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Title: Sunshine and shadow in New York. By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.) ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, Matthew Hale, 1810-1879
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Publisher: Hartford, J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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teel, as handsomely dressed,and behaves himself as well, as any of them. Woodunderstands this well. When he goes among his con-stituents in the lower parts of New York he goes wellmade up. His black frock coat, buttoned up to thethroat, displays his lithe and genteel form to advantage. 276 Sunshine and Shadow His hat, of the latest style, is well brushed and glossy.His boots, of the newest fashion, are polished like amirror. His gloves fit the hand, and, with a smallswitch or walking cane, he moves round among the pur-lieus of the city like a person from another world. Sohis constituents receive him. He is civil and bland, buticy. He speaks to the women; pats the little, dirtyurchins on the head with his dainty fingers; holds hislevees in beer saloons and Dutch groceries, and drinkslager with his friends out of the rude mugs, as if hewas tippling champagne at the St. Nicholas. Every-where he wears the same bland, treacherous smile;everywhere he is the same wily treacherous politician.
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In New York. 277 XXX. TRINITY CHURCH CORPORATION. THE WEALTH OF TRINITY. — AS A PARISH. — THE TOUNG RECTOR. — TRINITY SERVICES. The Dutch settled the Island of Manhattan, and werethe lords of the soil. They persecuted nobody. Theywelcomed all sects and conditions of men, stipulatingonly that their own customs, sacred and religious,should not be meddled with. The worship of the Dutchwas in the lans-uag-e of Holland, but their talk andtraffic were in English. A few Episcopalians, who cameover early, found New York a genial soil. They openedworship in the English language. To the great sorrowof the Dutch, their children ran off to the EpiscopalChurch, because the worship was in English. Yet theEpiscopalians were made welcome, and were allowed tooccupy the Dutch Church one half of the Lords Day.As a separate parish. Trinity was organized in 1697.Their house of worship was a small, square edifice, witha steeple. Pews were assigned to worshippers accord-ing to rank. There was the Gove

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