The daily union., 1856-04-05
.ss Fram the Boston Daily Courier of March 81.
BIBLES AND SHARPE'S RIFLES. a


ho poet eopies the closing proceedings of the Ks
meeting in New Haven, and thus comments upon
Eds.
Should you ask us, whence this story
This dscreditable story,
E his sad tale of downright folly,
With a shade of drunken madness,
With the odor of aaltpetre,
" Ita the murderous crack of rifles,
With the reckless speech of outlaws,
And the riba!d slang of grog shops,
With the wild talk Of great ninnies,
With their silly repetitions,
And accumuiating noDsense,
And holly answering folly,
A., Of tborns beneath the kettle,
The nnmeaning, seDseless crackle 7
We should answer, we should tell you,
Prom the city OF New Haven,
from the Blue law States chief city,
Erom the North Church of New Haven,
FROM the land OF wise old Trumbull,
And that trump, Dwight, reverend doctor,
Where stiifest steeples looming
Through sweet Heavens peaceful sunshine,
Where the sanctuary's droppings
Ought 10 tall like angels whispers,
" here their orthodoxy ancient
0Dce had common sense and reason,
And where, If their minds were narrow,
still they minded their own business
On the shortest road TO Heaven
Then their eyes looked, straight before them
On the right was no detection,
Nor yet fsllings away leftwnrd.
And their hearts, still stout and manly,
Frlt some love OF common country.
And, wherees her Gag vas streaming,
Ut its starry constellation
Shone Connecticut, not eimmest,
Ia the storm, or In the bsttle.
Should you ask, who tells this story
This extraordinary story,
Ask who gives this Wild narration
We should snswer. We shonld tell you,
IN the New fork Times We find IL
it has spread from town to village,
il has stirred up Indignation,
IL has wakened honest sorrow,
II has called unwonted bushes
OF deep shame 70 manly faces,
For the church's desecrstion,
For the Christian name perverted
For the scspdal and the outrage,
Dor the sneers of the worlds people,
Eor the eers OF all outsiders
For the holy name Of Freedom
Made a nOekery and by-wOrd,
For cause more holy, wounded
in iu friends own house-the Gospel,
Made the banner cry Of dircord--
4 Peace on earth" It's ouos sweet message,
Now turned into--''Get Shapes rihes Z!
What spectacle for angels
What spectacle for devils
Ifstnl further you should ask ms,
Saying, " Who hss done this mischiefs'
Tell Us Of tAis ruGisn preacher
And this Silliman, upstirTing
Civil rage and wild dissepsion--
We shall answer your inquiries,
Straightwsy, in such words as follows
in the outskirts OF Manhattan
Lurks this plsy yhouse preacher, Bsccbtr,
And much rabblement 8 deluded
Fy bis helter-skelter rarings;
But most decent Christian people
DO very vide berth give him,
And the Sl4isnaa, once noted
For person scientific,
A. his bead aDd beard grew rrayrr
Mast have grown himself inrbceile
But the ehurch's pastor, Dutioa,
And this Harrey Hot, its deacon
And that sighting Mistress Pardrs,
And the "sgniiicant" KiHom,
liy our upth, wo know not Of them;
Bot Icry jumbled uotisn
Must thcy have Of Christian doctrine,
And of mans subliuer spirit
And OF women's softer gracss,
Uf tho uses Of their Bibles,
Of the law end Of their duties,
And Of all that boys In college
From their elders should be learning
Should you still persist in knowing
Something more Uf our opinion,
We should make sweeping answer,
which We hope may prove sufcient--
That each Sophomore, or Freshman
Who refused 70 give the rides,
Might bare told thepl---for such conduct
Tor iboir Wild, bali crazy speeches,
Fof tbcir bragRadocio bluster,
For tllcir mischevous intentions,
A Nd their actions correspondent
iuy Freedman might have told them,
1hsy deserved Jcddart Jury,
To be hung as high ss Haman,
Ugh as hamsn, the Agsgfte,
Ilrd around their neeks "the Bibles"
DsuRtiag from their heels sfthe tia.s'--
They would their desserts have gotten
Ana the world have been no loser.