The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-08

! pleXlles Oe concentrated on the welfare OF
| the 7OO,OOO people that crowd this great city.
Some OF our purest aud best men are now hold
| ing Official posts of honor in our midst, and
they are the few righteous men who,
! nope, WILL under God, save the city, But there
have come up into high positions in our midst
swarm of vermin. You can see them standing
in and around our City Hall every day "a
! bloated. polluted, wheeling crew, that are the
! disgust OF all good people. In the revolution Of
the party wheel they have been turned up.
| They electioneered hard at the polls, and
! crumbs OF some kind must be thrown to them
| or they would 'get madD and change
| their politics. ] have been told by
| attorneys and councillors that it is next to i'm
! possible to get an executive to do its work
| because many of the officials are willing to take
| bribe for posiponement or delay. You have
! only to look at the men who preside at the
elections In many of the wards of the city TO see
how utterly demoralized is our citv Dolitics
He who goes to the polls must run horrible
gauntlet. What with the rum and baspheming
the elections are intoerable. Ii did not feel
u my duty before God to go and vote, would
| not be seen at the polls.
Poor men holding sub-ofices with small
salaries, are assessed Outrageously to carry the
elections The man says:-'I cannot afford to
pay that assessment. have now hardly enough
salary to support my family" 'Well, !" says the
partisans I'll you wont pay the assessment then
you can go out.n
In New York city the Board of Education
became SO corrupt that investigation vas made.
girl came on CIutches to testify, and said that
she had paid $40 TO officials for the purpose of
keeping her position, in which she received the
sum OF $500 year. 0utrages equal to that, in
different departments, have disgraced our own
city. | demand, in the lame of the highest
moral and religious interests of this city, that
you who have stood alool offered no earnest
voice and put forth no strong hand, now arise
in the might of God and save the city. it is
your fault that things are so bad, for il you had
put forth q persistent effort you might have
made them bett5r. That man who merely goes
to the polls does not do his duty. 1t is not the
-hgNxy hat dos Nl,a NHp
caucus. If the primary meetings of the two
parties make unfit nominations, the ballot-boX
has no power except to decide between two
thieves. There never has been more thorough
illustration o. the ignorance and unhoy prejudice
still reigning in the high places of our city, than
the fact that this city has so long been disgraced
by the expulsion OF colored people from the
cars. | thank God that what our city authoTi-
ties would not do our State Legislature has
done and instead of the writing on the solitary
car "ColOred people admitted" our Legislature
has written on the front and sides and back of
all the cars, "Colored people to be unmolested."
What commentary upon the condition OF
things when II was necessary for the Stale to do
this work, which our city should have done so
long ago! While our corporations allowed in
the cars men so intoxicated that they could not
sit up provided always they had seven cents,
the minister of Christ, If he had black skin,
must stand on the platform, or walk, when
there was not, perhaps, white man in the car
worthy to unloOse the latchet of his shoe. What
an intoleIable place heaven will be to that tas-
tidious Christian, if at last he should wake up
in glory to lind a black man on each side of
him!
have been waiting for somebody to get up
and 90 out of the church at what | have said,
for the prejudice on this subject is tremendous.
Nevertheless, / could not help but express my
satisfaction at the blotting out of this great
municipal disgrace. From this time let US de-
vote ourselves, by church organization and re-
tormatory association, towards the elevation, of
the moral sentiment of the community. Get
tins right and the men set up to rule in all de-
partments of the city vii be of the right kind.
Municipal government Is what the people make
it. Let the people be Christanzed and o1hclal
authority will be Christianized. So long as good
| men, overcome by their feeling of disgust for
| partisanship, neglect to come forward and do
their duty, Rum Will make the nominations,
| RUM will control the ballot-boX, and Rum VIII
| inaugurate the officials.
would like to marshal all good men for the
! publication and salvation of the city. There IS
a vast population dropping into ruin, temporal
| and eternal, faster than the words fall from my
| lips. The grog-shops trap them. The
| gambling hells devOur them. The low
| styles of club-houses destroy them. The houses
| OF shame damn them. In the face of authori-
ties that might eXtermnate them, nlne-tenths
| of these great denominations stand IN CHASTITY
array TO do their work, and defy God Almighty.
| Let us pray and preach and vote until another
| state OF things shall come 10 pass. But warn
you beforehand that you may fnd it rough
work.
If you are not impervious to criticism and
| are easily discouraged, you had better be care
ful how you rouse up these monsters OF SIN.
While you will have the approval of all good
men and honorable printing presses, you will be
warned by the taint-hearted, and denounced by
infamous newspapers, and cursed by all the
polluted agencies of the city. l am aware
since began this series OF sermons that, while
| have by private letter and conversation and
public journals in this and other cities OF the
! land received approval and God-speed in the
| work have tired to do, yet am also aware
that | have reused up in some quarters aCri-
mony the bitterest. / cannot help it, In the
day when was set apart by the laying on OF
| the hands of the PIesbytery, pledged myself
that would declare the whole truth fearless o.
the consequences, and whenever l have seer
something that ought to be said have said It.
The King at one time was insulted by the
preaching of Hugh Latimer, and demanded al
apology on the next Sabbath. When that dal
came the King was in his place in the chapel
The preacher exclaimed :--"B "Bethink thee Hugl
Latimer, that thou art in the presence OF thin
earthly king, who can destroy thy body. Blu
bethmk thee, also, Hugh Latimer, tha
: of heaven and earth, who can de
; stroy both body and soul forever. U King
| cursed be thy crimesn Noble example for mel
) everywhere to speak the truth. You and
! remain here but q little while. Soon you vii
not sit there, nor will stand here.
Before the throne of God we must meet Tia
! ! 7OOO 900 people OF Philadelphia. What II you
4 hand has been idle aud my pulpit has been still
! stand before many who have for long Will
5 been contending a9 ainst public iniqulties. Hol
! on a little longer On one occasion, when th
i | French army was hard pressed, Napoleon ser
n word to his Marshal, asking MIN to maintain hi
+ nosition Tor two hours longer. The messeneG
arrived and found the Marshal seated in G!
7 haustion nigh unto death, after forty hours
IS terrific contest The Marshal replied to th
n no 4 Il / min bplI m ttt