Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-02-15

come within the range of the light admitted through it,
have the caaaverous hue OF death cast upon their faces
Poor Franklin has been voted Hottenet and one that
lakes no note of time. pieces Today the clerk had
dropt his time the skeleton having been placed below
the rail on which il stood the ether day
Today. found the House very much excited when
entered in consequence of resolution offered by Wise,
botomed upon a charge made by the I" spy IN Wash
ingon published in the las, Courier alleging that he
could prove that member of the House guilty OF
corruption A warm debate arose, in which small
twopenny mass of venom Bynun poured out his" vi
porous dstment the whole corps Q. letter writers,
in the most unneasured terms Mathew l.. DAVIS re-
ceived a most tremendous pummelirg, ana the lues-
ton, when this mailed had not been decided Nhes'
in the Senate, was bung his bull head against the
monster, and talking great deal OF nonsense about
the sub-ueasury scheme. HORACE
Newspaper Correspondence in generai--a
Spiritual Quixotc at Meriden, and what
there fell ont.
The annexed episte has been forwarded to us in
neat Italian, lady like hand writing AID, as an exem'
par Of the manners and humors of the times, we give
1t currency in the Herald.
NEW HAVEN Feb. IL, 1888.
Your paper may be termed the lions mouth OF
New York, and doubtless would contain as curious
farrayo Of truth were all which you receive published
as ever was taken from the lions mouth OF Venice
On Doges birth day After ALL this is the true secret
Of making the episolary correspondence oil journal IN
eres,ng The consciousness that whether one writes
sense or nonsense he will never be known as It's au-
thor gives a wonderful freedom to the pen which II II
fail to strike off least few scintatons OF w.t. can
only be because God has denied brains to the writer
Indeed this freedom from restraint is the very ions a.
orso of wit Ii was this which impaired such zes and
pquancy the letter correspondence in the papers Of
Addison and Steele. Extremes meet; the dividing
line between wit and nonsense is often but hairs
BREADTH and sensible is willing to incur the naz
ard of gaining for himself the ephet of "foe merely
to crafty the cacohes scribendithe morbid love OF
scribbng prevalent among litterateurs and osers'
But chi bono What is all This . the purpose as
Judge W asked lawyer here day or two since
who was indulgng in long TRADE agnas. Abolition
ISM" on the trial Of couple of jail breakers Asd by
the way this last remark Will to introduce my
subject with almost the celebrated felicity oil Gold
smiths transitions in The Traveller A trial OF no
ordinary interest has engaged the attention OF our SUI
perior Court for the last days will endeavor 10
give you brief abstract OF the proceedings more LOT
the important principles which involves Than for any
intrinsic merit which entities il 10 the notice OF your
readers.
Last fall in the month Of the " and yellow leaf
Mr. l., worthy minister of this place, against
whom Satan enter,ans an especial grudge for his in
dea,igable cxertions in the cause OF Moral reform
received an invitation froR of the citizens OF Me-
rden town in this vicinity, TO come and lecture %
them on the subject Of Abolition. Some say that the
de vii prompted them send this invitation with an eye
what would happen; but | give no credit 10 such
slanderous reports However this may be, Mr. L. was
there at the time appointed his heart warming with the
wrongs of Arc sons and prepared lift up hrs voice
like a trumpet in their behalf The speaker had
mounted the ros,rum; every eye was hxed upon MN
every yoke and let the oppressed 60 free " and with
farther prelimnaries opened his batteries apon the
piratical slavehelders their abetiors. Now the
devil had put into the hearts OF certain OF Beal
abou, the door, and they had neither ca, nor
drink till they had slain Paul" Accordingly just as
Mr.. l.. descanng the quality Of his weapons
Of warfare SINE of these proeges OF Satan eaced
throwing eggs at the speaker. MIR. L. not particularly
fancyng this mode Of salutatior and tha having ia
his mind instance in which the Scriptures had
toned IT, requested the door TO be closed. This
DONE but Mr. l.. fated to experience the truth Of
the provcrb that the beginning OF strife is rs when
one leueth out a little water"
His ASSISTANTS were not be vanquished thus easily
they Of pith, who laughed Obstacles. and
were bent on accomplishing their object whatever il
might Accordingly, adopting the motto peace
ably il can. forcbly IL we must" they procured
stick Of timber" and broke down the door with this
modern baitering via patet" and they availed
themselves oft by dischargne another voey Of eggs
at Mr. L. BY this time things had assumed the appear.
Of a genuine riot and all order end. The
congregation rushed outhe bearing in their arms
the fainng damsels who rlung to them for protection
One would have thought that this sight would have sof
tened the hearts Of the verest eproba,es in Gods
ton. But their consciences seemed scared with
hot iron.
Deaf to the calls Of humanity and with hearts fatally
bent mischief they simultaneously made attack
upon Mr.. c. himself That worthy gentleman began
to think Of Jack Fassfs that "discreton is the
better part Of valor and having tnrgetke that hero
retreat In vain flee frem our fate-in vain Mr. l..
sought shelter from the ptess which pelted up
on him. As witness expressed IT, the eggs came pat
pat pat. upon his back He essayed to 60 into house
which stood near
No abolitoniss here, exclaimed the skrill voice OF
the matron at the door.
why don't the friends OF the cause rally 7" shreked
ancient dame the other side OF the way rs she
thrust her head the window.
In vain Mr.. L. exerted himself to Get beyond the
reach OF the deadly missiles The emssaries Of Satan
had seen TOO busy with the crowd-they now grew
worse and worse and the sought escape
the more he couldn't Never minister in such
plight and when length he succeeded in gaining the
shelter OF friendly MANSION his like Josephs
-" coat Of many colors, which he facctousy termed
abolition uniform. However nothing daunied. this
intrepid champion OF the trutd declared with ST. Paul
he goried in tribulstion, and rejoiced that Re was
counted worthy suffer in the cause These the
facts of the case. Judge w - in summing up
gave the standing charge on such occasions the jury
believed tina, the prisoners the bar committed the
outrages IN questsn they find verdict Of guilty
On the other hand IL they thought the prisoners nno-
cent ef the offences with which they stood charged they
must pronounce verdict Of acquisl in their favor
The jury, after remaining ten mnutes retained with
verdict Of gulty-whercupon the Judge sensenced
them TO sir months imprisonment and 10 be anerccd in
the sum Of s25 each, MS terror 10 evil doers
So you Connecticut still likely TO sustain its re-
20 be apprehesdcd from fnsbs wherethe laws faith
fully executed; and NewYork may well taxa hint |
from thus proceeding There 10 one state. least in
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