Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-16
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Ropor ed fer tiir uhicaga Advance.

beng as able az any mau TO endure
the assault which snch Il SIP may III
woke. People, referring to the famous
law sum now III pr'gress, say Brook
iyn Is ulder Il cloud. No. Brook iyn
- III u trough OF the SEA. Leyy!ng TO
the twelve C, mpetent jurors, aud able
counsel on both sldes, ana an impair
tlfi judge, the legal settlement oil this
miserable business, there IL a Wind
which the pulpit needs TO ute: -
| Where Is ancient SOion? L. beca one
so polluted that ordinary wash 1ig
| would not do, and SO, iusL2ad IF 8aLgr
God took tire, aud inst ,Hd of soap lie
took brImSfOn0, and the lrAvt Ter t.
day p ck~ mp pieces of sulphur "i>,
blfuIhen where uLce that great u
stood. Brooklyn Is rushing OF t0wa'd
The same RIGHTEOUSNESS aud t" as ter
sl!ic "a doom, unless d ms-rcjinI God
b"ik the Iutieucss 1T work.
Down at our court house, day after
day, there is unoov, red the corpse of
ala ab"mluat.on Va>ter In its blight
than Su,tom eve kie" 1t is i.or Il
| corpse two or three days lingering,
| waiting for Christian burial, but
| for eight months, and since
| last midsummer 1t has ben
! r,Jttin9 in the face If thn sun, ana a
| th"usaud gibuets are lifting 1t on K
| hilntion, ard the printing presses ere
! c9tsIng up the iOatisorIa carcass. And
| making ii into mjnce EiraG Tor sayGry
| repaat morning, noon and night, and
AZ the periodicals do .i,t turn 1t our
| fast enough TO satisfy the pubhc app
! tiEe, We lave it rut up IL book form
20 tuat ge can carry it about with Us
! for ii lunch between ti:s. morning
| breakfast antl the evening supper Of
! pHtrsdiiy.
Brooklyn to-day eats scandal, drinks
! scandal. talks tea at. swssrs scandal,
! lies scandal, sl,rps scandal, and from
! Fnt"n Fr.rry VI, RI 10 Bu~hwick, and
| from 60 .V#uu- ia Hunters Point, the
! cify Is paved " it.I scandal, ana r,eks
| with scandal, ui.ti! Que Is tempted to
| go over 10 Five Points to get breath
| OF pure air There are five thousand
! carrion crows which alight every mOrL-
ing at IL O'Clock Oh the top of the
court house, and stay there I'LL 4
| O'Clock IL the afternoon, and then H.
! north south east aud west, with eX-
! ultaut Cav! cav ! caw.' Eternal God!
! when viii this SurgIDg. groun.ng, stu
| p.ndous, overwhelming nastiness come
10 an end The c!Ty needs thorough
| fumigutlon. VIII somebody burH IL
| rag, Oh carry about shovel of lighted
charcoal! Three lily papers came
| INTO my hou % to-day, and In them
one hundred ard twenty-fhree feet o;
printed pollution. Give to the hOu ses
OF shame Ia New York printing
press, and let the hbertines and adut-
| reresses of the city edit and print h
paper, aul they could not, after Their
| crimiuai ingenuity had been taxed t0
the utmost, send forth more baleful
and killing stuff than that which is
| thrown into the lap of your family
| morning and night The father reads
1T Tue mother reads it. The SOUS
read It. TIE daughter, read IL. The
| servants in the basement read il. The
! coachman at the barn reads II. 80
! much has the moral tone Of this city
gone down that subjects, the mentiol,
OF which IN yOnr paTiur three years
ago wruld have been cOnetd" red al
! outrage to common decency, now cause
| not even 8 blush on the cheek of the
| most sensitive Wait for The harvest
| three or five years from now in q y
| severed families, III q quadrnpled host
| of street walkers, i'll Il generation ol
| Young men where purity viii be t.e
excep' ion, unless some mighty rcll-
! giOus influence sweep over the iaDd.
aud we fight fire with fire, the canf.:-
| grafton of sin oTelco.ae by a cOhha
grafton kindled Of the Holy Ghost.
! Has our dear and beautiful city vi
| Brooklyn come to this When now a
days travelling 10y rail among strangers,
| [ am asked where [ live, I answer by
| saving, 81 was born in New Jersey.
| Never mind where [ live nGwI
| Have you measuring rod ionR
! enough TO estimate the influence Oi
about 800, coo morning and evening
! papers. coming IN contact With TIL
minds of cur Brood YIN people, bring
| ing about five million columns y. j.
| cent;ousDess Iutn or city every day
| How insignificant to stem the tide
seem all your Bibles, and al your
tracts, aud ali your family affairs, and
| all your churches
! For Gods sake, aud The seke OF tit
purity of the rising G@utratlon, | rts-
pectfujiy impi"re the -" Ear papers 81
New York and Brooklyn to deciare
| eternal abstinence { o a this subject
| Bur, lay the ditora ;tui PUBLISH Is, ii
! sc do not print it the other papers
would. and we shnuld lose oar patron
| age. | reply, tina money got in that
| way won't stick For the st0ckh0!d-
! ers Of newspapers which build then
! selves up on such helI-brotii, pr0ph-
| eay eventual Bankruptcy, or dome site
rain, or discontinue IN the word to
| come God will be even with You IL
! some way.
M.Dey made by the publication OF
| these perpetual and pest:ferous indie
| cencies will in the end be not only
| death to those who read, but death to
| those who print them. 1t will not pay
at the last. Money that you get by
making society worse ynu cannot keep.
! Gcd will get 1T away IT be has to cI;,~,'
! YOU INTO hell for it. Can yDu mag
! me the hurricane of Divine nd qua
! ton that must whelm forever those
who for the sake of m0ney-making
| have poisoned the minds. diseased the
| bodies and damned the immortal souls
of metropolis?
| Bat there 10 ii large fortune to he
| made by some newspaper. [ charge
nothing for the hint, but that morn
| ing, wide-awake paper thot takes tie
! leading pos ton as family n VS.
paper in the United States for tie
next half century which will cover mp
! the wells with placards. aud advertis e
! i'll the columns OF other papers, that
| herceforth 1t Will abstain entirely
| from the publication of this sc4nta a ,
| glving a. the end of the trial only the
| verdict in the case. All the Christian
families. not only of Brooklyn. but OF
the United States, Will cry ont Give
| us that paper!" and if it has not 30
600 new and permanent subscribers in
the first month thereafter, then L
know nothing of God and human
nature. The land cries to be departed
from this awful scourge. Where is
the publisher, the editor, and the