The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-03-09
JIEE GENTLE DEW.

The Rev. Dr. Thayer lately prepared
sermon from text OF scripture that made
The Dew his subject. He must have
handled the subject with much skill, for
plagiarism has been laid at his door. lie
has been charged with capturing Tho
Dew" of DIR. March. OF PHILADELPHIA.
After the sermon had been preached, Mr..
Walter Mckee, a young gentleman of
fine literary taste, read at the Presbyterian
entertainment, given lately ut the resi-
dencc Of Mayor Wood, portion of lee
ture or essay by DR.. March. The Phila-
delphia ID. DIS text was the identical text
from which the Cairo ID. ID. had preached
his sermon. After the musical voice of
Walter had. died into silence. the company
began TO buzz. ut i wonderfully like
it." said one. That's the well from
which he drew his water" said another.
Yes, retOrted a poctical disliker of DR..
Ihaycr Chat essay is the morning ros.
from which lac gathered his dew" Cen
tlemcn went apart into corners, and
whispered abOutit. gathered into
knots, and said to each other: "Oh,
dear. who would have thought it,"
The Liberal Religionists rubbed their
hands together and chuckled Just us
we expected; they all do it, Then the
Gdzetts aimed a shaft at the Doctor. and
limited that he was literary thief. After
which the town talked about the matter
and everybody thought that DIR. Thayer
was guilty
In the meantime, DR.. Thayer, who had
not attended the entertainment. Mayor
Wood being one of his flock. but kick
ing with both feet at the shepherd. was
Ignorant of the charge that had been
made against him. AT last he asccrtained
that his Dew was denied to him-that cv-
erybody suspected that DR.. March owned
IT, 50 lac organlzcda committee, Nessr,.
Linton and Ayrc-, and got Mr. Mckee To
attend the inquest. aud THE Dew" of
Ihaycr was compared with The Dew OF
March. There was a-ccrtaiucd 10 be a
great difference between tweelle dun
and twccdle dee. They were both of
them good article of Dew. but in no re-
spcct alile--in nothing similar. So the
committee, through the Sun. said to the
public; we, the committee. do find
upon examination that Thayer's Dew il
not March's Dew; and we believe II 10 be
due to DIR. Thayer to LAY So" Walter
Mckee spoke up,like a man, and said Il
do not know how the Dew of Thaycr
could ever have been mistaken for IN,
Dew Of March And DR.. Thayer de
clarcd 81 do assert, that my Dew is my
own aud that ! not only did not appro,
pirate Dr. March, Dew, but did moi
know until my attention was called t,
the tact that he had ever distilled an,
y ne" from the text had preached from.
lheh everybody said What mis- axe
we knew DIR. Thaycr would not do sucl
: a thing with anybody Dew and il is du
y 10 him We should say So"
so the Doctor is yindicatcd. We M,
glad of it. lie i, a gentleman we hav
= learned TO like very much. Industriou
= and iorcible he is uncompromising IN hi
: attacks upon what he believes to h
u wrong and was by this disposition lie
d INTO an attack upon Spiritualism, an o
e tense against the powerful Free Relie
d Gus element Of this city. This element
II aggressive. II tolcrates none OF the ol
e ideas 1t leads the community. This a
Q tack, together with the fact that anoth,
: powerful interest had become offende
e with the Doctor, made residence in Cal.