The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-12-03


ing Dickens ''Barnaby Rudge." Mr..
Haredale is spoken of as "a good
Catholic" and the senseless perse-
cution of Catholics, and the outrages
of the riotous so-called Protestant
mobs during the Gordon Riots are
wildly portrayed in Dickens own,
mastery style, and ought to be at
least, one feather in their caps or at
least conceal one anathema due the
author.
But the plain truth of the whole
matter is this. This priesthood; hui
man lice infesting their flocks, and
pulling the wool over their eyes, to
keep them in the dark, as to their
true character; these microbes, in
oculating their victims with the
dread diseases, ignorance, supersti-
ton and bigotry; these self-appointed
judges of our glorious literature
which their poor little narrow minds
are totally unable to grasp or appre-
ciate, can do no harm with people
OF ordinary common sense, but
makes one feel deep commiseration
for the poor dupes they have got un-
der their thumb
They never do or say any
thing good; they always do and
say anything and everything that
is bad, so what is their opinion
worth? Nothing but contempt and
Indifference. And they have the i'm
pudence to say that the works Of
Charles Dickens are bad; dangerous
to morals, and evil in their tendency.
That priesthood would kidnap sweet
Dolly Warden and consign her to
white slavery in a convent; they have
treated many poor, erring Nancy
worse that did Bill Skies; they have
perpetuated and condoned such vii
lainy as the legerdemain hat trick
of Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks, to
encompass the ruin Of some poor Kit
who had excited their hatred; and to
please another Quilp in holy orders
Their Wackford Squeers have given
many a helpless Smike more blows
than the beads in the rosary, and
Uriah Heep can be found among
them, only not so humble but a heap
worse hypocrite They would insult
such royal gentlemen as the CHEEKY
BILE Brothers and if little Paul DOM
beg should ask, "What are the wild
waves saying, sister, the whole night
long?" he would be rebuked for i'm
piety, and they would pull down the
blinds and prevent the golden water
from falling on the wall by his bed
side.
May the Keeps among them
soon find their Betsey Trotwood and
Wilkins Micawber, and those ans
wering to the description of Squeers;
especially those who are sorting OUT
our literature, with good this, ~
''bad that "save this burn
that" had better dry up their philo-
sophy and loquacity, lest Newman
NOggs become too much exasperated
and they receive an acute attack of
the bellows. 1t is to be hoped that
none of the Quilps among them will
ever pOllute the waters of the
Thames, or the Hudson, or the Poto-
mac with their carcass, but will take
their final plunge in the river Styx,
at some hour during the night when
old Charon is fast asleep in bed.
1t is said that Rome never changes,
she is always the same They per-
secuted Calico for daring to say that
the earth moved. Of course if they
were such fools then, they are the
same now, so you see that what they
say on any subject, on literature or
aught else, should be treated with
the contempt that it deserves. They
didn't like Columbus notions about
the shape of the earth, but now they
seem to be stuck on Columbus and
would sneak around to America and