The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-09

with intense feeling, uttered several nouns
verbs, and adjectives-say six or dozen :
which, in spite of the most charitable con-
struction that could be put upon them,
amounted to swearing. While on the stand
as a witness Mr.. Greeley was asked, in refer
ence to the truth of Mr.. Reeds statement:
ibid you swear in the expression that you
made use of? Did you make use of any oath?"
To which Mr. Greeley promptly replied: -
''Oath? No, sirl" His case now stood upon a
rock, and, as the lawyers say, he should have
rested. But he was further asked:-"Didn't
you swear in conversing with Mr.. Reed?"
Quite off his guard and without seeming to
see that his answer could be twisted to his
prejudice, he responded, 'Not once where he
has published five times" When further
pressed with the question, 'Did you swear at
all?" he replied with that candor which ever
marks his character: might have said
once something to that effect" After record
ing this answer, the reporter Of the trial
adds as he might well do, "Sensation!"
Nothing however, is absolutely proven by
these admissions; and with candid minds
they will hardly outweigh Mr.. Greeley's
own explicit declaration, made few minutes
previous, that he did not make use of any
oath in the course of the whole interview.
But even this does not dispose of the sub
ject as it ought to be disposed of. Here we
us
who certiies in the Allegan Journal that he
has ''beld for several years intimate confden-
tial relations with Mr.. Greeley" and that the
last-named gentlemen 'wben he is mad will
swear like a trooper in good plain Saxon
English" This declaration from such
source-for Mr. Henderson seems to regard
swearing as rather ommendable-t throws
the whole matter into doubt again, and, we
are sorry to say, leaves the matter as much
befogged as ever.
We are aware that men of high standing
will sometimes swear, when they are brought
under unexpected mental excitement. General
Washington swore at Monmouth; General
Sherman swore at Chickasaw Bluffs; and
General Sheridan swore furiously at Cedar
Greek. But profanity is none the less an
ungentlemanly and wicked thing; and we are
glad to testify that General Grant never
swears. If it be true that Mr.. Greeley some
times gives way to this shocking practice, we
trust that he will lose no time in beginning
to fight within himself against it until he
shall conquer his evil predisposition, aud
achieve thorough and lasting reform. Why
should good man like Horace Greeley be
habitually profane swearer? We hope he
is not; but If he is, we entreat him to go to
work at once and earnestly to overcome the
depravity which leads to such habit.
.CUTANEOUS DISEASES AMONG THE
DOCTORS.
From the N: Y. Tribune.
When the Hon. James Brooks turned his
mind to corsets and hair-pins, we hoped we
should hear no more shin-bone speeches in
Washington. But the eminent advocate of
the Caucasian race who represents the Eighth
district of New York seems to have left his
mantle to the American Medical Association,
and that eminent body has been bearing tes-
fin,onr oooinct out oY,ify ,ay,fc nd
nathous jaws with fury which would do
credit to whole temple full of raving Sybils.
The question seems to be whether local So
cieties which admit colored physicians to
membership are fit to affiliate with the Ameri-
can Medical Association. Judging from the
proceedings of the last few days, we should
say the question ought to be whether the
American Medical Association is worthy to
affiliate with them, and our impulse would be
to answer, No.
The gentlemen who have made such a
ridiculous pother in this highly aristocratic
and exclusive society have such horror of a
dark skin that they won't even sit in the
same room with q white man who has been
sitting in the same room with black man
and how much further back they extend the
ban we really don't know. Whether they fear
that color is contagious, like smallpox, or be-
lieve that the innate infamy of the African
race is SO awful that it degrades every man
| who comes for moment in contact with a
negro, is point upon which they have not
yet enlightened us. They have given no
reason why physician who is qualified by
education and character to practise his pro-
| fession should be disqualified merely by @
dark skin to attend the meetings where his
| professional brethren exchange experiences;
of course they haven't, for there is no reason;
they have only shown that in the estimation
of certain class of members of the associa-
ton q colored man is almost as bad as q
homeopathic, and that in the estimation OF
the public certain class of American physi-
| clans are very little better than donkeys.
A CRITICS RECOMPENSE.
| From the Pail MaH Gazette.
At last, after many years of patient ex
pectation and more than one disappointment
Jules Janin-we had almost written the vene
rable Jules Janin-has attained the great
object of life devoted, with rare simplicity
and singleness of purpose, to literary wori
and literary culture. In these latter days il
is seldom that one meets with a man to whom
the constant labor of his pen is at once
business and a pleasure, who writes to live
and lives to write, and who, in writing ant
reading, finds the constant and only occupa
tion and delight of life exempt from vulgar
ambition, content with a modest and let
tered ease and the ''high society of hi'
library. Such is this veteran man of letters
whom the French Academy has SO tardily
elected to vacant chair. For more thar
thirty years, undisturbed by revolutions, un
shaken by political vicissitudes, undepresset
by public calumny, Jules Janin has con
tributed to the Debdts, Monday after Mon
day, a seven days history of the Partisan
stage; and the volumes in which he has col
lected these studies of the dramatic art anC