Filter Limit to issues of this title. Home Browse this collection. Archibald, Issue Vol. The Clergy man the Cosmos. An Old Dodge at Work. Cite Citation options: Work Image. Download Select the images you want to download, or the whole document. TIF high resolution. Or select a range of images:. It should start shortly Order You can order a copy of this work from Copies Direct. Enlarged on it. What you have said, what you have been saying: that is just what he would say: I have heard it often and often: the same eloquent forgivingness: better, the same refusal to judge, condemn.
He considered Stoddard "sour, dissatisfied, disgruntled: it has been so with him—that has been his humor—for many years. Poor Poe! I am sure when I kick the bucket he will be ready with some columns of obituaries just as vinegary, fault-finding, mean.
I remember the time I spent at St. Louis years ago—some - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [Begin page ] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - years ago: I would go into the schools—the kindergarten, others—there.
The children always insisted on a story—on hearing me talk—say something. I liked a little fancy—a fable of the cats: I repeated it—then—often here" —he closed his eyes an instant then resumed interestingly—simply, as a child—himself—and with much feeling: "The two cats went on a trip from home, then back again —along the same road, under the same conditions: the same sky overhead, the same influences about.
When they returned they were asked what they had seen. Oh how different the stories! They had gone the same road, met with the same experiences: one had to tell of the most wonderful adventures—had seen the most wonderful things: the road, the fields, the clouds above—tenderly, lovely, fascinating, compassionating: the other had realized nothing but horrors—had met reptiles, stagnant pools, poisons, despairs.
Stoddard is determined to see the bad, the dark, the venomous: it is his habit of mind: he is the second cat. I said: "The man who saw him so still would not write this article. Oh boy! If only William O'Connor could hear you talk so!
Should we send him the magazine? Talk took still another turn. Some one sends me some of his poems: they - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [Begin page ] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - seem to imagine a likeness between us—seem to see some suggestions of me there, of Leaves of Grass. I remarked it. Much of his inoiioy wits the result of fortunate Investments, but the capital which he invented was what he earned writing tho lcttera that, luring tho wur, were moro widely published and read than tho produc tions of any other author on tho continent.
Those wore very coarse carlcatttroH of the. Bourbon De mocracy of tho southern and border HfateH, were without literary merit, and were all upon one line, but thoy appealed utrongly to tho iopular homo of tho rldlculouH, wero level to comprehension of tho plain people, and thoy made their way where direct argument, towed upon hurd fact, could not go, and hud an in fluence which tho eloquence and logioofthe greatest statesmen did not exert. And Ijocuuhc they pleased tho people thoy made Locko famous nnd rich, Just im Nast'tt caricatures In Humor's have won for Mm fortune and repulullon and contrib uted very largely to the suc cess of the publication in which thoy were given to tho publlu.
Nast when in Kulum a few weeks ago ptuted, what wiw nlrwuiy known to no tlio ruct, thut atone time whcij ho ami tho Har erH could not agree h to tne miration In which ho wtioiilil hIi. Capital Journais "With out wishing to perpetrate pun, probably now developed Into a chestnut, I wish to say that you have made of your paper a capital Journal. But I presume, friendly criticisms will, with your usual liborallty, be allowed.
In your salutatory you praise the republican party and very justly for tho fuct that, twenty-eight ycare ago, it "planted itself upon a single sentlmonfr the preservation of this union.
Around this central idea the best and bravest of tho nation rallied," etc. Then you declare that "the democratic party has no great principle this is its misfortune. Is there not another party with a great, leading "sentiment," and "a central idea"?
Has notthe,prohlbition party agreat and grand aim, "the preservation of the union" from the wasting, with ering blighting curse of tlio grog shop and the liquor trafflc? That our beloved land needs this preser vation Is evident, for tho Toledo Blade, as staunch a republican paper as tho Capital Journal, deliberately says that "tho country must kill the liquor traffic, or tho liquor traffic will kill the country.
Do you not think It will be heard from during the coming state and presidential elections? Have not , among "tho tot and bravest" rallied around It with wonderful enthusiasm? True, that Is not so vast a number.
But hnd tho republican party as many, eight and twenty years ago? And, without supposing you to be a prophet, do not "coming events casting their shadows before" in dicate a largo Incrcaso in Nov.
Please do tho fair thing by us all, and do not limit tho active parties aia-ady stripped for tho tight, with national conventions called, to only two. Yours, r PRomnmoNisT. Is it any wonder that the polities of that L. It will continue so, unless tho peo ple take hold of the primary meet ings and purgo them of professional "slate makers.
This government Is essentially political. Any person having a thorough knowledge of the political Issues between the great parties since J"the Declaration of Indepen dence, knows well the history of the United States. The man who takes no interest in the primary, and avoids having anything to do with politics, is not a good nor safe citi zen. Politics make the laws that crovern us ana elect tne men mat administer them from tho president down to constable.
Politics are the foundation and support of tho fabric under which we live. Tho man who takes no interest In politics, leaves the dearest interests of his country to be appropriated by the sportsman and place hunter. He, by his in difference, is sowing the seeds of de cay and eventual dissolution, for If this government ever falls, its great est cause of overthrow will como through its own impurity, brought about by tho indifference of the peo ple, and the wickedness of Its politics.
Is now reaching nunareqs pi Dy exien I raiding rv of the United States. Their facill ir 1 lo by extensively nrivprtlsln?
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