New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-01

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your noisy. mountebank, sensation
preachers will in his whole lifetime. .
? PARsoN NEWMAN. =
l 1t has pleased our Hessian neighbo
the Times, to heap animal versions upo
, theRev. DR.. J. P. Newman, and over b
!. shoulders'to aim blows ct the Preside,
for sending him abroad on the cons,
: visiting mission. The complaint is mad
Dat the mission cost the government to
much money, and that the doctor en-
ployed his wife as sec rotary instead Z
taking man with him to draw the salary
In the criticism so far there is nothin
out OF the usual course Of petty would
be Democratic organ. It is the regu1a
business of such papers to disapprove Q
everything done by General or Presiaen
Grant from the moment he drew his swor,
in defense of the Union down to his et
forts 70 maintain law and order in Louisi
ana. We have long been accustomed t,
that sort of argument and growing, ant
expect it. If the little Democrat is no
"agin the government he is nowhere
aid if not abusive he is nothing. These
petty snarlers are the same wherever
found in the United States (which some.
how hold together against their will
Ehether they are running the La Crosse
Democrat, the New York World, the San
Antonio Herald, the Baton Ronge .Adro.
cate or the St. Louis Republican, and par
ticularly are they the more active in Will
flying the administration when they are
strangers to the South and come here to
male themselves solid with old residents
who are supposed to like that sort of stuff
As to the expenses Of DR.. Newman if
the mission was not authorized by law it
is clear that he should not be paid from
the treasury. If he was not allowed a
secretary the person he appointed to that
position should be paid tho three thou
sand dollars from the doctors own pocket
Or not at all. 1t is sim pie question of
services rendered for which the President
is Sesponsible. The attack made upon
Mrs. Newman has no more weight than
that made upon Attorney General Field
for employing his wife as clerk while
looking after the criminals of Louisiana.
The Republican portion Of the American
people do not yet regard it asa crime to
give employment to deserving women.
Mrs. Newman is d LADY of strict integrity
and great ability. If she were editor of
the Times we have no doubt she would
make better paper Of it. Of Dr. New
man, the Times says:
The Rev. Newman is not unknown in
this city. He was a philanthrOpist of the
class go we'll described by Fred Douglass
in his recent speech as ''played-out
preacher" Newman figured extensively
here as a friend OF the negro. He was iD-
stane in season and ont OF it, labOring for
the late down trodden but now entran-
chised wards of the nation.
And further that she stole away in con-
of having some little differences
of opinion with the brethren who did not
quite fancy the reverend's financial man
agement. intimating that he was de-
faulter in account with church funds. OF
this ''the brethren" themselves should be
asked for reformation. No such charge
was ever made, and the doct or went from
here with squared accounts many years
before the present publishers Of the Times |
came to this part of thes co uptry, THE |
last number of the Southwestern Aduocate,
IN organ of the Methodist Church in this
State, says:
DR.. Newman spent ii ~ years in this city |
as the superintendent Of the missions Of /
De Methodist Episcopal CHURCH IN the
Southwest. He handled probably $500, 900
If money for various church PURPOSES and
aever has these been breath of suspicion
.mong his associates that he misapprs-
'riated a single dollar. His leaving this
,ity was against the wishes of all swho la
,ored with him in church work here, and
le was given up only because of his selec.
ion to the chaplaincy of the United States
senate, and the desire of the authorities of
lis church that he should become pastor Of
he Metropolitan Methodist Church at the
rational capital.
The Methodist Church has constitu-
ncy Of many million me mbers in the
United States. and we know that DR..
Newman, with the exception of Bishop
simpson. is the most popular preacher
nd effective pulpit orator in his denomi-
lation. He il eminently able to defend
himself and his Church from the attacks
t the Democratic press. II the Senate
must have chaplain, he will do. 1t is
roper shat the President should attend
ivine worship. We'fave no objections
0 offer against his going to the new
letropohtan Church vhsn in Washing
on. If the President had sent broken.
orn politician to visit the consuls, it is
Rely as much Money would have been
pent and g little good accomplished.
Unthhking men have habit of sheer.
ng at Methodist ministers. In that they
re unjust and mean. The Methodists
'efe the pioneers of civilization and edu-
alton an the great west. Old Peter
had blazed his way by forest
rees. and preached extemporaneously
rom stumps years and years Before the Y
'piscopalians came to the new field with
tanned glass windows and box of ritu-
Is. The Methodist preachers were often
rude men, but they pese
finest, and knevsenough to tell of the
etter way Of life, in language that could