The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-06
Solomon and Greeley.

Mark Twain Wept over the grave Oh
Adam. The thought of all he had missed by
not knowing SO near and dear a relative was
too much for him, and his grief found vent
in q food of tears. Adam, doubtless, was q
desirable person to be acquainted with
He was not altogether S proper person, h&..-'
ing behaved badly when he was'employed as
a gardener but he was familiar with the
facts in a certain transaction in apples, con-
corning which the commentators ore not
agreed. We should like to hear Adam on
the apple. ::
But much as we desire to see Adam, we
would rather see and hear Solomon. Would
that he were alive. o! that he could revisit
the glimpses OF the moon and make "a trip
to america. He was accounted a highly ed
ucated man in his day but his day was not
the present day. Well up as lie must have
been in the literature OF his time, it is never
theless worthy Of remark that Solomon
never read a newspaper. He never saw an
editor in his life. He never laid eyes on an
editor in q white hat, and-he never heard
of Horace Greeley. What a pity!
Heloise, in one of her letters, reminds
AbelarG that Solomon, though the wisest
of men. was 80 infatuated with a woman,
the daughter efa King Of Egypt, that in the
decline Of life he deserted the God Of his
father, to whose glory he had erected q tenn
pie, and became an idolater. If o dusky
daughter Of the Nile could so influence the
son of David, what would have been the
effect OF a trip from New York to Texas with
the fair-haired, bald-headed old woman OF
the Tri6une9 This is not q conundrum.
Greeley would have opened the.eyes of the
IsraeliIe very wide. he would have shown
him the locomotive, the steamboat, the Mis-
'sissippi River and the City Of New Orleans.
He would have reid extracts from the
Tribune and presented him with a copy OF
the american Conflict" He would have
explained to him the XIvth and XVIII
amendments, taught him the A B G OF
the tariff, indoctrinated him into the mystery
OF the rotation OF crops, and criticised the
Psalms freely. He would have left no doubt
ia tue mind OF .thetsage Of Jerusalem as to
why he gave bond for the bailment OF JEFF.
Davis. His opinion OF the Song OF Solomon
would have been uniavorable and person
ally Offensive. The entire Old Testament
would nave caught it. The doctrine of uni
versal salvation for men, and devils would
have been unfolded. Finally, his views
upon female suffrage, domestic slavery, aud
the simple-mindedness of Southern people,
would have been, in the last degree, origi-
nal and instructive:
Que can imagine the astonishing effect OF
a lengthy conversation between these W
sages Of two widely separated ages-the age
which produced the Bible, and the age
which gave birth to the Tribune and its
editor. Is it too much to suppose that the
sweet singer of the Temple would have
taken of his hat reverently to- the man OF
New York and presented it to him as a
keepsake forever? Is it too wide q conjec-
sure to fancy the Tribunite declining the
present without thanks, and ending the con-
versalion in Juhnsonian style, somewhat
thus 'Sir, Sou are like all other Southern
men and slave-drivers that I have ever
seen bred, courteous, clever enough
ut imaginative writing but, sir, you are be-
hind the age, sir-you are not practical
Won are not a well informed man; sir"
II may have been a stroke OF policy on
the part of the people OF Texas to invite
Greeley there, and to make his visit an-oVa-
ton. Good will come of it, we trust. But
the enormous conceit of the man, as shown
in his speeches, reported conversations and
letters, is simply nauseous. The people OF
Texas, however, are not easily nauseated
They nave strong digestion, or else they. are
of opinion that a rOusing emetic will be OF
service 10 their systems. Aud in Greeley
they have caught tartar and ipecac com
bined.
"Lund Tenure Reform"
MIR. John Stuart Mil, one of the %clearest
a IL .,-,l 1.r