The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-27
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Dr.. LIE Moyne, Of cremation fame, finds
a defender in the person Of citizen of
Keokuk, Iowa, who says he has known
the Dr.. for twenty-five years, "a will be
seen by the following from the Daily
Gate City Of KeOkuk:
Such Is the caption to your leader in
the Daily OF the 20lh. Whatever oPin.
ion you may have Of cremation al a
method Of disposing Of the dead, 1t is not
the purpose Of the present article TO dis
cuss. But II Is the design to defend DR..
LeMoyne from the aspersions made upon
him. He Is physician Of half cen.
iurys experience. He is u walking
Encyclopedia" on all matters Of medi.
cine, law, physics, mechanics and science.
His lecture at his old homemade In a
building the pride Of the town and the
representative OF his liberality-on the
subject Of Cremation, Is pronounced BY
com petent judges as exhaustive. d..
LeMoyne was the foremost expounder OF
the old abolition doctrine, and If he had
been on the popular side OF politics,
could have been Governor Of Pennsylva-
mia, and to-day, and for the last thirty
years, he Ia and has been the best educat.
ed and most thoroughly scholarly man in
the Keystone State. he has positive
knowledge. He don't have to 90 to the
immense library he has on his shelves to
find what he wants like the balance Of US,
but has It in his head;
There ia not question OF any import
which he does not understand and COM
prehend, and which he cannot apply.
mol he has not only large "degree Of
intelligence" but larger degree OF it
than any man in Pennsylvania. He
fought the best men Of the nation on the
slavery question, and dared defend Abby
Kelley when in that magnificent old town
OF Washington she was assaulted with
rotten eggs, and the whole union to day
admits that DR.. LIE Moyne, Major Nc.
Farland, VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Gerritt
Smith, John Brown, and that most noble
army Of men were right; and In the front
Of that grand battle was DR.. Le Moyne.
DR.. Le Moyne has none ofthe "instincts
Of 4 brute" He Is a brave, fearless, IN.
daunted man, facing opposition and ask.
ing no favor. He has unfortunately been
on the wrong side like every other radi-
cal reformer. He became on the right
side on the slavery question, after the
world was forced by Gre and blood to ad.
mitit. He takes no grim satisfaction"
In anything. He Is a student OF nature,
Of God, OF law. he learns his lesson "a
not one In a million has learned 1t, and
when he reaches conclusion he does It
from the force OF a brain power which
challenges the attention Of all who listen
or read.
Yesl to tear down the "human bake
oyenn would be only a fair parallel to
breaking up Elijah P. Lovejoys press
and throwing II in the Mississippi river.
Who would dare do such an act to-day 2
Who Is there TO extenuate the crime Of
The men who did it, The people who
threaten TO tear down DR.. LeMoyne's
human bake oyenn are arrant towards
and scouudrels, no less than the men who
threw Loyejoy's press in the river are 10.
day execrated-eyen by themselves, ifany
yet survive.
Do Dr.. LeMoyne this little justice. he
10 a man worthy Of all praise. He thinks
he is right. Heknows he Is right. BE has
nothing to gain by HE cremation ideas.
He has everything to lose; but Us in the
past he hiss that matchless courage which
10 the face Of opposition incites him to
stand squarely up TO what he knows to DO
the beat, And I undertake to say that
there IL not a man that dare meet him on
the rostrum and discuss the question Of
cremation with him. In less time than II
would take to cremate q body his oppo.
nent would wish himself In the crematory
and bis body reduced 70 "odorless bones.n