Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1860 — Democrats in Early Times. [ARTICLE]

Democrats in Early Times.

Parson Brownlow boasts of his distinguished men being Whigs. Does he mean to say there were no distinguished men Democrats, among the early Christians!—Courtland (N. Y.~) Republican. Parson Brownlow intends to say no such a thing! He has studied the Bible and the History of the Church with too much care to make such a blunder. I'erod Antipas, before whom Jesus kept so silent, and PilatJ, who passed sentence against Christ, were both Democrats, and they were men of distinction and talents. Judas was a Democratic preacher, and the sub-treasurer of the Church. He took sop out of the same dish with the Saviour—hunted him up in the night to kiss him. He was an affectionate as well as a night-walking Democrat! Peter, a bold and vigorous preacher among the “early Christians,” was also a Democat. Hj was so devoted to the Lord that he declared, “though all men should be offended because of thee, yet I will nbt be offended.” Nay, he wept all about! The crowing of a Demoratic rooster afterward excited him, threw him off his guard, and he swore he would be d—d if he knew the man! In a word, there were, in the days of Christ, those who were Whigs and those who were Democrats, and they respectively carried out their principles. We have studied their lives, those of them who were apostles, and those who were only laymen, and we confess that we were never an admirer of the Democratic portion of them! Is it from this remarkable circumstance happening to Peter, that they use the rooster as an emblem! — Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig.