Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-10-24


10 class of men scattered sparsely thro'
the community, whom your readers will
recognize as generally persons Of sincere
p;ety and not at all dangerous to the public
veal. We ali know tha, nholition-m and
iufdei;ty are not Identical; So that even If
abolItionisJs were on the side Of Fremont,
and ten-fold more numerous than they are.
this would not argue any great danger
from infdelity. Doubtless there are meu
heterodox in religion, and those who reject
the Bible, that are also warmly opposed to
slavery, and such We should expect to tnd
most violent in the expression Of their
views. So there are iDfidels and free
thinkers, as you are well aware, who favor
nIr Buchanan. But what is to be thought
either of your intelligence or your cludor,
when you mingle together as Of one religi-
Gus stamp, and all infdels, such men as
Gerrit Smith, John Jay, and JIG, Birncy,
with Garrison, Phillips and Parker? Do
YOU not know that the three former, and
others like them, are, will not say Supe-
rior to the current herd of partizan dema-
gogues, but eminent for the practice of a
style of Christianity to which, if any in
our time, the Savior will one day say "weil
done p And where have you told your
readers that abolitionists, few and scatter
cd, are widely at variance among them
selves as to the proper course of political
action for them? that many of them, ,inclu-
ding Garrison and his school, eonseien-
tiously abstain from voting altogether,
while others-thc only ones who exert
any dircc. political infuence-haye Pre-
silential candidate of their ownf TO whom
they will as conscientinusiy give their suf-
frages that some of I'd most yioieht "f
them Garrison 4-l Ng.1el Philips are
said to be Of ,-.r l.us-f) express decl-
ded preference Tor the election Of Buchan-
an, as beng more likely T. his subservi-
ency TO the slave power to rouse the North
to separation and independence Can it
be that by virtue of your position at the
seat of government of this enlighteued
nation you are ignorant Of facts patent to
every other man who has acquired the art
Of reading? The statements of many Sen
Ators in regard also to events in Kansas,
NIGH. lead US to think there aras some
baleful obstruction there to the knowledge
Of the truth, were it not that the contras-
ted course Of few men who adOrn that
body illustrates the supposition. But can
any salvo redeem the intelligence of those
who are SO economical, SO parsimoniOus
even of cheap, wi gar truths, and well
known facts, without still more seriously
damaging their credit in respect to com.
mon honestly
What matters it, then, that Theodore
Parker and Garrison have denounced the
Constitution as hopclcssly entangied with
Slavery, and have also shown themselves
deists or that the " T. .StQnddrd,if there
be such a paper, has spoken hard of the
course of the Tract Society? or that either
Of their papers advocated Of it did, which
you also wrongly " asscr;'') the cause Of
Fremont? Are there uot an cqual mum
her Of disuuionists III tnr South who are
also deists or worse aud warmly IA favor
Of buchanan? or Is Mr.. Brooks. or ktIit,
or Atchiscu. a good Christie" ln yoar
eyes. from whom L0 harm H. ,,.,.. Vi
religion and morality: PcrbaF- Air %.
chauau is quite Is likely to be iufucueea
by these, as Fremont by the 'tanaties" Of
Boston. Iwould fam hope that the greatly
prcpondcraut favor towards the latter eau
didaie from ministers Of all denominations,
and the countenauce given him by almost
every religious newspaper where people are
free to think on slavery, may outweigh with
serious people the disastrous presage OF
any "ipfGel" aboli,ionist who may chance
10 60 the same way.
What reliance is to be placed on YOU
apparent quotations from sources not ac
ccssible to all, may be judged from you'
peryersion of Mr.. Burlingame's remark
If he has spoken his zone speech fifty
times" as is charged upon him, goo'
many people have heard it, and know 'ha
what he said, for the encouragement o
Republicans struggling against desperate
aristocracywielding all the allurements an'
intimidations of the Government, was tina
eve hare on our side an anti-slavery Con
s,itutiou, an anti-slavery Bible, and al
snti-slavery God" hope this may b
all found true.
It is with a logical dexterity whicI
savors strongly of the "hocus pocu,
presto ~ knack, that you bring the "
Tribune into your juinal- ci iuiilel ahol
,ionism. Aul Eera a-l.u would respect
fully answer y-u, ~ -.a.. referring a
coueerryd, 5 $50 rsgg- OF tie Iribun
-Tbe Hon. CarEit Smith, Of Poterboro
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