinf No, it was not the dillerence of a diptjiong, hut the plunder of an empire that they fought for. It was the politics ol the church, not her religion, that in furiated the parties and converted men into demons. The Thirty Y'ears' Yv'ar in Germany is otten supptoscd to have been a lair stand up tight between the two leading i forms ol ( hristianity. It was not so. The religious diiierentv was a false pre tense ol the political preachers for lite promotion ol their own schemes, i'here was not a sane man on all that conti ncn" who would have leit himseii im- I pelled by motives merely religious to murder his neighbor tor believing or disbelieving in transut statuiaimn. if I proof of tins were wanting, it might be found in tiie fin l, that long ixaore the war ended, the sectarian cries wt re abandoned, and Catholics, as well as Protestants, were fighting on both sides. It is utterly impossible to believe that the clergy of England and Scot land, if they liatl not been politicians, would have thought of waging bloody wars to settle questions of election and reprobation, fate, fore-knowledge, free will, and other points of metaphysical theology. Nor would they, apart fom their polities, have encouraged and committed the other horrid crimes oi • j which they were guilty in the name of ' religion. ■ ! Can you think that the Irish were invaded,and conquered, aud oppress ed) a* d murdered, and robbed lor cen turies, merely because the English loved and believed in the J'rolesiatit religion ? 1 suppose that jou know that those brutal atrocities were carried 01 for tiie purpose ol giving to politi cal preachers in England possession of hie churches, cathedials, glet e iaia.s and tythes wliich belonged totbe Irish ; at nodes. The soldier wis also re ; warded by confiscations and p under. Tnechurch and the Suite liuiited ill | (ou ies, and Ireland was the piej wn.ch iliey ran down together. Coining to our own country you find Massachusetts and toiiLtctnui m eoio -1 nail times under the sole domination ol political preachers. Their treaclier j oiis wars upon the Indians lor purposes | whoby mercenary, their enslaving of ! white persons, us well as rtd ones, and s liing them abroad, or '"swapping them for blackamoors;" their w nip ping, imprisoning and killing Con kers anil baptists, lor their conscien tious opinions; and their base mut uant oi such men as itoger Williams \ and his mends, w ill mark their gov ernment through all bine as one or ilie : cruellest and meanest ihai ever existed. Political puathtis have noi Lthuvid any better since tiie lie voiution than ; iii. lore. About the commencement of the present century tin \ weie busy in their vile vocation all over Ntw Eng : iand and continued it lor many vtais. Tiie w illuianil uelibiiaiesiantnis habil | ually utteied mm the puipit against ! Jeiierson, Madison, and the n.enus who supported them, were a disgrace to human nature. The immediate ei.t-ct oi this was the Yankee jnot 10 seeetie ; nom lhe Lnion, loriowi a by coirupl combinations with a lureign etituo to h' tray the* liberties ol thecoiaitry. Its reiiitiier eonsequ noes are sun in the -l clinch ss in I aeilv and hit It l UiUilgnny whicii. even at this moment, aie nowi ing lor the property and bieod ol an unarmed ami ueleiiseiess people. You and 1 both remeniner the politi cal preaching which ushered in anu sup | ported the reign ol the Know-Nothings, blood Tubs and Pi tig-1 gilts; when I Maria Monk was a saint anu aoe Bar ker w as Mayor ol Piusbuig; when pm pitsresounded every buuoay with .he | most injurious lalsi noons against cat li ! oiics; w neii the public mind was ue | bauched by tiie incuicati' not hypuertsy and deception; when ministers met Dieir pomieal allies m sworn secrtsy ; to pioiagainst tiie nglitsoi ihear leiiow - I citizens. Yon cannot lorgei wlial came of tiiis —riot, muruer, chuieli-buiiijng lawless violence ail over tiie land, unit lite subjugation ot several great staus | to the political rule ola party destitute anke oi principle and capacity. 1 eouid easy prove thai those clerical politicians, wiio have tied theirciiurcii i is to the tail ol the Abolition party, are ! criminal on a grander scutelliau any ot j their predecessors, But i loruear, pari | iy because r iitive no time, and partly j because it may, for augiit 1 know, be a sore subject with you. i would not excite >our wrath, nut rather "provoke i you to good works.' Apart lioin the general subject there ■ are two or three special ideas expressed | in your tetter from wnrcii 1 venture to eti —st tit. You think that, though a minister 1 may speak lroin the puipit on pontics j lie ought not to indicate w hat; arty he ! belongs to. it strikes me, that nhe , has a party, and Wutus to give it teelessiasiieai aid oreomiurt, hesliouid boldly avow hiinseit tube what he is, >o tliulail men may know him. Stu | cerity is tiie first oi virtues, it is bad I to be* a wolf, but a woil in sheep's eioifi i ir g is tntiniieiy woise. You represent tiie church asan unfin i islied structure and Hie Stale as iis i scatioiding. i tiuuk tiie ciiurch came ! perfect lrom tiie liand ol its divine ! Arciiueirt —built upon a rock, estab | iisticd, finished, eompitTe —and every j one who tomes into it by tiie right door i.wiii find a mansion prepared ior him. jit needs no scanoiu. its lounder re fused ail connection with human gov i eminent* ior scafiultliug or any inner ; purpose'. You say (in substance) that, without sometimes taking political subjects, a 1 minister is in danger of falling into a ; "vague, indefinite, and iiou-coiuniittal j slyie," wfiieii will do no oodand bring hint no respect. The gospel is not j vague, indefinite or non-committal I upon the subjects of which it takes ju i nsdiction, and upon them you may ! preach as loudiy as you please. But l admit that in times of great public excitement—an important election or • acivil war—men listen impatiently to I teachings of faith and repentance. A i sermon which tells them to do justice, lov mercy and walk humbly b lore < fad, is not an entertainment to which | they willingly invite themselves. At j such a time a clergyman can vastly iu [ci'oa.-e his personal consequence, and | win golden opinions from hisattdieuce, by pampering their passions witli a j highly seasoned discourse on politics, j The temptation to gratify them often ! becomes too strong for the virtue of tiie : preacher. 1 fear that you yourself are ! vieiding to it. As a mere layman I i have no right to advise a Doctor