Warren telegraph. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-25
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REPUBLlCANkSm Nun mAD'
Il Il we'll known that Judge DOUGLAS, the Hi
pois senator, some months ago made a donation OF
! verv valuable property in the vicinity Of Chicago
fcr the erection OF College. Its value has been
est3mated at 100000. This princely gift was
made at the instance Of Presbyterian clergyman,
a friend Of the Judge. and was on condition that
su6icient sim should ba subscribed for suitable
edHoe. The attempt falling in Presbyterian hands,
the Judge, uninaueuced by sectional considerations,
allowed the same opportunity to the Baptsts, and
they furnished the sum necessary. On the Fourth
of July the cornerstone was laid, aud Judge
DOUGLAS was TO have made the address on the oc-
casion, but illness preventing him from speaking.
although present, his place was supplied by Hon.
isaac N. ARNOLD, who Is, if we mistake not, a
native of this State, although VIC regret that fact.
Mr. ARNOLD seized this OCCASION Of laying the
foundation of . College, when party slang was
most inappropriate, ON day when, of all others,
partizan discord should be unknown and in the
presence of one whose relation to tho matter
should have sepled his lips on such themc--to
launch forth into s Republican TRADE, in which
the political course of Judge DOUGLAS was held
up to the cens5re of the crowd! But even beyond
this was the exploit of political parson, named
Roy, who followed in prayer, in which he called
the attention of the Almighty to the presence Of
the Judge, notwithstanding which, the preacher
said he would not forbear to pray for the slave !!
What need is there of characterizing by words
such gross indecorum on the part of the orator,
and such revolving sacrilege on the part of the
preacherf We are glad to believe that our Re-
publican readers repudiate both.
We were disposed to doubt whether there was
not some error in the accounts which reached us
of an outrage SO glaring but the following flip
pant paragraph from q Republican paper shews
that not only did tho outrage occur, but has its
sympathzers elsewhere. We quote from the Wor-
oester Trasseript:-
THE LITTLE GIANT IN TRoUBLE.-Some time
ago Senator Douglas, in spasm of piety or speou-
lation, donated q magnificent site for Baptist
Seminary, near Chicago. On the Fourth of July
the corner stone was laid, and 1t was named the
University of Chicago. Douglas had sore throat.
caught probably at Springfield in his attempt to
reconcile squatter sovereignty with the nalicnable
rights of Shareholders SO he couldn't speak. But
whit he lost in that respect he made up in listen
ing. One Mr.. Arnold an eloquent man and
courageous one, was named to speak in his place.
He did not hesitate to assall the gigantic hereses
which that man-Stephcn Arnold Douglas, more
than any Other-has labourod to fasten on the free
and glorious Northwest. He prayed that if the
time ever came when freedom should need a ciam-
pion; if the American people should forget the
tesching of the fathers; if the Executive should
cease to initiate the example of Washington and
Jefferson il the Legislature should forget that the
Constitution was formed o.secure the blessing OF
liberty If the judiciary should in its madness
overturn the adjudications of Jay, and Story, and
Marshall-this university might train up statesmen
and jurists armed for the great reform of bringing
back the government to its first principles and its
original purity. Might this institution furnish
champion for the free northwest, lead back by the
eloquence of truth and liberty, the people TO the
principles Of the Dcclaratson of Independence
Senator Douglas went hume thinking his Spring
field speech hadn't convinced everybody.
II is also fact that a clergyman in Michigan
has Just been dismissed from his pastoral charge
on the ground that he voted for BUCHANAN! The
Providence Journal acknowledges the absurdity Of
such degree of fanaticism, but seeks to pallinte
it by referring to the dismissal of preachers at the
South accused Of abolition sentiments. We are
heartily glad, as we note these things, that we are
able to keep clear Of Republicanism on the one
hand. and Pro-slaveryism on the other.