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The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], A clerical monster. (search)
s to forgive our enemies, to pray for them that despitefully use us, and who declared that they that draw the sword shall perish by the sword! What a wolf in sheep's clothing! He says he has been all his life fighting against the doctrine of Purgatory. Did he ever read of any Inquisitor that breathed a more infernal spirit of persecution than glares like a sullen flame of hell in the deep caverns of a heart which cries out for the "blood of wives and children?" Did he ever hear of any Roman Catholic, or Protestant, or Puritan, or even Pagan persecutor, who was not content with butchering men, but also insisted on having the blood of their wives and children? Did he ever hear of any one besides himself, except the North American Indians, and other horrible savages, who was as ferocious and bloody as Robert J. Breckinridge, Minister of the Gospel and Doctor of Divinity? Whether there be a Purgatory or not, is a question we are unable to decide; but if there be, we should not be embar