The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-07-30

Mr.. Carey Returns @ the Front
.-RxplanaeiOns, Denials, and
Allegations.

.-RxplaaatiOns, Denials, and
Allegations.
To Cdlria Ndyes, james Ne,ccoml
and Eddie s. 7en,pleton, Elder,
Of The Presbyterian Church Of Ne,,
York.
When l received your reply to my
proposition and observed its extreme
malignity, l was astonished as much
Is the Quaker, who, in travelling along
the streets Of Boston, saw q drunkard
fall, and seeing the Quaker, suppos-
ing that he had tripped him, the
drunkard fell to damning and cursing
broad brim at terrible rate. Calm
ly looking upon the unfortunate man
he said, ''swear away, swear away;
get that bad stuff all out of thee; for
thou canst never go to heaven with
it in thee;" and, although you may
60 eight or ten miles, as YOU say to
worship with comfort, and may think
the distance you have travelled will
atone for the malignity you manifest
towards me, l assure you that kind
Of sacrifice and worship which pro-
ceeds from such motives is not ac-
ceptable to Him who has taught us
to pray, "Father forgive us as we for
give our enemies"
Your fears Of being disturbed or
insulted were wholly imaginary, as
know Of nothing to create such appre-
tensions. If any of my friends used
their influence to prevent others from
attending Mr.. Dodder's services at
the church, they surely did wrong.
l have made inquiry with regard to
it and learn nothing. Will you be so
kind as to give me their names and
if they are my friends | will entreat
them not to do SO again. You say,
"Neither Mr.. Dodder or ourselves
ever expressed, desired or intended
to close the house against any one,
but being confident the house be-
longed to us, we desired the control
Of it." Templeton at heart is right,
am free to admit as Lincoln was
that your heart is right when you
criticised his acts so severely. |
shall not thus characterize your as
sertions; but let US see if we had not
reason to believe you might be
tempted to exclude US from the
church if you were elected trustees.
It has always been fully conceded
that you had the legal right to wor-
ship in the church when and Ms often
Is you pleased; SO the control you
were seeking was not for that pur-
pose. Was it to control the house
through the election Of your trustees,
when you did not occupy it your
selves? l rather guess that was the
object. Now suppose you had elect
ed your trustees and We were con.
stantly, Is you allege, abusing and
insulting you SO that you could not
worship with comfort, even to the
keeping men at the door to dissuade
people from attending Mr.. Dodder's
service. Would not Mr.. Dodder,
under such circumstances think we
had forfeited our moral rights by
abusing them and thus having for
feited all moral rights, according to
your testimony, and having no legal
rights through consent of trustees, |
think from what little knowledge l
have of human nature, you would say
''get out this house, you have no
rights here that we are bound to re-
spect; and your action would have
been just if your charges against US
were true. If you knew nothing Of
my efforts for peace would it not have
been just as we'll if you had said
nothing. In your efforts to correct
mistakes have you not made few
yourselves?
Let us look at the record. On the
10th of March, 1867, the building
committee, of which l was one, raised
and paid into the treasury $lO4O
cash; in April $500 more, cash. We
had contracted personal liabilities to
about the amount of 1925 more, and
from that day to the sale my liabili-
ties for the church have not been less
than the amount of the Mayes' judg-
ment which l had stayed, from March
~ to "a, seven years.
Now for your mistakes. Mr.. Hag-
erty never paid off the debts. If he
had that would have released me as
security on the Mayes' judgment, a
thing | was working to have done.
Nor did l for the sake of peace Dor
row money; nor did ! pay Mr.. Hag-
erty any money. Now gentlemen
you are elders in an orthodox church;
why did you make this statement?
Was it to create the impression that
l was entirely released from liability
in the matter, and that l voluntarily
from pure cussedness bought the
debts for the purpose Of selling the
| will try and state the facts
as they TRANSFERRED. At the time re-
ferred to Mr.. Hagerty bought mot
paid) the Mayes' judgment and held
the corporation as principal and my
self az security for the same. This
being the junior judgment, Mr.. Hag
erty had the right to and did redeem
the other judgment owned by Stan
ton and Carey. l saw Mr.. Hagerty
and asked him to release me rs Sc
curity; he was inclined to do it, but
taking counsel found that it might
affect his judgment and declined. !
then offered him BY the authority OF
the Board of Trustees 3 mortgage OH
the property Of the corporation to the
AMOUNT of his judgments, and really
thought the matter would be arrsng-
ed this way. took the trouble to
90 to his house and show him by the
record in the Secretary's book that
the President was authorized and d.
rected to borrow money enough to
pay these judgments and make and
execute = mortgage as security, and
proposed while at his house to go to
Upton the day following, ifhe would
accept q mortgage ali right, he then
could wait rs long As he pleased. Ii
he did not take the mortgage should
loan the money and take the mort
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