Nevada County picayune., 1889-08-28
MRS. CANFIELD'S LETTER.
A Kansas Woman Islanders the Southern People while Partak-
 ing of their Hospitalities.


 Tenn, attending the National Teachers Association, of which her husband was president The letter was written from Nashville to Mrs. J. k. Hudson. wife of the editor of the Capital, published at Topeka, Kan. The worst feature of the whole thing is, the letter was written while Mrs. Garfield was the guest of Southern people and enjoying their 1 frcest hOspitaities Read it care fully. It will show you how debased even Republican women are. The following is the letter III full:
 We came by way of St. Louis, and covered Missouri, part of Illinois and the whole of Kentucky.
 l was rather disappointed in the looks of the Sunny South so far as have seen it. Kentucky, seen from our car windows, seemed very much like Missouri; unkempt and uninter- esting, the towns are small, poverty stricken and dirty At the stations the people were sunburned. sad and stolid creatures men chewed to- bacco, women wore sun-bonnets, and negroes were plentiful, ragged and dirty. Tobacco warehouses were conspicuous in every place we passed through; miles of swampy roads, and we seldom saw well kept and prosperous looking farm. It is quite possible the railroad passes through the worse part of the country. It often does. Nashville is beautifully situated on the Cumberland river and has population of. l00,0 people.
 Yesterday we went to the largest church here, Methodist one. The minister was an invited guest of the one in charge, and much to my sur prise he gave a fine liberal sermon. A regular simon pure Unitarian sermon. have been told that they are very old fashioned in religious matters in the South, maintaining a strict orthodoxy. A Unitarian church does not exist here. Imagine my surprise then to hear this sermon. But, as 1 say, the man was a stranger, and 1 don't think his dis course was relished by the congrega- ton, There were no responsive faces around me. His one thought was, Religion Is a simple thing; follow the truth as it is revealed to each soul and initiate Christ. He was odd and "Beechery" in some of his illustrations and expressions. "If you think heaven is going to be recruited from the NJ. F.. church alone. you will be nightly mis- taken" We should not make forms and ceremonies part of our selves, but wear them as we do our clothes, ready to lay them aside for better ones when they are outworn. If we wear them like our skins, we are sure to become hidebound, and a hidebound Christian is no better than a parchment-dried old Phar- isee." "The Jew is bound by the clip theory; the Baptist has the dip theory; Presbyterians have the grip theory; Episcopalians have the tip theory; Methodists have the hop and skip theory; and they are all apt to wear these theories like their skins, till they are hidebound." Much of his discourse was smooth and elo- quent, and think of his quoting Emerson and Tennyson, A Metho- dist minister in the South
 A ROSEAEE FUTURE FOR THE NEGRO.
 In the afternoon we took dummy street car and went to the outskirts of the city to a pretty park six miles out. Thousands Qf people were enjoying the cool breezes under the trees in a very quiet way. We saw no drunken people all day. When we returned we took another dummy hne to see West Nashville and the suburbs in another direction, The train this time had two cars, one for the whites and one for the blacks. Several colored girls, well dressed and quite good looking, got into the car we were in while we were waiting for the time to start, the coIMctor told them thpA must go in the next ear. They left the train with indig- nant faces and did not go at all. discussed this incident with a South ern woman who sat next to me in