Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-04-14

blood. | happened to hear what passed
between you and the clergyman of
whom You speak-and he it known to
You that that same clergyman told
you, IN unambiguous terms, that YOUR
supposed cases of Insanity and ssmad-
ness, were not murder and ought not
TO be punished with death. So much
then for ''2dly." But to "3d''-You
say line same is true with regard to
slavery-That is, it approves or sane
tons 1t. Now sir, as to Slavery. I as
sumo, and can shoac it, when necessa-
~, that Slavery in the common accep-
tatIon OF the term, DID NOT EXIsT In
"OId Testament times. And New
Testament Slavery, was not, by ''long
shot," the Slavery of the present dav.
You may say that this is ''mere as
SUMPTION but we hold ourselves re-
sponslble for proof-And as to Your
''Nisconsin Senator" if he SAYS that
the Slavery Of Bible times is a parallel
with Southern Slavery we envy him not
his intelligence. And we are Just TO-
norant enough to believe, that if the
Bible was held by all I'VE do not mean
merely theoretically, but practiculzy) as
''infallible," we should not be cursed
with Slavery, much less with murders.
"4th, You say, "God is exhibited there
as being of revenge, TYRANNY" &c.
This may seem SO to you, but I beg
leave to demur. God has attributes.
Love, Wisdom, Truth, Justice, Good
ness, &c.-but those attributes never
clash-they ''exhibit'' one grand and
harmonious movement throughout the
whole universe, and no sane mind can
galnsay it, and furthermore we think
the Bible, rightly interpreted and I'M
derstood, corroborates this view. fl
am q dolt on this subject | have the
satisfaction of being in company with
such men as Newton, Clark, Benson.
Scott and legion of others. AS to
your quotation from the ''Christian
Register''-pardon me for calling it
"Chmstian, "-I'll give it its true cogno-
men ''h1fdez Register" Its scurri-
lous TRADE, unworthy of the notice of a
decent mana parcel of scum from the
seething caldron Of corrupt heart
the dreaming Of an infdel brain-an
expose Of the rottenness and blackness
Of human depravity-an exhumation of
the man Ofsin--an eructation of Deism
a miserable eXcrescence of Atheism.
In conclusion, (you had one) let me say,
the Bible has withstood the combina-
ton oftorce and intelect-infdelitv has
brought its worst weapons into the field,
sectarian bigotry, sometimes it's pro
tessed friend, has tried to consign it to
oblivion by fire and fagot-by "pro-
scriptiye edicts" and ''damnatorv
creeds''-by the ''thunders of the vati-
cam and the horrors OF the inouisition
Tom Paine has given to the world
his sophistical quibbling-his false-con-
celyed contlictions of its truths--Vol-
talre has entered his warmest protest
against its divine inspiration-Hume
has ridiculed 1.-THE wit and genius of
Bollngbroke have proved powerless-
But to come down to the present dav.
the cunning and learning of A. J. Da-
Wis have been tried and yet the Bible
stands peerless, in the minds of the
best scholars and wisest men of any
and every land, and will to the end of
time. 1t has been the solace Of the
widow and the orphan-the dying pill
low Of the chTistian-and the hope of
the church. It's founded upon the eter-
nal principles Of truth, and has the
broad stamp Of Divirlity-and we hest
tate not to say ats our only and suffi-
cient rule of faith and practice" Now
SIT, YOU may 'barb the arrows of for
mer adversaries anew" youmay ''feath-
er them with ridicule''-you may odip
them in your deadIiest poison, ''-you
may shoot them with your utmost
s}lilr'-but ike your brother disbeliev.
ers ''you will hardly reach the mark,
they will fall to the ground without a
stroke" Yours for right,
NEEITAs.
fTraYJ I2oyiJC Anvil o+I, 1890