The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-12-01
From the Christian Advocate.
THE "NEW AMERICAN CYCLIC.
PEDlA."
AN IMPOSITION, A CATCH PENNY, A VERITA'
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BILE "GREClAN HORSE" BEWARE OF
TIE nUMBUG
It's too much the fashion among South.
ern periodicals o o"puf" without aiding,
and praise without discrimination, every
new work that issues from the Northern
press. In this way, many books, objec-
tionable both in moral and political
point Of view, have obtained vogue
among us, which, otherwise, would have
never emerged from the more congenial
latitude Of their production, or been per.
mitcd to taint the mind of the South
Look at the Northern schoolbooks of the
last generation, many Of which insidi.
ously inculcate the odious doctrines Of
political aboilionsm, which were thus
brought into use, in tho South, and were
for long series Of years the common
text books of all our institutions of learn.
ing.
More recently, much lulsomo and in.
discreet praise has been lavshed upon the
"New American Cyclopcdia,' as it is
called, pretentous work, edited by no.
torions Abolilionsts, and written for
mainly by men Of the same reasonable
stripe. This work has now reached its
seventh volume, to be followed by ten or
twelve more; and, before had the for.
tune to examine its "ponderous tomes,"
and Judging only by the highly laudatory
notices Of Memphis editors and others,
who surely wrote without examination,
had been lod to believe it was one of the
ablest, most valuable, discriminating, and
impartial encyclopedias that had ever
made its appearance in our language
certainly the ablest in American litera.
ture.
Sad mistake! Wocrul delusion -
Ability, Of a certain New England or
Bostonian sort, it certainly is not def.
cient in; vain attempt, too, 10 bo i'm.
partial is discornble; some value it pos
sesses as book of reference, though in
this regard it will be found incomplete
and inexact. | will not deny, indeed,
that some OF its articles are brilliant,
polished and profound; but, SO far, when.
ever opportunity occurs, the least cltical
reader can perceive, permeatlng the whole
vein of those noxious and noisome
ideas, which, originating in the curbless
rebound of long.chained Puritansm set
free, have resulted in banelul crop of
Abolitionism, Transcendenlalism, Free.
thinking, "W oman's Rights" Deism, In.
fidelity, Atheism, Free Love, "Higher.
Lawism," and general abandoned and
unbounded Iicentiousness of thought and
speech, little creditablc to the descendants
Of those "who came over in the May
Flower" or Of those who fired the first
gun and shed the first blood Of the Rev.
Olution.
As evidence Of tho peculiar animus
and "mpartiality" which control the ed.
itors OF the New American Cyclopedia
may observe here that they have omit.
mitted all mention Of that great and good
man, that noble representative OF Amerl.
can and Southerner, that intellectual gi.
ant and unequalled Christian orator and
apostle, Henry B. Bascom, and yet have
found room for q complete biography Of
that runaway negro, adder.blind aboli.
ZIONIST and theoretic assassin, Frederick
Douglass! OF course, in tho lorlhcom.
ing volumes we may look for regular
apotheoses of Garrison, Wendell Phil.
lips, Abby Kelly, Giddings, Gerrit Smith,
Theodore Parker, and the whole Of that
Plutonian phalanx Of black hammered
and black hearted fanatics, who are ever
striving to bring about in this country a
worse revolution and more horrible
Reign Of Terror than those which, lit
tie over half century ago. dfenched
France in blood, and gave the world q
foretaste Of hell ITSELF"
Ignoring the illustrious Baseoln, inc
New American[!l Cyclopedla also nas