North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-10-21

and slander, the charge having been crammed
down your own throat, you now, like whip
ped spaniel, ask Was it generous, was it
qentlemanly, on your part, to equivocate and
pettifog for the purpose oftrying to make me
appear falsi6er, after | had positively de-
MED that was an abolitionist, and defined
what understood by the term ?''
Sir do you mean that the sanctity of your
cloth entities you to make false charges OF
I" falsehood and slander' and also exempts you
from the legitimate consequences of proof
that such charges are false are you licensed
to deal in false accusations with absolute i'm
punity Was it generous and gentlen.anty''
to show you " falslfer"? Yes sir it toas if
such was the fact and the t4ct you do not
deny, but complain of me for proving so con-
clusively that you do not attempt to answer
it, that your own effort to prove your asser-
ton that you you are not an nabolitionist proves
with precisely the same conclusiveness that
YOU are not methodist-that you are not
anything fright or wrong, legal or illegal,
constitutional or unconstitutional" and this
in your gentlemanly way, you call petit
Jogging. You have very easy way sir OF
throwing yourself on the defensive; way
that indicates long practice in that very mode
of argument that you so characterize. Ger
tainly it is much easier to accuse your oppo-
nent of pett1ogging, when you find yourself
hard pressed with plain facts, than to meet
such facts fairly, face to face
have no doubt but a man Of your liberal
notions, regards it as very ungenerous that,
in vindicatlng myself against your charges of
falsehood, | should necessarily convict you,
not only of falsehood, but of being an aboli-
ZIONIST, notwithstanding that wonderful def
milton you had deV ised as a means of escape.
You say, however. that you have nothing to
retract. Permit me to say that expect
nothing of the kind from you. To do this
would require, at least, one Characteristic of
a gentleman. The ingenuties displayed in
framing that remarkable definition Of an alb
olitonst, showed no such intention from
the outset. But sir, you do improve in one
respect. You do not see fit to charge me
with falsehood and SANDER in charging you
with having falsely accused Bishop Hopkins
of misquoLing the scriptures. You very
meekly say Vas mistaken !" and think
it required very great effort for you to do
this 1t was not half as easily done as your
precious charge Of falsehood ard SANDER.
think you regretted the necessity that COM
pelled you to it. 1t is too late sir, for you to
/ having made charges Of faIsehOod.
| | said that when you charged Bishop
Hopkins with misquoting the scriptures, you
lied in your very throat. You now say -
81 will add that you are mistaken 1rhen
you sag hat l charged Bishop Hopkins
1cith misquoting scripture" II reply to
this l introduce the following testimony:
WYoHING COUNTY SIS
! Stanley W. Little, being du-
y sworn doth depose and say that he present at
! the Methodist Church IN Tunkhannock, on the oc-
casion of Rep. II BrOWnSc0mbe'S reply to the let
ter of BISHOP HoPCINs entitled Bible view OF Sla-
very;" that having then recently read said letter,
he gave very careful attention to Mr. Brownscombos
remarks upon that subjeet-that while depoeont Will
not attempt from memory to repeat the very
words used by Mr. Brownscombe, his recollection Is
distinct that said B. did affirm that Mr. Hopkins had
mis9u0ted the Bible and misrepresented what he
had quoted.
STANLEY w. LITTLE.
| Sworn and Subscribed this J
10th Oct, 1868, before me,
| DANIEL BALL, J.
| WYOMING COUNTY, S.
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