The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-03
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From the ~ Y Tribune
We have always understood that Pennsyl-
vania Legislators (unlike all other legislators)
had shrewd eye to the main chance in large
things, and in everyday life an especial
relish for free lunches and free passes. In
consequence Of some dissension between the
principal State railroad companies and the
lawmakers at Harrisburg, the latter very use
full aids to cheap living have been, it seems,
of late both skerse and high. Senator
Lowry, who appears from his recent letter to
the colored citizens of Philadelphia TO be
man of infinite resources and unusual
imaginative powers, in this strait has hit
upon means of locomotion for himself in
the future which is certainly sufficiently clear
of expense. "My body" he says,
''will hardly bear transportation East
1 will let it rest on the shores of
the lake; but my spirit will march onward to
your great celebration in the knapsacB of
John Browns soul. Really, this hardly
seems fair to John. Senator Lowry might be
borne; but how many of Senator Lowry's
honorable colleagues at Harrisburg will see
fit to follow his example? There's the rub.
They are reported to have keen eyes for a
good thing and to follow each other as do
sheep the bellwether, wherever there is q
saving to be made. There is vague pa
thetic belief prevalent that John Browns
Soul carried UQ6 DuIu6u OI bu6 war, ana DOr0
all the wrongs and sufferings of his people.
We are willing to believe this possible, but
the additional burden of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, and Senator Lowry to boot,
would be weight that >God or man would
stagger under. In that sleep of death dreams
may come, but surely not nightmares such as
these. arI.
Senator Lowrys soul, while leaving his
body to repose upon the shores of the lake,
manifests remarkable alacrity, not to say
friskiness of mood, probably in anticipation
of its intended deadheaded journey. Its ac-
quaintance with spiritual matters is both
familiar and jocular. After ikening its
colored earthly correspondents to black steers
mules, and spotted heifers, IN manner which
in less spiritual letter-writer might be OBJ
jected to as hardly courteous, it assures them
that it foresees education for them "both as
a mama and rainbow" That it has a
vision of johnson in the garb of Moses
as he led them ''rollickingly into jeff
Davis seat" and that they are hence
forth at liberty ''to make their beds in
novels or palaces - in heaven or in
hell, counselling them, however, before IRE
tiring to their oouches in the latter places,
to hasten to the South, "whose climate,
waste lands, and citizens (who have less preju-
dice against the race than the Northerners)
will prove their best friends and' (by way of
proving their old historic friendship, we pre-
sume) twill draw them into the graves of
their ancestors" With any mere earthly ad-
wiser we would venture here to differ and
urge our new voters to keep out of ancestral
graves, and delay making up the aforesaid
beds as long as possible; but before a seer
gifted with Senator Lowrys powers of fore
sight and locomotion we are dumb. The
Pennsylvania Legislature and the spirit world
together are too much for us.