New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-13
La W INTELLIGENCE
SUPERIOR cousr-e.xr,aL rEax.

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he division. has arisen in .he Baptist Church -
the trua translation Of the Bible, portion b.
tha, the Translation st present IN U.s., as maoo
reign of King james, IL correct, shue another pa
tor h1ld the reversethe principal subject of differ
spcs we believe, being the word baptism, watch
the adv coates of the neS say should be
iumtrse" in accord lnce with he Baptist principle
Of inn ersiOn on becoming member OF the coarch.
OF the latter we believe, Is the Rev. Dr. Cone, also
oh er ministers and mr oers Of no,e-oat me grea!
majority sohere 10 the original 'ransI 'flon. Inc con-
troyersy hiss been the Of the establishment OF
new Bible Society, called Tho Anedctn Biole
4" Union, the old society being - Ine American ana
"FOregn Bible Society.
OF the latter. Mr.. Woolsey, the plaintiff in this
suit j. q secretary or agent The defendants, JUDI
and haclay, ave editors OF religious weekly paper,
in Ihis City, in favor of the nee version called ne
AN-Yo'k CkJOhieie, and Messrs. H., G. II W. the
pruiers spd publishers
Ii Dec o,ber last, Mr WOolssy applied TO this court
for all injunction restraining defer dants from publish
ing ia their paper letter of the said WoOissy sent
BY him 10 William Crowell, editor OF The Western
UafcA@as, ~. Louis Missouri, and defendants hsv-
iIg wIoDgiuliy both as related 10 plaintiff aud sht
CIos, II was said, obtained possession OF a copy OF
said letter; snd also thar they BE- epoined from part
irg with said copy, they having announced IN their
paper an intention to publish il.
Judge Campbell granted a temporary injunction,
vih directions 10 show cause before Juogs Hoff-
mai Why the Injunction should not De made per-
petual.
dtIito that the letter was wholly private, as had
been alleged, in its character that II was not a
literary production and is not of any value TO PAIN
til a. literary production. He denied that they
lad become illegally possessed of the copy OF the
letter hut said it them through the Post
Office BY gentleman Of the highest responsibility.
raiIg that he lthe said Jadd could make use Of 1t
be should think proper that sail Judd Is que OF the
proprieors and editors Of The Nee York Chronicle,
uhch favorable to the prime pie. of the American
bible Union" having for one OF It's OBJECTS the
"preparsiion and circulation Of a revised and more
accurate translation OF the Sacred Scriptures from
1.-The original Hebrew and Greek into the English
Language" that Rufus Bah cock is Tho Correspond
ing Secretary Of the American and Foreign bOle
Society, and James w. WoOlsey 'PlaIntlfl also
Secretary or Agent
He also av-rred that in TIE Western W1tchmqn,
at st Louis there have appeared at various times,
,dorisl articles aud other cOmDuncatlOns pubhshed
over fictitious signatures in which the principles
"aId objects Of The An ercan Bible Union have been
" urjusny lsaiied by the most injurious mlsstate
" neDts and Misrepresentation ITS ofhcers and
" friends have been Hsgranty trsduced, and even
" then misforunes ade the subject OF repro:ch aud
I" ridcule by the writers OF said articles few ex'
" tracts from the editorials arr annexed
Mr. Judd also alleged that articles Of similar char
setter with those published The IHeserA IpatehmlR
appeared in other religious papers West, and he
charges n at they written by Mr. Babcock, " IN
pursuance Of q conspiracy between him ana sait
Wiham Crowell to accomplish, by msrepresenta-
" tons missfaiemeDts iDsinIatu ms, de'raction and
" rdicul. the detrment and, II possible, the ruin OF
a" the American Bible Union which they had found it
"inpossible to iijure by well authenticated facts ana
" sound argument
Justice TO The society and parties assaled not only
iust'fes but requires, as depoDens judo believes
The publication tho letters which he is restrained
from publishing by the injunction oriers OF this Court
80 tbst the iaue;s won by such scurrous attacks on
a public institution, and on private character, may
be won by tho writer alone AID innocent parties freed
from the suspicion Of having resored 70 such tao
tics" &c.
"Tbe only avows of an intention to publish the
letters the following in The Ne'c- Yors ChroH'cle
Of Nov. IL. 1853:
SOMETHING BEHIND THE CCRruS.-From the
corr. suopdence OF the Rev. William Croge, editor
OF TIE Western Waterman, 81 Louis, Mo. the hev.
J. j. Woolsey and the Rev. r. Babcock, ID. d., Of
feers Of the American Foreign Bible society
"The above Dsmed persons nave been conducting
some interesting correspondence, portioa OF when,
consisting Of letter from Mr. Crowell, dated jane
H. le53 one from Mr.. WOOlsey, OF June IL, 1898,
and one from the Coaou'or dated June ~, 1919,
and published over a fictitious signature will DO
specially interesting 20 the readers OF me CRroRce'
Some will be forthcoming next week.
"DepOnsnt believes said letter was addressed by
saia Crowell to said Babcock in bis Bsbcocks Of
fcsl capacity; and in the absence If said BabcOck
seid letter vas answered by said Woolsey as a CO.
oIdr ate officer Of the saDe society and the letter
mentioned in said Woolseys complaint is the answer
to said Crowel's letter. Deponent therefore claims
thai thl0 letttrs are Dol pflshe tDeH
but official or semi official; and, said Bible Society
il not S. eret organization but its acts AMI the Of
fetal conduct Of its officers are or ought to be open
and public to the world, he has Independent OF the
conditions herein before stated moral "a well as
legal right TO publish said letters reatiog A. they DO
10 the affairs of public society and the conduct OF
it, officers.
Waller, officer end o. ent of the American bioie
Union ,-slso as to other points, are given IN the
answer. In one Of Oct 1852, Mr.. Cr0well SAYS:
1--WE cannot ait still while movement so frsught
with mischief is urged on by such men and such
meals. Mr. Waller may well trembe and
rage a; the terrible retributon he is bringing on him
seif He has provoked exposition of his own his
tory which, if he has the sense OF shame lett, must
sting him TO the quick. His welcomes shall return
upon hi- own head, snd his violent dealing shall come
down upon his own pate The re iders Of The WRck-
man. az least, shaI have the means Of knowing
whether q man, whose opinions have changed with
every wanfsg moon, is a. TO head a movement for the
revision Of the blessed Bible
Another extract in Sept, 1852, says:
"As Mr.. Waller, Of The Western Recorter, has set
Up be the critic OF the Bbe, il is natural that ne
should be criticised A writer in The lChristrlHI
Her aid shows that bis violence on the peopies Fog
lish is not all acc.un ted for by the poypus IN his
Dose but that there Is poly pus in his PENN other
words thar his urros IN pronunciation are acsomps.
MED by frequent violations OF the P~Teise ruies OF
English grammar.
promised by the Society Of which he Is President,
should contain as much bad English in proportion
as The articles OF his wbich there nosed be would
be e curiosity
In ore number Of The Hs.terR R>cordsy Mr..
Crogel attacked Dr. alIer il Is said, after he hal
net With an accident which seriously injured him add
endangered bis life. Mr.. Crosell says:
The coach il far safer than Mr.. Walters legs,
Just Or the old Bible is safer than he and Mr. Camp
bell are likely 70 make. II is unsafe for clumsy
man to forsake the old line. That stump has re-
maIksble significance
Oiher extracts are given, in which the new move.
ment il severely criticized
d,Iv mad haso~ To-, Ia