The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-25
The Devil Among the Parsons.

The Devil Among the Parsons.
The heading of this article will astonish
many people. The formidable parsonage i'll
dictated, is we'll known to take up his quarters
occasionally among many societies, assoeia-
tons, and professions of life. Song and ira
di ton alike indicate that he was once found
among the tailors. Popular belief attributes
10 him intimate personal acquainta lance
with our friends the Freemasons. 1t has
been said that, occasionally, he makes him
self quite too much at home i'll private
families. But we do not listen to these tales.
The old gentleman in black has bad name
To hear people talk, he must be very unpopu-
lar. Everybody has been abusing him for
thousands of years. Poor BrRNs, indeed,
took his part, and insisted upon it that he
was n very good fellow after all. But gem
orally he is not admitted into good society
at least not openly. He is not presentable at
the Presidents levee, though there are indi
cations that he gets in occasionally by the
back way. How in the world, then, he should
get among the clergy is a marvel. Why he
should seek such society is a still greater
One would think ST. DussrAs, when he took
him by the nose with n pair of red hot tongs,
and LrrHRR, when he threw his ink bottle at
his head, had given him hints strong enough
that his company was not acceptable. But
we suppose the old gentleman has become
tired with roaming up and down the earth,
which he has been at ever since he and OBJ
came in contact several thousand years ago
Honest TRIscULo tells that ''misery
quaints man with strange bedfellows." So
We presume does WEAKNESS, which we take
to be first cousin TO misery.
Let US do up the thing in dramatic style
Act first, scene first. The University OF Ok
ford, in England. Four gentlemen are about
10 sit down to dinner. LIST. Rev. Mr.. BROCK.
HURST, n man of fierce piety, who has written
a book on the Jewish disabilities, in which he
severed with perfect satisfaction to himself
the questions of SHYLocK. He proved that
Jew hath not hands, organs, dimensions,
senses affections passions--that he is not fed
with the same food hurt with the same wea-
pons, subject to the same diseases, healed by
the same means, warmed and cooled by the
came summer and winter, as Chistrian is
He showed that if you prick him he does not
bleed, if You tickle him he does not laugh,
and If you poison him ne does not die. -
I'd Rev EDWARD DoDD, Fellow of Magdalen
College and Vicar of ST. Giles, Cambridge
Sd. A Jewish gentleman, name not remem-
bered. 4th. The old gentleman in black
Now, 1t seems that the Rev. Mr.. DoDD was
called on for a blessing before meat, and he
gave 1t. In order however, to spare the feel
ings Of the Jewish gen tieman, he omitted the
name of the second person in the Trinity
The old gentleman in black saw that here was
a fine opportunity for a row. SO he whispered
In to the ear OF his neighbor, BRoCKKuRsr, adj
vice which, ii must be admitted, was singu-
iarly we'll timed: "If a man insulted your
wife or daughter in public, would you not
chastiss him Blu: this man has offered an
indignity to your Saviour. Arise, o! Brock
HURST, and execute justice.' And Block
hurst arose accordingly, and girded up his
loins, and took with him an instrument which
the carnal- minded call n horsewhip, and he
sought Dom, and he found him, and he smote
him with the instrument, known unto the
cockney as ian 'orsewip." And DopD was
much aggrieved thereat. And he said unto
BRocKHURsr Come, now, go with Inc before
the man Of Law, whom the carnal denomi-
nate u J udge, and he shall decide between thy
soul and mine" And BRocKHrRsr answered
and said Go to-what have l to do with
thee or thine, or with thy law and thy judge =?
Loi have not higher law unto mys self, even
the law which speaketh from Within" And
thereupon, straightway he was seized by "a
man of Beliai, whom the carnal denominate a
Sheriff, and he was borne before the man of
law. And the man of law said unto him
"Forasmuch as thou hast done this thing, thy
name shall be stricken from the Book of
Priests, and thy voice shall not be heard in
the Congregation for four years" And all
Israel was rejoiced thsrsat, and were exceed
ing glad. And the gentleman In black went
NJ way rejoicing And he said unto himself,
overly, intolerance hath made tho earth a
place where and mine may rule, as in a
warmer climate"