Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-05
ceNrRasTED CHARACTERS.

Charles Lamb had an exquisite sense of
what was due to others. His constant
care was not to wound the heart, no mat
ter how little sympathy he might have
with the person. Patmore, in his recol.
lections, speaks of this delicate regard on
the part of Lamb for the feelings of others,
as one of the most prominently marked
traits of his character, and says he never
knew any one who was capable of uni
formly, and at all costs, practicing it, ex-
cept Lamb and Hazlitt, who extended it to
the lowest and vilest of man and woman
kind. An anecdote is told of Lamb illus
trative of this characteristic. A lady who
was temporarily at his residence had been
making some clothing for the child of a
gypsy woman, whose husband was after
ward convicted of sheep-stealing. Lamb
would not permit the young lady to quit
the village without calling to take leave of
her unhappy protege, for fear the felon's
wife might imagine that because of her
husbands crime the lady was ashamed to
go near her. 81 have" said Lamb, ga
delicacy for sheep-stealer." In what
strong contrast does this delightful record
of human tenderness place the act of Rev.
DIR. Blanchard, Of Wheaton, Illinois, an &C.
count of which was telegraphed yesterday.
A man died in Washington who was men,
berof the Masonic fraternity, an Odd Fellow,
and member Of other secret confraterni.
ties. AT the funeral the father-in-
law of the widow, who was in sore
distress and dependent entirely upon him,
compelled her to exclude the societies, and
he then called in Blanchard to conduct
the funeral exercises whereupon that
minister seized upon the occasion to en-.
ter upon bitter discourse against all who
held any relation to the prescribed broth.
erhoods. He was SO abusive, rabid and
heartless had SO little regard for the
feelings of at least portion Of his auditors.
and assaulted dead and living with such
vindictiveness, that the agonized widow
was thrown into commissions, and the out.
ragged people expelled the clerical maliener
from the church. This anointed butcher
of sore hearts who by this act dis.
graced his cloth and ahamed the
clergy, is a rabid hater of all fratsrni.
ties that do not admit those to their
meetings who have no concern in them.
He has carried on crusade against soci.
cites for years, with Free Masonry and
Odd Fellowship as special objects Of as.
sault. He has been q leading organizer of
anti.secret.society conventions, and the
leader of quasi. political party in opposi.
ton to the associations. He publishes a
sheet styled the Cynosure, which, having a
microscopic circulation for revenue, is sent
gratis TO such as entertain curiosity enough
to take it from the mails. There can be
no objection to any citizen opposing secret
societies and laboring in opposition to them
whose convictions move him to do so.
Many good men are conscientiously en-.
gagged in such work T; but for such as
Blanchard, whose radicalism leads them to
maIign the dead and insult the living, and
outrage the ordinary prophecies, it seems
to us that good men can have no other feel
ings than of loathing and contempt. AS
an example of the extreme to which
Blanchard and his cohorts carry their doc
tine, it may be added that they hold
no man who is member of any secret So
ciety, not excepting the inofensive and