The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-07-18
Row A RED-aKIN C0EsTRUCrgD PRo.
FAME EXPRESSION.
Written for "opiniion. .

Iwrito this ia simple justice to an
injured man. When 500 an oppor-
tunity TO deal ont even-hsnded justice,
you will generally find me there asst
Ing The goddess with tho bread and milk
poullice over hOr eyes. / was always
that way oven az a child. Later on, M
q Justice of the Peace, was known all
over the West as headquarters for sub
stantial justice. am that way yet.
There is an aneedoie in the great list
Of American yains which ruas some
thing like this .: A wicked, unregen-
crate and profane m ,u once journeyed
through the South, in the land that is
over against Mason and Dixon's line,
and bshold, be met n largo multitude
upon the way and hc said unto one Of
those whom he met, "Whither 20 ye =
And they answered him, "Even unto
the baptism" which Is after the man
ner Of that country. And he turned
about and followed them even unto the
rink wbersat they did baptize.
Now, it so happened that when the
preacher had washed away slough Of
sins and was about through, the profane
man f,om tbs SAa Juan, who stood by
the shore, seeing that the preacher was
aweary and that be approached the bank
for 10 come out, put forth bis hand 10
aid him but behold, when hc put
forth his hand tho preacher rallied aud
jerked the worldly man from San Juan
into the water and proceeded TO baptize
him with the usual extempore remarks.
The profane man sought again and
again to excnse himself, aud even with
tears to set forth that ho had not been
regcneratod, and that owing TO the panic
he had failed 10 meet with change Of
heart, but the preacher would not listen
tot. lie immersed the ungodly man
from San Juan aud asked him hos he
felt. Forgetting for the moment the
peculiar circumstances y which he was
surrounded, the profare man made an
swer that he felt o. X hut it would
be d-d long tins before hc attended
another baptism.
Well, that's the story, and last SUM-
mer Bishops Beck~ith, Of FloridA, in
Company with Several other Bishops
and Rev. M. Gilbert ,of Christ's church,
St. Paul, and several other gentlemen,
went up on the north shnrs Of Lake
Superior TO catch four. pcund trout in =
stream with long Indian name that
makes into Superior. Bishop Btck-
with told the above story 10 tho party,
aud, unfortunately in the presencs Of
two or three I6diAn guides who took
the party up he'stream in their canoes.
Well. an Indian may be internally stu
pid about all matters OF national and
international law, bat when a man says
I'D" il seems TO be Language thai
Just hits him exactly. lie can grappl,
with that and understand it 6rst rate
You swear at an Indian, whether he i
Chippewa on the shores Of :he grea
lakes or the classical Angle Worm Fate
Of tho Pacific slope, and he smiles an,
understands you. These Indians un
derstood just that one word Of th'
Bishops anecIote, and they CASUAL,
told, whom they brought the clerica
fisherman back, that the party had hat
big row on tbe trip and swore at each
other like pirates, or. words to that effec;
The story is still prevalent in the North
west that such is the case. IL is TO rec
tify this mistake, therefore, that | nov
take my pen in hand. If | can in tha
way set good man right before tn
people Of the United States and Sc
Lawrence county, New York, it viii
not only be pleasant to him, bnt i; MAJ
call attention to the almost crimina
scorn for truth which we often 6nC
scorched into the sin-soaked soul Of the
red man as the result, according to tht
sore-eyed philanthropist, of contac
with our modern alcoholic saturated
civilization.
please send marked copies of "Opin
ion' to Bishop Beckwitt, Of. Florida
and to some of the Northern Chippewl
Indians, whose names will follow thi'
letter on Hat-cars.