The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-15
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TOM DIXON AND DANA
The Reverend Thomas Pays His
Respects to MIR. Dana.

Respects to MIR. Dana.
A few days ago the New
York Sun contained a very long
and abusive article on Rev.
Thomas Dixon, calling him a
sensational and blood thirsty
preacher, and applying other
uncomplimentary epithets to
our North Carolina preacher
who is winning his way to fame
in New York. The following
which we clip from the Sun
shows what Mr.. Dixon thinks
of the Sun:
"This newspaper is one Of the
most interesting criminal
phenomena of our times. Its
influence in debauching the
public mind is in one sense APP
palling considering the number
there are in the world who
believe what they see in print is
SO because it is in print. / read
the Sun at least once a week for
the same reason a distinguished
Methodist editor of New York
says he reads it every day, viz:
| am here to destroy the works
.of the devil, and / want the
news straight from headquar-
ters." Its pages flash with hui
man genius, and yet it is the
living embodiment of all that is
most brutal in our life. 1t has
no faith in God or man. 1t con-
tains more editorials on religion
thanlany other great daily, and
every one of these editorials are
cloaked assassin's thrust at the
heart of religion. They are
planned with consummate skill,
couchedin insinuating language
with the deliberate purpose of
destroying the faith of men.
The dreams of human brother
hood, the faith and love of phil
anthropy-these are the shining
marks at which are hurled the
keenest satire and vitrIol steep
ed ridicule. e.
''It has been the champion of
most of the great scoundrels
who have fiourished in New
York for years. The work of
punishing criminals and vindi-
eating the majesty of the law
has been left to others. 1t has
devoted its energy to the de-
struction of religion, the villifi-
cation of and slander of the
good and great. 1t has especial
" taken delight in slandering
and cursing their greatest and
noblest ministers of religion,
whose lives have blest this ma
tion. 1t claims TO support a
great national political party,
and yet lies awake at night to
think up new epithets to hurl at
the only man who has led that
party to success in a generation.
To earn its condemnation is the
highest compliment a decent
man can win in New York. Its
powers of wilful lying are sim
ply sublime. They seem limited
1nly by the capacity of human
genius. And those limitations
ire purely rhetorical, not moral.
IN its soul of souls it hates God g.
md man. The story of a prize
light is its highest aspiration,
he assassination of personal
character its speciality. II is
he personified genius of the
most hideous materIalism of
he country. Its end is tomake
money, and it is ever ready to
ell out heaven to do this. The
atal limitation of its money
powers simply lies in
he fact that it hates man as
earthly as it hates God. Man
apatient fool moving i'm mass.
nut now and then he wakes up
nd resents, the insults to the
ace, and then the circulation
down and must be
.uilt up again. The criminal
lement Of the community have
powerful ally in such a paper.
simply doubles their power
or evil. Let Christian men of
II creeds and noble men of no
hurch creed remember that
act !"