Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-15
For the True Democrat. The ElyV rIs-1.

Mh. EDITOR: In your paper of lst inst. find an article over the signature of MT. Ea- wards, typographical mistake, as presume. for MT. Edmonds, Corresponding Secretary of the Bible Revision Association, in which he takes exceptions to the proof adduced in re- gard to one of their agents, and charges me di- rectly with publishing a slander Such a charge, had it came from some sources. would have occasioned me concern. But in the ore. sent instance it assuredly does not.
 The whole case stands simply as follows:-- Last spring, in giving my reasons for defence of the translation of the English Bible stated that several gentlemen in Fort Smith and else where had assured me that they had heard an agent Of the Bible Revision Association repre- senting our Bible, that is, the translation in common use, as ridiculous, absurd, and an in- dignity to the Most High.
 in an article of MT. Edmond's of May 9th, he called upon me either to prove or retract this statement, and promised, in the event of my proving 1t, that the agent should return to Fort Smith and make confession, or be dis. missed.
 therefore wrote to Fort Smith, and, in re- turn, received the following note, dated June 18th, 1858
 Rev. J " Moore-
 DEAR SIR: lnreplv to your question, whether heard person calling himself an agent of the Bible Revision Association, last fil, using an- Suase fantamonnt to that represented by you, lh your published article in regard to the char acter of the common version, l answer in the af- frmatve
 (sIGNEDD J. c. ATcHIsoN, JOSEPH BENNETT
 MITCHELL SPARKS"
 MT. S. F. Dufie gave a separate statement which, for brevity's sake, I shall omit. It was clearly expressed, and strongly corroborative of the agents, disrespectful representations of our translation
 And now, in the face of all this. Mr. FL. monds asserts that " He G. w. M.) has in. troduced four witnesses, only one of o]sona testi fes to single aoord that ,oas satd by the agent" 1 Italics mine.
 The only construction I can put upon the above remarkable assertion is. that Mr. Ed monds expects to escape detection by the quib- ble that, although Messrs. Atchison, Bennett and Sparks have not testified to a singzs ,oora yet they have testified to aN tue toords men, toned in any published article; for they say, in direct terms, that the agent used language to- tamount, that Is, ,..according to Webster-"E "Eouiva lent sn Uatue or sign fcation"-to that represent ed by me in my published article. exposed MT. E. in quibbe of somewhat similar char acter some months since
 sensible writer intimates that some false hoods are of such magnitude and audacitv that they almost take away the breath, and preclude the necessity of an answer. Such was Hume's assertion that the natural world existed only in men's ideas and surely we must place Mir. Ed mond's statement of the Fort Smith testimony in the same category
 MT. E. excepts to MT. Duf1ie's testimony be- cause he uses the words, " To the best Of 0,y knoDlelgei''
 A want of adherence to truth appears to be no new thing with Mr. Edmonds find a let [ ter quoted with approbation-or at least with no denial of its fasehood into the Bible Union Reporter for Feb. 1858, in which it is stated that this new version movement Embraces the whole, or the controlling portion of many nu- merous and inhuent al sects" Now Mr. Ed munds knew, as we'll as he knows that the sun shines, that did not embrace either the whole or the controlling portion of many numerous and influential sects. He knew that it did not embrace the whole of the Baptist denom- nation, and yet he and their agents generally are aiming to make the impression that it is a union of the different denominations. Is this according to truth? Suppose, for example, the State of Rhode Island, or part of it, should become disaifected towards the constitution of the United States and by various methods, such as the payment of large sums, should induce a few persons from every other ate in the Un ion to engage with them in forming new con- stitution, would such an association be union of the States? But the time has gone by when pelobaptists can be cozened out of their money tn aid in a sectarian Bible The piratical colors hitherto held out to decoy the unwary can be no longer concealed. Immersion, tis prtnaiuna mobile, the prompting principle of the move- ment, can be no longer kept in the back grouul Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Va, who is one of the vice presidents, aud also a translator, has given to the world the Acts of the Apostles as part of the new version. I have not vet seen it, but discover from periodical which DO doubt represents it fairly, that baptize and l
 and immersion. In opposition to the uniform scriptual representation of the Holy Spirits be- ing pourea out and shea forth, the new version, it isstated, representthe disciples as imnserseI into the Holy SpiritI This is the consumm .ton which all acquainted with the movement expect ed from the beginning. But would it not have been more honorable and honest to have an- nounced it clearly at the first.
 J. W. MOORE.
 Ruralia, Sept. 7, 1858.