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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 16; 1887
CONCERNING BIGOTS.
Pr. Talmage’a Vacation Sermon
at The Hamptons.
•THEN SAID THEY UNTO HIM, SAY
K.n.SliibbolHIii And Ho Raid tfbbol.th,
J'or Ha Could Not Frame to Fro-
no'unco It Bight."
Tn« Hamttoxs, August 14.—[RpecUI.]—
Today the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage's sermon
fath« Want*” {ht !?:f,
•Then said they unto him, Bay now Shibbo
leth ; and he laid Sibboleth; for he coaid not
frame to pronounce it right. Then they took
Urn, and slew him at the peonages of Jordan."
—Judges 12:0.
1)0 you notice the difference of‘pronuncia
tion between ahibboleth and sibboleth? A
ycry smkl) and unimportant difference, yon
•ay. And yet, that difference was the differ
ence between life and death for a great many
people. The Lord's people, Gilead and
Sphratm, got into a great fight, and Ephraim
was worsted, and on the retreat came to the
fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order was
given that all Ephraimites coming there be
•lain. Rut bow could it bo found out who were
Ephraimites? They were detected by their
pronunciation. Hhibbolcth was a word that
stood for river. The Epliraimitcs had a brogue
•f their own, and when they tried to say shib
boleth, always left out tho sound of the "h."
When it was asked that they say shibboleth
they said sibboleth and wera slain. “Then
laid they nnto him, say now shibboleth; and
be said sibboleth, for he could not frame to
pronounce it right. Then they took him and
•lew him at tho passaro of Jordan." A very
•mall difference, you say, between Gilead and
Ephraim, and yet how much Intolerance about
that small difference! Tho Lord's tribes in our
times—by which I mean the different denoinl-
nations of Christians—sometimes magnify a
very small difference, and the only difference
between scores of denominations today is the
difference bet ween shibboleth and slbbpleth.
The church of God is divided into a great
number of denominations. Time would fail
& e to tell of tho Calvinists, and tho Arinln-
ns, and the Kabbatarians, and tho Baxter-
fans, and the Drunker*, and the Shakers, and
the Quakers, and the Mothodlsts and the Rap-
tists, and the Episcopalians, and the Luther
ans, and tho Congrcgations) 1st*, and the
Presbyterians, and tho Spiritualists, and a
•core of other denominations of religionists,
some of them founded by very good men, some
of them founded by very egotistic men, and
* * * tided r
creeds. Bn* since we may make mistakes
in regard to things of the world, do not let us
be egotistic, and so puffed up as to have an
idea that we cannot make any mistake in re
gard to religious theories. And then I think
wo will do a great deal to overthrow tho secta
rianism from our heart and the sectarianism
from the world by chiefly enlarging upon those
thfugs in which we agree rather than those on
which we differ.
Now, here Is a great gospel platform. A man
comes up on this side the platform and* sayi;
“1 don’t believo in baby sprinkling." Shall I
shove him off ? Hen u a man coming up on
till* side the platform, and he says, “X don't
believe in the perseverance of the saints."
. and when they were fn the very heat of
the controversy a more intelligent traveller
came, and said; "Gentlemen, I nave seen that
obelisk, and you are all right, and you are all
wronj£^Why didn't you wajk all around the
Jxjok out for the man who sees only one side
of a religious truth. Look out for the man
who never walks around these great theories
of God and eternity and the dead. He will be
a bigot inevitably—the man who only sees one
side. There is no rasn more to be pitied than
he who haa In bis head just one idea—no more,
no leas. More light, less sectarianism. There
is nothing thst will so soon kill bigotry as
sunshlns—God’s sunshine.
'J. Sol have set before you what I consider
to be the causes of bigotry. I hare set before
you the origin of this great evil. What are
some of the baleful effects? First of all it
cripples investigation. You are wrong, aud I
am right, and that ends it. No taste for ex
ploration, no spiritof Investigation. From the
glorious realm of God's truth, over which nn
very bad men. Hut
as 1 demand fot myself & of conscience,
2 must give that same liberty,to every other
« snan, roracrabrrhijr tjiat ho no more differs
from me than j differ from him. I advocate
* tho largest llhffWirt all religious belief and
‘! farm of worship*! In art, in politics, In morals,
and In rcllglctafla* them ho no gag law, no
moving of the previous question, no pcrsccu-
*• tion, no intolerance.
You know that ths air and th'a water keep
■ __jh pro
posed to make people thJnk aright by prohib
iting discussion and by stropg censorship of
the press, aud by rack, aud gibbet, and hot
lead down tho throat, tried to mako people
orthodox; hut it was discovered thst you can
pot change a man's belief by twisting off his
head, ana that yon cannot mako a man see
thing* differently by putting an awl through
his eyes. There Is something in a man's con-
•eicnco which will hurl off the mountln that
C u threw upon it. and, unsinged of the Are,
tof tho flame will make red wings on which
the martyr will mount to glory.
In that time of which X speak, between the
fourth and sixteenth centuries, people went
from the house of God into tho most appalling
iniquity, and right along liy consecrated altars
iliero wore tides of drunkenness and licentious-
•oss such as ths world nover heard of, and tho
▼cry rowers of perdition broke loose and till
ed tho chrtreft. After awhile tho printing
was freed, and it broke the shackles or
press
(be I _____
•umber of bud lx
man hostllo to
were twenty men ready ,to advocKS It; so I
have not any nervousness in regard to this
• mulls going ojkbetwood ttpUyUBll orw.
The truth will conquer Just as certainly as
that God Is stronger than the dovil. Let Error
fun If you only let Truth run along with it,
Urged on by skeptic's shout and transcendent-
illst's spur, let It run. God's angels of wrath
are In hot pursuit, ami qufr*~“ “
beak clutchos out a hawk's
franco will tear it to piece*.
I proposo this morning to apeak to you of
K arianUm—Its origin,its evils aud Its cum*.
re are those who would make us think
that Uiis monster, with horns and hoof*, is re
ligion. I shall cUase it to itatyiidlug place, and
drag it out gf the aaverp* of darkncM, and rip
off Its hide, llnrt want to niaka a distinction
between bigotry and the lawful fondness for
peculiar religious beliefs and forms of worship.
X have no admiration fbr a nothingarian.
In a world of such tremendous vicissitude
and temptation, and with a soul that must
after a while stand befoto a tlirono of insuffer
able brightness, In a day whan tho rocking of
the mountaius and the flaming of the heavens
and the upheaval of tho sea shall bo among
tho least of the excitoments, to give account
for every thought, w ord, action, proferenco
and dislike—that man is mad who lias no re-
ligimis prefenmv. B<tt our early education.
Our physical temperament, our mental consti
tution, will very much decldo our form of
k trotshlp.
displease you. Homo wouL
minister iu gown, and bauds, and surplice, and
others prefer to have a minister In plain Glu
ten's apparel. Koiue aro most impressed when
• little child Is presented at tho altar and
apriukledof the waters of a holy benediction
•’In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghostand others are more
Impressed when the penitent come* up out of
the river, his garments dripping with ths wa-
tern of a t»ptUin which aiguille* the washing
away of aiu. tat either liavo his own way.
One man like* no md*e in prayer, not a word,
not a whisper. Another man just aagood, pre-
istlcur-" o
thr^msh the long-drawn aisle, and an angel
fLoifc heaven-in tho pulpit, if thero be no
Christ in the chancel, and no Christ in tho
robes. Bigotry is often the child of Ignorance.
You seldom find a man with Urge intellect
who.it a bigot. It to the man who thinks he
knows a great deal, but does not. That man
is almost always a bigot. The whole tendency
of education and civilization is to bring a man
out of that kind of suto of mind ana heart.
Thera waa in tho far east a great obelisk, and
one side of the obelisk was white, another side
of ths obelisk was green, another side of the
obelisk was blue, and travelers went and
looked at that obelisk, but they did not walk
around it. One man looked at ono side,.
another at another aide, and they came tihall I shove him off 9 No. I will say. “Do
bom*, #*ch <«!e locking At c;.!y huu you beiieve in the Lord Jesus as your Saviour?
i, and they do you trust Him for time and for eternity?"
. ... . jj o >>j) 0 y mx 1^0 Christ for
time and for eternity?" “Yes." I say, “Come
on, brother; one in time aud one In eternity;
brother now; brother forever." Blessed be
God for a gospel platform so large that all
who receive Christ may stand on It.
I think we may overthrow tho severe secta
rianism and bigotry in our hearts, and in the
church also, by realizing that all the denomi
nation of Christians have yielded noble insti
tutions and noble men. There is nothing that
so stirs my soul ss this thought. One denomi
nation yielded a Robert Hall and an Adonlram
Jtulson; another yielded a Latimer and a
Melville; another yielded John Wesley and
the blessed Suinmerfield, while our own de
nomination yielded John Knox and the Alex
anders—men of whom the world was not
worthy. Now, I say, If we are honest
and fair minded men, when we cornu
up fn tho presence of such churches
and such denominations, although they may
bo different from our own, we O ' J1 — * *
them, aud we ought to love am
Churches which can produce such men, and
such large-hearted charity, and such magnifi
cent martyrdom, ought to win our affection—
at any rate, our respect. Bo come or
hundred thousand Episcopalians in
try, and ye eight hundred thousand Presbyte
rians, and ye two and a half million Baptists,
and ye nearly three and three-quarter million
Methodists—com© on, shoulder to shoulder, we
will inarch for tho world’s conquest; for all
nations are to be saved, and God demands that
you and I help do it. Forward, the wbolo
line.
3forever, we may also overthrow the feeling
or severe sectarianism by joining other de
nominations in Christian work. I like when
the sprlugHime comes and the anniversary oc
casions begin, and all the denominations come
upon tho same platform. That pverthroirs
sectarianism. In the Young Men's Christian
Je each denomination of Christians is to
present all the truths of the Bible, it seems to
me that God lias given to each denomination
an especial mission to give particular empha
sis to some one doctrine; and so the Ctlvlnis-
tlc churches must present the sovereignty of
God, and tho Armlnlan churches mast prevent
man’s free agency, and the Episcopal churches
must present the Importance of
order anil solemn ceremony, and the Bap
tist churches must present tlic| necessity of or-
dinuuccs. and tbo Congregational church must
present the responsibility of the Individual
member, and the Methodist church must show
what holy euthusJosm, hearty congregational
singing can accomplish. While each denonM
nation of Christians must set forth ail the doc
trines of the Bible. I feel it is especially In
cumbent upon each denomination to put par
ticular emphasis on some one doctrino.
Another great damage done by the sectarian
ism and bigotry of the church isthat it dis
gusts people with the Christian religion. Now,
my friends, tho church of God was nover in
tended for a war barrack. People aro afraid
of a riot. You go down the street and you see
an excitement, and missiles flying through
the air, and you hear the shock of
fire-arms Do you, the peaceful and industri
ous citizen, go through that street? Oh, no!
you will soy: "I'll go around the block."
Now, men colne and look upon this narrow
path to heaven, and sometimes see tho eccle
siastical brickbats flying every wlilther, and
they say, "Well, I guess I’ll take the brood
road; If It is so rough, and there is so much
sltarpshootinc on tho narrow road, I guess I'll
try the broad rood."
Francis I. so hated tho Lutherans that he
said If ho thought thero was one drop of
Lutheran blood In his veins be would puncture
thorn and let that drop out. Just as long as
there Is so much hostility between denomina
tion and denomination, or between one pro
fessed Christian and another, or between ono
church and another, just so long men will bo
disgusted with the Christian religion, and ssy,
"It that Is rollglon, I want none of it."
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great
damago in the fact that they binder tho tri
umph of tho gospel. Oh, how much wasted
ammunition, how many men of spleudld In
tellect have given their wholo life to contro
versial disputes, when, if they had given their
lifo to tomothlng practical, thoy might have
* —lafull Hupix >sn thi* mum in.
were* common ‘orrem
coining up tho bay through the narrows, am.
all the forts aiaand New York began to fire
into each ol her—you would cry out,
"National kuiddel why don’t those
forts blaze away In ono directlonj
curries it. Out with tho
_ _ _J religious sent!'
, _ 1 the Quaker said: "George, I am
•s thou art; I am for bringing all men to the
* hope ol the gospel: therefore, if thou will not
quarrel with me about my broad brim, I will
not quarrel with thee about thy black gowu.
Cleon*, give me thy hand."
1. In tracing out tho religion of sectarian-
Is.n, or bigotry, 1 find that a great deal of it
•omea from wrong education in tho homo cir
cle. There are parents who do not think It
Wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms
of religion in the world, and denounce other
and other denominations. It Is very
tho case that that kind of education
K st opposite to what was expected,
children grow up, and, after awhile,
fR> aud see for themsqrvos; and looking in
the**churches, and finding that tho peoplo
•re good there, and they love Clod and keep
His commandment*, by natural reaction they
go and join those very churches. 1 could men-
Uoo the names of promiuent ministers of tho
gospel who spent their whole life bombarding
. Other denomination* and who lived to soo their
Children preach the gospel in those very de
nomination*. But U la often the case that big
otry starts in a household, and that the subject
of it never recovers. There are teas of thou-
•and* of bigot* ten years old.
I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise
from too great pmmmcuco of any one denomi
nation iu a community. All the other denomi-
matins are wrong, atiditls denomination is
right, because his iteuoatinaUon it tho most
Wealthy, or the most popular, or the moat In
fluential, and it U “our" church, “our"
rcligiou*ontauhation. and “our" choir, and
M our ’ minister, and the nun tosses his head.
*®d wants otln r «!< nominations to know thefe
Maceu. It i« a great deal better la any common-
Jty when thejruat denominations of Christiana
g about equal in poeer, marching able by
for the world's conquest. Mere outside
parity, mere worldly power, is no ovidenoo
tire church Is ocoeptohlo to God. Bettor
abarn with Christ in the ^manger than a ca
thedral with magnificent konMWito roiling
•WW l/m/.O HUP/ IU WIIO UIRVUVU.
and that against the common enemy?" And
*'ot I sometimes sco In the church of the Lord
fesu* Christ a strange thing going on: church
against church, minister against minister, de
nomination against denomination, flriug away
into their owu fort, or the fort which ought to
bo on tho satuo side, instead of concentrat
ing their enemy aud giving ono mighty and
overhutlng volley against the navies of dark-
ues* riding up through the bay!
I go out sometimes In the summer, and I
find two beehives, and these two hives aro in
a quarrel. J come near enough, not to be slung,
but I cotno just near enough to hear tho con
troversy, and ono beehive says, "That field of
clover is the sweetest," and another beehive
says, "That field of clover is the sweetest." I
come in between them, and I say, "Stop this
quarrel; If you like that field of clover best,
go tlioro; if you like that field ol
clover brut, go there; but let mo tell you that
hive which goto tho most honey le the best
hive." Ho 1 come out between tho churches of
the Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination of
Christians says, "That field of Christian doc
trine is beat," and another says, "Tills field of
Christian doctrine is best." well, I say, "Go
where you get the most honey." That Is the
bo*t church which cots the most honey of
Christian gmeo for the heart, and the most
honey of Christian usefulness for the life.
Beside that, if you want to build up any de
nomination, you will never build it up by try
ing to pull some other down. Intolerance
nover put anything down. How much has In-
tolorsnco accomplished, for instance, against
ministry were forbhlded tho pulpOTHH
Britain. Why was it that so many of them
prcuchcd in the fields? Hlmply because they I
could not get in thfechnrches. And the name of
the church was given in derision and as a sar
casm. The critics of the church said: "They
havo no order, they have no method in their
I worship;" and the critic*, therefore, iu irouy
[called them "Methodists."
rr, New York, kept
jven hundred and
seven hooks and pamphlets against Method
ism. Did intolerance stop that church? No;
it is either first or second amid the denomina
tions of Christendom, her missionary stations
in all parts of the world, her men not only im
portant in religious trust*, but important alio
in secular trusts. Church marching on, and
the more intolerance against it, tho faster it
marched.
SVhat did Intolemnce accomplish against
the Baptist church? It laughing scorn and
tirade could havo destroyed the church it
would not have today a disciple left.
■The Baptiste were hurlcu out of Boston In
otdon times. Those who sympathjrod with
them were confined, and when a petition was
offered asking leniency in their behalf, all tho
men who signed it were indicted. Has intol
erance stopped the Baptist church f The last
statistics In regard to it showed about thirty
thousand churches and two and a half million
[communicants. Intolerance never put down
iv tiling.
In England a law wa* tnado again*t tho
Jew. England thrust back the Jew and thrust
I down the Jew, and declared that no Jew
should hold ofllciaI position. What came of
it? Were the Jews destroyed? Was their
religion overthrown? No. Who becamo
prime minister of England years ago? Who
waa next to tho throuo? who wa* higher than
the throne because he was counsellor and ad
viser? The descendant of a Jew. What
were we celebrating in oil our churches
as well as synagogues a few yean ago? The
cue hundredth birthday anniversary uf Monte-
Ifiore, the great Jewish philanthropist. Intol
erance never yet put dowiwmything.
mUI. But now, my friends, having shown
K h the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and
^■ing shown you the damage it does, I want |
ung Men’s
association, In the Bible society, in tho Tract
society. In the For
shoulder to shoulder
eijm . _
all denominations.
Perhaps I might more forcibly Illustrate this
truth by calling your attention to an incident
which took tdooe fourteen or fifteen years
ago. Ono Monday morning at about two
o'clock, while her niuo hundred passengers
were sound asleep in her berths dreaming of
home, the steamer Atlantic crashed iuto Mura
Head. Fire hundred souls fu ten minutes
landed in eternity I Oh, what a scene 1 Ago
nized men and women running np and down
the gangways, and clutching for the rigging,
and the plunge of the helpless steamer,
and the clapping of the hands
of the merciless sea over the drown
ing and the dead, threw two continents into
Uirrtr. But ‘
logout with .
rock;andseo „ .
the shiprocked, and taking them into the
cabins, aud wrapping thorn in tho flannels
snug and warm; and soe that minister of tho
Gospel, with three other men, getting into a
life-bout, and pushing out for tho wreck, pull
ing away across the surf, aud pulling away
until they saved Ono more man, and then
getting bock with him to tho shore. Can
those men ever forget that night? And can
they ever forget tlioir companionship in peril,
companionship in struggle, companionship in
awful catastrophe and rescuo? Nover! Never!
In whatever part of the earth tiiey meet, they
will be friends when thoy mention the story of
that awful night when the Atlantlo struck
Mar's
Well, my friends, eur world has gone Into a
worso shipwreck. Bin drove it on the rocks.
The old ship bos lurched and tossed in tho
tempests of six thousand years. Out with the
life-lino I Ido not earn what dcnominatloiL
—“ - “ ‘ IdonSr
care what denomination rows It. Sfdo by aide,
in the memory of common hardships, and
common trials, and common prayers, and com
mon tears, lot us be *—* k *“ *—
must be. We must be.
mistakes in the common affairs of life, Is __
not possible that we may moke mistakes in
regard to our religious affairs? 8holl we take
a man by the throat or by the collar because
he cannot seo religious truths just os we dot
Iu the light of eternity it will be found out, I
think, there was something wrong in ell our
creeds and sosuethlng right iu all our
we bow;
l*srt of the ho-t have crossed the flood,
And part aro crowing now."
"And I expect to see the day when all
denominations of Christians shall join hands
around Itho cross of Christ and recite the
creed: "Ibelieve in God the Father Al
mighty. Maker of heaven and earth, and in
Jesus Christ, and in the communion of saints,
and in the life everlasting." May God inspire
us all with tho largest-hearted Christian
charity. _
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it has no equal. Bold by druggists.
VOIXMKH'S NOVEL INVENTION.
From an Indianapolis Sped*!.
Daniel Volliuer, a chicken fancier near here,
alter condderahle mfftrlng from tho depredations
of chicken thiens turned Ids ingenuity to devising
a scheme to entrap the rubber*, lie did not rig a
gnu that would go off when anybody opened the
door of the chicken yard, an i thus lose Ids life
through forgetting that the gun wa* loaded and set.
He put tip a system of strings tunning our pulleys
hum tho poultry yurd and connecting with a weight
that hung suspended over his person while ho slept,
llo lay awake for several uights wailing for the
weight to drop.
fast night he fell rsleep from exhaustion and had
just got to breathing long breaths when the weight
struck him with a dull thud. He thought at lint
that a burglar had hit him with a sand club, but
the next moment he remembered the contrivance
ho had Invented and he ran to the door, shotgun Iu
baud. ▲ thief waa making tracks from tho chick-
••Hair, or I’ll shoot," yelled Vollmer.
Tbo thief did not bolt Vollmer fired end tho
fugitive fell, badly peppered with blnlahot, of which
a doctor sula-’qt ontly picked out thirty. Tho thiof
proved to bo a woman. Mrs. Sarah Oil.
Nn. Ott!« now under arnM In the city hoap'til,
accused of la n vny. The doctor says the Is seriously
wounded. Vollmer was arrested on the charge of
attempted mnrdcr. both will have a bearing on
the loots lnrt.
Mrs. Ott is forty years oM. The shooting l* re-
gnnlcd a* wholly without Justification, as Vollmer
could lastly have captured her.
Women with pale colorless facet who fee
%rcak and discouraged, will receive both menta
aud bodily vigor by using Carter's Iron Pills
which aro made for tho blood, nerves and com
plexion. _
Too Accommodating.
From the Philadelphia News.
Bob Impulsivo is a traveling salesman In tho
employ of llood. Bonbrlght Si Co. He U noted for
Hie promptness and decision with which ho always
acts in cases ot emergent y. A few weeks ago while
on his way to Pittsburg, the train stopped at Uncar
ter os tnual. In the seat across the aisle sat a re-
spcctabD, middle aged man. As the train stopped
the respectable man peered out of the w indow. and
then made a sudden dart for the door of the car. He
bad H-arcely passed out of sight before the energetic
drummer noticed a grlpraek and umbrella lyiug on
the scat pal vacated. The train started. Hastily
com hiding that tbo tear octabio man had left tbem
in bis burry to get out of tho car. U 0 adesnum
rushed acn*» the able and pitched umbrella and
valise out or tho window. A moment or two later
the respectable man returned. Ho had only gone
out to »ivak to a friend on the p?gift ran
Developed at the Inquest.
Nkw Oulkm*, August 13.—A special ilia*
pitch from Franklin. La., my*: A »p vial coroner ■
Inquest hold co the body ot the colored girl, Jane
toUm*. found dead Wednesday In tho thickets four
miles above Franklin, developed tho fret that her
throat had beau cut. and that she had received sot-
•ml stabs on her inly. Hm stepfrlher.DanHaas-
auis, was suspected. Be bed taken to the hashes,
and was hunted out by white and colored people,
lie CMfomad to the murder and aeked tote hangrd
TOOMBS'S DEBI T.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Tho first evidence of the coming power of
this remarkable man was exhibited at.WllUngton, a
small village te Atlx-vllle district (as tbc intent
counties were theli rolled), nth Carolina. General
George McDuffie, the only representative of Demos
thenes In this country since latre'c Henry, lived
near thero. McDuffie was 1 anie>Mxl lightning He
forged the chain of logic at a white heat. He was
the most nervous, impassioned and thrilling tribune
of tiie people ot that day, He <k mount rated the
political probUm: as Euclid did geometry, while
foaminr at the mouth and creaming like a painted
Creek Indian.’ He had married the only daughter
of Dick fcimrieton. the eedehrated mlllWiatr* turf
man and rice planter, aud he owned four hundred
slaves and made eight hundred bales of cotton a
year. He bad been a member of congress, governor
of South Carolina, and wa* afterwardi United
States senator. The people, befo.# making np their
minds on any political question, wi.nld say “Mr.
McruTIo is tO'ng to speck at Morrow's old field two
week* from now, and I will trail t.ll I Lear him:”
and them they would come forty and fifty miles, and
camp out the night before to hear him, and his
Kpcccb would decide the politics of the entire coun
try onct a year. On tbit WIDington oeoedon it was
said that ••the everlasting-mouthed Bob Tombs was
coming over to meet him." Four thousand people
were there when that rash young Georgian crossed
the Savannah to meet the lion in his den, to beard
the Douglas in his halls. Toombs rode a horse, and
it was remarked that his shirt bosom was stained
with tobacco Juice. Yet he was one of tlifc hand
somest men that ever had the seal of genius on his
brow. His bead was round astbe ceha ial globe.
His abundant, atra/gbt, black hair hung in profusion
over his ample, marble forehead. He had as many
teeth as a shark, and they were whiter than ivory.
His eyes were black as death and bigger than an
ox's. His step was as graceful ei the
wildcat'^ and yet ho weighed two
hundred pounds. His prcscnco capti
vated even the idolaters of George McDuffie. Jlc
bounded Into the arena like a black-maned Xumid-
ian lion from tbo unknown desert! of middle Geor
gia, to reply to tho Olympian Jupiter of the up-
country of the proud Palmetto state. It w a* the
most memorable overthrow that McDuffie ever sus
tained. This was in the Harrison-Van Burcn elec
tion of DM0. HI* argument, his invective, hia over
bearing torrent of Irreverent denunciation, 1* a tra
dition In that country even now. McDuffie raid:
“I have heard John Randolph, of Roanoke, and
met Tristam Burgess, of Rhode I»land, but this wild
Georgian is the Mlrabcau of this age." After that
South Carolina admitted that Georgia was some
thing more than the reftige of 8ottth Carolina fugi
tives from Justice. This wa* the beginning of
Toombs's Immortal southern fame.
since tho recent death of ex-8cnator R. M. T.
Hunter, of Virginia, Senator Reagan, of Texas, ai d
ex-Govemor T. H. Watts, of Alabama, are tho only
surviving members of Mr, Davis's cabinet Reagan
wa* postmaster general and Watts attorney general.
At Montg mcry, Ala., there was a secret session of
the cabinet to seo whether we should bomlianl Fort
Sumter. Toombs was then secretary of state and
n gar*led a* the most nub, headstrong and vio-
raan in tte confederacy. \t hflo in the pres-
! of Mr. Davis, the balance of the cabinet gave
their opinions In favor of the bombardment, Mr.
Toombs was, os was bis custom, pacing the floor.
When it came his turn to express his opinion, to
the amazement of all he vehemently opposed
the sitick, and made ono of tbo most
remarkable speeches of all his lifo In opposition to
it. Ho raid it would bo the doom of the confodent-
He said: “lot Charleston go. Give up’Humtcr.
lot it be provisioned, but never explode the volcano
Is under our feet." He said it was suicide and
nmdncm and would loso us every friend in all tho
north, and exhibited all hi* magnificent powers in
opposition to the attack, lie said: "Mr. President,
you will wantonly strike a hornet s nest that fills the
north from ocean to octan, and legions, now quiet,
w ill swarm out to sting us to death. It ifl unneces
sary: H put* us In the w rong: It I* fatal.” And so
Ethan Allen’s Pluck,
roultnay, Vt., Correspondence In Troy Times.
While Ethan Allen was a prisoner on his
pasrage to England clooely confined to his cabin he
discovered that a pin or wire that fastenod ono of
bla handcuflk was broken. Extricating the pieces
with his teeth he was enabled to losen the bolt and
set onq bind at liberty, by the aid of which and
his teeth be soon had both at liberty, ami he was
not long In liberating hia feet But fearing a dis
covery might lead to worse treatment, ho replacod
his Irons, bolts and pins before the arrival of his
keeper. It soon becamo a recreation for tho gen
eral te take off and put on his irons at pleasure.
One day the captain wishing to afford tho crew
sorao merriment ordered that Alton bo brought on
deck. Hoping to frighten him tho captain said:
“There is a probability that the ship will founder; If
so what will become of m, especially you, Mr. Al
len. a rebel against the king?"
“Why," said Allen, “that would be
very much like our dinner hour." “Why so?” said
the captain, not reflecting that Allen was allowed
to come on deck only when tho captain went down
into hi* cabin to dine. "Well, you see," answered
Allen, “I’d be on my way ftp Just as you would be
going below." This answer did not please tho cap
tain, and he began a regular tirade of abttro against
the American people. “In a short time,” said the
captain, “all the rebels will be In the same situation
as yourself." This was too much for Allen, and
raising bis band* to his teeth, ho soon snaj p_*J the
bolt* and pin-*, took off his Irons and throw them
overboard, seized the panic stricken captain by the
collar and threw hint headtorg upon tho deck.
Then fuming to tho affrighted crew, be exclaimed
In a voice of thunder, “ir I am insulted again dur
ing the voyage I'll sink the ship aud swim ashore."
This exploit nod such an effect on the captain and
crew that no ftirther Insult was offered to the gen
eral during the passage.
Francis Murphy on Texas.
From the New York Special
Mr. Francis Murphy, of Pittsburg, tho tem
perance lecturer, was at tbc Sturtcvant heu e today,
enroute to Brooklyn te see his daughter, Mia
Trask, who it seriously ill. A reporter asked him
what he thought of the prohibition defeat in Texas.
He said:
“It (a merely the leaven coming to the surface.
The south is going at the temperance question in
the right way—from a moral point of view. It is
the new south waking up. But heroin the north
prohibition is mixed with politic*, aud ha* no effect
whatever. We want high license, it would reduce
the number of saloons In this city, and save many
a workingman from destruction.
“The prohibitionists are always fighting the re
publican party. If I had to take my chances for
doiug good In a political way for the temperance
cause, l would Join the republican party. I do not
think the prohlbittonlsts will ever elect a president.
No; a man must first prohibit himself, hi* appetite,
for alt the laws in the land can not do that fur him.
s sold right along In prohibition slates.
power that can save a drunkard Is toe
gospel, tnat power is sq«clenL and with Its old the
temperance sentiment is steadily growing, so that
now'-a-day* all large twine**i concern! ahro utely
require habits of aobrlety on the part of their cm
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