The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-05-04

=. 'iiC licSt IHItuccludl woman OF hel
lhne, the triple champion of Temper
&hce, Alll-SlaVery and the Higher Ed
acatlon OF " omen, on whose appetite
Ter knowledge, Carlyle Characteristic
any and caustlcally comments thus
SGch Il determination to eat this huge
universe. And who can forget the
eccentric high-souled and loWly mind
ca Ih0reau, the p0et-naturalIst who
i,yed III small cabin ON the banks OF
Walden Pond, near Concord fer TIVE
years III the strictest seclusion and de.
honStrated the fact that he could live
on nine cents day and who Strove t.
re&lIZe the objective life Of nature
nature III its aloOfness from man; IL
ldenlny himself with the moose and
The mountain, and who listened with
ms ear close to the ground for the
voice of the earth eXclaiming wv hat
are the trees sayingE'' This earthn
he cried which is spread out like a
map around me is but the lining OF
my lnmoSt soul exposed, " 4 grand
characters was Ih0reau, a warm
heart, but a cold philosophy Then
there was Hawthorne the greatest Am
erican rOmancer, 50 some think. Long
fellow the sweet singer of Cambridge,
A-ANLiu Va bilN iitSlt, All1 vi lilG lllNlA.tlI
the beloved of poets, because he was
the poet of the home, OF love, Of be
reayement, of comfort, of patience, of
faith, OF God Prescott the partially
blind historian who showed so much
grit as to teach himself Spanish, and
look up authorities, through the help OF
others and TO write with a photograph
or by amanuenseS; Wendell Phillips
the American DemOstheneS who could
eXalt his heroes to the pinnacle Of glory
and honor, till his listeners agreed with
him, despite themselves, and who after
the murder Of LOyejOy became the
great abolitioniSt orator; Bryant the
American Wordsworth and immortal
writer of that remarkable poem Than
atopsis''; Edgar Allen Poe, the unfor-
tunate dissipated genius, the Chat
tert0n of the South whose thrilling
poem The Raven has won him a
worldwide reputation; \. +. Willis
the writer Of that beautiful poem The
Death of AbsalOm'; Bayard Taylor,
the graphic writer on travels; Foster
the writer Of those beautifully pathetic
songs, Old folks at Home, My old
Kentucky Home the plaintiyeness of
which dad as much in one line TO win
sympathy for the negro as Harriet
Beechcr Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin"
did Ill another line and Henry Ward
Beecher did III another and when the
history OF the war is referred to, in
future generations the names Of Henry
Ward BeechCT, Mrs Beecher Stowe,
stephen c. Foster, " endell Phillips
Abraham Lincoln and L. ). Grant VIII
be 50 associated chronlOgically, as to
make 1t necessary to speak OF them in
the same connection. Liberty and Tn
ion was gained through the instru-
mentality Of these great pers0nageS
stephen Lanier the brilliant Southern
poet who wrote the Centennial HYMN
Is name not to be forgotten, and be-
fore closing on this topic we cannot
forget the history Of American humOr
with ''ArtemuS Ward as its prince
4 humor, characteristic Of its people
and best understood and appreciated
by them, With that humorous philoso-
pher Josh Billings and that way
side politician Petroleum V. Nasty"
and ii we could mention living literary
and art lights we should mention the
names Of Bancroft the aged historian,
and Lowell, the polished ltterateur
and Holmes the Veteran AUtOCrat at
the Supper" table, Whittier the QUak-
er poet and much loved American cit
zen; Walt. " hiJman the rugged phil
Cs0pher, and 'NaTk Twain" the Gisci-
pie 81 ArttmuS Ward, Edmund EV
erett Hale, the boys friend; Francis
Bret Harte, the California Miners
friend; Geo. W. Gable the descriptive
writer, W. Dean Howell the realistic
novelist and Bot" Burdette, The
ser.o-comic philosopher. Therecords Of
America in the literary and art world
Is a grand record, commanding respect
all over the world and fast approaching
the goal Of indisputable superiority
over all other nations.
ASST REFERS TO RELIGION.
". The Christian religion owes
much under God To the growth OF this
W Gajern Republic. Nh Brddlaugh,
the English mfidtl or AguOstic III q
recent article in the North American
Review tried to show that unDelIef has
been a good thing for the world, and
evidently proved it to his own salts
faction. Tie only grounds upon which
his argument was based was that in So
called Christian lands, there had been
SO much persecution of each other and
that it was by those who were so called
unbelieVerS that this persecution was
abolished. 1t is a very easy matter to
attribute everything 10 the Christian
religion that hrppened, whether good
or bad, and especially bad, Tor he takes
care not to mention the good done. 1t
would be interesting to learn from Nh
Bradlaugh as 10 whether lie thinks the
Christian religion is Of any good and
we in turn would ike to remind him
M a hngfgrl IA
that still exist III nominal Christian
countries, which we would fam see
altered, still it is nevertheless a fact
that where the Christian religion is the
most practiced, there is The place
where we have the greatest liberty.
The old countries believed in the DI-
vine right OF kings, (the bible did not
teach them so, but suppose 3Ir. Brad
laugh doesn't take that INTO aCc0mt,
and still believe in it to a great ex-
tent. The eminent German ChanCel-
l0r Bismarck would stake all he had on
that belief. As a consequence they
have submitted and still submit to 4
form OF government that IS incompat-
Idle with Christian liberty. 1t is true
that so-called Christian liberty IS en-
iOyed III most OF the countries Of
Europe, and yet it is also true that the
liberty is strangely limited. sweden
and Norway tolerate all religions, and
yet all NoncOnformity is dsspised and
prosecuted, and he who does not hap
pen to be a member Of the National
Lutheran Church is practically ostra-
clsed- The same condition OF things
exist in Germany to a still greater eX-
tent, our own church being the subject
OF ridicule and contempt. Ia France
and Spain the PrOtestants are bounded
by the Jesuits, though claiming to have
religious liberation; while Italy, the
most recent in monarchicll existence
as. 4 consolidated nation, is far ahead
Of any other country or the continent,
and simply because there is a more lib-
eral spirit. The prospects in this
stronghold Of Roman Catholicism are
exceptionally bright, and yet 1t must
not be understood that there is what
ire call religious liberty" Even Great
Britain is a hundred and fifty years be
hind the United States in this respect.
50 great is their reverence for the State
Church, that they make al pay tithes
for It's support, whether Episcopal or