The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-01-12
NUMBER 81.
The New CiviIizatIon.

some years since there came to the citv
~ 0I Ne% YORK young Irishman named
Mcf arland who prospered in business
mace fortune Of some 800 600 and
finally, married Miss Sage. For = Wills
all went well, but at last Mcfarland lost
his money and Madame forewith discov-
cred that she did not love him anv more .
but had an affinity" for a fellow bv the
name OF Richardson, a noted writer In the
New York Tribune, and stockholder in
that concern. Richardson reciprocatinp
these delicate attentions, Mcfarland verY
naturally became angry and shot him,
The wound however, happened NOT to be
mortal, and, on his recovery, the CAV I5-i-
6u7ae moralst published it in his paper that
Mrs. Mcfarland was to have a divorce
and then that he, R., was to marry her.
On TINS Mcfarland shot him again, and
thls time mortally. Now had Richardson
peen merely OF common clay this would
have been the end of it, but, as it happen-
ed, he was very loil men. a Radical
writer of good abilities, and hand in glove
with the holiest of the saints. As mat
ter OF course, they made him a martyr and
laVished their tenderest condolences at the
SHRINE OF the poor dear lamb. Greeley
Grumpeted his virtues in the Tribune and
Farson Beecher lifted up his voice over
MN ., Z. and Wept. Vice President Schuyler
Coltax sent message of sympathy. and.
that the reader may see how Che second
oihcer Of that great and good United States
Government can outrage public decency,
we here republish the dispatch:
WASHINGTON, Nov. %.
To A. D. Richardson:
Our whole household send sincerest and
Warmest wishes for your recovery.
SCHUYLER coLFAx.
Nor is this all. Not content with thus
detylng this adulterous loilist. the saints
proceeded further to illustrate the superior
purity OF the new civilization by CONSUME
mating marriage between him and the
1alse wife; Parson Beecher read the
service and Parson rockingham uttered
the responses, and then the man died.
BENG dead, he Is now in judgement and
so beyond human ken. The woman. be-
ing woman, can be spared criticism. but
What language can paint the full depravity
OF these Pharlsacical rogues who have
made this episode of crime and violence
the occasion of such indecent and mon
strous behavior What can be Thought
OF thus man Colfax, who sends from the sec
ond highest. place in the government his
'slncerest sympathies" to afallen seducer?
AND what must we say of such teachers
of religion as rockingham and Beecher?
BY late reports we see that these letters
worthless are In some danger of criminal
prosecution, for it seems that the marriage
between Mcfarland and his wife was not
dissolved and hence the second marriage
performed by these parsons was bigamy.
That anything will be done with them
there IS no reason to hope, and no doubt
IN a brief time they will be as bright
lights as ever, but what a philosophy,
what religion, what view of honor,
and uprghtness, and decency does this
whole transaction disclose 1t is the new
civilization the ''rebep hating, Union saw
ing, loil civilization, but with such a sys-
tenn no wonder that the land heaves with
rottenness and virtue topples to its fall
GaLyesto71 Wea0s. f