Oration, Delivered on the Fifth of July, 1847: Before the Native Americans of Cincinnati (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Oration, Delivered on the Fifth of July, 1847: Before the Native Americans of Cincinnati
Fellow Citizens:
Whenever a clergyman undertakes the discussion of a political subject, he is often advertised as an estray, who must be arrested and returned to his proper quarters. He is regarded as one who has broken out of the enclosure, where public sentiment watchfully confines him; and as going incontinently forth to trespass upon the rights and feelings of society.
If any holding such opinions are present here, I wish to remind them of the remark of a distinguished divine of our own times. He said, that in his state, there were only two classes of citizens who were deprived of the most important rights and hopes and privileges of citizenship. One class, he said, “were guilty of wearing a black skin, and the other of wearing a black coat.” Having lost caste by these crimes, they were excluded from the select society of the political arena. As one of those who have been almost unanimously ostracised as guilty of a black coat, I have one word to say. The two mites of us ministers, who are so fortunate as to possess so much, are regularly taxed, and the assessments are regularly paid and with cheerfulness. We are expected to contribute in all ways, according to our ability, towards the support of our institutions, and this is just; but upon the very principle contended for, and fought for, and died for, by our heroes of ’76, have we not the right to protest against this taxation from a government in which we are allowed no proper representation?
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