Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-29
a Be1Oindor.

a Rejoinder.
CHRIsrIANA, Del. juno 20, 1856
In your issue of juno 10 10 an article
signed BY the trustees Of Salem n. e.
taips an occasional shadow Of truth,
meanly, malioiously false.
They tell Of an exhibition and festival
hat were held, and then state that d
Of young folks Was organic
ed, and held the funds that had been
secured. The truth is, the committee
WAS organised prior to the holding of
the festival.
They met, elected q President, Sec.
Rotary and Treasurer, and resolved to
present Salem church with an organ.
They went to work and got up q festi.
val. They were not appointed by the
church to do this. They were not act |
Ing under its authority OF by its ad- |
vice; they were In no respects suhject.to |
Its jurisdiction hence, l cannot see
how they we're to be bound by its dis |
cipline or ueages. Rut just here |
would ask those worthy and venerable
trustees ia It according to the disci.
pline and usages Of your church to will
fully lie and misrepresent your fellow
man to pour out your venOmous male
dictions with wicked and devilish in
tent to disRrace your manhood and
your profession by OBTAINING and ma
lign ing your neighbor
If, gentlemen, these are the rules OF
your discipline, you deserve the COM
mendation, "well done good and faith
ful servant" And again, some OF the
trustees even objected TO MS holding the
festival they refused to attend 1t, and
did what they could TO prevent others
from attending. But after We had made
the money, not only without their AID
and assistance, but In the face OF the
most violent opposition of some Of them.
and Il became known that they were
good for the spoils, their troubled con-
sciences were quickly and quietly lull.
ed to rest. We ordered an organ as
we had Intended; the choir met and
practiced several times, and several
times led tho singing, when they an
nounced that at their next meeting they
would elect an organist. The trustees
here particularly emphasize the fact oil
our meeting at q private house, al
though we had rendezvous in the
hoart Of some forest, aud had there me-
in secret, probably in dark, copcocted
some devilish plans, and with batet
breath, lest some one might hear, wills
!. pered them to each other, and Their
emerged quietly to our homes in tn
silence of midnight, all prepared Il
pounce upon the defenceless heads o
meek and immaculate trustees
and deprive them of . part of their wor
ship.
That Is what they would have yo1
believe. But the fact Is we met at on
usual place the meeting was dul,
announced beforehand, its object wa
, we'll XII own, and according TO custom
the choir elected their own Organist an
I, leader. Here we would say tina
Brother Dayett, who represents him
! self a. being totally ignored. had bee
asked and repeatedly asked TO TAX
charge OF the choir and lead the sing
L ing, but had refused, because, as b.
Y said, he could not sing with an organ
But that election Of Organist was th
= whole source of the trouble, and Georp
n w. Groves is the man that gave
birth, simply because his daughtt
= was not elected organist. She wa
there, and nominated, and Of the sil
i, lteen votes that were polled, she receiy
y ed her own, the vote Of the other NOM
q nee, and four others. That Is whel
the trouble began 1t did not arise frol
1.-THE fact that we were not members I
Ichurch, else 1t would have burst week
e before.
81 Now the clouds gathered low ar
:. black over the horizon, the air BEGAN
~ thick and lurid, and the pent'up mu
e tering and grumblings grew more di
10 tinct until they burst over us in a
ia their fury. Because we had dared
assert our manhood and vote our ov
II opinions we were branded az drunkard
n iniidels, fiddlers, dancers, etc. 1t wi
d then they hurled against us all Il
RI bitter invectives and slanderous ep
N thets that their narrow minds cou
= invent. And all because we did n
is appoint Geo. Groves daughter organi,
to They called on the pastor to get him
"A throw us out and put in their organis
a.. and because he would not be party
10 their scheme they started in their cha
ID for him. This gave US little rest
40 thought 1t about time to retire fro
Ira such q mission, and with us went I
" money we had made. They then thong
10 to keep an organ we had borrowed, b
We In this they failed. Then after anoth
of short rest they started In their chase
Il, us again. Brother Dayett, the one W
v was ignored, and John Hall we're a
~ pointed to coax the money from
They commenced operations, not
IN saying "come back, and let us
organize and start anew" No, I
they had but one little, plaintlve strs
. tlat they poured in our ears whene'
they could get an opportunity. 1t
"give US the money" "glve us
money" "please give us the money
l The almighty dollar was their obje
led but their efforts were blessed by 3
My cessful failure. They then indu'
in. some egotistical, narrow.minded hi
10 to write a letter for the REPUBLici
we'd which was published, we think,
be- March 9.h. After that some of th
a d party opened TRADE in
ven Delaware Ledger, but that fai
,.,o to give them the consolation they
nie' sired. Next Is tn ir epistle of j.
the 10Th, which we say is disgrace to I'll
the as n church, dishonor to their i
me fession, and SANDER to us as men
ana women.
an Well, as the pastor had refused
,ure Join them II. their attacks upon us, t
We refused to pay him all his salary
Il ar we can It II those christian brethr
loys pardon me, l mean those "profess
40 christians"-of money that was 81
OF with the intention that it should
'sn' used to pay the preachers salary,
her was held by some of the trus
+ at that signed that slanderous article,