The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-13
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Face ofAUCthcr Lying HypOcrtte.
VEGA ftfe following in the Chicago Times,
and ifsrssy lying hypoerite who converts his
q church on the sabbath into an eleetioneering
asSosia1on. vas treated in the same handsome
ulsaneF, it would soon produce reform. Snch
pioas scsRYs eanIot be treated TOO roughly, and
the cause cf morality AMI religion require that
,,Ask should be handled without gloves:
ia'ssh'ia tSfom the Chiesgo 'rimes.I
\ Reverend FaIsiGeT.
p Some time ago, we received through the P
, q. a printed COPY ola sermon. delivered by the
-l,ev,J. T. Roy, atthe Plymouth church, in this
. city. Nc made some extracts from it ut the
time % Show the utter recklessness Of assertion
displayed by the reverend gertleman. With
'cOtAiderahls reluctsnoe we pronounced some of
the statements contained in that sermon to be
willful falsehoods
Since that time, the sermon OF Mr. Roy has
been PeIdled in the streets, and offered for sale
at the book stores in Chicago, without any quail
hcaion Of falsehoods, or any retraction of them.
The false and deliberate misrepresentation con-
tanned in that Sermon respecting Senator Doug
laspersOnally, induced him to address letter
to Mr. Roy, statingthe facts and requesting him
to correct the misrepresentation. That letter
has been received by Mr.. Roy, and that gentle
& man has had full opportunity to comply with
, the request. Having failed to do so, and thus
indicated his purpose not to do an absent oppo-
nentjustice, we feel it to be our duty to lay be-
fore Ahspubhc copy of Senator Douglas letter
to Mr.. Roy That letter is as follows
..t..l. " WAsHISGToN, July 4th, 1856
Sir:--I learn from the newspapers that on
Sunday the 1st day of June, in a Sermon preach
eddy you in the Plymouth Congregational
Church Of Chicago, you deemed it your duty to
assail me personally and by name
Reibtring to the alIray between Mr.. Sumner
and Mr.. Broods, you say: "Douglqs Of giant IN
janB stood By nth his hands IN lis poc&ets.o
Although I have no personal acquaintance
with you, or knowledge ofyour character as
citizen or a minister Of the gospel my respect for
your profession and for those Christian princi-
pies WHICH it is your duty to proclaim and OBJ
serve, induces me to take it for granted that you
would not knowingly utter an unmitigated false
hood in the pulpit on the Sabbath day, with the
intent to injuae the character ola fellow citizen
and that having committed such an act of inius-
tice you will feelit both duty and pleasure
to repair the injury in the same place, and be-
iorethe same audience where the injury was
done. With the view Of enabling you to do me
and yourself and the cause Of truth the act ofius-
ticc indicated, now state that it is not true
that stood bg with my hands in my pockets at
the time; that | was not in the Senate Cham
Der when the altray took place--that l did not
witness any part ofthe transaction-that was
engaged in consultation on public affairs with
part OF the capitol at the time and had been so
engaged for more than an hour previous-that
had no knowledge, intimation or belief that any
such transaction was to take place at that or any
NIAASt
to belieue that either Mr. Sumner or Mr. Brooks
was in or near the Capitol at the time; and
when I returned to the Senate Chamber the af-
fray was over and quiet had been restored some
time.
These facts are not only susceptible of proof
By the Senator'S and Representatives referred to,
but are 50 we'll known to the Senate and to the
the whole community here, that no gentleman
would hazard his character ortruth and veraci-
ts by ntimating his beliefin the the truth of the
charge which you under some strange mlsapprc-
hension, have made against me in the pulpit ofa
Christian Church, on the Sabbath day.
You are also represented as having made an
other charge against me, equally unfoun-
ded and untrue which 1 quote from the news
papers, not having seena copy of the printed
sermon: "This and the Kansas crime reveal
"a new step in the policy Of slavery: that physi-
'cal force nus and shall be used to carry out
"its measures. The instgator ofall this crime
'(Douglas) short time since ventured to d-
'yulge the secret policy, when he declared to its
first victim I'VE will subdue you, Sir and no
zone knows but this very thing was in his mind
''at the timo.'
In this passage you attribute to me language
which never eounceiyed or harbored 1t is
true that the New York Tribune AMI other un
scrupulous partisan sheets attributed to me sew
eral months ago the same sentiment but it is
also true, and the official debates Of the Senate
attest the fact, that promptly denied it III open
Senate in the presence Of Mr.. Sumner and all
others to whom it was alleged to have been di-
rceted 1and not one of them intimtted or preten-
ded that the charge which had been thus brand
ed in open Senate as base calumny and admitted
to be such by the silence ofall the Senators to
sclton it was said to have been directed is now |
repeat, after lapse Of several months in the pull
pit Of tie plymouth Congregational Church of
Chicago, ani made the foundation ofa series of
inferencess equally unfounded and unjust. l
have never advised OF failed to rebuke resort to
aphyscal force as substitute for truth and rea-
son in the discussion and decision of public ques-
tons. -4 . tft.i"
Whether the Nebraska bill was crime or a
iseand just measure, is a question which have
always held myself ready to discuss calmly and
dispassionatelg on all proper occasion; and III
physical force or mob violence, or any other i'm
proper means have been used to destroy the
freadorn of sneech either in Chicago or elsewhere