Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-06-26

I an edilor OF any paper, nor nau L any ln
! leress in, or control of any paper whatever
End. You must have known, nr your ig
noranco is greater than | supposed, tha
4 the writings Of aboliiionists would not bt
j admitted into Southern papers. You
condition was therefore nothing but a pit
iful evasion. aud so il was consd cred 'by
sensible abolitionisls. ..s
i When you were reproachedby abrotheI
4 editor with: This evasion, YOU agreed ia 6
i paroxyism Of wounded pride TO publish
my articles, if he would publish The whole
ofihe controversy in bis paper. y was ar
EesiI huur fer you Mr.. Lee, that you made
this offer. Here your cunning failed you;
you Gade ii on The assump,ion that the
4 gentleman, 10 whom the offer was-made,
I"was altogether such one as ynursell''-
i than which. you had never fallen into;a
4 greater mistake before. To avoid a con-
lroversy for which you were conscious you
j were not competent-t0. preserve nnim-
paired The repnlationof being ..an able dds;
sputantr to whichyo knew, if you knew
any thing, you could Iaysoo just or we'll
founded claim-antl to prevent your being
! held up 10 public.scorn for your unmanly
conduct; YOU .yenlured to make an offer
which you believed would moi be accepted,
because you knew that The gentleman to
/ whom the offer was made was an aholi-
Zionist, and knowing him 10 be au aboli-
iiouisl, you thought he would not admit a
ldifcussion .ofdomeslic slavery into his pa.
per. This was your capital error. This
wasthe false slep which you took in this
fmatier. This false step once taken ohi-
gcd you 10 make some showof fight. which
Notwithstanding an your vapourings aud
pretended courage soon cooled of aud
left not scarSor mark behind. Thanks
toihe Rev. Mr.. Springer, for his magma:
nimity .aad impartiality: had it not been
for tbisgeallemau's "liherality," the world
had neveTsbeen enlightened with your lu-
cubralions, aud you might have descended
10 yoursgrave sustaining the character OF
Tho accomplished scholar-tlle expert dis.
-pulani--lhe profound phllosoPher--and
The able divine.
But the besl of men, Mr.. Lee, are liable
to fall into error, for infallibiliiy is mol all
attributeiof man: and for simple error an
ingenious min2 can readily find an ex
cuse. But what excuse can he offered for
moral obliguity in any one especially in
minister of the gospel ? There is some.
thing in ii so sneaking and cowarlly-
,hero is something in its so little and mean
there is sumelhiug in it so unjust and
is something iuit so dIshon-
nrablc aud shameful, that the most insen-
ions al forming excuses Tor the failures or
infrnties of mankind are utterly at a loss
10 frame an excuse for this. Unfortunately
for you sir. you seemio have yielded your
self Up entirely 10 its influence, and 10 be
so completely under its power, that how
ever ii may have been with you in your
younger days, you cannot now speak The
.irulh-and nothinS but The trulh--no, not
even by accident. Take a few parlicu-
lars as proof.
You labored at The outset of the conlro-
versy TO prove that was the audacions
aud pugnacious "challepeer" of the man
whose motto is, first pare, th'n pe0cea-
te," when only proposed 10 defend my
character against The false and scandalors
charges which you had previously pub
lishcd against slave holders. You repea-
tedly represented me as avoiding the point
which we had set out 10 discuss, and
yourself as paulins for an opportunity to
come to close quarters. You charged ME
with writing in ga bad temper" treating
YOU ..contempluously." und being guilty
of "abuse," notwithstanding had expli.
city proposed in my first letter that no
,er'n should be used in The controversy
unhccoming the genleman-lhe christian
md the mnistcr-a proposition which you
Secuted with scorn. You chnrgc me with
beirg privy to the negress laklng away the
"AnIi slavery Manual" from the room
where its owner DR.. Bennett lodged while
attending the General Conference in Bal
limore ,hatl might turn the affair to his
disadvautage-when The fact is--ihe Doc
tor gave the hook TO The negreSS, and ! was
in Sourh Carolina al the time. \ on have
euloeised your imhecile performances in Il
s,rain Of egotism disgusting 10 the inlelli-
gent reader, when you ought to have left
The public 10 judge for themselves res
pec,ing the merit Of your articles and tho
strength 0i your arguments. ou nave
alledaed that the readers of The True Wes-
levan are now satisfied respecting the mat
ter at issue between US, aud that this state
of things has been brought about by your
elaborate productions. You have exclu-
ded my letters from your paper, nolwilh
standing you had promised TO publish
them, thereby being guilty of falSehood
as we'll as an act Of injustice. When you
found you could not subslantiaIe your
charges against slaveholders,you held back
your recommendations for three months, un-
Ill YOU would see what would say, allho'
| YOU could have written q communication
in zone day" as you tell US, you write
with so much facility. When you were
reproachcd for your conduct By the editor
of tho Olive Branch, you proposed ne'o
| ,o., E;yjous TO me to carry on the cOntTn-