The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-12-01

Rep. Mrs. Antoniette L. Brown. This
reverend female, who is married, after the
lree.love, Woman's Rights fashion, to
one Samuel G. Blackwell, and who un.
sexes herself by going about preaching
rom pulp and platform the "unsearch.
able doctrines OF anti. slavery and Wo.
mans Rights, is, it seems, in the minis
OF tho editors, moro worthy Of mention
as representative character, and as an
historical exemplar Of American glory,
than Henry Bascom!
Another good and great man, Bishop
James 0. Andrew, is also omitted from
the list Of American worthless embalmed
in this precious work. One would have
supposed that he, at least, was entitled
to place in the american encyclopedia
from historical considerations, if from no
other. Aside from his distinguished and
successful labors as a minister Of tho Cos.
pei and as Bishop Of a Christian Church,
the persecution Of that upright man and
holy evangelist, by Abolition Methodists,
as is well known, led to one OF tho most
striking public events that occurred in tho
history Of the first half of the nineteenth
ccntury-the rupture Of the American
Methodist Church.
am not a member OF any Church.
was brough. up in Presbyterian family;
but | unequivocalIy charge that the New
American Cyclopedia, so far as it has
progressed, exhibits palpable and sys.
tematic design 10 blight and misrcpresent
the Methodist Church. In addition to
the facts already mentioned, let me cite
you to page ls7, vol. ", article "Chris.
tianily," where it is stated, in nearly so
many words, that tho Methodist Church
Of the United States does not require
learning in its ministry, and that its vast
membership is limited chiefly to the "com.
mon people" and GLOVER classes !"t-
The passage plainly intima,cs that tho
Methodist clergy are wholly deficient in
learning and intellect, and that the Church
is made up of the rag.tag and bob.tail Of
creation This is the reason, probably,
why the editors have failed 10 givo US bi.
ographies Of Bascom and Andrew, and yet
found prominent places for Cassius Clay,
Beau Brummel, Madame Cerito, several
notorious courlcsans, Fred. Douglas and
Capt. Paul Cufee, and othernegroes, and
whole host Of obscure Congregational
and "Transcendental" divines who were
never heard OF beyond the limits OF Nor.
thern villages in which they reside, and
where they spend their precious time
"whistlng metaphysics, splitting on the
Constitution, preaching "isms,' and stir.
ring up sediton.
do not charge that the work under
notice contains any direct avowal or de.
fence Of the abolition creed, but | defy
any one to read the articles on Salmon
p. Chase, the Colonization Society,
Henry Clay, written by Horace Greely,]
Preston S. Brooks, Cassius M. Clay,
Fred. Douglass, Capt. Paul Cuhee, Rev.
Lott Cary, [anothor negro,] F. P. Blair.
Jr., and many others contained in the six
volumes | have examined, and como to
any other conclusion than that its whole
tendency is anti Southern, that it is leav.
ened with the subtle poison Of anti.sla.
very, and is mainly the production of
minds wrapped and wldered with an ir.
rcprossible hatred towards the institutions
OF the South. At the close OF tho fifth
volume, the names of VIM. H. Seward,
Horace Greedy, George w. Curtis, B.
Gratz Brown, all the Danas, [one Of
whom is editor Of the work, Parke
Goodwin, and other ntislavery writer's
all abolitionists Of tho deepest dyc-are
given in the list Of principal contributors.
How else could it be, than, with such
writer's, that the New Cyclopedia should
be marked by their peculiar bias, and in.
sdiously seek to disseminate their odious
doctrines
| remurk, en- pasSant, that tho editors
Of the Cyclopedia belong 10 the exclu.
sive British category Of those who can
see no virtue or excellence in the life and
character of the first Napoleon, save
such as attaches to military genius alone,
and vino expressly rank that prodigy Of
human intelligence along with such cad.
ven,urors" as the infamous Cagliostro,
Walter the ponniless, Joe Smith, and
John OF Loyden. They also, from their
pastebeard throne Of paper and printers
ink, issue an imperial resclipt see page
SIS, vol. ", to the effect that the hu.
manity Of Cato the Censor must be es.
timated by the fact that he was "a large
slave. breeder and slave.dealer," terms
whose currency and significance in the
mouths of Northern "philanthropists"
are we'll known and we'll understood.-
And yet this is work which Southern
men ure successfully importuned at tbs
corners of all the streets, and through
all the neghborhoods Of the country, to
subscribe for, and which many Southern
editors are ceaselessly striving 10 com.
mend to universal public favor As |
said before, cannot believe that all Of
these editors have examined it, or they
would not give it so unstinted welcome
and so unqualified an endorsement; but |
have no doubt there are some Of them who
being themselves abolitionsts at heart
and loose thinkersin religion, are per.
fectly aware Of what they are doing, and
glory in the task.
For one, come forward to denounce
this New American Cyclopedia, so far as
it has gone, as magnificent humbtug,
cunningly devised imposition, splendid
catch. penny, a slupendous Greclan
Horse. denounce it as partial and un'
Just, and as prslerring the negro to the
white man, in that il suppresses the lives
and characters ofsuch great Americans
os Bisbops Bascom and Andrew, and
o,bsr iIlustrious men, living and dead.
while il brings out in bold relief those Of
Fred Douglass, Maryland runaway.
"Capt." Paul Cufee, New Bedford ne.
gro seaman, and the "Rev." Lott Cary,
a Virginia negro preacher and "philan.