Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-06
out their consent, they received him in the follow

out their consent, they received him in the follow
ing fashion -
THE first Sunday he ofhiciated, IIaworth church
was hHed even to the aisles most Of the people
wearing the wooden clogs Of the district. But
while Mr.. Redhead was readiug the second lesson
the whole congregation, as by one impulse, began
to leave the church, making all the noise they
could with Gathering and clumpiDg OF clogs, I'LL,
at length, Mr.. Redhead and the clerk were the only
two left to continue the the service. This was bad
enough, bot the next Sunday tbs proceedings
were far worse. Then, as before, the church was
well filled, but the aislos were left clear; not a
creature, not an obstacle was in the way that day.
The reasons for this was made evident about the
same timo in the reading of the services as the
disturbance had begun the previous week. A man
rode into the church upon an ass, with his face
turned towards the tail, and as many old hats pill
ed on his head as he could possibly carry He
began urging his beast round the aisles, and the
screams and cries, and laughter of the coDgrega-
ton entirely drownded all sound of Mr.. Red
heads voice and, l believe, he was obliged to
desist.
Hitherto they had not proceeded to anything
like personal violence but on the third Sunday
they must have been greatly irrated at seeing MIR.
Redhead, determined to brave their will, ride up
the village street, accompanied by several gentle
men from Bradford. They put up their horses at
the Black Bull-the little inn close upon the
churchyard, for the convenience of arvells as well
as for other purposes-and went into church. On
this the people followed, with a chimney-sweeper,
whom they had Employed to clean the chimneys
of some outbuildings belong {. tho church, that
very morning, and afterwards piled with drink
till he was in a state of solemn intoxication. They
: placed him right before the reading-desk, where
his blackened face nodded q drunken, stupid as
sent to all that Mr.. Redhead said. AT last, either
prompted 10y seine mischief-maker. or from some
tipsy impulse, he clambered up the pulpit stairs,
and attempted to embrace Mr.. Redhead. Then
the proiane fun grew fast and furious. They
pushed the soot-covered .chimney-sweeper against
Mr.. Redhead, as be tried to escape. They threw
both him and bis tormentor down on the ground
in the churchyard where tina soot-bag had been
emptied, and, slough, at last, Mr.. Redhead escap-
cd into the Black Bull, the doors of which were
Immediately barred, the people ragged without,
threatening to stone him and his friends. One Of
my informants is an old man, who was the landlord
of the Black Bull at the time, and he stands to it
that such was the temper of the irritated mob, that
Mr.. Redhead was in real danger of his life"
By the aid of this friendly landlord, Mr.. Red
head with some difficulty escaped from their hands
and from the place yet, we are told, they lowed
. him no grudge ;" they 'were ready to stone him
only to maintain their rights y and he received a
n hearty welcome when he came to preach to them
$ some years afterward.
t Nor were some of the parsons of the ~neighbor
hood better than their Pensioners. OF one o
them, Mr.. Robertson, who kept a school for boys
e we are told -
"He discovered that his servant Betty had 4
follower : and, watching his time till Richard wa
1 found in the kitchen, he ordered him into the din
ing-room, where the pupils were all assembled
} He then questioned Richard whether he had com
e after Betty and on his confessing the truth, Mr.
s Robertson gave the word, of with him, lads, t
the pump The poor lover was dragged to til,
courtyard, and the pump set to play upon him
7 and, between every drenching, the question wa,
2 put to him Will you promise not TO come after
I Betty again? For a long time Richard bravel,
E refused to give in when Pump again, lads
l was the order. But, at last, the poor soaked fol
t lower was forced to yield and renounce his
Betty"
Among such a people Mr., Bronte came as rec
. tor in FEBRUARY, 1920 with a gentle invalid wifi
. and six small children. lie was an Irishman b.
II birth and by education, and natural qualities a
. we'll as descent very different from his people
!, but not a whit less eccentric-judging from a fey
incidents which are given US:
If "Mr. Bronte wished to make his children hard
and indifferent to the pleasures OF eating and dres
In the lattsr he succeeded, as far as regarded hi
lie daughters but be went at his object with unspar
a ing earnestness of purpose. Mr.. Bronte's nurs,
g told me that one day when the children had beer
re out on the moors, and rain had come on, sh,
thought their feet wonld be wet and accordingl,
ID she rumaged out some colored boots which ha(
C. been given to them by a friend. These little pair
n she ranged round the kitchen fire TO warm; but
" then when the children came back, the boots wer,
nowhere to be found only a very strong odor o
burnt leather was perceived. Mr.. Bronte haC
come in and seen them they were too gay an(
luxurious for his children, and would foster q low
of dress so he had put them into the fire. II,
ID spared nothing that offended his antique sim
plicity. Long before this, some one had giver
k Mrs. Bronte a silk gown either the make, tn,
color, or the material, was not according to hi
notions of consistent p%ropriety, and Mrs. Bronte
in consequence, never wore it. But, for all that
she kept 1t treasured up in her drawers. While
were generally locked. One day, however
while in the kitchen. she remembered that she ha
"a left the key in her drawer, and, hearing Mr.. Bron,
upstairs, she augured some i'll to her dress, anC
running up in haste, she found it cut into shred
Ellis strong, passionate, Irish nature was,
general, compressed down with ~resolute stoicisn
but it was there, Notwithstanding all his philosop|
ic calm and dignity of demeanor. He did N
speak when he was annoyed or displeased, bl
MS worked off his volcanic wrath by firing pistols OF
ar. OF the back-dOor in rapid succession. Mrs. Bront
in lying in bed upstairs, would hear the quick expl
sc sions, and know that something had gone wron,
Nv but her sweet nature thought invariably of tt
bright side, and she would say: Ought | not to
thankful that he never gave me an angry word p
. Now and then his anger took a different form, bI
~ still speeches. Once he got the hearth-rug, an
III stufing it up the CRATE, deliberately set it on fire
= and remained in the room in spite of the stencil
until it had smouldered and shrivelled away int
uselessness. Another time he took some chairs
and sawed away at the backs till they were re
duced to the condition of stools"
His wife died within the year, and an elder sis
! ter came at no small sacrifce both of comfort anC
inclination, to superintend the household. Sin
of had q small annuity sufficient for her support wa
accustomed to a mild climate and a pleasant circl
of friends; disliked the customs of the place anC
the damps OF the parsonage; went clicking in pat
n tens over the flag floors and stone staircase from
d. dread of catching cold and passed much of he
or time in her bedroom, and, during the latter par
n of her life, took her meals there. Mr.. Bronte wa
co devoted to his books; took his meals and walk
n alone; disliked children; and, though he heard thei
n lessons, had so little of their confidence, that when
ID on one occasion, it occurred to him to ask thei
is' opinions on various subjects, by way of formin
% his own idea of their characters, he put a mas
err upon them, that they might be less shy under il
IS protection. They had no acquaintance in the vi
We lage, and were thus left entirely to their own soc
an ETY., and to this was owing probably, in a gret
measure, that strong attachment to each oth'
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