The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-03-16

amount of Cheek" and "a guide gift o the
gab"
Our national temple, like that at Jerusa-
lem, has become den of thieves, and poll
t'cians seek to stand in official shambles,
that they may offer themselves to the high
es; bidder-buyer and seller alike infa-
nous. The whole army OF Contractors are
barnacles upon the ship of state, clinging
to the hulk, until all go down in the rot
senness together, unless some more sweep.
ing reform than the crooked whisky one be
inaugurated.
But what is to be done with such men Al
Belknap, Johnson d ais II these were
church matters instead Of governmental,
our way would be plain before US. We
could call an advisory council" lackry-
mose and devout- The accu-ed party could
speak most eloquently upon each and every
question. We have the precedent before
us; it il not necessary to particularize
But by the way, wasn't that most inter
esting occasion in Brooklyn, when Mr..
Beechef The Of the magnetic presence) call.
ed on the angels, and the Most High TO ap-
pear if they knew aught against him? 1t
reminded me of those glorious old days of
chivalry, when some brave knight would
throw down the gauntlet, proclaiming the
innocence of some fair lady whose colos he
wore, calling upon any knight
who doubted his word to appear in
the lists, that the matter might be
Gecideu BY mortal combat But as think
of it, it recurs to me, that the knight chal-
lenged his equals, and don't suppose we
would hardly be justified in saying that
Mr. Beecher did that. Again, the knights
effort was to defend the lady, while Mr..
Beecher doesn't seem to care how many
ladies' regulations are ruined if he goes
I scot free No, there is no resemblance be-
tween Mr.. Beecher and those. .old time
knights, after all. Indeed, canzbt think
who, or what, he does resemble. He mus,
be what is called "sui generis." wish
Darwin would turn his attention to this
phenomenal Intervention, in the mysterious
chain of evolution, to this peculiar mani
festation OF human nature, il human nature
it be. He reminds me oi old Mrs. Selksey,
who lived down east. You remember how
idignant che was when she heard that some
of her neighbors said "she wasn't morn
half human" and how vehemently she as.
serted, that she "hadnt drop Il human
blood in her veins" she wasn't mislegana.
tionist-not she! really am beginning to
think Beecher isn't either. But he has had
an advisory council, and it is all right now
for awhile al least.
If Belknap, johnson and few
others of that ilk could have
council too, but never mind,
they're bound to come out all right some
way. In the political, social and religious
world, We stand pretty much like q row of
bricks, you knock one down, and no many
Others fall that self-interess induces Chris
tians, neighbors and politicians to allow
their associates to be swerved only 30 far
from the perpendicular as they can be and
not endsnger the standing of those adjoin-
ing. They totter q little with the frt
shock, then straighten up, and who 20
brave - they? Meanwhile "the mills Of
the gods grind slowly, yet they grind ex-
ceedingly small"
don't know, but you will think am
growing cynical. 1t may be that 1 am,
but / came to Leavenworth only a year
ago, 80 full of hope for humanity, and one
pittiful exposure after another, the con-
slant records of meanness and crime with
which our papers are & led, are enough to
depress more hopeful nature. Abiram
says that an invalid never realizes how
i'll he is until he begins to get better, and
he thinks these exposures are the first symp-
toms Of national convalescence. the dis
ease coming to the sur ace, as it were. He
also tells me that l am improving under
city influence, that l am gradually
dropping my country phrases, and talking
like other folks Ii so, YOU will be quite
proud, some time, Of Your sister,
DoRCAs ALLEN.