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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted — Blacksmiths. (search)
ute it to this sin, some to that, and some to another, and some to all the deadly sins combined. But, to give one of the most active agents of Satan his due, Cheever refutes all their theories, while he fails to establish his own. He says: "Our teachers gravely tell us that God is angry with us on account of our atheism, our Sabbath-breaking, our profaneness, our intemperance, and, in fine, every one of the sins that has characterized all the generations of mankind in nations down from Adam, save only the one glaring sin so peculiar to us as a nation. * * * Nearly all nations on the earth have danced, chewed tobacco, drank ardent spirits, forgetting Goden many ways, and profaned. His ordinances and his Sabbaths; but we have no proof that God ever judged a nation with a desolating war or rebellion growing out of any one of these sins, or any sin that characterizes us, except it be oppression." Beecher, it seems, was afraid to preach, but Cheever, who has just come over fro