The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-03-22
That Provoking Protest.

That Provoking Protest.
Special sCor. State Chronicle.
RALEIGH, N. c., March 21.-When
/ opened last Sundays CHRos1cLE,
l was forcibly reminded of one of Rev.
Sam Jones' sayings: at is the hit
dog that ]loliers." If l am to Judge
by the howl some of my Baptist friends
set up in your paper, my little protest
penetrated the joints of their armor
and hit sore place.
Rev. Mr.. Cade is pleased to term
my little protest "spiteful and ILL
natured." The truth is it made Mr.
Cade feel spiteful and ill-natured him.
self and he mistook his own feelings
for mine. l have the privilege of
pleasant personal acquaintance with
brother Cade. He is broad, bright
man, vigorous thinker and writer;
but. like all men Of genius, he is some
times little erratic. If l may judge
from his recent effusions in the
CHRONICLE, he is just now little off
both in politics and religion. He is a
bright, wandering star, but just now
little in eclipse. We hope the
present penumbra will soon pass off
and give him a clearer vision.
DR.. Durham, in his communication,
has two things prominently. One is
a reproduction of his parade of start
ling statistics and the other is his per-
sonal attack on Prof. Massey and my
self.
In his offensive personal reflections
he has given way to his touching tenn
per. This little irritable ebullition is
, discreditable to him and serves only to
show the weakness of the man as we'll
as the weakness of his cause. His per-
sonai accusations, unsupported as they
are by single scintilla Of proof, fall
as harmless at our feet as the pellet
from youngsters pop-gun when he
shoots at the moon. Let him blow in
his little personal pop-gun and fire
again. The next time we hope there
will be less sound of exploding gas and
more signs Of execution.
l notice that he parades his statis-
tics again. In his first article he gave
the statistics of the Catholics at "about
: 1000 members, entire reported popu
;. lation of Catholics in North Carolina
The census reports the Catholics al
e having a membership of 2,640 II
T North Carolina-nearly three times a.
t many as as ,hsss qiges them: If bis other sta
tistics are as incorrect as these, they
I are not to be relied upon
. and if he is as good at counting votes
! as he is at counting Baptists, he woulo
e make a good Returning Board
!, What great pity that we did not ge
Il him to count our prohibition vote IL
North Carolina in 1881. We nigh
) have carried the measure!
e But / do not care to pursue such :
q little matter any further. The trutl
= OF the whole matter is that DR.. Dur
hams own gun exploded and kicke
d him over-the back-action was wors
8 than the discharge at the muzzi;e: II
}. reminds me of the elbow who Wen
ne will goose hunting. He had bot
ID barrels of his gun heavily charged
After awhile flock of geese come fl,
ing over. He made ready both barre
IL of his gun, and to make sure
the game pulled both triggers. Ban
it. went the gun and down fell goose
e at the butt end of the gun. So D
in Durham loaded bis gun heavil
I'll levelled it at Bishop Haid and pulle
be- both triggers. Bang went the gun an
It down fell the goose-at the breech oft
ke gnn.
Mt F. L. REID.
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