The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-07-18

and under his own eye, by men high In
position, and in the high places Of The
land. s5 4
And this is what you call an attack on
the clergy Of this district! why Mr..
Lancaster" even your gump beaded inn
becility, cannot be plead, in extenuation
.of an incorrect statement so clear and pal.
paple. My poor little fellow your shallow
trick to engage the clergy Of Lancaster
District in your defence, win be Of no A.
vail. The clergy Of Lancaster are an IN.
tslligent body Of men, they are good be-
nevolent men, they will pity you, Bit ress
assured they will never stretch forth their
hands TO pull you out Of dirty ..scrape.
They had nothing to do in getting you in.
to It.
Inow maintain, that no person quail;
fed to be minister of that Divine PoS-
sonage, who came 10 save a lost world,
whospoke as never man spake, who went as
bout doing good and teaching men 70 loy5
one another, could have committed the outs
RACES, with which have charged you;
and which you have not even attempted to
disprove, and most certainly no man quali
flied to be minister Of TIE gospel, could;
have dreamed, even in the troubled sleep
of a burning feyer,of writing your filthy
communication Of the 18th June lastf !.
Ifby your low vulgarism 'to,her house,
you mean Lancaster Jail, I answer was
once, for two weeks, an inmate Of that
house. In my younger day, when my
blood was hot and my hand somewhat
strong, had a contest with a man OF
great physical strength. He complained
to the constituted authorities that he
was badly beaten. plead guilty to tho
charge, and was sentenced 10 two weeks
Imprisonment. But the Judge left it with
me to say when It would suit inc to un-
dergo the sentence; which was eduiya-
lent to saying, apply to the governor and
it will be remitted. This would not do.
At the end Of two weeks repaired TO tho
Jail, found one Of the debtors rooms COM
fortably furnished for my reception, which
the Judge had told the Sheriff l could oc-
cupy. The door remained open, my friends
visited me daily, the little girls Of The viI-
lage, for the reason that ] had done them
and their mothers some kindness, filed
my room With flowers, which they visited
daily, and watcred with their own hands.
From morn ill eve the merry laugh aud
frolic step Of innocent childhood was rare
ly absent from my room. Snsh was my
mprisonirent-what do you think Of il,
Mr.. Lancaster" BY the way, prisons
have none Of the terrors for me they have
for bad ms,a, who are troubled with appre-
tensions that through prison they may
pass TO some scene Of infaniy, in which
they may be the " observed Of all obsers-
ers." Two objects should appear on
family coat Of arms Of mine, we're TO de-
sign such thing. One, bearlless youth
chained to floor, the blood trickling
down his leg rs the cold iron entered the
flesh; the other, the same youth with club
bed gun, daslnng through the wild car.
nage Of desperate light. The former
would represent my grandfather, in Cam
denjail, prisoner 10 Cornwaliis--the lat
ter, his bearing through many bard
fought battle Of the revolution.
When Lanea.ter, in his first communi-
cation, introduced the idea Of the estimate
the ladies would place on the beauties lof
the Judges face, under circumstances
where he could not, II there be one chord
in his cruel bosom that yibrates TO q
feeling Of human sympathy, have exclud-
ed from his mind the image Of a wretehed
mother and her grisf-oyerwhelmed daugh.
tiers, whose tear-galled eyes wers oflen
turned imploringly on that Judges face,
not 10 estimate his beauty, but 70 discover
q token Of that beneyoleuee which :. Ian
casters" beart has neysrfelt, and his head
can never understand. Over the cold.
blooded cruelty that could have in.roda-
ced such an idea under such circumstan-
ceA, thought ! detected shade Of somc-
tbing-how sball designate it--well,
put il down disgusting issity. But whsa
"Lancasler" went Ear out Of his way 70
catch pretty girl and kiss her twice,
found that shade last ripenisg into oolos
OF less questionable character; and shen
he perpetratsd that other "altcgether uu-
called for" inexcusable, thrice kissing In
de'icacy, ! had no doubt that among
other disgusting things that had found .
home in bis bad heart, was want Of de-.
cency in thought and feeling. But shsD
read the paragraph in his commanieas
tion Of June 18th, in which Is kreaks On
his favorite topic Of wemen asa kisshre. .