Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-15
WHOLE NO. 1914.
An Oratorical Whirlwind from Tai
madago.
ralmadase's Sermon on the Brooklyn Scandal.

Talmadages Sermon on the Brooklyn Scandal.
The time has come for some one to
speak, and | take the responsibility,
being as able as any man to endure
the assault which such a step may
provoke. People, referring to the ia
nous law suit now in progress, say
Brooklyn is under a cloud. Nay,
Brooklyn is in the trough of the
sea, leaving to the twelve competent
Jurors and able counsel on both sides
and to an impartial Judge the legal
settlement of this miserable business.
There is a wora which the pulpit
needs to after. Where is ancient
Sodom? 1t became so polluted that
an ordinary washing would not do.
Instead OF water God took fire, and
instead Of soap, lie took birthstone,
and the traveller to-day picks up a
piece Of sulphur or bitumen where
once that great city stood. Brooklyn
is rushing on toward the same hcen-
tionsness and to a sterrifc doom,
unless a mercful God baulk the iuhu>
ences now at work. Down at oul
Court house, day by day, there is I'M
covered corpse Of an abonination
vaster in its flight than Sodom ever
knew. 1t is not corpse of two or
three days lingering waiting for a
christian burial, but for eight months |
since last midsummer it has been rot |
ting in the face Of the sun, and a |
thousand pens are stirring it up, and |
thousand gibbets are lifting it up on
exhibition, and the printeng presses
are cutting up the loathsome carcass
and making it into mince meat for a
savory repast, morning, noon and
night. And, as the periodicals do not
turn it out fast enough to satisfy the
public appetite, they had to put it up
in book form, so that we can carry it
about with us for lunch between the
morning breakfast ana the evening
supper of putridity. Brooklyn o-day
eats scandal, drinks scandal, talks
scandal, swears scandal, lies scandal,
sleeps scandal, and from Fulton Ferry
wharf to Bushwck, and from Gowan-
us to Hunters Point, the city is paved
with scandal, until one is tempted to
60 over to the Five Points to get a
breath of fresh air. (Sensation).
There are five thousand carrion crows
which alight every morning on the
top of the Court house, and stay there
until four o'clock in The afternoon, and
then these carrion crows flies North,
South, East, West, with an exultant
Cav cav cav y Oh, Eternal God,
when will this surging, groaning, stu
pendous and overwhelming nastiness
come to an end? The city needs a
thorough fumigation. VIII somebo-
dy burn rag or carry about a shovel
and lighted charcoal? Three daily
papers came into my house to-day,
and in them, by actual count, there
were 123 feet Of this printed pollution.
| measured it. Give TO the huoses of
shame in New York a printing press,
and let the libertlnes and addresses
of the city edit and print a paper, and
they could not, after all their criminal
had been taxed, sent forth
more filthy and killing stuff than that
which is thrown into the lap of your
family morning and night The faith
er reads it, the mother reads it, the
sons read it, the daughter reads it,
the servants in the basement reads it,
the coachman at the barn reads it,
So much has the moral tone Of the
city gone down, that subjects, the
mention Of which in your parIor three
years ago woul dhave been consider
ed an outrage to common decency,
now cause not even q blush on the
cheek OF the most sensitive.