The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-08-20
For the Lancaster Gazette.
WEST R-usHyllLr. AUGUST ls. 1917.

WEST RUsHvILLE, August l6, 1917.
Mn. EDlToR:-If language be any correct cri-
terion Of the true state of the mind, | would Judge
from the language of the Eagle of your place that
its Editors, have discovered that l have never for
a. moment had their fear before my eyes,
1t would appear from their last that
many excellent men have told them that the
sermon is full of toryism, and a Bremen writer
that it is "Tory, all out" and yet singular as it
may appear, we have never yet had one quotation
from the sermon itself to prove it, although it is
yettreshin the memory ofall their informauts. and
hundreds besides them! With their informants
l hive nothing to do; but with themselves | have.
And now as an act of justice as they have repeated.
ly called me Il "Tory, +" '%traitor, ""pnblic enemy"
&C., | call upon them for their definition of a to-
ry. | am very anxious to see where their defini-
ton will throw J. c. Calhoun, President Polk,
and even themselves. And then as they have
called the sermon "TOry, all ont" l call on them
to prove it from quotations from the sermon IL
SELF. | ask them not to give the language of the
sermon, verbatim, but | demand of them to
prove that it is "Tory, all out" from its plain and
obvious meaning And now | will assure them
that This they can aerer do, with nl the helps
they can possibly get; and if they fail to do ii, they
have posted themselves before tile American pub
lie as wiiful, deliberate and malicious bars and
St0HueTeTS. L care ITO more ABOUT what tney call
me than | care about what the vilest vaga bond
that ever walked the streets Of Lancaster calls me.
but l will rebuke impertinance, and show them
that in their desperate attempts to SANDER the un-
offending who never meddled with them or their
business, they shall do it at the expense of their
opn character.
To call q MAJ a tory and almos everything that
is vile for preaching to his people what he most
conscientiously and prayerfully believes to be the
truths OF the Bible, and historical facts, is one
thing and to prove him to be a tory is another
very different thing. These men have succeeded
most admirably in the former; but in the latter,
so far they have entirely failed.
But ] have proved from their own printed state
ments, that they have advocated the vilest tory
principles that ever issued from an American or
British press. | have proved from their own
pens that because | did not express myself 'PRE-
%cIsELy" according to their views of the Mexican
war, they pronunced me a tory, traitor and pub
lie enemy, who should not be tolerated in any
community. )" thereby denying me the privilege OF
thinking and speaking differently from their most
august, infallible, and self righteous %selUes, or de-
nying me, and OF course every other man the right
Of private jud gment who may be so unfortunate
as not to able to see with their eyes, hear with
ears, Judge with their penetrating Understandings,
speak with their tongues, and come up precisely
10 their standard Of political perfection. This
principle, MS l showed, would turn J. c. Calhoun,
President Polk, yes, and themselves too, out Of
the universe, aud in their passage out would not
allow them so much as a nights lodging in Bota.
ny Bay, the place of deposit for English rogues
and scoundrels. Gen. Marion never cut the head
off a tory in the swamps of South Carolina, and
Georgia that advocated "A viler tory principle.
| have also proved that they are acting the par,
| oG GRAND pnlifi,o1 lynncr,os Cnr ,boy ora ora, r,b
fishing to the world, we are thevery essence and
qniatesSence of this great American Democracy
and yet have aimed a deadly blow at the very
pillaron which a sound democracy rest, viz: the
right OF private judgment, and the use of the
tongue to give publicity TO the best dictates of the
human understanding. / have also proved from
their own pens that they have proved that they
have undertaken to gag ministers of the gospel
by publishing to the world the anti-scriptural, aud
aDti-democratica dogma. that they should NOT
preach about war when it prevails; in other words
that they should not preach a part of the gospel
during the period oil war, which they are solemn
y bound to preach. And l think | have proven
in connection with this, that there is one minister
in Fairfield whom they shall not gag, aud to whom
they shall not dictate. however much they may
attempt. to SANDER him. | have also convicted
them of publishing a ialsehood to the world, aud
they took it back, for which they received my
humble thanks, and they appear 10 have been in
a rage at themselves ever since for doingit.
But | wait to see their definition Of "Tory,''
and their quotation from the sermon to prove
that is story, all out" and its author in their
own chaste language, a 'Pulpit-Tory."
J. ANDERSON.
N. B. The writer would say to the public that
the sermon, though written in great hasie, and
without the most distant idea of it's ever being
published, will be had in pamphlet form, in Ian,
caster and several other places as soon as the
writer returns from a short visit he is on the eve
Of making. ]. A.
Il. IL - n.