Dallas Herald

That prince of abolition sheets, the New York Tribune, of the 1st inst., contains a letter from another political clergyman signing himself "Willard Jones." But there is nothing in a name—Chapman by any other name would sound as well. This New York Chapman, like our Tennessee Chapman, claims to be a special mouth-piece of God and to wield the thunders of the church against all who do not agree with him in opinion. "I am a minister of the M. E. Church, South, and the church is responsible to the public for what I say and write," says our Chapman. "Statesmen may see what seems to them the best policy; but men who take God's word for their guide, see what is right," says the New York Chapman. But while our Chapman thinks that God is looking solely to the proscription of Catholics and foreigners, the New York Chapman thinks that the present great interest in Heaven is the admission of Kansas territory as a free State, and the political elevation of the nigger. Addressing the advocates of slavery in Kansas, he adds: "The Almighty, with his principles of moral government, is against you." Again: "God is waging a conflict with this nation; God marks out a line of duty, and those who walk in it and serve God, occupy an honorable position," but "those who uphold the wrong and fight against God will be like Ahab," &c., &c. Upon this, the New York Herald remarks: "What the reverend Mr. Jones means by fighting against God is fighting against Jones, or at least they are so closely allied and it is so utterly impossible for Jones to be wrong in interpreting God's word, that they may be used as convertible names. When Jones wants a thing, Jones says that God wants it; God declares, if Jones is baffled or kept waiting, or otherwise annoyed, that He is against those who thus baffle or annoy his servant Jones—or at least Jones says so—and woe to the perverse mortals who thus war against God." All this is as old, at least as the Oracle of Delphi. There never has been so poor a knave as could not somehow make out that God was on his side, and that his enemies were inspired by the devil. So it seems that there are more Chapmans than one, and more Joneses than one; we fear for the good of the world that the church is getting too full of Chapmans and Joneses. May the Lord deliver us from such a priesthood!—Nash. Union.