The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-30
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seams, Is OF religious faith preclseis .ho EFt t
site of that in which wo were brought up, ana Z.
which we havealwsys adhered. Freedom az IN 0t lia.
ters in conscience and religion; lis oneol ihe TSo
precious privileges which Americans ENJOY. 49, tnt
Constitution of the United States pro'tSss as
"Congress shal make no law r5speslh8 an essSg
shHeat OF f nd Cbe Justice
Chase, is Jealous Methodist. In nus >, a'SIms Nav
speech at MANCHESTER he said 1T was IN IN New
Hampshire church that experienced tias Sps,.
trnstinsiy @ to he lia eternal" We believe in Mr.
Greeley enjoying his religion-in Chie' SuS;,oe
Chase enjoying his; and all otherPeopie ENJOY iis
| theirs.
The foregoing from the New York Ledger, needs
some explanation, and suggests few remarks.
/ 1. ''The Honorable HORACE GREELEY" at present
contributes seriesof autobiosraphcai papers "
the LEDGER The subject of his chapter for TINS
week is s.My Faith" in which he labors to SHOW
that he first became a Upiyersalist BY reaoins'
sat the age OF ten" ''in some schooI DOCKS, .40
account ofPoLIoRoEIEs, which he regrets not petns
able to reproduce, and instead contents nii'lsei'
! with quoting Rollins account OF the nopie re-
venge~D ~DrnErRrus- t,ok- on the Athenisns. But
not feeling quite Sure thst RoILN is suffclent
reason for the faith that is in him, the Honora-
Bile HORACE GREELEY" furthermore cites the Bible,
! Mrs. HEMANs, TENNysoN, MILTON, Pope, and 1.-THE
| fervld eloquence Of CHAPN.'
O. Who is the ''we" that was broueh. up IN 2 reli-
gious faith :'precisely-the opposite Of which
the Honorable HoBAoE GREsnEY' profeseesr IL
cannot be the Ledger, for we have never heard IL
accused Of anv religion nor, if We are correcuy
informed, have the practices of MIR. BONNER ,ats
ostensible editor, been of a character to inquce
such an orthodox conclusions
8. What creed is it that is 'preci5ely the oppo-
site" of Universalisn? Wehnow OF half ar+dozen
that claim to be opposed to it, but are at loss TO
which one belongs the merit Of being precisely
the opposite"
4. When the readers of the Ledger come to know
the "we" of the above paragraph, and the 1alth
precisely the opposite of that OF Hon. HORACE
GREELEY, then, bat not until .thens they will be
much comforted to learn that the writer, the
said ''we has s'alwsys adhered" to this supposed
orthodox faith.
5. This matter should not be lett in doubt one
moment longer than necessary, as Otherwise Ii
may bewilder and nextricably confuse the readers
of the LEDGER They will be certain at once tc
adopt various hypot heses, with q yisw sauArne
thecondnct Of the snpposed writer with the canon
Of this confession. BoSNRK willbe tried and found
wanting. His horses cost too much and trot toe
fast, for q man MAO has "always adhefeu" 10
unimpeachable orthodoxy. They will next tTeign
Parson BEEoHER, hut at once conclude that nc
could not have penned theparagraph; for out OF nls
own mouth he would stand condemned. How can
man pretend to f,st-class orthodoxy, 'precisey
the eppositer of universalism, who, in the same
breath that he makes thus; confession, speaks
apuroyingly Of tine sfheedom in matters OF
consoience and religion" guaranteed by the Con-
stitution of the United States2 Parson BEscHES,
then, must be abs,lved from having written this
paragraph. PAnToS, again, will not 'fll the bili;;'
his wsak,s biogrsplies arefn transgression OF the
eiahtfF Sommsndn neft, as his ISLANDERS Of WEB
srrR, CLAY, CALHolW, AN,azR JACKSON, and many
others, are contrary to the ninth commandment.
His claims, thefefofs ao erthodOfy csnnot be
allowed. "srfzANus O6BB, Ja..' we know is the
son Of minister, and it May be he is thsortheioI
WE of the Ledger ;sbnti asBe have never read a
single line Of hswrtings, Ne are unable to express
an opinion thereak Mrs. EDEN soUrHwofrH
or FANNY FERN, perhaps, may be suspected by
some; but neither the one nor the other, we be-
leve is endowed with the qualification requisite
for the generally accepted ideal Of orthodoxy. We
shall pause, therefore, ;Sors< . reply from the
Eedqer.
( g. 1t is certainly very Kind and ebiging OF the
Hon. HoRAm aRulEY to take the public into his
eon6dsrnce unsolicfted, tpo, and tell us what re-
ligiou be proissses and even to condescend to de-
tend himself, and show Why he prefers this faith.
We have been puzzled not little to ascertain Why
/ the Hon H6RzdR eanzEEy sshould tell the Ameri-
can pubic that hO vas possessed of or professea
any religion. he evidently must have thought it
aecessaryx to put the readers Of the Tribune in
'pesssssion Of this information, and he took this
dslicate method Of letting them know that not
outstanding the totally unchristian, and often
savage ferooity of some Of the editorials signed
ssH G. -aotwithaanding al The 6Ilingsgate they
may from time to- time see under this signature,
they should not allow their faith in ssH. g." to
wsver. It is all meant in Pickwickian, sense
sHs.Ge wllbe fosmd good Univ vesaslist st tast
T. Thst stMr. GREEEEYs friend, Chief Justice
CHASE, is Jealous Methodist win be gra, flying
assurance to manly thousands Of good people
thrc ,hout the country. That MIR. CEASE should
have given his religious experience at political
mestpg may beentirely in good taste for q Chief
JUSTICE We Sf8 quite csrtainsit would bsAcon-
demned in any one else. However, rules are for
the vulgar
CONGRESS OF GE aMAN AUTHORSHIP &c U6er Land
und Nicer" we find q brief, ,abstractof the Woceeds
ings Of Fhe second Session of the above-named
Congress (''Z,oeler deutscher SchrUtsteaertag)
The principal objects that came. before the Cons
gress were-1. TO secure a copyright that shall
restrain newspapers from copying the writings OF
an. author without his consent. 2. To influence
the laws inrelatioa to the press Sin our favor B..
To establish Mutual Loan Association for the
members Of the ''Verein." The third Congress is
to meet next year at Dresden. An interchange OF
courtesies has taken place between the Congress
and such French authors as are favorable to its
views, and c,osers rsations are to beentared into
betweenthe writer's OF theswo nations. There is
to be .'dramaturgic section" also in connection
with the Association, to protect the rights oi
authors ''who have been uniformly overreached to
the present time by the theatres"
The Congress has already had beneficial results
IN discovering and prosecuting Raubuertege'
publishers who reprint works in violation Of copy
rght) Sixteen cases of this kind were asceriainee
at thelatamesting, some of them Of authors from
the far South, reprinted surreptitonsly in the
| North In order to eradicate this practice more
successfully, the Congress has determined to es
tablsh a newspaper as their organ.
Auxiliary associations of authors are to be or
ganized in the several States and Provinces oi
GERMANY There has been for several year;