Life — March 20, 1884 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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158 jaw-bone. Look up authorities! Rank Heresy! Can make a column on this. Didn’t hear the last sentence Luther uttered. Think he said ‘ Moses did n’t write the book of Proverbs!’ Audacious assertion. Query: is it consistent with Rev L. Hard- shell, D. D.’s ordination vows to say that about Moses? Print this in double lead! * * * * Sleepy.” Here there are evidences that the reporter tempo- rarily dropped his pencil and fell asleep. He waked in time to hear the words, “is not inspired of God.” These words are taken in short hand and are followed | by : “ Did not catch what is not inspired, but they say Rev. L. H., D. D., is a heretic and he must mean the Bible. We'll just boom him out the middle aisle to- morrow.” (What the Concluding Words of the Sermon Really Were.) 66 \ ND no man can stand in a Christian pulpit to-day and say the Holy Bible is not inspired of God !” (From the New York Busybody.) HERESY. Tue Rev. LurHer Harpsue.t, D. D., says: Tue Brste Is Nor InspirED oF Gop. He casts doubl also upon the story of Balaam, And denies also that Moses Wrote Holy Scripture. [Special to the Busybody.] ete. (The Consequences.) HE Rev. L. Hardshell is insane."—N. Y. Gazette, he Rev. Luther Hardshell should be expelled from the Church.”"—N. Y. Sensationalist. “The Rev, Luther Hardshell is reported to be sick at home, but this is only another phase of his hypocrisy. It was told us in confidence a few days since that his parishioners had requested his resignation.”—The N. Y. Lyre. “I deny that I have made any such statements in public as those imputed to me by a journal of this city.”—Rev. Dr. Hard- shell. “A question of veracity has arisen between a reporter of our journal and Dr, Hardshell, the heretic. We leave the public to judge which is worthy of belief."—N. Y. Busybody. The public, knowing that the Rev, Dr. Hardshell is naught but a minister of the Gospel, while his opponent’is a disciple of truth on a New York newspaper, unanimously decide that Dr. Hardshell must Gol J. K. Banos, One advantage of electric railways will be that we shall have good conductors. For the small boy—It never pains but he roars. BENEFIT OF CRITTENDEN VERSUS BENEFIT OF CLERGY. B' ESSED be that devoted Kentucky jury which has spoken the word the world so long waited for, and has told us what we shall call it, the—er—re- moving to a happier sphere of a black human being by a white human being. Of course we all know it could in xo case be murder. A white man CANNOT, no matter how hard he tries > LIFE: (and he tries pretty hard sometimes), murder a black man south of Mason and Dixon’s line. What does he do then? ‘This heroic band of twelve, after an hour’s deliberation, arrive at this great conclusion: | The crime (sic) is VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER! They work no pretext of accident or humbug about self- defense ; they confess that the prisoner did it on pur- pose ; nevertheless it is not murder. Delightful and delicate distinction ! The report of this remarkable trial says, “The prisoner’s family connection made it impossible to convict him of murder ”’—solacing thought to those who long for an aristocracy! It appears that we have one in the matter of crime. Even as a King can do no wrong, so a Crittenden can do no murder. In old times, if a man who could read or write com- mitted a crime, he could plead benefit of clergy in extenuation, and his sentence was thereby mitigated. Benefit of Clergy has long been obsolete, but now we have “Benefit of Crittenden,” by which, if a man can but plead that he belongs to a “ fast family,” he need never fear hanging. How charming the logic of this must be, to the lower classes ! A man of wealth, good birth, and education, com- mits a crime. A poor and ignorant man, who has lived always in an atmosphere of vice and struggle and hardship, does likewise. Thoughtless people might blame the educated man more than the other, but what a superficial view they must take of the matter! It is clearly impossible that a man so well brought up could mean to do wrong. We all know how virtuous money or power make a man or a family. Clearly the “ Bene- fit of Crittenden” is an excellent thing, only let us have all these doctrines plainly stated on our statute- books, or better still, in the Constitution. As thus: Murder, the voluntary killing of a white man (other than a Republican or a horse-thief), Voluntary man- slaughter the same crime, when the man-slayer is white and the slain is black. SOCIETY. ASHINGTON Society has been much satirized by novelists, amateurs and. professionals, of late, and its back fence has been plentifully bespat- tered with mud of many shades. The white-washing process has now begun ; “ Her Washington Season,” by Jeanie Gould Lincoln, is a pail of exceedingly thin and colorless calcimine. ‘Though spread on bounti- fully with a wide brush, we fear that the disfigure- ments on Washington palings, for which the authors of “Democracy,” “Through one Administration,” and “ A Washington Winter ” are responsible, will still shine through to the regret of loyal Americans and the de- light of Anglomaniacs. This novel is devoid of plot, incident or crisp dialogue. Its form—epistles to and from the various characters—is the surest and best comicbooks.com