Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-04-18
NO. 81.



crowded to its utmost capacity TO hear ohm
B. Cough upon the above subject. FL ice
:urer neld that it was expedient to carry our
religion into politics.:in fact. wherever one
could carry it. He said the power of exam
pie OF strong minded woman even, was won
deriul IN tine extreme; that we received
strength from such one as We did from the
eating OF meat. Women finished Of at fash.
ionab!e boarding schools he had but little ad-
miratlon for, and many of them, according to
his view, were responsible for making
large number of our young men either nonen-
titles or fools. MIR. Cough spoke of the evil
influence of q class of women so cold that
they reseubled marble palaces enclosed in
iron railings, and he cited the case of John
Foster, where a woman was instrumental in
enabling a man to write his name upon the
pages of Immortality. He was not as"wo-
mans rights man." according to the conyen-
tlOnal application Of the term. yet be would
not like to see women parading III the militia
ry, running with the machine, carrying bricks
and mortar in hod, or even working in the
fields. lie hoped for a time when women
would attain fully their proper sphere, and
thus exercise woman's influence over the
actions of mankind. lie related an anecdote
of woman brought before police magis-
trate for scratching her husbands face. The
magistrate told her she should not do such a
thing, as husbands were the head. She in
nccently inquired if it then was not right in
her to scratch her own head. That woman's
influence. he said, had bad effect on her
children. and on those around her. He said,
if q man were to stand still, fold his arms
and shut his eyes, he would then exert an TO-
fluence by merely the attitude he assumed.
One of the remarks made in connection with
this part of his discourse was, where he said
that every mOman of as exercises an intiu-
ence" Good example, he said, required
Christian consistency. He did not highly
compliment the system of allowing ministers
to travel On railroads, etc., for half-fare. SIM
ply because they were, or said they were,
ministers of the Gospel. He told story of
a minister who desired to have this half-pricc
system practically applied in his case. The
tavern-keeper saw that the minister eat his
supper without invoking divine blessing,
and went to bed without saying his prayers.
and when the minister advocated the half
price system, he was told that having cot
like the heather, drank like the heather, and
slept like the heather, he must pay like the
heather. He said that 50 strong was the
anti-slavery sentiment in England, that eve
ry minister buasted of being an anti.slavery
man. Now he had no doubt that if the rea-
tions Of Great Britain were SO situated that
slavery should become a matter of material
profit and loss, there would be as many rea-
dy and willing to advocate it as there were
now to advocate for strong drink.
L., tIo pf
cars on the Sabbath, he said that the people
who oppose such q measure should not on
that day ride in those cars--to hear dis
tinguShed minister of the gospel He COM
mented on that class of persons who make
it practice TO quote Scripture on all occa-
sions and under all circumstances. In con-
uection with this, he related circumstance
of man who used Biblical quotations to
make his men work on Sundays. This man
had lot of grass he wanted attended TO.
and So left it out over Saturday night till it
rot bedewed. The man asked An old negro
to 20 cut and shake the dew off the grass
The negro refused to work on Sunday. At
this the man said. But if your OK was into
the ditch on Sunday would you pull him ont?'
"No mass;l." said the negro mot if showed
him in OH Saturday night" lie then refer
red TO temperance and iptemperance; spoke
on the little influences which lead young men
astray, and old ones to a speedy grave, the
bower Of Christian iorbearancc aud forttude,
and the exercise Of control. lie said some
men could no more drink moderately than
you could blow up IA powder magazine mod
eratcIy. or fire cif guu by degrees. His
concluding remarks were on the power ofe1-
ample as displayed by one man upon anoth-
cr, Or by one animate object upon an opposite.
-BDSion Post.