The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-01-10
To THE EDITOR or The TIrTcN ADVERTISER:

To THE EDITOR or The Triton ADVERTISER:
felt it my duty to present, through
your columns, some plain and earnest
structures on portion Of the sermon
preached last Thanksgiving, at Upton.
said nothing Of the other exercises, nor
of the principal part of the discourse,
Lest my silence in this respect should be
construed as a general dissatisfaction
with the exercises of that occasion, |
Will now say, that the arrangement of the
services was made with my concurrence,
that it was my own choice to assist in
the "scrvice Of song" on the occasion,
and not through any slight of others that
did not enter the puI pit, and that the
prayers aud thanksgivings, and much of
the sermon, received my cordial assent
But all this, | conceive, was no bar to
an honest expression of dissent from any
Of the positions or statements Of the
speaker, which appeared to me erroneous.
| did not attribute to him, without dual
lication, the views to which | objected ; |
but said, distinctly, Gas understood by |
many of his audience" such were his
views and bis position. | did not assall
his character or motives, but confined
my structures to the position and argu-
mcnts of the sermon. The idea that one
minister cannot honestly and earnestly
dissent from, and even reproye another,
without violation Of christian courtesy
and charity, was never dc ived from the
Bible. For it is there recorded that
- open rebuke is better than secret love-
:" he that rebukcth a man, shall after
ward find more favor than he that fat
tcreth with the lips and that Paul
Peter to the face, because he
was to Re blomed."
If Mr.. Geigers real position was mis-
it would have been very
asy, and entirely pro er, think, for
lin to correct the false impression,
through the same channel in which the |
tricturcs were offered If the judgment
passed was too severe, or in bad temper,
hat also might have been frankly stated
While | hold my convictions Of truth
md right firmly, | also claim the candor
to correct any misstatements |
may have made, and to retract any in.
Justice into whicE | may have fallen.
In the light of these plain principles
Of free discussion, conceded by all con
trovcrsalists, literary, political, and theo-
ogical-the long TRADE Of personal abuse
and sophistry, in the last number of the
Cclar Democrat, scarcely deserves a
word of reply A writer who condemns
another, without mercy, for personal
assault upon character, and then makes
one ten fold more violent and abusive
himself; who taunts another with cow
ardIy hiding behind an anonymous sig.
nature, (Which, as was generally known,
was not intended for concealment,) aud
then with fragrant inconsistency, does
the same thing himself; who undertakes
to read lecture on good manners and
christian behavior, while he gives no
evidence of possessing either to say
nothing of the gross perversion of the
plalnest facts IN our political history; is
unworthy Of any serious notice or regard,
Who the author of this cynical and yir.
ulcnt production may be, | have no care
to know.
will on y add that, if Mr.. Geiscr car
stand such advocacy as has lately appear
ed in his behalf, Who're principa
ground Of praise and defense is, that he
has nothing to say in behalf of an op
pressed aud dcspised race, and who's,
chief argument against those who "re
member them that are in bonds. as bounc
with them" consists in the repetition 0
such elegant and classic phrases as " tn
internal niger "nieger worshippers,
&c; if he can stand such advocacy a
this, without Indignantly spurning an,
regulating It'll certainly can bear til
defamation and abuse which it puts UP
on me. NJ X. CROSS,