Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-03-19

We make the following extract
from Judge Safford's speech at Chilli
cothe, on Saturday evening, as we
find it reported for the Cincinnati Ca
zette, of Monday last:
What is to be done in this matter p
Mother Stewart was here and ki cked
Buck Dennison's door in. don't be-
lieve there is a woman in Chillicothe
who would do such thing and Moth
er Stewart boasts that she has dis
guished herself and gone into saloon
on Sunday and bought a glass of
wine, and then prosecuted the man for
selling it.
Say to these women when they come
to see you, very respectfully but de-
terminedly, you can not come upon
my premises for the purpose of pray
ing; go to your homes; ind, if they
don't go, take their names, and com
mence suit against them IS trespass,
and, if that will not do, apply for an
injunction.
If this movement proceeds it will be
just as it was in Hillsboro from De
cember "a to January-31 Every bust
ness man was dist uFbed by the singing
and praying. The women started out
at 8, and kept it up till II at night,
and / never saw such disturbed COM
| munity Men stood aghast, fearing
the popular clamor. l did not fear it,
| and when one Of them told me l had
| better go ont of it, 1 replied that I
would send them all back to their
| churches to pray, and did send them
| from Dunn's and they did not go back.
AS long as you fight alone this thing
| will increase upon you, and these
women will ruin your business. Those
who are going to quit the business had
better pass in their checks at once
Selling whisky is a legitimate busi-
ness, and you have right to sell it,
and there are worse things than sell
ing whisky. AS, for example, some
| people avoid paying taxes. others
charge illegal interest, and some
women pay their sewing girls but 81
| or $1.50 a week, and l think this is as
bad as selling whisky
Put your feet upon it. 1t does seem
to me as though God Almighty in.
| tended to destroy the Protestant
Church. Why, they are making per
feet theaters and schools of slander ot
their churches and clowns of theil
ministers. Their pulpits have become
political rostrums, disseminating par
tisan, instead of religious doctrines -
Those whom the gods destroy they
first make mad, and they seem now
mad. know it is driving good men
out of these churches, and when
churches are thus desecrated by such
scenes, and when they permit such po.
litical intriguers as Sam. Hurst to
speak in, then the evidence seems con
elusive. l have often thought if Christ
could descend to the earth and see
how they are conducting themselves,
he would denounce them as having
made his house den of thieves.
Resort to the law for redress. The
courts are open to you, and your law
yers are men of integrity, and your
Judges have no desire to escape OF
shirk from their duty If you do not
do SO you will find a gloomier daysy ct
to come. These people are determined,
and are in earnest, but the moment
You put your foot down they will
stop. Organize your forces and re.
sist the movement, and say you will
not permit your business to be de
stroyed. These persons are uniting,
and you are not. You must organize.