Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-09-14
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} MULBERRY, Tenn, Sept. 5 II.
h1dEditOr O6sercer.-Did you ever
,l<n know a community however So
ciab however moral, however re-
ligious-al community in which
all were united and exerting their
energies to advance the secular
enterprises oflthat rcommunity--a
community that all feelings of a
ssectarlan character were dropped,
and as regards the Fundamental
points of religion, :alttenaing to.
wards harmony bnt'that there
swas sureto be.some restless spirit
orgpirits, whose disposition was
war, whose element was strife and
confusion, who makeit their trade
to rendeayoreto stir up strife and
confusion? So far as my obseri
walton extends, there is always in
each community such characters.
These thoughts -haye been pro-
'duced bysreading. two letters that
have recently appeared ia your
under the Signature
of JUST Thirty, the other Some
thing oversThirty. The first has
been sufficiently answered by
Truth, and needs no other. The
either by Something over Thirty is
q peculiar document. (He say
that heissopposed toa religious
fight through the secular pre- s.
yetsome articles and reports from
Mulberry through the Fayette,
vile papers, &c. Now will chal!
lenge Something over Thirty to
point to a single article in either
of the county papers inviting him
or any other one TO a religious
controversy. Ergo, Something
over Thirty has Ito be charitable)
had a. hideous nightmare, and
dreamed ithat,esolnes knight of a
different creed had thrown down
the glove and given him a chal-
lenge to mortal combat, and with
the chivalry of Don Qui&ote, he
giasps. his lance and strikes out
for his ! imaginary foe 7 and well
enough they are foes in buckram,
for Something over Thirty has
promised to transfix them with
ont regard to the articles in ques-
zion or the writers. The next item
in his letter. be says, (some time
since in the Lincoln NearS, cer@
tain divine here was charged as.
being a fanatic, and his teachings
as fanaticism, which of course.
implied that she was arseetarirn }
Surely Something over Thirty did
net read the article alluded to-.
That article never charged that
his teaching. was fanaticism-it.
did charge that certain advice that
was given by a certain divine was
fanatIcism, but not his teachings,
for We do know that that divine
does teach the COED things that
are written in tie book of God,
neither does that article imply
that that divine was a sectarian9
forIit Something over Thirty will.
consult his dictionary, he will see
that fanatic and secfarian have
totally different meanings. Now
we do believe that the divine al
luded to shot beyond his range.
He stepped beyond bis commits
sion to preach Christ and Him cru
cited, and instead, preached war
upon an inAuentiel journal Of this
State. That was the ofense. But
Something over Thirty says the
article in the OBSERVER over the
signature of Just Thirty of date
Aug. 10, is the one that he wishes
to call attention to. Something
over Thirty says that the object
OF Just Thirty is different from
what he Intended (now 1 am no
apologist Of Just Thirty nor of
any that writes articles whose ten
denotes are like Just Thirty's, }
but who gave you, Something
over Thirty, the authority to tell
areading public what Just Thirty 5
object was? He did not, L am
sure. Was you specially inspired
to say what the object was I? |
doubt it. You have no right to
say what that object was, and
when you say what it was, it is a
gratuitous say on your part. Then
again Something over Thirty says
that the letter.has been appropri-
aiely answered by Truth. If it
has, then pray why the necessity
of your answer It had been an
swered appropriately, you say !;
was it morbid desire to see your.
sell in print, or was you fearful if
your letter did not come ont thai