Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-09-23
The Telescope = Horse show =
california Taylor"

California TnyIOr."
The"Religious telescope" ofthis week gives us
rather prominent mention We do not deserve
It; and besid $, the subject does not demand it.
We desire too be understood that our cotempora'
ry has made to much of a small matter; there
IL keeping too close 10 the ine Of precr dents set
by certain secular papers which II seems am
bilious Of emulating. What subtrscls from
the cleverness Of the supererogatory labor Of our
Christian friend Is the fact that he has not at
all got at the dificultyi or, rather, he has gone
around IT,
Last week the Telescope had severe "rhoN
domotode' about the "Grent National Horse
Show" at this place, which closed the week
previous This was right enough; its perfor-
nance was, indeed, TO be applauded, although
expected; and We accordingly applaud. What
we excepted TO in the "rhodomolode" AZORES
mentioned was the "unReberous fling made at
the papers' who were charged with putting
the thing into notice" We stated our excep-
tons, and improved the occasion to give our
views Of what was proper and improper under
the circumstances. We stated in substance
that the Telescope was indirectly az culpable
in the matter Of recommending the Horse Show
as we were, if any sin attaches to It; that we
recommended it because we were led to believe
it would be a Legitimate, proper affiir, and the
Telescope, for the same redsoR, neglected to de-
nounce It, in advance, an a "Rambling affair. y
There is nothing illogical about this--is theref
Our neighbor had the uufairness TO evade this
in his reply; and he attempts to break the
force of his "Aing" at the city papers by sta
ting that he "did not refer specifically to the
city papers at ALL" But he made no excep-
tions. aud, therefore, included all; thing he
would not have done, had ho read the Empire
and journal during the Horse SHOW, unless be
intended bearing false witness against his
neighbors. One thing more, aud We are done
with this matter. The Telescope says;
But the Empire thinks that inasmneh as we
did not know beforehand what the character oi
the show would be, we should have been silent
afterward,
We think no such thing; never, to the BEST
of our recollection thought half SO silly thing
and we are positive we never said anything in
this connection from which snch mn Inference
could be fairly drawn In referring to the
"hing" already sufficiently alluded to we said
We presume the editor, like ourself did moi
know beforehand what the character Of the
show would be. If he did know somewhat o.
this, he has done very wrong in delaying his
denunciatlon until after the occasion has passed
| II he was not aware Of It's character, then he IL
in the same case with the city papers, whom, he
hppently informs his readers, puffed the Sho~
into notice,
This is what we said; aud the Telescope
who does not quote MS. deliheratly misrepre'
sents us 10 its readers. We were not prepared
for this "trick of the trade"
We have already made this article too long
and yet we have not referred to the affair oi
"California Taylor" which our neighbor lug'
10 at the close Of his article to assist in making
out "plain ease" against us, We re>afiiru
what we said. The paragraph was not writ
ten elegantly, yet it embodied our delibesat'
sentiments. The suppression of the Language
employed in the article we objected to, aud thu
substitution of another paragraph, which, whil'
it is equivoCally complimentary, is contradicto
| Ty 10 lnhb 10 WulCn We itiVtIeui uueo hop NJ a.
change our convictions. The editor in speak
ing of DR.. Durbin's address, imprudently anc
plainly evnced his glee at the bad condition O
the missions of the M. f. Church; "gloated'
over the scoring the Doctor gave the ministry
and membership; and fairly chuckled when ht
msquoted the Doctor as saying he sometimes
feared the church was a failure He then tool
hold of Taylor and turned him around for thu
amusement of his readers; spoke slightingly c
his abilities and belittled his performance; sale
his trihing had destroyed the effect Of Dr. Dur
bins address, and that to him was chargeabl,
the failure in raising respectable contvibu-
ton to the Missionary cause on the occasion
We give the substance, for We have not the pa
per before us; we challenge denial Of the sub
stance of our charge, however We will no
now refer to the comparison made by Ii. Tel
escope between Taylor and Elder KNAPP, II
which Taylor and the NJ. f Church are maL
to suffer so horribly The indulgence of sucI
talk in 8 religious journal surprised us tn
, republication Of it in papers that greedily gra
up and send out snch stuff to the world, i'm
pelled Us to refer to il as we did. Now tbi
is all we feel called upon to say about the mat
ter. We have our conceptions Of our duty, an
we follow them. In the utterance Of our cor
! victions we endeavor to preserve our tempe
which we are pleased to inform our Telescopl
friend is at the present writing entirely ami