The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-01-31
TALMADGE ON POLITICS AND PoLITI
 CLANS.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmadge, having finished nm New York and Brooklyn ny visiting all their gambling hells and other places oi vice and iniquIty, and told il all from the nuIpit. valued into Washington City a few Sundays ago. and gave the Congrcssion- Al drunks and rascals going over. He said that when he had been exhibiting the nlague spots of New York, some of the rieTgymen had turned scab doctors and Ian with court plaster 10 cover up the sores. They almost tumble over each otherin their haste to reach and save a rotten patient. Washineton. ha said, is the city of of hezsds oa6 rs.uiteJa of patriotism and dcbauchery of pational sacrifice and back pay, ot senato- rial dignity and corrupt lobby, ot the eman- cipati0n proclamation. and credit mObllier. It is the best and the worst of the nauon, and its morals are ifty per cent better when Congress is away. It is vacation of moral ity place where clergymen attend horse races and religious congressman give their rrligioa vacation. Two thousand grog- shops deal out liquor to old and young 10 os3 arrests last year, over 1000 people ubo can niether read nor write, 900 proies- s;onal gamblers and one hell boasts of han ,IIing over $jO0. 900 during the lest session, ana fhe keepers of the hells draw the nav of congressman on orders given for monev los, st faro. One virtue the place has the queen of American society Is Co bo borored for inc simplicity of her manners ,nd dress, and for bey courage in baaishing ,he wine-cup from ihe white house table, sLe has shown it possible tD Ice jolly, aud vet be sober. Dueling too, Is abolished no more clubbing of senators, on account oi their opinions. PreTost does not dra" ms pistol in the halls oi Congress Gro" is silenced. and C-riswo,d and l+yoa do not roll togethcr m promiscuous scramble on the focr. Yet blasphemers occupy seats 'n Congress in suite of statute against O'aS- phemy. Atheists are required To lake an oath. which cannot bind them, gamblers who continually violate the law against ihai cankerons vice, and hbertines, whose pres once insults every family m thc land' Before you send n man to Congress or Sp- point him to office, you should go through him with a lighted candle aDd see II he VIII lpear inspection. Congrcssmcn, 10 many cases are walking oharnel houses, ht only {" die in brothel, as more than one oi thcm nave died, and some associate has moved . euiaSium to his memory. The monument to such au one should bc pile of ivory faro chips. suggrsiivC of the dear departed . loved occupation. AZ the four corners sci the wine cup. the whiskry glass, the decan- ter and the dcmij0hn. fhen gather up the fragments of the families he has Tuinel, and let each drop a bitter tear upon the pile and when ihunder wraps thC sliaft n dark ness and tho apuloglst rises to sing tbo false story of the dead mans career lci the clouds open and the bolt strike through and sweep the whole of in intamy, and let the rcyer6erstion roll through all the cities and all the land.
 Mir. Talmagc acted as he spoke, hand ling imaginary faro chips, etc. etc, and the effect is described a. grand in the cx- trcme.
 God in the constitution, said he, pshaw, we want God in the hearts oS the people. We had our national birth in the ihroes of the revolution, the war oI lsls was our measles. thas of 1881 our typhoid fever, and last wedncsdays resumption settled the doctors bill.
 Great men are grCat but a short Cmc. jefferscn'S. Jackson. $, Munrocs, PIercc's and Lincoln's Cabinet, all dead. except one, and he is as good s> dead. Of Grants Cab inet. one ar two are worse than dead. Po- liticsl honor consists m being borcd Co death by ofGce-seckers, assaulted b envy, aud sinking out of sight at the end of your term, health aud character gone, One Sen ator ,iics in an insane asylum. idiotio from dissipation. another sits upon the curb stone in Philadelphia oa a ElnieT night too drunk to respond to his PuOg wites ap- peals to % home, still aso'her falls into the Potomac, among the ice, and Is hShod out: Delcware had Senator Uho was al ways drunk. and Illinois had famous ri- val. Politics, he said, murdered Horace Greeley. here, he nearly fell cdihe plat form as he pitched an imaginary Horace nf io tho bead of thc crganist.