Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-09-10

purpose, which was to Illustrate my election.
Did you suppose that none of the members
of the Assembly could have seen my work
entitled Bethlehem Church and its Pastor,
in which full account of all the facts in
the case is spread before the public Or
that that book had by some unknown pro-
cess passed out of existence? If you have
forgotten, will apprisc you of the fact
that its issue and distribution, produced an
incomparably greater excitement, Especially
in New jersey, Philadelphia and New York.
and far more intense interest, than did all
the efforts of my traducers to injure me
either before the County Court or before
Presbytery. And you could have learned,
if you knew it not, that that work, though
every line has been subjected to the severest
and most rigid scrutiny, has not been inn
pugned in regard to a single alleged fact
conceded to be in any degree important to
the great issue involved. would accom-
pany this declaration with some of the state
ments made in the numerous letters which
were written to me, touching the subject,
but there is yet no occasion for this"
After entering fully into explanation of
the whole affair at Bethlehem, where the
occurrence took place twenty years ago, DR..
Lands says that he had entirely lived down
the SANDER, and in all his controversies with
gentlemen of other persuasions, not one even
alluded to the matter land adds:
"This DR.. Junkin, land deeply regret to
say it, has been reserved for you and for
New School clergyman late of Wilmington,
Del. You have, after a lapse of 20 years
since the occurrence, shown yourself capa-
BILE of such an act, and with no conceivable
inducement that you have ventured to avow
in the face Of day.
"While living at Somerset published
few tracts, not needing any particular speci-
fication here. And on February %, 1860,
by invitation of the community, delivered
an oration on the Duty and obligations of
american citizens in relation to tie ap-
preaching struggle: from which it may be
proper to present few sentences which will
since maintained and show the cause of
the great loUe borne me by the secessionists
and their sympathisers:
|. "Itis always unfortunate for the peace of the
country when mere politicians and partizans
imagine that they themselves are the people.
For their own aggrandizement they seek to OBJ
fuscate' the minds of their constituents, and
when they to certain extent succeed, claim
that they in their own selfish operations, are
representing the people. But men, who, for
any reason, and under any circumstances are
capable of laundering in this way, ought surely
not to expect that an intelligent people will be
willing to entrust the interests of the country
, to their hands. In all such cases the people
the interests of the country into their own keep
ing. And in the matter before us, fellow citi.
, zens, our duty is plain To the men who in theiI
boundless self-cOneeit and arrogance, presume
! to say that they will ON such and such contin
! | gencies, dissolve the Union; we must reply by
saying, both by our words and by our actions
No yog don't dtssOlgeth Union on any slcl
soon diss0LUe y0UI If y0u as SndiDidudis dom
+ like the Union, 90 out Of IT,; and 90 aohereqOl
I please There is room enough far g00 else
iohere IN Tie 1oorld. But 10hile soe Tenem5ei
: the mighty outlay of treasure and toll dnt
| blood that IL cost TO establish The Union; dRt
: the mighty interests S7lUOlged sR its perpetud
ti0s; /; youT attempt to dis soloe IL aoig be fdtd
only to gouTseIgeg. We haze an interest il
!, this matter as apeW as yOU hare. You ma
: faRperi your ot0R interest If yoa choose, bu
4 woe TO you If g0H attempt to SmperH oNrs."-
: ''But If the crisis must come: if the powe
q OF the people to sustain the Government ant
:, Constitution by putting down all traitors ant
= reasonable projects against the perpetuity O
the Union must be tested: | say let ii come
and the sooner it comes Tie better! ! am II
;, advocate for an appeal to arms, but when ou
country has no choice but this or disgrace an
IS ruin, let the appeal be made. In such contes
l. we shall have Heaven on our side. The Col {
/. our fathers VINO sustained them during all thei
sufferings ard trials and perils, and by thei
n blood established our freedom, and erected an
7. cemented this confederacy; will not forsaleo u
d in the righteous cause. And while am asstll
ed that Religion, and the whole family Of Chris
!? tian brotherhood, will be true in this struggle
. may be permitted to add that should b
q undeserving of membership in the church whic
Y, represent, were l capable of hesitation in
le crisis and in controversy like this. Thi
N church threw the whole of her hallowed Unfit
= ence into the Revolutionary struggle, her in
= is found on the charter of our independence
le her Rosborough and Caldwell. when called I
d yield their lives for the stand they took fC
i freedom, oheerfully submitted to death at I'll
o hands of the ferociOus hordes of England an
E Germany; and from Maine to Georgia her Sol
"a poured forth their blood like water, upon ever
7. battlefield Of the Revolution, in defence of I'll
Is dearest rights of man. Aad should the TIM
rt euer require 1t y0u aoil find that she aoW stan
lv 6n the Union tlI death. In such a contest ht
1
~ life TO lay upon the altar of our commo
ID country. II the noble and glorious structul
If Of our Union must perish, it shall not peris
il until we are no longer able to stretch forth
10 hand in its defence: for the cause Of the Unic
4, has become quite too deeply identified with u
- cause of religion and humanity for us to thin
le of permitting it to perish short of this"
- - After refuting all the scandalous repor
m circulated against him, DR.. Lands puts Il
ID case to DIR. Junkln In the following pointC
re- manner:
ne ''Why, DIR. Junkin, suppose it were eve
b. true, that l had perpetrated every thiI
ch which my enemies have so falsely allegt
ur against me Twenty years have passed,
,se enjoy the confidence of the churches, !
ST. man in all the interval has ever dared
-er alege any thing further against me, al
at. God has blessed me graciously in my labol
,se Suppose then that such had been the actu
lid state of the case, and in what light does
EN- aged and venerable clergyman present hi
rsY self, who, without reason or provocati
ge pursues the course which you have pursu
lat at the late Assembly? But it is needle
,n- to expatiate upon the matter. You hay
na- my brother, perpetrated great wrong, frC
| whatever point you view it, and you shou
all, repair the injury.
sa 81 have often had occasion to wonC
re- why there should be such persistent efo
ire. to injure or destroy the character of
the humble individual like myself, of which t
GU effort of yours, though last, (for | regt
md the assault in the Free Christida Comm,