The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-01
REWARD OF DISHONESTY.
An Example OF How Sin ID Dealt With b
the Divine Ruler.

An Example OF HOW Sin 10 Dealt Win "
the Divine Ruler.
God will not allow sin to sneak out OF
the world, God will not allow it mere
~ to resign and quit. This shall not be
case that goes by default because no one
appears against it. God will arraign 1t,
handcuff it, try it, bring against it the
verdict Of all the good, and then gibbet
it so high up that, if one-half of the glib
bet stood on Mount Washington and
the other on the Himalayas it would
not be any more conspicuous. About
fifteen years ago we had, in this coun-
try, a most illustrious instance Of how
God let's q man go on in inquiry, so
that, at the. close OF the career,
his overthrow may be the more
impressive, full. Of warning and
climacteric. First, an honest chair
maker, then an alderman, then men,
Der Of congress, then supervisor Of a
! city, then school commissioner, then
| state senator, then commissioner OF
public works-on and up, stealing thou
sands of dollars here and thousands Of
dollars there, until the malfeasance in
Office overtopped anything the world
had ever seen-making the new court
house in New York monument Of mu-
nicipal crime, and running the debt At
the city from thirty-six million dollars
to ninety-seven millions. Now he is at
the topof millionairedom. Country-seat
terraced and arbored and parterred clear
to the waters brink. Horses enough
! to stock kings equerry. Grooms and
positions in full rig. Wine cellars
enough to make a whole Legislature
drunk. New York finances and New
York politics in his vest pocket. He
winked. and men in high place fell. He
lifted his little finger, and ignoramuses
took important Office. He whispered,
and in Albany and Washington they
said it Numbered. Wider and mightier
and more baleful his influence, until il
seemed as if Pandemonium was to be
adjourned to this world, and in the
Satanic realm there was to be change
Of administration, and Apollyon, who
had held dominion SO long, should have
a successful competitor To bring all
to climax, wedding came in the
house Of that man. Diamonds as large
as hickory nuts A pin Of sixty dia
monds representing sheaves of wheat
Musicians in semi-circle, half.hidder
by great harp of flowers. Ships OF
flowers Forty silver sets, one OF them
with two hundred and forty pices. One
wedding dress that cost five thousand
dollars. A famous libertine, who owned
several Long Island Sound steamboats,
and not long before he was shot for his
crimes, sent as wedding present to
that house frosted silver iceberg
with representations Of Arctic bears
walking on icicle handles and ascending
the spoons Was there ever such con
vocation of pictures, bronzes, of bric-a
brac, of social grandeurs? The highest
wave Of New York splendor rolled into
that house and recoiled never again tc
rise so high. But just at that time
when all earthly and internal OBJ
servation was concentrated on thai
man, eternal justice, impersonatet
by that wonder of the American
bar, Charles O'Connor, got on the
track of the offender. First arraign
ment, then sentence to twelve years
imprisonment under twelve indict
ments, then penitentiary on BLACKWELL.
island, then a lawsuit against him fol-
six million dollars, then incarceration
in Ludlow Street Jail, then escape tc
foreign land, to be brought back under
the stout grip of the constabulary, ther
dying Of broken heart in prison cell
God allowed him to go on in iniquit,
until all the world saw as never before
that "the way Of the transgressor i.
hard" and that dishonesty will not de
clare permanent dividends, and thai
you had better be an honest chair
maker with days wages at tim,
than a brilliant commissioner of fin,
works, all your pockets crammed will
plunder. in N. Y. Observer