Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-05
REV. ROBERTSON.
The Criminal Career OF Maudiin
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Correspondence of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
ARGYLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, N. Y,
Aug. ), 1872. Seeing some remarks IN
your journal as to the clerical scandal
of the Rev. Gilbert Hamilton Robert
son, and which have been extensively
copied into the papers i'll this vicinity,
and this being the native place of that
gentleman, also the place where his
relatives ard connections still reside,
your correspondent has taken the lib
erty Of giving to your numerous read.
ers some additional facts of the case,
facts both antecedent and subsequent
to the matters detailed in your columns.
SOME ERRORS.
And in the first place, allow me to
correct ut least the errors of fact into
which you have fallen III regard to the
status and marriage relations of the
man. First, he has never been given
the title of d. D., and does not claim
the same and, secondly, his tather-la
law is not an NJ. d., as stated by you,
but a ID. d., viz: the Rev. DR., Bev-
erage, Professorin the Divinity college
IN Aenla, ONO.
MIR. RoBERTsoN's EARLY EDUCATION.
Young Robertson received his acad-
emical education at the Argyle acad.
envy of this place, graduated at Union
college, in this state, and received his
license to preach at Xenia, o., under
the tutelage OF his reverend father in
law and associates. He was never,
that we ever heard of, noted for any
great degree of scholarship, but, hav-
i ing a very retentivc memory, and pos
sessiug good voice and "A good adj
dress, he always shone as a declaimer,
and in this way managed to glide
along through his various currlculnms,
and to come out preacher of consid-
cradle note Throughout his whole
( life he has been distinguished and
/ known as
A THEORETICAL PRETENDEB
/ to piety and religion, particularly by
! those most intimately acquainted with
him. we'll calculated, however, to de-
ceive old deacons and deaconesSes, as
Stunning in the pulpit the piety OF a
saint, but conducting himself out OF 1t
with the license Of a Don Juan Frivol-
itg, testing, drunkenness, If not licen-
tousuess, have been his prevailing and
besettiug sins His first ministerial
settlement was in this county and state,
and rumor has it that when installed in
his first charge, he was compelled to
steady himself by holding on to the
railing of the altar; ana after remain
ing "a year or twoat tins, his first charge,
was called to the city of Troy, in
this state; but before going,
a committee of gentlemen
from the Troy congregation,
not known to him, as they supposed,
took seats in his church Mt some even
ing service, with Il view to test his
talents rs a sermonizer, and To report
10 their congregation the result. But
they had not come unheralded and
Robertson, it is said, surpassed him
self upon this occasion so much that
the enthusiasm of his own congregation
was heightened in the same proper
tlonas the Troy congregation was sumu-
lated by the committees report, and
the sequel of the matter was that Mr..
Il. left his country congregation for
the city: hut rumor SAYS again that
the reverend gentleman, upon the oc-
caSion OF preaching before the said
committee, and when passing out of
the church, whispered to one of his
lrreyereut hearers that he hoped
THE ID FOOLS WE'RE NOW SATISFIED -
At Troy. Mr. Il. managed to sustain
himself as a sermonlzer and preacher
for Vr1r or two whom mo- yyoe san. an,