The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register. (Wilmington, Del.) 1824-1825, 1825-03-03

You seem to think that attempted to ele
vate the character of the dog, at your ex-
pence but, be assured, that pity for you, as
well as justice 10 him, shall always prevent
me from coupling your names. l charge
you with being dog :! never. What right
had / thus to elevate your character. And
here do not fail to understand. BY your cha
racter mean not your reputation IN society
There is a wide difference between mans
reputation in the world, and his real charac-
and the motives of his mind Reputation is
what one is reHuted to be; but character is
what one realty is. The one may be the off
spring of mere Sho7v; and hretchtion, affords
no real satisfaction here, and defeats all pros
poets of any hereafter. The other is the sure
cmanation of pure heart, affords real en-
joyment here, and ensures complete bliss
hereafter. Judas had reputation; else why
was he intrusted with the bag? But when
the time and scene arrived calculated to
show whether he had a character alSo he
was found a7vfully deficient. So far, sir, as
can Judge of your character, from your wri-
tings in relation to nae, it is far below that
Of dog Remember when you made your
attack upon me, you assailed one of whom
you knew nothing. You charged me with
principles criminal in the sight of God, and
heinous in the eyes of man. Permit me to
support this charge by resort to your own
language.
ave must consider the sentence under
consideration, as, in its strict meaning bear
ing dagger as sharp and poisonous as any
that we're ever fabricated and directed a
gainst the Christian faith, by Voltair, a
! Gi5bon. Hume, or Pam
This, Reverend Sir, is your own language:
yes, this is the language which you have re-
Gently declared to be "hyhothcticai," con-
tingent. Can you deny it 1t is a course
which needs no conjecture to support, and
yet one which demands ercrtion to believe.
Time, however has recorded it, and the an
nails of heaven shall never blot it out. 1t is
a monument bearing an inscribed testimony
to your folly, and presenting the willow
weeping over the grave Of departed virtue
. 1t is the funeral pile on which is inundated
that candor and human tenderness which
even the savage refuses to sacrifice to the
baser passions.
Finally, the sentence quoted above, shows
You to be vile man; and whether YOU re.
form under its influence, and become bet
ter yea, good man, or whether You sinh
under its weight, and become no man, is op
tional with yourself. But this much let mt
tell you, that the logical chord which 70,
have recently and quantity attached to your by
pothctical pertrochium, can never raise The
weight; no, repentance is the only thing tina
can relieve YOU from the pondcrous burden Q
this gaH tempered asscmblage Of words. Whi
ming forms no conal for the expectation Of sil
from the heart. No, the Ark Of repentance, BAL
lasted with sincerity Of conscience, 1t sea upol
the REn Ocean descending from CALvAnY's top
and plying between the Valley of Sin and Getll
scmenc, is the only sure means for the cxporta
ton Of this man deba@ng, heaf corrupting an,
soul condemning malady.
Let me next solicit your attention to the cours
you took in order to arrive at this diSgracefsH
made charge. This is your language:
"That he has no very favourable opinion o
5 the Bible, we think is fairly dcduced from til,
following sentence, which contains, what nigh
be called gross libel on the Christian Religion.
And this is the sentence to which you aludc
Christianity, with her political dagger con
cealcd under the sable vestments of her priest
hood, has too often sharpened it to the work o
death upon the shivercd fragments of her Fa
: TIERS law
And to make out this HbelouS character, yol
, give the following strange definition of Chris
tianity:
Christianity may be defined, THE lsre an,
! service Of God, as taught by Jesus Christ"
Having taken this definition as authority, yol
feel commissioned to SANDER, and accordingl,
yol commence with the following pious effusion
: "To represent Christianity, then, as breuhin.
t the iaV Of God-as wearing 'pohtic0l dagger
and 'shaTpcning it to the lrOrk If dcath, on Tho
'Shipacd fragments of that law, is grossly o5
Sud and untrue"
Taking this sentence as the basis, which pas
ses high eulogium upon your syllogistica
knowledge, you proceed to erect the superstmc
turc which is now tumbling over your head.
Let me now proceed to examine this Eaelediu
definition: