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Show WHO IS I'DB." NEWMAN! Newman is the Washington Methodist Metho-dist preacher who has raised all this fuss, a ehrical mountebank combining under one comely exterior the conceit ; of George Francis Train, and the political greasiness of Sam. Cary. It . was ho wlio wrote the clerical circular, ; headed, "Dear Sir and Brother," and addres.-ed to the Methodist membership member-ship in Liwa, urging the re-election oi" , that seltish old backslider, senator James llarlau. It was Newman who ; undertook to carry oft', by a system of ecclesiastical grand larceny, church 1 property in New Orleans belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and transfer it, with military bricking, t ihe Northern Board of Methodist Bishops, among whom Newman is striving by these politico-showman's politico-showman's feats to gain a scat. Newman New-man deliver, lectures, ostensibly on small moral subjects, and docs the office of a lime-server in them by renominating renomina-ting his parishman, Grant, for the Presidency. An ambrosial notoriety seeker on all occasions, lie devised a trip to Utah many months ugo, and tho Mormons, in demacralic fairness, threw open (heir tabernacle to him to let him say the worst again t their theology. Imagine a Methodist Bishop giving up his pulpit to a Mormon in like circumstances. Newman now returns re-turns the courtesy of the Mormons by sotting on foot, through the President, this whole precipitate assize against polygamy. po-lygamy. Thus are scheinesof statesmanship statesman-ship balked by theological pretenders, . and shallow preachers are given the scopo and influence of Cardinals like Richelieu and Antonelli. "G. A. T." , in Cincinnati Commercial. |