Democrat And Sentinel

Morality of this Administration.
The Divine Nazarene in giving instructions on the Mount of Olives, to his hearers, told them among other beatitudes, that "Blessed were the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God."
Has this doctrine become obsolete, or is it as immutable as its author? None will deny the authenticity of the doctrine. The Dynasty at Washington cannot be called the children of God, they are not peacemakers--they are blood-thirsty in the extreme, they have mutilated and butchered over one million of the flower of the American people without one single effort to terminate the slaughter. And now it is the same old song, more men, more money, and more taxes. The profligate destruction of human life has destroyed the whole system of American labor, and left very few able-bodied men to till the soil. The wasteful extravagance of the present administration is appalling. From the days of George Washington's inauguration to the day of the inauguration of the present incumbent, there was spent something over fourteen thousand million of dollars, and now the appropriations for this dynasty is over forty thousand millions, according to the last census. Before there was any destruction of property, it would take the whole of the northern property, real, personal and mixed to liquidate this debt. We may be told the country is prosperous, money is plenty, so it is, but it is the hectic glow of a consumptive patient, the sure harbinger of death. Surely men will soon open their eyes to the inevitable state of things that now exists in this once free and happy land. No man but a maniac could think that this country could stand this war much longer.
There are no peacemakers in this Administration. Truly, they shall not be called the children of God. Their treason, their insanity and wickedness is more to be pitied than blamed, they are spell-bound and controlled by the demon of Abolitionism, and are not free agents any more. Providence has abandoned them to their own wickedness and folly, for "whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." The Southern States have sought for a recognition in vain from all nations of Europe, but their nationality is recognized by Lincoln's leader in the House of Representatives, who declares that the Union of our fathers is dead and never again can be revived with his consent. And they still tell us we are fighting for the Union.
"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." Are the men of this generation clean of heart who are hovering around the public treasury watching for the drippings that fall from this great plundering machine. Those shoddy robbers of the public treasury who are turning the blood of their fellow-citizens and the tears of the widows and orphans into money to enrich themselves, regardless of the affliction of their unfortunate country, are certainly not clean of heart, they are wallowing in the mire of their own corruption, and will not relax their grip on the public treasury until they are forced from it by some means or other.
Are those Republican members of Congress who billet their doxies on the Treasury Department as clerks and get the Government to pay them salaries. Are they pure of heart, no, Hell must be filled with such purity of heart.
"Thou shalt not steal." This Administration is a den of thieves. They steal everything that is portable, from a piano down to a wooden leg. Indeed some of our Republican friends stole a gum-elastic leg in Fredericksburg, that was said to belong to a lady there, and this wanton depredator for his dexterity in thievery was shortly afterwards rewarded with a lucrative government office. There are a great abundance of pianos gracing the parlors of the North stolen from the South. Even the libraries of the war preachers of the North have received large accessions from the stolen literature.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." that is thou shalt not lie. This administration is the most lying of all ages and nations. There is one other government that probably might compare with this, but it is not of earth, and its ruler is called the father of lies. Lincoln, Seward, Stanton and the whole fraternity of those at the head of affairs, lie as gracefully as if they had been brought up at the feet of his Satanic majesty. Before this unholy administration got into power an American gentleman was expected to tell the truth and to tell him he lied in his presence was generally answered by a blow. but now the whole country is become so degenerate that falsehood from high places is become the order of the day. To look for the truth in the Republican newspapers now, would be as nonsensical as to look for the state of the weather in last years almanac. So that the high-toned truthful bearing of the country is gone, perhaps never to return. This moral decay of the country is to be regretted as much as its physical. Truth, honor and public virtue has been wasted away, as well as our blood and our treasure by this unholy government of ours.
"Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods, nor his ox, nor his ass nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant" &c. We find every command in the decalogue trampled under foot by these blood-thirsty minions of power as well as they have trampled on the constitution of our country. We suppose that this cannot be successfully denied. but we suppose they will justify it by the plea of military necessity. This plea is as silly and untenable as their acts are gross and diabolical. It may be that the Divine author and disposer of nature has handed over this government for a season to his Satanic Majesty or that he has permitted him for a season for his own wise purposes to have an undue influence over this unfortunate dynasty. Let us however trust that righteousness may yet reach their blindness, and that the Lord will soon again take the country under his divine protection, by infusing into their minds a knowledge of their iniquities and folly.
The Democracy of the country will have to do their part. The country is dying by inches and if they have it not mortally wounded before the next election, we must make a grand effort to restore it, though it never can be what it was, it is like a stout athletic man who has had a violent fever, he may be restored in some cases though almost always leaving some marks of the disease lingering in his constitution. So it must be in the constitution of our country, if the Democracy do get it healed up, it will for a long time have some tender points where it has been so vitally stabbed by the Abolitionists.