The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-06-22
For The WoodUikle Republican.
Southern Mirror and Cen
tenary College.

The Southern Mirror of the 9th ult, ap.
pears before its readers boiling oyer with
pent up fury and resentment at Timothy,
who is stigmatized, mathematical and con-
demned by that august tribunal as a liar
and slandefer, fully saturated with heredita-
~ sin, and buried in total depravity Of the
blacklist die. From its judgment one would
suppose there could be no appeal and
Timothy be anpihilated, and the Woodville
Republican be goyrotted into obedience to
its unblushing and peremtory demands.
When under the influence of the utmost
acrimony of spirit, excited aud sustained by
the turbulent. ungovernable and vindictive
passions of human nature, any set OF men
claiming the name christian so far become
callous and insensible too the regeneraling
influence of the invisible spirit as to exhibit
none Of its legitimate fruits, so truth
fully described by St, Paul in his epistle to
the Eplesians, chap. s, verse o." For the
fruit Of the spirit is in all godiiness and
righteousness and trxth"-we must say,
they have to ascend many deg,ees in the
scale Of responsibility and moral character
to merit sinners contempt. Bel.
The attempt of the editor of the Mirror
to defend and sustain the s~oundness of Cen.
tenary College, as illustrated by the ability
of her Professors and the perfection of her
apparatus, by diverting publicat,enhon from
the subject matter, to a q~uixotic attack up
| on Timothy in a wholesale TRADE of ridi.
Guile and abuse, can be regarded by an en-
quiring and impartial public as subterfuge
not very creditable to himself or the Col.
Iege, and the most effective means OF wreck
ing both, p the tide of indiscretion and
obloquy. But to the Editors subject.
We would not notice the very feeble in.
uendoes of the editor, were 1t not that the
very reference TO them, is sufficient evi.
dence Of their weakness. and the utter des-
l~itution in the writer of that high and hon.
orabie feeling that belongs TO a polished and
educated gentleman.
We are accused of abruptly and indig.
nantly leaving the chapel before Professor
Miller closed his lecture, which shows
merely a sad defect in his physical and
moral vision. We were much pleased with
The JaH, and quietly changed our seat, to
get a better view of the "Skik," of the
experimental, and never left the house until
the lecture was finished. Notwithstand-
ing the consultation Of the editor, with
" spectator" and several graduates of north.
ern and southern Colleges. and the grand
conclusion TO which he comes-that in
" more than forty experiments on the at
mosphere, performed. such was the skill of
the Professor. and perfection OF the appa-
ratus that not one experiment failed ~
Oh. shades of Davy and Lavoisier. calm
thy troubled spirits. for the insulted "Nor.
ton" has not heard the tidings. Wewere
there t0a. and also conyersed with sceH edu-
catad and scientific men, who unite with us
in the opinion that the kcctsns sods a fail
ara, and he is truly to be pitied, who was
so bigotsed in blindness as not to see it.
We will no. claim to be umpire over the de-
~ceptiouso Of Spectator or other graduates,
as we have merely rubbed against a Coli
lese. and if the editors ideas Of Timothy's
sagaciiy are correct in relation to aiv pumps
and yccterers, he must not think strange
that Timothy imagines he sees that, great
bet IF MOsooWn in a diminuuve size, sns.