The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-13
Morrissey at Lansingburg---The Man OF
the Hour,


Morrissey the pugilist, is now in training in
the ancient town of Lausingburg, where bis
presence produces an unprecedented degree o
excitement The Albany Argus gives Morris
sey precedence Of Gerrit Smith, and even Of
the Free Love artists at Utica, as the nMan
of the Hour" who has so long fitted through
their dreams and etheeealized their fancies.
We quote:
The man 1--WE, and perhaps the ladies, are
less particular to the hour) to whom all the
doctrines and all the aspirings OF the overcom-
ing convention point, is the self-denying. self
discipling, self developing Morrissey-Morris-
sey, who is undergoing that physical training
upoa which, according to the ladies' theory, all
the hopes of posterity depend.
1t matters not that Morrissey is groomed for
the field of Mars instead Of that Of Venus for
is your war horse or your racer less priced
when his energies are concentrated on the do
mestic mission, because he has snuffed the
smoke of the combat, or won the race on the
dusty arena2 On the contrary,
Ills always the spirit most gallant in war,
That Is strongest and truest in love.
And so with AnFrisscyi For the present his
thoughts are OF fst combats but the disci-
pline to which he subjects himself, will not
make him ayerse to the gentle endesrments Of
love.
Did not Shakespeare's Rosalind love the
wrestler Orlando and lose her heart on the first
round? Have we not heard q few weeks ago
OF On English lady who loved and bore away
from all her Catalan riYals, the Matadore of a
Spanish bull fight?
No pent up Utica contracts our powers,
}nt the whole boundes. incontincnt is ours.
lie is subject to horse disciplne-is daily
cuffy-c0mbed by his groom trotted out, fed,
watered dieted, exercised, trained till his
muscles have become wires, his limbs iroD, his
chest an anvil upon which blows will oni, re-
bound. and his nerves as obiiyious to pain as
if dipped in Lethe.
Nor is it exclusively in the view of the un-
sexed women and unchurched clergvmen at
Utica, that Mr. Mecrisscy is the excmplar and
model ofthc age. That whole tribe OF modern
moralists, who trace sin to dyspepsia, and re-
gard all evils as flowing from a disordered
stomach or deranged nervous system; who
hold equally guilty the girl who vets her feet
through thin shoes, and her who status her
hands with her own blood or that Of u fellow
creature who would take the catechism and
the moral story book from the child, and would
breed him up on sawdast crackers and who
would educate his moral perceptions by teach
g somersaults in gymnasium, and give tone
to the ''still small voice" of conscience with
dumb bels-the whole tribe of materialists
will accept the buffer Morrissey as the coming
man. lie is the embodiment OF their creed
hc is one of the first nermiis, he is one of the
aeifdenyng styliets one of the iiagellants of
the new dispensation Whatever diet can do
for the divine essence Of man, whatever the
care of the cuticle FOR the conscience, whatever
outward abutions can effect for Inward purity,
whatever the development Of the braci.a aud
crural muscles can secure of Christian humility,
by so much is MorriSsey made perfect He is
more careful of what he eats and what he
drinks than the Apostles of Christianity, and
we doubt whether the first martyrs could sur
pass him in bravery and Drawn.