The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-02-27
Slightly Salty.


The Western Christian Advocate, the organ
of the Me hodst Episcopal Church in the
West, and a very ably and judiciously conduc-
ted sheet, gives the editor Of the Sentinel a no.
tice in this weeks issue, which is rather calcu-
lated to disturb his serenity. if his attachment
to his Church and the esteem of his brethren
are particularly dear to him.
Under the heading of "Kansas Lies" the
Rev. W. G. Larrabee, hypothetical havezing
preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Emeritus Professor of Oriental Literature
and member of the North Western Indiana
Conference, but actual editor and proprietor of
a pro-Rum, pro-Slavery, and pro- Popery pa
per- published in Indianapolis, under the above
expressive caption has a Characteristic edito-
rial.
See how he opens:
'The papers, political and religious, TEEN
with the most exaggerated statements and un-
considerable lies respecting the condition Of
things in Kansas. The liars are not regular
and permanent citizens of Kansas, but persons
who have gone to reside there temporarily, and
to accomplish special Objects
But who are these 'liars?' We need men
ton here only the second class. And who
Christian reader, do you think they are? Why
the veracious editor tell US: Missionaries who
correspond with religious papers''-who write
to the ADVOCATES and the INDEPENDENTs-
Of matters concerning which they know not
whereof they affirm"
These are grave charges against the minis
tiers Of the Gospel-missionaries toiling and
suffering in Kansas for the cause of Christ and
Of humanity. Rev. w. G. Larabee says they
are liars" and that they write about things
whereof they are ignorant. We hope when h.
attends his conference at its next session, he
will take measures to purge the Church from
its contamination with these liars" 1t may
seem strange to our readers that good and true
men, selEsacrifcng and devoted men-long
known and approved for labors and character
at home-have in Kansas so soon degenerated
from morals and virtue and become 'iars'' 1t
may also seem strange that they, when speak
ing of things witnessed and experienced by
themselves-the perils and suherings Of the
Kansas settlers, and the brutality, meanness,
and cowardice of the 'border rulIi1ns"-ney-
ertheless, 'know not the the things Mhereo
they affirm"
1t my also seem passing strange that the
Rev. w. g. Larabee should be so well informed
in all these matters as to "knOW the things
whereof he affirms." We are afraid the rever-
end gentlemen will gain as little credit for these
statements as he did for the assertion, which
we gather from the papers in Indiana, he made
in his political sermons, that more ardent spirits
were consumed, and there was more drunken
ness in Maine since the passage Of the Maine
temperance law than before.
Alas, to what depths may poor human ma
ture sink! The passage to AgerniS is steep.
Rev. w. H Goode, formerly presiding elder
in Kansas, but now Of Nebraska, and Rev. l..
B. Denis, are our correspondents. They write
under their own Names and always have so
DONE AS Methodist preachers they have been
known for the last twenty years. Their char
acters are too well understood to need any in
dorsement from US, or to stand in any danger
from the aspersions of demagogues.
/ 0%TAt an inquest held a few days since at
Auburn, on the body of Big John, one Of the
characters Of that place, German, who knew
something of the circumstances, was sworn as
witness. His testimony was as follows:
Gle Goes to bet Yesterday bout tours or
fives o'clock so thrunk like de debble, an ven
he gets up dis mornin he vas so dead as he
could be, and watts all | know
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