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THE CAPITAL’S OLD DAYS.
CHARMING RE MIN IS CBN CBS OP A
PAST POLITICAL EPOCH.
A Characteristic fccene In John Cham
berlin’s Eotel-A Famous Old Law
yer Detailing Memories of Clay, Cal
houn, Benton, Polk, Westcott, and
Other Eminent Statesmen—a he First
Meeting Eetween Forrest and Kean.
At the Dinner Table.
From the yew York Sun.
Washington. March 2.—There are still a
few Tenerable citizens living in Washing
ton ho retail charming reminiscences of
former political epochs. Among them are
George Bancroft, Hugh McCulloch, Albert
Pike, and Capt. Isiac Bassett. These, how
ever, are t>y no means the most reminiscent.
Occasionally an old lawyer or a statesman
of long ago is seen wandering in the cor
ridors of the capitol or poring over some
rare books in the congressional library.
Once break through his shell, and the en
tertainment is delightful. His mind sweeps
back from half to nearly three quarters of
a century. The glow of the old days comes
into his eyes as he opens the storehouse of
his memory.
The other night a famous old lawyer sat
sipping hi- toddy in John Chamberlin’s
caravansary. His head was wnteued by
75 winteis. He was a man of mass.ve
frame, over six feet talL his intellect shore
like an electric light, and ins memory of
the old times was as vivid as or.o of Meis
sonier’s pai tines. He had known person
ally Clay, Webstar, alhoun, Benton. Cass,
Ciayton, ad many o her statesman whose
names are emtfi&zo ed uto i the scroll <f
fame. H ur after hour did he char u his
listene:a with i iteresting stories of these
great men. There ere enough of them to
fill a volume, and all were well worth re
tailing.
In the conversation someone carnally
mentioned the name of Wili am L. Seaton
of Gales & Seaton, the old-time t uMishers
of the Congressional Globe. Toe name
awasent'd anew the old lawyer’s memory.
He said that he frequently called upon
Seaton at his hou e in the old times.
Seaton lived on F street, opposite the post
office, where there is now a little bee- gar
den. “I have never dared to visit the beer
garden,” the old man ob-erved, ’’for fear
that Seaton’s shade would confront and
reproach me. Many a time did I dine w.th
him on that spot Jong ago befo e there was
a lager beer saloon in America.”
He described Seaton as tall, big boned,
and fir e looking. Indeed, he was a mag
nificent specimen of manhood. He kept
dogs, loved sport, and used to go hunting
regularly. “He was of Scotch descent, if
u< t a S otebman by birtu,” the old lawyer
said, “I think he was the latter. At a y
rclea finer man never lived upon God’s
footstool.”
Al r.-. Seaton was a typo and an honorary
member of the typographic and union. She
land her husband were tue first to report
the proceedings of Congress. It is
■well known that to them world owes
the preservation of We ster’s immortal
reply to Hayne. The old lawyer often met
Denton at her house. She once told
him a story about old Tippecanoe. When
Con. Harrison came down here to be inau
smated5 mated he stopped at her house. On March
1 e lost his inaugural address. He came
back to Beato.,’s to see if he had left it there.
{Mrs. Seaton said that he came in with tears
in his eyes. They hunted for it high and
low, but could not find it. He found it later
•while on bis way to the capitol. Mrs. Seaton
paid that from shaki g hands with his ad
mirers a lump as large as a hen’s egg had
formed under Gen. Harrison’s arm. She
told him he ought to stop shaking ba ids
with ’ everybody, but the old warrior kept
on shaking every band proffered until the
day of his death.
CLAY AND CALHOUN IN CONFLICT.
The old lawyer said that be should never
fergt t one evening spent with Mr. Seaton.
Upon entering the house the host led the
way into the back parlor. The visitor told
him t hat he felt rather blue, and Mr.
Seaton pi offered some wh.sky. Itwasac
cepted. The glasses were filled and
enipti. and. The visitor smacked his lips and
cn uully remarked that it was maguificent
liquor.
“You are right,” Mr. Seaton replied, “I
have had it for a long tim*. I never shall
forget the night that Henry Clay first
tssied of it. it was in the winter of ’37 ad
*33. There had been a fierce and bitter
debate in the Senate. Angry w, rds had
passed between Clay and Calhoun. It was
in a debase over the compromise measures
that made an end of nullification. Clay
had asserted that the measures were his,
end that by them he had ‘saved the neck of
the gentleman fri m South Carolina.’ Cal
houn i eplied hat in these mat ers he was
the master of the gentleman trom Ken
tucky. Whereupon Clay angrily retorted:
‘The gentleman from South Carolina my
master! I would not own him for my
Havel'
“I was sitting right here one evening,”
continued Mr. Seaton, “when the excite
ment c msecf by this debate was at its height
I heard the doorknocker work. A serva t
came iu and said that Mr. Clay would like
to see me. Clay entered. I took him into
this room and gave him a glass of this same
■whisky. He drank it, s Hacked his lips and
frowned. He was unusually grave.
“ ‘Mr. Seaton,’ said he, ‘I came down to
see you about an uffair that troubles me
very much. I never liked duels. I’ve been
in several and I thought I’d had enough of
them, and was done with them forever.
But Mr. Calhoun’s conduct lately has been
bo outrageous, so unendurable, that I must
challenge him. We must meet face to face.
My determination is tauen, and nothing can
shake it. I will fight him, and I came here
to see you about it.’ ”
Mr. Sea ton said that he had hardly re
covered from the sho k that Clay’s words
pave him wheu he heard the knocker ngain.
Clay turned out another glass of whisky,
and looked at the bead upon the mellow
liquor. The servant announced that “a
gentleman would like to see Mr. Seaton.”
“I went out,” Mr. Seaton said. "Judge
of my surprise—there was Calhoun. I
didn’t know what to do, but I had to do
something. Clay was in this back parlor,
so I took Calhoun into the front parlor. I
didn’t offer him any whisky, for I knew
that he never drank any, and, moreover,
the decanter was in the Lack parlor. Cal
houn opened at once, saying, ‘.dr. Seaton,
I’ve come to -ee you as a fried about a
matter that concerns me very much. You
know I am apposed to dueling, and have
never bee i engaged ir, but Mr. Clay’s co i
duct has become so unbearable and so infa
mous that I must bring him to account. I
shall compel him to face me.’ ”
Mr. Seaton saw' that they were both
bent on blood.' He knew tie violence of
their tempers and their and adly hostility.
Oue was in the front and the other iu tue
hoc parlor. He feared that if they met
there wo dd be bloodshed. He resolved tt
get rid of Calhoun, and said:
“ ‘1 am very muen surprised and very
sorry, Mr. Calhoun, hut 1 am not now in a
state of mind to say anything to you about
it. Moreover, I have an affair on hand of
such immediate importance that I must a
-toil at once. And though I very much
dislike in t to give you a hearing and ihe
benefit of my counsel, you will have to ex
cuse me for to-night. Come some other
night to-morrow night. Come a y other
time, To-night 1 have something else on
hand that I must attend t >.’
“‘Certainly,’ replied Cilboun, ‘I shall
not detuin jou now. Hut remember that
my r solution is taken a.id nouiinji can
swerve mo from it.’
“ With these words lie left. Boston went
back and talked to Clay. He told him not
to be too hasty; bat they were t vo promi
nent miu bef re the country, and tliat he
ought to consider well before net, k a step
of the-kind. Clay answered that he had
we I considered it, and that he should tend
k Calhoun* challenge. The only question
B wa* wheu aud by whom/
“Within a day or two, however, the
Ciliey duel came‘ ff, in which Cillev was
k lied bv Graves of Ken u-ky—rifles at
eighty yards. The w h fie country was
! stirred. * Public indignation was aroused
j by the fate of Ciliey, and the difficulty be
j tween Mr. Clay ad Air. Calhoun was set
! tied without bio dsbed.”
COL BENTON ALWATS A GENTLEMAN.
Here the old lawyer lighted one of Cham
! berlin’s best cigar-. As the smoke curled
i over bis head he hea’d somebody talking
j about a dinner that Jack Adams of New
York had recently given in ti >norof Sena
tor Blackburn. CoL William R. Morrison,
ad Nat Goodwin. It recalled >-n old-time
breakfast at the National hotel. It was when
Lord Elgin came he e to negotiate the
j t eaty establishing reciprocity between the
Unite! 8 atea and Canada with Gov.
Marcr. The breakfast was given by tne
consul general ■ f the British North Ameri
can c )l"iiies. Among th se present were
hard Elgin, his secretary, I.sure ce Oli
phant; Tho.nas H. Benton, Caleb C'tsbing.
CuL Fremont, Gen. Isaac I. Stevens, who
was after sari killed at the battle of Cban
tilly; Col. Wiiliam W. Snow, member of
congress from New York; Edwin Forrest,
and quite a number of others.
“I think Sir Cusick Koo ev and his ladv
were there,” the narrator remarked.
“Rooney was attached in some way or
other to Lord Elgin’s suite, but I do not re
member of anything that he said at tho
breakfast table.”
After the g ests had been invited the
host came to the old lawyer white with
| e ns:er..a“’on. He had invited Gen. Cush
ing ami Col. Benton, and bad just learned
that thev were deadly enemies. Ho feared
some outbreak if they met. He asked what
he should do. The old lawyer told him tiia
he would see to it for him. He visited Col.
Bent n ad said:
“Colonel, you and Cashing have both
been l vited to breakfast with Lord E gin.
The host has just learned of the unpleasant
relations existing between you. There is
J some fear ti.at it might not be pleasant f r
| you to meet. And I’ve Come here to let
you know beforehand, so that you may
avoid the meeting if you so desire.”
“You go and tell t e host, sir, that his
guests are my associates for the time being.”
Bentoa replied. “1 shall treat Gen. Cus -
ing as a guest entertained by a mutual
frier.d, sir, aud I’ve no doubt he will treat
me in the same manner. I assure you there
will be no scene so far as I am concerned,
sir. and I have no fears that there will be
any disturbance on his par
They met at the breakfast table. Col.
Bento.i addressed Gen. Cushing, tinned his
gl ss to him, and said: “Gen. Cushing, a
glass of wine with you, if you please.”
They both drank, but the entente cordiale
did n t continue after they left the break
fast table. On the next day they were ene
mies, and they remained so as long as they
lived.
FORREST AND KEAN.
The breakfast was like an old-fashioned
Methodist class meeting. Every one told
hL experience. Lord Elgin made a speech.
Atnong others Forrest was called upon.
They wanted his experience as an actor,
and he told of his first mee ing with Kean.
“When Kean came to this country,” he
said, “he created a great furor. 1 was
assigned to play ‘Horatio’ to his ‘Ham
let.’ I was t'.ien a young actor without
exiierience and verv a xious as to my suc
cess. I was especially anxious to act my
par: well in playing wit i Kean. I went to
rehearsal to meet him, but he didn’t ap
pear. I grow more and more anxious as
the lime approached for the performance,
and finally visited him at his rooms. 1 was
cord ally received. I found him in his
slippers and shirt sleeves, walking up and
down the room. Kean was a small man,
but well knit and active.
" ‘Well, young man,’ he said, ‘what is
your business with me this morning.’
“ ‘Mr. Kean, 1 I replied, ‘I am to play
“Horatio to your “Hamlet" to-night.’
*• ‘Ah, yes, my youug friend,’ said he,
‘yes, take a chair. You are very welcome.’
“ ‘Well,’ said I, ‘Mr. Kean, 1 am a young
actor, and I am exceedingly anxious about
what is to occur this evening. I have been
to the rehearsals, but you didn’t attend
them. Iw as disappointed in not seeing you
there; and I’ve come here to ask you to give
me some instructions, for what I am to do
concerns me greatly!’
“ ‘Ah, jes, all right,’ Kean answered.
‘My young friend, I will attend to that soon.
Did you ever hear me play?
“ ‘No,’ 1 replied.
“ ‘An, yes. Sit down, then,’ said he, ‘and
I will play for you.’
“At this he began losing:
You may break, you may ruin the vase, if you
will.
But the scent of the roses will cling to it stilL
“I expressed myself as pleased, but
wished to return to the subject that brought
me there.
“ ‘All, yes, my young friend,’ said he,
‘we’d attend to that anon. What do they
say of me? Ah, yes. What do the people
say?’
“ ‘Well, they say you are a great actor,
but that you have one great enemy,’ I re
plied.
“ ‘H’m,’ said he, taking a bottle of brandy
under his arm, ‘I suppose this is it. Well,
sir, don’t you knqw that we are c •minanded
to love our enemies? WiU you take a
drink?’
“I declined. Kean went on with some
s’ories. Finally I reminded him again of
what 1 had come for.
“ ‘Ah, yes, my young friend,’ he said,
‘yes, I mils; not keep you waiting. Now I
will show you. Come up here.’
“Ho beckoned mo to stand in front of him.
“ "Now,’said he, when you come in to
night, you come in on tbe right-hand side
of the stage’—here he piussd for several
seconds—‘or the left hand, I don’t cars a
ha’penny which’—another pause—'but when
you co me on, come right along, and we’ll
go right through with it That’s all.’
“That was all tbe consolation I could get
out of him. But we went through with it,
and it took wonderfully, despite my
ne. vousness.”
BENTON AS AN ACTOR.
Forrest’s story pleased Col. Benton, and
turned his tongue loose. In his dignified
way he gave vent t:ius:
’“Gentlemen, I, too, have been a player in
my time. It pleases me to tell you of apl iy
in which I enacted a part. When the bill
for the admission of Texas was before the
Senate I had my role. Ciay had charge of
it, and I conceived the idea of startling him.
So one morning, as he entered tho chamber,
I took the floor and addressed the Senate.
“ ‘By this bill,’ said I, ‘the United States
is to guarantee tho debt of Texas to a cer
tain amount. The amount was first left
blank. It has been rai ed from time to time
to give it sufficient magnitude to carry the
bill through. There are a variety of wavs
of manipulating a bill through a legislative
body. Some bids pass on t eir own merits,
by universal consent. Some are log-rolled
through on the system of ‘l’ll vote fur your
bill if you’ll vote for mi e.’ 1 1 various
other w ays influence is used to get measures
not very obnoxious or very meritorious
through. But never before have I seen a
bill like this. Here is a bill, sir,’ said I
(taking it up and shaking it at the President
of the Senate), ‘here is a bill auctioneering
itself through the Senate. 1 repeat it, sir,
auctioneering itself t .rough the Senate.’
"But what I had anticipated did not tuke
place. Clay paid not the slightest att uition
to what I saifi. I expected that it would
arouse his i,,dignatiin—;ha' there would be
a scene and a sharp fight. But Cl ij- <tifi
not notice it, and 1 bad to ge down from
tbe bight to which I had raised myself, aud
drop tho subject ns quietly as I could.
“But tho thing hit! its effect. On tho
next diy Clay promptly called me to ac
count. f>r what I hu t said a out. his bill, and
the affair for a time lookod seri .us,”
THE RUPTURE BETWEEN POLK AND CAL
IIOUN.
These reminiscences of the Elgin brenk
| fast drew from the old lawyer’s report fire
j a memory of a scene at a dinner ut which
; Col. Benton, old Bill Allen of Ohio, un i
Senator W. s cott of Florida were guests.
! Westc fit told this sto y at tue table:
“When Mr. l’olk was Pres.dent, and war
I with Mexico was threatened, Mr. Calhoun
came no beie somewhat iu advance of the
1 opening of the session. Polk sent for hun
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1890--TWELVE PAGES.
and asked his advice as to what he sboul 1
| sav in hi- me- age in respect to the hostili
! ties which had actually begun on the border.
I Calhoun told him mat i‘ was proper to d
i fed our territ ry and the line of the Rio
Grande, but that lie ought to say in his
message he would not go beyond that; that
he would not invade Mexico, but ihat the
United States would defend the Rto Grande
as ihp fine until the b undary was settled.
“Air. Polk had the message overhauled in
accordance with the advice of Lie sena or
from South Carolina, and Mr. Calhoun de
parted, rubbing h.s bands in clee. He was
convinced that his policy of sirti >g down on
the line would be adopted. He afterward
wrote it out, and was assured that it was in
corporated in the raessaie.
“Shortly afterward Col. Benton arrived
in town. Mr. Polk saw him and read to
him the part of his message that referred to
Mexican hostilities. ‘This will never do,
sir,’Benton said. ‘That is not the way to
conduct a national difficulty. Yon must
attack the enemy wherever you find him,
sir—invade his country, and drive the war
to a successful i sue. If you adopt this sit
ting down policy the jeoole will call you
weak and imbecile—weak and imbecile,
sir. The nation will not endure it. I will
not endure it, sir.’
"He so i fluenced the President that
Polk finally said: ‘Weil, Col. Bent m, will
you tell me what you think I ought to
sav?’
“Benton did so. It was put into the mes
sage, and he went a war.
“Then the President sent for me, whom
be knew to be a friend and admirer, and in
some se sea protege of Calhoun, and told
me what bad occurred. He said he knew
lhe irascible nature of the South Car dina
senator, and asked me to go and see him and
tell him about what had been done and why
it was done, and reconcile him, if possible,
before the messige was read in the Senate.
I promised to do it that night, but couldn’t
screw my courage up lo the point. I feared
the rage of Mr. Ca hnun. 1 stood well with
him, and I was afraid he wo fid regard me
as an intermeddler. S>, tbinki ,g it all
over, I concluded not to do the President’s
errand.
“The message came into the Senate with
out Calhoun knowing of tne alteration. As
soon as it w as received Calhoun, who had no
idea of what had happen-d, whispered into
into the ear of Senator Yulee and asked him
to move that that part of it relating to the
Mexican war be referred to a special com
mittee. The clerk read the message in the
usual humdrum to e, and nobody listened
to it. Yulee then arose and said: ‘I move,
Mr. Speaker, that as so much of the Pres
ident’s message as relates to the attitude of
this country to Mexico be referred to a
special committee.’
"Benton was on his feet in an instant.
‘Mr. President,’ he said, ‘I desire that the
clerk should read folios 111, 112 and 113 of
the message in a plain, audib e voice, so that
we may all know just what it is t at is to
be referred to this special committee, sir!’
“Thereupon the Senate b came siient,and
the clerk read not what Calhoun had put
into the message, but what Benton had in
serted there inst ad.
“A cloud black as night overspread the
brow of the senator from South Carolina.
He again whispered to Senator Yulee, and
that gentleman at onco arose and withdrew
his motion.
“‘Well,’sneered Benton iu majestic dig
nity, as he took the door, ‘1 thougnt there
was some misapprehension about what
was containerl in folios 111, 112, and 113 of
the President’s message, sir—l did, sir.’
“Calhoun left Yulee and returned to his
own seat looking like a thunder cloud.
And never from that day till the day of his
death c uld he endure it to have Polk’s
na ne meutioned in his presence. He re
fused all communication with the Presi
dent, aud sc irne 1 all ills offers of peace as
long a? he lived.”
THE ASHES OF A CANADIAN DINNER.
The last incident told by the old lawyer
was one that occurred iu Canada while Gen.
Albert Sidney Johns n was advancing upon
Suit Lake City in 1857.
“I spent one winter at Sword’s hotel in
Toronto,” he said. “It was when Toronto
was the seat of the Canadian government.
We often had dinners, and tho e dinners
were never regarded as full unless an old
gentlemiu named Derbasheer was there.
Ques.ions of state policy were discussed. It
was at the time of the Sepoy rebellion. The
Canadians were full of praises of Gen.
Hnvelock, but what seemed to bother them
was how long this revolt would last before
England "mild again restore peace and take
final possession of India, or w ich ttie o
didn’t seem to be any doubt. It was a cold
night, with snow on the ground. About
1 o’clock Der. asheer rose to go home.
He refused to take a carriage. We volun
teered to escort him. As we walked in the
cold, crisp atmosphere, the subject of the
Sepoy rebelli >n was further discussed. At
last an American iu the party threw up his
hauds with a ‘ha-ha 1’ They asked him what
he was laughing at. *
“Well,” s%id he, “I was thinking of these
Englishmen. Here they are beating down
a revolt of forty or fifty millions of people
away from home, thousands of miles away,
without the slightest doubt that they will
do it in a very speedy time, w hile the great
United States is puzzled and distressed ns
to how it shall break up Brigham Young’s
assignation house over in Utah."
It was after midnight. The old lawyer
drew on his folt hat, yanked himself into
his overcoat, and after a cheery good-night
was driven to his residence on Ciuiitol hill.
Amos J. Cummings,
RHAPSODY ON TOBACCO.
Ingersoll Extols It Above All Other
Vegetables—Prefers to Smoke Here.
From the New York Sun.
"Now, as to my toast, I am called upon
to speak for tbe divine plant called tobacco.
I have loved it all my life—that is, since I
was 10 years old, and 1 liked the first chew
of old plug I put into my mouth as well as
I do now. There’s too much hypocrisy
about the use of tobacco. Thousands use it
and lie aoout it. I wa it you to use it and
defend its use, because it adds something to
the value and happiness of life. In spite of
the thunders of the pulpit and the anath
emas of physicians, its use is increasing,
and this is because the brain of man craves
it. W hat would we do without it? Thin c
f waiting for a train without tobacco!
Think of crouching in the dea lly rifle pit
without tobacco! What would those do
who a.d value to life by spanning t,e
world with tbe rainbows of fancy with
out tobaced All u e tobacco, and are
tne better for it. Have the courage of
your nappiness, atid defend its use.
"Tobacco is a luxury, aud on that ac
count 1 want the tax on it No
matter what nece saries c ist, I want cheap
luxuri s. They say luxuries should be
taxed because the rich pay for them. Why,
labor nays all the taxes in the world! It is
tbe only solvent thing beneath the sta s!
The diamonds whicn glisten on the bosom
of beauty are pai l for by labor. I want
tobacco absolutely free in these United
Slates. [Applause.] Some want poor
deviis to do ad the work in this world t.nd
sin >ke iu the next. Iwa ,t them to smoke
l i this. The fumes which arose from the
pipe of peace of tho India i were as differ
ent from tne clouds of war as heaven aud
hell—are there any such places?
“Tobacc > is the best plant that grows on
the face of the earth. Personally, I would
rather do without any other vegetable. 1
pity tho ancients, who ha t to do without it,
ft u I envy Columbus, who was the first
European to see its smoke rise over the fair
isle of Cuba. This new world has given no
better gift to mankind than the celestial
leaf. Gentlemen, give us stra ght goods,
ad fu ure generations will rLe up and call
you blessed.”
An English Bisnop lately ordained a young
gentleman a* deacon, anil tell it uec-saary to
send for the clergyman who had recommend and
him.
“What may your lordship want with me?"
"1 wish, sir, to speak abo t that youug man."
“What yo ing man, your lordship?"
“The young mao, sir whom I ordalnet. I
want you 1 1 keen him m check, I had great
difficulty, sir, In keeping him from examining
me.“— Texas it ft mgs.
| JESUS WAS NOT REJECTED
DB. GOTTHEIL TELLS HOW THE
JEWS REGARDED CHRIST.
Only a Handful Knew of Him—A Wide
Gulf Between the People Who
Loved, and the Few Priests Who
Opposed Him.
From the New York Sun.
Many Christians gathered with tbe ortho
dox Hebrews in the Temple Etnanu-El,
Forty-third street and Fifth avenue, yes
terday morning to hear the Rev. Dr.
Gottbeii’s answer to the question: "Did the
Jews Reject Jesus?”
“It is a central qnestion,” said the
preacher. “Did the Jews reject Jesus?
Wheat! spoke to my Christian friends about
the subject ana told them how I proposed
to answer it, they stared at me as if they
thought I was not in my right mind. I
met a cmstian clergyman the other day,
and. of course, we talked shop. Even be
supposed th it I would take the side of Jesus
as against my people.
“I am only a candid, unprejudiced stu
dent of the New Testament, as Ia n also of
the Old Tes ament or any other book. You
kn w, therefore, what iny answer must be
t ■ the text. But does not the whole Chris
tian church affirm the contrary ? Do not all
say with one voice that the Jews rejected
Jesus and that the crucifixion stands as a
crime not to be forgiven in this world or
the next? Every cro-s on a Christian church
points as a witness against our people,
charging that we have slain one so pure, so
noble—he who descended from a home in
heaven that he might save the lost of Israel
—the one who ought to wear a crown placed
on his head by his own people. Yet in the
face of all this testimony Ido not hesitate
to say that the charge is but an old aud in
veterate error.
“Jesus is no longer a living personality—
a human being whose teachings can be
measured by any of the standards used for
other human beings. He has become an
object of faith—a faith which is supported
by hell-fire on one side and by paradise on
the other. Who can reason with such a
faith? He |has become a dogma, a pivot ou
whicn salvation revolves. Who i man be
gins to spin theories out of his brain what
ca .’t he put into them? He can put in only
as much knowledge and as much feeling as
he possesses. And so it is that cree ls, like
that of the Presbyterians—the creeds that
were supposed to contain the eternal truth
by which men were to live, and on
which thev were to go to heaven—have to
be revised. The best thing that was said
by the Presbyterians in their discussion was
tbe remark that 'we have become too much
of the gentleman to believe longer in the
damnation of babies.’ In an ancient bo fit
of our literatu e a writer says: ‘No man
knows where the grave of Moses is, but I
know where it is. He is buried in the Tal
mud.’ So Jesus has been buried in Christian
t heories. Emerson says, truly, that the cure
of a bad theology is not found in another
theology, but in common sense. We w ill
not put one theology ag iust another, but
will appeal to t at court which knows
neither Jew nor Gentile—common sense—
and before it T will plead the cause of my
people.
“I take the charge as it stands. Did the
Jews reject Jesus? Which Jews? How
many of hem? It is commonly thought
that the Jews were a small remnant living
then in Judea. In reality they were a great
naiion, scattered throughout the whole
civilized world. So numerous and rich
were they that th y had great schools of
learning in Babylon, and thi her the youth
had to go to finish their education, just as
we now send our youug men to Europe. The
Jews were scattered over vast distances.
It was not tne day of newspapers
or of the electric telegraph or penny post
age, and news of what was done in Jeru
salem reached the outskirts of civilization
only after the lapse of years. Y u can see,
then, how ignorant of the mission and
doings of Jesus the great majority of the
Jewish nation must have beon at the time
of his death. What do you think, when it
is sa.d to you that the American people
have decided that the world’s fair shall not
be h Id in New York? When have the
American people been asked to decide that
question? Never. Wi en were the Jews as
a nation asked to decide on tho character
of Jesus? Never.
"If the Jews did reject Jesus, which one
did they rej >ct? There are no 1 ss than six
in the New Testament. First, there was
Jesus as an instructor, a teacher of ethics,
a reformer of the church. With this Jesus
the Jews had no quarrel. The next was a
worker of miracles. I mean no disrespect
when I say that he would be called a faith
curist in our day, beca use he healed only
those who had faith. Third, he was Christ,
the Messiah of tbe Jews, a figure wholly
independe t of that Jesus tho moral teacher,
or that of Jesus the miracle worker. Fourth,
there was the re leeme of tho w hole world.
Fifth, there was the Son of the living God
—God himself incarnate, who is particu
larly depicted in the gospel of John. Last
of all we have the Judge of the World,
who at the resurrection will divide the
human race into two parts. How these six
different conceptions are to be harmoniz;d
is beyond jthe power of people of ordinary
minds.
“Now, which of these did tho Jews re
ject? The moral teacher? I defy any one
to show me a passage in the New" Testa
ment which that his morality was re
jected. E ven whe i the Pharisees were re
buked by Jesus they remained sile it, be
en jse they had been taught not to answer a
master, aud they regarded him as a master.
Did tbe Jews reject Jesus as a worker of
miracles? Was a physician such as he ever
rejected by the people? Tne New Testa
ment says the crowds were so great about
him that he had to escape from them by
stealth. Did the Jews reject him as the
Messiah? They neither accepted nor re
jected. They had not been taught that tho
M- ssiah was to lie one to lead them to
heaven, but that he was to be an earthly
ruler. Tuey said, when Jesus was extolled
as the Messiah. Let him do the work of
the Messiah.
“As God or a part of the Deity, they did
reject him. They could not u derstand
that claim. They did what thousands of
intelligent men do this very day. Asa re
deemer Jesus was a verv great mystery.
He was neither rejected nor accepted.
Those who could believe did so, and tho e
who c uld not kept quiet, and sj as to the
other supernatural claims.
“There is a world of difference between
what history tells us, aud what we see be
fore our eyes. We can unde: stand, per
haps, wny tne Jews did not take up Jesus
as God if we consider the work of the great
reseller,Phillips Brooks, in Trinity chu cn.
Tbe building was crowded with intelligent
business men, men who would pursue a
business advantage to the utmost. They
sat ani listened with bowed heads, anil
went away to strive to live better lives
because of what they ha 1 heard. Butsup
p se after hi. moral teachings Mr. Brooxs
had said that he was the son of God, come
to heal the sick and do great miracles.
Would not that have destroyed the effect of
his teachings, even though things incorn
prohe sibl • had been done by him?
“This is the season of Lent in the Chris
tian calendar. After a time Pain Sunday
will come. It is the greatest (estival of the
Catholic church. I will read the origin of
the festival. (Here the story of tho en
trance if Christ into Jerusalem, riding on
an ass, was lead from tho New Tes.ament.)
Mark how generous tue i eoplo were. What
ever Jesus asked of that people was given.
Why was an ass required? 1. was because
of tie Jewish tradition. How was Jems
rec ived at tho gates of the Jewis.i
metropolis? Was ha repulsed or in
suited* He had a royal recepti in,
aud some cried ‘Hosannah to the sou
of David,’ so that tbe whole city
was stirred by the tumult. Ana
vet this event was but six days before
Good Friday, when be was place l on trial
and condemned. Does not this show a wide
gulf between the few priest* who opposed
Jwtu aud the people who loved and re-
spec ed him? But when G od Friday comes,
arid the curitnan preaches come to relate
the etory of the death of Jems, they will
have no word in memory of what the gen
erous-hear ed per,pie did on Paim Sun lay.
“But Jesus will have another triumphant
entry into anew Jerusalem, into that city
we are trying to build—the Jerusalem of
justice, the great city of the distant future.
Into that city he will enter, hu; not alone.
There will be with him a great multitude,
who, like him, have Uved to benefit and
ameliorate t e condition of mankind.”
GOSSIP AB JUT JAY GOULD.
His Ailments and Peculiarities —His
Business in Good Shape.
From the Philadelphia Press.
New York, March 4.—The departure of
Jay Gould for his semi-annual inspection cf
his railroad properties in the southwest is
thought to be the beginning cf a prolonged
vacation, which his physic.ans sugges and
even insist that he take. The advice is
given, not because Mr. Gould is in a pre
carious state of bea Ith, but because the doc
tors desire to keep him in that fail lv com
fortable condition of health which he now
enjoys. Mr. Gould’s trouble is dyspepsia,
and he has cast physic, under the ai
vice of practitioners, to the dogs. He
has been building up his stomach by long
walks, being unable to taka the othe.-foim
of exei c.se which many dyspeptics enjoy—
long horseback rides. Thiereiore. for tbe
past winter it has b en a familiar sight on
Broadway to see Mr. Gould walking u o
Bro.dway from the Western Union build
iug to his fifth avenue house, near tne
Windsor hotel. It is a good stretch of
three and a half miles, and waen Mr. Gou and
first attempted it his legs lagged w earily on
the last mile, yet ue now keeps a pretty
even step with George and reaches his
home wit.iout exhaustion.
Mr. Gould toes in with his left foot when
he walks—a c oaracteristlc which some ob
ei vers have declared accomp tnies or indi
cates the possession of great financial abil
ity. He does not disdain to carry a bundle,
s imetimes two or turee of the n, and I saw
George the other evening with bis arms full
of small packages, which suggested that he
had been doi g some shoppiog for Lis wile.
It is not generally known that George
Gould is one of the few expert
male shoppers In those directions in
which female talent is usually employed.
On the l.st trip that his mother made to
Europe, George did all her shopping for uer,
not as a matt r of duty only, but because he
likes it. Unlike his father, to whom it is a
bore todo petty shopping, and who commits
that bu-i ess to somebody else, George gets
real mental recreation in pricing and
sampling goods in the different b zars and
o.her places where smaller articles of neces
sary wear are for sale.
MR. GOULD GOING TO EUROPE.
Mr. Goald, upon his return from his in
spection trip two weeks he ce, will make
preparations for an early trip to Europe.
He is fond of the sea, bat is indifferent to
tue pleasures of continental traveling. It
is therefore bis contemplation to extend the
trip far up the Mediterranean and spend us
much of the time as possible upon the
water. He expects to return in time to
spend the early weeks of the fall at the new
tnou itain estate which he and George have
bought in the heart of the Catskills.
It is the opinion of men whoa e somewhat
familiar with Mr. Gould’s affa rs (no man
knows much about them), that he has no v
got his properties in a condition wnere per
manance is practically secured and a steady
income may be relied upon from them. Hr
has still great faith in his southwestern
railroads, and in tnat direction may exer
cise his constructive genius in exDanding
the properties aud giving them more satis
factory seapoi t connections than they now
p ssess. But aside from this his efforts will
probably be confined to the conservati n of
the other two great corporations in which
his property is invested. Tuese are the
Wes eru Union aud the elevated railroads
in this city. The Western Union, through
bis genius mainly, is now in a position
where competition cannot be maintained
agai st it, uule s the government ste, s ii
aud establishes a postal telegraph. If that
should be done it is the general impression
that Mr. Gouid will bond his energies toward
the creation of a sentiment in congress
favorable to the purchase by the govern
ment of the entire Wes.era Union plant.
His last financial stroke before leaving for
tho west was tho proposition to put a
blanket mortgage for $40.00U,000 up >n tbe
entire elevated railroad property in this
city, some of the money thus raised to lie
used to redeem outstanding bonds now
about to become due, and some of it to be
applied to a great extension of the system in
the upper part of Manhattan Island.
In addition to this Mr. Gould has got tired
of fighting those people who clai n dam
ages from the erection of the elevated
railways, for he has learned that the ten
deucy of the courts is in all cases to award
damages, and he proposes to save the ex
panse of litigation by compromising with
everybody and settling up as fast as pos
sible through private negotiation. It is esti
mated that this will take nearly §15,000,000.
With a mortgage of §40,000,000, requiring
more than $1,500,000 a year for interest
charges, it will need a consider
able increase in tue traffic, enor
mous as that is, in order to enable the com
pany to pay a fair dividend to the st cr
holders. Mr. Gould has the greatest faith,
however, in the future of this property. In
these more quiet days of his life, Gould is
maintaining his reputation as the greatest
genius of finance tb it we have seen in this
generation and is adding to it something of
respect and regard whicn he did not before
possess. It was of him that Mr. Conklitig
said: “Had bo not gone into business, but
instead had taken up politics, he would
have been the master politician of the
country and, I think, the greatest diplomat
in either continent.”
grant’s palatial chamber.
The Private Apartment Fitted Up for
the General in the Stewart Mansion.
The Chatter.
Now that the St ■ wart mansion, at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-fourth street, is to be
turned over to the Manhattan Club for a
club house, it has come out that there was
one sacred room in the mansion. This room
is on the seco id flo >r on tne ave me side. It
was originally furnished in 1872. Tne car
pets lor the room ware made Iu Europe and
fitted like a glove. Tne furniture was made
in Paris aud was cf tbe most expensive
kind.
There was a crj’stal chandelier in it whose
Drisms shone like diamonds. Marble status
from Italy and flue paintings were some of
the costly adornments. The original outlay
for furnishing the room was SSu,UUO. Wuom
do you suppose it was so mag iOcently
fitted up foi ? None other than Ulysses S.
Grant, then in the last year of his first term
as President of the United States.
It will be recalled that Gen. Grant sent
A. T. Stewart’s name to the Se .ate for
confirmation as Secretary of tne Treasury.
It was then discovered that the constitution
would not permit an importer to tare this
place in the cabinet. But Mr. Stewart, ap
preciating the President’s deure to honor
nim, become from that moment a warmer
fi iend than ever of Gen. Grant.
ibis room iu his palatial mansion, was
furuis ed expressly for the use of the Presi
dent Nomittorhow crowded tue house
might be, no person on ea th except the
General ..as to have the use of it even for a
moment. A latch-key to the mansion and
a key to the room -were sent to him, with
tbe directions that whenover he waute 1 to
come 1 1 New York and have a res.ing spell
this room would be at his disposal.
Gen. Grant, in the eight years that he
was Preside it, occupied itma’iy more time
than anybody except the Stewarti wero
aware of. Ostensibly lie was at tbe Fif h
avenuj hotel, but when the evening be,a >
to wane and when wearied wit i the day’s
callers, he would slip into a cab and be
driven to bis Ixautiful hiding place iu the
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