Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-07-30
BISHOP HA VEN'S LAST RANT.
Grant Greater than Napoleon and Bet
ter than Washington.

Grant Greater than Napoleon and Bet.
ter than Washington.
MuLLETr A GENIUS AND boss SHEPHERD
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES LE0Is.
LATIoN UNDER CHAMBERLAIN
LOUISE AND LoREE FOR
PRESIDENT.
In Woodstock, Conn, at Mr.. Henry
G. Bowen's Fourth of July celebration,
Bishop Gilbert Haven was among the
orators. Mr.. r. H. Stoddard read a
poem, Stanley Matthews delivered an
address, and in the evening there were
fireworks and balloons; but in the
whole entei tainment there was moth
ing so extraordinary as certain pass
ages in Bishop Haven's speech, which
was upon "Tho American Nation"
The Bishops introduction was short,
and he got down to General Grant
very quickly. He touched his subject
with lightncss at first, saying merely
that it had "been the fashion, not yet
quite out of date, to behttle the great
ness of our second Washington !" but
he did heavy work after he got fairly
under way. Grant, the Bishop said,
was a "greater Napoleon, who no
Waterloo ever drove from power"
who won q battle for human rights,
and then "rctired modestly to the peo-
pie, whence he came. He gained a
greater victory than Washington and
wore 1t with more humility. The car
riage Of the first President was naughty
and exclusive to the highest degree.
He established a quasi court, and lived,
even in retirement, in sort OF regal
seclusion. The bearing Of the last
President is free and familiar TO the
last degree. He is accessible to all,
and maintains the simplest state amid
the lavish extravaganza of court and
wealth that is poured at his feet"
Grant was sealed to preserve Ma.
tion which he had saved. The martyr
President had left drunken imbecile
in power" and "only the presence Of the
Nations deliveror at the Capital kept
the public in peace" 1t was a glitter
ing administration that followed. "The
splendor OF that height of National
sovereignty and human equality which
was attained in the administration Of
Ulysses S. Grant will be yet more
illustrious as we wriggle at the base of
the mountain from whose summit we
have descended, in vain efforts to scale
its heights ana bask again in its sun
shine. Even as the foaming, writhing,
idiotic mouthing of the weak lad
possessed with the devils, from which
neither himself, nor his father, nor
even the disciples and associates of the
Lord could deliver him, contrasted
painfully To the three apostles with the
glories of the Mount of Transfgura.
ton"
Bishop Haven went on to tell what
he saw in the South during the admin
istration. Among these things he saw
their Legislatures and read their legis.
lation, and "no such high water mark
Christian legislation has this State of
Connecticut yet reached, nor New
York, hardly Massachusetts,, as that
attained by South Carolina and Louis
lana" And besides finding Christian
Legislation, Bishop Haven "was invited
to families IN State of South Carolina
whore white gentlemen had legally
consummated their pledges of love to
cultivated ladies OF the olive and posi-
bly, of a darker hue, under privileges
planted in the Constitution"
Passing moment from Grant the
Bishop lauded to the skies the works
of Boss Shepherd and OF the irrepressi-
bic Mullett. To the first, Washington
city owed debt of gratitude to the
last, the whole United States was in.
debted for the great public buildings
that stand as monuments to his genius.
To Grant, Shepherd and Mullette the
Bishop devoted the larger part Of his
speech.
Referring then again to Grant as
sour second and greater Washington"
Bishop Haven went on to speak OF the
"abominable caricatures" of B.ackville,
which Eytinge draws in Harper's
Weekly. The speaker had passed
through Blackville, and seen one of its
ministers, who indeed was as black as
Eytinge had painted him, but who
nevertheless was "a minister, a gentle
man, Christian"
And these are the conditions which
Bishop Haven is willing to grant in
case OF the annexation OF Canada:
'If as condition precedent Canada
should require what Scotland did of
England, what the weaker vessel is
apt to ask, before the wedding day, of
the stronger-the naming of the parson
and the mode and time Of the bridal
it may we'll be granted. If she should
demand that Louise and Lorne q put
them in the proper juxtaposition) be-
come our first joint President for
single term, subject to re. election, we
could well grant tho privilege, as En-
gland wisely allowed the Stuarts to
mount her throne, though she wisely
in the next two generations beheaded
and then expelled them. This will
not, we trust be the case in America.
This too would please the names of
George the Third, if his blood should
sit but for limited season on the Re.
publican throne of America. The res
toration OF good will and good feeling
would be complete. Victoria would
visit her daughter at the White House,
and America commence its new dc.
parture by having a Queen for her