CHRONICLE,
LEWISBURG
BY 0. N. WORDEN &
AV IDKMNDBNT FAM1LT
gl)e Chronicle.
FRIDAY, OCT. IT, 1S6.
Politics and Preachers.
fAIn another column will be found a
letter from Rev. Gxorgi TL Bliss, lome
time pastor of a church at New Brunswick
in New Jersey, now Greek Professor in the
University at Lcwisburg, Ta. It is called
forth by a letter from Senator Bigler,
copies of which have been sent by that
functionary to very many n not ait
the clergymen in the Xorth, thus invi
ting thcra into the political arena.and
laying himself open to the searching
retort which he has received. It will
be observed that while the Tennsyl
vanian," the leading Democratic press
in Pennsylvania, is edited by Rev.
Theophilus Fisk, a Universalist prea
cher, and there are ministers of all
denominations (to say nothing of the
whole corps of Catholic priests and
Mormon ciders) who support the Bu
chanan party, yet that party have,
since tho "3,000 ministers" of New
England remonstrated agaiust the
iniquitous repeal of the Missouri Cora
promise, been constantly engaged in
denouncing Ministers of the Gospel
for "interfering in politics," and the
abuse heaped upon the heads of those
who labor aiainst the extension of !
slavery, has been unsparing. Senator
Biglcr's "Open Letter'' is a censure
upon those who denounce ministers in
this respect ; they have the same inte
rest in the welfare of the country, as
other citizens in our land where are
no privileged or proscribed classes ;
and in some respects they have supe
rior means for acquiring information
and forming an unbiased judgment.
Th Soakers roa Fremont. A. gen
tleman who was at the Shaker establish-
ment in Lebanon last Sunday states that 1
he heard Elder Evans deliver a very earn-
est and effective Republican discourse to j
. .four hundred of bis Shaker bretbero,all of
rhom intend to vote fur Freedom and Fre
moot in November next. The Elder said
that when there was nothing of more im
portance in politics than questions of tar
iffs and sub-tresuries, it was not their duty
to Interfere then politics might be left
ntirely with the "World's people." But
when Freedom was at stake it became a
duty to let their votes be given in its de
fence. The annouuecmeat was received
with great applause.
There is no more pure and blameless
(though singular) sect than the Shakers.
It is also believed that the members of
many other small religious communities,
throughout the Northern Stotes, who usu
ally do not vote, will this year vote for the
preservation of Liberty in the Western
wilds
SiaKias' New Series or Stiiooi. Readers.
Copies of Sanders New Readers have been
handed to us for examination, and have affor
ded more satisfaction than is usually to be ex
pected from the perusal of school books. The
old series have been long in use, and have
done good service in the cause of popular ed
ucation. But fifteen years of experience in
teaching, and an extensive intercourse with
other teachers, have suggested to the author
many improvements; and thee are now in
troduced into an entirely newseries, which
seems to be one of the most nearly perfect
that have yet appeared. The plan is well
adapted to overcome gradually the many ob
stacles to be met with in learning to read our
language well, and to throw interest aronnd
what is too often a dull task.
The selections for reading lessons are well
suited, not only to accomplish the chief end
of making good readers, but also to exert an
excellent moral influence, to impart incidental
ly to the scholar a large amount of really val
uable koowiedge, and to cultivate his literary
taste b) familiarizing him with many speci
mens of good style.
rhe books are kept for sale wholesale and
retail by the publishers. Sower & Barnes, No.
33 .North Third 8t,Philaand byT.C.Orwig,
Mifflinbnrg.
Aw Unixckt Dat roa Them. In
Ottawa, 111., last week, the following good
one was got off. The Democrats had a
grand rally and barbacne. An Irishman
went to some of the Democratic leaders
and said : '-And sure didn't ye know bet
ther than to have a barbacue on Friday,
tchen two-thirds of the Democratic party
can't ate mote T'
The Democrats ought to have more re
spect for their party than to appoint their
barbacne on a day when two-thirds of it
"con' at mate."
Epidemic A fatal epidemio has bro
ken oat among the Swine at the distiller
ies ia the vicinity of Easton, Pa. We
were informed by a Gentleman from that
place, that one establishment had lost over
one thousand hogs, and the disease, which
is somewhat similar to the cholera, was
spreading among the farm stock of the
leighberhood.
The Welsh. Only ene solitary Welsb
aa was found in the Buchanan procession
Saturday, and be is an Infidel, who
denies the authority ef God, and every
oral obligation of Man. -The Danville
American.
S. R. CORNELIUS.
AND NEWS JOURNAL.
(rWiOTpondt-we of tlie LewMuirg Chrtroieta.J
Greensvubo, Westmoreland Co., )
Oct. 8, 1856. j
This has been another great day in the
calender of glorious days for the cause of
the people and the constitution at against
the causo of nullification and ilavcry pro-
pagandism, with its demoniao attributes of
Sro and sword, and rape and robbery and
murder on the plains of Kansas; with vio
lence and outrage in one-half the States,
and threatened piracy in the future an
other evidence that God reigns, and the
people are not struck with judicial blind'
ness, when all the constitutional and bu
man right are at stake, in the dread and
solemn issue of the present hour ; when
men who love their country and their race,
pray while they work, and will rote as they
pray; men who will follow the dictates of
their judgment and thuir consciences, and
not the behests of party, or insulting ap
peals to their unmanly fears; but working,
praying, voting, will march forward to
such a victory for the right, and such an
overthrow of the wrong, as will send the
hounds of nullification howling to their
kennel, and seal the doom of all such for
all time.
But I only sat down to make a brief
statement of facts, that friends east may
know what friends west are doing, and
gather fresh energy for the mighty strug
gle. Yesterday the Shamocracy tried a
mass meeting here in this their ancient
stronghold. It was as strong as they could
make it ; but not strong enough for their
purposes. To-day, the friends of freedom
and Fremont came together, 8,000 in num
ber ; and as I write the wild huzzas of an
excited and resolute people are ringing in
my ears, like the thanksgivings of political
redemption, already achieved.
Speaker Banks was introduced amidst
such a stormy shout of welcome, as made
the old forest trees around him, ring with
its echoing thunders. He occupied an
hour and a half with clear, strong, com
pac( argument, worthy cf his keen intel-
tnj jron will, that carried eonviotion
to every mind welded and knit together
w",ta caustic satire, and side splitting jokes
!,. ej nnon thejtuchauiers like point
blank volleys of canister and grape, and
left no loop bole of escape from the merci
less force of bis logic and illustrations.
He was followed by Judge George W.
Smith, just arrived yesterday from Kan
sas, where for three months and twenty
days, be was imprisoned in tents on the
open prairie, under the dews and drench
ing rains, and the scorching sun of the
dog days, sometimes shaking with ague,
or burning with fever, and guarded by the
dragoons of the American people, all on
the false and perjured charge of treatonl
And as the people looked en his venerable
countenance marked with lines of suffer
ing, and heard his plain, straight forward
testimony as to the past in Kansas, and to
the fact that peace and security and right
do not now exist there, but that the peo
ple are subjugated and oppressed, and
that, too, by Bushanan's boasted Gov.
Geary, who is not as drunken, but fully
as tyrannical and partial as was the vile
sod infamous Shannon old men wept,
and young men listened with swelling
hearts, as theit blazing eyes and stern
countenances, spoke of new and stronger
vows to be discharged at the ballot box.
But I can not trust myself to dwell on
these things. They go down too deep into
the heart's core. The enemy die hard,
and fight with the energy of despair. But
be assured the voters of old Westmoreland
are awake and working for the right prin
ciples and the right candidates, and will
do their whole duty in tbs hour of trial.
I am sure little Union will gloriously back
ap our efforts here. God speed the right
Tours, Treason.
Tot the LtwUburf Chronicle.
AN OPEN LETTER
To Wni.Bla;ler,Efq.,lrJS.8eiiator.
Dear Sift : I had the honor to receive
nnder your frank several copies of a Tract
entitled "Infidelity and Abolitionism ! an
open Letter to the friends of Religion,Mo
rality, and the American Union." It is
designed apparently to awaken the atten
tion of religions people, and especially
Christian ministers,to the solemnity of the
issues involved in the coming Presidential
election. Being anonymous, I take it to
be the production of your own pen, or at
least one for which you make yourself res
ponsible, and therefore looked to find in it
that truthfulness of statement and candor
of discussion which would befit your exal
ted station.
Before proceeding te the topics directly
presented in your letter, I am happy to
observe that yon do not share in what
amounts almost to a panie with many at
the present time, the horror of a minister's
participating in politics. I think yon
must in your wide political experience have
witnessed the feeling to which I refer, and
pitied its absurdity. A certain grade of
political organs seem to regard it little less
tbsn a crime for a clergyman to have an
opinion concerning controverted questions
of civil administration, or at any rate, to
try by any means to influence others in
regard to tbem. They doom as to a kind
of outlawry. Ail other men may think
LEWISBURG,
and speak of tbem; sul ject-t ; we may speak
on other subjects, but when these are en
grossing the deepest feelings of the people,
for whom we minister, we must walk
among them sa though we were of anoth -
er and an unrelated sphere. " Let them,"
doubtless you have heard it said, " confine
themselves to their own vocation. Let
them attend to holy things, acd nut defile
their sacred vestments in the filthy pool of
politics !" As if clergymen, bad not,
like mechanics, and farmers, aud editors,
and senator?, besides their special calling
also the general and most noble calling of
a citizen and a man 1 As if they and their
ohildren were not interested in the meas
ures which their government may pursue I
As if they were not equally competent
with the generality of people to understand
what would be fur the good of the couo
try 1 And what an idea of politics 1 in its
true and lofty sense, the noblest study
next to religion, and coupled with it by
Algernon Sidney as together the main
concern of man ! the science which shows
how the best good of men in the state is
to be secured, this their groveling minds
would degrade to a rivalry of greedy office
seekers, a squabble for the loaves and fish
es of patronage, a wardship over the offal
of Dublie interests with which it would be
pollution for any but the buzzards and hy
enas of the state to interfere ! A " dirty
pool" indeed they make of it ! Their sub
lime sclf-devotement to such abominable
functions seems to demonstrate the feasi
bility of the most monstrous feature in the
social scheme of Fourier, that where he
supposes that in a natural arrangement of
society some would be found ss ready to
perform the foulest and most disgusting
offices for the public behoof as others to
take npon them what is intrinsically hon
orable and pleasant ! And you can not
have failed to notice that while these erea
tures profess to allow ministers to deal with
moral and religious subjects " Oh ! yes,
let them attend to the morals and religion
of the community" still, no sooner do
tbey find it convenient to entangle one of
them within their selfish snd ambitious
schemes, than tbey cry " hands off! let
politics alone !" Thus, temperance is a
moral subject, until the means of promo
ting it are found to involve legislation,
when it suddenly Binks into a base and de
grading political question about which a
minister should not speak. That a man
should do to others as be would be done
by, be just and kind to his neighbor of
batever complexion and degree, and even
" remember those that are in bonds as
bound with tbem," is innocent morality of
which a clergyman may safely speak, until
the growth of slavery crowds upon doc
trines, and then forsooth he must qualify,
and speak with " bated breath," lest some
vested interest and party programme should
suffer. So I will venture to predict that
when, not long hence, the sanctioning of
polygamy becomes a party question, " par
sens'' will be politely requested to keep
clear of that ground. Then, if the Chi
nese should multiply in California as they
have in the "old country," and idolatry
claim to be one of the " institutions" of
the land, there will doubtless be politicians
shrewd enough to see the danger of dis
coursing too strongly about " the one liv
ing and true God" 1 Perhaps we ought
to be thankful to them for making our
office a sinecure, and if we want to handle
tbe obsolete themes of morality and reli
gion, we shall need only to get into Con.
gress, or the Legislature, or at least an ed
itor's chair, and take them up as " politics."
But, I repeat it, I am glad to see that
you do not countenance that sort of com
plaint. The very fact of your sending
me this pamphlet implies that you sup
pose I, as a minister, may properly think
of snch themes. Your sending it in view
of an spproaching election implies that you
would not deem me blameworthy for vot
ing npon tbem. Your sending several of
them together, implies that you would
approve of my distributing them, and so
influencing others to vote on them ; and of
course you would not object, when these
are exhausted.to my taking the sentiments
therein contained, or others like them,and
by word of mouth making them effective,
at proper times, and by proper ways, in
promoting the important objects you have
at heart And I have too much regard for
your professions of democracy, and of tbe
belief and duty of all men to use their best
judgment in tbess affairs, to doubt that if
after contentions deliberation, I should
feel constrained to act in some respects dif
ferently from what you desire, yott would
concede my perfect right so to do. Thus
you fairly countenance the obvious.though
somewhat disputed principle of justice and
equal rights. And it is what I should ex
pect of tbe candor and intelligence ade
quate to your high office. Doubtless you
see that a minister Is a man, and may say,
as well as an old Roman "nothing of hu
man concern do I hold as foreign to my
self." That he should sink into a mere par
tisan I take it for granted, you would dep
recate; indeed yon say as much! that
he should allow even tbe civil and soeial
welfare of his brethern to engross too large
share of his concern would be manifestly
injurious even to bis political influence ;
but that be should be alive to tho moral
UNION CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCT. 17, 1856.
and religious interests involved in the pol
ilical and partisan, as well as all the other
relations of his people, and from time to
j time indicate the motives which ought to
1 influence tbem in discharging their duties
here as elsewhere, you do, by the trans'
mission of such a document, in such cir
cumstances, unmistukeably proclaim. I
thank ynu for it, and shall endeavor to
comply according to my honest convictions,
with your implied recommendation.
I quite agree with your severe reprehen
sion of "a political preacher hurling bis
anathemas against his fellow man men ?
for their political opinions from the pulpit
reared as an altar(?) to the ever living
God." You speak of having "often seen
it." I never have. But I have no hesi
tation in saying that it would be a censu
rable thing. I think a preacher should
never hurl anathemas at his fellow men
for any cause. He should rather strive to
win tbem by preaching the truth in love,
remembering, when compelled to do so,
that "vengooce is mine; I will repay, sith
the Lord." I doubt whether he ou-lit to
say much about men's political opinions,
in tbe pulpit, at all. Let him coutiue him
self to the great principles of du'y to God
as supreme, aod to our fellow men as all
brethren black and white alike, Jew and
Gentile, not sparing indeed solemnly to
warn and faithfully to reprove men for
their neglect of their duties in any of (heir
relations, as they would give account to
God. I am not certain but I should be
somewhat more strict in my cautions to
preachers, on this suljcet, than yourself.
Still, in all essential points, what you say
is quite according to my mind. I am clear
that a prudent minister could find other
opportunities more appropriate for what
could fairly be called political discourse,
than in tbe pulpit ; times and places when
even the most carping criticism could not
pretend that he stood on any different foot
ing from other good citizens.
I have dwelt on this point unduly, per
haps, but it is one, you see, of personal
and as I may say, professional interest to
myself, on which I could hardly look for
another occasion, so proper, even in the
eye of the most perverse objectors, as you
have given me.
I should be glad if a careful perusal of
your document suggested other aspects of
it worthy of commendation. But I must
now notice its direct snd leading inculca
tions. "Infidelity and Abolitionism !" Porten
tous terms ! and what have they to do with
my duty or the public welfare on this
occasion ? Your argument concerning
them, briefly stated, is, that Col. Fremont
is supported in the present canvass by ab
olitionists and infidels" (indeed, you have
the hardihood to assert, by "every infidel
organization,") snd from this you would
have us infer.. .what ? evidently something
awful, but just what, is left a little vague.
It can hardly be less than that Fremont is
himself an abolitionist or infidel, or that
be will at least unduly favor such men, aod
that so religion will somehow be ruined by
his election. This is an argument of the
validity of which with a little elucidation
any one can judgo.
Knowing positively and directly that Mr.
Fremont is not only an amiable and upright
man, but also an irreproachable Christian
of the Episcopalian persuasioc.acd having
heard bim in private calmly declare his I
determination to do all in bis power to '
preserve the Union, I was curious to see
bow your Senatorial ability, misled by i
partizan bias, would contrive to connect j
his name with the topics so ominously j
posted at the head of your tract. I have i
stated how it is done. And I am sorry to j
be obliged to say, that the manner of it is ,
little calculated to sustain the confidence i
of serious people in the accuracy or fair
ness of even Senatorial reasonings.
In the first place, your main proposition
docs by no uieaus hold good. Fremont is
not supported by every infidel organization,
and tbat you so boldly assert this enables
us to judgo at once what qualification your
other assertions may require. You surely
overlooked tbe infamously notorious Em
pire Club, of New York city, whose vile
chief, Isaiah Bynders,figured as one of the
moving spirits at the late Cincinnati Con
vention. Your religious readers must know
perfectly well, that individual infidels, as
they see tbem scattered through tbe land,
are woulcrfully transfigured in their
"organizations," if tbey are there in favor
of Fremont Let ministers ask themselves
whether the deists and atheists of their
respective neighborhoods are generally for
him t IIow is it that you bave allowed
yourself to make such a representation ? I
see how it is : " abolitionists, forsooth !
support Fremont, and abolitionists are infi
dels I" - Of this also your readers can
judge. And here let me ask you, sir, as
an honest man, talking to men of common
intelligence, do you not think a very large
political business is carried on by certain
demagogues on a very small capital of
abolitionism ? What is an abolitionist 7
It is generally admitted to be a man who
advocates the immediate emancipation of
the slaves in those States wbsre they are
held. And how does he propose to bring
this about? Why, by persuading the
people of those States tbat it it for tbeir
interest and duty to rid themselves at once
of tbe pernicious institution. I never knew
one who advocated any other means. I
have read indeed that Frederick Douglass,
Remond, and some few other men who
have themselves tasted the sweets of bon
dage, have talked of compelling emancipa
tion ; and I should not wonder in case even
you or I, with manhood no way more
noble, and an eloquence greatly inferior to
that of Fred. Douglass, bad enjoyed his
experience, we should speak somewhat
extravairantlv of tbe remedies for slavery,
But you may meet a hundred abolitionists I ber of disunioniste in the South who are social and political improvement will mora
before yon will find one who upholds viol- j also deists or worse and warmly in favor , and more welcome a champion SO vigilant,
ence in combatting even this compound of j of Buchanan ? or is Mr. Brooks, or Keitt, so faithful, so earneft'o fearlesa.ao strong,
all oppressions and iuiquities. I say a I or Atchison, a good Christian in your Yet what right have you to call the
hundred, and yot you must go far to meet ! eyes, from whom no harm is threatened to j Tribune, the organ of Fremont? None at
a hundred abolitionists at all. It is seldom ' religion and morality ? Perhaps Mr. Hu- ill. It does indeed support him, ably and
that I hear a man advocating the uncoudi-! chanan is quite as likely to be ..influenced j well ; but no more ably or earnestly than'
tional liberation of the slaves. The bug- by these, as Fremont by the "fanatics" of tbe Courier, aud Time; and the good old
aboo abolitionists are, like ghosts.frightful Boston. I w.iuld fain hope that the greatly ! Democratic L'oeuiugl W excellent paper
things, of very rare occurrence. Their for- preponderant favor towards the Utter can- j all, which even your sensitive scrupulosity
miduble conclaves are there where the didate from miuisters of all denominations, would hardly put below tbe rabid parti
innocent youth found the end of the rain- aud the countenance given him by almost zanship .f the Penusylcanian, or the cold,
bow. There are said to be many of tbem j every religious uew.paper where people are Jesuitic! neutrality! of the 1'uLlic Lsdjer.
about Boston,as there are many men about
Charleston and Richmond who advocate
Slavery at the North, and proclaim "free
society" a failure; and I venture the opin
ion there are not more men in all the North
who deserve to be called abolitionists, than
there aru in the slave States who urge the
abolition of free labor in the North. Of
their abolitionism you betray no spprcheu
sion. I am not careful to defend abolitionists.
Yen know that not 1 in 50 of the Repub
lican party agree with them in their pecu
liar views ; that the party explicitly and
earnestly repudiates them ; and that the
Abolition party have not nominated Fre
mont and Dayton, but have nominated
Smith and M'Farland, as their candidates
for President and Vice President I bave
said thus much merely ss an act of justice
to a class of men scattered sparsely thro'
the community, whom your readers will
recognize as generally persons of sincere
piety and not at all dangerous to the public
weal. We all know that abolitionism and
infidelity are not identical ; so that even if j concerned, to the pages of the Tribune
abolitionists were on the side of Fremont, I itself. That paper is now extensively cir
and ten-fold more numerous than they are, j eulated, however unwelcome the news may
this would not argue any great danger j be t0 you, and any man who does not take
from infidelity. Doubtless there are men , ;t himself, has only to ask one of his
owicrouo .u re.ig.ou, .uu .uuse -uU rtj.
the Bible, that are also warmly opposed to
slavery, and such we should expect to find
most violent in the expression of
expression of their
views. So there are infidels and free-
thinkers, as yott are well aware, who favor
Mr. Buchanan. But what is to be thought
either of your intelligence or your candor,
when you mingle together as of one religi
ous stamp, and all infidels, such men as
Gerrit Smith, John Jaynd J.G. Birney,
with Garrison, Phillips and Parker 1 Do
you not know that the three former, and
others like them, are, I will not say supe
rior to the current herd ofjartizan dema-
gogues, but eminent for the practice of a
style of Christianity to which, if any in
our time.the Savior will one day say "well
done !" And whero bave you told your
readers that abolitionists, few and scatter-
ed, are widely at variance among them-
selves as to the proper course of political
actioa for them? that many of them.inclu-1
ding Garrison and bis school, conscien-
tiously abstain from voting altogether,
whi,e. others the only ones who exert ,
an7 alrccl P"cai innuence nave sire
sidential candidate of their own to whom
thJ wil1 M conscientiously give their suf- j
fra(5es ? that i0m8 of the tDOit vioIent of j
thcm (Garrison and Wendell Phillips are j
Baid ,0 be ef tbi number) express a deci- j
dcd prenee for tbe election of Buchan- j
aD as be'D more likelJ bJ bis ube"'-
eDC t0 the sIava P0WeT t0 roU9 ,be Nortb
to separation and independence r Can it
be that by virtue of your position at the
seat ot government ot this enlightened 0f which the hint was given by Fourier;
nation you are ignorant of ficts patent to but never simple Fourierisa. This advo
every other man who has acquired the art cacy having accomplished a most import
of reading? Tho statements of many Sen- j ant object.in awakening attention to crying
atora in regard also to events in Kansas, i evils in our social system, bas been for
might lead us to think there was some years abandoned. That the Tribune bas
baleful obstruction there to the knowledge ;
of the truth, were it not that the contras-
ted course of a few men who adorn that ;
body frustrates tho supposition. But can j
any saivo redeem toe uiieuiyence oi tnose
who are so economical, so parsimonious
even of cheap, vulgar truths, and well
The Hon. Gerrit Smith, of Peterboro',
N. Y. You have not attempted in this
paper directly to traduce him, I am happy
to say. You did, however, I think, with
"Hon." Mr. Wallack, listen smilingly to
tbe vituperation which Robert Tyler tho't
fit to cast npon bim here the other day.
Yes, sir, yon laughed gravely to hear Ro
bert Tyler rank Gerbjt Smith with Gar
rison and Remond as all alike disorganiz
es and infidels I Gerrit Smith, lately a
Member of Congress, whose (not worldly
wise, perhaps, but) noble bearing as a
man, a gentleman, and a philanthropist,
won for him eminent respect oven at the
hands of Southern gentlemen there an
orator, one breath of whose commanding
eloquence wonld have swept all the soph
istry of that aristoeratio speech out of the
grove a Christian, the mere superfluity
of whose excellence would furnish religion
to many Tylers : to hear iA a man so
maligned from such a source,in the interest
of Democracy, was an instructive phenom
enon !
YEAR XI II....
At $1,50 Per
i known facts, without still more seriously
damaging their credit in respect to com
moo honrsty t
What matters it, then, that Theodore
Parker and Garrison have denounced the
Constitution as hopelessly entangled with
Slavery, and have also shown themselves
deists ? or that the X. Y.St'indard, there
be such a paper, has spoken barj of the
course of the Tract Society ? or that either
of these pspers advocated (if It did, which
I ynu do not even " assert") the cause of
i Fremont ? Are tbrre not an equal num-
free to think ou slavery.may outweigh with
serious people the disastrous presage of
any "infi.lel" abolitiouist who may chause
to go the same way.
What reliance is to be placed on y-mr
apparent quotations from sources not ac
cessible to all, may he judged from your j
perversion of Mr. lluriinganie's remark.
If he has spoken his " one speech fifty
times, as is charged upon him, a good
many people have beard it, and know that
What be said, tor the encouragement or
Republicans struggling against a dt-sperate
aristocraeywielding all the allurements and
intimidations of the Government, was that
"we hiivr on our side an anti-davery Con-
stitution, an anti-slavery Bible, and an
anti slavery God." I hope this may be
all found true.
It is with a logical dexterity which
presto " knack, that you bring the M. 1.
Tribune into your jutublj et infidel aboli
tionism. And here again I would respect
fully answer you, by simply referring all
. neighbors it what you say ot it is true. It
j would not be wicked for bim even to look
at .he paper himself just enough to become
j Mtu.fied whether it is the mad dog whih
j it is cried ap to be. It is probably perused
; regularly by nearly a million of readers,
-
for some time past, and I confidently ask
whether one nf all these has found its
editors advocating 'infidelity,' 'free love,'
or any of the bug bears which you associate
with it To call It the "organ" of such
men as Garrison and W. Phillips, (whose
organ, then, is the Liberator ?) is to throw
out assertions with more than the reckless
ness of a pot-house declaimer. I bave
jeon it almost constantly since its origin.
j I have found it more than any other paper
i a mirror 0f the actual, living world, in all
j its aspects ; and if I have thus been shown
j many things to grieve or shock me, I have
J been led the more to strive and pray for
, their removal from the earth. It bas
itelf eminently furnished, through the
( latitude it hns given to replies.the antidete
j tu its own errors : and when I have been
troubled by opinions promulgated in it, I
have generally felt tbat the spirit with
which they were put forth.and the freedom
with which tbey were criticised, rendered
their discussion rather an advantage than
n injury to the truth. Most of the mischief
imputed to it by its enemies, it was neper
gujhj 0f( nj tne ,egt it has I think long
since discontinued It did, indeed, in its
earlier days, advocate an extensive re-ad-
justment of our s cial relations, (as James
Buchanau did the doctrines of Federalism)
ever advocated "free love," is so utterly
nntrue, tbat the practices thus designated
have been in no quarter more strongly
rebuked, and the sanctity of marriage bas
had no more strenuous defender. That it
has coonteuanced the delusions of spiritu
alism is, according to my belief, equally
without foundation. It has, on the other
hand, nobly fought tbe battles of Tempe
rance. It has plead tho cause of the
laboring taan,and preached the obligations
which accompany wealth. It has taught
society the duty of instructing the ignor
ance snd cultivating the morality of htn
more sunken classes; as well as punishing
their crimes. It has extended a friendly
band to humanity struggling for its rights,
on either eontinent It has not spared
usurpers, tyrants, and oppressors in tbe
old world, nor demagogues, miVrepreseot
stives and oligarchs at home. It has
pointed out the evils of slavery as manifes
ted where the system has been tried, and
ronsed the minds of men to tbe danger of
its impudent encroachments. Therefore I
do not wonder that yon give it your
reprobation. Its religious creed, if obtru
ded, might not satisfy me, and would
doubtless fail fit below tbe ottbodvxy oi
WHOLE NUMBER, 653.
Year, always rs AnvAxca.
the Journal of Commrrce or the I'eniuyf
vanian, but tbe character of its "fruits"
is in danger of raisiug the question in
simple minds, whether, in his political
relations, an E litor or a Senator may not
profitably exchange some jots and tittles
of theological strictness for a decent prac
tice of good common morality. I have no
doubt it is moro widely taken by clergy
men than any other secular paper in tb
land, and while the upholders of ancient
and profitable abuses will always have
occasion to hate and f?r it, tbe friends of
j s for the New York Il.rull, willingly
' ref jgn jt to your reprehension. I can only
; CCount for its having partially broken
away from its old alliance with tho quati
democracy, by its proverbial shrewdness in
taking the winning siJ-. Should Fremont
be beaten, (which may Heaven avert !) it
will fall back as promptly to your support
as water runs down hill. Indeed, in its
issue of the 24th Sept., I casually noticed
a long and elaborate argument fosalavery
,na Buchanan. Meanwhile, if it utters
je, j behalf of Republicanism, let them
g0 fr nothing; but the truth, I would
fxa hope, may be none the loss so, though,
1 j( appears even there,
j Having thus discussed the substance of
; TOur Jract (if substance so flimsy a thin
can be said ti have) : having shown that
of the abolitionists, fevr at best, a small
fraction only are infidels ; that those wW
are, spurn the bal'ot box, but express,'
some cf them, a preference for Buchanan?
over Fremont, while the rest have a candi
date of their own ; that the Republicans
earnestly repudiate abolitionism ; and thaC
the Tribune, which you specially disrelish,
is not the organ of Fremont, hoi a bail
one if it were I think I may lay aside
anxiety fur tbe welfare of religion in sup-
poking M j shali the Ripcbliean principles
i ,nd candidates.
j There e Mme other point9 of intere8t
Kna,eA K. ,.ur namnhlet. whioh I wil!
: --or, j j- T 1 1
notice hereafter.
Yours with due respect,
GEO. R. BLISS.
Another Rich Fraud.
The Democratic Hero, a Welsh Democra
tic paper just started and published in New
York, has been circulated extensively thro'
the mining regions of this State, in Lu
zerne, Carbon, Schuylkill, and other ooun
ties. This paper, being published in
Welsh, can only be read by that perple.
Tbe Hero contains a long editorial, headed
"Will America be governed by a Papist?"
In this leader the editor, after attempting
to prove tbat Mr. Fremont is a Catholic,
concludes it by saying
"Friends 1 let ns adopt Mr. Buchanan,
who has his hands clean com I'opcry and
Know Kothinijism."
It is, indeed, a new position for the Dc.
mocracy to assume a new idei for tbem
te advocate the election of a candidate be
cause he is opposed to Roman Catholioism.
There is no past evidence that e'ther tbey
or tbeir leader bave ever attemp.J to re
pudiate Catholicism. Upon the contrary,
they have always warmly defended it, as
is evinced by the appointment of Mr.
Campbell to the Post Office department
the appointment of Soute, O'Sullivan, and
Belmont (Catholics) to Spain, Portugal and
the Hague.
If, however, the trulh be that the Hera
speaks the sentiments of Mr. Buchanan in
opposition to tbe Catholics, it is then time
tbat fwt. people should know it.
The purpose of the fraud is very evident.
Tbe Welsh are known to be inveterately
Protestant in their religious faith and prac
tices. And if they ascertain the fact that
the whole Catholic strength wiil be cast
for Buchanan, they will repudiate him !
A Step in Apvasc. The Sultan of
Turkey has issued an edict, declaring tbat
no sutiject in his empire shall be obstruct
ed in tbe exercise of tbe religion he may
profess, or be in any way molesUd en this
account By this act Mohammedans are
at liberty to prefect Christianity without
incurring the penalty of death.
A jolly old darkey down South bought
himself a new shiny hat aud when it com
menced raining he put it under his eoat;
When asked why hs did not keep his hat
on his head, be replied : " De hat's
mine; bought bim wid my own money j
head 'longs to tnc-sa ; let him take keer
he own property."
i' ' i. ,i ,
Faith in God. Faith in God sprirgt
from within. It is h.ised on those irttXt
table eeutimeuts of the soul, that Outlive
all theories, and defy nil skepticism. Ti
deny it is vffer vioieuce to all that is grtt
2ii J icr; 1 in b'nuan tntuf?.