Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — BEECHER AND THE TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

BEECHER AND THE TARIFF.

Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, dropped dead Tuesday after noon in Worcester. Apoplexy was the cause, i»> Gulteau has nicknamed Jud«j Porter one of the Government proeontora, “Big Mouhed” Porter, and the Judge hates it El PfluMw* «»>*• ot Samuel J. Ti Jeu . monej■ >» Mbreech*. pockets, bwe eo $250 to the proposed Oarteld m ment at < leveland He. John C. N»«. Cbalrmeo ot the Republican State Ceo,r “ l ?° . mlttee, and editoi-tn ehiet ot the India: apolls Journal, has drawn the Buss ten mission in the tottery of ussassinatfon. B. R. Farr, of Fairfax, whom the Mahone Readjusters have just elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in Virginia, is a member of the Leg islature, and the reporters are making fun of him. In one bill introduced by him he spells aggregate “agrigate;” in another he spells levied “leveyed” all through the bill, and gives amended “amendid.”

The Boston Herald seems to be impressed with the idea that General Longstreet has divided the Demo cratic party of Georgia. If the Herald wasn’t situated so far from the hurly-burly, it would appreciate the situation more keenly. We are willing to admit that the Georgia Democrats are divided in Boston —Atlanta Constitution.

The country is beginning to compre bend the cost of Republican infernalism. Congress is beginning to de liberate upon the Garfield bills. Just what the final amount will be nobody kruws. It is now reported that the railroads which transported the President when living and his remains when dead will all hand in their bills. If they do, and we see no good reason why they should not, the sum total will doubtless amount to a half million dollars. The Guiteau trial will probably cost $250,000. so that the cost to the people of the Republican factional fight over spoils will doubtless amount to $750,000, and there need be no surprise if the amount goes to $1 000,000.

It is publicly announced that Henry Ward Beecher has entered the lecture field against Protection. This is not the first time the Rev. gentleman has entered the political arena. He had the temerity to advocate the views entertained by AndrewjJJohnson at the time he was President of the United States, but, when he discovered hp was not in harmony with the Republican party, he went back on himself, and it is not unlikely he will pursue the same course on the Protective system. Beecher is not to be depended on either as a religionist or politician. - He is as vacillating as a weathercock and will always be found pointing in the way the wind blows He is a bad penny, composed of the most worthless alloy. It is his ability, and not his hones :y, that gms him any prominence. No one will object to his proclaiming his views on the tariff, be they what they may, provided his doing so does not dis*urb his relationship to the Republican party. Whatever may have been his influence, during the past, nothing is more apparent than the fact that ha is now powerless to effect any measure either religious or political. So far as religion is concerned, he might as well be on the side of Bob Ingersoll as where he is. The man who takes upon himself the sacred office of embassador for Christ assumes duties that are important, responsible and delicate, and so long as he confines himself to the proper performance of these duties he will be entitled to respect aud confidence ; but when he steps down from this exalted position, assumes the role of a partisan and parders to the prejudices and corruptions ot a politicel party, he forfeits this respect. The relations of a Minister of the Guspeljare pecul.ar. The office he bolds is not temporal, but spiritual in Its nature. In its results and conso quences it is related to another state Of being. It is no|part of his business to preach polities. His calling is of another character; he is commissioned to preach the Gospel, to point out the way of life, to instruct in holy things—things pertaining to a future stftfe. Christ is both Master and exemplar. His kingdom is not of this world and, therefore, Hfs servants are not called upon to fight. The Roman government, under which he lived, was despotic in its character, arbitrary in its demands upon its subjects, telerated a system of slavery the most oppressive of any that has ever existed under a civilized government and, yet, neither himself nor His commissioned teachers acted the part of politicians. His mission was not that of a statesman. He decreed no rules for the organization of states or nations; He commissioned no His business was to do the will of His Heavenly Father by preparing the way for sinful man, and inspiring him With love to God and the hope of eternal life. The minister who degrades his calling to promote po itical ends is justly an object of suspicion, and is unworthy of confidence either as a preacher or a politician. J- M.

The minister wno opened the Supreme Court at Auburn. Me., with prayer the other day, opened his petition with the words: “And at last, may we become dwellers of that land where there are no lawyers, no Judg and no Courts. Amen.”

Three lemon* for 10 cents, oranges, apples,'nuts and candy at the Post office lobbv. Reynolds, editor of the Democratic paper at Monticello, recently skipped leaving many creditors to mourn bis absence. He was an ex-lowa republican, well-known by our down-town neighbor, who informed on him, but they, preferring to believe Reynolds, got badly bit. Moral—Never trust an ex-lowa republican editor to run a Democratic paper. Call at the Postoffice news stand and look at the 5 oent sheet music. Scarcely had Reynolds, an ex-lowa republican editor vamoosed from Monticello, than our down town neigh * bor beamed in upon them, but, judg ing from the temper shown in his pa per this week, it is evident they bad no kindly feeling nor encouragement for any former fellkw countryman and political brother of the departed Reynolds. Selah I

Star, Durham, Waffle, Mulberry, Solace, Silver Coin, and Honey Bee. plug tobaoco; * Old Congress and Fountian tine cut: Blackwell’s Dur ham, Seal of North Carolina, Bulby and Genuine North Carolina smoking tobacco at the Postoffice lobby. Judge E. R. Potter of Rnode Island in declining to hear the Spragndivorce case, wrote: “I wish to say now that if either party chooses to ask for a divorce on any ground affecting the moral character of the ocher, some other Judge must hear it and the parties must be at the trouble to secure his attendance, as I have long been a neighbor and acquaintance of both parties.” Call for some candy to take to the little ones, when you go to the Postoffice for mail. More than fifty choice kinds all fresh and pure. The best display in fifty towns. “Can a Demociat Get to Heaven,” was the subject of a lecture delivered at Shelbyville, Ind., on Sunday night last, by Rev. T. Leslie Weaver. We commend Mr. Weaver to the tender care of the “Stalwart” of the Guiteau persuasion w-o esteems Grant as greater, nobler, and more patriotis than all others, considers him entitled to divine honors, and cannot tolerate a different estimate of nim. Tho two foolsjmight travel the country together with much b( nefit.

Bose’s Rival, Favorite, Hermosa, Minetta, Jolly Robber, Smacks, Startle, Game, and Our Valentine — all choice brands of cigars at the Postoffice lobby, The Philadelphia Inquirer, a hard money Republican paper, says: “The Republican party, by supporting Mahone in Virginia, and lending him material aid In his battles of repudiation, has committed its-If to that financial and dishonest heresy.” President Arthur holds, like the priestcraft of old, that if, by lending, material aid to Mahone, he an breuK up the Solid South and disrupt the Democratic party, the ends justify the means. Arthur is nothing but a machine politician.

Daily papers, Magazines, pocketmaps. choice stationery and blanksbooksat the Postoffice lobby. jt will be remembered that John Sherman kicked Chester A. Arthur out of the New York Custom House on the charge of gross dishonesty. Chester A. Arthur who drew the capital prize “in the lottery of assassination,” is now officially informed that the very time that Sherman was putting on such magnificent professions of honesty he was tolerating in his department the most shameful sneak-thieving ever practiced in the country. Republicans are disposed to steer clear of such revelations. John Sherman is known to be rotten The Indianapolis Herald says truth fully that for nineteen long years Gen. Fitz John Porter has suffered under the ignominy of treason and incompetency thrown upon him by the hatred and jealousy engendered and propagated by such lickspittles as Generals Logan and Pope. Gen. Porter’s downfall was conceived in the mean spirit of jealous?, and prosecuted with the malignant venom of malice. It is aome satisfaction though that al thte late day General Grant is compelled by a sence of justice and right to defend General Porter from tne charges of treason and incomeetenoy and publicly con--tess that he haa been foully and shamefully wronged by the country. It is not expected that either Gen. Logan, now a Senator from Illinois, or Gen. Pope, the Bull Bun butcher, will ever have the manliness to make the amende honorab'e to the injured man.