Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-02
LETTERS UPON RIFLES AND RIFLE-
 sHOpTING. ''- 7" .. No. ". ',.-

It would seem as though you were deter- mined that should never treat my subject scientifically, inaamuch as you are continually begging me with questions of purely social significance and most irrelevant to the matter in hand, and here am forced again by your Importantly 10 turn aside from what would logically follow from my last letter, to answer your singular enquiry "Rhether ministers could shoot and if it would be unolerical so to do?" ..-.-.-
 The fact is, Hawkeye, I answer the question under constraint and with gloomy forebodings of what will happen to us both unless we let ministers alone. They are queer set, minis
 ters are. now days, and too waspish 10 be touched as you would common men. For you should know, :ny friend, that they are not made like other folks ont of dirt, but from nice. clean clay and got up in different man. ner, so that, what would be all right for you and me to do, would not be at all proper in them. For instance, let me state few facts concerning them of which you seem to be ig. norant, and assure you, that you can put full
 reliance upon what say, for the grandmother of my wife's aunt was fourth cousin by mar riage to half brother of clergyman, and he told her father, so you see my information is pretty direct considering the age in which we live We'll, from this source, have come into possession of many facts in relation to minis ters, which, before I answer your enquiries, will lay before you. ....... .--. And first, you must know, that they do not dress like other men, for if they did no one would know that they were ministers. and their influence would be greatly impaired. For the influence of a minister and the infu- ence of a common man are tive different things can assure you, inasmuch as one is always expected 10 be just what his people want, while the other, is just what God makes it whether people like it or not, Beside min ,ister is paid and it would be a queer idea in deed. to think that every. pew holder should not have the right to choose the article he pays for. So you see while you and I can wear pantaloons outside of our bootlegs in fsi, weather and inside in foul weather, a minister must always keep his outside, whether it raini or not, for if he did not he would look and aci just as you and Isdo.s Il do not see how. thii fact has so long escaped your observation, fol in some parishes, am told, it is always es pecially stipulated in the frcall" that the min ister must aeser wear his pants insids of hii boots 'Toa can easily ascertain whether thii isotrue in your parish, Iby making enquiries q the Sewing Society where all such things .ars generally arranged T believe the only ex ception to the rule, if the half brother of,th, clergyulan.I mentioned, ,etold the grandmother of my ewi:ess aunt correctly and I do not doab
 but that he did) the only exception to the rule l say, issdpEing the summer, monthsrwhsn tn, l minister wears shoes, in which case he ear have shisa breechess outside 1or inside as h, plsasss Still this is too great agliberty. bs yond doubt, establishing bad precedent, ans should hs abolished,a bsgsqas9 hss Lsy4oI.ha s,. .aEAeEsssoad fact, mention is. that ninists, mnst tnst oaiy,dssss ss other men, but hs mus
 walk differently r would say bsfors | plc,
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