The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-09

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 lack of early Sabbath school aoVah- tages, besides giving him the comfort of an inspired authority, in addltlon' u that of Webster.
 '4-About one minutes glance at the sermon itself, which will convince mn that the preacher pronounces the enlei prise of John Brown both foolish anu guilty, notwithstanding the high quail ties of it's author This will assure him that, notwithstanding his lears' northern pulpits encouraged by north- ern Christians will not justify any slaveholding John Brown with any IL men in any personal attack upon nm self. On the contrary, if he should De dragged from his bed at night, half ms head shorn, a cat o'ninetail plaster put upon his back and a coat of tar ana feathers furnished for winter Wear-as his brother democrats have recently received in South Carolina-if anything like this should be attempted upon the person of our terrified fellow citizen, 1t would certainly be pronounced by pull pit and pew foolish and guilty, because it was foolish" We can assure the Aurora that it is among friends. We cant spare it. at least until after the presidential election. It is making re- publicans every day, Just now it is advertising pr. Gulliver's sermon, ana if we may judge from the sales to the readers of the Aurora, the advertise | ment pays"
 This cumulative sarcasm was to much for the enemy, whose feeble efforts sl- | lently ended, while the whole town chucl1led in glee,
 Bromley's abhorrence of Buchanan was evident about this time, and the keen thrust of his napier in an editor ial of February 4, 1860, Is character | istic:
 From Washington we have the pro- ceedings of the House yesterday, ana the election of Mr. Forney to the clerk ship. We rather like the humor of this clerkship matter. To put directly un- der the nose of MT. Buchanan the man who. of all others, did the most to make him president, and of all others is most repentant of it, strikes us as being just the thing to remind the old gentleman that. after all, honesty is the best pol icy. John F. Forney's indorsement upon every bill that goes into the hands of the executive will serve him as a gentle reminder, and, we hope, will dc him good"
 In those days as in later years on the Tribune, the reader was ever on the alert for a surprise in Bromley's brief CT comments on men and affirs, the species of surprise which is the es- sence of wit The cheerful audacity oi his reference to his political contem- poraries is indicated in the following observation:
 A Westport correspondent of the Norwich Gazette says: Last Sunday we saw in MT Winslows seat at church Governor Tom Seymour, Geueral Pratt and Burr of the Hartford Times. Sey-
 mour for senator, Pratt for governor
 Winslow for lieutenant governor anf Burr for organ grinder and postmaster
 general!
 He touches up certsin of his oppon
 ents in the following editorial not o1 January 16, 1860: "A correspondent ot the Bridgeport Farmer who seems, fol one of his political stripe, uncommonlJ well versed in bilical lore, is pbrovins from scripture that slavery is a bene- ficent institution. He quotes the fac
 that Abraham, when he went dowr into Egypt, had, among other things man servants and he asses The com
 parison between Abraham and slavery
 seems perfect. The patriarch hat
 men servants and he asses-the slave
 power owns men servants and demo
 cratic editors"
 The gentler side of his nature is wis
 ible in a local observation noted unde
 the same date:
 "The snow which futtered down s'
 gently Saturday morning gave promis
 of the long hoped for sleighing. and tn
 sleigh bells jingled almost involuntaril.
 at the prospect. But hardly enougl
 fell to warrant the stablemen in takinE
 out their sleighs and Saturday nigh
 a drizzling rain moved off the little tha
 had fallen. The winter so far has no
 done much towards furnishing fun
 snow came down upon the ice ant
 spoiled the skating, and the rain come
 upon the snow to spoil the sleighing
 and the sun thaws both But there
 comfort in thinking that the warm SUI which melts the ice and snow is send
 ing good cheer to, and taking heart
 welcome from the roof1ess and homeless
 everywhere; that the children of pov
 ertv are wrapping the sunbeams roun them and warming with them col
 limbs for which there is scant coverin
 beside, and so the trickling streams into which the sources of merrlmen are melted, bear gladness with them. Of this same snow he writes in lighter vein. under date of Februar
 2. "The sleighing is the best we hay
 had this winter, but it is only good 1 spots, and the spots are rare at tha A good horse, comfortable sleigh, lou string of bells and active imaginatlo aren ecessary to the enjoyment of it. Another hit of local drollery, unde the solemn headline, Meeting Of th Trades" goes to show how the Dor editor can make copy in a country tow } on stormy day:
 } "At noon yesterday, with the mel cury down in the vicinity of nowher and nobody stirring on Franklin squar two good looking dogs, after conten plating each other for about four mil utes without word being said | ] either, took each other by the ear. TN ] minutes after four men assembled an A looked at the dogs, and in three minute
 27 representative of the various trad, : held a mass meeting on the spot. "The crowd increased to 40. Variol | opinions were expressed as to Whit | would whip The remarks of the il | | l,o o1J bod rrtii