The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-04-21

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poison to the tyrant; and have never vet
found an American citizen disposed to quar-
rel with those principles-they are the sub
stratum on which our government rests. But
| deny all sympathy with his theological
views. "
On the subject of "skulking under false
name." a word or two may not be out of
place here. think it is pretty well under
stood that in discussions liable to excite the
sanguine mind, Mr.. Fowler is very apt to
lose his temper and calls hard names, which
| think is not the best mode of elucidation.
Knowing this to be natural infirmity with
him, | wished to save him from its effects
to save him in spite of himself; but he won't
be saved, the cloven hoof must be exhibited,
and so he repays my kind intentions with
abuse, "skulker, abolitionist, infdel." I! he
replies thus uncourteously to friendly in
vitation for light what would he do with me
| now have opostatised from his political
faith? In the hope, therefore, of tying up
l. u
truly represents my situation, and I regret
to see that my well-meant efforts for his
good have been barren of good results.
What matters it about name, when a
writer is engaged on matters of fact and de-
ductions from those facts? Had the Theo-
logical writings of Paine appeared anony-
mously, was it for the Ministers Of the Cos
pei to say 1--WE shall not notice the work, the
| writer's name is not appended to it, would
this be the Christians course? No! Con-
tanning as that work did, a most violent at
tack upon the very foundations of The Cos
! pei, of which they were the teachers, wheth-
er the attack was anonymous or not, they
We're not at liberty to hold their peace. Even
so in this present case, if the views | now
hold are political heresies, let the gentleman
expose those heresies. If they are false
views, my name cannot save them from the
crushing effect of his sublime logic--if they
are true, they can stand without my name.
have heard that Mr.. Fowler attended the
lectures of Mr.. Barker, an infidel who visited
Ottumwa some time since. The object of
Mr.. Barker, as l understand it, was three
| fold: 1st. To prove that the Bible gives a
full warrant for slavery. I'd. To prove that
slavery is crime against nature; and 3d..
To prove that, as the Bible sustains that
crime, it cannot be the word of God.
Mr.. Fowler seems to have imbibed all the
views of the lecturer on the first point. 1t
| is thus We are called upon to behold strange
religious paradox--a processing Christian
drawing his weapons from the infiders arse
nal, wherewith to support system which
even that infidel teaches to be mighty NOR
al wrong. Well NAV my friend F. exclaim,
"Oh! consistency, what a jewell"
This alliance of God with Baal forcibly re-
minds us cf the case of Sin and Death, in
Mlton's paradise Lost Milton persona
fies them, and when they first met, each
deeming the other his enemy, they prepared
for fight; but on comparin, notes little,
they discovered that so far from being ene-
mics, they actually had common cause at
heart, and were nearly related, too,-Sin be-
ing the parent of Death. Thus il is with
slavery and infidelity, although at first sight
dissimilar, there is hidden symbolical cord
which unites them. Slavery, by hardening
the heart, leads to infidelity; and infidelity,
by bunting the religious sensibilties, paves
the Shareholders path. Both wear the Dev-
lis livery. l remain he who once signed,
OK THE FENCE YET