The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-04


Magazine for March, 1910, published page
and half, noticing in respectful terms, your tirst
and second numbers-all had then seen; and
noticing them at all, as clearly stated, merely
to show the light in which viewed the whole
question as made by DIR. Horwitz, VIZ, as
pure question of Hebrew criticism, and not OF
geology at all. The republication of this short
article in the Post, for which you hold me re-
sponsible-was without my knowledge; nor did
| know the fact till long after it was done; SO
that your insinrIatlons that did it through an
other person-are characteristic alike in Their
error and their incivility; and the argument set
up on those suspicious, to prove me the general
aggresssr, is at once idle and false. In reply to
this, you attacked me by name, instead OF at
lacking the work of which was only one oil two
editors, contrary to the usual civilitles OF liter
airy warfare you did this in such way as tc
make me personally odious if possible-not foi
my ignorance only, nor for my presumption only
in differing from you, but for DR.. HOrtott.'t
treatment of Dr. Morris, in December, 1883
and which had been fully, publicly, and satisfac.
tsrily explained in our February number; you
did this in daily newspaper, on the Gerry Dag
on which my trial for libel commanced-you BE-
ing at the same moment colleague OF my pro
secutor, and witness in the case! To thatpub'
LEGATION | have never replied: moderation
which YOU have attributed to timidity, or con-
NlClIOH Oh nave oiuCSt tiiICS ttiAiSo Al
addition, and without any formal reply from me.
gone on to write and publish the most malevo-
lent and unjustifablo accusations against me-
declare to you, sir, that have met with nothing,
even in your conduct, more surprising, than that
in such state of case you should venture to
assert that you have acted throughout, only on
the defensive.
After all, however, you have shrunk before the
naked facts of the case, even when set In the
MI
nuity could place them; and consequently you
fortify your absurd accusations by statements
which are untrue, and reasons which are ridicu-
lous. Thus you say of the first and second num-
bers, published in the Post, and headed Geologi-
cal Discussion, (being the two noticed by US, in
our March number,) CDR B. knew full we'll that
they came from my pen; and so knowing, assail-
ed you "with the most offensive personalities"
These statements are both incorrect; for there is
no personality, much less an offensive one, against
any body, much less against you, in the article
to which YOU allude: and did not know, when
| wrote it, that you were the author OF the other
papers; nay, did not believe it when first heard
it. DIR. Horwitz showed me those two papers,
and also an extremely severe article in manu-
script against You as their author; which must
say, being their author, you richly deserved
But urged him not to publish his answer, as
surfing him that, in my opinion, you could not be
their author; since you not only protested to be
a Christian, but had in the most solemn manner
declared your belief in the plenary inspiration
of the Scriptures, and recorded your testimony
against the fatal heresies of the church of Rome;
whereas, in these two papers, the author appear
ed to me, to rank enlightened defence of scrip
ture truth in the same category with papal per-
secution, and actually used in regard to the BIZ
Bile not only the arguments, but the glbes OF
infdels The first certain knowledge l had
II. II. 7
manner, on my way from Frederick to Hagers-
town. in tho latter paI of March, (after my "a III
was over) from gentleman who told me, he
heard yeu during the progress of that trial, while
its issue was uncertain, boasting of being the
auther of the attack made on me, the day it
commenced
But YOU support this fact by reason. 1t is
novel process in logic, to establish fact by
reason: proof being heretofore considered the
only method by which a fact can be established
That gentleman who thinks he can gather the
sense of Hebrew text, better in the bowels OF
the earth, than in the Bible, should attempt to
proue a false fact by childish reason, is not,
however, altogether out of character. You say,
temy papers were signed l.. N" What them
L. N. stands for many things more naturally,
than for Samuel .a1aRan; as, for example, they
stanl for L,ss.Ss Nature, (moral as well as
physicaD; also fer Liquet Non, form of speech
(,,on iguct) in constant use by the ancients,
when they went to say ignore and in
plain English for even palmer phrase, Literal
Nonsense But you say again, they are "the
final letters of nay name" And what OF that
They are <sthe 6nal letters" Of many hundreds
of names in our good city, besides the name
samuel unrG.N'; from the name of SAMUEL
EccLEsToN, esArchbishop of BALTIMORE who
stitch on his throne, down through every posi-
bic graduation to that of poor SdsristeL bf'oto.N;
the coiored water in Fayette street, Up. 70, of the
Baltimore DIRECTORY or his namesake, the color
ed laborer in Forest street (p. S6l. So to settle
the matter, you add, ''the signature was patent
to him when he wrote and published his paper
against men Here then is the proof on which
YOU assert, as positive fact, thai knew you to
be the author of pieces, which in point of fact,
did not believe you wrote, viz, that l.. n. are
epatent' for Samuel .qanGi,, and that must ne
cessarily know it, And upon this you proceed
TO att ok me, with renewed bitterness, personally
in the newspapers; and upon this, rely to prove
that am the aggressor! more extraordinary
exhibition of unruly passion, and over-weaning
vanity and selfconcelt, certainly never came I'M
d my notice.
/ have been the more minute with these mat.
tiers, because they constitute the sum and sub
stance of all our recent relations; and clearly
show the utter futility of the reasons urged by
you to justify your persevering abuse of me, at
a time and under circumstan noes, when every
man, Out especially every Presbyterian elder,)
having the heart of Christian freeman, or even
of a Protestant gentleman, in his bosom, might
naturally have been cxpe tied to feel and act in
a manner so different. Sir, your personal feel
f0gs and opinions, at this time, are to me, if |
know myself, matters of supreme Indifference;
indeed i am not sure, but that shoald have
more hope Of pleasing God and meeting the ap-
prevail Of His people, when failing under your
than when winning your .aPprcba-
ton. And therefore I think it is without the
least mixture of personal amnesty, that | de-
clare to you, consider your conduct in its per-
sonal relations, absolutely infamous; as it re-
CARDS the cause of Christ, shocking treachery;
and as a whole, worthy of the adherence Of
every good man. If any still doubt, let them
read on.
You do not, however, rest wholly in the de-
fence set up, bad as it is; but ge back seven
years, for your original cause OF offence, and for
proofs of my being the agressor from the begin
ming. The admitted cuusc Of your earliest dis
pleasure with me, then is nakedly confessed to be
This, that my family didaaot employ you as ply
eoffTeT R1Ifi5,1ofe Sir.