Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-29

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historic pageant was the walking TO-
gether Of Senator Berry of Arkansas
and General Henderson at the head of
the congressional escort Berry on his
crutehes and Henderson on his cork leg
each having lost leg at Corinth on
/ the same day-one in the Confederate
army, the other under the starry ban
ner of the republic. As these gray and
battle SCARED veterans hobbled along
many an eye was dim with tears, and
the thoughts Of many a grizzled old
soldier went back to the awful days Of
18615 with fervent gratitude that we
are now living in a reunited country.
Henderson's good fellowship was IL
Illustrated as we rode out to the grave
| yard. Somehow Senator Berry had lost
his poeketbook containing all his sh
and his return ticket either on the tram
or jostling around in the crowd. As
soon as he announced his loss, before
any one else could offer to render him
any assistance, Henderson ran his hand
down into his pocket, pulled out roll
| of greenbacks, counted ont three SO
bills aud, in spite of Berrys protests,
forced him to take them. There's broth
erhood for you.
A great many people crowded up
about the vehicle in which we were
travelling to shake hands with Berry
and Henderson. One Kansan asked
Henderson if be knew his uncle who
lived in his district, explaining that his
uncle's name is Gum. "Oh, yes.
cheerfully replied the general. Il al
ways endeayor to keep my Gums with
mer'
Everybody, especially Mrs. Bland.
was glad that General Henderson at
tended the funeral
don't know how General Henderson
is fixed financially though / have al
ways understood that he is not rich.
But if he can stand the expense | pre-
diet that socially he will be the most
popular speaker since Blaine He is
fond of society, aud euts splendid fig
ure in society. With him it js not
perfunctory performance. gene through
with as matter Of duty. but he enters
most enthusiastically into the enjoy
ments of the occasion and makes people
enjoy themselves His wife and daugh-
ter are much like him in this respect.
and the speaker S receptions will be as
popular as the president 5, This will be
a great change, as both Speaker Reed
and Speaker Crisp lived at hotels and
entertained very little.
Eastern LawIessness.
Preachers tarred. feathered and rid
den on "A rail in Maine A colored man
and brother hunted by mob in Con
necticut bent on hanging him. What
is the world coming to anyway? We
are certainly on the broad road down
| hill to the bowwows instead Of on the
| pathway to the millennium. When
read the account of these barbarous
proceedings in aesthetic and godly New
England, really had to pinch myself
to see if was awake.
This spring, when the Massachusetts,
legislature-o / beg pardon abjectly
on my marrow bones | really didn't
mean to write the word legislature lit
was lapsus penna. When the general
court of Massachusetts q think that's
what they call their lawmaking body,
was agitating for the repeal of the law
banishing dear old Rcdger Williams for
preaching the gospel some hundreds of
years ago, had high hopes that New
England was becoming liberalized, not
that the repeal would have made any
difference TO Rodger, for be has long
/ been beyond the reach of human malice
or human hattery, but it would have
helped Massachusetts, and that's why /
rejoiced. New, my hopes of New Eng
land are dashed rudely to the ground.
If the departed spirits of the mighty
dead take any cognizance of perform
ances on this mundane sphere, how the
souls of Charles Sumner. Harriet Beech
er Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison and
other distinguished and defunct New
| Englanders must swell to bursting with
4 Indignation that is, if souls can burst
when they learn that that Connecti-
/ cut mob is chasing a colored man with
blood in its eye. murder in its heart
and rope in its baud. To them surely
/ this latest manifest ton Of Connecticut
/ civilization, philanthropy and Chris
tian charity is the saddest chapter in
| the book of time. Hereafter. when Sam
bo goes larking around in the Nutmeg
State, he woud do well to look out for
his neck, for the lynching habit is more
contagious than the measles, the small
pox or the bubonic plague.
The Devil Loose.
There used 10 be saying, 1.-THE devil
has broken loose in Georgia I" How it
originated do not know Neither am
| advised as to what it meant, but
whatever it was it must have been
something awful. With merely change
IN geography. it really appears that
s'the devil has broken loose in New
England, for scarcely had dried my
tears over the imminent peril of that
! colored man and brother in Connecticut
than my eyeballs were scared By read
ing blood curdling account of how
7 Evangelists Higgins and Clement were
/ mobbed at Levant. in Penobscot county,
Me-, TIE other day. Being SO overcome
By this dreadful intelligence. cannot
voice my sentiments on the subject
Indeed / am dumb in the presence of
such a vigorous and astounding mani
festation of New England conscience
and Puritan excellence. So. being toe
much unnerved to compose anything
worthy of the mournful occasion, put
/ forward as substitute Hon. Beriah
Wilkins, editor in chief of the Wash
ington Post. That erudite and coura
geous man for he must have leonine
courage to condemn anything. however
horrible, done in New England had the
temerity to say inter alia
sit was one of the most brutal out
RACES ever perpetrated in civilized
community, There is not a single miti-
eating or palliating circumstances in
| this affair 1t was utterly unprovoked
The only offense of the victims was
that their religions views did not har
monize with those generally held by
the people OF the vicinage The Journal
speaks of Higgins and Clement as re
ligious teachers who take St Peter lit
orally. One of them was stripped.
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