Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 July 1874 — Page 4
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P. S WESTFALL, '^EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE HAUTK, JLrLY 25,1874.
SECOND EDITION.
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Moat ekUdrrn esijoy tumbling tlilnga «T«r, and pulling iMa in pieces. And it to seldom the case that this propensity, manifested in childhood, i« entirely destroyed evem la later life. is auch easy work to pull down. That which was weeks, months, or even years In building, may be knocked to pieces in day* or minutes. A certain amount of time and strength spent in pulling down, shows much greater results than if given to building. It is noisy work too, and it is flattering to human prida to be able to make a noise in the world. AU eyea turn toward the one making a clatter, while the silent one t» "born to blush unseen." But polling down is pot al* way* a harmful or useless thing to do. On the other hand it is often a very nocemary and useful process. A great many very comfortable, and even elegant homes, stand on the spots ones occupied by very uncomfortable and unsightly homes. The owner has pulled down and built better, and the pulling down was as wise aud as necessary as the building. A great many men of good character, and skill, and honesty, occupy the positions of .those whose reputation for skill and honesty 1ms boon pulled to pieces and shown to bo false. A great many correct and broad views of truth, stand in the places onco occupied by bigotry, prejudice, and ignorance. These homes, these reputations and these bigoted and prejudiced and superstitous notions, all ought to have been pulled down, and they who did the work aro entitled to gratitude for the work done.
But there are some cautions which should be observed in doing, or permitting this work. Because pulling down is sometimes, or often, a useful process, it is not always so. The man who pulls down a house, even though it be a log house, with space between the logs for wind and rain and having but one room, and no floors, acts very foolishly, unless he has a better one to which to go, or a good prospect of building a better. A poor protection from the weather, and a poor place to eat and sleep in, is &r better than no plaoe at all. The same rule holds good in reference to views and opinions. In these days there are plenty of people making a business of destroying old views and opinions of truth. And it must be admitted that a great deal of good has been done in this way, both by introducing correct notions in the place of false, and in defending, explaining, purifying, and strengthening old views which were true. Progress has resulted from tke iconoclastic spirit of the age, But harm has come too. People hare been unmoored from the truth as well as freed from error. And the man who can simply destroy, without giving something better, is not a benefactor. In the midst of the pulling down and the rebuilding which is going on in these days, much and serious danger will be avoided by following the rule, not to permit one home to be destroyed till there is a reasonable prospect of another and better, not to be driven or led out of the views and opinions formerly held, unless something better is offered. Ma*y a young man would have been saved frem great harm by following this rule. Ho has been accustomed to the ways of his homo. He goes out into the world and finds people adopting practices to which he has not been accustomed, and his way of living is laughed at. He concludes to change, and give# up his old mode of life for another, without very carefully weighing the question whether the old is not better after all. New views ahd opinions cm moral and religious topics are presented to him. They have all tho attractiveneas of novelty, the arguments in their flavor being new, seem stronger to him than the old and solid reasons for the views in which he has been educated. The old arguments aro femiliar to him, »o familiar as to seem weak, when they may be really strong. And so ho sets about revising his views, pulling down his opinions to build new, with out any very careful consideration of the question whether the new are any better after all. It is not strange that ho often finds them worse, and goes back to tho ld or oftener, instead of going back to the old, he goes on to other*, making matters worse at every change. We are not arguing against change, for wo believe in progress. We are not arguing against listening to those who do not agree with .our views. Often such aro the best teachers. They show us defects in our views and pra«ticc« which we might not otherwise discover. But wo ar« arguing against too great haste in
It is quite possible, all things
cousidered, that the house we are living in quite as good we will be likely to get It to quite possible that the practi c«» and habits in which we have been irefully educated by atone who loved us were wiser thiui we, ano th® best after all. It to quite possible that the old fashioned moral and religious views, In which we have been brought np, taken all together, axe better than many of the new fkngied notkm* oflferrd aa, At all events to not best to pall down oar house till we fee at leant a Mr prospect for getting a better, and the pro should be more than fair, very strong And It to not best to throw away notions of riylit nnd 1* rf nff, and of truth, tmless
are prsitj sure w* •rebrttoKrff without them, or are getting better in their place. And people who are engaged in putting dm the opinion, and ptt*ta» generally prevalent, should be reasonably certain that they are building b*l** opinions and j«*St&»UM *«y destroying. A* all avents give the question tome consideration. There is an attraction about pulling down which render* it well to rift our reasons beflpiee we do too much of this kind of work either for ourselves or oth-
era. 8PEAKI*O of not pulling down a house until reasonably row of another and bettor, reminds us that sometimes people let the old house stand empty, neglocted, and dllapltated, to be pulled slowly in pieces by the fingers of time. We think it better to remove the old shanty as soon as the owner Is snugly and safely domiciled la the new, but what an aad a fellow would make of himself If he were to get into such a house, and set about knocking it in pieces and boldly declaring that he would tumble the roof down upon the owner's head, when the fact was patent to every body, that the old follow whose head was supposed to be in danger had not been in the house for years. C. W. Stewart of Pence Hall and journalistic fame,has been doing this very thing. He has kept up an awftal racket among some religious doctrines which are supposed to have been held sometime in the past, but which no church holds, and no minister preaches to-day, or has for years. He has made an awful row In the old log hut, but nobody was scared, because tkere was nobody lining thereto be soared. If any of the churches have any of these articles, like Infant damnation, in their creeds, they had better take them out, if only to save the community from such a disgusting pother as this man, and others like him, will persist In making. .?
THEODORE Tnvro* being asked, a few days since, where ho proposed to live, answored: "Nowhere. Henceforth I have no life. This Is tho end of all tragedies. They culminate in death." Does this hint at suicide
A RKPonTKR of the Indianapolis "Journal "Interviewed" the clergy of that city on Wednesday, and found eight on the side of Bcecher, two wavering and one prejudiced against him.
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XEEKE TT'ATTTB SATURDAY EVEN1N G'MAIL.
Sunday school Camp-meet
ing to to be held, at Chatauqua Lake, New York, from August 4th to 18th. It promises to be the grandest affltir of the kind ever projected.
THIS Indianapolis Journal says "the question now at Issue in Indiana is whether tho saloon keepers shall govern the State, or the State shall govern the saloon keepers,**
TKU telegraph tells us that there is a prospect of reaching the end of the Boeoher-Tilton investigation next week. Let tis give thanks 1
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"In at the death," Victoria C.
Woodhull came from California Otto «eek, and landed In New York yesterday morning.
A Cuban dollar to now worth only thirteen cents, but they still MM1
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BKECHKU-T1L TON.
It has been a week of Intense and painfel excitement In reference to the mmmm* BMnVivff ffr*"1*1 ijvety body to heartily tired and sick of the matter, and yet It to inc. talldng or writing of H. It will be uj^rWin the public mind until the end to reached and the affair to thoroughly sifted, as it must snd will be.
Mr. Til ton's statement or the cam was published on Wednesday morning, the paper to written in Mr. TUton** best ttyle, the charges ate explicit, and the testimony most tkllAilly arranged to produce conviction. And, after reading that paper, many, who had been firm In their belief of Mr. Beecher'* innocence, gave up all hope, and others continued to hope almost against hope. Almost the entire press, while uttering faint pleas for a suspension of judgment till Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Til ton could be beard from, gave evidence of a settled conviction that Mr. Tilton's statement was really unanswerable. And tee very few papers which have manifested from the start the desire and purpose to find Mr. Beecher guilty, were exultant, and manifested their joy in a manner painfully out of harmony with the general feeling of sadness, and thereby alleviated somewhat the sorrow of the hour by arousing indignation against themselves. It was the darkest day for Mr. Beecher of all days since the controversy began. There were those however, who did not fail to notice that the charge that Mr. Beecher had been guilty of criminal intimacy with Mrs. Tilton, rested solely upon the word of Mr. Tllton, that the letters introduced by him as proof, wero many of them irrelevant, and the others were capable oi an interpretation which would deprive them of all reference to any thing criminal, that in none of them is there an admission of, or any thing which must of necessity refer to, such a crime as to charged. It was also noticed, that, with all the effort to write, or to appear to write, In a tender mood toward Mr. Beecher and his own wife, there was unmistakable evidence of a vindictive spirit toward both. These things were noticed, and commented upon. Also notice was taken of the improbability that an intelligent, refined woman of deep religious oonvlctlons—as Mr. Tllton represents his wife—should be persuaded that such a crime was no crime at all, and that he after learning the alleged facts in the case, should not only condone her fault but should also accept an apology from her seducer. These things caused a suspicion in not a few minds that the case might not be as he represented.
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Mr. Beecher has done a grand work in his day and generation to elevate the morals and improve the lives of his disciples, but this last proof of his own infidelity to his principles gives the lie to bis teachings and undoes all his work." •{Gazette.
We hear a great deal of talk of this kind but we cannot see the point. Admit the guilt of Mr. Beecher, and by no manner of means does it follow that the lie is given to his teachings. We had supposed that he followed his own teachings, but, if Tilton's charges are true, he has been a libertine, hypocrite and liar. Yet that does not affect his teachings one way or the other, except so far as his personal influence gave them power. His teachings are true, and the lie never can be given to them. He taught truth, but did not live the truth, showing thatShakspere was right in saying, "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of tho twenty to follow mine own teaching."
And as for undoing all his work, that is as impossible as to recall his teachings or undo his sin. Ho did a noble work in the anti-slavexy cause, and for the country in the time of peril. Is that work undone? Can it be undone? And his work in elevating the morals and improving the lives of his disciples it is as impossible to undo. Certainly all the men and women who have been made better by his teachings, are not going to turn back to their old lives of sin on account of his fall. The ministers of the country who have been taught a better theology, and broader views of truth by him, are not going back to their old views, and to their old style of preaching, because their teacher is a sinner. His fall, if it prove to be real, is bad enough. It makes men and angels weep. But there is any amount of talk as to its results,which Is the merest twaddle. His teachings remain true, and his work cannot bo undone, whatever may be proved about his life. He has exerted an Influence over tho destiny of this nation, and over thousonds of lives in it, which is past all undoing. We Will be tliankful for this.
The prompt appearance of a statement from Beecher the very next morning, and the spirit and general character of that statement, created a strong reaction in the public mind in favor of the accused parties. There area few who desire and are determined to believe in the guilt of Mr. Beecher, and who find it as difficult to conceal their satisfaction in this conviction, as Mr. Tilton to conceal his vindictive spirit. But the great mass of the people are sincerely desirous to believe him Innocent, and many, who are identified with no church or religious denomination, are as desirous of t.hla as any church members. There Is a readiness to wait until Mr. Beecher has given a full statement to the committee, which he promises to do. His prelim inary statement is straightforward, explicit, and carries with it the air of perfect sincerity and truthfulness.
Mrs. Tilton's statement appeared on Friday morning. In it she of course denies all criminality between herself and Beecher. The paper bears unmistakable evidence of having been written by herself. While a lawyer might have made it stronger logically, yet, as the free utterance of a terribly abused woman, who had the misfortune to give her heart to a vain, selfish, tyrannical and erratic man, who, after violating his own marriage vows almost without attempt at concealment, has proclaimed to the world that she guilty of a sin from which her nature revolts, it is stronger than any lawyer oould make it. She declares her readiness to testify as to every charge c§®J^^i^TOton paper.
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dollar to make sound big* Tim fool-killer has been derelict of his duty in not invading the Beecher-Tllton camp long ago.
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Michigan to stump the State for the women* ^mmmestmasmett PAKW to gassing a good deal over the introduction of gas this week.
The character of tho witnesses is a matter of no small moment In this case It is admitted on all hands that Mr. Ulton's character to bad. There aro no denials that he has been guilty of the very sins which he charges agtdnsthis wife and Mr. Beecher. A correspondent of the Chicago Times asserted, some time since, that Mrs. Woodhull said, that Mr. Tllton was her lover and that for three months he slept every night in her arms. Whether this is true or not (Mrs. Woodhull is not reliable authority) there seems to be no doubt that, even if Mrs. niton's infidelity to her husband to as great as he represents it, it can hardly equal his infidelity towards her This is the moral character of the one who makes the charges. As for his other qualities entitling him to confidence, it needs only to be remembered that he to the author of the life of Victoria C, Woodhull, a work which dearly indicates insanity, or a credulity forbidding all confidence In his judgment,or dlshon erty. Against this witness, stands a man who, for more than twenty-five years, has been as prominently before the pub Ho as any man in the country, and has been almost universally believed to be pure and upright.' He has around him one of the largest, most intelligent, and thoroughly christian congregations in this country. This church and congregation, amid all tho charges made against Mr. Beecher, have continued to give him their entire confidence. The mere fact that there has been no serious difference of opinion in this great company of people, who know him best, and the interests of whose families are large
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ly in his kaepiag, is one of the strongest evidences against his feeing the bsd man charged. It appears utterly Impossible
charged without his guilt being generally known to, or seriously suspected by this church, and It to utterly impossible believe that such a hody of iateUjtgent christian people sbonld combine to eonoealhis guilt. Unless thers was perfect confidence in him, a rupture In the charch was inevitable. Yet there has none.
As for good sense and shrewdness, canning, Mr. Boecher stands preeminent, and can he be the fool which his course would indicate, if Mr. Tilton's charges are truef Gartainly never did a guilty man make mora or greater blunders. In addition to all this, the word of this man to backed by a woman whose character, in all other respects, to unquestioned, and who still has the confidence of those who know her best, including the wife of the man who to charged with being her paramour. If the matter to left to rest upon the assertions of Mr. Tllton on the one hand, and of Mr. Beecher and Mm- Tilton on the other, the more credibility of witnesses will give the esse to the latter. And if Mr. Beecher produces otbar witnesses to confirm his assertions, he will yet be triumphantly vindicated before the publlfe. Wo ftilly expect and believe that this will be done. Of courso there are those who, having been persistently crying "I told you so," will denounce all efforts to prove his innooenoe as an attempt to "whitewash." For our part we say honestly, if Mr. Beecher to gnllty we want it proved upon him. But as between Mr. Tllton on the one hand, and Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tllton on the other, we think it but fair to give the accused tho benefit of the doubt. But wo predict that Mr. Beecher will come out of this contest in such a manner that, with the vast majority of candid minds, there will be little or no doubt of his innocence
It must be remembered that the statement already made by Mr. Beecher does not claim to cover the
entire ground, but
is only preliminary, and therefore all arguments based upon what it does not contain are invalid. Wo must wait for his full statement, and the evidence which he proposes to introduce. When this comes, if his guilt is established or if he to produce a rwKjonaUle conviction that ho to innooent, we shall be as prompt to admit it as any other, though it will deeply pain us to do BO.
WE still claim that the principal issue st the coming election to on tho temperance question, the Journal to the contrary notwithstanding. So far as platforms are concerned the Republicans declare for the main features of the Baxter bill, and the Democrats for its repeal. The platform of tho Republican party is perfectly satisfactory to the temperance men and that of the Democratic party is perfectly satisfactory to the saloon-keepers and liquor dealers generally. That shows the real farts in the case better than columns of arguments.
But the Journal gives some good advice. It advises that the Republican candidates be interviewed in reference to their position on the Baxter bill, and its enforcement. We would extend the proposition so as to include all candidates. It is a notorious fact that candidates and platforms do not always agree. If there are any candidates on the temperance platform who do not be lieve its principles or intend to support them, let them drop. And if there are any candidates upon tho whisky platform who "spit upon it," and will not carry out its principles, then let them be taken up. Candidates who are all right are worth a great doal more than sound platforms. 1 \.
A Chase on Picket..
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A newspaper correspondent away down in the tropics somewhere has written a letter describing the habits, manners and meanness of the coral snake, which has reminded mo of a story told by soldier who participated in the terrible battle of Murfreesboro, In the war for the Union.
It was a real snako story, told with fervor, heightened by sympathy for victim, and with an earnestness that, notwithstanding the popular prejudice frgainat audi narrations, meant, this was true, and should bo believed.
The narrator was a young man of probity and self-respect, and had come of a good family. He had served with distinction In the army, and returned promoted, and honored. lie was, on the evening he told tho singular experience, enjoying a little reunion with some of the boys of the army, and began the story with, "that reminds me," etc., as usual in such cases.
A smile on the face of one of tho auditors embarrassed him at first, and oamn near spoiling the recital but ho rallied from the depression, and went on successfully to the end.
Which reminds m© that some years ago I wrote an article, couched in guarded language which told how I killed, with an old gun, one hundred and fortythree snakes at one shot, and three or four
supplemental
punches with apiece
of a rail, and that most of the snakes I saw escaped alive by gliding dextrously into a hole a4Jacer\
Although the circumstance was related concisely, and the place definitely located in the vicinity of Colfax, on the Lafayette road, there wero otherwise respectable people and good friends who affected not to believe the story, and even insisted upon a reduced estimate of the number of reptiles involved, as if a few snakes more or less eould in any
way effect the plausibility of written history. Such instances of inoredtfity tend to cause embarrassment, and to weaken the confidence that should obtain among people of refined sensibiliand unimpeachable integrity.
But here, In substance, to the soldier's
It was the evening before the battle on Stono River. There had been a good deal of skirmishing and random firing, and much marching to and from, during the day, and. now the wearied army had gone intn camp to rest, and prepare for the disturbance on the morrow.
I had been placed on picket duty, and «y beat lay along the margin of a swamp, now mostly dry ami ovorgrown with rank grass and high weeds. A few feet distant, and nearly parallel with my path, there was an old roadway, in which staunted grass was endeavoring to obliterate the old tracks of wagons and sleds.
At the farther and south end of tho beat, the road turned eastward and disappeared in the jungle.
The night was starry, with patches of white clouds here and there, but it was light enough for the accustomed eye to see quite distinctly a hundred yards. Farther in the dusky distance off to tho right, looking south, was the great army, from which arose a low, confused murmur, and an occasional call or oommand thai indicated watchful anxiety, and quiet preparation. Strict orders had been given to the pickets not to be betrayed into shooting at any object but an enemy to avoid giving unnecessary alarm.
I had paced up and down the beat for an hour perhaps, and had some difficulty in keeping my thoughts from wondering what Would be the result to me personally, and to the country of tho morrow's battle. It was mighty lonesome out there that evening, you bet, and I thought I would have relished a falaft alarm to break the ugly spell that seemed to bo upon me, are using vague, uncertain fears.
Of course I made as little noise as possible, in walking along the brushing of my clothes against the grass and bushes, and a light tramp being all that oould be heard.
Suddenly, when I was about half way up my beat, from the southern end, where I had exchanged salutations with the ether picket, I heard something strike plump on the ground some distance behind me, which sounded like a soft ball or a muffled step on hard ground. Turning instantly I brought my musket to my shoulder and called out, "halt!"
But everything was as quiet as before not a leaf stirred, etc., for at least a few moments then I thought I heard a stealthy movement In the grass, though at some distance from me.
I kept my position, and peered cautiously in the direction of the annoying mystery. A rebel might be there, you know, and put a hole through me that would answer every purpose and so I kept ready for business at the slightest warning.
Again I heard tho plumping noiso, and again the rustle in the grass. I then suspected it was some ono on hands and knees in the dry part of the swamp, and was vexed because I oould not at one 3 determine what and where it was. Tho suspense was provoking, and besides the delay, although momentary, might be frought with danger. I thought, once, I saw the grass move, and was tempted to blase away anyhow but remembering our orders, I hesitated, and kept a watchftil eye.
Finally, and perhaps not twenty seconds from the first alarm, I saw an object jump out of the weeds and alight in the road, clearing at least twenty feet, and come with a dull thud on the ground. It was making right towards me, and consequently I determined to remain quiet, and endeavor to solve the mystery, having come to the conclusion that tho movement was not that of a human enemy.
Again the object rose in the air, closely followed by a rustling and hissing noiso, and I could see distinctly that it was a huge frog, pursued by a black snake at least seven feet length!
The snake was coming rapidly, his head raised about two feet, and vibrating from side to side, like an inverted pendulum, as he sped alter his frightened victim.
Leap after leap the frog made in regular and frantic efforts to got away but the snake was gaining, and as they passed by me, I oould see that Rana was Ophidian's meat. My sympathy went out to tho frog, and I would have chanced a shot at the black snake anyhow, if I oould have done so without alarming the camp.
Tho last jump the frog made as he went by, showed that he was getting discouraged, while the snake increased his speed, and as he noticed me, raised his head at least three feet from the ground, putting his body very much in the shape of a letter S. His ugly form had the lateral motion already spoken of, and his great, flat head seemed to be heavy enough to accelerate his movements, for which purpose It was thrust forward at every wriggle and evolution of the dark line that trailed upon the ground.
My presence seemed to startle the reptile for a moment but he took In tho situation at a glance, and with an apparent determination not to be cheated out of his prise even if he had to tackle his oldest enemy in the contest, he went on, hardlv swerving from the direct line of pursuit.
Eire they got out of hearing I could distinguish a noise that Indicated a struggle, and then matters were again quiet^-the frog had surrendered, and tho bomtnion emairktor was getting in his work preparatory to an evening meal. ".1
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