The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-28

led the IouaveB AZ Magenta" Again he
said, "Let me repeat. There was larger
proportion of the regiment which led the attack
at the battle of Solferino came out from the
battle, than there was Of the paupers OF 1858,
who came out alive from the State almshouse
of Massachusetts,"
He went on to show that there were twenty
seven hundred and some odd psupers in the
State almshouse that year, and that of these
six hundred and sixty y-six-one in every four
died. Poor Ben's tender heart was wrung
with the horrible details which he brought up
to harrow the souls of his audience, and he
talked piteously of 'the potter's field" aud
ga pauper's burying- ground" How justly,
too did he oastigate the Pharisees with
whom he is now in such loving fellowship!
Hear him.
"Why, this whole Commonwealth felt out.
ragged because there came report from Kan
sss that six or eight men mad been killed; and
our mothers, and wives, and daughters secured
the country for old clothes and other comforts
10 send to the people of that Territory. OLaugh.
ter.) In the same year. three hundred and odd
children, OF Massachusetts, soil, died like dogs
in a kennel in our own almshouses, while we
were weeping over the imaginary wrongs of
Kansas Again 1 ask, my friends, is IL not
time we looked at home? Where ls Mrs.
stowe? Where Is Greeley in the Tribune9
Where Is the extra philanthropy of the huma-
nitariansP Where is that denouncer of great
all those good men who regulate the affairs of
the people altar off? Is there not ample room
for their charities here at home? One hundred
and sixty five children dying at Brldgewater;
one hundred and fifteen at Te wksbury, and
one hundred and one at Munson! Forty i'm
fants dead in two months! Oh! but they were
white children! (Laughter0 Why look after
them?
All, Ben, Ben, you rogue, why did you talk
soH Were these things all true, or did you
lie, you scamp If true, why so silent about
them nowH If false, how can we believe you
in anything
But Notwithstanding his silence upon Puri-
tan hypocrisy, and his ''loyalty" to the Mas
saohusetts 'ideas," he does not escape alto
gether the old-time bufetings from the clergy.
A Cleveland pulpit FOUNDER, of the name OF
Strong. perpetrated sermon on Ben Thanks
giving day, and sent him a copy.
The hero of bloodless fights retorts in good
set phrase, "turning the tables of the money
changers" upon his reverence in way that
probably he did not anticipate. He accuses
his assailant with using "the pulpit for the
purpose of personal vituperaton in the interest
of capital and the money. changers, whom our
Divine Master drove out of Gods holy temple
with scOurge of small cords. Nay, He ex-
PEELED theretrom those who sold doves-an
innocent occupation compared with that of
the gold gamblers and spectators to whom
you seem to have given the benefits of the
sanctuary"
Having given his antagonist this home
thrust, he makes the terrible threat of class
ing this clerical production with the lucu-
bratiOns of Brick Pomeroy.'" " o, Bsn!
don't do that. We object to the classification;
we'll stand no such partnership.
But Ben grows almost pious when he gives
the reverend gentlemen the following post
script
"P.S.-Ishould be pleased to hear from you
sermon on THIS text. Why doSt thou judge thy
brother;, or, why, ,dost thou set Mt nausnt thy
brother, for we shall al stand before the judg-
ment seat of Christ"
That Ben should have cited that last text
has completely confounded Us. 1t can't be
that he believes in hereafter. He talk about
'the judgment seat of Christi" Why, what a
Heaven daring wretch The old pirate who
preceded him upon the gallows on which he
ought to swing, could not have braved it out
more wickedly and deiantly than this hopeful
son, who has committed more crimes and bet
ter deserves hanging than any pirate who
ever swung.