The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-05-10
BISHOP THOMPSON, OF MISSISSIPPI.
New orleaps christian Advocate.

New OTIedUS 1ANNSNS~"
The Rev. Hugh M. Thomp-
son, Episcopal Bishop of the dio-
cese of Mississippi, has, for reasons
inexpIicable 10 ne, placed me III
circumstances very embarrassing;
and how to relieve matters, on
grounds of kindly Christian prin'
ciples, is by no means PLAIN TO me.
l hardly know how to explain my"
self without giving, or seeming to
give. offense 10 the Bishop or some
of his friends. will do the best
can. | have not the pleasure of
personal acquaintance with the
Bishop; never saw hin-though'
with my concurrence, he has Occu'
pied my pulpit in Bay st. Louis
several times.
About January 18th and Februa-
nv LIST, last, some friend sent me by
mail a COPY OF The Church Netos, OF
those dates respectively. This is
an Episcopal paper published in
NalcheZ, nv old home. In both
these papers The Bishop, in gen.
eral episcopal letter, caIlS atten'
tion 10 a letter of mine III the
Nashville Christian AdUocGte, short
time previously, and charges me,
in the plainest and toughest Ian
guage, with willful and corrupt
falsehoOd and other crimes OF very
high grade! He clearly intimates
that | designedly hastened the
death of Rev. DR. Hinsdale, an
Episcopal minister who had then
recently died in Biloxi, Miss. |
was aslonished with amazement. L
had not heard of Dr.. Hinsdale un-
nj saw the announcement OF his
death. What marvel had turned
up? The widest conjecture was
we'll nigh silent.
On referringto my Nashville let
ter above alluded to, it will be seen
to be a running notice Of church
matters along this Coast, and al
Iuding to the baleful influence of
the New Orleans Lottery amongst
us. | cited he well-knOwn fact
that many years ago it built-that
is, its money built-an Episcopal
Church in Biloxi. and largely sup
Dorts 1T now. This is one of the
nefarious 7charitable" frauds COM
mitted constantly by that celebra-
I ted gambling.house.
+ Now, it seems the Bishop discoy-
+ cred that this money was not Off,
cially appropriated by the "Compa.
nv" in New Orleans, but only paid
by its president out of its money
in Biloxi. He, by this play upon
p words, founds an issue with me.
, Nothing else but this is within
I the realm conjecture.
And forthwith | am denounce1 ~
as one of The basesl criminals run
r ming at large. Made a brutal as
9 saull''-"a slanderous attack'-"On
@ the pastor personally, repeated and
!. changed into different forms, and
\ IN terms TOO vulgar TO be repeated
Now, what am do
: Iwrote plain, mild, soft explain
o alton of my Nashville letter TO the
o editor of the Nelcs through friend
!. in Natchez,and the editor promised
. to publish IT; but, after some
f weeks, informed my friend that he
Q could not do so, because they did
Q not want controversy in their pa
r Der. Such departure from ordiRa
# ry newspaper courtesy IS seldom
# seen. suppose the Bishop con
n trolls it.
n It's, therefore, seen that l an
Q very unceremoniously at the en'
o of nv row, so far as that paper i
!. concerned. Accused in yer.
!, summary manner of his h crime
If by a Bishop, and not allowed tn
a poor privilege of an explanation
r. If The denial of my statement ha'
d been made in decent terms, It'll
N the sheerest duplicIty without pre-
tense of substantial merit. IL
=, claims 10 speak only of the manne
in which the lottery money wa
u paid for The building of the churcf
to said nothing about the manner
a doing il.
have waited a reasonable tim
TOR the Bishop 20 explain himsel
and he evidently intends not 10 q
so. 1t seems to me, therefore, th'
II, this explanation of The facts is du
va alike TO the Bishops church an
en- NV own. r. ABBEY, d. ID.
,e. Gulf View, Mississippi.