The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-07-25


l assure them they cannot supply Mr.. Halls
place IN Earlviile. As citizen and christian
gentleman he has few equals Keep him. by all
means, if possible
PROFESSOR BLANCHARD
The Professor was born in New Pp,,ora ,
Is now about fifty-fve years old. He Is of mo
dium size, square built, a rather large head Owl
MS whole countenance indicates predoni.
nance OF gross animalism. He was eyident,v
educated late in life, having spent the early rar+
OF his life, when he ought to have been at school
IN hard work upon his fathers farm, in culti.
vating small patches of corn and other grain
in very small fields all tendlog 70 sty6ao,1e, and
M"'ue" and h0'To@ his views of life and its
duties. lie was what might be called a bush.
whacker down east, whose business consisted IN
grubbing ont bushes, which grow SO bountifu1I,,
amid the intersticos of the rocks. He fllaa bis
head full Of geometry, trigonometrv. alpehra
surveying and entirely neglected botany. poetry.
printing music, polite conversation, which are
absolutely necessary to adorn ones private and
public life. He would cut down AZ once &C pso-
less all the wild or domestic flowers in his faith
er's garden, and brighten away or kill any early
bird which CHANGED 20 build its nest near his
bedroom window. In potatoes, corn. turnips
caooages and onions he could see utility: He is
now awkward in gait, uncouth in person, ill.
hammered and boorish in speech. vulgar in his
stale platitudes and attempted wiz. His lecture
here was delivered in Robinson's Hall. to a large
and highly intelligent audience last week. The
han was crowded by the people generally, and
the Free Masons particularly, against whose or
ganization his vulgar onslaught was made. His
illustrations were drawn mostly from robbery.
larceny, brothels, and other highly indicate
subjects. Taking Professor Blanchard's lecture
here as fair specimen OF his style, he is no
more mt TO enter lecture room filed with de.
cent ladies' and gentlemen than sow is 70 enter
flower garden, or Ben Butler is TO enter tea
party where silver spoons are lying around IN.
guarded. He is. in fact, a sour, bitter iutoler-
ant, course, vulgar person. and would do well to
go back TO grubbing spruce. among the rocks of
Vermont, where the tough red squirrel dies of
starvation in early youth, eating gravel stones
noticed in the audience leading Nasons. such
as II. A. Chase, William r. Haight and DR..
Nosburgh, who seemed to 81. quietly under the
Professors vulgar remarks and seemed 10 be
quietly saying TO themselves Professor. how
long ago was it since you applied for admission
to this terrible organization, and found the
black.and-tan balls just then thicker and more
of them than white" | am not Mason and
never expect to be- but am quite certain il Ma
sorry is not overthrow until Professor Blarch-
ard overthrows it. it will stand long after .nonu-
mental piles and Masonic temples shall have
crumbled into dust, and the names Of their
builders shall be transmitted 10 future genera
lions by the pen OF the historian. As the storms
and the hurricanes shock bu. serve TO strengthen
the hardy ash, so such attacks as that of the
Professor bu. servo TO broaden and deepen in
the minds of all good men the appreciation Of
the virtues of Masonry