The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-12-16

sons, religious belief With this we have
nothing to do. We do not care, in this
connection, whether the junior" rs an
lntidel or Methodist-an Universalist
or a Pagan. But when we find him cast
ing slurs, III the columns of his paper,
upon creed which we know he profess
es, and yet find him assuming con-
tempt for us, or any one else, we have a
right, and we shall exercise the privilege,
of throwing into his teeth, his base alb
negation of principle.
Junior does not deny being an In
fidel, and probably will not. From his
explanation, however, no one can tell
whether he intends TO do so, or not. AS
he refers to two gentlemen in this place,
who are conversant with his professions,
we will leave those DESTROYS of testing
the truth of our assertion, to consult
those gentlemen. We have consulted
one of them, and find his evidence cor
roborative of that upon WHICH we relied.
We are unable, for want of access to a
file of the Civilian, to give the precise
language of the "slurring" to which we
alluded, but think it occurred in an edi-
torial article on the Rutland Convention.
in which the term " Infidel" was mixed
up with that Of " Free Lovers" f" Abo-
litionists," DC, in order contemptuously
to characterize that convention. 1t was
noticed, at the time, by several gentle
men, and was the cause of our being in
formed that the junior protested himself
an 1nfdel.
When we commenced to set up this
article, we had no kind of an idea that
we should devote more than one column
to the subject, but it has grown already
we perceive, TO double the proposed
length. We are ashamed, and we hope
we always shall be, at deyoting such an
amount of space to the discussion Of per-
sonal matters. However, it is difficult
for us all, when these matters touch us
individually, TO view them as we would
IT we were not interested. We may say
that 1t is foolish for another to notice
such attacks, but if they are directed al
ourselves, they then assume an impor
lance that we never previously realized
This is precisely our case, for though we
naturally feel contempt for every charge
rejecting upon our private character,
from the consciousness of rectitude, yet
we must confess to a strong disinclna-
ton to let them go unrefuted, when they
are made against us publicly. We hope
our readers, therefore, will consider
themselves placed in our position. and
we believe they will, generally, excuse
us for deyoting SO much space to this
matter.
1t is unnecessary 10 go over the two
other charges made by us, and replied to
by "junior" as he replied to the others.
Had we space, however, we should do So
We have never noticed the Civilians
filings at us in reference to our profess
sion, and we never shall. When we sci
ourself up as representative of HAnNE-
MAINS practice, we have testimonials,
which years of earnest study under ex-
cellent preceptors and in one of the best
schools OF medicine at the east, have pro-
cured for US, 10 endorse our competency.
AS to his era wing in the dirt in order to
reinstate himself in the favor of the
Methodists, that has been an almost uni
versal remark in this community lately !;
and Immediately after the appearance of
the article in the Civilian, in which he
took the pains to say that he had been
several times to the Methodist church, a
prominent member Of that society re-
marked, that he Gpnior) was like boy
who had deliberately wandered off from
his path into the woods, and was forced
to crawl through brush and briar TO get
back again. As to his thus crawling,
there is but one opinion in the commu-
nifty, and that sustains ours.
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