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THE SEDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 6, 1882. PACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS. In the Spirit of Thomas, the Doubt er, George Alfred Towneend Searches American History. Globe Democrat The Elks gave a benefit and compli ment together last week to Mr. George Alfred Townsend, who produced foi the third time his new lecture under the somewhat mystical title of "Thom as, the Doubter." Instead of being a religious discourse it was a slightly skeptical, yet very candid, desciption of the American Presidents, as hand led and their wounds touched and ex- plored where they lived and were born, among their neigbors and neighbors' posterity. Thesentence by which this mvaterirftUR title was wnna around tn j -5 suit the subject matter is a good i n stance of the lecturer's long-ruddered craft: ' 'Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "in no irreverent spirit I chose for the title of my little sketch this evening, the name of that disciple which has passed into a by-word because his faith and his fear were both so strong thai he must put his hands on his Lard to know Him well. KeareJ myself in the familiar relations to religions things my father's parsonnge afforded. I ever longed to go forth aud touch the lordly men whose wounds and fame survive, the grave, our Presidents and their competitors. Every cherished hope, nursad with faith, blossoms sometimes in our hands, and thrown into news paper life at the age of nineteen. I nave, in the course of twenty-three years, been able to visit the abodes and graves of nearly every President, and of most of the candidates and aspirants for the Presidency ; and this is the sub ject of my talk to night, to h audle them AS IF THEY WERE ALIVE and among us again, uninfluenced by books, politics or authority." In this rapid, skillful way, as if the litle'had been a mere afterthought, the lecturer came boll upon the rise and character of Washington. He poured a fund of study end poetry to gether into the successive personal ca reers of the presidents down to Buch anan, and there in an original poem considered all the defeated candidates from Horatia Gates and Hamilton down to Greeley. The lecture had a certain neutral indifference to any body's pre-conception about any of the presidents, but its tone was pitched nigh and its humor was rather a con descension, while the smothered ardor of old fashioned American patriotism all through it atoned for some of its severities. A lecture seldom has left a more distinct impression upon an audience, the picturesqueuess of the portraits not being at the expense of the thought and character conveyed. It was above an hour and a half in de livery, having been cut down from nearly two hours when first given in Ohio, last Wednesday night. Mr. Townsend is a man 45 years old, weighing 200 pounds, about five feet 10, with a Maryland face, broad and with high cheek bones, the skin clear the eyes bluish gray, with black pupils, the manner firm and slightly cold or rather bashful, with a touch of boyishness in it His voice is not deep but penetrating. He affects nothing of the orator, but lays himself out to do justice to his extensive subject, and builds it up like a pyramid tiii its con clusion is as elevated as its motive is fearless and pure. As this lecture is, perhaps, the only new one on the ro3trura this year, a fow extracts are made from it. OF WASHINGTON the lecturer said : "No more preco- cious diplomat and soldier ever lived than Washington. Like all our great Presidents, he was a Western man. At 16 he was among the Indians; at 21 he fought a battle on the Monon gahela, hich had more extravagant echos than the first shot at Lexington; it started the seven years' war, which snade the Prussian Empire of to-day, drove France from the American con tinent, established the British Empire in India, and founded the Russia rff -Catherine the Great. All this was the fruit of Washington's killing Jum onville on the Monongahela, and is shows what a drop of Bourbon and Mononejahela can do. He was not an observer of his neighbor's wavs, nor would he declaim against liumui nature. He demanded no i;hat such be goocl in the abstract, but -that they fu fill their obligations. When he had reached the ae of 55. mD was the greatest figure of his time, he drew up and signed articles of agreement with ove Philip Barber, A-vAm xrhn o.mii onlv mult a hia gliucucii " r mark, saying : 'He will not at any time suffer him self to be disguised with liquor except on times hereinafter mentioned, to wit : Four dollars at Christmas, with which to be drunk four days and four nights ; $2 "at Easter to effect the same purpose; $2 at Whitsuntide to be Snink two days, and daily a dram in it. nnintr and a drink of sire? aw lire - - i dinner Wnoon He had seen the real play of man, the animal, in the army ranks, exposed, undomestic, needing change and joy, and he avoided a great deal ot personal misery oy regulating the animal instead of making him bet ter than his Maker had. In his pres ence nobody was allowed to be drunk, to 8 wear, or be familiar, but he did not make Cromwell's mistake of mak ing morality national by a system like the Spanish inquisition. Happily,he lift ne chil dren, none but THE MULE. At the close of the revolution hard ly any mules existed in the Confeder acy. Washington discovered that in the southern climate the draught herse did not flourish, and he sent abroad, not for foreign sons-in-laws, but far jacks and jennies. The King of Spain sent him three from the royal stud, Lafayette sent three from the Island of Malta, he crossed the breeds and made matrons of his old coach horses, and from Mt. Vernon, proceeded the monastic animal, which multiplied by the example and made the South to bloom and boast. "I have often waded my horse dur ing the rebellion in the all but bottom less roads our armies advanced over, and my heart sank with my stirrups m dread that neither I nor my country could ever rise again, and when I thought of the thousands of miles we yet must march in slough and: and desert to assert the authority of the flag of Washington, I felt that noth ing could pull us through, till sudden ly on the night wind would come a sound that was like a trumpet, pealed from the clouds, and it hushed the lamentation of the whip-poor-will and made the screeching owl modest in his mocking. It was the faithful, the tough, the unsentimental, the unmusi cal, the undaunted, the Washingtou mule pulling the Union out of the first ditch, and onward to the last ditch, and I seemed to hear his bray, the mighty voice of that chief who saw farther into the necessities of his coun try than constitution-makers or moral philosophers, and spared by providence the curse of foolish posterity, died the father of his country and of the mule. COMING TO JOHN ADAMS, Mr. Townsend gave some novel points about his married life : "Lawyers were few, and looked down upon in that Puritan soc iety ; preachers were magistrates, and looked up to, and their daughters were mat rimonial prizes. It broke farmer Adams' hopes to see his son cavil on Calvinism and go to join that lawyer circle, and he soon after died ; but the boy, e er reading, reading, deep in the law and principles of society as he could get, lived at Quincy with his mother, picking up scant practice till he won one of those preacner's daugh ters, Abigail Smith, aud she brought him both practice and brains. Of all the wives of presidents she was the only wise one, the only one whose let ters, written for her husband alone, are literature"; the only president's wife whoe son, reared by her hand, became his father's equal. To her he wrote ; "I have no concern on your account but for your health. A woman can be sile it when she will." After he became vice-president he wrote to her : "Your letters give me more enter tainment than all the speeches I hear. There are more good thoughts, fine strokes and mother wit in them than I hear in a whole week. An ounce of mother wit is worth a pound 'of clergy, and I rejoice that one of my children, at least, has an abundance of net onlv mother wit but of his mother's wit. If the rogue has any family pride it is all derived from the same source." "For years that wife tilled his farm at Quincy ; there she heard the can non at Bunker's Hill, and was exposed to all the perils of the war while he was absent. For ten years she saw him scarcely at all, surrendering him to the country, never complaining of country monotony, never asking to move into Boston, and had she been leaning on him like a HELPLESS WOMAN OF FASHION all those years, or conceiving herself to be I resident, this letter need never have been written by him at the out break of the war : " 'Dear partner, take a part with me in the struggle. Bouse your whole aTtention to the family, the stock, the farm, the dairy. Let every article of expense which can possibly be spared be retrenched- Keep the hands atten tive to their business and let the most prudent measures of every kind be adopted.'" Further interesting pictures ia the life of Adams were these : "As the contest advanced he became the lion of independence, not a passion ate, dramatic speaker, like Patrick Henry, but an earlier Burke or later Pym, full of the moral and statecraft of his subject, as it had grown upon his thoughts and consciance till his sight pierced further into the future, and his fellow-members looked up as at some Hebrew sear. No poet aor rhetorician, not a tall nor strikisg man, no wit, but a bold, open speaker, growing b opposition, with thorough learning, lofty morality and vehement energy, he hammered independence out like a horse-shoe on the anvil and nailed it to the war-horse," A peculiar view of the three great lights of our incipient politics was this : The three men represented three ideas, all " necessary to the republic. Adams represented independence, Jefferson Iiberty,and Hamilton empire. The elder two had brought the nation forth, while Hamilton dressed it in a constitution and gave it. a financial milk-bottle. Twenty two years young er than Mr. Adams, he had been ed ucated on the military staff, and.mak ing no allowance for the' genius off Western people, this Englishman born, hastened to mold America to instant maturity, for he was a statesman by nature, and led her into a militarv ca reer against Spain's colonies, where in the decaying powers of Washington Hamilton would be. THE NEW WORLD'S NAPOLEON. Jefferson, of a feminine and suspi cious nature, like a Welshman, and with physical courage altogether below his mental origiuality, had lost bis judgment in his sympathy with peace and come to consider Washington him- self a conspircr against his own peo- lit pic. iiiucntuaiu5, wuiw.citj """U'wic hi wife h'tdhpon hU ho-ird- all masculine, believed in neither .he ts' h,f 1,e uad.been nls r(t" ff;itft'fl.rir,,r.T.(fcrMn'B h wg-house keejer, vivacious without Hamilton's armv nor Jefferson's mob. He wanted to keep hi3 country out of the vortex of European war and main tain the independence we had secured. To this end he signed the alien aud sedition bills passed by Hamilton's friends in Congress, but he would not make the ::glish alliance Uarailtou demanded nor attack- France and her ally, Spain. He incurred Hamilton's resentment, end the consequence of Hamilton's legislation fell upon Adams' never great popularity, the Federal party fell in half, and Aaron Burr organized the opposition into victory, and on his bullet Hamilton wrecked a life whose artificial honor was even stronger than moral tone. From the chaos President Adams drew a Chief Justice who had been the main supporter of his administration in Congress and diplomacy, and who saved the judicial bench ot this Gov ernment from insanity for thirty-five years, or till Mr. Jefferson's organiza tion had ceased to rule the intuitive, the profound, the perfect model of a Judge, John Marshall, of Virginia. JEFFERSON'8 HOUSE OF MONTICELLO, 580 feet in the air, was then described by the lecturer, and the comment made: "In this age of intercourse, when an error of taste is quickly perceived, the visitor would call Monticello the home of an amateurof a man who knew a little about everything, who was his own architect, gardener, clockmaker and weather prophet, and spent his time and money in more or less juven ile experiment. This impression will grow when it is known that Monticel lo was near thirty years building, that the wooden sashes in it had to be made in London, that it brought the imposition of idlers and spongers upon the President, till ruin and mortifies tion encompassed his advanced age, and that to-day nobody will take it as a gift and live there. In short, a trav eler would now say it was the home of a visionary, with aristocratic self-esteem, however domestic was his socie ty, and of a man whose finsncial thrift bore no consistency with his consisten cy with his artistic and ideal prepara tions ; who feil violently in love with novelties, could not conclude whst he began, and yet had all the confidence of an innovator. His favorite peem was Ossian, the forger) of a second rate poet, but it imposed upon Jeffer son to the end of his life, lie played the violin, aud on this laid claim to music, and when one wing of Monti cello was burnt by fire, and a slave ran in to tell it, Jefersoa cried, 'Were none of my books saved V 'No, Mas sa, none ob de books; but roily! we've saved de fiddle,' In the midst of that war, while Washington was lying at Valley Forge, and Adams and Congress were fugitives among the illue Mountains, Mr. Jefferson wrote to a foreign correspondent : 'I suppose that ysu might find in Paris persons who could perform en the French horn, clarinet er hautboy aid basoon, so that we might have here a band of two b rench horns, two clari nets, two hautboys and a basooi, with out enlarging their domestic expen ses. A certainty of employment for half a dozen yean, and at the tad ef that time conveyance to tasir own country might induce them te ceste here oa reasonable wages.' Seven ma gicians fr the big house en the moun tains, yet he could see years afterward extravagance in Washing tea's Satur day night levees, and exclaim against the poems written in his praise." THE IKFLUEKCK OF over tht three succeeding Presidents, concluded this original sketch ef Mad ison by Mr. Townsend : He was a federalist until the we manly tendrils of Jefferson were thrown around him, wheni he loved so ssnch that he did net toke a wife till he was 43. He saw the necessity ef a strecg- er government and joined Hamilton and Jay in composing the Federalist demanding it, and wrote to Washing ton : 'The right of coercion should be expressly declared.' He was a better student than Jefferson, with a milder and more phlegmatic nature, but, like so many skillful lawyers, could never be his own client, and, hence, his will, originally timid, became the pet or Jefferson like a fine dog spoiled by a lady, or "a falcon of a queen that never hurts but such birds as he is loosed upon. He never had a child; his taste was for theology ; he was as pure as a lamb, his speeches ever had a soft tender bleat, and his hair turned white like the fleece of a good old ewe. For executive office he was not fit, and when the British burnt his capi tol his Quaker wife was the better soldier, and she cut the portrait of Washington from its frame, determin ed te fly in the company of a man. She survived him thirteen years and died at the age of 82, having been plundered by her first husband's gam bling sou, whom Madison had adopted, till she was glad of the present of a meal of victuals. The monument of Madison, standing out in the fields, contains that one word upon it Mad ison nothing more; he alsj was a kind of Christian deist, or he thoujrht ieal accomplishments, a fine, spark ling, sounding creature, well described as Dolly. 'The true place of Mr. Madison was on the bench to interpret with learning the financial and other doc trines of bolder and more original men. Had he been in the service of Washington instead of Jefferson he would have been a constructive spirit. His great project was for a national university, yet he vetoed Calhoun's bill to build national roads with Uni ted States bank taxes, as not author ized by the constitution. As Wash ington's secretary, Madison would khave stood like John Milton to Crom well ; as Jefferson's subject he was like Descartes at the court of Juan Chris tine, the tutor, yet the slave of a wo man who despised her sex." Mr. Townsend will go from St Louis to leciure at 1 ima and Marsh field, O., and Richmond, Ind. He will return to the west for a few lec tures in early February and may be secured by addressing West Twenty third street, New York City. Overcoat Traveling Under a Number of Aliases. A friend tells us a story of a drum mer who used very keen strategy in a successful effort to oblige his employer to present him with a new overcoat. He was out on the road when the first cold snap set in, and to his dismay louna uuu ne numoerea net an over coat among his goods and chattels. In this dilemma he went to a dealer pur chased a good coat and charged it up in his expense account. When he re turned from the trip the proprietor of the house looked ever the items, and at once summoned the tourist into bis presence. "Jones," said he, "what does this item mean ? 'Overcoat, $38. ' " "Means just what it says, I guess. Old Prob's slung a chunk o' Arctic weather at me down in Posey the other day, and I thought it might not appear in very bad taste to hang an overcoat on this beautifully moulded frame of mine. Sensible, eh V With an impatient gesture the mer chant replied : Oh, well, the house cannot be ex pected to keep you in clothing. I will charge this up to you." All right, governor, charge her up " When he came in from his next trip he turned in his orders and . expense account, and afttr the head of the house had examined the latter, he asked : Do you see an overcoat in there this trip r "No" said the merchant "this ap pears to be O. K. " MHe may not see it," said the drum mer to one of the clerks as he walked out, "but it's there all the same. Yes, sir, the overcoat is there; but it's scat tered and traveling under a number of aliases traveling inceg, as it were." bvansvill Argus. "Great Man, Balaac." It is related of a caricaturist who was illus. rating the novelist Balzac's works, that on one occasion he came upon a difficult and involved passage se ebtruee that he took it to the author, with the humble ressark : "I don't exactly catch the sense of this." "Let's see it, said the novelist. "Oh, there"s o Meaning te it at all ; that's why I put it the re. You see, for the average reader all that is clear seems easy, and if from time to'tisse I didn't give him a sseaniagiess word or a complicated and empty sentence, he would think that he knew as much as I did Conse quently every now. and then I tip him something heart-breaking, and he puz zles over it and re-reads it and takes his head between his hands and glares at it, and then, when he can make either head aor tail of it, he is per fectly happy, and savs : "Great man, that Balzac; he knows more than I de." BjBSmj2tifrVrSOiBBiKjBSSSB' "We do hereby certify that we supervise the ar rangements for nil the monthly and semi-annual drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery compan, and in pt-rson manage and control the drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with ht ncsty, fairness, and in good faith toward all par tie, and we authorize the company to use this cer tificate, with fae-slmilea of oui signatures attached, in its advertisements." 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