The Evansville daily journal., 1859-08-03
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"a Shurch OotnS INTO BuSimess."
Under the above very significant caption
an article appeared in the New York Trib-
ane some weeks since. As it made its ap-
pearance in the editorial department, and
was written in editorial style, the presump-
ton was that twas editorial matter. TAX
ing this view of the subject !, for one, was
disposed-like Pat when /" kicked by the
beast Ito /" consider the source and let it
pass" 1twas not until very recently that
1 learned-from source perfectly reliable
that the material for that article was
furnished by a physician of this city, who
is a member of the Old School Presbyterian
| Church. -I-sf sif slis ~ t1r
| confess this surprised me. and panied
me, too; knowing that the gentleman re-
ferred to claims to be not only friend Of
truth and Justice, but the friend and we'll
| wisher of those whom be has 90 wantonly
and maliciously slanderec.s szisaos sER
| To those who know aan,thing stbefacts
of the case, add the position of our charch
on the slavery question, have not word
to say; with such the action Of the Assem-.
Pbly, in accepting the report fits Board OF
Trustees, needs no defense--itis perfeetiy-
consistent with oil that she has ever said
and done upon this subject and has nothing
to do with the right or wrong Of slavery,
one way or another. It is TO those who
have gotten theirzinfcrmatious from the
Tribune, and have received a false impress
ion by looking atits distorted and magnifed
image; and are disposed to make capital out
of itfothe prejudice and injury of a large
| and respectable denomination of Christian
people, who claim to be branch of the
Church of Christ, and 10 be laboring that
His Kingdom may come--I repeat, Il is to
such, if there be such in the community,
that address myself in this articieLit is
for their benefit that Eassa space In the col
nmns of the papers Of this city. = iHE
p Ahdifir0t, II wish to say in relation to the
article in the Tribune, it breathes the spirit
not of God, nor of the Christian, nor Of one
who wishes to do good by reforming those
who are in error; but Of the devil, Of one
who seems to be actnated by a low, sordid,
selfish motive, of one who seeks to destroy
and kill, nor scrnples at the means which
he employs to accomplish his end. 1t
abounds inirony and biting sarcasm through.
out; it taunts, it SCOTS, it sneers, it raves
and threatens; it appeals to the passions,
and endeavors to excite indignation, and
leaves us with the promise that we shall
have more of the same sort hereafter. 1t is
ofthe Greeley school, and say what you viii
of the heart from which it emanated, we
must admit that it was sound policy to let it
appear as editorial in the New York Ttib-
mne. The family resemblance is so striking
that the bantling might have been christen-
ed 'fHorace," and no one would ever have
detected the fraud, had not its paternity
leaked out through the indiscretion of its
rightful DAM The truth of the matter is, he
twas proud % :, and en.alda.s kesp it----he
had to tellit Nor Is this the first tine he
has been guilty of TIE like, if we may judge
from his familiarity and success in this
case. He walks right into the sanctum and
sits down upon the tripod as if he were used
to il. t. i'h
But it was only the material which he
furnished, perhaps some one will say, and
we are not to hold him accountable for the
unkind and unchristian spirit in which the
article is written. If it was only the ma
terial which he furnished, he must have
been very minute in his details; for he
mentions the closing advice of the kodera-
tor-which had nothing to do with the SUBJ
ject whatever-and rings the changes upon
this in admirable style.
But suppose it was only the material
which he furnished Am less to blame if
| should throw innocent victims into the
den of an infuriated tiger, when I know
they will be devoured with savage and fend-
ish delight, than if I should stain my own
fingers with their bloodf hold that gen.
tlenan responsible-and SO viii every one
who judges rightly-whether be wrote the
article as it appears in the Tribune, or only
furnished the material-for the evil spirit
in which it was written. In fact, if he was
not actuated by bad spirit, why was he
so ready to tell the tale, that he scarcely
waited for the assembly to adjourn before
he dispatches the news-false as il is-to
the New York Tribme-that arch enemyo of
truth-that the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church had been dealing in negroes.
But bad as the spirit of the article under
consideration is, this would not be so bad, if
the writer had not studiously labOred to
make a false impression upon the minds Of
his readers. The impression that he would
make is that the church, as a church, has
been engaged in the traffic Of slaves "She
goes into business-none Of your vulgar
huckstering, she does not trade in rice, cot
ton, corn or tobacco, nor in steamboats, or
plantations, but she trades in nothing meaner
a.