, 1875-11-20
GALESBUItG.


| To tat Editor ef Tbs Chicago Tribune:
GAIEsDrna. ILL.,, Nov. ia "TntnUyE Read
err" writing for local paper, 'protests agalns
Tho tono of the lottor which appeared in satur
days TRIBUNE" Tho correspondent continues
~ don't suppose that tho writer intended L
give falao impression; but am suro that {
stranger. reading tho article In queasion, woult
got tho idea that Galesburg ia m UNUSUALLY hart
place, and very few fathers would bo inducct
thereby to movo hero for tho pu1poHc Of olucat
Ing their children THE TRIBUNE correspond.
douotioss did. It ia his sim xlways to represent
things Just ~ they e1iat Ito got down nat,ght tn
malice. naught extenuate. Railing al thc
Hammond mootings" is not his "atoc i
m mond asp9s but nrossS because tho ast 1I.m ."
good reason Why they nevor should be- reverted
to. The advent Of tho evangelist among uB u az
mo,os 10 Jay T. Of penteeoat. gorgoousiy froscood
3:000 people; buk there came no sonnd fro NJ
Heaven az of rushing, mighty wind, filling al
tho housa where thcy were sitting; thore ap-
pesrod q. u4 coyen tonguos like Ire. that sat upon
eaeh Of them thoy wcro not filled with tho Holy
dhoas, nor did they begin to speak with oshor
tongues as tho spirit gave them utteranco.
Hammond, like Potter. delivered some vory olo.
quent discourses, aud oxloEtel them to repent
aud DO baptized In tho name OF jesus Chrlat fur
the gIt Of tho Holy Ghost. Dut, inatead
Of 1900 souls responding, only small
fEaetloa OF that number became cor.
vefted. and still smaller fraction remain truo
0pera-Houso was Rblazo With gas!tRht; an
hundred yoicos sang ths praises OF tho Reieem-
ori aud tho tmpasaIonod oioquence Of tho
noTereod ssoFy.toier. added to those, had n
Quick, sndden' aud temporary effect. 10, many
wsre nightly bsthed In tearn; but they were
aueh tears as might bo shed BY T. sensitive pos-
aon oTer the sutferhgs ot the blind orphan In
tho play. 4 great many, oyen who wore hard.
onod enough 10 attoud those meetings for
VIclous purposes, wept under tho influence Of
some of the apeaker's narrowing tales,-n only
relatet but acted upon tho Btage. but they wore
not s'ncoro, and..-
Ere yet the salt Of theso rnriahteous tears
uad Iest the flushing Of their CALLED eyes,
they were at their tricks OF tllrtation and fnn,
y Was admitted BY Mr.. Hammond that he was
disappointed In GAebburg aud it wAs aokuowl-
edged by many OF the local preachers that tho
roaults had fallen far short of their oxpecta-
fscta ia construed as trailing at Hammond"
am content to bear tin obloquy 1t implies,
:, II nv article was calculated to give the idea
mat 9aloabusg is nn unusually hard placs.
ana Az deter fathers from moving here for
dren4 l., sm sorry for It. / regrot
that could not oonscientiouhly write more fl.
yorabIy.. The fact that tho city Ia tlossed With
AIteeu cnutcAca doeH not alter tho TACT that there
ara nearly a. many saloons, calcd club-rooms
for convenience. Tho fact that fifteen ministers
preach the 0obpel docs not alter tho fact that q
largo police-fosce u employed 70 protect tho
city nor tho ftct that Constable has tust boen
and smother man for cutting prominent clti.
GEMS throat. We have two col1eges and stroug
religious element on ono side, and
circuit Court and prodlBioua crlmi-
tho duty Of = correspondent to write IN tho
moral and religious side, and BY nt.enco endesyor
70 eoncsa! tho opposso3 Would 1t not, on the
contrary. be manifest iajustice to those fathota
who havo children to educate, 10 give the favor
that they know not of"? Nobody has the H.
tafests OF the cltT moro IN view than your cor
respondent snd. whenever can say favorable
"ori for tta future welfare, without compromise
thay will also be exposed, for l bcliave thar to
be tho only WAY to eflcot cure.