Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-08-29
REV. ROBERTSON.
The CriMlnAl Career Of Nfnudlin
Hyp0cratc.

cry "a SAvAuS " yOu 03OU0 read
ers some additional i6cts Of the Gaze.
facts both antecedent and subseouent
to the matters etailed in your columns.
SOME ERRoRs.
And in the first place, allow me to
correct at least the errors ~ fact into
which You have fallen in regard 70 the
status and marriage relations of the
man. First, he has never been given
the title of D. d., and does not claim
the sumo; and, secondly, his 'father-ia-
law is not an n. D., ~ stated by you,
but q d. d., viz: the Rev. DR.. bev-
erage, Professor in the Divinity COLLEGE
in Xenia, Ohio.
ME-. RoBERTsoN's EARIx INDICATION.
Young Robertson received his acad.
emical education ut the Argyle acad.
envy of this place, graduated ct Union
college, in this state, and received his
license to preach at Xenia, O., under
the tutelage Of his reverend father in
law. and associates. He was never.
that We ever heard of, noted for any
great degree Of scholarship, but, hav-
ing q very retentive memory, and DOC.
sessing q good voice and = good I'D.
dress, he always shone as declaimer,
and in this WY managed to glide
along through his various curriculums.
and to come out q preacher of oonsid-
cradle note. Throughout his whole
life he has been distinguished and
known as
A HYP0CRITICAL pRRTENDRR
to piety aud religion, particularly BY
those most intimately acquainted With
him, we'll calculated, however, to de-
ceive old deacons and deaconesses, as
Stunning in the pulpit the piety of q
saint, but conducting himself out OF 1t
with the license Of q Don Juan. Ftivol-
ity, jesting, drunkenness, if not ioen.
tiousness, have been his prevailing and
besetting sins. His first ministerial
settlement was in this county and state,
and rumor has it that when installed in
his first charge, he was compelled to
steady himself by holding on to the
railing Of the altar; and after remain
ing year or two at this, his first charge.
was called to the city of Troy, in
this state; but before going,
from the Troy congregation,
not known to him, as they supposed,
took seats in his church at some even
ing service, with a view to test his
talents as sermonjzer, and to report
to their congregation the result. But
they had not come unheralded, and
Robertson, it is said, surpassed him
self upon this occasion so much that
the enthusiasm OF his own congregation
was heightened in the same proper
ton as the Troy congregation was stimu-
lated by the committees report, and
the sequel of the matter was that Mr..
r. left his country congregation for
the city but rumor says again that
the reverend gentleman, upon the &C.
casion of preaching before the said
committee, and when passing out of
the church, whispered to one of his
irreverent hearers ''that he hoped
THE DID FOOLS WE'RE NOW sAT1sFkD."
At Troy, Mr.. H. managed to sustain
himself AZ serm0nizer and preacher
for year or two, when he was sent, or
permitted, to 60 south for a time as
chaplain, where, rumor says he enjoy
ed . good time among the boys card.
playing, drinking, and carousing to
such IN extent that, when be returned
to his charge in Troy again, his habits
Of drinking became permanent, and he
was compelled to leave tho congrega.
ton under thick cloud of oblo9uy
and disgrace. After this our olerQy-
man doated around loose for q year or
two, sometimes in the east and then in
the west, and We hear of him supplv.
ing = pulpit in Sandwich, Ill.,, FOR q
year. and then going to Springfield, the
capital Of the state, and while there
receiving pressing calls from st. Louis
and louisville, the latter of which he
accepts; leaving Springfield, however,
in disgraoe, - stated BY you. SO much
for the gentleman's antecodents, Now
for some facts subsequent to leaving
Louisville, as repeated in your columns.
WHERE HI WENT FROM Loumv1LLE.
Il WAS there stated that Mr. r.,
when he Left Louisville, "was goina
east for pleasure" This intention Of
the gentleman WAS carried out, 20 far
~ the fact Of coming east was con-
cerned. He did come east, and to his
friends in this town, where he remained
about = week, and having the impu-
denoe of the devil and hypocrisy of The
pharisee, preached most splendidly "a
one Of our United Presbyterian congre.
cations upon the Sabbath before your
expose appeared in our local papers.
Upon the facts appearing in the pa.
pers, the poor man left for parts nm.
known. Where gone, and what his
future may be, God only knows.
His parents are dead and gone, and win
not, therefore, be affected by his dis.
grace, but HE brothers and sisters, and
more remote relatives, who still reside
here, and who listened with pride and
Joy to his "splendid sermon" of the
Sabbath spoken Of how has their pride
and joy been suddenly turned into
mourning and appalled, at the hypocri.
sy and disgrace Of their kinsman. The
sympathy of the whole community will
rest upon the disgraced wife, who hae
hitherto (wife-like) chung to her rotten
and diseased supporter through rood
and through i'll report" and who, like
the ivy vine, still hugs the fallen
trunk of the once mighty oak! But Il
may be asked +.
WHO WAS THE vRILRD WOMAN
mentioned in the papers as having &C
companied our gay Lothario from Chi
cagO to Louisville, and with whom h