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PETER CARTRIGIIT;
The Jocose Preacher.
A OENUINE PORTRAIT FROM LIFE IN
Immense was the gathering at the Aleth
odist camp ground near Springfield, on
the 2d Sunday of September,_ 1832. A
powerful magnet had attracted this great
'Mass afpeople from their homes in many
counties a hundred miles round. The
'new presiding elder, a late arrival . from
Kentucky, an orator of wide-spread and
wonderful renown, it was known, would
thunder on that day. The glittering pres
tige of his fame had lightened far before
him, and hence the universal eagerness to
hear one concerning whom rumor's trum
.pet-tongue discoursed so loudly.
Morning broke in the azure east, bright
and beautiful as a dream of heaven; but
'the ex-prodigy had not made his advent.
Elei•en o'clock came—the regular hour
for the detonation of the heavy gun of or
thodox—rind still there was no news of the
clerical lion.
A common circuit preacher took his
place, and, sensible of the popular disap.
pointment, iftreased it by mouthing a mis
erable failure. The vexed and restless
crowd began to disperse, when an event
hapened to excite afresh, their curiosity,
and concentrate them again denser than
ever. A messenger rushed to the pulpit
in hot haste, and presented a note, which
Vitl3 immediately read out to prevent the
people from scattering. The following is
a literal copy of that singular epistle:
1121
Dr-Ait Br:Emits:v.—The Devil has foun•
dered my horse, which will detain me from
reaching yctr tabernacle till evening. I
might have performed the journey on loot,
but I could not leave poor Paul, especial
ly as he has never left Peter. Horses
have no souls to save, and therefore it is
all the more the duty of Christians to take
care of their bodies. Watch and pray,
and don't let the Devil get among you on
the sly, before candlelight, when I shall
be at my post. Your Brother,
1
In fashient,ble phraf-e, the reading of
this "produced qt.ite a sensation." Bowe
thought the man mad; others deemed the
letter a hoax. But still the effect as to one
particular was unquestionable; it heighten
ed and interested the public curiosity;
such, very likely, was the precise result
intended by the writer.
At length the day closed. The purple
.curtain of night fell over the earth from
the darkening sky. God's golden fire
flashed out in heaven, and men kindled
their rale candles. The encampment, a
village of snowy tents, was illuminated
with a brilliancy that caused-every leaf to
shine and sparkle as if all the trees were
burnished with phosphorescent flame. It;
was like a theatre. It was a theatre in
the open air, on the green sward, benea , h
the starry blue, incomparably more pie-,
turesque and gorgeous than any stagai
scenery prepared within walls of br'clt or
marble, where the elite of s throng to
feast their eyes on beauty, and their cars'
on the music of silvery sounds.
Presently a form rose in the pulpit, and
commenced giving out a hymn, prelimi
nary to the main exercises, and every eye I
became riveted to the person of the strut- ,
ger. Indeed as some one said of Burke,'
"a single flash of the gazer's vision was
enough to re‘eal the extraordinary man,"
although, in• the present cnse it must, for'
the sake of truth, be acknowledged that
the first impression was ambiguous, if not
enigmatical and disagreeable. His figure
was tall, burly, massive, and scorned even
more gigantic than. the reality from its
crowning foliage of luxuriant coal black I
hair, wreathed into long, curling ringlets.
Add a head that looked largo as half a
bushel; beetling brows, rough arid craggy
as fragmentary granite, irradiated at thej
base by eyes of dark fire, small & twink
ling.like diamonds in a sea—(they wore
diamonds of the sou', shining in a meas.!
ureless sea.of humor;) n swarthy com-1
plexion, us it' embrowned 'I.IY the kisses of!
sunheamsl,,rich, rosy lipS, always slightly
parted, as if wearing , perpetual merry ,
smile, and you have a life-like portrait of ,
Peter Cartwright, 'the fur-fumed jocose
preacher.
Though I heard it. all, from the text to
Ile - amen, I urn forced to despair of any!
attempt to convey, an accurate idea of ei
ther the substance. or manner of the ser
mon which followed.. There are different;
sorts of sermons; the .argumentary, the
.degmatic, - the poStulary, the persuasive,
the panatiVe, the combative,'"in orthodox.
blew§ „and ltriocks,' , ' the logical and the;
poetic; but this specimen belonged to none
of these categories. was sui gowris,
and of a now spedies. It might be term
ed properly „the waggish. - •
130, began w;ith . u. loud, beautifully mod.
ultited tone, in a voice that rolled 'on the
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,tioteti&riiiA air like 'incceSsive peals of
rand thunder.. MethodiSt. ministers: are
celebrated. for , sonorous voices, but •:hia
was matchless sWeetri6s as well as pow
'.cr. , For the first ten minutes, his rema*sj
'being :pretiaratory; were common place
d unmterestink ; but then ell of tt sudden '
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A WEEKLY PAPER
Volume II
gestures grew animated as the waftures ofi
a fierce torch, and his whole countenance!
changed into an expression of inimitable
humor; and now his wild, waggish, pecu
liar eloquence, poured like a mountain tor
rent. Glancing arrows of wit, shafts, of,
ridicule s bon mots, puns, and side splitting
anecdotes, sparkled, flashed, and flew like
hail, till the vast auditory was convulsed
with laughter. For awhile the more as
cetics strove to resist the current of their
own spontaneous emotions; the sour-faced
clergy frowned and hung their heads; and
all the maidenly saints groaned as with
unspeakable anguish at such desecration
of the evangelic desk. These, however,
soon discovered that they had undertaken
an impossible achievement in th . nking to
withstand the
. facaiae of Cartright. His
every sentence was like a warm finger,
tickling the ribs of the hearer. Ills very
leeks incited to mirth far more than other
people's jokes, so that the eflbrt to m4,in
tain one's equilibrium only increased the
dispositions to burst into loud explosions,
ns every schoolboy has verified in similar
cases
At length the encampment was in
a roar, the sternest features relaxed into
smiles, and the coldest eyes melted into
tears of irrepressible merriment. Ntolie re's
best comedy on Sheridan's funniest larce
was not half so suceess!ul. This confirm
ed thirty minutes, while the orator pa.nu d
the folly of the sinner, which was his
theme. I looked on and laughed with the
rest, but finally began to fear the result
as to the speaker.
now, I exclaimed mentally, will he ev
er be able to extricate his audienee from
that deep whirlpool of humor? if he ends
thus, when the merry mood subsides and
calm , reflection supervenes, will not the
revulsion of feeling be deadly to his fume?
Will not%very hearer realize that he has
been trifled with in matters of sacred and
eternal interest? At all events there is
no prospect °fa revival to-night, for were
the oratora magician, he could not change
his subject now and stem the torrent of
headlong laughter.
But the shaft of my inference fell short
of the mark; and even then he commen
ced to change, not all at once, but gradu
ally as the wind of u thunder cloud. His
features lost their comical tinge of pleas
antry; his voice grew first earnest, and
then solemn, and soon wailed out in tones
of the deepest pathos; his eye was shorn
of its mild light, and• yielded streams of
water, as the fOuntaill ()I' the hill yielded
water. The effect was indescribable; and
the r •bound of tbieling beyond all revela
tion. He descanted on the horrors of hell
till evqry• shuddering face was turned
downwards, as ifexpecting to see the solid
globe rent asunder, and the fathomless fi
ery gulf yawn from beneath. Brave men
moaned like sick infants, and fair fashion
able WOIIICII, covered with silken drapery,
and bedight wiih gems, shrieked as it a
knife were working among their heart
stria s.
Again he changed the theme and sketch
ed the joys of a righteous death—its litith,
its hope, its v,inged raptures, and what
beautiful angels attended the spirit to its
starry home—with such force, fire and ev
ident belief that all eyes were raised tow
ards heaven, as the entire congrega ti-)n
started to their feet, as if to hail the vision
of angels at which the linger of the preach
er seemed to lie pointed, elevated as it was
on high to the fUll extent of his arm.
. „He then made a call fur the mourners
into the altar, and ft% a hundred, and many
of them until that night infidels, rushed
forward and prostrated themselves on their
knees. The meeting was continued fur
two weeks, and more than a thousand
converts added to the church. From that
time the success of Peter Cartright was
unparalleled, and the Ilia is chiefly due
to his inimitable wit and masterly elo
quence that Methodism is now the prevail
ing religion in Illinois.
"In what college did ho graduatel—
Surely it must have been a mighty alma
mate, to develop° such a son."
You are more than half right, my good
questioner. Peter Cartright, like most
preachers of his sect, received his educa
tion in the great universal university, the
same that produced Homer, Plato, Shaks
peare, Moses, Mendelssohn, Franklin,—
that weaver of garlands from the light
ning's wing—Washington and Patrick
Henry. High up on the highestmountain
top, deep down in the lowest valleys, fir
out away on the rolling billow, there he
studied and toiled together in the most
glorious. of all , schools—the free vhool of
selfstructurel ."But did he graduate?"—
Ayo, and nature's own L i and wrote his 'di- -
plume. with 'a pencil' otiving light, and
stamped it with., aseid o/ f' e—tho immor
tal fire of true genius. 4. . .
f e,
. Callright I.)ticatike,an 1 ifierant at eigh
teen, with no 'learning' from books save
what ho derived from the pages of the Bi
ble and 'a colleCticin of. hymns. Year af
ter year .ho continued to travel, the wild
circuits of tho frontier, earning annually
but a !Mildred dollars for labors painful us
a slave at,the - dars.. But his vocation af
forded him an'. excellent opportunity for
meditation and even reading. In,llislOng
journeys
,from . one appointment :. anoth
er he was alsone,ywrith,nothingnround him
but woods and waterer birds,' ineuritains,
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE
sun, moon, and stars There he might
and did ponder well. Aye, did he more,
he bought him a boolc, of literature and sci
ence, and poured over them as he rode a
long, with an ardor and perseverance such
as perhaps \aver \vas witnessed within the /
stone walls of a college. Thus he mas
tered mathematics, logic, physics, law, &I
several languages ancient and modern.—
Oh! believe me, believe all human histo
ry—there is no teacher like the student's
own hard working intellect urged on to
action and bided in its efforts by the om
nipotence of an unconquered will!
Why did not this western prodigy a
chieve for himself* a more extended re•
nown? Why did he not climb to the loft
iest stations in the church? If his narra
tive be true, he ought before now to have
been a Bishop, at least.
The statement of a few facts will solve
the problem. Let it be remembered, then
that the Methodist Epi..eopal Church is a
hicrachy, in NVIli ell the dispensation ofeler
ierd honors rests exclusively with the Bish
ops and general Conference of ;liner:Ants,
where the laity and local preachers are
unrepresenced, and consequently had no
voice. Hence, in that sect popolarity, el
oquence, and other showy qualities, have
never been fotind suffici nt passports to
the per-eminent distinctions M . authority
and office, Lot ellen to the reverse. The
Bishop's goe n must be worn by steady
austere devotion, not brilliant oratory or
prolbund and varied learning.
I On this perilous rock Peter Cartright's
lofty vessel was shivered into the atoms
of n hopeless wreck. He made no preten
sions to superior sanctity, nor was it inan
ilitsted in his conduct and demeanor wheth
er in the pulpit or in private Ii e. Indeed
he was distinguished by one very uncleri
cal peculiarity—combativeness in the su
perlative degree. His battles, though al
ways apparently on the defi•nsive, were
as numerous as the celebrated Bowie.—
The only difference was this, that Bowie
fought tvith deadly weapons, while Cart
right used but his enormous fist, which
was as effective, however, in the speedy
settlement of beligerent—issues- as, any
knife or pistol ever forged out of steel.—
Let the reader judge from the following
anecdote .
At the camp meeting held at Alton in
the autumn of 1838, the worshippers were
annoyed by a set of desperadoes from St.
Louis, under the control o r Mike Fink, a
notorious bully, the triumi hint hero of
countl_ss lights in none of which he had
ever met an equal or even second. The
coiase, drunken milieus carried it with a
high hand—outraged the men and insul
ted the women, so as to threaten the disso
lution of all pious exercises; and yet such
was the terror the name of their leader,
Fink, inspired, that no one individual
could be Mutat brave enough to face his
prowess.
At last, one day, when Cartright ascen
ded the pulpit to hold forth, the despera
does on the outskirts of the encaripment
raised a yell so deafening as to d,,,vn ut
terly every a her sound. dark
e) es shot lightning. lie d his
Bible, drew off his coat, and renli:ked
"Wait a 1 . 1;w minutes my brethern,
while I go end make the Devil pray."
lie then proceeded, with a smile on his
lip to the i6eus of tha tumult, and udress
cd the bully,
"Mr. Fiuk, 1 have come to make you
pray".
The desperado raked back the tangled
festoons of his blood red hair, arched his
huge brows with a comical expression,
and replied :
"By golly I'd like to see you do it old
snorter U'
"Very well;" said Cartright. "Will
these gentlemen, your courteous friends,
agree not to show foul play '1"
"Incourse they will. They're rule grit,
and won't do nuthen but the clean thing,
they won't," rejoined Fink indignantly
"Are you ruady 1" asked Cartright.
"Ready as a race horse with a light
rider," answered Fink, squaring his pon
derous person for the coaittat.
But the bully spoke too soon, for scarce
ly had the 'Words left his lips, when Cart
right made a prodigious bound towards his
antagonist, and accompanied it with a
quick shooting punch of his herculean fist,
which fell 'crushing the other's chin, at
hurried him to the earth like lend. T'
even his intoxicated comrades filled
involuntary admiration of the feat?
cheer.
But Fink 'was up in a r
rushed upon the enemy exelsi
"That warn't done liiir, •
Heaimed , a ferocious F;
right:parried With his
ped'hia throat with t)
down as if ho h?d•
struggled, squire.
dust; but all to -
muscular film '
the jaws of
to turn pu"
racist;
Clearlield,, Pa., February 22 1 . ISSO.
"Repeat after me," commanded Cart.
right. 1
"Well if I must, I must," answered ;
Fink, "because you're the devil himself."'
The preacher said over the Lord's!
prayer line by line, and the conquered !
bully responded in the same way, when !
the victor permitted him to rise. At this!
consummation the rowdies thundered three
boisterous cheers. Fink shook Ca rtright,s
hand, declaring :
"By golly your'e some beans in a bar
fight. I'd rather set to with an old he in
dog days. You con pass this 'ere crowd
• of nose smashers, blast your picture?
Afterwards Fink's party behaved with
extreme dccorurn,nnd Cartright resumed
, his Bible and pulpit.
A thousand other incidents equally ma
! terial and ludicrous are related as to Cart
right's adventures in Kentucky and Illi
nois. Many of them are probably fictitious
but those genuine aluu2, if collected would
be suflieient to :-:tock at least two volumes
of romantic reality.
Such was the jocose preacher, end his
biography teaches us the mighty influence
of circumstances in ni iublin,4 the charac
ters and fixing the destin,i.es of individual
men. Ilad that spleilib t l genius bcen
cast on the tide of wet', or thrown into the
fiery vortex of a revolutionary era, his
name might have been a signal of doom
to quaking nations; his renown might
have been like a comet through all time.
But 1w was born in the wildest mountains
of Kr 'ducky ; he was taught the spiritual
tenets of , and educated to regard
the calling, ofn Methodist cirent rider as
the liitliest on earth. And so now thq
poor •;1“. tch—t his spark of titling fire—sa)
dim, flickering and evanescent asr-i--c-11: - A•
ow--is the last ray of his glory,t(fl below
the stars—an epitaph by antranger's hand
written on the sand which the nowt rain
shall obliterate wholly—a blasted limb,
that the first wind shall blow away into
the Lethean sea !brevet.
Noiac AcT OF A 6 I I{L.—The e Bal7iinJre
Ciipper states that a few evenings since,
just after dark, a young ieln.lle residing
on the railroad near kesville, observed
dui , the rain had eau,ed a part of the em
bankment to give ‘ViIV, and entirely cov
er up the raiirciad trek. KIIOSS ing that
the train of cars would pass along in a
short time, she hastily and alone procured
a light, and set to work to remove the ob
struction. In It 1011 Inlnut s, however,
she heard the ti'uin approacliiug at a fear
ful rate, and abandoning her humane el
fort :o clear the track, she took her station
in the middle of the road, and by waving
the light to and fro, succeeded in attract
ing the attention of the eng,incer, who im.
mediately stopped the egging. In a few
+non - lents more, had it not been for the
great presence of ra in d, courage and
thoughtfulness ofthis young girl, the whole
train might halie been dashed to pieces.
Her noble conduct is deserving of the
highest reward.
Shocking ftjail at a Triyhling.—A
most shucking atlitir occurred on Sunday
morning, at the boarding house of a Mrs.
Murphy. in 6rey's alley, near Second
street. There had been, during the previ
ous evening, a wedding, in which all par
ties participating were Irish. As usual,
much joy and mirth prevailed, which con
tinued until near four o'clock in the morn
ing when the parties began to separate.—
A young lady, Miss Ilrilget Lynch, acting
as bridesmaid, accompanied the bride up
stui N, and while in tier chamber, was in
the act of reaching fOr something, holding
in the other hand a fluid lamp, when,
shocking to relate, the lamp exploded, and
enveloped her entire dress in one sheet of
flame. In this dreadful plight, scr,cin
ing loudly, the unlortuinte young lady
rushed down stairs, when every effort was
made to relieve tier front so perilous tt
situation. We regret to add, that she
was burned in such a shucking manner,
about the face, breast, and indeed the
whole body, that her life is despaired of-
She w e t conveyrd to the l lospital, The
ac H , n. was occasi , med in con-,c quenve
of th , .. of the lamp ti,,t it i ng
ii,;ht, the fluid coming out, and
igniting with the blaze
REMARKS OF MR. MEEK, OF CENTRE, dal remember the men,:wiih itiOjqd
who, with many other:. inr.d.workinykiilo,
In the house of Representatives, made on the
had settled. upon a. s tilieforswhiii,they:Afo,'t
Reading Railroad Bill, Thursday, Jan. IJ. to be vacant land ; after_ years of iliac
' Mr. SPEAKER have watched the rifice and patient entrurance:OrpriFiition ;
progress of this bill, now before.' us, with and when they thoilight PerifSektesliii 05-
' mingled lbelings of grief and indignation : session,olhomes for their dealining, years,
nor do I rise to address the House in op- a British subject sued upon theni a Writ of
position to its progress, with any hope of ejectment. "'They, preferred their cadge - to
arresting it. No sir, I ' have seen too much this bodi,. and:asked us to interpOse the
1-L abegislation to hope for any such result.-- shieldilit protection.
_Were they heard 1
I have learned, by painful experience, that no sir; the ,constitution was in our way.
there is no resisting a measure of this Poor fellows! We could do nothing 'for
kind when backed by corporation power. theml they were not a corporation,: "Alasl
But I must express my total dissent to its pocir Yorick
passage, and representing as Ido a plain Sir, we.hear, with the deepest emotion,
unsophisticated democratic constituency, I of the threatened rupture of our holy,Un-
I dare not suffer the passage °fa bill so mon- ion ; with disinay portrayed upon every
strous in its provisions, without speaking face, the bare possibility of such a cants
" out my disapprobation in the most unmig. trophe is spoken .of—one lays his finger
' takable language. upon his mouth, and dumb with'amaza-
I cannot discuise the fact, that my own ment, he hears the fearful and portentious
heart beats inure faintly—my high expec. word "DISUNION," pronounced as the
unions of successful legislation now drag' death-knellof his country's glory. - His
•in the dust—all my hopes quail, and I am country : aye, the country of destiny; the
wounded for the cause of my best devo- glory of all lands ; the beacon-light of the
tions—the triumph of sound democratic benighted, down-trodden, oppressed, 'and
rinciples. How is it sir, that we promise injured of all the nations; the country to
so much at home, and yet do so little when which we invite the hungry, homeless
here, that is really democratic 1 Are we and persecuted of every clime to come,
not continually deriding oar whig oppo- find nn asylum in the "land, of the free
nests with the meanest subserviency to in- and the home of the bra Ye." And yet sir,
corporation privilege—with the most ab- we, by our profligate legislation, are like
jest devotion to wealth and its usurped ly soon to make it but an empty name, a
prerogatives—wit being the party who shadow—a skeleton only will he left to the
are always ready to corner privilege upon people, if we continue thus to, rot them,
the few, while we claim to be the devotees for the benefit of soulless corporations.
of principles known only by this motto: Sir, we shall hear of this bill againi
"equcil ;Ind exact justice to all men--ex.' when we come to elect n goternor or pros
elusive privileges to none." I ident. The whbis will'hurl it upon us as
I should not have said a word on the the party in the majority, and having the
'subject, but that I wish to bear my 'testi- power to prevent such legislation. We
mony to the soundness of our people at profess to hold the best—the ',only good
home and their honest adherence to prin- principles on which to administer a recall).
' dicks They send us here with right views, heal) government, and urge men to sustain
!but nuns, we do not stay right, and our de—:--us-by--irgutnents addressed-to their hopes
iceived and betrayed constituents are still and fears, their rights and- liberties; and
left to wonder why it is so—why they elect yet disappoint all hand lietray
n majority of the members to this House' In the name, sir, of the democrntiespartv
:charged with the cause of their rights and and its principle S—of my constituents , Of
principles, and yet, whig principles always Centre and Clearfield counties, and .of the
' prevail. ' constitution which I have sworn to sustain,
It is with amazement I see democrats I protest against the passage of this bill.
in this House, willing to father a respon- !
sibility near skin to that assumed by those
who inflicted upon the abused people of
the commonwealth the defunct bank of the'
United States—a deep, damning, dark.'
deed, that involved millions of money, and
brought ruin upon thousands of innocent
and confiding people.
The same arguments used now wore
used to secure the passage of that obnox
ious measure—the case of poor widows,'
orphans, retired business men in their old
days—att cruelty of robbing them of their
only hope—their all—by cutting clown the
Bunk at a stroke I We were then told of
its soundness and utility !--of its solvency
—but the need of time to settle up its bu.
siness. in vain did the friends of right
measures, urge the dangerous magnitude
of the mammoth corporation—its unwieldy
debts, and corrupting influences—the In., can
evinible ruin it wuuld sooner or later bring'
upon the state. All Was nothing (wrrit
siEN Or LIKE PA.SSIONS NV ITII us' when
brought in contact with the means and ap
piiances of the Bank—and its friends.
But sir, the day of doom ea me—the day
of which we had been again and again
einonished, and a fearful crash it was ?
We heard wailings and ruin through the
whole L ngth ur the Lm :l. Then came the
hank rolit law and swept away 450 mil
lions of debts due by these bank robbers,
to a plundered people. Wnsan N O W Is
THE ks; w h o dare a‘ow himself a friend
of that foul deed of lesislntion, and vet tisk
the pto support hint :by any office in
their gist?
But look at this bill before us. Two
years ago this company was here asking
us to incorporate eight or ten millions of
debts as preferred stock. We rerun s '
that privilege. It now comes, and o •
s e siers- ,
to suspend for 20 whole years
tion of our collection lawo %Nl!'
knowledges over simeon
by How corms all tip
years since it
in a debt of
creased to
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Selections For a Newspapei.
Must people think the seleCtion of suit ,
able matter fora newspaper the earliest
part of the bMiness, flow great, an,:er
ror. It is by all means the most difficult.
To look over and over hundreds . of ex
change papers every week, from .which
to select enough for one, especially when
the question is not - what shall, butivbat
shall not be selected, is, no easy tusli, If
every person who readsu newspaper could
have edited it, we should hear less corn-.
plaints. Not unfrequently it is the cape , that an editor looks over all his 'exchatlige
papers for something interesting, and : can
absolutely find nothing. Every paper; is
drier than a contribution box ; und..yet
something in it, and be does the best .he
To an editor who has the letikt .care
care us to what he selects, the writing
that he has to do is by fur the least part. of
his labor.
Every subscriber thinks the paper prht
ted lur his own benefit, and if t,here.",is
nothing ISt that suits hi/it it must be
stopped ;Ma good for nothing. Soipo
people look ce.er the marriages and deaths,
and actually complain of the editor if but
a few people in the vicinity have been; so
unrortunate as to die, or to get rpiirrioV
in the previous week. An editori
hove such things in his pagi6 s ,, darer
they occur or not. Just no O ne v ia ins
hers as 1111 edilur may I
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