The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-04-17

Laura steen, OF Brateboro Vermont went to the Lech
mere Hotela house Of bad reputation in Cambridge
and occupied private Mr. X. had the
warmed after arriving at the hotel and occupied it, with
the lady referred to- both before and after the lecture
which he delivered that evening He had been invited
and had accepted the invitation to visit the Rev Mr.
Holland who resided by but sent note to that
gentleman, giving for not doing So that he
wished to employ the time in reading his lecture lee
tue bythe-by which he had several times delivered in
other places After the lecture he declined to visit Mr.
Holland because he in hurry to get home; but he
went to the Lechmere House, and remained about an
hour. While there he called for and drank whiskey
sling and paid the landlord five dollars for the enter
tanment
All this is conceded AS to what took place in the
he occupied prefer to be silent Four witnesses
testify to acts which would constitute him criminal
but ii may be that they falsely They certainly,
the night referred to- if their testimony be relied on,
resorted steps ascertain his dongs which honor
able person justify and that of the peo-
pie who stoop to such meanness, there but few
whose testimony would rely to convict any person Of
crime We throw their testimony wholly out of the
case consideration of it, and rely only upon what
is admitted all hands to justify in adding
dorsement to what is said by Boston coemporares
Evidently enough morality is scandalized and re-
ligion is wounded by the indecent haste with which
Mr. Kalloch returns to the pulpit 1t cannot be that he
returns there to build up the Of Christ for however
sincere he may be, he do that good by be-
coming its public advocate. His conduct, to say the
least has been that of hypocrite There
sy that he should visit the Leohmere House his lecture
could have been studied at home it, indeed, any study
ing had been needed; there at all, that he
should retire to private room; the public sitting
was at his service, and there other visiters
There was none why he should call for whkey and drink
it, Initiated appetite not demanding it, and he was
known public advocate of total abstinence and prohi
bition Why under such circumstances does he appear
in the sacred desk Does he love to be gazed at by the
liccnous and the curious2 Is he ambitious of the noo
riety which belongs to who acknowledges guilt but
refuses the sacrifices which wipe it out Such certainly
would seem to be the fact and must conclude, with
the paper from which we have quoted, that he Gloves
triumph rather than sacrifice, and is willing to rest his
upon that sort of popular appreciation which would
hang him to with the zeal which leads the
crowd to follow in his train to-day
We have no feelings Of bitterness towards Mr. Kalloch
We know him, it is true, travelling lecturer for FIRE.
mont and most malignant, foumouthed slanderer of
the democratic party. We remember his Kansas speeches,
nstigatng treason and rejoicing In the prospect of civil
war. We remember his speech, after the election had
gone by in which he said sWe have laid that anti
quated old ogy Lewis Cass, the shelf Of political
tirement and we have compelled Buchanan to go
into the presidency under protest from The Christianity, e
intelligence and the decency Of the North We remember his
abuse of all who would not support prohibtory liquor
! law-such a law as he provoked violation of at
Cambridge We know him, in short as brawling,
hypocritical backguard But we do moi know him
worse than of his profession, who foundered in
the very mires Of politics during the presidential
paign and certainly do not know that he has been
guilty of the crime for which he lately tried. We
have not reoced in the evidences Of his guilt nor spread
those evidences before readers when they have ap
pcared On the contrary we have sincerely regretted
that his case brought before the public, and especial
" that the contemplate conduct of the keepers Of the
Lechmere House should avail 10 brand him as criminal
But his evident disposition to thrust himself forward
der all the circumstances surrounding him moral
teacher appointed of God to purify the world is in
suit to the community, which cannot too strongly
denounce. He may find pulps open to him in Massa-
chsetts but rejoice in the belief that there States
even amongst those which Massachusetts, puranism de-
nounces ms bafa,iaG where he would be required to take
lower seat until the world could have judged of the
sincerity of his professions by the purity OF his life.
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