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The Teatchman,
P. GRAY MEEK,
+ Editor.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, Nov. 28, 1862.
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Owing to the mnon-arrival of
our paper in time for this issue,
we have been compelled to bor-
row from cur neighbor, of the
Press, enough for our edition this
week, and as a consequence, have
found it necessary to reduce our
size to correspond with the paper.
This is an accident which we
hope may rot occur again.
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(7 Hon. James Campbell, of Philadelphia
Hon. Wm Bigler, of Clearfield, Hon. Chas.
R. Buckaley, of Colambia, lion, Jeremiah S
Blaek, of York,}Hon. George W. Woodward
of Luzerne, and Hon, Francis W. Hughes of
Schuylkill and Hon. J. Flancy Jones, of
Berks, Hon. James McManus, of Centre,
anp Gen. Geo, B. McClellan, are spoken of
or urged by friends for the U. 8, Senate.
§7'Our Andy,” ‘the poor man’s fiend”
or rather the particular friend and associate
of “shoddy” contractors and dealers in ‘sha-
ving soled’’ shoes, made a speech in the
Court House on Tuesday evening last. We
cannot say whether he told the people, this
trae, to “behold their conqueror,” or inform-
ed Democrats that his “foot was still upon
their necks,” but rather suppose he didn’t.
Poor fellow ! he’ll have to live until he is as
gray as Timbadger’s goat, and be penitent
every day of his life, before he’ll be forgiv-
en for his many political sins. “Oh! who
would be a Governor ?”’
The Meoting at the Court House,
We have been censured rather severely by
some would-be friends, on aceount of re-
fusing to publish the call for the abolition
meeting that was held in the Court House,
on last Tuesday evening. Now, did we
oonsider that patriotism consisted in ram-
pant war speeches, or bombastic declara-
tions—d:d we believe in robbing the people
of their money by taxation, to give freedom
to the regroes of the South, or like murder-
ing our own friends to enslave the white la-
borers of the North—did we feel like speak-
ing words of encouragement to those in
power, 1n the tyrannical course they are now
pursuing, and like telling them to go ahead
in plundering the treasury and ruining the
coantry to carry out the Chicago platform,
we might have acted differently: But we
kiow who the “maby citizens” were, and
what their designs. We remembered ¢Un-
10n”’ meetings, the calls of which were pub-
lished in this paper, that were turned by
the “many citizens” into political caucuses
snd places for abolition blackguards to vilify
and abuse Democrats, and felt confident that
this was for the same purpose and nothing
else.
The poor dried-up specimen of humanity,
that acts as leader of the “vigorous prosecu-
tion of the war” party, and who has the
power to change himself into “many citi-
zens,” whenever his stomach seems over-
loaded with bitterness and blackguardism,
must know that we are not publishing a pa-
per for his benefit or for the good of his par-
ty, and that we will insert calls for no such
meetings, either for ‘‘love or money,” If
he wishes to have us “presented” or ‘‘ar-
rested” again for “‘treason,”’ we suppose he
will have sufficient grounds to do so now,
because of our refusal to let the people know
what the “many citizens’’ desired of them.
We want the people to know that
Mr Bollmeyer, editor of the Dayton En;
pire, was shot dead, by Brown, for no oth
er reason than that ha was a true Demo-
crat, an honest and honorable man, and a
free independent and out spoken vindica-
tor of the Constitution. This infernal
seoundrel, like John Brown, only carried
into practice what the Abolitionists have
been preaching up. .
Brown called Bollmeyer a “G—-d d— trai-
tor and secessionist,” and then shot him
dead on the street. These are the fruits
of the teachings of the Abolition party dur-
ing the last eighteer months, Every hon-
est thinking man must by this time sec
the dangerous tendencies of the doctrines of
that party.—Mr. Bollmeyer was a gentle-
men, and a scholar, and a patriot; and his
assassination is one or the blackest crimes
on the record of insanity, and the Abolftion
party is responsible for his death. The
hopes of utter annihilation, we think, would
be much more consoliation to such men
than the hopes of immortality with such
blood-stained guilt upon their consciences,
Selinsgrove Times.
$77 No news from the Army.
Harbor Defences.
We noticed, a few days since, an article
in the Philadelphia Inquirer, urging upon
the government, (excuse us, if you please,
we meant the Abolition Tyranny now ruling
in Washington) the State and city of Phila-
delphia, the necessity of fortifying the banks
of the Delaware. The Inquirer asserts that
‘some vessel’’ was seen about two hundred
miles from the city, which was supposed by
the supposed persons that seen her, to be
the “rebel” steamer *‘ Alabama,” and that
said vessel might sail up the Delaware some
moonlight night and burn the city.
Now, look ye, Democrats, who have qui-
etly, for the sake of avoiding bloodshed,
born insult upon insult, had you, one year
and a half ago, even hinted at the necessity
of fortifying Philadelphia, you would have
been denounced as a “traitor,” and threat-
ened to oe hung—had you intimated that
the South was united and earnest, and that
they could not be whipped in three months
—that its resources, in many respects, were
as great as ours—that the people claiming
to be citizens of the Confederate States were
brave and active, and that it would require
vast armies, millions of dollars, snd excel-
leat gencralship to whip them, your necks
would have been in danger of getting a
tighter squeezing than did that of Haman.—
But a ‘“new pin” seems to have been ‘stuck
in the nose” of the howling ¢ Unionists” of
twenty months ago, and they are beginning
to sce throngh a glass whose lenses are
debt, destruction of property, death, mis-
ery, poverty and taxation.
But, tax payers of Centre county, there is
another phase to this urging of the abolition
press, to fortify the Delaware. They see
that the people will consent no longer to
carry on a war which can only result in ir-
reparable ruin. They know that the deter-
mination to compromise our difficulties in
some way or other, is rapidly taking the
place of the desire all along manifested to
subjugate the Southern States and hold them
as conquered provinces. = They feel that
their powcr is departing as their visions
of fat contracts and gold vanishes ; and,
now, as a last resort, they raiss a great cry
about the unprotected condition of our
Northern cities, hoping thereby, to filch a
few more dollars from the iahoring classes.
Every onc knows, that, considering the vil-
lainy of the administration contractors, it
would take ten millions of dollars to place
the batteries said to be necded along the
Delaware. There would be thousands of
mules and horses to purchase—grain and
hay to feed them—mnen to do the labor—
provisions and pay for them —waggons and
carts for transporting the heaviest kind of
canuon to mount the batteries—thousands
and thousands of dollars worth of powder
and balls, and hundreds of oth:r articles of
whick but few have any knowledge.
Such men as Cameron, Forney, Cum-
mings, and abolitionists of less notoriety,
but who have filled their pockets from the
Treasury and still sigh for more, will get
the contracts, and you laboring white men
will have to pay for it, not only in the way
of direct tax, but indirect tax in the shape
of 40 cents per pound for your coffee—30
cents per yard for your calico, and double
that for muslin, and everything else at the
rate of 40 per cent. tax to enrich villainy,
and carry on an abolition war, which can
be stopped as well now as it can five years
after this.
If an administration, which said at the
beginning, that three months of time, five
hundred thousand dollars, and seventy-five
‘housand men, were all that would be noc-
essary to retake the forts and enforce the
laws, is compelled now to build fortifica-
tions to protect our own cities, what may
we expect next year. Surely the war party
knows that the Union is no nearer restored
to-day than it was one year ago. If ic is,
why make costly preparations for defence ?
1f not, why continue on in this same course
at such fearful costs 2 Look to yourselves,
freemen, and beware of an Abolition Tyr.
anny.
DS.
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on our tablejand is truly a magnificent pub”
lication, not to be equalled by any.
‘Found in the Snow,” is a beautilul
picture, “Christmas ;”’ tableau, contam-
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ion Plate, containing seven figures, beau-
tifully colored, together with a variety of
other plates and patterns. The contribu-
lions are numerous, varied, and teresting,
Now is the time to raise clubs for 1863.
We have not room to give the fall pros-
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323 Chestnut St, Phiadelphia, Pa.
Election OQutrages in Delaware.
A bold attempt was made in Delaware to
overawe the voters and carry the State elec-
tion for the Republicans by military terror.
The administration thought it important
that a border slave State should present a
show of endorsing its emancipation policy.
idiers from other States, enlisted to fight
the rebels. wero used to repel Democrats
from the polls, and to frighten and coerce
timid voters, the following statement, cop-
ied from the Philadelphia Evening Journal,
presents a part of the facts :
¢¢ The information which we have from
Delaware shows that a most shameful out-
rage has been committed against the free-
dom of the elective rights of the people of
that State. On Monday afternoon four com-
panies of the Maryland Home Guards, un-
der Col. Wallace, (gentlemen whose patri-
otism prompt them to refuse peremptorily
to leave their Stato to fight their Southern
foes but not restrain them from the invasion
of a sister State for political purposes) en-
camped at Seaford.
Shortly afterwards three stearhboats load-
ed with soldiers, among whom were the
Sixth New York and the Twelfth Pennsyl-
vania Cavalry, arrived at the same town.—
Thence they were conveyed by railroad and
wagons lo every voting precinct in Kent
and Sassex counties, and except at Seaford,
where Gen. Wool was in person, placed un-
der the orders of the most unscrupulous ad-
vocates of the Abolition party. In some of
the precincts the Democrats were driven
away from the polls, as in Baltimore, Hun-
dred, in Sussex county ; in others the most
prominent and influential Democrats were
arrested aad kept under guard until the
polls were closed.
This occurred in Dover, Hundred, Kent
county, and in Dagsboro’, Hundred, Sus-
Sex county. In this latter Hundred, some
thirty Democrats were so treated, among
them Mr. Aaron B. Marvel, late Auditor of
the State, and the Democratic Sheriff elect.
1n Dover, the capital of the State, the sol-
diers made two bayonet charges, the first to
stop a fistieuff between two citizens, the
second in mere wantonness, when there was
no fighting.
The only disturbance which occurred at
these polls, was caused by the Hon. G. P.
Fisher, the Abolition candidate for Congress
who attacked and threw down a Democrat
named Weeks. In most of the precincts,
Democrats were not allowed to accompan
voters to the polls, while abolitionists too
forcible possession of all timid voters, sui-
rounded them with soldiers, and forced them
to vote their ticket.”
The fact that this unwarrantable interfer-
ence with the freedom of elections failed of
its purpose does not mitigate its guilt. The
Democratic candidates for Governor and
member of Congress are elected by small
majorities ; had the polls been free their
majority would have been 1500 or 2000, It
is consoting to know that this nefarious
scheme of carry an election for the admin1s-
tration by military terror proved abortive ;
but it is nevertheless an act which no right-
thinking man can contemplate without in-
dignation. The only safeguard of our rights
is in the fact that the defeat of the Republi-
can party was so general. If only tivo or
three of the smaller States, had gone Demo-
cratic, the election in those States would
probably have been annulied by the arrest
treason,—N. Y. World.
The Abolition Party.
That “old political harlot,” Daniel S.
Dickinson, of New York, now such a favor-
ite with the Abolitionists, drew the tollow-
ing graphic and life-like portrait of their
party, in a speech at Brooklyn some time
before his ¢‘conversion :’’
How is it with our political opponents ?
We bave none only in a portion of the
States. They are broken up, The dis-
jointed fragments of an army. The late
Whig party that battled so-—that glorious
old party with which we split so many lan-
ces—whereis it ¥ Its Clay and Webster
have gone to their rewards, and rest from
the agitations of life in the peaceful bosom
of the tomb. Their Choates, their Everett,
their Johnsons, their Pratts, their Parsons,
and their Guyers—where are they ? They
have tarned away from the factious party
that is left, and rallied around the Demo-
cratic party and the Constitution. And
what constitutes now the opposition to the
Democratic party ? A factious band in a
portion of the States, made up of the bad
deserters and outcasts from the Democratic
party—made up of fanatics, disappointed of-
fice seekers, proffligate priests, and mounte-
banks in general, who have congrated all
the bad elements of existence together, like
that drag-net which Scripture says was cast
into the sea and gathered of every kind, but
unlike that net, they have kept the bad and
thrown away the good. * * * Jf we
may believe their lips, they have great be-
nevolence and philanthropy, and are going
abroad seeking that they may do good ; but
the truth is, they are walking up and down
the earth like that spirit that has gone out
walking among dry places, seeing rest and
finding none, and finally returning with sev-
en other spirits more wicked than itself, to
make the last state of the people worse
than the firsc: and in my humble judgment
* * if Satan had been commissioned to
Scourge mankind, he could not have better
fulfilled his mission than by turning an ab-
olition disunionist and preachiag the doc-
trines they preach.
A more graceless set of politicians never
congregated. They are desperate men from
all parties—the lame, the halt and the
blind, gathered together ; and what are
they going to do ? "Going to help freedom !
Freedom for whom ? "Ther every effort
jeopardizes freedom ; and if only therr ef-
forts prevail, we would not long have a Sree
overnment. Fieedom for a few blacks. —
lurning aside from the great destinies of hu-
manity, leaving this country and the race to
whom its destinies were committed, to go
off in a crusade jeopardizing the institutions
of the country, violating the Constitution,
menacing the harmony and integrity of ev-
ery bond of Union, rather than slavery should
be extended. What do they care for sla-
very ¢ They would seek to rivet slavery
upon the limbs of thirty millions of people,
and upon humanity for all time to come, in
order that their mad, crude. incendiary ideas
should be carried out in reference toa few
blacks, i
of the new officers on tramped up charges of
remnants of the Whig party—made up of
[Prepared expressly for the Watcaman.]
0 Man, Who Art Thou?
OR
REFLECTIONS ON PEACR AND WAR.
BY JUSTICE.
(Continued from last Number.)
Under the influence which war produces
men may easily imagine the Leity to be
like themselves, covetous and cruel, impla-
cable and delighting in revenge, their cor-
ruption of hum being modified by the state
of their own minds. Thus they persuade
themselves that God hates whom they hate
and will aid them to destroy all those whom
they look upon as their enemies. For lay-
ing mside the commandments of God, ye
bold the traaition of men, as the washing
of pots and cups, and many other such like
things ye do. And full weil ye reflect the
commandments of God, that ye may keep
your own tradition.—Sr. MARK vir 8th and
Oth verse Hence the plea that war is sanc-
tioned by diviue authority, is made one of
the most available arguments in its favor,
one of the strongest defences of this iniqui-
tous system. The in fluence of the argu-
ment on the mind of the ignorant, tends to
inspire them with hatred towards their en-
emies, and urge them onward ia the werk
of death, consequently there is seldom war
in which effortsare now made to persuade the
multitude that the Almighty justifies them
in it and will enable them to carry it into
successful operation.
But I say unto which hear, Love your en-
emies, do good to them which hate you,—
Bless them that curse you, and pray for
them which despitefully use you. But love
ye your enemies, and do good and lend, ho-
ping for nothing again, and your reward
shall be great, and ye shall be the children
of the Highest, for he is kind unto the un.
thankful and to the evilr Be ye therefore
merciful. a8 your father also is morciful, as
your father also is merciful, Judge not,
and ye shall not be judged ; condemn not
and ye shall not be condemned, forgive and
ye shall be forgiven. —St. Luks vir, 27th,
28th, 35th, 36th and 37th verse.
Thus reads a portion of Christ's sermon
on the Mount, How docs the conduct and
actions of the christians of the present dag
agree with these injunctions, reader meditate
upon the one then take up the other and
what is the answer in your mind after a
calm and deliberate reflection, ah the myste-
ry of imquity, shadows forth with awful
lustre, upon your better judgement, and
with sorrow weighing heavily upon your
heart, what answer can be given. jAnd he
answered and said unto them, ¢f tell you
that if these should hold their peace, the
stones would immediately cry ous.” And
when he was come near, he beheld the city,
and wept over it.—Sr. Luks xix, 40th and
4lst. Yes, thet dear Saviour weeping ever
iniquity of Man. Man professing to believe
in the benign gospel of peace, enter the bat-
tle tleld under the delusive 1des that they
are fighting for the Almighty and the Al
mighty fighting for them, Chaplains are
stationed at the head cf opposing armies,
not, to proclaim the peaceable doctrine of
Christ, not to tel! men to fodow the exam-
ple of Jesus, not to incaleate the doctrine of
*‘peace on earth, and geod will to men,”
not to preach forgivness of injuries and love
to enemies, Lut to invoke the aid of the God
of love in the destruction of his creatures.
We hear them exciting of war, and urging
their hearers on to baitle; and what is
worse than all, they ascribe their blood-got-
ten victories to the power of Omnipiteace
after they have employed every means which
ingenuity could invent to destroy their un-
happy victims, is this not too horrible for
the contemplation of rational beings, Man
made after the image of his God, imbruing
his hands in the blcod of his brother. Tru-
ly the mystery of iniquity is now doing its
awful work, O man who art thou, yes stu-
dy who we are and for what purpose we are
piaced here, and when we do this under the
guide of the great head of the
Church as he has commanded, war will soon
cease, and the mystery of imquity will be
stripped of its delusive and contaminating
power.
Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hy-
pocrites, for ye devour widows houses, and
for a pretence make long prayers, therefore
ye shall receive the greater damnation, Ye
blind guides, which strain ata gnat, and
swallow a camel. Woe unto you, Scribes
and Pharisees hypocrites, for ye make clean
the outside of the cup and platter, but with-
in they are rull of extortion aud excess even
50 ye also outwardly appear righteous un-
to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy
and iniquity. —Sr+ MATHEW, Xx111, 14th 24th
25th and 28th.
When we contemplate the nature’of the
gospel of Christ, and consider that the du-
ty of his ‘ministers 1s to inculcate its obliga-
tions, to recommend the continual observ-
{ ance of its principles, and that its plainest
injunction requires love to enemies, who
official interference of war chaplains is a sol-
emn mockery of th: christian religion, and
that the practice of accompanying the victo-
ries obtained in war with the prayers and
and rejoicings of profissing christian peo-
ple, is an impious commandment, ‘Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God
in vain.”
When nations are at war, the press teems
with its spirit, the professed preacher of re-
ligion, prostrating his sacred calling, too
often becomes the miserable echo of the
same spirit, apd language as violent as it is
irreverently wicked, is employed to inflame
the very passions which it shoald be his
chief aim (0 subdue. Of latter times, wae
does not perceive that the appointment and |
sermons and war prayers have been of such
frequent occurence, that people in all the
different denominations in eur land, as well
as in foreign countries, are becoming dis-
gusted with their impiety, especialy as they
are made on the occasion of every battle by
both the contending parties. It matters
not how unjust or imquitous may be the
circumstances which have led to the war
or attended it, or how little mercy has been
shown to the vanquished, both parties con-
sider themselves in the right—hoth call upon
the same great Being to give suceess to
their arms, and both retarn thanks to him
for his favor and assistance. The following
quotations will show the manner mm which
war is defended, + and divine authority
claimed for the custom by some of the pro-
fessed ministers of religion, in former wars
but very applicable to the present one.
Go then, ye defenders of your country,
advance with alacrity into the field, where
God himself musters the hosts of war.—
Religion is too much interested in your suc-
cess not to lend you her aid. She will shed
over this enterprise her selectest influence
I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes
legislators and patriots, of every age and
country, are bending from their elevated
seats to witness this contest, as if they were
incapable, till it be brought to a favorable
issue of enjoying this etcrnal repose. En-
joy that repose, illustrous mortals ; your
mantle fell when you ascended, and thous.
ands, enflamed with your spirit, and im-
patient to tread in your steps, are ready to
swear by him that sitteth upon the throne,
and liveth forever and ever, freedom in her
last asylum, and never desert ;that cause,
which you have sustained by your labors,
and cemented with your blood,”
“And thou sole ruler among the children
of men, to whom the shields of the earth be-
long,—gird on thy sword, thou most mighty
Go forth with our hosts.in the day of battle,
impart in addition to their hereditary valor,
that confidence of success which springs
from thy preserrce. Pour into their hearts
the spirit of departed heroes, Inspire them
with thine own, and while led by thy haf,
and fighting under thy banners, open thou
their eyes to behold, in every valley, and in
every plain, what the prophet beheld by the
same illumimation—chariots of fire and hor-
ses of fire, then shall the strong be as tow,
and the maker of itas a spark, and they
shall burn together, and none shall quench
them. &e. &c.
The Archbishop of Canterbury intro-
duced into the service of the Church of En-
gland sn additional war prayer, thanking
the Almighty for the victories of that na-
tion in India. The battle on the Sutlej,
was one of the most terrific in the annals of
modern warfare. It is reported that 30,000
weic lefy dead on the fleld. One would
think this terrible slaughter would have
been a sufficent carnival for the war-god.—
But no! Moloch must have more sacrifices
more human victims to satiate his appetite.
and another feast is prepared for him by the
same hands. After the victory was com-
plete, 5000 more were driven into the river
and drowned. One of the English journals
says. “The battle vegan at six and was
over at eleven o'clock. The hand in hand
combat commenced at nine, and lasted
scarce two hours. The river was fall of
sinking men,—the streams being literally
red with blood, and covered with the bodies
of the slain. At last the musket ammuni-
tion becoming exhausted, the infantry fell
to the rear, the horse artillery playing grape
till not a man was visible within range—no
compassion felt or pity shown!’ A mission-
ary in India, speaking of the same says,
It may truly be said that Calcutta is a city
of mourning, as there is scarcely any one
that has not to deplore the loss of a relation
or friend, or acquaintanoe, who has fallen in
battle.” The following isan extract from
the prayer, used on account of this victory,
as composed by the above named Archbish
op:
“0, Lord God of Uosts, in'whose hand is
power and might irresistible, we thiue un-
worthy servants, most humbly acknowledge
thy goodness in the victories lately vouch-
safed to the armies of oar Sovereign. over a
host of barbarous invaders, who sought to
spread desolation over fruitful and prosper-
ous provinces, enjoying the blessings of
peace under the protection of the British
Crown. We bless thee, O merciful Lord for
having brought to a speedy and prosperous
issue, a war to which no occasion had been
given, by injustice on our part, or appre-
hension of injury at our hands. To thee, ©
Lord, we ascribe the glory. It was thy
wisdom which guided the council, thy pow-
er which strengthened the hands of those
whom it pleased thee to useas thy instiu-
ments in the discomfiture of the lawless ag-
gressor, and the frustration of his ambitious
designs. From thee alone cometh the vic-
tory, and the spirit of moderation and mer-
cy in the day of success. Continue we
beseech thee, to go forih with our armies
wheresoever they may be called into battle
ina righteous cause, and dispose the hearts
of their leaders to exact nothing more from
the vanquished, than is necessary for the
maintenance of peace and security against
violence and rape.”
The idea of the Deity “guiding the coun-
cil” and strengthening tho hands,” of an
army, to fire volley after volloy of grape
shot and cannon balls into a mass of sink-
ing men, until ¢“ the river was literally red
with blood, and covered with the bodies of
the slain,” and then to call this ¢‘the spirit
of moderation and mercy in the day of suc-
cess,” furnishes gn example of delusion, if
not *‘spiritual wickedness in high places,”
which, for the honor ot the christian reli-
gion, it ia hoped will remain without paral-
lel.
It is very clear that a Deity to whom
such prayers are made, cannot be the God
of mercy and love. It must be ti, God of
war alone, that can delight to hear them.—-
When will professing christians cease to
worship this idol, when will they believe 1a
the doctrine of Jesus--Blessed are the mer-
ciful, for they shall obtain mercy—blessed
are the peace-makers for they shall be call-
ed the children of God.
it have been for our dear country at this mo-
ment, had the peace measures that were
offered in Congress prevailed stead of the
war declaration ; do you who have preached
no compromise stop to think of the misery
your actions have produced, look around you
and what do you behold ?
and destruction under the Demon War, for
over eighteen months has it been doing is
awful work. Thousands upon thousands
have already fallen victims to the ruthless
hand of this demon, the fruit of wicked po-
litical corruption.
itnotso?* Yes, verily, is it so.
have and are now weeping for those that
were near and desr to them. Father, sons,
brothers, children and mothers co-mingle in
awful strife, beyond the powerof words to
express.
Ah happy would
Misery, death,
Who can deny it ? Is
Many
Prayers are publicly offered upon the oc.
casion of victory, and the armies of the mna-
tion are encouraged in the work of shedding
human blood, by professors of the gospel of
peace, who se endeavoring tocover up its
deformity with the cluak of religious influ-
ence. ‘A sermon was preached to a volun-
teer company at the time of the war with
Mexico, by a certain Henry Slicer, a minis-
ter of the M. E. Church, an extract of which
is here given.
horting the men to ‘endure hardness as true
soldiers.
war, because the country needed their ser-
vices.” He told them the way of duty was
the way obsafety, and urged them to pay no
heed to those who would try to indoctrinate
the people with the idea that it was a sin
against God to go to war.”
civil authorities send you to battle, obey
them.” He declared, “ut to le a leading
principle of christianity, to be ready to stand
up, life or death, for our country,”’ and
added
for his country, was not to be trusted with
the saving of his own 2oul.”
says the speaker, ‘who fighis the hardest
when the blows fall the thickest, and prays
sincerely to the God of Battles, is the best
soidier, and the best christian.” He exhort-
ed them to prayer, he besought them to em-
ulate the faith and virtue of the Centurian,
and no harm should befall thems Their
battalion of {500 men seemed but a handfull
compared to those, which it was supposed,
would be brought against them, when they
reached the land of the Aztecs.
er mind,” said he ; ‘Gideon, with, but 300 ~
men, vanquished the Midianitish host, and
his battle cry was, ‘the sword of the Lord
and of Gideon.” ™*
“‘to the bright examples of Gideon and the
Lowman Centurian ; give your hearts to God
in prayer, your bullets to the foe, and you
will come off more than conqueror.”
The speaker began by ex-
The country has called them to
“When the
‘that the man who would not fight
“The man,’
“But nev-
“Look well,”” said he,
Such is the manner in which war 13 de-
fended and encouraged, by those who plead
divine authority for the practice.
Jesus endeavored to ‘indoctrinate’ the peo-
ple with the idea, that it was contrary to
the will of God, to hate ther cuemics, or to
return evil for evil, and both by precept and
example enforced this great truth.
Kingdom is not of this world, else my secr-
vants would fight.”
calling himself a minister and servant of
Christ, warning the people against these
who are teaching the doctrine that it is
wrong to hate our cnemies, and to go to
war, and telling them that the man who
‘fights the bardest is the best christian.”
© My
But here is a man
Fellow professors of the christian name,
whom will ye believe 2 Jesus of Nazareth,
or such teachers as these 2 You cannot be-
lieve both, because the sentiments they in-
culcate areas much opposed to each ctheras
light is to darkness.
If those who contend for the divine au-
thority of war, would state, in plain lac.
guage, what their doctrine implies, the sen-
timent would have but few advocates among
the reflecting portion of mankind.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
PLD PH- eT
Prerry Goon. —The following conversa-
tion took place at a public dinner table one
day last week between a lady and a gentle-
man. .
Laky.—¢It is astonishig that with an im.
mense Union army lying in Maryland, these
rebels cannot be kept out of Pennsylvania.
Is there no way to prevent these raids into
ou. terirtory 2’
Gent.—¢ Certainly there 15.”
Lady—¢ Well pray tell me how"
Gent—Why, let Old Abe issue a pro-
clamaticn forbidding the rebels from enters
ing the State.”
7 Angry friendship is not unfrequently
ag bad as calm emnity.
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near a lovely woman, when the company
around were proposing conundrams to each
other*
said:
turning to his companion he
‘Why is a lady unlike a mirror ?’
She ‘gave it up.’ g
‘Because,’ said the rude fellow ‘a wirror
riflects wi hout speaking, a lady speaks
without reflecting.’
‘Very good,’ said she. ‘Now answoyme.
Why is a man unlike a mirror ?’ %
«I cannot tell you.’ : 3»
‘Because the mirror is polished” and the
man 18 not.’
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