Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-07-30
From the Richmond Whie.

PARsoN HENDERSON or THE "GREAT CRoss
INGs This " excellent man - the Globe
endorsed him, is used up without mercy in the
Louisville Journal. Situated as the Rev gen
tleman was--a parson and dependent-and
tamperiug with truth as he did, to increase or TO
retain the favor Of his patron-wc considered his
intermeddliug gross violation Of clerical decen-
ely aud propriety and we cons ider han fair game
max, game that every man should feel parti-
cular satisfaction in seeing chased
cool JOHNSON-REV. T. HENDERSON,.
The Rev. Thomas Henderson, in the hope of
counteracting the influence of our statements, has
published letter in the Louisville Advertiser
Of Friday, on the subject of the domestic rela-
tions of Col. r. NJ. johnson. This MIR. Hender-
son is we'll known character. few years
ago, he succeeded in raising the wind aud swind-
ling tho public by issuing rag money from PM
yate mandatory OF his own and leaving its hold
ers TO whistle for its nominal value. lie alter.
wards reduced himself TO beggary, whereupon
Col. johnson, feeling the want OF such an instru-
ment, took him into his service, and employed
him as a teacher of young Choctaws and Potta-
wattamies, and doer of such other work as
circumstances might suggest In that capacity,
the Rev. father in God, with black coat that
served in measure 10 divert public attention
from blacker heart, has received his daily meat
and drink from the Colonel, and, of course, spa
red no pains TO retain the favor OF his feeder
Peculations upon Government, c9ncubinage with
negroes, intermarriages of whites and blacks,
and all the hundred other enormities OF the Great
Crossings, he has looked with a iatherly
smile, never failing TO find an abundance oftexts
in his bible TO prove Them of divine authority -
The present is by no means thc first appearance
Of this 90 friar Tuck " in the newspapers as
common swearer for his patron Living, as he
himself says, " almost in the Colonel's yard" he
is always at hand, and always ready with an
severatiou adapted 10 every emergency. AT this
particular time, our godly dweller in the Tecum-
eh-kller's back yard sees and feels the neces-
sity Of being especially jealous in his masters
cause. He is in danger Of loosing favor. A cou-
pie Of his Indian pupils, stimulated perhaps by
the general tone OF his precepts, or more proba-
bly, by the particular tone of his examples, have
recently eloped with Tecumseh's wife and aiece,
and the priest feels that he must do some despe
rate act Of service by way Of atbning for the
transgressions Of his antic young saYagcs.
after all, what is the substance Of the letter
Of this Roy. Praise God. Bare Bones9 He adj
mts, or, at least, does not deny, the truth Of the
charges so often preferred against Col. johnson.
Hear him THE prominent theme fCol. John
sons revilcrs is the fact that two female children
were raised by him children OF a colored woman
and said to be his-,rhetter h1se or false, Iknouc
not BE that as il may, he is entitled TO much
credit, at least, for the kind and tender manner
in which they have been treated in their raising.
They are the creatures OF God and had no agen-
therefore, admitting that they are his children,
he is certainly entitled 10 more credit in the
sight of Heaven. for raising them as he did, ra
Their than TO have turned them into a negio quar-
ter or sent them to a cotton tarm.' Pretty well
for priest we confess Our man ia the black
coat silly insnuates a doubt whether Col. John
son is really what he supposes himself df father
Of the children Of has Oicn rife. The case may
be doubtful, we admit. Ills SAID TO be wise
child that knows its own father, and we may
add that he is wise father who knows his own
child, especially, if he has a black wife aud sur.
rounds himself with hordes Of Choctaws, Potta-
wattamies, and all manner of Indians to say no
thing Of such beings, as the Rev. MIR. Henderson.
This, however is depression; Col johnson has
always considered the children Of his wife as his
own, and treated them such. The assertion,
that he has never made an attempt 10 impose
them on socioty,'is falsehood-as deliberate
and infamous a falsehood as ever fell from the
lips Of gowned and cassocked hypocrite."