New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-14


willingly, "a Congregationalist' should either re-
tract bis surprise and SORROW or extend then.
One of the chief terrors Of an Editors harassed
lot is-not, by any meaDs, the libel-smts WITH
which paltry pettifoggers cOntrive to in'est him,
nor vet the indignant nuisances who stalk into his
oshce to talk of cowhides and revolvsrs when he
wants TO be quietly attending to his own business,
but-the good people who most unreasouaby INSIST
On engrossng his columns with replications to at
tacks made upon them by somebody else. " Take
any shape but that come armed with Wits
or budgeons-and be meets you with smiling com-
posure but the man with grievance for which said
editor is nowise responsible, is his despair.
We printed the rejoinder to The Times most re-
luctanty, as We always print anything of that na-
ture, and only after entreating the writer to seek
bis redress through the columns Of The Tunes
Being thus dragged into the matter We shall briefly
say what We think of il. Here it is:
l. We think DR.. Cheever's supporters made
rad mistake when they consented to make, or even
permit, an appeal for British aid. We are utterly
opposed TO American begging or borrowing IN En-
gland, no matter for what purpose. We damage
ourselves quite abundanty BY buying of the British
fabr c. that We ought to make at home If there is
anything that we need yet can't have without beg
eing for it in England, prefer to go without it
till we realize our need sufficiently to pay for It,
DR.. Cheever's society made deplorabe blunder
when it consented to appeal to British hberaiity-
one that will cost it far more than it can possibly
realize from that appeal. Hence we feel that Ihs
Times was fully justified in sharply critcisns that
appeal. and the letter of DIR. Cheever embodying or
backing it,
Q. But we think The Times transcribed the
limits of legitimate discussion in accusing DIR.
Cheeyer of " Incorporate aud malignant passion
in his Anti-Slavery sermons, of an " acrld, mahg-
nant. ntolerant temper" &c. We perceive no
necessity. no excuse for these harsh, personal
ordinations. The appeal of DIR. Cheeyer's society,"
though mistaken and unwise. was one that IT had
perfect right to make-and the assumption on
which it was based that DIR. C.. had lost wealthy
pensioners because of bis incorporating Anti
Slavery utterances, is unquestionable. His Ii, be-
yond cayil. the most thoroughly, actively Anti
Slavery church in our City, and has suffered in con-
sequence. No suavity of temper or courtesy OF
demeanor on his part could have averted this loss
SO long as he proclaimed and insisted on the IN
compatibility of Slaveholding with Christianity.
3. We hold, then, that the supporters of DIR.
Cheeyer had reason to be provoked BY The Timess
structures as needlessly personal and insulting We
felt, therefore, constrained to let them be heard in
reioinder through our columns, though their essay
was open to like objection with their assaants'
They were personal in defense-ntensely, severely
personal-we think to their own prejudice; since
nobody can really be injured by what Mrs. Mala'
prop would coll a arrangement of epitaphs, such
as they showered upon the Editor of The Times.
The public regards such discharge of epithets as
mere scoldng, and thinks no worse Of the party on
whose head it is poured out. There are doubtless
occasions on which strong terms OF apprehension
are demanded and legitimate; but ytuperation
harms no one but its author
SO much for our view Of the controversy,
which We were most unwillingly constrained to
give some space to, but to which The Times seeks
or seems-unfairly, as we think-to make us q
sort of party. All we have further to say in the
premises is to most afectionstey advise our Evan
pelcal friends of 1.-The Church of the Puritans
and of The Times respectively not to hate each
other less venomously-we have no breath or ink to
waste on such fruitless counsel as thatbut to knife
each other more politely and decorously. And II
then can contriye to do it somewhere else than in
our columns, they will greatly oblige US.