New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-22
MORE INTERESTING CORE SPOND-
ENCE.
Mr.. uowIsoN TO Mr.. BAYARD TAYLOR.


RIcuxoSD, Va, Feb. 10, 1860
BAYARD TAYLOR, esq.-SW:-four letter OF the
Sd inst, has been received.
am truly sorry hat you should consider anything my last
letter personally dscoueous or insulting to you
Certainly not Intention bof do beieVe That the
letter IN whole OF with fairness be Construed
TWAS due well yous,e to those represented that IN
Withdrawing the invitation previously given to YOU should In
you plainly Of our reasons for so doing And your letter In
no gee dnnshes the force Of those
generally known in this nifty thai were
connected Tng Y. TRIBUNE, and the fac. Of such
necon significance in the light Of recent events which
caused open expressions Of jissaisfacion
And when, In addition 10 u you inform me that you hold
the opinions Washington aud Jefferson the subject Of
Slavery" your partial edtoTshp Of THE TRIBUNE indicates
positive sympathy With s doctrines Washington and Jefferson
were great they lived and died before the subject OF
Slavery had been thoroughly discussed in view Of Scripture snd
reason above all they died before modem Abo'nm had
commenced its presidential career
wahingons opinions of emancipation mode rate
and in his time objectionable but Jefferson went much
further.
be true that you, scholar aud writer, do non In 1850
hold with Jeeon "the whole comme between master
slave perpetual exercise OF the bolster passions
the most unrering Iesposm the part and aiding
submission ether" and in view OF Slavery that you
hembe for your county when you r.nec that God ja
"thst His jus ice cannot sleep forever that condeang
bers nature aud natural only arerouon Of the wheel OF
fortune exchange of situation among poIbe ereHt'
chat may become probable by supernatural Interference
the Almighty bus attribute which take side with
in such conest such be Jour present sentiments then
you cannot be surprised to find the, will not be welcome
VbtoT TO a Virginia community.
your lecture Humboldt have never heard IT, andi
not published in full Of not read H. But
tain extracts from cod statements OF have appeared
papers THR TRIBUNE smong Others tie accuracy OF "hch
YOU have not within my kYoWsdge denied One Of these rep
saying Homboa; rarely attended Divine ser
vice and that be unbouneed soon Tor much that
called religion that his religious nature was perhaps 700 deep %
fnd expression by such metbod that in conversation with
yourself he uttered ssre upon cerymen and b this certain
rema your s9ded, from al Of which, others beside
my inferred that you yindcstt approved Humbods
religious belief although Dei, and not simple faith in
the Sculptures dyney inspired Whether such be your real
your conscience only decide pretend not
judge you but bound draw my nrrences from
the Indications apparent and regret that nothing your letter
removes these uIayorabe impressions.
You conclude with strong words Yours for free thought
and sdened Christianity In sense unite with
you desiring these blessings but the very forms Of your eSPes
remind that with many at the North free housh has
into thinking nhdeiy aud eliminated In
free love and that have sought engnten" Cnsisn
~ by holding up the face OF the Sun OF Righteousness he
smoking taper Of their socs.d higher law" For such free
thought and enlightened Christianity am not but am
Yours for constitutional Liberty and the Christianity Of the
Bible, r. r. HOWlsON
Mr.. TAYLoRs REPLY.
UREA, n. Y, Feb. 90 1860.
SIR: acquit you of Intentional diseourtesy, though
my own standard Of good breeding would lead me TO
omit such nsnuatons of nfdelity spritualism and
free-love you have fit 10 apply 70 me. From
the tenor OF your letter, l not mnch surprised
that you should nothing insulting in the attempt to
subject free man to censorship not only OF speech
| but of thought
1t astonshes me- nevertheless TO hear from you that
WsstDgtons opinions Slavery contrary TO
Scripture and Reason that Jefferson if 10 living,
would not be a welcome visitor 10 Virginia COM
munity"-when / find, in History of Virginia. writ
Iacloro Tn Ia and
" important cause, unfavor4bly affecting Virginia
(which we shall mention, is the existence of Slavery
" within her bounds and also this 1--WE spprehend
that, in general the people of Virginia hold Slavery
to be an enormous evil, bearing with fatal power
"upon their prosperity" Allow me to ask whether
your history written by the light of Scripture
50 and Reason1"
The notices Of my lecture on Humboldt, TO which
you refer do not correctly represent my expressions
said be possessed an unbounded scorn for the mean
" ness and Inconsistency Of many ioudmouthed pro-
fessOrs of Christianity" and also repeated remark
of bis, satirziDg uHrOrthy clergymen. j neither
stated, nor do believe, that he was merely Deist
II il useless TO recaptuate my remarks because they
referred 10 him alone. trust have too much good
taste and good sense, TO inrude my sious views
into lectures which are listened 10 by members of all
Christian sects.
Let Inc once more urge upon your attention the fact
that am Deither politician iheologian, but an
author What my political opinions are, no
one, go long az | do not proclaim them publicly. For
my religious faith am answerabe 10 God alone
will enter into discussion with you upon these
poiDs, for deny your right the right Of any other
man, to catechse me. When deliver my lectures on
" The Arabs" Arctic Life" and A" Moscow" las
proposed doing at Richmond, your business with me
extenos further than demand that my statements
be correct and my narrative entertaining.
Your repeated allGsion 10 free-love" might have
been spared. shalt rejoice heartily as yoareelf,
when the small band Of icentIous fieeoyers disappears
from the North, and when race Of mulattoes is no
longer propagated at the South
cannot join in your closing declaration, when l
find that " constitutional liberty" means a tyranny
over thought unknown in despotic Austria and that
" The Christianity OF tn, Bible includes nquisitor
ia bieotry from which even Catholic Spain il free.
Yours, BAYARD TAYLOR
r. r. HowIsos, use.