Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-07


Book NorIcE "A pamphlet, auony-
mouAly issued, has been laid on our table
entitled Abraham Lincoln, demon
sirated to be the Cog OF the Bible, as
fore,pId by the prophet Ezekiel" chap
ters XXXvIII aud xxx; and "the
thirteen Confederate States shown to be
the mountains Of Israel, and all the pre-
dictions contained in the prophecy con-
corning them literally fulfilled in the late
var between the North and South" We
cannot say that the argument has con-
WINGED us, or that the analogies discov-
cred may not be found and apply as
well to some other men, countries and
epochs of history. The pamphlet is,
however, readable, and in some points
interesting, and may be had at the book
stores, as we'll as at this Office. We extract
the following illustration Of Massachu-
sets charity, which goes to Greece or the
South, when millions Of its own poor are
allowed to suffer and sink into the sea Of
depravities and vices:
The GREEKS ARE AT Your DooR.-It is
related Of John Randolph, that during
the struggle Of the Greeks for emanci-
patton from the Turkish rule, some forty
odd years ago, in which our people took
great interest, Mr.. Randolph made
call upon lady acquaintance, and
found her busily engaged in making up
clothing to send to the Greeks. At the
conclusion of his visit, as he opened the
door to pass out, be encountered crowd
of ragged urchins. Qcick as fash he
turned to the lady, and pointing that
long, expressive finger of his at the
urchins, exclaimed in his shrillest and
most sarcastic tones; Madam, the
| Greeks are at your door."
There was conveyed in this lesson
which it would be wholesome for people
to take to themselves in many thiRgs.
But nowhere is it so much needed as in
Puritanical, self-righteous, rotten Massa'
chusetts.
We are forcibly reminded of and con-
| firmed in this by the recent report Of q
com mittee in the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture, appointed to inquire into the prac.
tice Of employing children in the cotton
and wooden mills Of that State, and the
effect of this upon their health and
morals.
The report dscloses q system of bar
barity most shocking to ell Christian
and humane sensiblities. 1t states that
"one.half of the children who enter the
actory service die before they reach their
eighteenth year, in consequence of over
work and long hours, and the remainder
only live to transmit disease and death
to their offspring" But these are only
| white children, and all at home, and they
| do not come within the sublime ooncep-
ton and broad sweep of Massachusetts
philanthropy. Her sentimentalism is
| too lofty and expansive to admit of her
discovering that there are Greeks at her
opn door.
With a refined and incisive sarcasm
! which penetrates to the very marrow Of
Massachusetts, Pharisaism, the report
recon mends that "men be forthwith
employ ed to go to India to collect jewels
from the noses of Birmese women, that
the same may be converted into money
to be used for the purpose of converting
the heather of New England"
This is the Massachusetts which DESC
lated and made wretched this whole
country in an effort to force her ideas in
politics and religion upon other States
and communities. She is still doing her
devils work upon others, while the very
devil himself is attending to his own
business within her limits, and making
that "whited sepulcher of Puritanism
every day become more rotten and re-
voting. Such exposures as the above,
coming, in an official and authoritative
form, are opening the eyes of the cou ntry,
and swelling that mighty "reauent
wave," which is rolling upon Massa-
chusetts, and will at once extinguish the
torch of Puritan propagandism and rid
the country of the baleful influence she
has so long exerted.