Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-02-09
For the True Democrat. The English Bible.

-0 ''ios' ihCense Joy. On Deng asked the reason of his delight he replied, that he knew hls friend was gaining his cause. from the fact, that his opponent was making such angry faces.
 Judging by the same rule. we may conc,rds that Mir. Edmunds must feel that b;s o.n.;, In aslnklns condition. Reproachful epithets will not pass tor arguments nor will unouali6ed assertions answer for evidence. All who bo,., paid attention to the Fort Smith case as nnb- lShed in my two last articles must he sa,;sfaa on that point The names of the gentlams, who have certified to the reproachful and dis. paraging remarks of the agent of the B. RA in regard to our common English scriptures must place that matter beyond dispute.
 Mr. Edmunds' disposal of my quotation from the Bible Union Reporter, strongly reminds one of the Irshman's plea for not paying for pot alleged to have been broken by him after he had borrowed it. "I shall not pay for it," said he '' Tor three reasons: 1St. Because it was sound when I returned it. I'd. Because it was cracked when borrowed it, and third, because never borrowed it at all."
 In his reply, number 1st, Mr. E. adopts the identical words had quoted, and asserts that, IL (the new verson) embraces the whole or the controlling portion of many numerous and influential sects." In number 2, he uavs. if it Is false, am not the editor, etc. 3l IfIb had been the edltor he not l, would have been re- | sponsible 4'h Tue ,0ords quoted are aot to be fosrad in tie periodical quoted"
 This last sentence, italicisel by him. is evil dently intended to fasten upon me the cbaroe of fabrication or forgery. When Marcus .Emi-
 us Scawrus, after long life of service to the Roman Republic, was accused of treachery and corruption by Spaniard named Varius he went down to the forum and made his defence in the following words: "Varus the Spaniard accuses Marcus Emlus Scawrus of treacherv and corruption. Marcus Emilus Scawrus de- nies the charge. There is no witness Now judge ye which of us is to be believed" The historian adds Populas statim accusatorena ab iHa acttone depuht.
 If there were no testimony in this case Mir. Editor, should cheerfuly submit this case to the public as judge, but there is testimony, and 1 now say that 1 did transcrbe, with my own hand, from the periodical named, the very words which published, and which Mir. E. says are not to be found in the periodical quoted. They stand on page 20th of the February number of the periodical called the Bible Union Reporter for l856 in the following connexions: But that which marks the present movement and gives importance to it is, that it (the new ver- slon) Is not the enterprise of one or more pri- vate scholars but of large organized religious combination, known as the American Bible Union, embracing the whole or the controlling portion of many numerous and influential sects."
 In glancing over my article when it appeared in the True Democrat, of Sept 18th, disco vered that by a typographical mistake, as I pre- sume, my quotation was made to say 1858 in- stead of 1856. I then remarked to a friend thgt there was choice opportunity of quib- ble for MT. Edmunds, and sure enough he laid hold of it, and is trying to make the impression that the words quoted are not to be found in 1 the periodical quoted. It would be difficult to believe that the Cor. Sec. of the " movement' should not know the difference between a pe- riodical and particular number of periodi- cal refer to the number and page above mentioned as a refutation of the charge.
 My chief object in all I have published on this subject has been to repel the attempts made to shake confidence in our common scrip lures, which 1 regard as criminal in the ex- treme. "Should they succeed" says a late writer ''in destroying confidence in King James, version, how will they manage to secure conf- deuce in their own?' Will not the English speaking world be left without a Bible? Dur ing a convention held by the friends of this movement, few years ago in Memphis, arowdy who had been listening to their harrangues against King James Bible, is said to have call ed out to his companion in the street, "acel aos haUe got clear of the oM Bible at last"
 IL is much easier to destroy confidence than to restore n, and who can tell the consequences of impaired belief in the divine oracles? Let confidence in the Bible be destroyed among the masses of the people, and where is the guaran- tee for national virtue? And that such is the direct tendency of this new version movement, none who read the publications or listen to the speeches of it's leading advocates can easily question. In a late work now before me, writ ten by the Rev. N. H. Lee of the Louisville conference and published for the Methodist Episcopal church south, on page 11th, find the following: Paine & Valtaire have scarcely employed more profanity in their attacks upon the sacred writings than the most prominent advocates of this scheme have used in reference to the version in common use. They have in- dulSed Tn low, vulgar, abuse, which would far better become the very lowest infidel club than an assembly of those calling themselves chris tians."
 Why Mir. Editor, in your paper of March 16, 1858, Mir. Edmunds himself uses the following words, when speaking of our common. version: Has wicked King right to insert as many (errors) as he pleases, and are one to be forbid den to look into it and correct them" Here is plain insinuation that King James has insert- ed Tn our Bible as many errors as he pleased. Now query. How much more respect would book be entitled to, which was written by im- posters as Vahare regarded our scriptures, or one protesting to be faithful translation of divine original, but containing as many errors as a wicked King may have pleased to insert in it, as Mr. E. nsinuates?
 Now all this slang, poured upon our vene- rated scriptures which for near two hundred and fifty years have been read and expounded [ by thousands of learned and holy men as the rule of faith and life, is evidently for the pur- purpose of substituting in it's stead, another version which shall say immerse instead of baptize. Whatever may be said to the contrary, in some quarters, this is the central idea around which all others revolve. In proof of this, hear Dr. Cone, the first president of the Bible Union, and one of its principal orignators. In an ad h,fnr hot n;o