The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-03

there and onged TO get into a more honest com.
munity. Besides" they remarked. "as you are
attempting 10 reconstruct this country, we wish
to infuse some of the hight of our Celestial EN-
pire' into your new organization. We think
that we have better religion, better morality,
and better manners and customs.
1--WE understand that yon are getting tired of
your Christian religion, and are seeking for
new one and ours we can recommend as the
best--the very best. When you adopt it you can
indulge in a nice dish of rats and MICE and can
burn your dead instead of burying, and, what
will add much to your external appearance, you
will find tails growing out of the back part OF
your heads, like those we wear and which you
know made little Tommy SO great a favorte
am ong the ladies in New York"
While engaged in this conversation we heard
a band of music playing on the street, and we
rushed to the window To our great surprise we
saw a long string of carriages, and each carriage
was drawn by six black horses. The spectacle
was rather grand and imposing. But what
was the meaning OF all this parade? The
Chinese looked to me for some explanation,
but l was not able to give it. l turned
10 a stranger, who stood by me, and asked what
was the design of this night display He said it
was the first turnout of the Roundbelied Cru
sdders. The carriages stopped before the hotel.
! went out to take view of them. They we're
all well filed The company consisted OF Span.
ish, French, Dutch, Irish, and English. There
was dreadful confusion of sounds when they
all spoke There was one thing remarkable
about them. They could all swear in the Eng
lish language, and they were continually cursing
something, but what it was / could not tell.
Over and around the carriages l noticed certain
dark and winged figures, having wings tipped
with fire, and their eyes sparkling like the
iewelry ofhell. They frequently bended over
the company, and whispered in their ears.
On the horses heads were small flags. and
every flag had motto inscribed upon it, read
q number OF them. One was "Moses too old for
Young America" Another, "0ld Monongahela
gives the best Inspiration" Another, pleasure
is our goddess" Another "Laeer Beer hrst
Lager Beer last, Lager Beer all the timen
Another, ''The Sabbath an old fogy institution"
Another '"The Ten Commandments a humbug"
Another, THE Bible the foe of man." Another,
"a good time coming"
A speech was now called for, and Immediately
a portly, ruddy-faced gentleman began to
address the large crowd now gathered on the
pavement: -
Gentlemen OF Philadelphia, and citizens of the
noble Keystone State:-5I am proud to be per-
mitted to address you this evening. l have
occasionally addressed you before. My voice is
not unfamiliar to you. We who are in these
coaches are the representatives of large orga-
nzation whose object it is to obliterate the last
relic of superstition that may have been trans
mitted to us from former generations. We be-
s,,f %
sense We are freemen in every sense of the
term-free from the trammels of what is called
conscience-free from the control of public SEN
timent-free from the despotic influence of
churches--free from the Bible-from the ten
commandments-an free from all the estab-
hshed usages of civilized society. Is not this
freedom indeed, gentlemen "a freedom for
which we have often longed, but never before
succeeded in obtaining. We believe in the right
of every man to make swill-tub of himself i f
he chooses. We believe in the doctrine of free
love, which we practically endorse. We believe
in levelling down all days of the week to suit
ourselves. We believe in the right of printing
buying, selling, drinking, riding dancing, travel
ling, stock-iobbing, sowing and ploughing, brew
ing and distillering, ,carpentering and blacksmith.
| ing, house building and ship building, and in a
| word, in pursuing whatever avocation we please
on Sunday as well as Monday, if in our judgment
| The public good requires it. We are indeed a
law unto ourselves. Inspired by the sublimity of
our sentiments and the dignity of our cause,
we design to throw ourselves, soul and body,
| into the work of remodelling Our entire social
| system. Our purpose is as fire in our bones.
| Tomorrow we set sail for Mount Sinai. We
| cherish a bitter hostility against that old in
stittaiOn, and we are determined to batter it
| down. To it, and what transpired upon it, we
| can trace all our difficulties. The Ten Com
| mandments had their birth there, and they are
| like a thorn in our side. 'DOlUn 1oah Mount
| Sinai is our war cry"
Inmy dream looked and beheld the carriages,
| aud the men and the horses were all gone. And
| was carried to the foot of the mount where
| were once thunders and lightnings and a thick
cloud and the voice OF trumpet exceedingly loud.
| There it still stood, with its huge rock-ribbed
sides clothed with terrible majesty. soon beheld
| in the distance the gathering of armed force.
| As they approached their number swelled until
they seemed TO crowd the valley through which
| they marched. AT Atlength, as the mount burst upon
their vision, they raised shout of defiance like
| the believing Of wild bulls. just then deep,
hoarse muttering was heard, as If il proceeded
from the mount, saying:-"Beware Beware !"
But onward they rushed, until at length they
| crowded around its very base. Soon their artil-
lery was heard belching forth its fire and thunder.
The mount shook its huge sides, and seemed to
heave with storm OF irrepressible indignation.
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