Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-07-11
THAT BEI.I.IGERENr pAssIM.

LET the CALLED Jade VINCE"
EDITOR SENTINEL: In my answer
to Passim, that appeared in your issue
of the 29th ult., I followed that erratic
dodger and serfatina,% disproved his as
sertions, exposed his sophistry and, in
showed him to be the %egregious
ass that he is; but he, poor fellow is
afflicted with cdcoethes scribendi; and
the 4th inst. again appears in print,
but, like a pugilist whose optics have
been damaged in the encounter, he
strikes wild. He is, judging from the
article, the worst nonplussed, most on
fused and contradictory writer that
ever put pen to paper. Of the l6 dis
tinct assertions in his first article, all
but three are virtually abandoned in
his last. He first reiterates the pre-
posterous assertion that by means OF
bribery ten times as many escape pun
ishm ent as are convicted. This he
acknowledges he can not prove.
Were this true the inference would be
that the people OF the United States
are individually and collectively en-
tirely devoid of honor, virtue and pa
triotism; that they are the most abject,
debased and godforsaken people on
earth; that a jury from the Cannibal
Islands. the interior of Africa or the
wilds of Hindost tan would be superb
or to a jury of intelligent born
Americans. This is al insult to the
honor and virtue of the American peo-
pie, and directly includes the ~retiuctio
ad obsurdum of his former article.
Passim attempts to prove that hau ms
article appeared as lie the
meaning would have been different.
Does not the ignoramus see that he IS
but making a distinction without q
difference! The idea conveyed Is pre-
cisely the same as before the collation.
Of facts being joined by the conjunc-
ton and. thus forming a complex sen
tence. There are two horns to the d.
lemma-one is labeled a,gu mentum dd
absurdum and the other rednctio al
absuyidum. Passim cal take his choice.
The syllogism is legitimate according
to Mills, Passim to the contrary not.
withstanding. The fossilized ideas OF
Passim, regarding the co education OF
the sexes would suggest a Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep on his part, and that Is
merely ~contending for II maintain
ing ideas of a century or TWO ago. Inc
practice instead OF being discontinued
is daily becoming more popular, ana
different institutions of learning are
each wear, in acknowledgement of the
beneficial effect of the practice, admit
ting both sexes on an equal footing.
That threat of Passini that, "Should
the State fail to act in h premises,
/ will assist, etc!' The President
should Congress in extra SEES
sion. That threat is ominOus.
He next asserts that ! have attacked
religion without a cause. His assertion
is absolutely and unequivocally false.
! have not directly nor indirectly at
tackled religion; neither have l said
that which can he so construed. There
is rs mnlch difference between church
and religion as between preacher and
pietv, or a man and his . / said
then, and l nov r%eiterate, that a
church tyranny is the worst tyranny
under Heaven. They never acquire
power but to %tyranize; and | now as
sert that the church never had the
power to but it did tyranize. | re
peat that "there are those among MS
who, under the guiSe of religion, aim
to rob US of our liberty, destroy The
republic, and on It's ruins erect church
oligarchy. The church opposed % oul
public schools has always been OPP
posed to free speecl. and liberty OF con
conscience, az well as free press. 1t is
also opposed to general education. /
the clergy are educated, that Is sutil'
cient. The 18th, 46lh, 41th and 4stl
errors condemned in the syllabus O
errors, issued December Sth, 1861, con
firms this. 1t is the only church tina
claims the right tn compel others t.
| subscribe to their particular creed
| and it does use force with a vengeance
| when it can do so with immunity, ane
would do so here had it the wished
for power. A history of the In
| QUESTION would be a history
of diabolical outrages, such 81
men never can, though God will, sufi
| GENTLY condemn. What caused a Ger
tain number of centuries to be demon
mated as the dark ages? What doe
the history of the world rom A. d
$50 to A. ID. 1000 show? Does II snow
as Passim asserts, that all we have hat
| of science or art up to very recent date
rive owe to churchmen? No! it does
not. 1t will show that science was me
| by the church with weapons both car
nal and spiritual, and conquered o.
suppressed whenever the revelations
of science conflicted with their belle
or prejudice. GalileO was forced Il
retract, the doctrine of the circulation
| of the blood was not allowed to b.
taught, geology was not land IS not We
where they have power) allowed to b.
taught. 1t will show a church wholly
given up to RIGHTEOUSNESS, bigotry anC
the most intolerant persecution o
heretics. 1t was during this period TIN
Holy ~ Inquisilion was established. !
was then that churchmen went will
the cross in one hand and sword in the
other; it was then either diea hereto o
live a Christian. Does Passim call tina
religion? The syllabus of December
9Th, A. ID. 1864 will bear me out it the
assertion that the church opposed t.
our public schools has allowed
free speech, liberty OF conscience, O
freedom of the press, wherever it hat
the power, and had it the power here