The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-11-11
CORRESPONDENCE.
HOW HISTORY Is MADE.
LETTER NJ.

LETTER XI
Mr. EDITOR Owing to business engagements 1 have
neglected my friend Fawkes for some time past and
now paying my respects to him, hope he will not find
me forgetful ungrateful This last effort of his
minds of those little wanton boys who swim blad
ders " and now when the bladders broken he oun-
ders catching straws. The question between him and
that base charges had been made against
the Church; but ,rere they hUel This he afirms and
deny and in this denial the best Protestant historians
abundanty sustain and when demand of him proofs
of his 'waddle he turns with grand flourish of
pets the sums and cutters Of religious controversy
and with the ISLANDERS of gone age-ignor.
ing the existence of such modern authors Halam Her
ter Guizot Schlegel Ranke, Voight and Macauay all
of high character and strong preudices but
who will stoop fasehood deliberate falsehood
against the Pope But these he SCOTS at and looks
up Reuter- and histories of the Popes without
author-doubtless the who wrote it asham ed
Of his work-and this my friend "Fawkes' calls
coming down business He says he has the Catholic
authors too at hand hut he takes good to give
nothing from them and such will be the whether
he reads them But mark the effect this stale
pabuum of Reuters has had upon him. few days feed
ing upon this and he becomes giant and is ready to
tread upan every Tom Thumb that may doubt his PROV
But have fears of his big foot for you see this
modern Cyclops is blind and having wandered from his
is to his armpt in the quicksan DIS Of histO
ry where can fully sustain myself and play the
part Jack the Giant Killer at w-proddng and punch
ing big foot with my little toastingirOn "that chop
yez into mince-mate be iabers."
The first great discovery of this wandering giant
from Reuter- and is that Theodosous commanded that all
books antagonstic to Christianity should be destroyed
This is bad But let to another author of
the same class-Gibbon for instance-and what he
knows about history He says that Among the benefae
tors Of the Church. the Constantine has been ri
vailed by the glory of TheodOsus If Constantine had the
advantage of erecting the standard of the Cross the
ation of his successor assumed the merit of subdung the
Arian heresies and of abohng the rOrs Of idols in the
Roman Empire. ."-Deeiins and Fau Of the Roman Empire
rOl as5. Aye. that is what is the matter Ephriam
is Joined to his idols let the old alone But again,
he says: The palace the schools the army, and the
Senate filed with declared and devout Pagans.
They obtained without dstin ction the civil and military
honors of the Empire. The Pagans were induIg.
ed in the icentious freedom of speech and writing
The historic and phosophic remains of Eunapius 10
simas and the fanatic teachings of the schools of Plato
betray the mt It furious animOsity and contain the
shapest nvectves against the sentiments and conduct
their victorious adversaries Ibid D. 40 Again he
says so rapid and yet the fall Paganism
that on the death of TheOdosius the faint and minute
vestiges longer visible the legislator
p. al.
Now sir, you see those Pagans INDUCED in the
writing had to be preserved by monks and priests and
transcribed time and again, GibbOn could
nave heAiu OF 'nem anu now sir you must admit that
e your Reuter- mas not told the TRUTH or Gibbon was
mistaken Alas' Tor the unsanctihed" /" Heathens do
NOT agree But then you see Gibbon had character TO
s"s'n ne was historian And then heathansm is the
same in every age of the world Look this picture
from GibbOn, and and then yours in the Chief: The
ruins of the Pagan religion is described by the sophists
as dreadful and amazing prodigy, which covered the
Win darkhess ana restored the ancient dominion
oi eh"os anu Oh hehi Ihey relate IN solemn and pro-
pheuc strans that the temples were converted into
sepucnres' ana 'hat the hoiy places winch had been
adorned by the statues of the gods basey poll by
the relics of Christian martyrs decline and Fall Of The
Roman Empire roL j. p. AZ
10 heathen the Christians were always in the Valley
OF Cimmer They destroyed everything, even to books
BUT uiooon heard nothins o BOOKS being destroyed
there ere none destroyed by Christians In
tennonaiy unless works on witeheraf necromancy &c
nut sf you ana REUTER- true 10 your Pagan instincts
ana reeaess oil al authority must revlie Christian,
Tins again the fact that you love darkness
more 'hh hgh] Du' 'hen' you see roPery must De put
down and the ends Justify the means -you understand
Now go down among your Araos and see II they can
hep yon render reason or he preservation OF all these
fagan revihnss by christian men, other than the Chris
'ah axiom OF Lei the ihnoei rage anu the heatheh I'm
asine vain things.
Aor assertion regarding uresory lne ureat destroy
ing the works OF Lvy is IN Keeping mat
the Church destroyed literature ana wants eonnrmaon'
can hnd nothing OF the kind in modern authors Greg
oy was patron Of letters and in his youth transcribed
'hem himself My friend these charges nave mad their
da and you are evidently behind the spirit OF the age in
~hieh You live Learned men are now pouring ont Hood
Vi nh' on 'ne Medieval Age and there Is no good ex
se i !ohr oeihG IN the valley nf Cimmerh longer but
Ot' you are one oil that class oil Whom tne Master
"nen ne saia there is none 50 oiind as he that
-, anu mere let me say your assertion As 10
ignorance of the priesthood in that is amply
iu'ed ny my former quotations from Lord, Ranke &c,
i'O'se Dg"y IN calling this an age oil the highest
To, :" man
- ,' IN your studies OF history You have not neg
po.S and you have discovered the fact that
rDp,,aS issued bull commanding Henry L. OF
,b;s Aue anu conquer Ireland Let US see aoout
IN us. Adrian Englishman of that class loried