The Newtown bee., 1898-10-14


for fl mlv believe that the Finger OF
God is in it, and ''He doetn sill things
+, we'll"
From our hasty and imper feet
glance, tonight, at the struggle which
began, as we have seen, more than three
centuries ago, between the Latin and the
| Anglo-Saxon races for the mastery in
! the New World, and we, faithfully trust
! ing in God, as the legend stamped on the
metallic money OF our people, always and
everywhere proclaimed, can feel an abid-
ing confidence. and rest assured
ON WHOSE BANNER VICTORY WILL FIN
ALLY PERCH,
and that liberty, and light, and law and
| love, will become embalmed in the peace
and joy of the World.
AT the conclusion of the address, vote
| of thanks was imam nously given by the
| audience to the speaker amid loud cheers
and applause. When QuieG was sufficient
ly restored, Judge Sherman said iG had
| b zen great pleas uie for him to meet so
many earnest and appreciative people
assembled here tonight in this large
lecture room of the Methodist Chapel in
the city of Danbury. The Methodist
Denomination, with its II elements Or
sections, comprises more than 1866, 600
members, clerical and lay, and is by far
the most numerous, and perhaps most
popular branch of Protestant Christen-
dom, to day, in the U. S. A., and to
which the patriot Cubans are, perhaps,
more indebted for their triumph, under
Gods providence, than to aIy other pDr-
ton Or 0enomiI alton in LhristendOm
1t was the good fortune of your speak
et In 1869, while he was the legal adviser
and iute prefer for the delegation of the
uban ladies of the Juuta Patriotica In
the city of New York, sent to Washing
tim on mission to petition Congress for
the Recognition of Cuban Independence
or for the concession of belligerant
rights o the patriots struggling for their
liberty, thar he first met that earnest
Christian devoted patriot, and Methodist
minister, Rev Mansfield French, who
had been sent by the lamented Lincoln,
snoT lo after the termination of the War
# the Rebellion in 1865, to teach the
newly made Freedmen Of South Caro-
lima, the difference between liberty and
slavery, where he remained for several
years, until he espoused with great zeal,
he cause of Cuba Libre, and came ! to
Washington where he composed a pray
err to be used in all the Protestant
churches of our country, for the divine
favor and guidance to the poor Cubans,
fighting for their civil and religious free
dom from their Spanish oppresaors.
SO notable and extending was the effect,
that the Spanish minister plenipotentiary
at Washington, entered formal protest
to Hamilton Fish, then sec1 etarv of
state under President Grant, for the pro-
hibiti0n and suppression Of that insur-
rectiOnary prayer against the honor and
dignity of Spain, which was at that
time at peace with this country, and per-
emptorily demanded that the punishment
OF fine and imprisonment be inflicted on
every pastor or person who should have
the hardihUod to use it or similar pray
er either in public, Or in private! Secre-
tary Fish, who was an eminent Episco-
palian in religion and staunch states
man in politics, replied to that imperious
demand that our governmet knew no
law, and had no right, nor power, to pro-
bibiC or interfere with the pious prayers,
in public or in private, Of any party or
portion Of the American p Ople. No
further discussion ensued between the
two government on that subj ect.
Rev John P. Newman, then The chap
lain of the u. s. Senate, was the friend
and admirer OF the said French, and be-
came an active and open worker in pro-
noting the patriot cause of Cuba, and
was prominent member and officer in
GhC tCub Juubd cIkaHILEu III HdSuIuRGOu
under the presidency of the accomplish
ed and talented, Mrs Senator Pomeroy
(t0rmerlY Boston lady with member
hip of many of the naGio aal and city
t fficials and persons eminent in the social
CIRCLES of the Capitol. The Rev DR.
Newman was afterwards elected to the
bench of Methodist Bishops. now resid-
ing in Omaha, Nebraska. But greater
il not 8 more modest and meritorious
Methodist still found in our great coun-
tIy is
HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
the commander-in-chief of the armies
and nav es of the United States of Amer
lea, who notified Spain in April last that
she must quit and surrender al claim
and posse sion of, in, or TO, every part
aud parcel Of the New World that does
not have republican form of govern
ment, her attention being especially in
vited to Cuba and Porto Rico, with their
adj cent islands. Let US hope she may
heed the behest and not think of coming
back again, at least during the admins
tration OF that mighty Methodist mar,
Mckinley.
To the Editor of The NEwTowN BEE,
Dear Sir: Hon Samuel Sherman of
DiOpAASAO uSilNSICu du up-bU-udLS lSCtuIp
in the Chapel Of the Danbury Meth 0dist
Episcopal church on Sunday evening
September 30, This lecture was able in it's
matter and eloquent in its delivery. The
audience was large and appreclatlye, the
Judge was pleasantly interrupted and de-
eide dly felicitous in his eloquent de-
livery by FIRE quent applause from his ap-
preclative auoience. And at the close of
the lecture upon the motion of Prof
Benedict Starr seconded by Hon Willard
T. VO 'es the entire audience responded
in hearty vote OF thanks to the Judge
for his lecture. Glad we are to have the
letter printed in full in your excellent
paper. The historic facts stated will be
useful and remembered by all people in
terested in the struggle of the Latin and
Anglo-Saxon races for the right of su-
premacy in the New World as it is to
exist in the coming new century of time.
Il Wellesley w. Bowdish, pastor,
Methodist Episcopal church, Danbury,
Conn, October 7. 1885,