The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-30

at our court house, day by day, there Ii
uncovered
A CORPSE OF AN ADoNINATIoN
yaster in its tlight than sOdom ever knew,
II is not u corpse Of two or three days
lingering waiting for . Christian burial,
but for eight months, since last midsum-
mcr ithas been rotting in the face Of the
sun, and q thousand pens are stirring Il
up, and a thousand gibbets arc lifting II
up on exhibition, and the printing presses
are cutting up the lOathsome carcass and
making Il into mincc meat for savOry
repast, morning, noon and night, And,
as the periodicals do not turn II out fast
enough to satisfy the public appetite, they
had 10 put It up in book form, 80 that We
can carry it about with us for u lunch
between tho morning breakfast and the
evening supper OF putridity. Brooklyn
to-day eats scandal, drinksEcandal, talks
scandal, swears scandal, lies scandal,
sleeps scandal, and from Fulton Ferry
wharf to BnshwiCk, and from GOwanus
to Hunters Point, the city is paved with
scandal, until one is tempted TO go over
10 the Five Points to get breath Of fresh
air. (SSnsation.) There are
FIVE THOUSAND Carbon CROWS
which alight every morning on the top Of
tho Court House, and stay there until 4
O'clock in the afternoon, and then those
Carrion crows fly North, South, East and
West, with an exultant gCaw cav
cav n Oh Eternal God, when will this
surging, groaning, stupendols and over
whelming nastincss come to an end ? The
city needs thorough fpmigatlon. VIII
somebody burn rag or carry about a
shovel and lighted GharcOal2 Three
daily papers came into my house to-day,
and IN them, by actual count, there were
one hundred and twenty-threO feet Of this
printed pollution. measured II. Give
10 the lIouse Of shame in New York a
printing press, and lot tho llbertines and
adultresses Of the city edit and print
u paper, and they could moi, after all
their criminal ingenuity had been taxed,
send forth more
PltTHY AND KILLING STUFF,
than that which Ia thrown into the lap
OF your family morning and night, Tho
father reads II, the mother rcads II, the
sons read II, The daughters read It, the
servants in tho basement read II, the
cuachman at the barn reads II. So much
have the morals Of this city gone down,
that subjects, the mention OF which In
your paFlOr three years ago would have
been considered an outrage to common
decOncy, now cause not even n blush on
the cheek Of lie most sensitive.
Wait for the harvest, three or four years
from now, In discovered families, In the
quadrupled host Of street walkers, in the
generation Of young men whose purity will
6e the exception, unless some mighty re-
ligious influence sweep over tho land,
and We fght fro with fire-the conhngra.
ton Of sin overcome by u conlagraliOn
kindled by the Holy Ghost, Has our
dear and beautiful city Of Brooklyn come
to this? When now travelling by Fail
among strangers, anu asked where ! live,
answer by saylng ] was born IN New
Jerscy--novCr mind where live now.
Have you measuring rod long enough
10 estimate the influence Of about three
hundred Thousand morning aud evening
papers coming In contact with tho minds
ofoUr Drooklyn people, bringing about
FIVE MILLION COLUMNS
ofiicOntiuusncss into our city every day.
How insignificant to stem the tide sOOnl
oil your bibles and your tracts, and MI
your family altars md all your OlurOles,
For Gods sake, and for the sake Of tho
purity Of the rising generation, respect.
pectiillly implOre the secular papers Ol
New York and Brooklyn to declare cter-
nal abstinence Ia voice-AmenD from
this subject Bnt, say the editors OF the
papers, i1If we don't print IL the other
paiIers would, and We would lose our
patronage" | reply that money got III
that way won't stick For the stoCkhOld-
ers Of newspapers which build them.
selves ~ on such . licl broth, prophecy
eventual bankruptcy Or DOMESTIC ruin or
discomfort III the world to come, or all
three.
GoD whit he EVEN Writ you
in some way. Money made by the pub.
lication Of ilic perpetual pesliicrous In
ticcencics will In Tie end be not only
death to those who read them, but to
those who print them. IL will not 10 at
the lasti Money that yol get by max.
ing society worse you dammit keep. God
wifi get Il away from you II hO has to
chase you into hell for II. (Bensation).
Can you imagine the hurricane OF divine
Indignation thai must Oyerwhelm forCY-
er those who for the sake Of money maxi
Ing have poisoned the minds, diseased the
bodies, and damned the immortal Solils Of
the mctropolls2 But
THERE IS A FORTUNE 10 BE MADE.
by some ncyspaper--t charge nothing
for tho lltnl@hlt that morning wide-
awake paper that takes tho lending posi-
ton IA d family paper In the United
States orlhe noxt hall century which will
cover iip the walls with plaCafds and aL-
ycrtise In hlLtle columns Of other news.
papers, that hencefuttll II will abstain
entirely from the publication Of this
scandal, giving at the end Of the trial
only the verdict In the case. All the
clifisLian families, not only Of New York
and brooklyn, but Of tho United States,
would Ory out, Give IA TINT paper; and II
II has moi not 10000 nav aud permanent
subscribers In tie first month thereafter,
| know nothing Of God OF liumah Nature.
| (Applause.) Tic land cries to be deliver
cd from this awful sco,lrgc. Where Ia
the publisher, The editor, OF The stock
holders who will take The bold God
honoring pOsition2 lIutif papers refuse
tDstop this overflow Of lcaslliheaS, where
is your society for the
stppnrWos OF OBSCENE ttrBnArURE2
| Why spend their TING ~ tllcsupprcssioh
Of books aid pictotials tliat have to play
hide.and.seek with the law, and allow
this daily and uhiyetsal news pafef do.
bauch7 Men Of might aud means, 10 tile
front God said that Ten righteous men
could save Spdtm. pefNdyentufe there
bc len men In New York and BtOOklyn
Of The right means and pluck, they cohldy
by The strength Of God, beat back these
Siifecs Of ihiqnily. Where Ia Anthony
CohistoCk, the glorious foe Of iinClean lit
eFatufoY Has the Hon, Judge Nelson,
known AZ The warm friend Of everything
good, no power to stay this, saying yha!
shall and What shall not be publishedH
Where ID God that lie comes mt out
fsntn tt;a hiIibV.niare fofthe defense and