Connecticut western news., 1875-04-09
The Rev. Dr. Talmaage on she Beecher Trial.
 HIa GAG LAW.

HIS GAG LAW.
 We copy below an extract from the ser : mon of the Rev. Dr, Talmadge on the Beecher trial, which we clip from the New York Witness.
 To yeur surprise the subject of this my Friday evening address is Brooklyn ol Sodom." The time has come for some one to speak, and take the responsibility being assable as any yman.to endure the assault which such . step may provoke. People, referring to the famous lawsuit now in progress, say Brooklyn is under . cloud. No! Brooklyn is in a trough of the sea. Leaving to the twelve competent jurors, impartial Judge, the legal settlement of this miserable business, there is 6 word which the pulpit needs to utter.
 Down at our Courthouse, day after day, there is uncovered the corpse of an abomi- nation vsstsr in it's blight than Sodom ever knew. It is not . corpse two or three days lingering, waiting for Christian burial, but for eight months, and since last Mid summer, it has been rotting in the face of the sun, and thousand pens are string it up, and thousand gibbets are lifting it on exhibition, and the printing presses are cutting up the loathsome carcass, and mak- ing it into mince-meat for savory repast, morning, noon and night, and as the periodicals do not turn it out fast enough to satisfy the public appetite, we have it put up in book form so that we can carry 1t about with us for lunch between the morning breakfast and the evening supper of putridity.
 BRooKLYN TO-DAY EATS SCANDAL,
 drinks scandal, talks scandal, swears scan- dsl. lies scandal, sleeps scandal, and from Fulton Ferry wharf to BushWick. and from Gowanus to Hunters Point, the city is paved with scandal, and reeks with scan- dal. until one is tempted to go over to Five Points to get breath of pure air. There a-e i've thousand carrion crows which alight every morning at eleven o'clock on he top of the Courthouse, and stay there till four o'clock in the afternoon, and then fly North, South, East and West, with sxultant "Caw! cav! caw!" Eternal God! when will this sarging, grooming, stupsndous, overwhelming nsstiness come to an end? The city needs thorough fumlgstion. Will somebody burn rag, or carry about shovel of lighted charcoali Three daily papers came into my house to- day. and in them 128 feet of printed pellu- uon; Give to the houses of shame in New York printing press, and let the libertines and adulterssses of the city edit and print . paper, and they could not, after their criminal ingenuity had been taxed to 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 it. The mother reads it. The sen reads it. The daughters read it. The servants in the basement read it. The coaahman at the barn reads it.
 For Gods sake, and the sake of the purity of the rising generation, respect fully implore the secular papers ot New York and Brooklyn to declare eternal abstinence from this subject.
 PLEBE1AN's REPLY.
 It is not at all strange to us that our chlrog- raphy betokens bit of nervousness, vixen we realize the fact we have seized our pen for the purpose of giving q reply to one of the great preachers of tho age, the Rev. Dr. Talmadge. of Brooklyn Tabernacle. That we should presume to utter syllable antagonistic to the expessed ideas and sen timents of great man like Dr. Talmadge, seems indeed the night of absurdity; but te relieve us from embarrassment for few moments, we shall endeavor to forget the fact that he is a very great man and we are, in comparison, infinitesimally small. A perusal of the Rev. Doctors remarks above, expressing in unmistakable language his holy horror at the amount of scandal filth the press of the. city was pouring daily into the City of Churches, and calling upon the publishers of newspapers to desist, will leave no doubt in the minds of the readers, that he was desperately in earnest, and we should cheerfully acknowledge that this su- perabundance of zeal would be indeed wor- thy the admiration of the whole world, if he had made It manifest at an earlier stage of the trial. For him to receive his ''thrce daily papers" with their "l23 feet of prin- ted pollution" |" day after day and week af- ter week, during the occupation of the time of the court by the prosecution in the ex- animation of his witnesses, among whom was that model of chastity, Kate Carey with her lap scene, and others with their vividly portrayed ''incidents" too nsuseous
 
 ''mother reads it. His daughters read It.. 'His servants in the basement read it and ''his coachman at the barn reads it." and never have it occur to him to rise in his his pulpit and denounce it as he at this very late and unreasonable hour, has done, is certainly one of the most remarkable features of his sermon. He now, "For Ged's sake, and for the sake of the purity of the rising generation, respectfully i'm plores the secular papers of New York and Brooklyn to declare eternal abstinance from this subject :" and this he urges with ali the elequence at his command, utterly blind to the fact that every syllable of the trial thus far has been given to the people of the whole country, who are really the jury in the case, and HOW when Mr. Beech CT was about to ascend to the witness stand to tell his story; to speak in his own defence, the charitable Dr. Talmadge would thrust gag in his mouth, and tue eatside world, which has heard in their fullest detail, the filthy and damning char ges against his chastity, must not be per. mitted to knew his defence.
 The Rev. Doctor ascended in his eloquent appeal in behalf of the enforce. ment of his gag law, to the veyy summit of oratorical expression, when he said s'Eternal God; when will this surging grooming, stupendous. overwhelming nasti ness come to end ?"-" Will some one burn a rag r-but, what are we doing This last quotation, and more especially the last sentence. "Will somebody burn rag" instantly reminds us. that Dr. Talmage is c very great man. He is the ReY. Dr. Talmadge of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and notwithstanding this reminder that he i' one of the tall lights of the world, as