Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-10-17

damaging their credit in respect to COM
mon honesty?
What matters it, then, that Theodore
Parker and Garrison have denounced the
Constitution as hopelessly entangled with
Slavery, and have also shown themselves
deists or that the " T. .Standard,if there
be such paper, has spoken hard of the
course of the Tract Society or that either
of these papers advocated (if 1t did, which
you do not even "assert") the cause of
Fremont Are there not an equal num-
Der of disunionists in the South who are
also deists or worse and warmly in favor
of Buchanan? or is Mr. Brooks, or Kei,t,
or Atchison, a good Christian in your
eyes from whom 10 harm is threatened to
religion and morality? Perhaps Mr.. Bu-
chanan is quite as likely to be influenced
by these, as Fremont by the "fanatics" Of
Boston. would faiu hope that the greatly
prepondcraut favor towards the latter can
didate from ministers of all denominations,
aud the countensnce 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 "infGel" abolitiouist who may chance
to 90 the same way.
What reliance is to be placed on your
apparent quotations from sources not ac-
cessiole to all, may be judged from your
perversion of Mr. Burlingame's remark
If he has spoken his zone speech fifty
times" as is charged upon him, a good
many people have heard it, and know that
what he said, for the encouragement of
Republicans struggling against desperate
aristocracy welding all the allurements and
intimidations of the Government, was that
1--WE hare on our side an anti-slavery Con-
stitution, an anti-slavery Bible, and an
anti--lavery God" l hope this may be
all found true.
1t is with a logical dexterity which
savors strongly of the "hocus pocus,
presto ~ knack, that yos bring the " Y.
Tribune into your tumble Of infdel abOli-
tionism. And here again would respect
fully answer you, BY simply referring all
concerned, to the pages Of the Tribune
itself. That paper is now extensively cir
culated, however unwelcome the news may
be to you, and any man who does not take
it himself, has only to ask one of his
neighbors if what you say of it is true. 1t
would not be wicked for him even to look
at the paper himselfjus enough to become
satisfied whether it is the mad dog which
it is cried up to be. 1t is probably perused
regularly by nearly million of readers,
for some time past, and confidently ask
whether one of all these has found its
editors advocating 'in6delity,' free love-
or any Of the bug bears which you associate
with it. To call 1t the "ergan" of such
men as Garrison and W. Phillips, (whose
organ, then, is the Liberator p is to throw
out assertions with more than the reckless
ness of a pot-house declaimer. l have
seen it almost constantly since its origin.
l have found it more than any other paper
a mirror Of the actual, living world, in all
its aspects; and if have thus been shown
many things to grieve or shock me, have
been led the more to strive and pray for
their removal from the earth. 1t has
itself emincntly furnished, through the
latitude it has given to replies, the antldote
to its own errors; and when l have been
troubled by opinions promulgated in it, l
have generally felt that the spirit with
which they were put forth, and the freedom
with which they were criticised, rendered
their discussion rather an advantage than
an injury to the truth. Most of the mischief
imputed to it by its enemies, i: was nerer
guilty of, and the rest it has l think long
since discontinued 1t did, indeed, in its
earlier days, advocate an extensive read
justment Of our social relations, Gas james
Buchanan did the doctrines of Federalism
of which the hint was given by Fourier;
but never simple Fourierism. This advo-
cacy having accomplished most import
ant object, in awakening attention to crying
evils in our social system, has been for
years abandoned. That the Tribune has
ever advocated "free love-" is so utterly |
untrue, that the practices thus designated |
have been in no quarter more strongly
rebuked, and the sanctity of marriage has
had no more strenuous defender. That it
las counteuanced the delusions of spiritu-
'lsm is, according to my belief, equally
without foundation. 1t has, on the other
laud, nobly fought the battles of Tempe
'ance. 1t has plead the cause of the
aboring Land preached the obligations
which accompany wealth. 1t has ,augh.
society the duty of instructing the ignor.
Ince and cultivating the morality Of her
more sunken classes; as we'll as puuishIng
heir crimes IL has extended a friendlv