Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-08-08

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may astonish you, ! have voted
for the Prohibition Party Nation
al ticket. | am bound to no par
ty. Several years ago decided
to vote for no candidate that in
dulgcd in intoXicants or who ia
vorcd the pcrpctuation of the Ii
quor traffic, if | knew it. |
make it a rule to vote for the best
man in the field without respect
to his party affiliation. If this
be treason, let the doctor make
the most of it. If this is fight
ing prohibition and being in league
with the champion, | can stand it.
This is the result, my dear doc
tor, of your arguments based
upon mere assumption, having
no foundation in fact. "1nfalli-
bility of church dignitaries'' in
deed !. Who has paraded the in
fallibility of any one.
Talk about diving out of sight;
here's diving for you. Another
bare assumption, doctor, for no
such thought ever entered the
writer's mind, and no such an in
ference can be lcgitimatcly drawn
from any sentence he did write.
| only referred to bishops and
other members of the last Gcncr-
al Conference to show. that they
did not favor political alignment
with amy party.
Ii is very kind q of you, doc
tor, to class me with murderers
of Christ, the chascrs of Luther,
the pliers of the burning fagots
around Ridley and Latimer, and
the prosecutors of John Wesley.
| am glad ] was born in the 10th
century and that it has fallen to
my lot to chase a much smaller
fish than either of the above.
For it would have required Il
whale to have swallowed either of
the above: little nibbling min
now is quite sufficient for the
present game. One must be hard
up for argument to resort to such
methods of defense. If the above
and other like uttcrances are not
bare assumptions-if they arc not
both Pharisaical and fanatical, |
confess | have never met any that
were. Further, they are unkind,
uncharitablc, contrary to that
love which "thinkcth no evil, =
that charity which "sutfcrcth long
and is kind Such arguments q
betray Il barrenneSs of thought, j.,
and are equivalent to giving up
the question. They are sclf-con-
demnatory, and themselves prove
the truth of the charges they
would avert.
Now, my brother, do you real
ly think such utterances help the
cause you cspouse Is it not
true that they do much harm
Is it not clear that such utter
anccs, aimed at as good men as
the church or State contain, does
not lead to the Prohibition Mil
lcnium Now, honor bri ght,
doctor, is there no Pharisaism or
fanaticism in such utterances
Does the Champion contain any
such !
l made no charges against the
doctor personally. For him |
have as high Il regard as one could
have for Il stranger. My charges
were made against his arguments.
He has come to my relief and
helped me to sustain the charges
made against his arguments.
He can blame me no more than
himself. He furnished the am
munition.
He offers no argument against
the church being a "sPIRITUAL in
stitution. He simply asks els
that all :" He knew, of course,
that | did not ignore the means
necessary to attain the end. No
one knew better than he that the
Nj. +. Church, South, is non
political. He understands full
we'll tho sense in which | use the
term. He knows that this fact
constitutes almost the sole distinc
ton between her and her great
sister. All this he we'll knows,
but it gives him an excuse to talk
of "windy resolutions" etc. In
deed this seems to be his stock in
trade.
The "milk in the cocoanut of
my reference to the resolutions of
the Tennessee Conference was the
fact of his. accusing some of them
of resoluting one way and voting
another. He can do what he
pleases with the shcll-the milk