It did not matter. He was not likely to worry over the friends he would lose because of any stand taken for human justice. Certainly he never made any such attempt at the expense of his convictions. The first Galaxy instalment was a sort of platform of principles for the campaign that was to follow. Fancy is not needed to give variety to the history of the Chinaman's sojourn in America.
Plain fact is amply sufficient.
They are scathing, powerful letters, and one cannot read them, even in this day of improved conditions, without feeling the hot waves of resentment and indignation which Mark Twain must have felt when he penned them. Reverend Mr. Talmage was not the only divine to receive attention in the Memoranda. The Reverend Mr. Sabine, of New York, who had declined to hold a church burial service for the old actor, George Holland, came in for the most caustic as well as the most artistic stricture of the entire series. Galaxy for February, 1871. The little church did permit the service, and there was conferred upon it the new name, which it still bears.