The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
MoTHERA1's REVELATION"
What a Priestly Retailer CT Dying
Confessions Knows About
the State Debt.

Knoxville Tribune: Instead o
entering into any thing resem bling
q dignitied and legitimate investIga
ton of the State debt-the only
sort of az investigation in which
the people OF Tennessee could have
had any real coneern-the majorI
ty OF the recent Investigating com
mItJee seem TO have so studiOusly
and closely devoted themselves To
the search, after assaIlable personal
regulations. andthaL too by measures
indetensible, that TO one who has
carefully read the mass of tainted
literature with which, in the shape
of dispositions carefully cuiled for
the purpose, the public have been
for several days past served through
The columns OF the State press, tie
| conclusion is so irresistible that
the so called investigation was
but low device TO further dehauch
the public morals in aid of the gen
eral purpose of Reputation. To
accomplish this, neither the COOL
name and political history Of our
commonwealth, nor the private rep
utatiOas of her best citlzens, have
been held sacred against the de
mand for defamation. Charges OF
the most oalumnious character,
without a syllable of legal testimo
ny to support them. have been
greeiily accepted at second hand
md sent broadcast throughout the
country to do their mlschievOLs
work against the characters of in
lividIa!s who have not only not
been permitted CO disprOYe or re
Tut the calumnies, but kept in alb
solute ignorance OF such testimony
until they read it IL the public print
Much Of this SO called evidence
- but the garbage OF ten or twelve
years ago, and has no relation
whatever To- the public debt of Fen
aessee. But it serves u besmirch
The reputation of both the living
nd the dead, and this fact seems |
to have been enough to commend 1t
o the garuoriog care OF the''iupar-
-Ial investigators" The choicest |
>pecimen OF sitting" testimony |
th which the majority undertake
o sustain the message OF Governor
Marks and their own extraordinary |
eport, comes in the shape of Il
lepos ton from one n. W. Mother |
al Reverend n. ", Motheral-"ta-
ken at Cleveland, tennessee, GA
the tenth day of February, 1879"
IL appears in the Tribune, OF last
Saturday. We called attention to
1t. No one who read it will soon
forget it, or rid his mind Of the
horrible Impression Tie loathsome
document made upon 1t. This man
Motheral DECLARES that he is'sa min
lister Of the the gospel, of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church, that
Mr.. Thomas H. Galloway, formerly
president of the East Tennessee
and Georgia railroad, -'professed
religion under his ministry" after
which 1t seems that he (Mothe-al) |
became his (Calloway's) spiritual
adviser. He vas beside his dying
bed, and, in the sacred confidence
If such holy relation, heard Mr..
Jalloway's confession as q penItent
sinner. He caught from the trem
bling lips of the dying man the last
eehle viii peri - at q troubled
Oul that was done with earth. and,
eeking. through hi7 prayers and
niniste ial counsels, 10 make peace {
With the Judge Of the Universe Oy
vaiiihS HInsetf ~ he merits of
Jhrist's alOnement 30 u0abU the
mixing Galloway, yet lingering be
ween mortal a,t,I igMort9l exist :
nee, was piled with the INJUNCTION {
D make COnfe- sion Of his sins, by 7
his listening priest, who sat with =
and intent treasurin2 up for fu- |
lre use tie hfskfG Htterances that
ell upon his eager ear. Nine years 7
90, or nearly SO, Thomas FL Gallo a
ay died and was laid away TO rest. a.
lie left among the people who g
new him-knew his private walks - -
nj public ways an honorable
emory. Ees, Eow, the man who
nblushingiy tells that ne enjoyed "
IS confidence IS spiritual counsel &C
:, comes before the world with a "
which II true and at
edited, could but have the effect ~
clouding the memory of Thomas n
IL. Galloway, and casting a stigma n
BON his name for generations to ggr
me. a voluntary breach Of per- ne
nal confdenep, IS betPeca man
Id man, is disreputable among
.ntlemen. The physician who tel
Ould disclose, except under direst or
Iress- the secrets pr fessionalIy o.,
ntded TO him, would be driven ed
Jm 4n enlightened community
To indignant scoi'n. The lawyer eel
~ would Tantonly reveal the con- u
entIal communication OF 2 eli Ii
&, would be debarred and stamp bel
As unit 70 associate with gentle On
n. The husband who would be O.
y the confidence Of his wife to
detriNen!S would be spurned
IN every decent presence and be -
no better than a dog, del
wing an honest kick from every
sser-by. But for the mockery of De
nau-who under the sanctimoni. oui
5 guise or a minister Of the Cos col
OF Jesus Christ, Is admitted to sur
sacred confidence Of a sin-sick Il'r
dying man, and, in that ia
'acity, receives from him a con X
sion uttered as the last possible n
ring in behalf of his immortal
j, and then nor 0liy retails such -
ltessiUn as material for common
ndal, but prostitutes it To the
5 of dirty politicians, there is no I
-hly punishment sufficiently Sc put
E or degrading. The very pres pr
e OF such a creature among an get
ghtened people is an insult To pub
~ sense Of propriety, morality pref
deceney. He deserves 20 be to g
Oried for the execration of man trib,
I. He should be made dup
= fixed figure for the time OF scora n.av
TO point Its slow, unmoving ibger at"
UGH creature does this man -