The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-02-09

vi lIIt llhe butterflies from sweet 10 sweet,
from flower to flower, then disappear forev-
er. If born to position or occupy office
they are viewed in their elevation because
OF their wlckedness and crime, they are as
odious as they are conspicuous. But
some claim diyiner right male under a
higher law. sent as Rabi teachers from God
to dictate the will of heaven. who abide
neither the laws of men nor the consttu-
ton of their country, whose puritanical
cant and hypocrisy make them odious to
every sensible and honest mind
They may be ministers indeed, but not
ministers of the religion of Jesus Christ,
but of divine vengeance, who sometimes
destroy not only themselves but the pco-
pie to whom they preach. To this latter
class, Mr.. Beecher. allow me to say, l
think you belong Your slender virtues
are SO mixed up with arrogance, impudence
and crime, that the most acute analysis
could not discover one grain of honesty in
the composition; and if Gods grace can
save the sinner. the selfish hypocrite, the
winged messenger of Mercy would never
light on so mean a thing as you Again,
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higher purpose--sent on important bnsi-
ness, sent to desolate and destroy, or to
create, to build up and sustain; men not
living for themselves, as you do, but for
the whole human race; whose lives are the
ornaments which adorn the age in which
they live. If they appear either in public
or private life the places they occupy are
radiant with the glory of their acts; men
who are stars and suns in the pathway of
life, to cheer, to guide and save. Not a
few have adorned your profession, sir; some
have adorned mine. But the most marked
and distinguished men of the past age were
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Patrick
Henry, Calhoun, Clay and Webster, most
of whom were born in that State which you
would desolate, and under institutions
which you profess to despise. Such men
are the holy fathers of the church to which
| belong, and if sent to he'll for the enor-
nous SIN of slavery allow me the privilege
of choce to 60 with them rather than to The
heaven of the cantlng hypocrltes, whose
every act is to anathematize all but his own
dogma, and propagate error and falsehood
in every step he takes in life. Such men,
under the garb of religion, in every age of
the world and under every form of faith
have despoiled the fairest hopes OF the hu-
man race. Such men as claim to be guild
ed by Il higher law, than the Constitution
of this country, would dash to pieces the
fabric of our country's liberty, and lay
their unhallowed, polluted hands even on
the stones of the very temple of liberty ere
they are grown cold from the hands of
Washington ard Jefferson. Sach men as
you, sill, would see the waves of human
passion in storm sweep over the ruins of
the lighthouse of the world, reared upon
times thousand miles of coast By the toll
of millions of the just, the virtuous, and
the wise, at whose base like the brains and
skulls of the fanatical gulls that have dash
ed against it. And, sir, if such men 90
to heavsn the should carry with them ev-
cry creeping thing. Such men would plot
treason against virtue, and sacrifice even
female honor upon the altar of their hellish
designs. | do not covet such heaven
have no desire to walk the streets of your
New Jerusalem, where am to be sauied
by the whistle Of the rattlesnake and the
hiss Of the viper, and breathe the atmos-
phere poisoned by the breath of the toad
and the copperhead.
This may be heaven for hypocrites and
fanatics, but not for me. Many years have
passed since knew you, sir, an impudent
boy, and having added wickedness to i'm
pudence, you have become more conspic-
uous man. while my obscurity will scarce-
ly bring me to mind. | have welded the
knife in surgery for profession, and wheth-
er l have won laurels or not, my history
and my profession must show But, sir,
this much will say to you, that when my
country is destroyed by heartless fanatics,
excited to deeds of bloodshed, the knife
which has never been turned on the human
family but in kindness and mercy, shall
be keenly whet in justice and in vengeance.
My last surgical operation shall be per-
formed on such destroying monsters, to
cut from their hearts the rooted cancer.
and rid the world of such canting hypo-
critics. l am, sir, Hugenot Protestant cf
the Marion stock, the LIE Grand family of
France, my immediate ancestors, By my
mother. My father descended from race
Of Scots that never have been conquered :;
of the Campbell clan, and Rob Roy was
my cousin. | have never bought, or sold,
or stolen, or owned negro; l am Ken
tuckian, born among the slaves, and no
Judas shall sell my country for silver, but
he shall receive steel instead | am a
friend of the Union, and an enemy of all
such disturbcrs of my country's peace.
and, therefore, | am your enemy.
JOS, N. MCDOWELL, M. d.
Professor of Surgery in the Medical Col
lege of Missouri.
A Stating OcCuRRENcE.--A lady who
had returned from India three years ago,
was the other dav oneninr q draver u,