The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-16

unnatural position merely that You
might hold Office. God forgive you, if
He can.
Consistency.
We like consistency--agreement OF
words and acts. A great poet calls
consistency u jewel, because, we sup
pose, it is 80 rare. When we look over
the world, we arc surprised ut the
amount of inconsistency. Now. we
know a goodly number Of persons in
the good town Of Winchester, who as
tonish us by their inconsistency. For
instance, we know Of some who take
sacrament al church with a reverence
for the bread and wine as ifthey verify
believed the body and blood OF our
blessed Redeemer were present, and
yet they go out into the world and
drive the hardest bargains, pride them
selves on the facility with which they
carry a point, even iftheir fellow-neigh-
bors suffer cYer so much loss, and the
widow and orphan cry for bread, They
do not care for any deception which
the law cannot take hold ofand punish.
We know young ladies who can
dance all night, while the sweat drops
give evidence Of labor, who could not,
or would not be caught in the kitchen
at honest toll,
We know Of some who gossip and
by significant looks and tones Islander
their acquaintance, and yet these same
slandcrers belong to the church. They
would boot at the idea of helping a
poor, drunken fellow, but how readily
they would take that poor, drunken fel-
lows money, in the way ola charitable
subscription, if Thereby it will tighten
the demand on their purse. Well. well
There is a vast amount ofhypocrisy in
the world, and in the Church and Ma
sonic Lodge especially. So so--let it
60.
We have all heard Of the great
preacher and dcmagogue, Henry Ward
Bcccher. He has u fine church in New
York. Great crowds 60 to hear him.
And we havei in our minds eye now the
names Of several popular preachers,
who draw big houses, are skilitul in
doing the graceful, build up congrega-
tons, build new churches, &c, and yet
they are in truth the mcrest Of shrewd,
educated r~ascals. II. W. b. is one Of
them. lie writes q novel, called Nor
wood. 1t is dramatized, and played at
a popular New York theatre. The
novel is full of unkind and ungentle-
manly threats at the conquered, or,
overpowered, South just as a coward,
who never was brave enough to go into
a battle, would DO. Beecher is cow
ard and dcmagogue. He is very much
exercised about the poor negro down
South, who, before the war was never
in want, was no tax upon the govern
ment, but, as property, yielded an i'm
mense revenue. But the negroes were
set free by systematic, legalised rob
berry. Now, MI. II. w. b. wants them
to have political rights. He is like ma
ny other fools, and r%ascals, who pirate
about the poor negro, yet allow them
to starve, and hire whue servants in
preference. Now, we see from the New
York papers that want and misery are
on the increase in that great metropolis,
where II. W. B. draws large houoes
every time he breaches. From TWEEN
ty five to thirty places of amusement
are crowded each night, and four thou.
sand billiard tables are run ten hours
each day, at IN expense of sixty cents
an hour, in New York, and women are
allowed to beg upon her streets. A
poor old blind lady sits Oh the sand
Stone steps of the Bowery Bank, hold
ing in her hand, hour after hour, a mum
Der of penny songs. The silent appeal
of this old lady is seldom needed; but
through cold and through heat, through
rain and through sunshine, there she
sits.
A woman may frequently be seen
upon Broadway with a babe in her
arms, kneeling upon the sidewalks,
turning the crank Of a hand .organ.--
The clild's little straw hat is used to
catch tie pennies which arc thrown in
to it as the comfortably coated gentle
men hurry by. Pennies thrown to a
poor woman on Broadway! Heaven
save the mark!
A feeble. tottering, palsied old lady,
with staff, black hood, and long cloak,
stretches out her wasted hand by the
hour together on Canal street, hoping
for q few cents, enough to buy q warm
supper and a comfortable lodging
Does she always get these? What
cares the mighty, busy public2 What
cares Mr.. Beecher! Scores of women
may be seen in every part of the city
picking up scraps Of paper, bits of
wood, Jumps of coal, and even the
very bones which have heen thrown to
the dogs. With good luck and a hard
days work they may scrape together
from twenty-five to fifty pounds of pa
per rags, which will possibly bring a
dollar, Or o dollar and a half! But
think of the miles of weary travel, the
hours Of toll, the wet days and the cold
and piercing winds which must be en-
dured to accomplish all this. Can there
be no relief for the beggar women oil
New York?