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TABERNACLE SERMONS
Discourse by Uev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, Sunday, Nov. 2<>.
HOW DR. TALMAGE WOULD Re VOLUTION ••
TIONIZE THE MANY AMERICAN CITIES
OF SIN—CRIMES THAT ARE THE MIGHTI
EST FOE TO BUSINESS IN THE LAND
FORCES OF TIDE AND WIND AND WAVE
AND SUNSHINE TO MAKE THE OLD
WORLD NEW—ALL WRONGS MUST BE
RIGHTED.
Text; II amuel, xxiiJ. 4: “A morning without
clouds,"
Pulpits and printing-; 1 '. f»s give
much of their limo io picturing what
the cilies are now. Would it not be
healthfully euc .'ii'aging to look at
them as they will be when the clouds
of suffering and sin have all passed
off the sky? It shall b 1 a ‘■morning
without, clou is.” I’. ide of city is
natural to men in all times if they
live, or li >ve lived in a metropolis
noted for dignity or prow ss. Ctesar
boasted of his native Rome; Lycur
gus of Sparta. V rgil of Mantua;
Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes
ofSyracus , and Paul of Tarsus. X
should suspect a inau of baseheart
edness who earr.ee about with him
no feeling of complae ncy in regard
to the place of his resilience; who
gloried no in it* arts or arms or be
havior;wholo ked with no exulta
tion upon its evidenci-s of prosperity,
its artistic embellishments and its
scientific att-mments. I h .ve no
ticed that men never like a place
where they have not behaved wed.
Swarthout did not like New York;
nor Dr. Webster Boston. When 1
see iu history Argos, lihodes,
Smyrna, Cuios, U 1 pli n and several
other cities oia ming Homer, I eon
elude that Homer behaved well. Let
us not war again.- 1 this pride of city
nor expect t j build up curselves by
pulling others down. Let Boston
have its Commons, i s Faneuil H .11,
its superior educational institutions,
Let Philadelphia talk u bout its mint
ami Independence Hall and Gira d
College. When I rind a man living
in either of those places who has
nothing to say in favor of them, I
feel like ask ng him, “What mean
thing did you do, that you do
notlikeyout native city?” NewjYork
is a good city. It is one ciiy on both
sides of the river. The East river is
onlv the main artery of its great
throbbing life. Aftr r a while four or
live bridges will span the water, and
we sea l be still more emphatically
one than now. When, therefore, I
say “New York city,” I mean near
two million of people, including
everything between Spuyten Duyvi<
creek and Gowan us. lhar. which
tends to eiev to a part elevates al.
That which blasts part blasts ail.
SIN IS A GIANT,
and he conies to Cue Hudson or ti e
Connec.icut river and passes it as
easily as we s’ep across a figure in
the carpet. Th ■ blessing of God is
an angel, tnd when it sir, tehee cut
its two wings, one of them hovers
over that and r hejotlier over this. In
infancy the great metropolis was laid
down by the b ntts ot the Hudson.
Its infancy wis as feeble ns that of
Moses, sleeping in the bu lrushes by
the Nile; ai d like Miriam, ti.eie our
fathers stoo l ami watched it. Hie
royal spirit of ameiic-u commerce
came down to the waler to bathe;
and there she found it. She took it
an her arms and the child grew and
waxed strong, a d the ships of for
eign lands brought gold and spices to
its feet; aud streteiiing itself up into
■the proportions of a metropolis, it
has looked up t • the moun ans ami
off upon the sea —one o. th r migiitiest
of the energies oi American ciyitiza
>tion.
The character of the founder of a
city will be seen tor many years in
its inhabitants. Romulus impressed
his life upon Rome, Ihe Pilgrims
relax not iliei” hunl upon the Citi s of
New England. Will am Penn has
left Philadelphia an inheritance of
integrity and fair dialing, and on any
day in that, city you may see in the
manners, customs and principles of
its people his tastes, his eoat, his hat,
his wife’s b uni t and his plain meet
lag house. The Hollanders still
wield an influence over New York.
Grand old New York 1 What 8 mth
eru thoroughfare was ever smitten by
pestilence when our physicians did
not throw themselves uuon the sacri
fice? Wh t distant land has cried
out in the agony of famine and our
ships have mot'put out with bre d
stuffs? What street iu Damascus or
Bevrout or Madras ttr-.t has no'
h ard the steps ot our missiona: ie.- ?
What struggle for national life in
which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenches? What
gallery of exqui ite ai t tn which our
painters have not hung their pictures?
What d.-partment of literature or
science to which our scholars have
not contributed? I need not speak ot
OUK PUBLIC SCHOOIS,
where the children of the eordwainer
and milkman and glass blower stand
by the side of the Haltered sons ot tue
millionaires and merchant princes;
or of the insane asylums on all these
islands, where they who came out
cutting i hemselves, among the tombs,
now sit, clothed and in their rignt
minds. I need not speak ot the in
stitutions for tt.e blind, the lame, the
deaf and tie dumb, for the incurables
for the widow and the orphan, ami
the outcast; or of tne tnousaudarmed
machinery that sends s reaming
down from the reservoirs the clear,
bright, sparking, God given
that rushes tarough our aequeduots
and daSi.es out tne hydrants, and
tosses up in our fountains, ami hisses
iu our steam engines, and showers
outciur conflagration, and sprinkles
from the baptismal font of our
■church s, auu witb silver note and
golden sparkle and cryvtaline charm,
says to iiunureils of thousands of our
population in the authentic words of
Him who mado it: “I will; be ttiou
•ciean I”
Although the cities are far from
being what they ought to be, yet my
Bible compels me to take a most en
chanting view of their future. As on
some bitter cold nigh , wnile thresh
ing our bauds about to keep our
thumbs from freezing, we have looked
up and seen ihe northern lights
blazing along the sky, the windows of
heaven illumintdat the news of some
great victory, so from beyond this
bitter night of suffering and crime u
brightness strikes tlirough irom 'he
oth-r side. I remark that this
coming time of municipal elevation
will be a time of financial prosperity.
Many seem to suppose that when the
.world’s better days come the people
- city VI uoromong. yell tnptiMM Wltnwat
Sunftaa a ' of tines.
will forsake their Indus'ries and give
themselves to perpetual nsslm-sing.
mg and being ml absorbed in sph'it
uil things, will become reckless as to
dress and dwelling; a.d very rigid
laws then governing the commercial
world, all i nteri>ri-e and speculation
will c ase, and all hilarity be stricken
out of the social circle. There is no
warrant for such an absurd anticipa
tion. 1 suppose that when
SOCIETY IS RECONSTRUCTED,
where there is now in the course of a
year one fortune made, th- re will be
a hundred fortunes made. Every
one knows that the commercial world
thrives in proportion as there is con
fidence betw. en man and man; and
the extirpat on of ail double dealing
and fr ti i from society will increase
i his confidence, and hence greater
prosper!;y. The heavy commercial
disasters that have smitten this laud
were the work of godless speculators
• nd infamous stock-gamblers. It is
crime tha is the mightiest foe to
business; but when the right shall
hurl back into rum the plots of bid
med and purify the commercial code
and thunder down fraudulent estab
lishments and put into the hinds of
houest men the keys of commercial
prosperity, blessed will be the bar
gain-makers of the city. That will bo
a orosperous time, loftaxes will be a
mere nothing. Every style of busi
ness is taxed to the utmost. City
taxes, county taxes, Sta e taxes,
tinned Stales taxes, manufacturing
tuxes, stamp taxes —taxes! taxes!
taxes! Our citizens}must make a
small foitune every year to meet
these exactions. What baud f istens
to all of our great industries this tre
mendous load? Crime! We have to
pay the board of every man and wo
man who by intemperance is cast into
the alms-house. We have to support
tue orphans of those who plunge
themselves into their graves by
beastly indulgences. We support
from our pockets tue large maetnneiy
ot municipal government, which is
vast just iu proportion as tne criminal
pr ciivitiis or tue city are great,
What makes necessary hospitals,
houses of re.uge, police stations and
alms-houses, the Tombs, Sing-Siug
and Moyamensiug?
Politicians have been figuring ever
siuee the morning of the. BiH ot No
vember as to what meant the revolu
tion in American politics. In some
cities and States it may have had
some meaning peculiar to them
selves, but, I will tell you what it
meant all over. I meant that the
oi oplc of the United States are iutu
riaw l at the way the saxes aie kept
up when they could be lowered. A
hundred million dollars extracted
Lorn the hard earnings of the people
to be stored up as temptation to pub
lic officials! Ihe only way to keep
public meu from stealing from the
iroasury $50,0(10,000 is not to have
auy surplus to steal. During the
coming sossi >n of Congress the lie
pubiicuu party will nave another
upper unity to rake off the bldod
sucke s from the party politic, and if
they tall to do it the verdict of tne
oeopie in Massachusetts and Now
Yotk is only a snowflake compared
with wnat will ba the avalanche of
popular indignation. If neither of
the parties of the day do
THE WORK OF EMANCIPATION FROM
taxes then a new party will do it. If
vou Republicans and you Democrats
do not du your duty in tins regard wo
will after a while form a party ot our
owa and put men in position pledged
to anti excessive tax.i’iuu, anti-rum,
auti-dirt, anti-nuisaaees, anti-monop
olies aud will give th ise of you who
have been feeding so long on public
spoils, careless of public morals, not
so mu :ti as the wages of a street
sweeper. Iu that good time coming
there shall be no extiaustive-taxatitm;
no orphans homeless, for parents
will ba able to leave their ch'iiiiren a
e, mp teoev ; no prisons, fpr crime
will have given place to virtue. In
ihe happy time coming there will ba
uo voting of public money, thaton its
way to some city improvement falls
Into the pockets of those who voted
it. No courts of Oyer and Terminer
ut v .st expense to ibe people; no em
paneling of juries to inquire into
theft, arson, muider, slander and
black-mail. In that day of redemp
cion there will be better factories,
grander architecture, finer equip
ages, larger estates, richer opulence.
Again, when our cities are purified,
the churches will be multiplied, pu
rified and strengthened. New de
nominations and the individuals of
different sects are often jealous of
each other. Christians are not al
ways kindly disposed toward each
other. and ministers ot the gospel
sometimes forget the bond of broth
erhood. in that day they will be
sympathetic and heipml. Theremay
be differences ot opinion aud senti
ment-, but no acerbity, byoercriticism
aud no exclusiveness. In ihat day
ail the cbuiches will be filled with
worshipers. We have not to-day iu
ihe cities church room fur ose-fourth
of our population, and yet there is a
great deal more room than the people
occupy. Tire churches do not aver .ge
an attendance ot 500 people. The
vast majority do not attend public
worship. But iu tne day ot whicu I
speak there will be enough room to
hold alt the people, and the room
will be occupied. Iu that time what
B JDSING SONGS WILL BE SONG 1
What earnest sermons will be
preached! What fervent prayers
will be offered! In these days a
tashieoabie church is a place where
after a careful toilet a tew people
come iu, sit down, and, what time
they can get their minds off their
stores or away fr im the new style ot
hat iu the seat before them, listen iu
silence to tue minis'er, wananted to
hit uo man’s sins, and to the choir,
who are agreed to sing tunes that no
body knows, and having passed
awav an hour in dreamy lounging go
home refreshed. 1 pronounce much,
of what is called church music iuour
day a mockery aud a taice. Though
I have neither a cultured voice nor a
cultured ear, uo man shall do my
sieging. N .thing can take the place,
of ariiotic music. The dollar th .t I
pay to hear Miss Tnursby or Miss
Abbott sing is far from being wasted.
But when trie hymn is read and the
angels ot Goa stoop from their
thrones to bear up on their wings the
praise of the gieat congregation, let
us not drive t bom away wn h cur in
difference. I have preached in
churches where fabulous sums of
money were paid to performers, and
tne harmony was exquisite as auy
harmony that eyer wem up from any
academy of mus e; and yet for all the
pm poses of devotion I would prefer
the hearty outbreaking song of a
backwoods Methodist camp meeting.
When thtsu fancy starv. ling songs
get up to tne gate of heaven, bow do
you suppose they Ick standing be
side the gre.it dox-dogies of the glo
rified? L tan operatic performance
floating upwa.u get many hours tue
start of it acd it stall be caught and
parsed by the hosanna of the Sab
bath-school children. I know a
church v here there was no singing
ex ept that done by the choir, sav
one old Christian man; and they
waited upon him by a eommitiee aud
asked bjra if be would not stop sing
ing, for he disturbed the choir.
Again, when tue city is redeemed,
the Jow haunts of vice and pollution
will be extinguished. Mr. Etzler, of
England, proposed by the foices of
tide and wind and wave and sunshine
to reconstruct the world. In a book
COLUMBUS. GA.. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEM
I ly from edition to edition, be says:
“Fellow-men: 1 premia-d to show
tne means of creating a pa’adise
within ten years wuece everything
desir ble for human lif uim be had
by every man iu superabundance,
WITHOUT LABOR AND WITHOUT PAY.
Where tne whole face of nature shall
be changed into the most beautiful
forms, aud man may live iu the
most magi.iiiceni p uac s, iu all im
aginable refinements ot luxury, aud
iu the moi t delightful gardens; wh re
he may accomplish without labor in
one year more than hitherto could be
done in thousands of years; may lev
el continents, sink vallevs, create
1 k e, drain i ikes and sw hoi s and
iuwt'seet the land everywhere wall
b'-auritiil ennuis a' d i mds ior trans
porting heavy loads of many t" hi--
and toi s and for trave trig a t hous > ud
miles in tw-iit>-ovr hours; mi
ctivec the ocean with floating i- I.> ds,
ihcrvatile in any desired direcMoo,
with an immense power and celerity
iu perfect securiiv, and with all ihe
comforts aud luxuries; bemiug gar
uens and palaces with thousands* o£
families, and provided with rivulets
of sweet wa er; may explore tne in
terior of tiie globe and travel from
pole to pole in a fortnight, provide
himself wi ti in tins yet unheard o
for increasing bis knowledge of th •
world and so his intelligence; lead
ing a life of continual hupi iriQfs, of
enjoyment yet unknown ; free him
self ot almost all the evils that, affl'c
mankind exei pt death, aud even i u'
death far beyond the common period
of human life, and finally render it
less alllmiiug From the houses to
be bunt will be afforded the rimst. en
rapturing views to be fancied; from
the galleties, from the roof and from
its turrets may be seen girders as
far as the eye can si e full ot fruits
and fl twers. arranged in the most
beautiiui order, with walks, colon
nades, aqueducts, canals, p ndr,
plaits, auiphith *aters, terraces,
fountains, sculptured works, pnvii
iions, gondolas, places for public
amusement to delight the eya and
fancy. All ' hi.s to be done by urging
the water, the wind and the sunshine
to their lull deveiopement.” Mr.
Etzler gives plates of the machinery
by which all this is to t.e done. He
proposes io organize a company, aud
says small shares c;f S2O will b- euffi
cient —in all from $200,000 to $300,1W0
—to e:eate Lite first establishment
tor a whole community of fr an j 3,000
to 4,000 individuals. “At the end of
five years we shall have a principal
of $200,000,000; and so paradise will
be wholly regained at the en 1 of th
tenth year. There is more reason in
this than in many of tne plans pro
posed; but mechanical forces can
never reer-ate ttie world. 1 shall
take no shares iu the largi company
that is proposed; tny faith is that
Christianity stiall yet maketh« worst
street of our c ties better than the
best, street now is.
ARCHIMIDES CONSUMED
the enemies of Syracuse by- a groat
sun glass. As the ships came up th
harbor the sun’s rays were coticen
trated upon them. Now the sails
are wings of file, the masts tall and
the Vessels sink. So, by the great
sun-glass of the Gospel, the rays or
heav -n wdl be concentrate i upon all
the filth and unchastity and crime of
our great towns, and under th-- heat
they will blaz* and expire. When
tne day comes that I hive shown
will come, suppose vou that there
will be any more midnight Brawls?
any shivering mendic-.nts kick'd off
ftotnihe marble s ps? anv dr v.s
of iK'washi-di unc mbed, u- f u chil
dren? auy piasphemers it: tne s’ reefs?
any st vggerihg past of i ebri tee?
No! Nd wine celt ns; no iagtr beer
saloons; no distilleries where they
make the XXX; no bloated choeko; no
no blood-shvt eyes; no fi n-oattereu
foreheads. Trie grandchildren of
that womau vvuo walks up the street
with a curse as the boys stone her
wid be great philanthropists and
heal the stek and manage great, com
mercial enterprises- When our cities
are so raised we shall h ve in many
of them different styles of municipal
government. Tne great question in
regard to the execution of the liw iu
mostcitiesnow is “What iepopularity
You have but to pass the city halls ot
some of our cittes, or to look in uocn
the rooms of some of our ity offi ial
th sue to what sort of men our cities
have been abandoned- Look at the
swearing, bloated, sensual wretches
who stand on the out side oft some of
the city halls of this country fucking
tneir teeth, waiting for some <rumbs
ot emolument to fall at their fi-et,
and thou tell mo how tar it is frum
some of our cities to Sodom. Who
are those wretched women sent up
in the city van to the police court'
apprehended for drunk nes=? They
will be locked up in jail, put wita'
will pe done with the uioggoi’ii'S that
ma ie them dru.ik? Who are these
men in the city priso ? Tha' man
stole a i a r of sho s ; <ha boy $i from
the counter; that girl snatched a
pmse—all viltai is of less than S2O
or S3O dollars damage to rue comtnu
nity ; but for that gambler, wno 1 *st
night took that you* g niaa’ SI,OOO,
nothing! For that man wh / br* kern
upon the purity of a Christian house
hold and by perfidy and adrounees
that beat the str a egy if hell flung
that soul shrieking to tue bottomless
pit—nothing! For those wtio flaeced
a young man an I induced !.; n to
steal from his employers vast turns of
money, until in his ..g my tmemneto
an ufiici-r of the church and iiaiitie
ally asked what should he do—noth
log, Verily, small crimes ought to be
punished; but it were more just if
our authorities would tu. n out from
cur jails and periitentim i* s the small
villains, the petty criminals, the in
lantile offender, the ten doilar des
peradoes. and fiil their places with
some of these
MONSTERS OF INIQUITY,
who drive their roan span through
our fine streets until honest men
have to fly to escape being run over.
Oh! the damnable .-.chem s tnat pro
fessed Cbristiiltis will engage iu um.ii
God puts His fing< r into the ci .liar of
the hypocrite’s robe and rip it clear
down to the bottom I
But all these wrongs shall be right
ad. Our streets shall hr ar the tramp
ot a regenerated multitude. Three
hundred and sixty bells were rung in
Moscow when a Prince was married;
but, when righteousne. s and peace
shall “kiss each other” iu all the
earth, 10 000 bolls wdl strike ths ju
bilee. Poverty enriche . Hunger
fed. Disease cured. Crime pur fied.
The pities saved. It seemed insig
nificant for Moses to s'-otch his
band over the Dead Sea. Wnat pow
er could that have over waters? But
the east wind blew all night, the wa
ters gathered into two glittering pal
isades on either side. The billows
reared as God’s band puked back
upoa t.heis crystal bits. Wheel into
line, O Israel! March 1 March I
Pearls crash under the feet. The fly
ing spray spring a rain-bow-arch
over the victors. Tne shout of hosts
moun iug the beach ausweiS the
shout of hosts mid-sea, until as the
last line of the Isrealireß havegaiue i
he beach, the shields clang aud the
cymbals clap, and as tue waters
wut Im th*> pursuing foe th > swift-flu
gered winds on tne white Keys of the
foam play thegrand m-tch of Israel
delivered aud rue awiul dirge of
Egyptian overthrow. So rsT 1 go forth
aud stretch out the baud of prayer
and Christian effort over ihese dark,
boiling waters ot crime and suffering.
: But wan. The winds of divin.> help
i , will b. gin to blow, tho way will clear
* 1 lor the great army of Chnstiau pinl
r i ani.tirop'Ste, the glittering treasures
1 of the worl I’s becetiee will line the
, ■ path of our fet'i, and to th * other
I shore we wid be greeted with the
. j clash oi i.U hCcveuly cymbals, while
[ those who io sis', and deride and pur
; sue us will r >ll utv'er the sea, aud
“I (her* will be nothing left of them
i but here anil there, cast high and dry
; i uoon the beach, the splintered wheel
’ j of a chariot, and thtust out from the
‘ | surf the hn at bless nostril of a rider
'! less charger.
: THE DEATil’ot MORGAN.
Tlll KLOW WEED'S BHM«
KEVELATIDN.
TS>c Secret that he Retained
Inviolate for Half a
Century.
Thurlow Weed’s Sworn Affidavit—
Morgan's Li
bel Suit Agamst Mr. Weed-The
Dead Body Taken from the Lake—
John Whitney’s Confession.
The unveiling of a monument to
Ca; ’.. Wm. Morgan recalls an event
*. f siaidinu interest, arousiug de»-p
popular feeling, first at Batavia, La
Roy. Canandaigua, and Rochester,
then pervading our owu and other
States. Alter r adiug the proceed
ings of a meeting at Batavia, with
the Hua. Lavi,j E. Evans us presiding
office , I wrote a i-ix-liue paragraph
lor the Rochester 'telegraph, in which
I stated that a citizen of Batavia had
been epiritea away from his home
and family, and that alter a mystlri
ius absence of several days, a village
meeting hud been held aud a com
mit, ee of citizens appointed to inves
tigate the matter; adding that, as it
was; known that Freemasons were
concei ned iu this abduction, it be
■looved the fritetuity whose good
uam ) was stiff -ling to take the labor
ing oar in restoring the lost man to
bis liberty. Thai paragraph brought
doz ms of our most iufluemial citi
z ms, grea ly edited, to the office,
stopping the paper aud ordering the
dis* miiuuance of their advertise
ments. I inquired of luy partner,
Robert Martin, what I had done to
exasperate so many ot our friends.
Ha brought me a book, and directed
my attention to an obligation invok
ing severe penalties as a punishment
tor disclosing the secrets of Masons,
inquiring what I thought of a mau
who, alter taking such an obli
gation , violated it? I replied that I
did not know any punishment too
severe for such a perjurer. Tue dis
continuance ot the paperembraced so
1 rgaa number of ns patrons, I saw
that my brief ami, as I supposed,
v ry harmless paragraph would luin
the establishment. Unwilling that
my panner should suffer, I promptly
withdrew, leaving the establishment
in the hands of Mr. Martin. Tue pa
per was doing well, and until the
pragraph appeared my business fu
.ure was all that I could desire.
At that time an editor was wanted
at Utica, where I hid formerly
w irked, and where I had many
friends ; but mv offer to go there was
d elieed. I was i qually uufor'unate
iu my application tor editorial em
ployment at Troy. The objection in
noth cas s was that I had been too
bnsv in getting up an excitement
about Morgan.
Meantime the mystery deepened,
and public meetings v>ere held iu
several villages. Rochester included.
In the meeting at Rochester it wae
assumed that all good citizens would
unite in an effort to vindicate the law.
A committee was appointed, consist
ing at seven, three of whom were
Masons. It was sojn discovered •
that the three Masons went from the i
committee to the lodge room. It was
subsequently ascertained that two of 1
these gentlemen were concerned In i
the abduction, and that Morgan had
been committed to the jail in Canan
daigua on a false charge of larceny,
and that he had been carried from i
thence secretly by night to Fort Ni- i
agara. The committee encountered i
an obstacle in obtaining indictments
in five of the six counties where in- i
dlctments were needed. The Sher
iff! who summoned the Grand Juries
were Freemasons. In four counties 1
no indictments could be obtained.
In Ontario, however, the District At- *
r. rney, Bowen Whitting, and the
Sheriff, Joseph Gailiogbouse, though .
Masons, regarded their obligations i
to the laws of the Sta.e paramount. ’
Sheriff Garliughouse and District At- i
torney Whitting discharged their
Jutii s independently arid honestly.
As the investigations proceeded the
evidence increased that Morgan had
been unlawfully confined in the Oaii
adaigua juii, and secretly conveyed ]
to Fort Niagara, where be was con
fluid in the magazine. I,'hera was *
every reason to believe that be was i
takeq from the magazine aud drown
ed in Lake Ontario. This, however, i
was boldly and persistently denied— '
denials accompanied by solemn as- I
surauces that Morgan had been seen I
alive in several places divided the I
public sentiment, alt town meetings <
several months after Morgan’s disap- I
pcaranc, the question was carried':
into politics. A large number of
zealous Anti-Masons determined to <
make it a political issue, Solomon i
Southwick was nominated at Le Roy <
for Governor. Our committee firmly i
resisted all such efforts urging all i
who were connected with us in an <
effort to vindicate the law to vole for i
the candidates of the party with '
which they had been previously eon- i
nected. We endeavored to induce .
rhe Whig State Convention to nomi- i
tiate Francis Granger, but, failing in .
that, we gave our support to Judge I
Smith Thompson. Afterward, at a i
village election in Rochester, Dr. F. i
F. Backus, who bad been Treasurer i
by a unanimous vote ot the electors I
fr; m the time the village charter had i
been obtained, was again tha catidi- i
date of both parties. No whisper of ■
opposition was hi aid before the r
election or at the polls, but when the
votes were, canvassed a majority ap
peared in favor of Dr. Johu B. El
wood. Dr, Backfig an active and
influential memb t of the Morgan
investigating committee. That as
tounding result produced an instan
taneous change.
Political anti-Masonry from th-t
moment and tor that reason became
an element in our elections. It was
alleged and extensively believed that
■ the ‘ Morgan Committee,” to gra'ify
in rsoua! aspirations went voluntari-
■ ly into poii ics. Theas allegations
' were as untruthful as they were uo
: just. It was not until we ascertained
1 that the fraternity, by a secret
I movement, was strong enough to de-
• feat the candidate ot both political
i parti"S that we consented to join the
issue with them politically.
in the auturnu of 1827, thediscovery
i of the body of an unKnown man on
i the shores of Lake Ontario, near the
> mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, gave a
) new and absorbing aspect to the
■ question. Tne description ot that
’ body, as published by the Coroner
1 who held an Inquest over it, induced
f a belief that it was the body ot Wm.
J Morgan. Our committee decided to
r hold another inquest. Impressed
. with the importance and responsibil-
. ity of the question, I gave publicj
>: ally invited several citizens who had
c I known Morgan to be present. One
-1 of our comini teo went to Bitavia to
■ secure tne attendance of Mis Morgan.
’ | and as many ethers who knew him
■ as would atiend, Tho body had been
< I interred where it was found. The
> rude e Ilin was opened in the pres-
j enee of between for,y and fifty per
l s ns. When it was reached and
before removing the lid, I received
from Mrs. Morgan and others who
knew him web, descriptions of his
person. Mrs. Morgan described the
color of his hair, a scar upon his foot
and that his teeth were double all
round. Dr. Strong confirmed Mrs.
Morgnn’s statement about double
tenth, one of which he had extracted,
while another was broken, indicating
the position of the extracted and
broken teeth. When the coffin was
Opens 1 the body disclose 1 the peeu
liarith s described by Mrs. Morgan
an i Dr. Strong.
This second inquest and examina
tions ot the body proceeded in open
day. and in the presence of Masons
and Anti-Masons, not one of whom
dissented from the Coroner’s jury, by
which the body was unanimously de
clared to ba that of William Morgan.
Mrs. Morgan, in her testimony,
failed to recognize the clothes. The
body was taken to Batavia, where it
was reinterred, no one as yet express
ing any doubt of ite identity.
Subsequently, we were surprised by
a st atemont tnat the bodies supposed
to be that or Morgan was alleged to
be the bodv of Timothy Monroe, who
had been drowned in the Niagara
River several weeks before holding
cue first inquest. This awakened
general and intense feeling. Notice
was given that a third inquest would
be held at Batavia, where the widow
and son of Timothy Monroe appear
ed as witnesses. Mrs. Monroe swore
to a body essentially different from
that found at Oak Orchard Creek.
Her husband, she said, had black
hair that had been recently cut and
stood erect. Her testimony made her
husband from 3 to 4 inches higher
than that.of the body in question.
Sue testified that her husband bad
double teeth all round, and describ
ed an ex* rawed tooth from the wrong
jaw and knew nothing of the broken
tooth. The hair upon the head of
drowned man was long, silky, and of
a chestnut color, while that of Mon
rue, according to the testimony of
Mrs. Monroe and hi-r son, was short,
black, and close cut. While Mrs.
Monroe tailed in describing the body
net description of the clothing was
minutely accurate. The heel of his
stocking was described as having
deen darned with yarn different in
color. Her cross-examination was
very rigid, and tier answers through
out were found to be correct. The
clothing thus described had been in
Coroner, who testified that it had not
been seen either by Mis. Monroe or
any stranger from whom she could
nave obtained information. On the
other hand, Mrs, Monroe’s descrip
tion of the body, before she had see
it, was quite satisfactory as Mrs
Monroe’s description of the clothes.
Our committee took no part in tue
third inquest, and the body, as is
known, was declared to be that of
Timothy Monroe. Simultaneously
an accident occurred snowing the ,
vindictive spirit of our opponents.
On tne evening of the day that the
body interred at Batavia was declar- i
ed by a third inquest to be that ot j
Timothy Monroe, I went into the
billiard room of the Eagle Hotel to ,
see a friend from Clarkson. Wheu
leaving tne room Ebenezer Griffin,
E q. aiprominent lawyer employed as
ciuacii tor Masons, who was playing ,
billiards, turned to me, cue in hand,
saying: “Well. Weed what will you (
do for a Morgan now?” To which I i
replied, "That is a good enough i
Morgan for us till you bring back the 1
one you carried off.” Ou the fol
lowing morning the Daily Advertiser, <
a Masonic organ, contained a para- <
graph charging me with having <
boastingly said that the body in <
question “was a good enough Mor- |
gan until after the election.” That j
perversion went tne rounds of the |
Masonic and Democratic press, awa
kening mach popular indignation
and subjecting me to denunciations (
iu speeches and resolutions at poiit- j
ical meeing4 and conventions. Ex- ,
planations were disr garded; the j
maxim that '■Falsehood will travel i
miles while truth is drawing on his <
boots” was then verified. I suffered ’
obloquy and reproach from that ]
wicked perversion for nearly half a 1
century. Indeed, there is reason to <
believe that even now, where I am ]
personally unknown, generations are i
growing up believing that I mutila- g
ted a dead body for political effset, t
and, when exposed, boasted that it ]
was good enough Morgan till after
ihe election. Forty years afterwards t
the editor of the paper who origina- t
ted that calumuy, by a series cf pecu- t
niary revetses, was compelled to ap- t
piy to me tor assistance. I avenged f
the great wrong he had done me by ‘
obtaining tor him a situation in the
Custom House. f
This served to extend and intensify (
the "excitement.” It was everywhere ,
charged and widely bsiieved that I c
had mutilated tue body in question t
tor the purpose of making it resem- (
ble that of Capt, William Morgan. I j
encountered prejudices thus created £
both in Paris and London twenty f
■years afterward. (
Our investigations were embarrass- s
ed aud protracted by the absence aud t
coucealmant of important witnesses. r
One of these witnesses was an inva c
lid soldier who had the care of Mor- •
gan while confined in the magazine a
at Fort Niagara, but he disappeared, (
and ail efforts to find nim were una r
vailing for more than a year. I fl- j
nally traced him (Elisha Adams) to j
Brookfield, a mountain town in Ver- t
niont. We reached the log house of t
Adam’s brother-in-law, with whom r
be was hiding, between 12 and 1 ,
o’clock at night. Our rap was re- t
sponued to by the owner, to whom, t
on opening tha door, the Sheriff in- (
troducud me, directly ester which, (
and before anything mor , had been (
Slid, we heard a voice from the sec- j
oud floor of the cabin, “I am ready, (
and have been expecting you all win- t
ter.” Immediately afterward the (
old man came down the ladder, and (
In ten minute wo departai on our e
return. t
While waiting for breakfast at the j
foot of the mountain several men t
dropped into the barroom, where we i
were sitting. When called to break- <
last, the landlady, carefully closing i
tne doors, remarked that her bus- .
band had sent around for Masons, <
some of whom bad already appeared, i
but that we need not fear them, for i
she had sent her daughter to inform I
other villagers what was going on, i
and that before we had done break
fast there would be twice as many
Anti-Masons as Masons in attend
ance. Returning to the b..rroom, we
found that she had done her work
thoroughly. Fifteen or twenty men
were in the barroom glaring at each
o'.her and at Adams, but nothing was
said, and we were driven off unmo
lestel. On our way back Adams at
different times stated that, hearing
a noise in the magazine, he reported
it to Mr. Elwars Giddens, keeper of
the fort, who told nim tbata stranger
was lodged there who in a day or two
would be taken to his friends in Can
ada, but nothing must be said about
it. He then from time to time car-
I ried food to the person. Soon after*
i ward, near midnight, he was told to.
ER 3. 1882.
I pose of taking away tne man In the
magazine. Several geotlemeo arriv
|id in a carriage by whom the man
was tuki’ti frum the magazine aud es
corted to the boat. Adams was told
to remain on the dock until the boat
should return, and that if In the
mean time an alarm should be given
he was to show a signal to warn the
boat away. As nothing of the kind
occurred tne boat returned quietly,
and as of tue six who left in the boai
only live returned, he supposed that
one had gone to his friends iu Can
ada.
Adams was wanted as a witness in
trials then pending iu Canandaigua.
We reached that place in the after
noon of the day the court convened.
Three men were on trial for abduct
ing Morgan. The testimony of
Adams was essential to complete
the link. On being called upon tne
question. He resided, he said, at
tne time specified, in the fort, but.
knew ot no m»n being confined in
the magazine, and knew nothing of
men coming there at night in a car
riage, aud Knew nothing ot a man
being taken from there in a boat.
His denials conveying the whole
ground were explicit. That, for the
time being, eudsd the matter.
When the court adjourned I walked
across the equate with Judge Howell,
who presided, and who remarked to
me that I had made a long journey
for nothing, my witness. Adams,
being ignorant of the whole affair.
Gen. Vincent of Rochester, who was
walking on the other side of the
Judge, replied with much feeling
"that the old rascal had not uttered
one word of truth while he was on
the stand.”
Gen, Mathews was the leading
council for the kidnappers, but re
fused to be a party in tampering
with witnesses. On our return to Ro
chester the witness Adam was in an
extra stage with his Masonic friends.
As there was no longer any need of
biding, he wae on his way to Niag
ara. In passing the Masonic House.
Rochester, Adams, who was
standing in the doorway, asked
me to stop, saying he wanted
to explain his testimony. The law
yers, he said, informed him that it be
told what be knew about the maga
zine and the boat it would be a con
fession that would send him to the
State prison. They also told him
that the law did not compel a wit
ness to eliminate himself, and to
avoid punishment, he must deny the
whole story.
In 1831, after my removal from
Rochester to Albany, a libel suit was
commenced against me by General
Gould of Rochester. It was tried at
Albany, Judge James Vanderpoel
presiding. The libel charged General
Gould with giving money he received
from the Royal Arch Grand Chapter
to enable Burrage Smith and John
Whitney to escape from justice.
Gerrit L. Dox, treasurer ot the Grand
Chapter, and John Whitney, one of
the recipients of the money, were in
court to establish the truth of the
libel. Mr. Dox testified that a “char
ity fund” had been intrusted to Gen.
Gomd. John Whitney was called to
prove that he received a part of the
fund, with which, in company with
Buriage Smith, he left Rochester,
and was absent nearly a year. Gen.
Gould’s counsel objected to witnesses’
testimony until it had been shown
that Gould knew that the money
furnished was to enable Smith and
Whitney to escape from justice. The
court sustained the objection, and
Whitney’s testimony was excluded.
As it was impossible to prove what
was known only to Gen. Gould him
self, the trial ended abruptly. Judge
Vanderpool, in charging the jury,
dwelt at length upon the licentious
ness of the press, aud called upon
the jury to give exemplary damages
to the injured and innocent plaintiff.
The jury, thus instructed, but with
evident reluctance, found a ver
dict of S4OO against me. My offence
consisted iu assertaing a fact, the
exact truth of which would have
been established if the testimony had
not been ruled out by a monstrous
perversion of justice.
Col, Simeon B. Jewett, ofClarkson,
Major Samuel Barton of Lewiston,
aud John Whitney, of Rochester,
passed that evening at my house.
Jewett was prepared to testify that
he furnished a carriage for those wtio
were conveying Moigan secretly from
Canandaigua to Niagara. John
Whitney was ona of the party, Major
Barton would have testified that he
furistied the carriage which convey
ed the party from Lewistown to Fort
Niagara, John Whitney being one of
that party. Whitney would have
sworn that Gould supplied money to
enable him to “escape from justice.”
In the course of the evening, the
Morgan affair being the principal
topic of conversation. Col. Jawett
turned to Whitney with emphasis
and said: “John, what if you make
a clean breast of it.” Whitney look
ed inquiringly at Barton, who added :
“Go ahead.”
Whitney then related in detail the
history of Morgan’s abduction and
fate. The idea of suppressing Mor
gan ’s intended exposure of the secrets
of Masonary was first suggested by a
man by the name of Johns. It was
discussed in lodges at Bitavia, Le
Roy, and Rochester. Johns suggest
ed that Morgan should be seperated
from Miller and placed on a farm in
Canada West. For this purpose he
was taken to Niagara and placed in
the magazine of the fort until ar
rangements tor settling him in Cana
da were completed, but the Canadian
Masons' disappointed them. After
several meetings of the lodge in
Canada opposite Fort Niagara, a re
fusal to have anything to do with
Morgan left his "kidnappers” great
ly perplexed. Opportunely a Royal
Arch chapter was installed at Lewis
ton. The occasion brought a large
number ot enthusiastic Masons to
gether. “After labor,” in Masonic
language, they “retired to refresh
ment.” Under the exhilaration of
champagne and other viands, the
Chaplain (the Rev. F. H. Cummings,
of Rochester) was called on for a
toast. He responded with 'peculiar
emphasis and in the language of
their ritual: “The enemies of our
order—May they find a grave six feet
deep, six feet long, aud six feet due
east aud west.” Immediately after
that toast, which was received with
great ehtbu -iasm, Ool.William King,
an officer in our war of 1812, and then
a member of Assembly from Niagara
county, called Whitney of Rochester,
Howard ot Buffalo, Chubbuck of
Lewiston, and Garside of Canada out
of the room and into a carriage fur
nished by Major Barton. They were
driven to Fort Niagara, repaired to
the magazine, and informed Morgan
that the arrangements for sending
him to Canada were completed, and
that his family would soon follow
him. Morgan received the informa
tion cheerfully, and walked with sup
posed friends to the boat, which was
rowed to the mouth of the river,
where a rope was wound around his
body, to 'each end a sinker was at
tached. Morgan was then thrown
overboard. He grasped the gunwale
of the boat convulsively. Garside, in
forcing Morgan to relinquish his
hold, was severely bitten.
Whitney, in concluding his narra
tive, said he was now relieved from a
heavy load ; that for four years he
bad not heard the wind, rustle or
any other noise at night without
thinking the sheriff was after him.
Colonel Jewett, looking ■*>*
> now.” “But be won’t.” was Whit
■ ney’s prompt reply, Os course a se
i cret thus confided to me was inviola-
• biy kept, and twenty-nine years after-
I ward, wnile attending a national re
; publican convention in Cuicago, John
> Whitney, who then resided ttiere,
i called to say that he wanted me to
i write out what he once told me about*
I Morgan’s fate, to be signed by him in
, the presence of witnesses, to be
sealed up and published after his
, death. I promised to do so before
• leaving Chicago. There was no leis
ure, however, during the sitting of
i the convention, and even before its
final adjournment, forgetting what 1
had told Whitney, I hurried to lowa,
returning byway ot Springfield to
visit Mr. Lincoln. In the excitement
of the canvass which followed and
i the secession ot the Southern States
upon Mr. Lincoln’s election, I ne
glected the important duty ot secur
ing the confession Whitney was so
anxious to make. In 1861 I went to
Europe, and while in Lindon wrote
a letter to Whitney asking him to get
Alex. B. Williams, Chen a resident of
Chicago, to do what I had so uopar
donably neglected. That letter
reached Chicago one week after
Whitney’s death, closing the last and
only chance for the revalacion of
that important event.
Whitney was a mason by trade,
houest, industrious, sober, but excit
able. In all the early stages of the
Morgan affair he believed he wae
doing his duty. The final crime was
committed under the circumstances
I have related.
I now look back through an inter
val of fifty-six years with a conscious
sense of having been governed
through the “Anti-Masonic excite-.
rnent” by a sincere desire, first to
vindicate the violated laws of my
country, and next, to arrest the
great power and dangerous influence
ot “secret societies.” We labored
under serious disadvantages. The
people were unwilling to believe that
an institution so ancient, to which so
many of our best and most distin
guished men belonged, was capable
of not only violating the laws but of
sustaining and protecting offending
men of the order, A vast majority of
the American people believed that
Marion was concealed by our com
mittee for political effect. While we
were being fiercely denounced as
incendiary spirits, Judge Enos T.
Throop, in charging the grand jury
at Uanandaigua. spoke of Anti-Ma
sonry as a “blessed spirit;” a spirit
which he hoped “would not rest
until every man implicated it the
abduction of Morgan was tried, con- 1
victed and punished.”
It is pleasant also to contemplate (
the character of those with whom I
was then associated judicially and
politically: James Wadsworth,
George W. Patterson, and Philo O.
Fuller, of Livingston; Trumbull,
Gary, George W. Lay, James Bris
bane, Moses Taggart, Seth M. Gates, ,
Phineas L Tracy, Herbert A. Read, i
Timothy Fitch, Hinman Holden, and
T. F. Talbot of Genesee; Albert H.
Tracy, Millard Fillmore, Noah P.
Sprague, and Thomas O. Love, of i
Erie; Bates Cook, George H. Brough
ton, Robert Fleming, John Phillips,
and Lyman A. Spauding of Niagara;
Andrew B Dickinsen, ot Steuben;
John Maynard and William Sackett,
of Seneca, Myron Holley, of Wayne,
Francis Granger, Henry W. Taylor,
and Samuel Miles Hopkins, of On
tario; William H. Seward, Christo
pher and Edwin B. Morgan of Cayu
ga: the Rev. Dr. Nott ot Schenctady,
Victory Birdeye and E. W. Leaven
worth of Oaondago; William H. May
nard, of Oneida, Gideon Hard, of Or- ,
leans, Abner Hazeltine and John
Birdsall ot Chautauqua, Samuel
Work, Hernan Norton, Samuel G.
Andrews, James K. Livingston, i
Frederick Whittlesey, Dr. F. F.
Backus, A. W. Riley, and Harvey Ely i
ot Monroe; Henry Dana Ward of
New York, Weare C. Little of Al- 1
bany, Richard Rush, John Sargent,
and Amos Eilmaker of Pennsylvania,
and William Wirt of Virginia, an '
equal number of truly good and emi
nent men cannot be found. My
friends Weare C. Little of Albany,
Gideon Hard of Orleans, Moses
Taggart of Genesee, and Lyman A.
Spaulding ot Niagara are almost the
only survivors.
City and County of New York, ss,;
Thurlow Weed, being duly sworn,
says that the foregoing statements
are true. Thurlow Weed
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 28th day ot September, 1882.
Sfenceb O. Doty, Notary Public.
17 Union Squire, New York city.
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60 Building lots in Northern s nbnrbs of Onhua
bue, on five years time.
553 Acres timbered laud 3 miles from Oohim
bus. $5 per acre. Wood will pay for plaoo,
9 Four room houses on South-east OoMneona:
rents for $8 per month. Price 34M.
4 Acres land on Wynn ton read. $4lO.
2 Valuable river plantations near Cblumbus.
2) Building lots near Stone’s A Womack's—
only 490 yards from Clegg’s new factory.
Wanted.
A good building lot in tho eontral part of tho
oity.
Philips & Rankin.
161 Broad Btaost.
MONUMENTAL
MARBLE WORKS,
205 Broad St., Columbus, Ga.
Monuments of the beat
Italian and American
Marble on hand and made to or* PR ■
der. pj j'i
We are also agents for a sw- JQ
perior quality of 4
Wrought Iron Railing,
For fences and cemetery an
closures,
DIFFKBENT STYLES AND PAT-
TERNS.
Information given and estimates furnished on
ything in onr lino.
A. H. ELLEBGE.
EARS MILLION I
Foo Choo’s Balsam of Shari’s Oil.
Peaitively BMior,, th. Hearing, and 1, the only
Abaolnt, Car, lor D«atne„ Known,
Thi, Oil 1, ab,trwt«d from peculiar «peoie, of
■mail Whit. Shark, caught la th. Y.Uow 8«.
known »• Oarcharodon Bond.latU, Every
Chine,, 4,kerm,n know, it. It, virtu., aa a »•-
■tontlv, ofhaaringwaa di,oov«wd by a Budd
biat Prieat about the year UlO. Ite cure, wer.
ao numerou, and many ,o aeemingly mlraculou,
that th. remedy waa uMcially proclalumd over
th, entire ,mplr,. Ita u,e baoaaM ao univaraal
that for over 3uo yean ao Deafnaaa haa exlated
among the Chine,, people. Bant, ahargaa p»-
paid, ta any addraea at 11 00 par bottle.
Hear What the Deaf Say,
It haa performed a miracle in my oaaa,
I have no unearthly aolaaa la my head aad
h,u mach batter.
I have been greatly benefited.
My deataeaa helped a (nat deal—think another
bottle wlUaue me.
‘TI, virtue, are unqueatloaable and ita aura
live character abeolnte. aa the writer eaa jler
•onally testify,both from experience and obaer
vatien. Write at once to Hanoox h Janan,
7 Dey Btreet,New lark. eaolcUng (1.00, aad.yoa
wIU receive by return mall a remedy ihat will
enable voa to hear like anybody elae, aad when
curative effeote wIU bo permanent. Ton will
never regret doing ao.“—Editor ni MereaalUa
BsvteWw
na-To avoid lOM in the aaUa, plain nat
money by reglßtwedtottor. . _ .