Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-14
S. J. CRAIG, Sec'ry.
The Christian Neighbor'' and the
Academy of Music Immigration

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The Christian Neighbor" and the
Academy of Music Immigration
.8c4 Scheme. @e
We have read with surprise and regret
the intemperate and unwarranted editorial
in the Christian Neighbor in its issue Of
the oath ultimo, addressed to Colonel D.
Wyatt Aiken, Secretary Of the Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical Society of South Caro-
| lima, relative to the immigration scheme Of
Messrs. Butler, Chadwick, Gary & Co.
We say intemperate, because the lam
guage is Of a gross personal character,
rejecting seriously upon the honor and
integrity of gentlemen whose careers and
department. in the past do not sustain the
imputations- language comporting much
more with the licentious vulgarity of Po-
lice Gazettes or bawdy sheets of a North
ern metropolis than the dignifed respecta-
bility of Southern Christian newspaper
and unwarranted, because the scheme at
which these filings are hurled is. not in it
self, nor in the manner of its institution,
nor the purposes for which it was organi-
zed, that seething cauldron of corruption
and generalization which the reverend
editor would have us believe. On the
contrary, we think the scheme very
creditable one,s and its purposes most
praiseworthy, and we wish it a God speed
in its mission.
Why should the gentlemen in charge,
against whom the breath OF SANDER has
not hitherto emitted its poisonous slime,
be villifed with such ungentlemanly slang
as gamblers" disgrace" @siniquity,"
and their operations in. aid of immigra-
tion styled the "pestilential stalkings of
Southern and Northern gamblers burning
with avarice and ambition?" We submit
that such language is Incorporate and un-
warranted, and unbecoming the clerical
editor of a. religious newspaper, whose
mission should b; on earth, peace-good
will, toward men,"
|; But, pray, in what does this scheme
differ, in point Of morals, from the almost
universal custom, at our church fairs, Of
rafting determining by lot) for many
prizes, for the benefit Of the church ?
None that we can conceive Of The
scheme of prizes of Messrs Butler, Chad
wick, Gary & Co., they tell US, is for
specific obJect-for the purpose Of intro
ducing immigrants into South Carolina
for the benefit of the State. The scheme
of rafting at church fairs, we are always
told, is to raise funds for the benefit Of
the church. Why should we not believe
the former as we'll as the latter? The
word of M. C. Butler and NJ. w. Gary,
and, for all we know, Of John Chadwick,
is as much entitled to credence as the
reverend editor of the Christian Neigllbor
or any of his brethren, and this liccntious
abuse by the editor of these gentlemen
does him no credit.
If we are correctly informed, this same
editor has himself patronized this identical
scheme, By printing for one Of lis agents
IN tie office of The Christian Neighbor
and recciui,lg money for his acorE, thus
aiding scheme which he now denounces
as "iniquitous." How's that, Neighbore
If iniquitous and demoralizing aoD, it
must have been when you did This workin
fatnherance of its otjeetsf 1ttappears
to us that there is some inconsistency
here-fostering an institution with one
hand and stabbing it with the other.
We do not wish to be understood as
approving of lotteries in general, either at
church fairs or in aid of immigration, but
they are not without precedent and, if
ever justifable, the occasion which creates
this one of Mcssrs. Butler Chadwick,
Gary & Co. fully warrants their employ
ment, and we do know that what these
gentlemen say they a0M do, if within the
power of man, and weeagain wish them
God speed.-Chester Reporter.