Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-03-01

THE ATTACK uPoH Mr.. USIAe.-Ihe last
number Of our cotemporary contains most
ungentemanlY and inexcusable attack upon
Mr.. Uniac, Boston Temperance Lecturer,
who was invited to this place by the Good
Templars of this neighborhood, and at whose
instance he lectured twice to the most intel
1igent and accomplished audiences the
community can assemble, which is an insult
to every advocate of temperance in the coun-
ty. The following communication, which
speaks for itself, has been drawn out by the
attack referred to
BEpFoRD, Feb. p, 1867
MEssRs. EDIToRs
In last weeks Gazette appeared an article,
written by Good Templar, containing very
severe and ungendemanly structures upon Mr..
Uniac, the brilliant Temperance Lecturer of
Boston, who so highly entertained and in
structed our citizens on the evenings Of the
16th and 18th instant.
The article in point eyiuced neither good
taste, a nice discrimination, nor ceIy famil-
lar acquaintance with the great rule Of charity
aud the scarcely lesser ones of good breeding.
In my humble opinion, if Mr.. Uniac had
pointed his gun (of illustration) North, in
stead of South, and had employed H0ld Abe
Lincoln in lieu of the ''stern statesman,
alias Jefferson Davis, the dou6ly-damRe5
traitor, for the purpose of Illustrating
and supporting the position he had as
sumed, that profound eritique would not have
graced, enriched and adorned, with the ''ro-
seate hues" of genius, talent and taste, the
columns Of the classic Gazette, and as a nee
essary concomitaut, Mr.. Uniac should also
have hailed from the fowery South, the land
of Libby Prison, Andersonyille and Fort Pill
low, and not from sterile New England,
where they have the audaeity to believe, with
all their heart, soul, mind and strength that
the South committed treason when she rebel
led against the General Government, an6 that
she is now in the hands Of her conquerors,
the people, or, in other words, their repre-
sentatives in Congress, to do with her as to
the m may seem fit and proper-and that a
black scholar and gentleman, is superior to a
white ignoramus and violator of the rules of
good breeding, even if he should happen to
be Good Templar of Bedford and a writer
for the Gazette withal
But, as / said before, the writer of the ar
ticle / am noticing. claims to be Good Ten
plar. happen to know that he is Good
Templar-that is, his name is on ''the books
but suspect he long ago departed from the
faith lin sly mannerl like many, many, ma
ny, erer so many Christians ~ of these de.
generate days and moreover l suspect also,
that he was slightly "tipsy' when he wrote
his masterpiece of literary criticism, so redo.
lent, as before remarked, of genius, talent
and taste, for the Gazette, and, that, there
fore, he imagined he was subscribing the sig
nature of Good Tippler, instead Of, as it was,
Good Templar. In a word, and in conclu-
sion, also, have about as strong faith in
his being a cold lcater Good Templar, as
have in the Christianity of the times, Il mean
the professors thereof-not the system itself,
and 1 assure you, my faith, in this respect, al
least, lin the professor would nat "moye
mountains, as scripture hath it.
Hoping you viii publish my rather uneon-
nected and incoherent remarks, they are
certainly not as severe and offensive as the
Gazstte's article-and if they even are-whY,
Ike cures like, you know I beg leave TO
subscribe myself, an appreciative reader of
your excellent paper (one of the best couduc-
ted inland papers of the State) and
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