Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-12-25
GREENE

not say the Pastor OF the Disciple
Church voted for Horace Greeley" but
persons reading his article, and not
knowing Of the political orthodox OF the
pastor, have inferred this. A mistake
OF so much public importance should
not so without correction. 1 speak sd-
visedly; the pastor did not vote for
II. G., but for Gen. Grant. Your GER
respondent has brought our pastor be-
fore the great tribunsl-the public
without cause. Ispeak the more plainly,
for he was himself once a pastor, and
even now keeps a B,b.e in his house,
and is supposed to know Of the great rule
binding on all good men. For his benefit,
however, will transcribe.
"If your brother sin against you, go
and tell him of his faults between you
and him alone; if he hear you, you have
gained your brother. But if he will not
hear you, take with you one or two
more, that by the mouth of two or three
witness every word may DO established.
But if he refuses to them, tell it to the
Church, and il he refuses 10 hear the
church, let him be to you as a hssthen
and a publican"
He has reversed the law, OF in defiance
Of law has proceeded as though he cared
only to remember, "let him be to thee
as a heather man." He has seen fit to
repeat and make public under tie cap
tIon, "A Grave Charge" words spoken
in the freedom Of every day intercourse;
and II he has spoken the whole truth,
convicted the parson Of rudeness justly
censurable, deliberately writing this in
his own house, in sight of his erring
neighbors whom he has known all his
life, and up to that wiring on terms OF
friendship. and then giving his story to
the primer, that he may repeat it thou
sands of times, until every one in all the
land may know what q rude neighbor
D. R. B. of Greene has, aud what an
unworthy man the Church there has for
a pastor. AS he thinks this kind OF
news is sought after by your readers,
I will state a few other things heard and
seen in his vicinity: Horace Greeley
is an old fool" rotten with free
lOyeism,'' fought to be hung" Your
prudent scribe will say stop. that was
before election. men were excited, their
words should not be repeated" Well,
be it so and come TO what has been
since election, since the death. 1 would
not ~fistter, but love to speak we'll Of my
neighbor your contributor. He has
large " bowels OF mercies." a sympathy
for the sorrowing, passing the love of
women" his pathetic pen has often been
used, even in common sffiiction, SO as to
bring Tears to ayes unused to weep 80
well is this understand by your readers,
that whenever the anxiously looked for
initials, d. r. B., is seen at the foot of an
obituary, those who have tears to shed,
prepare to shed the.n then. 1 had been
reading an article from the New York
World on the death OF Horace Greeley,
and as 1 looked in the face Of my daugh-
ter, and thought OF those two orphaned
girls in the great city, m~otherless, father
less, lover buried in the great ocean,
llEACb u1nCus I6cuAAk u6uEElf
said to myself, VIII not this sacrifice
prevail? Will not mems hearts return
10 them, and scorn change to pity? With
these and kindred thoughts l met your
C ntributor. who usually in the presence
of grief is filled with tenderness; but on
this occasion, when the sad event was
mentioned, the response he gave was q
chuckle, indicative of satisfaction he
might have felt at the Staying offs mad
dog, accompanied by the remark, in 8
tone heartless and exultant, =" he hadn't
brains enough TO stand the pressure"
As he has undertaken to inform the
public of the bad words and rude con-
duct Of his neighbors, beginning with
the pastor, he may think it necessary to
next report what he has heard me say.
1 would spare him all unnecessary
labor, and speak for myself touching
the q grave charge" without impugning
mistakes on the other. The railroad
corporation said to the man with whom
it had the hght-We will make it 90
terrible for the public to fight Us, right
OF wrong, that they will stop it. So the
" great party " grown rich on the spoils
Of war, With the tyranny incident TO
great corporations, said-We will make
it 50 terrible for these men who dis
regard our dictum, that all others now
and henceforth shall fear to break from
party rule. The campaign opened. the
war begun, faults were multiplied and
magni6ed, falsehood and calumny be-
came common currency, and a persistent
effort 10 make the people believe b. G.
a sham, his life a failure. and he in.
league with the vilest of the vile; ali
this pictured, printed, preached, sworn
to, until the masses, including ome
and children, believed it, shaping and
a~ugmenting a malignant spite, limited
only by mans capacity TO hate, all
settling on the doomed head and then
the seeming endorsement OF this by the
votes of the people. And here the scene
changes, and Horace Greeley dies, killed
by party hate. But your scribe will not
be pleased unless some notice is taken
OF his mastery logic. His argumenta-
tive powers appear TO good advantage.
This effort of his has been pronounced
by good critics and competent jndges in
our town, ''the best thing he ever did -
that surely is praise enough. 1 will
therefore reproduce from his thirdly"
the conclusion Of the whole matter,
differing in verbiage, but not in sub
stance from the grave charge itself.
Hear the eloquent writer in his own
words : when the intelligence reached
him of his overwhelming defeat, II i0ds
too much for his shattered nerves and dis
ordered brain, and he sank under the
pressure" That is fine, 40 much like
poetry it might be set TO musiri He
did not die, was not killed, bat he had
nerves and brains, and could not endure
the OblOquy, such as no other american
citizen, good or bad, trdS eVer required 70
endure, and he sank under the pres
sure" that was all. 1 am glad for our
logical friend that he did not add q
fOurthly TO his grave charge article; one
step mole in the direction his argument
was leading, and what he has now left
his readers to infer. would have been
proven, that is, that this pressure" was
cast upon II. q. with malice afore-
thought. l beg friend not to take
that step. good men feel bad now over
their terrible work. BIT he finishes his
piece most grandly. ] forgive him the
severity to the pastor in consideration Of
magnanimity he now shows to him who
'sank under the pressure" Richard is
himself again, and the milk Of human
kindness comes down most freely, "Of
MIR. Greeley's improprieties," he saws,