The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-30
LEDGERIhNA.

| seems, IL OF religious faith precisely the opp
Which we s bare II |GSn We Ters brought up and
ters III conseeuce and religion is ono OF the no..
Frea,oMs privileges which Americans enjoy. III
Gm1nsStnnton :mnSn Of the United States provides thn
, Sae thereof" Mr.. GreoloyH fl nd. Chief j,istic
Snase, u q Jealous Methodist. 10 his rerel
speectl at Manchester, lia said at was in u No
iinhpshre church that experienced that spiri
tnal aw91kenirg Tint leads mo to lpok forwar
1rcoloy enjoying hin reiigion-in Chief Iustic
| thaiis. - -"
The foregoing; tfom lie New York Ledger, need
some explanation, and suggests few re,,iarks.
!. Tho honorable HoRAcE GREELEY" at prosen
contributes series Of faltobiographtcal papers t,
The ledger. The subject OF his chapter for thl
week il "Aly Faith" in which he labors TO sloy
that he first became Uniyersalis by reading
''at the ago OF ten," 'n some school boulss, tFs
account OF Fo1oRcETrs, which hc regrets not boinf
| able to reproduce, and instead contonts himsel
| with quoting RoLLrNs account OF tho nobi, re
'engo DENEnrUs' took on The Mhcnians Gut
| moi. teoltng quito sure that RoIIIy Ia sufficient
reason FOR The faith That s in him, tho IIonola.
ble Horace dREEIKY' fdrthorin6rc cites Tho Bible
sirs. HEMANs, TRHNysoN, MIrTos, ropr. aud 'tht
ferrid cloqucncc OF CuApIN."
=. 'i'o - 'no NC that was Drought up in n rcli-
gous faith ''precisoly the opposite of that which
tho Honorable HORACE GREELEY .professes? II
cannot be the Ledger, for VIC haYo, mover heard il
accused OF any religion; nor, II wo nre correctly
informed, have the" PRACTICES OF Mr. BONNER, its
ostcnsible editor, been Of n character to induce
such an orthodox conclusion
3. What creed ia Il that is "preciseIv tho o,,;o.
site" of univorsalism2 We know of half dozen
that claim to be opposed to il, bnt arc at loss to
which ono belongs the nlorit of being .prccisely
the opposite"
I. Mhon.tlie readers of the ledger come 10 know
thu we" OF the abovo paragraph, and tho ia it'll
precisely tho opposite" OF that OF Hon. HORACE
GREELEY, then, but not until them they will be
much comforted to learn that tho writer. The
said I'VE, has alwnys adhered" to this {sapposed)
orthodox faith,
D. This matter should not be lett in doubt one
moment longer than necessary, as otherwise IL
may bewilder and ipo1tricably confuse tho rea,ler
of tho Ledger. Thoy will be certain at once 10
adopt various hypothescs, with view or SOU airing
the conduct OF the supposed writer with tho canon
OF this confession. BONNER will be tred'an found
wanting. His horso9 cost too much and trot too
fast, FOR man VINO has stalIays adhered" to
unimpeachable orthodoxy. They will next weigh
Parson BEEcuEB, but al once conclude that he
could not have peIned the paragraph for out of his
OWN mouth ho would stand condemned. How can
q msn pretend 10 first-cluss orthodoxy sprecisely
tho opposite" OF uniyersnsn, who, in the same
breath that he makes this con fession, speaks
Of the freedom in matters of
conscience and religion" guaranle cod by the Con-
Htitution Of the United States? Paraon BEEcuea.
then, must be absolved from having written this
paragraph. PARTON. again, will not "ill tho bu:"
his WenkIy biographies are in trRnsgression Of tho
eighth commandment, as his ISLANDERS OF WEIR
srER, CLAY, CALHOUN, ANDREW JACKSON, and many
others, are contrary to the ninth commandment.
His claims, therefore, 10 orthodoxy cannot 10
allowed. "STLvANUs GosB, TR.," we kn, il Tho
son OF mntster, and II may he he is tho orthodox
We or the Ledger; bnt as We have mover read q
single line of his writings, we are unablo to express
III opinion thereat. Mira. EDEN soUTHwoRTH
'r FANNY FERN, perhaps, may be suspected by
some; but neither the one nor the other, wo be-
ieHe, is endowed with tho Iualilca tions r,,,ia.A
shall pause, therefore, for reply from tue
Le;iqer.
q. II is certainly very kind and obliging or tho
Hon. HORACE GREELEY TO lake tho public into his
confidence unsolicited, too. and tell us what rc-
gion he professos, aud even to condesceni to de-
fcnd himself, and show why lie prefers this faith.
We have boon puzzled not little to ascertain why
Ile Hon. HORACE GREELEY should toll the Aneri-
can public that he Was possessed Of or rro'csHed
any religion. He evidently must have thought II
to put tho readers Of the Tribune in
possession of this information, and he took this
delicate method Of letting them know that not
tho totally unclristian, and often
savage fcrocity. OF some Of tho editorials signed
''H. Notwithstanding all tho billingssate they
may from, time u lime under this signature,
they should not allow thor faith in III. O." to
waver. II IN all meant in PiokWickian sense.
'sH. G." will be found good Universalst at last.
8. That "Mr. GREELEr's friend, Chief Justice
CHASE, is a Jealous Methodist will be gratifying
assurance to many thousands Of good people
throughout tho country. That Mr. CHASE should
haro given his religious experience at political
meeting may be entirely in good taste for Chief
Justice. We arc quite certain it would be con-
lcmnod in any one else However, rllos are for
the vulgar.
CONGRESS OF GE RMAN AuTHoRs.--In"U Uber Land
and Mefr" We find briel abstract OF tho proceed
ings of tho second session OF the aboSe-named
Congress t"Z,reier deaischer Sthrplstegertag)
The principal objects thN came before tho Con-
gress werc--1. To secure a copyright That shall
newspapers from copying tho writings of
mn author without his consent. 2. To influence
the laws in relation to the press "in our favor 8.
To establish Mutual Loan Association for the
members OF the "Yerein." The third Congress is
to meet next year at Dresden. An interchange of
courtesies has takon place between the Congress
and such French authors as are favorable to its
views, and cloaor relations are to be entered into
between tho writer's of thetwo nations Thore is
to DO "dralnaturgio section" also in connection
with the Association, TO proteot the rights OF
authors "who have been uniformly overrsached to
the present time by tho theatros."
The Congress has already had beneficial results
in discovering and prosecuting Rauduerlegtr
(publishers who reprint works in violation Of copy
right). Sixteen cases Of this kind were ascertained
at the ato meeting, some Of them Of authors from
H. Il. Illn