The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-12-14
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HIS I0NORA, NCE:.

our so-called liberal man claims
the right to stand on either side, and
with him tits hut a step from the pull
PIT to the stage, from a preacher of the
gospel to lecturer against it. One of
the apostles of this sO-called liberal
church, Boston man, has been preach
ing recently in Chicago, and he took
his text, not from that free Bible Of
which, we boast, but from book of
Walter Whitman. the sale of which has
been prohibited by law, because of its
vile lewdness, and the only way by
which its contents can be made known
to the public, is from the pulpit Of this
liberal church. ... ..~.
We should not expect the reverend
gentleman to be liberal toward any
thing but his ewn illiberality. but "A
man who breaches in city like Cedar
Rapids ought to be better informed.
The Comstock gang did try to suppress
the publication of Walt Whitman's
poems, or rather to have them exclud-
ed from the mails, under the internal
Comstock law, passed by fool" Con-
gress in 1873, but the postmaster gen.
eral very sensibly decided that works
which were considered standard iand
read and accepted as such by the peo-
pie, were not obscene, and should not
be excluded from the mails.
How many, many times has the AD-
VANCE iterated and reiterated the
charge that a devil-inspired clergy and
church, under this foolish law and 9TH
ers like it, would attack and attempt
to suppress all books and newspapers
which did not agree with them. Step
by step they are advancing in their in
iquitous work. They are attempting
it anyhow. anslitlle people must defeat
them.
Does not his Ignorance, the Rev. Mr..
Ringgold, know that if Walt Whitman
can be suppressed: then Shakespeare,
Burns, Byron, Pope and the greatest
works of human genius can be sup.
pressed, and must be if the Ubiquitous
law is enforced? Does not his Ignorance
see that the very Bible he breaches
from would have to he excluded from
the mails if this spawn, this CaIiban
offspring Of Anthony Comstock, this
unconstitutional and medieval law
were enforced?
Is the church in free America in
such il strait that it must attempt to
Go by law what was done by priests
and soldiers under the bloody regime of
Popes and Kings in Europe? And are
our lawmakers such fools, have they
so little foresight and so little apprcci-
alton Of the motives Of fanatics, that
they must pass unconstitutional laws
and throw them is sop to the Ger
berus of.priestcra.t?
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS-BIG
RUSH IN THE SPRING.
LYNDON, ILL.,, Dec. 10, 1852.
EDITOR ADVANCE, Dear Sir: l left
Worthington the 5th, at p. NJ; went
to Sheldon, Iowa; found our old friend
also Geo. Rose, late of the Okabe1i;.
ness. Started for Chicago 1T $50 a. M.
Oh the Milwaukee road. Travelled all
day i'll SHOW storm, or rather Il wind
blizzard: Among the passengers Was a
Mrs. Miller, sister to John and Cyren-
us Alley. Near Mason city 1 ma,lc
tie acquaintance Of Frank $. Chaplin.
of Geneva, n. Y. lie is about to en-,
gage in the creamery business some
where in the N. W. The Weather
was very cold us we got near the father
of waters. Crossed the Mississippi 1T
Savannah at 2 Il. M. OH the 7tI. The
mercury then marked 20 below zero.
ARRIVED in Chicago at Il. m. Only
stopped III the city half an hour. then
went out to Menduti Oh the Burling-
ton. Found W. VI. Patrick and WIFI.
paid them d short visit, then came to
fathers at this place Friday night.
Two inches Of snow here now. There
is much talk here and on the cars
about the Northwest and if this win
ter should be fine there will be a big
rush in that direction in the spring.
Minnesota, Dakota and Northwestern
Iowa will each get their share.
Business very dull here. 40 vacant
houses in this village. J. II. Nj.
MARRIAGE or Il WISCONSIN I'OE1ESS
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin,, 9th: To-
morrow afternoon 1T l O'Clock, Mil
waukee's young p0ttess. Miss Fannie
DrlScOll, will be united i'll marriage to
Henry Ten Eyck White, a rising young
journalist OF Chicago, employed on tie
Tribune. The ceremony will be per-
formed 1T the residence of Miss Dris-
coils sister, Mrs. Will S.Mdprsou,
2,l75 State street, Rev. David Keeue
officiating. The newly married couple
will dtlHlrt OIL the 1 o'clock train for
their future home in Chicago. We'd
ding cards vii! be issued to friends in
this city and elseW here after the mar
riage. Mr.. and Mrs. White will reside
at II Bush street, Chicago, and will be
at home IT, their friends after Deem
Der 18th. Miss Driscoll, who is but
twenty-five years OF age, has achieved
an ehviable reputation as. a poetess
and graceful and fluent writer. Ear
ly III life she gave nnnnistakabls signs
OF possessing talent and at the age of
thirteen wrote her first poem for pub
LEGATION. Since that time she has de-
veloped into poetess Of considerable
power, her reputation Icing by no
means confined to Milwaukee,. She is
a spright!y and versatile writer, her
productions possessing characteristic
originality and naturalness. Some of
them are caustic and pointed, some pa
thetlc even to sadness, while Others
abound in wit and i,umor. Miss Dris-
cnll's literary work has received favor
able considerati III from the pre- IS of
the country. many CT her poems and
sketches having beer accepted by ti,r
leading periodicals of the day. It is
understood that she has long conteu,-
plated publishing book Of poems. but
AS yet has not begun the work. In
Miss Driscoll's marriage Milwaukee
suffers quite a loss in her literary cir
cles. Her first newspaper work that
attracted outside attention was a sea
son of book reviewing in the Sentinel
Il year or two ago. She has c0ntribut-
ed great ,n.ny pretty sketches and
verses to the Chicago Tribune 1t is
said that there is quite Il romance in
connect ion with the young couples
acquaintance.
Miss Driscoll has for some years been