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THE GETTYSBURG COMPILER,
- A Democratic "tangy Journal,
Ii PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY MOBXO,
BY HENRY L STAHLE,
rrlttft is Nighty, and w g Prevail."
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TEEMS OF PUBLICATION.-1111 NI per ESP.
Mom, If paid 'tartly IN ADVANCE—SS 50 per SW.
DOM if nut wad In ad yam*. No suliseriptlon dis
continued, unless at the option of the publisher,
luau all arrerrrgog are paid.
ADVERT DIME& NTS Inserted at usual ndsei.
JOB PRINTING of all kinds done with neatness
smut dispatelt.
OFFICE in South Baltimore street, between
Middle and High, near the Poet Offiee—" Otoupt
ter Printing Oftlee" on the sign.
Professional Garda
Dr. D. 8. Peffer,
ABBOTTSTOWN, Adams county, continues
the practice of his profession in all Its
lrraaches, and would respectfully incite all
persons alticted with any old standing dis
eases to call and consult him.
Oct. 3, 1864. tf •
Dr. IP. C. Wolf,
yr APING located at EAST BERLIN, Adams
county, hopes that bystrict attention to
hi 3 professional duties he mayperit a share of
the public patronage. [Apr. 2, '66. If
Dr. 0. Z. Goldsborough,
HAIIPTONI, Adams county, Pa., renews
his offer of professional services to the
pubis, and thbse requiring medical and sue.
It ice Lid will flad It-to their interest to con
sult h.im. play 21,1888. tf
Dr. J. W. C. O'Neal's
OPPICE and Dwelling, N. E. corner of Bal
tintore and High streets, near Presbyte
rian Church, Gettysburg, Pa.
N0v.30. 1883.
,tf,
. Eimer,
raa
.PING located op the Hanover road, ONE
IFIL I? &ST OF GRA NITErHILL P. 0.,
iutpleasant township, AdaTs county, Pa.,
offers his professional. services to the public.
line 18, IBC6. .3sn
Drs. A. B. Bill & F. Herman —
ITAvE assochttea thernfldves in the practice
of Ifedicine and Surgery, and respectfully
tender their professional services to the chi.
rens of Petersburg and vicinity.
Petersburg, Y. 8., July 2, Ish:G.
7. Lawrence MIL X D.,
t \-*'"
11011 - AS his office one,
It door west of, the
Lutheran church in
Chambershurg street, and opposite Dr. C.
'Horne .'s whe•e those wishing to have
a•ty Dental_9o.3r.ttiort iterlorm•d are respect
fully invited to call. Rarenexce: Drs. Hor
ner,_Rev. Krauth, D. D., Rev. H. L.
Daugher, D. D., Rev. Vrof. Y. Jacobs, D. D.,
Prof. 11. L. Suever.
Gettysburg, April it, '53.
Edward B. Buehler,
ATTORN'SY AT LAW, will faithfully and
. proruptly attend to all business entrust
ed to him. lie s,Aalts the German language.
Office at the same place, in South Baltimore
street, near Forney's drug store, and nearly
opposite Banner is Ziegler's store
Gettysburg, March 20.
J. C. Neely,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.—Particttler eaten.:
tion paid to collection of Pensions,
nty,.and flack-pay. Office in the S. E.
corner of the Diamond.
Gettysburg, April 6, 186 - 3. tf
D. McCona:ughy,
A TTORN V( AT LAW, (ollit.e one door west
or Buehler's drug and book store, Cham
ber.o.trg-street,) ATTORNEY OD SOLICITOR FOR
PATENTI •yu tassicres. Bounty Le it War
r tilts, Back-p* anspenddi Claims, and all
other claims against the Government at Wash
ington, D. C.; also American claims in Eng
land. Lan Warrants located and sold, or
bought, and highest prices given. Agents en
tged in loctting wart-tints in low.t, Illinois
and other western States. ad`Apply to him
Terionallv or bd letter.
Gettysburg, Nov. 21, '53.
Law Partnership.
WA. DUNCAN A J. 11. 'WRITE,
• ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will promptly attend to all legai business
entrusted to them, including the procuring of
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, and all other
clatms against the United States and State
Gorernmeuts.
Office in North West Cornet of Diamond,
tESttysburg, Penn's.
April 3,1863. tt
yy Globe Inn,
rl TOME AT., NEAR TUC DIAMOND,
TT YBB UR G, PA.—The undersigned
G
would most respectfully inform his nu
merous friends and the public generally, that
he hes purchased that long established and
well known Hotel, the "Globe Inn," in York
street, Gettysburg, and will spare no effort to
conduct it in a manner that will nbt detract
from its former high reputation. His table
will have the beat the market can afford—his
chambers are spacious and comfortle—and
be has laid in for his bar a full stock' of wines
and liquors. There is large stabling attached
to the Hotel, which will be attended by Atten
tive bottlers. It will be his constant endeavor
to render the fullest satisfaction to his guests,
making his: house as near a home to them as
possible. He asks a share of the public's pa
tronage, determined as he is to deserve a large
part of it. Remember, the "Globe Inn" is in
York street, but near the Diamond, or Public
Square. SAMUEL WOLF.
April 41864. tf
Itallioad °use,
NEAR THE DEPOT,
HANOVER, YORK CO., PA.
The undersigned would respectfully inform
his numerous friends and the public generally,
that he has leased the Hotel in Hanover, near
the Depot, formerly kept by ?Sr-Jeremiah
Kohler, and will spare no effort to conduct it
In a manner that will give general satisfaction.
His table will: have the best the markets can
afford—hie chambers are spacious and com
fortable—and he has laid in for his bar a full
etock of choice wines and liquors. There is
Stabling for horses attached to the Hotel. It
will be his constant endeavor to render the
tallest satisfaction to his guests, making his
house as near a home to them as possible.—
Els asks a share of the public patronage, de
termined as he is to deserve a large part of it.
itentember the Railroad House, near the De
pot Hanover, Pa. A. P. BAUGUER.
Oct. 2 1865. tt
, Cannon's
,ll AupLs Ivo II 1E 8,
A
a Baltimore street,Ne irly Opposite the Court
Rouse,
GETT'YSBURG, PA
Every description of work executed In the
finest style of the art.
June 4, AO. tf
Great Reduction in Priam
F AIINESTOCK BROTHERS
are now selling
GOOD CALICOES AT 12} CENTS,
REST UNBLIRACIIBD MUSLIN AT 28 CTS.,
andel! other Goode is proportioa.
If yon want.,CHBAP Goo4a, now Is the tim
to buy them.
Cs st onee.
FARNESTOOK BROTHERS.
Gettysburg, Mar. 26, 1866.
Reduced. Prices.
lAMB
G , CABINET AND AMERICAN OR.
Superior tuned 'I octave PIANOS
E. $350 upwards. ORGANS from sso
upwards. All instruments selected, re
commended and sold by me, sddltio wally guar.
altered. Illustrated circulars sent by mail,
Oben desired. P. BENTZ,
No. 30 East Market Street, York, Pa.
Mar. 13, 1866.
rrepay Dr. IL HORNER'S Tonic 'anti Alters
stro Nowlin's, for HORSES and CATTLE
red aiiCsold only at, his Dv/4 SION.
Jammu RS. 1864.
41.1-
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p
115
BY IL J. STABLE,
Soluble Poellle Guano.
200 LBS. SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
contains 70 lbs. animal ngalteraielding
7 to 8 lbs. ammonia.
Also 80 to 901bs.earay bone Phosphate of line,
30 lbs. of which are soluble piVasphale.
It combines all the advantages of the kat
brand, of Super Phosphate, with those of Pe.
rnvian Guano.
By reason of its greater concentration, we re
commend 20 per ct. leas by weight to be used
per acre, than of any fertiliser costing the
same per ton ; and no more per acre than of
those selling at 20 per et.. more per ton.—
Hence its economy.
This guano weighs 65 lbs. per bushel, hence
in applying it -farmers Must be governed by
weight and not by bulk, for it is much lighter
than the Super Phosphates. Esery cargo duly
inspected.
JOAN S. REZSE k - CO ,
Gtllllll4ll, AGIIISTII 105 *es SOUTH,
. 71 South &Wet; BalSimore.
"Flour of Bone."
WE will give a Rooney guarantee of the
purity of this article. It is pure on
steamed, unburnt bens, reduced to the fieesus of
?four, which adds 100 per ct. to its value. It
is as gawk and defier as acid dissolved bone,
hence its valve is vastly greater, because it
contains neither acid nor water, which peces•
eerily add weight, and reduce the quantity of
valuable elements. - We recommend 250 lbs.
to be used in place of 300 lbs. Super Phosphate
or dissolved bone.
JOIIN S. REESE k CO.,
allitEAL AMBITS 808 Bill Scum,
71 South Street, Baltimore.
/11011eCerdy k Diehl, Agents, Gettyabnig
Mu. 12, 1868. Sin
Cabinet Furniture.
TAE subscribers hereby inform their cus
tomers and the public generally, that
they have now on hand, and continue to man
ufacture to order,CABINT FURNITURE,
which, for style and durability, finish and
price, will compete with any in the county.—
Our present stock consists of every variety of
Furuiture usually kept in a first class Furni
ture Ware Room. Fashionable, ornamental
or plain Furniture manufactered in the most
substantial manner, by most experienced
workmen, and at the lowest cash prices. _
UNDERTAKING
Having a new — Hearse, particular attention
will be given to this branch of their businesi.
They are epared to !lake and furnish Coffiris
of any de fired quality, and attend Funerals
at the shortest notice—and on such terms as
cannot fail to please all. r
The subscribers return their , thanks to the
public for the liberal patronage extended to
them in the past, and hope to meri t and teceive
a continaance of public patronage.
chop and Ware Room third building east
of the Square. H. FETE 4; BRO.
Lit/14340w/, April 16, 1868. tf ,
Pianos t Pianos !
PIANOS I—The undlersigned would respect
fully inform the public that he can furnish
JANOS of the following manufacturers, or
those of other make, it desired, at the lowest'
possible prices: .
calincnatNo k SONS.
DECKER BROS.
HAZLETON BROS.
HAINES BROS.
GEO. STECK.
A. H. GABLE & CO.
STEIN WAG k SONS.
igifirParticulat attention is given to the se
lection of Pianos; and when so selected, in ad
tion to the manufacturers' guarantee, the Pianos
are guaranteed by me.
MASON & HAMLIN
CABINET ORGANS AND MSLODIANS
The recent improvements in these instru.
ments are such as to fully warrant saying they
are FAR SUPERIOR to any other make. One
of the best t evidences of their merit is, that
their Improvements are imit tied by other
makers. The new style,
four atop organ, have
a Sub- Elassitnd Octave Couplet, making It an
instrument especially adapted to Church and
Sabbath School purposes.
DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS
will be sent by mail to petsons desiring them.
Pianos tuned regularly. Pianos taken in 'ex-
Fhange. PETER BENTZ,
No. 30 East Market St., - York, Pa
Jane 12, 1865. ly
Fresh Arrival.
R ATS, OAPS, BOOTS 1c SHOES.
COBEAN k CO.
huvejust received and opened another splendid
assortment of HATS, CAPS, BOOTS and
SHOES, for Summer wear, which they are
selling at very low prices considering the
times. The latest styles of Sommer Hats and
Caps, of every description and price. iz
Boots and Shoes, of superior make, andli 4
warranted to fit, always on hand. Work
made to order and repairing done on short no
tice, by experienced workmen. Also,
HARNESS MAKING,
carried on in all its branches. Persons want
ing anything in this line would do well to call.
tor Don't forgOt the old stand in Chambers
burg street, if you want Bargains.
COBEA.N At CRAWFORD.
Jane 19, 1865.
Fresh Supply.
NEW GOODS AT REDUCED PRICES
A. SCOTT St SONS have just received
another fine assortment of NEW GOODS, Con
si4ing, in part, of Cloths, Cassimeres, Cassi
pits, Kentucky Jeans, and Tweeds, for Gen
tlemen's wear. Also, a fine assortment of
LADIES' DRESS GOODS
Our stock has been selected with great care,
and we are prepared to Bell as cheap as any
other establishment in the country. We ask
the public to give us a call and judge 'for
themselves. We defy competition, both as to
quality and price. A. SCOTT k SUNS.
April 2, 1866.
Carriage-making Businera.
TILE war being over, the undersigned have
resumed the
CARRIAGE-MAKING BUSINESS,
at their old stand, in East Middle street,
GETTYSBURG,
where they are again prepared to put up work
in the most fashionable, substantial, and supe
rior manner. A lot of new and second-band
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, &C.,
on hand, which they will dispose of at the
lowest prices; and all orders will be supplied
as promptly and satisfactorily as possible.
Igar REPAIRING,.
done with dispatch, and at cheapest' rates.
A large lot of new and. old HARNESS on
band for sale.
Thankful for the liberal patronage hereto
fore enjoyed by them, they solicit sod will en
deavor to deserve a large share in the future.
DANNER k ZIEGLER.
Judy 10, 1865. tf '
Buggies and Carriages.
rr HIS WAY I THIS WAY I—The under
]. sigr.ed is engaged in the Carrisge-making ,
business, at the corner of Chambersburg and
West streets, Gettysburg, and invitee all who
may need anything in his line to give him
call. He puts up, in the very best manner,
Firing-top and other BUGGIES, and all the
different styles of CARRIAGES. With a full
knowledge of the business, and a determine.
tton to give satisfaction, the public can rely
upon his jobs being good. He will endeavor
to deserve a large share of patronage, and
hopes to receive it.
REPAIRING done at the shortest notice,
and onmost reasonable terms. ISPCountry
produce will be taken in exchange for Work.
CHARLES E. GILBERT,
Gettysburg, June 4, 1886. tf
dr.rIJRII SILVER WARE and
SILVER-PLATED WARE
o yery best avalih, a new assortment just
reecired. Call and see it. J. BXVAN,
Opposite the Bask, cietSpabarg.
Well-Improved Farm,
TN JEFFERSON COUNTY, VA.
ion SALE
A'
Desiring to change my business, I offer for
sale the FARM upon which I reside, 3 ,miles
southeast of Charlestown, Jefferson county,
Vs.., and 2 miles from the Shenandoah river,
containing about 350 ACRES OF LIME
STONE LAND, 60 in fine Timber under good
fencing. The improvements are first rate.
The DWELLING was finished in
1860, and contains 14 rooms. Int
The out-buildings are of a char. 11
actor to suit the farm, and coo—
prise a good BARN, Corn and Carriage House,
Quarters, Tenents' Houses, Brick Smoke and
Ash Houses, Stone Spring House, Poultry
Houses, &c., and all under cypress roofing.
Two fine Springs near the house, one in the
yard; cistern at the door; never-failing
stream through the farm, passing through the
barn-yard; 2 young orchards of choice fruit,
containing about 250 trees.
I would call the attention of any one wish
ing a well improved farm to this property—
which can be divided into two farms, wit.
buildings on each, and fine water. Any per
son wishing to see the land Will call on D.
Humphreys h Co., in Charlestown, who will
direct them to it.
iii. LAW. BOOFF
July 9, )866
PUBLIC SALE.
THE subscriber will sell at Public Sale, at
his residence, in Gettysburg, on TUES
DAY, the 21st day of AUGUST next, the fol
lowing Personal Property, viz:
One Horse, 2 Mules, I large sized Jul, I
six-horse broad-tread Wagon, 1 four-horse
narrow tread Wagon, I Spring Wagon, 2 Lime
Beds, 2 Feed Troughs, 15 setts Horse Gears,
Breechbands and Front Gears, Housings, Col
lars and Bridles, fire-horse Line, 2 Wagon
Saddles, 2 Fifth Chair's, 1 Log Chain, 3 Spend
ers, lot of Single and Double Trees. Also,
old Lumber, Windows, Shutters : Doors,
Boards, &c., &c.
iterS iN to, commence at 1 o'clock on said
day, when attendance will be given and terms
made known by _ . _
SAMUEL SEREST
July 30, 1866. to
Jury List ( Sor August Court.
GIIAND JURY
Monntpleasant—John L. Jenkins, (Foreman,
Jacob Sanders, George Howard. •
Strisban—Henry Bucher, Peter Healey.
Hamiltonban—Reuben Stem, Rudolph Rusk.
Union—Enoch Lefever.
•
Tyr/Ise—John Bich°ltz.
Franklin- I -Jacob Rich°ltz, Henry Miltenber
ger.
Berwick tp.--Samnel Brown.
Littlestown—Samuel Weikert.. -
Butler—David S. Toot. f
Gettysburg—to. B. Picking.
Reading—Robert M. Dicks, Conrad Spangler
Freedom—David Rhodes.
Latiinore—Mirhael Ebersole.
Menallen—lienry D. Orner.
Berwick bor.—Theodore Pflieger.
Cumberland—George Spangler of A.
Liberty—David Eiker.
alountjoy—Elijah Eckenrode. - •
GENERAL JURTI.4
Anntingfon—George Wierman of M., Alfred
hiller, Abraham Meals, Jacob Sheaffer, Isaac
Rowe Joseph Smith.
Cumberland—Jacob Maring, George Maring of
'J., Abraham Plank, Henry S. Toot.
Menallen—Joshua Taylor, Elisha Pedrosa.
Hamilton—George Laugh, Silas Miller.
Germany—Jacob IClonk, Ephraim tilenchy.
Franklin—Elias Spangler, Johi Deardorff, Mi-
chael Schlosser, Francis Will.
Latiniore— George B. Brant, George ,L. Dear-
doff, Benjamin Liveleberger.
Ifamiltonban—Daniel Biesecker, Jtseph Gel
bath, James H. Marshall.
Monn tpleasant—And Few Howard, 4oseph E
Deader, Henry Weikert, Jr.
Iteading—Wm. H. Dicks, Andrew S. Myers
Samuel Overholtzer..
Berwick tp.—Jacob Souibeer, Martin Bechtel
Butler—George L. Kime, John Schlosser, John
Hanes.
Orford—Daniel Heßeel, Peter Falser, George
Smith, John Henry Myers. ,°
Union—Abraham Hostetter John Kindig.
Highland—Jeptha Dubs; Lehman Pfoutz.
Littlestoin—Joseph Barker, Henry Rahter.
Mountjoy—John Blocher, William Cownover.
Straban—Joseph Holtz, Henry Tate.
Cottowagn—Samuel Schwartz, John Weaver,
Michael Belly.
Tyrone—John De lap, HeseMeth Snyder.
Gettysbnrg-.Alexander Spangler, S. G. Cook.
Liberty—Jacob Krise.
Freedom—John E. Plank.
July 23, 1868. to
Hanover B. Railroad.
MIME TABLE.—On and after Friday, Nov
24th, 1865, passenger trains on the Lien
over Branch It alroad will leave as follows :
FIRST TRAIN, (which makes connection
with three trains on the Northern Central
Railway at the Junction,) will leave Hanover
at 9 00 A. SI, for York, Baltimore, Harrisburg,
and intermediate stations.
Ser-This train returns to Hanover at 12 M.
and arrives at Gettysburg at 1 P. N.
SECOND' TRAIN leaves Hanove4 at 2.20 P.
M., and arrives at the Junction at 3.10 P. M.,
connecting with the Mail Train South, which
arrives at Raltinsore at SP. M. Passengers by
this Train for York lay over at the Junctio
until 6.12 P. M.
Passengers fearing Baltimore for Hanover,
Hettysbare, and Littlestown, will take tither
.the Mail Train at 9 A. M., or the Fast Line at
12.10 P. M. JOSEPH LEIB, Agent.
Dec. 18, 1865.,
Howard Association,
fIfLADELPtIiA, PA.—Diseases of the
Urinary and Sexual Systemv—new and
re iable treatment. Also the BRIDAL CHAM
BER, an Essay of Warning and Instruction,
sent in sailed envelopes, free of charge. Ad
dress Dr. J. SiCiLLIN HOUGHTON, Howard
Alsociation, No. 2, South Ninth Street, Phila
delphia, Pa. [Oct. 2, 1865. ly
The Far Famed
6rricrWRIZS4L CLOTHES WRINGER."—
U Besides the great saving of Labor, the
saving in the wear and tear of clothing in a
single year, more than =cants to the price of
this Wriager. It is strange that any family
should be willing to do without it. For sale
at FAFINESTOCK BROS., — and at O. H. BETH
LEE'S. [Feb. 19.
Lawrence D. Dietz At Co.
WWIIOLBSALS
DEALERS IN
FANCY GOODS,
NOTIONS, -
HOSISBY and
VARIETIES,
No. 308 West Baltimore Street,
Between 'Toward & Liberty Streets,
May 7, 18 . 64. Blltimore, Md.
Cheese! Cheese t
SWITZSE, Limberger and English Cheese,
can always be had at
' ICALBPLEISOEPS,
Jane 11. nest door to the Post Office.
PRICES REDUCED to suit the times at the
Excelsior Skylight Gallery.
I. G. TYSON.
DR:HORNRW3-FRAGRANT MYRRH pre
serves the Teeth, cures all diseases of the
gums sad purifies the breath.
ALL kinds of PICTURES, large and small.
neatly and correctly copied at the Steel
dor. L G. TYSON.
§:GAR CURED HAIIS.—A fresh supply
just received. A paling article and for sale
• pap. STRAOKHOUSICK A WLSOTZKY.
ADISSt MEN TRIJOUNGB, in great la. L
rieth st . • EXIMIGKIL
GETTYSBURG, PA., MONDAY, AUG. 20, 1866.
tshstrb P intrg.
CAMPAIGN SONG
[Trice:—" That's What's the Matter.")
We're on the road our Fathers trod,
No more the spy, with treacherous nod,
Can wields Despot's cruel rod,
And that's what's the matter.
The men whose slanders round us new,
Who Spied, and lied, and mobbed us too,
Can't do just as they used to do—
And that's what's the matter.
Cm:oats: That's what's the matter„'
Their mobs have had to scatter,
When Andy shot,quacks went to pot
And that's what's the matter.
Bustles, Provos, Pimps, and wage, .
And thieves, who stole our money , bag!,
Don't want us now to "hist our Haim"
And that's what's the matter.
But always to the Union, true,
We'll not desert, because they do,
Here goes the old Red, White and Blue,
And that's what's the matter.
Cuonus : That's what's the matter, he
"Sustain the President," they said,
"Uphold the Union's drooping head,"
Bat nqw they wish that both were dead,
And that's what's the matter. ,
The "President shall be sustained,"
By faith and loyalty, unfeigned,
And Shoddy be to Union chained,
And that's what's the matter.
Cllours: That's what's the matter, &c.
We're for the Union, as before,
The Constitution, and no more,
We swear the oath Old Jackson swore,
And that's what's the matter.
The tratitorou 'ltutnp,' If need, must feel
The People's wrath, the People's steel!
They shall not harm the Public weal,
And that's what's the matter.
CHORUS : That's what's the matter, Se.
We've heard Thad's whip in Congress crack,
v . & re seen the 'niggers' at his back,
He hates the White and loves the Black, ,
And that's what's the matter.
But don't you hear the white men shout!
Old Thad and Charles are now played out,
And the great Fifteen nava got the gout!
And that's what's the mutter:
CHORUS: That's what's the matter, 4e,
Mistrilan2
LI?
A GREAT LETTER.
POLITICAL PARSONS ON THE BACH.
Judge Bleek's Re i rty v Z the Rev. Attired
Polities In the Pulpit Handled without
Gloves.
To the Reverend Alfred Nevin, D. D
MY DEAR SIR: Your letter 'addressed
to me through the Philadelphia Evening
Btelletindisappoints me ; because I did not
expect it to come In that way, and because
it does not cover' the subject at issue be
tween us. But if lam silent your friends
will say, with some show of reason, that
you have vindicated " Political Preach
ing" so triumphantly that all opposition
is confounded. I must, therefore, speak
freely in reply. In doing so, I mean to
say nothing'inconsistent with my great
respect for tour high character in the
church and in the world. The admirable
style and temper of your own communi
cation deserve to be imitated.
I fully concede the right you claim for
clergymen to select their own themes and
handle them as they please. You say tru
ly that neither lawyers nor physicians nor
any other order of men have the least au
thority to control you in these particulars.
I But you will not deny that this Is a priv
ilege which may be abused; you express
ly admit that some clergymen have abus
ed it, "and by doing so did more than
any other class of men to continence and
continue the late rebel! io n." While, there
fore, we can assert no power to dictate
your conduct, much less to force you, we
are surely not wrong when we entreat you
to impose upon yourselves those restric
tions which reason and revelation have
shown to be necessary for the good of the
church and the safety of civil society.
I - acknowledge that your commission Is
avery broad one. Yon must " declare the
whole counsel of God," to the end that
sinners may be convinced and converts
built up in their most holy faith. Truth,
justice, temperance, humility, mercy,
peace, brotherly kindness, charity—the.
whole circle of the Christian virtues—
must be assiduously taught to your hear
ers; and if any of them be inclined to the
opposite vices, you are to denounce them
without fear, by private admonition, by
oven rebuke, or by a general delivery of
the law which Condemns them. You are
not bound to pause in the performance of
this duty because it may offend a power
ful ruler or a strong political party. Nor
should you shrink from it when bad men,
for their own purposes, approve what you
do. Elevate the moral character,'
en
lighten the darkness, and purify the hearts
of those who are under your spiritual
charge, at all hazards ; for this is the
work which your great Task-master has
given you to do, and he will admit no
excuse for neglecting it.
But this is precisely what the political
preacher is not in the habit of doing. He
directs the attention of his hearers away
from their own sins to the sins, real 'or
imputed, of other people. By teaching
his congregation that they are better than
other men, he fills their hearts with self- ,
conceit, bigotry, spiritual pride, envy,
hatred, malice and all uncharitableness. ,
Instead of the exhortation,
which they
need, to take the beam out of their own
eye, he incites them to pluck the mote
from their brother's. He does not tell
them what they shall do to be saved, but
he instructs them very carefully how they
shall act for the destruction of others.—
He rouses and encourages to the utmost
of his ability, those brutal passions which
result in riot, bloodshed, spoilation, civil
war, and general corruption of morals.
You commit a grievous error in sup
posing that politics and religion are so
mingled together that you cannot preach
one without introducing the other.—
Christ and his apostles kept them perfect
ly separate. They announced the great
facts of the Gospel to each individual
whom they addressed. When these were
accepted the believer was told to repent
and be baptized for the remission of his
sins, and afterwards to regulate his own
life by the rules of a pure and perfect
morality. They expressed no preference
for one form of government over another,
they provoked no political 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. But they accepted the
relations which were created by human
law and exhorted their disciples to dis
charge faithfully the duties which arose
out of them. Though the laws which
defined the authority of husbands,parents,
masters and magistrates were as bad as
human perversity could make them, yet
the early Christians contented themselves
with teaching moderation in the exercise
of legal power, and uniformly inculcated
the virtues of obedience and fidelity upon
wives, children,, Mama and sutqacts.--
They joined in no clamors for or against
any administration, bat sliPply testified
AlXtrain before the only tribunal which
ever erected on earth ; that is to
say, the conscience of the sinner himself.
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 I
am aware that modern clergymen inter
pret his words as a justification of the
doctrine that support of au existing ad
ministration is "part of their allegiance
to God.' SeveralSynotls and other eccle
siastical bodies have solemnly resolved
something to that effect. But they forget
that what Paul advised was simple sub
mission, not active assistance to Nero.—
The Christians of that day did not endorse
his atrocities merely because he was "the
administration duly placed in power."—
They did not go with him to the theater,
applaud his acting, or praise him in the
urches when he kidnapped their breth
ren, set fire to a city, or desolated a pro
vince. Nor did they assist at his apothe
osis after his death, or pronounce funeral
sermons to show that lie was greater than
Scipio, more virtuous than Cato, and
more eloquent than Cicero. Political
Preachers would have done this, but
aul and Peter did no such thing.
There is nothing iu the scriptures to
justify the church in applying its disci
pline to any member for offenses purely
political, much loss for his mere opinions
or feelings on public affairs. The clergy
are without authority, ass they are often
without fitness, to decide for their eon
gregations what is right or wrong in the
legislation of the country. They are not
called or sent to propagate any kind of
political doctrine. The Church and the
State are entirely separate and distinct in
their origin, their ()Wet, and the sphere
of their action; insomuch that the organ
ism of one can never be used for any pur
pose of the other without injury to both.
Do I therefore say that the Christian
religion is to have no influence on the
political destiny of man? Fur from it.
Notwithstanding the unfaithfulness of
many professors, it has already changed
the face of human society ; and it will yet
accomplish its mission by spreading
peace, independence, truth, u4tice, and
liberty regulated by "from the sea
to the uttermost ends of the earth." But
this will be accomplished only by reform
ing and elevating t he individuals of whom
society is composed ; not by exasperating
communities again: t each other; not by
any alliance with the governments of the
world; not by any vulgar partnerships
with politicians to kill and plunder their
enemies.
Every time you reform a bad man and
bring his character up to the standard of
Christian morality, you make an addition,
'greater or less, to that righteousness ,
which exalteth a nation, and subtract au i
equal sum, from the sin which is a re
proach
to any people. Sometimes a sin
gle conversion is extremely important in
Its Immediate effect upon the public in
terest of a whole nation. No doubt the
acceptance of the troth by Dionysius the
Areopagite had much to do in moulding
the subsequent laws and customs of
Athens. The conversion of Con-tantine
was followed by the instant abrogation
of all laws which fettered the conscience.
In the reign of Theodosius the people of
Thessalonica rose against the Roman
sarrison and killed its commander. For
this act of rebellion the Emperor decreed
against them the curse of an indiserimi- ,
nate war, iu which the guilty and the in
nocent were confounded togethar in one
general slaughter. His spiritual " guide,
philosopher, and friend" at the time was
Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, who
boldly denounced his cruelty, refused to
give him the sacrament, or even to admin
ister it in his presence, compelled him to
take his seat among the penitents on the
portico of the church and induced bins to
htimble his diadem in the dust for eight
months in succession; The conscience
of the Emperor was thoroughly awaken
ed ; - his subsequent reign was distinguish
ed by justice and mercy, the integrity of
the empire was preserved in.peace, and the
great Theodosian code, the product of that
bitter repentance, is etill read and quoted ,
for its admirable union of humanity and
policy. Ambrose• produced these conse
quences by acting ni the true capacity of
a Christian rninister '
• for lie reformed the
criminal by a direct appeal to his own
heart. A political preacher in the same
circumstances would have inflamed the
sanguinary ipssions of the monarch by
exaggerating the treason of the Thessa
lonians and counselling the military ex
ecution of all who presumed to sympa
thize in their sufferings.
You will see, I think, the distinction
would make. A gospel preacher address
ea the conscieuce of his hearers for thehon
estpurpose of converting them from the er
ror of their ways; a political preacher
speaks to one community, one party or
one sect, and his theme lathe wickedness
of another. The latter effects no religious I
purpose whatever; but the chances are
ninety-nine in a hundred that he excites
the bad passions of those who ;ire present,
while he slanders the absent and unde
fended.
Both classes of preachers fre
quently speak upon the same or similar I
subjects, but they do so with different'
objects and aims.
I will make my meaning more clear by
taking your own illustrations. You he
lieve in the first day of the week as
Sabbath and so believing your duty un
doubtedly is to exhort all persons under
your charge to observe it strictly ; but I
you have no right to preach a crusade
against the Jews and Seventh-day Bap
tists, to get intolerant laws enacted against
them for keeping Saturday as a day off
rest. If drunkenness be akin which easily
besets your congregation, you may warn
them against it, and inasmuch as ab-tit
nence is always easier than moderation,
you should advise them to taste not,
touch not and handle not ; but your po
sition gives you no authority to provoke
violent hostilities against tavern keepers,
liquor dealers or distillers. If any of
your hearers be ignorant or course enough
to desire more wives than one a piece,
you should certainly teach them that
polygamy is the worst feature of Asiatic
manners, inconsistent with Christianity
and dangerous to domestic happiness;
but you cannot lawfully urge them to
carry lire and sword into the 'Territory of
the Mormons merely because some of the
Mormous are in this respect less holy
than you. If the holding of slaves or
bond-servante ire a practical question
among the members of your church, I
know of nothing which forbids you to
teach whatever you conscientously be
lieve to be true on that subject. But ins
community where slavery is not only un
known but impossible, why should any
preacher make it the subject of his week—
ly vituperations? You do not improve
the religion of the slave-holder by traduc
ing his character, nor mend the spiritual
condition of your own people by making
themirst for the blood of their fellow
men.
If any person, to whom the service of
another is due by the laws of the State In
which he lives, shall need your instruc
tions to regulate his personal conduct to
wards the slave, you are bound in the
first place to tell him, that as long as that
relation exists he should behave with the
utmost humanity and kindness; forthis
you have the clear warrant of the tpos
tone example sad precept. In dealing
with such a person you may go as much
further as your own conselentlaus inter
pretation of the Bible will carry ,y , ou.
you are surethat the divinelaw does, up,.
der all tdrumnstances, make thermere ex
48TH YEAR-NO. 47.
Istence of such a relation sinful on th e
part of the master, you should induc
nim to dissolvitit by the immediate eman
cipation of his slaves; for that is truth to
you which you believe to be true. Tint
where is the authority for preaching
hatred of those who understand the
seriptufe differently? What privilege
can you show for exciting servile insur
rection? 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?
I think the minister, in his pulpit dis
courses, is forbidden to touch at all upon
that class of subjects which are purely po
litical; such for instance as the banking
law, tariff, railroad charters, State rights,
the naturalization laws, and negro suf
frage. These are questions of mere polit
ical expediency; religion takes no cogni
zance of them ; they come within the sole
jurisdiction of the statesman; and the
church has no more right to take sides
upon them than the civil government has
to t2qe its legislative, judicial or executive
power fur the purpose of enforcing prin
ciples wholly religious.
In short, if I am Riot entirelymistaken,
a Christian minister has no authority to
preach upon any subjects except those in
which divine revelation lets given him an
Infallible rule of faith and practice ; and,
even uponthem he must speak alweys
for the edification of his own hearers,
"rightly dividing, the word of truth," so
ay to lead them in the way of all right
eousness. When he does more than this
he goes beyond his commission, he_be
comes a scurvy politician, and his lu
fluenee_ is altogether pernicious.
The use of the clerical office for the
purpose of propagating political doctrines
under any circumstances, or with any
excuse, is in my judgment not only with
out authority, but it is the highest crime
that can be committed against the gov
ernment of God or man. Perhaps I
ought not to make this broad assertion
without giving some additional reasons
for It.
In the first place it is grossly dishonest.
I employ you as a minister, pay your sal
ary, and build you a church because I
have confidence in your theological doc
trines. But yoti may be at the same time
wholly unfit for my political leader:—
sow, you are guilty of a base fraud upon
me,if, instead of preaching religion, you
take advantage of the position I have
given you to ventilate your crude and
Ignorant notions on,State affairs. I have
asked for bread and you give me a stone ;
instead of the fish I bargained for, you
put into my hand a serpent that stings
and poisons me.
It destroys the unity of the church.—
There is no room for rational dispute
about the great trellis of christianity
but men will' never agree upon political
subjects, for human government fs at best
Tait a compromise of selfish interests and
conflicting passions. When you mix the
two together you break the church into
fragments, and instead of "One Lord, one
faith and one baptism," you create a
thousand warring sects, and substitute the
proverbial bitterness of the odium. theolo
gloom, for the "charity which thinketh
no evil."
No one will deny that a union of Church
and State Isl . & waN%? the cause of bad gov
ernment, perverted religion and corrupt
morals. Ido not mean merely that legal
union which exists inEuropean countries.
That is bad enough; but you have less
common sense than t give you credit for,
if you do not see, s that this adulterous
connexion assumes its most polluting
form when the church is voluntarily
prostituted by her own ministers to a
political party in a 'popular government.
The evil influence of such connexions
upon Church and State is easily account
ed for. Both of them in combination will
do what either would recoil from if stand
ing alone. A politician backed by the
promise of the clergy to sustain him can
safely defy honesty and trample upon
law, for do what he may, he is assured of
clerical support here and heaven hereaf
ter. The clergy on the other hand, and
those who aro under their influence, easily
acquire the habit of..raisi lig indiscrimin
ately whateVer is done by their public
men. Acting and reacting on one another,
they go down together in the direction
of the pit that is bottomless; and both
are found to have "a strange alacrity at
shaking."
No man can serve two masters faithful
ly; for he must hate one if he loves the
other. A minister who admires and fol
lows such men as those who have lately
ruled and ruined this country must neces
sarily despise the character of Christ.
If he glorifies •the cruelty, rapacity and
falsehood of his party leaders, lie Is com
pelled by an inflexible law of human
nature to "deny the Lord who bought
him."
The experience of fifteen centuries
proves that political preachers arc the
great curse of the world. More than half
the bloody wars which at different periods
have desolated Christendom, were pro
duced by their direct Instigation ; snd
wherever they have thrust themselves
into a contest commenced by others, they
always envenomed the strife and made lt
more cruel, savage and uncomprMnlsing.
Theyeligiou4 wars, so-called, had nothing
religious about them except that they
were hissed up by the clergy. Look back
and see if this be not true:
The Arlan controversy (the first great
schism) was followed by wars in which
millions of lives were lost. Do you sup
pose the real quarrel was for the insertion
or omission of filioquo in that part of the
creed which describes the procession of
the Holy Ghost? Did G homootmion
slaughter his brother because he was a
homeiosion i .No,it was not the,differenee
of a dipthong, but the plunder of an em
pire that they fought for. It was the
polities of the church, not her religion,
that infuriated the parties - and converted
men into demons.
The Thirty Years' War in Germany is
often supposed to have been a fair stand
up tight between the two leading forms
of Christianity. I t Was not so. The re
ligious difference was a false pretense of
the political preachers for the promotion
of their own schemes. There Was not a
sane man on all that continent who would
have felt himself Impelled by motives
merely religious to murder his neighbor
for believing or disbelieving in transub
stantiation. Ifproofof this were wanting
it might be fdiind in the fact, that long
before the war ended, the sectarian cries
were abandoned, and Catholics, as well
as Protestants, were lighting on both
sides.
It is utterly impossible to believe that
the Clergy of England and Seotland, If
they had 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 from their politics,
have gacouraged and committed the other
h orrilllPrimes of which they were guilty
in the nave of religion.
Can you think that the Irish were in
vaded, and conquered, and oppressed, and
murdered, anti robbed for centuries,
merely because the English loved and IICT The D isu nionts ts are raising $30,000
believed in the Protestant religion 7
Gar
suppose you know that those brutal a o
by subficrlption for Wilburn :Lloyd r
n iqt as ui t i k reward for his advocacy of ne
atrocities were carried on for the p ity. Chief Justice - fl EI
o f giving to political preachers inugd heavy easy contributor. On. theAth of July,
possession of the churches, oath mom 14001 sae. Phillips form burned
glebe lands and 'tithe* which belon th e c ons tat u ti o n of the- cr u it e drz,wa se mut t
to the Irish Catholics. -The soldier was declares now that thenwei u ttibiappleet
also reworded by e l annieStael*Sild moment of Idslifel." • - L • •
v
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us* and the Slate lmim)iet' a
hi el and Ireland was lb r prey
wh beer navdqwn together, ) ,
- to ou t mn aonntrY yod Nnd
gm,
M tuella andeottnectletit In eokmial
times under the sole domination of
political preachers. Their treacherous
warsupon the Indiana fogy p urpases ig holly
mercenary; their enslaving of white
persons, as well as red ones, and setting
them abroad, ow °swapping them fur
bieekausoors;" their whippingimprk
oning and killing Quakers andltaptiets,
for their comvdentions opinions; and
their base treatment of such men Mg Roger
'Williams and his friends, will mark their
government through all time as one of
the cruellest and meanest that ever
existed.
V
Political preachers have not behaved
any better since the Revolution than
before. About the cornWeneement of the
present century they were busy in r
vile vocation all over Xew England and
continued it for nnufy years. The wilful
and deliberate slanders habitually uttered
from the pulpit against Jefferson*, Madi
son, and the friends who supportedtheir.
were a disgrace to human nature. The
immediate effect of this wits the Yankee
plot to secede from the Union, followed
by corrupt combinations with a foreign
enemy to betray the liberties of the
country. Its remoter consequences are
seen in the shameless rapacity and bitter
malignity which, even at this moment,
are howling for the property'and blood of
an unarmed and defenseless people.
You and I both remember the political
preaching which ushered in andsupported
the reign of the Know-Nothings, Blood-
Tubs, and Plug-Uglies ; when Marla
Monk was a Saint and .Toe Barker was
Mayor of Plttshurgh ; when pulpits re
sounded every Sunday with the most
injurious fakehoods against Catholics;
when the puldir mind was debauched by
the inculcation of hypocrisy and decep
tion, when ministers met their political
allies in sworn secrecy to plot Against, the
rights of their fellow-citizens. You can
not forget what came of this—riet, mur
der; church-burning, lawless violenee tail
over the land, and the subjugation of
several great States to the political rule
of a party destitute alike of principle mid
capacity.
I could easily prove that these clerical
I politicians, who have tied their churches
to the tail of the Abolition party, , are
I criminal on a grander settle than any of
their predecessor*. Bait I forbear, partly
because I have no time, and partly beeause
it may, foraught I know, be seao subject
with you. I would not excite your wrath,
but rather "provoke you to good works. '
Apart (tom the general subject there
are two or lb ree special ideas expressed in
your letter from which I venture to dis
sent.
You think that, though a mintstermay
speak front the pulpit on politics he ought
not to indicate what party he belongs to.
It strikes me, that if he has a party, and
wants to give it eeclessiastical aid or com
fort, he should boldly avow himself to be
what he is, so that all men may know him.
Sincerity is the first of virtues. It is bad
to be a wolf, but awoll in sheep's clothing
is infinitely worse.
You represent the Church as an unfin
ished structure and the State as Its scaf
folding. I think the church catne perfect
from the hand of Its divine ArchitecE—
built upon a rock, established, finished,
complete—and gl cry nine who comes into
it by the right or will find a mansion
prepared for hint. It needs no scaffold.
Its founder refused all connection with
human governments for scaffolding or
any other purpose.
tou say 'ln substance) that, without
sometimes taking politieal stddeets,
minister is in danger of falling into a
"vague, indefiuitc, and non-committal
style," which' will do no good and bring
him no respect. The gospel is not vague,
indefinite or non-committal upon the
stibjects of which it takes jurisdiction,
an upon them you may preach us loudly
as you please. But I admit that in times
of greet public excitement—an important
erection or a civil wa r—mee listen impa
tiently to the teachings of faith and re.
pentance. A sermon which tells them to
do justice, love mercy and walk humbly
before Clod, is not an entertainment to
which they willingly invite thermelves.
At such a time a erergyman can vastly
increase his personal consequence, and
win golden opinions I'lolll his audience,
,by pampering t heir pa-sions with a highly
seasoned discourse on politics. The temp
tation to gratify them often becomes too
strong for the virtue of the preacher. I
fear that you yourself are yielding to it.
As a mere layman I have no right to ad
vise a Doctor of Divinity, but I hope r
am not over presumptuous when I warn
you against this specious enurement of
Satan. thoughts of putting the Gos
pel aside because it does not suit the'de
prayed tastes of the day, and making
political harangues to win popularity In
a bad world, should be sternly trampled
down as the suggestions of that Evil One,
"who was a liar and a murderer froi* the
beginning."
faithfully yours, &c, •
J. S. *LACK.
York, July 25, 1866.
16""Geary will be the worst beat mart
that ever nut for Governor in this State.
Mark that as the prediction of u Repub
lican soldier."
The above language - Was - addressed "to
Up in the presence of some halta dozen
of gentlemen by an intelligent, well
known and honorably discharged soldier
of this county, who served under Usury
in the late war. Ile also said he would
not vote for him bealuse h.e /mew him,
and that there were refereed soldiers
enough In titi.4 State to cause his defeat
by merely Informing their friends and
neighbors of their knowledge of him and
their experience under him. The "boys
in blue" are moving throughout the
whole State. —Genius of Liberia,
l' This is from another of the "disloy
at' Southern papers. \there Is Sumner
with his whiskers and his scrap book
An exchange says that alax assessor of
a neighboring county reports 127 negro
babies, born since the 'Present Congress
has been in session-78 of the ntnuber
were named Thad. Stevens. The a.ssessor
asked the mothers the reason for miming
their babies that name, and they univer
sally replied that they had been told that
there was a great man In Congress by
that name whose wife is a negro woman.
Sa''The erratic liPorge Francis Train
lies again changed his coat. He stump
ed Nebraska for the Democratic ticket.
The following is an extract from ono
of his speeches. :
"The so-called Union party is a disu
nion party. The conservative party wish
to do as Mr. Linecin did—forget aud .for
give. The Repubitcan party want elev
en Hungarys—elevenlands—eleven
Irelands in the tioutit. The Democratic
party wish to reconstruct the Union awl
restore the law."
ag)...The question "Does getting drunk
ever advance one's happiness?" would
seem to be put at rest by the "Irishman
who went courting when drunk, and was
asked chat pleasure he found in whis
key? "0, Isellf, Its a trate intirely, to
see two of foul pretty fives Instead of
one!"
tarTirhen' death comes wo walk down
In the valley of shadows, knoiting that
we shall And there the shining foot
prints of the SAN lour, and confident that
in due time the morning light of the res
urrection will break upon the spirit, anti
we ehati be with God fo:ever.---T. B.
Taker.