The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-14
An Uncalled for Attack.

Some one has sent us a copy OIL tue Iai-
r;oh 46roc1te containing an attack on the
FGrme1 and Nechonic 10y Rev. +. a. Yates
1t is as follows
Messjs Editors. | clip tic following from
one of your city papers: "Shameiui; w
..are reliably informed that at Smithneld,
John Robinson's clown, Lowlow, INDUCED
Sin a number of indecent wouid-be Wittlcism
..snch as that bad whiskey make good
..Democrats." (Great applause among the
..neproesl and that-sWhitc ladies ought
ito marry black men Why sof ASKS
s'the Ring-master. Because, erins Tue
s.clown. "when they are widows they IRON I
share to mepr montning.' (And again the
.sdarkeys veil with delightJ Our lnior
INFANT SAYS there was much Indignation
t'among the decent portion OF the audience
"-and very properly go. Robinson clowns
..shouId not he allowed to crack r1bald
Jokes on democrats and widows lor
.sthe amusement CT negro mobs. The South
sis a land of widows and orphai-s.
'sThere is scarcely a family but
has among its members q sad-eyed,
'.sllent. sorrowing woman, who doos
mot Share to arear nlOurnlng TO re
mind her of bloody deeds done 10y bum
timers. Hirelings, and fanatic Nandals,
ssfrom the section to which Robinson car
ssries back his thousands of Southern gold.
ssAnd Ladies' do not marry blacks or ne
s.proesi IN tbis section. We speak indignantly
',but the case demands it even more strong
sly"
All of which / most steadfastly believe to
he fudoe. 1t seems be not worthy of notice
when low bred fellows in a Circus ''crack
rihald Jokes" at religion, and offer to the
sdecent portion of the audience a vulgar
narody upon hymns made sacred to the wor
shin and praise of God, and consecIated to
piety by the triumphant songs OF thousands
of his diving saints; but when those ribalo
Jokes, are cracked over the democrats
and ,,doUers, (as take it to mean) why
then. ah! yes. off mi. his head"
like your recent editorial upon the sub
iect of secular papers putting and blowing
over moral c,rcuses." Perhaps after all
the real meaning of those words is beneath
the surface; moral curses'-cir. for circle,
and curses all round the circle. For if they
are not a curse to all good morals | have We
to know it. Z. A. YATES.
The son of d minister, we shall not MAKE
the reply that as a man, and an ex-Confed
ate soldier, it is hard to keep back from
our pens point. Suffice to quote an extrac
from one of Mr.. Yates own church mem
bers in the same copy of the 1dc0cdte. SUI
flee to ado that if Mr.. Yates, by i;alicizlns
the word ''deceat' means to imply that nc
decent persons attend the circus he reflect:
upcr some of his own nearest kindred, anC
As good Christians as he is likely to be. SuFilc'
to say that no circus which zee ever ATTENDED
cracked ''ribald jokes at religion, or III
dulned in the vulgar parody OF HYMNS.
Mr.. Yates is better posted than we, 1t seems
But here is what the writer III the sam
CODY of the Adrocute remarks, and we leav'
it to every reader to say-whlch Is mos
uSeful IN the cauSp of Religion.
OUT QCARRELING.-The Bible says w
must love the brethren" and that we ma.
know OF our acceptance with God by thu
brotherlv love. The same good book aisc
SAYS by their fruits yc shall know them
Now If some of those who write for the -Iot
rocate, are to be judgoi Lu their letters, what
disagreeable people they must be! AnC
shall We Judge the ministers ~ rhat Mc
tcgite? Sarcastic, i~ronical, would be witty
l~etters-tetfers to tnj"re themselves and ort
another, and we who have been ta"ght t,
tore and reverence prouchnS Of tie gospel
look on and wonder what it all means, be
cause they tell Us to tce IL porce, TO return
no man eril for eri7, ito pray for those
who spitefully use Us They tell us to b,
meek and lowly, inogensire, hqrmicss ano
charitable, and yet we read s~pitetui yes.
they are spitetua-unkind letters, two OF
three columns long, written by men we fail
would love. 1t would be SO much better i
these disagreeable letters could be sent pri
who love peace, besides they nyure the m,tnts
try, tie church, and the Adrocate, and o.
course Gods work is injured, and Satal
takes a long steptowards us. Now | cannot
write learnedly, but | can see a mistake, anc
| can tell the truth, and you all certainly
know that this time | am right. 1t is just
like an army whose officers have left of
fighting the enemy and were fighting eacf
other, and don't you think that would please
the enemy? What good can come from it
am sure there is none in it.