Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-10-26
THOMPSON, Tur INCENDIARl.


THOMPSON, TIE INCENDIARN.
Some weeks ago, the \. Y. Commercial Advcr-
iscr charged the foreign cmissary, Thompson,
with having uttered expressions, of such diabo.
cal character that could not, badly a. We
thought OF that individual, credit the satcnn nj.
We therefore tool, no notice Of the publication,
the more especially as Thompson himself denied
having made the remarks imputed u hin,. II
turns out, however, thu, hc was no, falscl, accus.
ed. The character el the accusation may be IN
fcrred from the >uhloinci extract
e" To Tho Editors ~ the Commercial idrtrtisr.
GENrLrMrN-trom your paper of the Sd
inst, perceive that Mr. q. Thompson denies
having employed the language III reference to slave
holders, attributed 10 him IN OF the recent COM
muncarien> IN Your paper. As am the person
IN conversation with whom the language in ques.
ton was originally used, avail myself Of the cur
hest opportunity III my power To assure You that
lac employed the very word, alleged against Inn
that he made use ot the naked, unqualified, ur-
conditional declaration, that rrerv Stare hoidsr
ought Tor dcscr,ed) 10 hare has h,ont rnt has
much as Mr. I. has seen iii To deny Ibis, ii may
not be improper to give short accouu, OF our IN
,cr,cw, and then let Your readers judge for them
selves
AFTER considerable prcmnar, conversations
in the course of which Mr. T.. manifested much
warmth, $50 much, indeed, that he declared tina,
all persons who adopted my view. Of slavery to
be III the dark, to be destitute Of moral ssmpathes,
To be cdnting h4p0c,itcs, aud charged me with
hcingcnhcr present ora prospective slave holder
told him that | had heard enough of defamation,
aida the instance Of common lricndhad called 10
dison'> some pr'nopirs One OF Your principles,
understand, is, that al siars-hoiing /, SIN"
" Yes, y hc answered, it is sin under all possible
and conceivable circumstances d" Ii that be
correct replied, ii at once becomes the duty
OF all public men, and especially of all preachers
to preach against it," "Ccrminly," he rcioined
" ii is their constant and inpcral We duty" q
give the thonght.) "But,' replied, " il Won are
correct in that how shall acc cunt for the fact
that while slavery, according 10 your own acknow-
cdemcnt, cSis ed al Athens and throuehou, the Ro-
man Empire, during the FIRST aye of Christiantv
10 a greater extent aud under worse form, than il
does a present in the Sonth--how shall we account
Tor the fact, that ST. Paul, during the whole
OF hlS ministry, although IA thousand opportunities
presented themselves, once, III direct terms,
denounced this most dreadful of all evils, beneath
which the earth has ever rroancd, OF upon which
Heaven has ever trowncd Paul preached not
your doctrines. On the contrary, he Taught He
that is called being servant is the Lords free
man-kcwisc, also, lac that i. called, being free,
is Chrsl'> servant Arr ihon called being a SER
want Care not for it, And many other e,-
prcs>ous ola similar import. So do wc,' Mr.. +.
rrjoincd with Great warmth so do We. Bit II
ics praehed mhm mr. onchf, or II ~e Taught the
,iar's 10 do rhnt they ought, WE WOW TILL
EVERY oSr or THIN To CIT rnrm M,srrRs'
rHRoATs."
d" was struck with a>onsbmcni and horror on
hearing such sentiment, announced by p0cifr
aholiiionist Thinking, however, that it was the
ihonghllcs, declaration of heated mind, and wish
ing to afford him an opportunity of recalling sucl,
an expression, ! distinctly pun tn, question
What. Mr.. Thompson, have their throat, cut y
Yes" he replied, ""vcry Shareholder ought,
(or dcsrrvc.) to have hi, throat cut" | repeated
the question three or four times, and he uniformly
answered in the same manner. After some few
words more bad been ntcrcmngcd between rs,
Mr. Il. lose up hastily from his seat and left the
room, apparently in a paroNysm of anger. Some
time in the course Of our discussion Mr. I made :,
reference the law OF Moses, found in Ex 21
-; but not in this connretlon feel very conf
dent.
at shonld DO mentioned, perhaps, tia, at this
time Mr.. 7. was flushed with the hope, of an en-
tire victory being under the impression that he
had gained the LARGER portion of the theology.
cal and ACCIDENTAL students, well as many re.
spectacle inhabitants OF the village. Otherwise, il,
all probability, he would have been so uncu,r.
dcd and unqualified in his assertions. Immcdi-
atcly after the interview AS stated above was cal
led by my engagements to 90 10 Boston and the
next evening, in one Of ms public lectures Mr.. r.
denied as stated in his communication to the At
las, that such language had ever been used by linn
This was done, however, when he knew that tho
individual to whom he used ii WIS absent from
town. \. KAUFMAN, IT,
Andoscr, MRS. Oct l., 1888.
1T is possible thai the course now to be adopt
cd by Mr. Thompson and hi, friend, Will he an at
tempt to lmpcach the character Of Mr.. kaufman
and thus ncu,ralizc the effect Of his testimony. In
order to spare them any useless trouble in such an
effort, We annex the following certificate from the
eminent professors ofthc Theological Seminary a,
! Andoscr--wlich, we presume, will leave no place
for doubt 10 that matter, in the mind of any one
except perhaps some devoted adhcrsnt OF Mr.
Thompson.
lnEoLoGIC Al SEMINARY,
Andoyer, 18th Oct, 1885. {
Mr.. \. +. kaufman, tie subscriber of TIC a
bovc declaration, is now lccntiaic preacher, ha,
ing spent three years in this Seminary with a dis
tneulshcd character for talents and scholarship y
man OF integrity, worthy of ,r,ss, and crcdcncc
whose vcracits is unimpcachcd and unimprachablc
l.. WOODS,