St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-03-26
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y ,>caI ago. and ion some time previ-
ous. there Was in ,Iacks"n> lille. Il gcutr-
man nf superior culture. 4 very popular
music teacher. connected with one nl
the most Respectable and i,e>t known
families i'll Boston. lie moved in the
best society when | WAS her, last winter
and his ;icqriiut;Inc" was sought H. the
highest social circles. Tine other daN
SAW that same man mounted on II mis-
trahlr cracker cart. and totrd off ~ the
county pooI-housc and IL poor house
here l. none of Your nice brick -:IId-
muIt:lr. steam hotel structures. such ~
are found III New England. but the
most filthy and IrNultIy of all hdmdl.
abodcs. The drnkiu. habits of southern
society proved too much for this man.
and he fell. in brief 4 time. Il victim
to The rum traffic. | Ito not >uppo-,
that it even occurred to the good citizens
of JackSonl He that they hive any re-
>l,unSihlity for his ruin. bN virtue ui
the federation of this dreadful hu>iur>S
in their midst. | never heard one Sug-
gest that it ought To Ice stopped and
the very considerable sum realized for
license fees has operated, ~ it operates
every where, tn blind then eyes to the
iniquitN "t liquor selling. They very
naturally come To feel that they cannot
spare the income from the license fees.
| am more than ever convinced that
the whole theory of municipal. state oI
national income from taxes Oh the sales
of liquors. j. II child of the Devil. II
men will sell run. let them take th,
whole responsibility. The state >houiG
/ never share 1 with tiIeuI
NAMELESs ELOoDIIOTND.
Taking mp the Savannah Daily News
the other day. the leading .'rnnSerNa-
tive" organ of that city. and the mcdi-
um through which all Georgia and Flor
ida get their daily telegraphic news, |
came across paragraph III which BiSh
op Havcn--a name reNered by ali
Northern MethodistS, now Il bishop ol
the Methodist church, resident III At
lauta Ga, was spoken of ;lS ''that men
daciolIS old hloodhouni of Zion. A.
the Bishop was announced ro preach at
the Trinity NJ. +. Church. in this city g.
last sabbath, ! had IA curiosity to see
how ii bloodhound looks and talks. The
sermon WAS perhaps the best and most
logical presentation of the divinity of
In the evening he gave an address on
''Thc Growth of Professionalism in Mex
leo There WAS not much of the blood
hound in either the sermon or the lee
ture. The head and front of the Bish-
ops otfense is that he has IL heart big
enough to embrace oil mankind ia its
srmpathies. He is IA good example of
the treatment il man is liable to IN the
Sodth. who is true to his convictions
and not afraid to rehukc sin wherever
found.
This leads me to observe that il is
not the presence of the negro that these
people object to. 1t is only his presence
as an equal. If Il well dressed and re-
spectacle negro had presented himself
at the door of the car which brought us
to jacksonville, he would doubtless
have been told there was ear ahead for
his kind. And ii miserable car it was
too. No matter if he WAS even il mem
ber of Congress-. Yet in that very ear
Il full blOoded negro woman accom-
panied family lis uurse-sat in the
seat with different members of the fam
lily, toted the babe around, caressed it
lovingly, and went at will through the
car. Nobody seemed to think her
presence at all repulsive, least of all the
family whom she served. The same
feeling crops out everywhere, a thou
sand times il day sometimes, and the
purest minded man i'll the world, if he