The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-01-08

that moves our profouudest pity and cum
passion, 1t ls the wr"tchei spectacle OF
Dr.. E ison B. Odds calling frop the bow.
els Of an Abolition Bastis--caIing loud |
ly and often. in fact aud calling earnest.
ly, a. hs never done before. and will pr,.
baby never do again--b but calling in vain,
upon The President, tie War Deparm ut,
the Cabiuet and the conmandart Of Forl
Lafayette, BY tuins. for copy Of King
james translation The Bible Gin Com
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DIR. OIds' Newspaper Grievance
We re ume The consideration Of Dr.
OLDs' grievances. They are 30 many ana
30 miscellaneous and so uncommon, in
'act 60 extraordinary uncommon. that thr
imsg ina ion reaches after them and cipgs
its te0drils about them, Ike au ivy round
an old ruin; which old RUIN may be >aid
10 reprrsen DR. Olhs in the condition OI
ph ysical Huifiness and moral dla2iia'ion
10 which he had arrived when he called
upon the Commandant Of For. Lafayetie,
FER a copy of tLe Holy Scriptures. 10
distinguish them from the commontun Of
undressed wrongs. which soon fade out
Of rha memory. they should lie known a.
the Ever Present Grievancrs. Of tn, Sc
the primal Ever present Grievance va
the refusal 10 aford an unregepersied sin
ner the consolation of hs Bibla. The
lamp Of life, exhausted by fax and eI
tensive applications OF ealt horse and
hard tack TO the stom4 4ch, burned lOw.-.0
The Doctor was aDxious to give lis re.
naming few and fesble glimmsrings to
the LORD. 1t had shed its beat rays and
consumed lis finest oil 10 far her ser.
vss. 1t may be said, though we do not
wish to be harsh upon any body. or to
issp the sensitive human fiber unnsces.
sarlly, it NAV be sad, and We may as
well say it, that the Commandsnt of Foro
LsfaysIte has stony mature. 70 r"fos-
a Bible under such circumstances. with the
vital lamp wiD.ing and spulteIiug and
almos. expiring, argues stony nature.
70 deny fellow worm his morsel of spi
ritursl comfort, with sanguinary Aux
searching out and vexing and bIighting
his physical repose, asserts stony na
turs. We set it down, therefore. as a
fact, that the Cvmmandanl Of Fort La
Ifayelts is Stony Nature. ''"
Being S'oney Nature, IS perhaps you
may say lie ought 10 tie. and as perhaps
you mi sht wish him to be. having all the
time in view his situation as Command.
ant Of an Abolition Baslile. it is not sur.
prising that he should have multiplied tile
Ever Present. Which he did. r'I was
not permitted" says the uuayenged Doc
tor, in his narrowing account of tbs Ever
Present: II was not permitted 10 retain
even an old newspaper, or bit OF waste
paper of any kiui' Ordinarily it is not
a hardship to lie deprived Of an old news
gapsr: leastwsc was not before paper had
appreciated in price. and W en- the rag,
picker was kept down to his proper level,
i, without his present pro'pact Of becoming
an important member of society, and hav.
, ing certain commercial value TcRaUA
To TAsso. grimly locked up for score ol
= years in the prison OF st. Anne. the Pri-
, sioner Of Chilon, and the Mn in the
4 Iron Mask. not to multiply instances, are
. not historically Known to have Veen sup
! piled with old newspapers, or waste Pspel
of auy kind. They nowhere complain o
J il as hardship, that we are aware of =
: But they had not, so far as is historically :
= known, and their biugrsphers make nc
= men lion Of such fact, tney had rot, We
! repeat, been reduced to the fully aDC
skinny condition of the human frame de
scrihed by the Doctor. IL was," says
the Unaveugsd, for many weary jAy'
:, aud nights serious afflicted with an at
!, tack Of tho bloody fax" We DO not as
" sert, and we wish the RI tader to mark th
-, qualification, that Tor9uato Tssso or Bon
y niva d or the Man in lhe Iron Mask mal
y not have been similar and likewise al on
- time or another But there is no histor
:, 10 mention thereof, or of any newspaper
4 in connection herewith.
- W. think i, may be unqualified a'ssrt
ed IT. this Ever Present Grievance Q
Dr.. OldS stands solitary and alone in th
;. suuuaIs of prison crOelly. 1t may b
:, said to mark an epoch 10 the treatmen
y, of political culp,s, It divides the hu
y, manitarian age Of Howard from tn
/ he wspaper sgs Of Lincoln. It's enormir
:, ia as boundless, as the necessities Of tn
=, Do tor were imperious. N-ver in III
=, history Of man, from the days of Nero
" ~ those of King Bomra, and with ty'ann
a stimulating genius to invent instrument
- u and ayeuci-s Of ply ysicaI and mental to'
"a ture. was an old newspaper or BIT
- waste paper OF any kind b fore drni' d
~ a feeble worm of the dust /, is sgrie'
ance that is ever present, that ought
ar be ever present, and which We shall d
W our uttermost 10 make present, TO III
a. latest generation.
he We see it now--the picture of an ol
of man. feeble old man, prone upon tn
ad mnuldy floor, sshut 10 BY sunless wall'
IN dripping with musty sweat, the rats COZ
a. suming his untasted salt horse and hare
al tack. and a sauguinarv disease consr
70, ming his failing vitals. He hears II
v. swirl and swaSh OF the ebbng and flow
al ing wsters round the butIresses ot I'll
ak Abolition BaSnle, the whistle Of the fr'
We wind about its parape's, the vOices Of IL
he sailors scudding before it in ships ar
ii. shalIops, the hail Of the sentinel as he p
is ces out the sol-mn hours, and The du
N. thunder of the morning and evening gu
if Then, out Of the silence, that comes iii
cd poultice TO heal these blows Of SCUM
IA ;aanaa IN. nenatratinu hut plAintiy