The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-27
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THE CLERGY.
"Whet1er weJsay he ought to have
ought 10 have been more self-contained,
or he ought not to have let his angry
passions riso. ho did 1t, and the Question
Is; Did he do It corruptly? Did he do It
deliberately? Was 1t premedtnted2 Do
YOU believe it7 Nov, Il the president Of
tho Court Of Appeals of this State we're
5insultcd oil the street or lnsulted any
where and IN q moment Of passion he
resents tho Insult and strikes down the
1 offender, Will YOU say that he should
be removed from tho bench? Dfface this
man (CampbclD from your mind and take
| any Virginia judge; take some man who
| commands your entire approval and APP
probation for his personal and official
character and put him In this mans
place, and say II YOU are prepared "A to
state that because that man for a mos
ment. In the hour Of temptation. loses
i command and control Of himself and ex-l
presses resentment, that he thereby con-5
defnns himself and his posterity to ever
lasting perhdy and shame? "A
Nov, gentlemen, must read to you,l
| even II 4 have to drag 1t in by the ears,
d thing that came In more appropriately.
| in another connection about our friends.
the clergy. carrying too far this desire
Of theirs to preach politics. A little while
| ago an ecclesiastical Acknowledging up here
| in New York. the Rev.. Dr.. Parkhurst,
said that even ut this day, so long after
emancipation and the constitutional
amendment that followed, there Is In
many parts Of the South a condition Of
vcritable slavery. Although we claim to
be civilized, yet there Is a degree Of bar.
| bnrlsm In certain parts Of the South
and although we send our missionaries
to Chrlstianlze ether lands, there are re
communities In the South as un-C Chris
| tan{ s any part OF heathendom.',i lt
! f"Now, ] make no reference to the fact
/ that this gentleman was a Northern man.
| I say thatno Virginia clergyman In the
| history Of this Commonwealth has ever
degraded his office or. his personality by
making sudl, a publca ton as that against
n Virginia Judge or officer. I say that
when#t this man (CampbeD saw this for
| eigner here, who had not been more than
a year In this State, offering him this In
| dignity that that was an element that
lie Justly took into consideration.
Now, permit me just In closing to-
1 Tread to YOU one sentence from the great
est and wisest political philosopher that
In my Judgment has ever lived nBmod-%s
| ern times. 5 Edmund Burk has said: 3S33E
E"f'No sound ought to be heard in the
church but the healing voice Of Chris
tian5 charity The cause Of civil liberty
and civil government gains as little as
ties. Those. who quit their proper char
| acter to assume what does not belong to
1 them are, for the greater part, iEnOr-&
ant both Of the character they leave and
| OF the character they assume. Wholly
unacuuainted with the world in which
/ they are so fond of nneddling and mex
perenced in alls its affairs Z on which
/ they pronounce with soimuch confidence, y
| they have nothing of titles BIZ the
passions they excite. Surely the church lh1,e !,
4 is place where one day s truce ought lg t
| to be allowed to the dissenslons ana
animosities Of mankind
1 NIEDDLESOME $YANIlEl3.{ f
i @ I'VE say that our brethren here OF the Il
church are comparatively free from that
i In Virginia. but for half a century past
! we have had missionaries sent he from
4 the Nortf, to teach lis how 10 live and
3t3how to die We are barbarlans, We
4 are unciviized ;5they send their n,issitr-a
4 aries here and openly proclaim, as this \
4 man Parkhurst has done. that We Stand
4 in as much need. of missionaries from
the North rs savages sin.slealneI' aI,us
/ do # Now. I say hat Swhen ma t$aorr 81
with the ecclesiastical garb upon. MIN,
4 and offers an indignity. a gross and out
4 rageo,,s Insult as this man did. It IS a
Legitimate fact to consider. that ne rs 4
not one of our home people, VINO Is r.
/ proving me for my sins; he IS all infa a
| nous. meddlesonle 3 Yankee who come s
there in the spirit that brought on t ne
\ Civil War. that led to Uncle Tom Ca
bin that led to every propa gandas of IN
jtfamy that has ever come from wv M ll
quarter down to this. I say that when
a man is insulted as Campbell was, It
f is a Legitimate subject for him to take
into account that the man who has of
fered that lnsult@is not one of III Gps2,-5
tplc, but ls n meddling, tiHpudent, au-
daclous intruder into our social al Z ONT
Iical and ecclesiastical affairs, f
| There was a perfect storm OF APPLAUSE
| and cheering when Major Conrad con-
| cluded, and Chairman Southall raped
vigorously for order.
The committee cried loudly FOR order
| and threatened to clear the House Ma
\ Tor Conrad expressed the hope that there
1 would be all "extenson Of indulgence"
! by the committee Mr. Strobe also asked |
! that the House he not cleared. lie s''g-
gested a. recess ofsfye or ten minutes for
| the purpose of getting some fresh air.
| and the committee rose to the suggestion. |
MIR. Strobe Speaks.
Mr.. STROBE was deliberate in his open,
i ing He spoke with great ease, and
\ seemed to realize the high degree of re-
sponsIblllty which rested upon him he
was somewhat disposed to ridicule the
great lawyer who had preceded MN,
and turning to Major Conrad he said:
am an humble servant standing mere 10
do my duty as I see.it In the sight Of
my. God and Of my people,
i IIe asserted that It had been the de,
fense and not the prosecution that had
beclouded the issue with crossroads
| politics.
He said Major Conrad had come into
the case with the word mystery upon
his lips and he had gone out Of It with
.mystery Of mysteries.Bupon his lips.
ity of the situation here presented, Mr..
| Strobe entered into an able defense OF
| Amherst county, and said the best PEG.
| Die thereof were not responsible, and II
| It was continued tho people Of Virginia
| would know who were responsible, as the
case had been properly presented to a
regularly constituted committee OF the
| Legislature of Virginia,
He was sure It had been demonstrated
that Judge Campbell was not TT man
| to hold the high office of judge IN the
| State of Virginia.
Te took up the i. p, Beard case first
and said Judge Campbell had printed
| In his paper that he would show some
! further developments against people who