Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-27

more about theology than hog knows
about Sunday, with a distinct political
purpose in view, that blind horse can
see through just as easily as you can
see through mosquito bar?
To be consistent with the distin-
guished attitude that you assumed as the
opponent of slavery, when you were the
only man in Kentucky that dared to do so
and when the same spirit that now puts
me in Jail, tore down your printing house
here in Lexington, both you and Inger-
soil know that YOU both ought to be Pro-
hibitionists and woman suffragists; and
Col. Ingersoll, i'll recent conversation
with me, virtually admitted as much; but
neither of you have the courage of your
convictions, and while in the article
about me, you evidently feel that it il
your duty as true man to defend me
from the TRAY, Blanch and Sweetheart y
that snap at my heels, you throw d tub
to the whale-a sop to the ecclesiastic
Cerberus-by syCophantic pander, to
these people, that comes with a worse
grace from you than from any man in
America. The Bible, from Genesis to
Revelations, teaches the propriety of
slavery and makes laws for men to buy
and sell their fellow men Just as tley
would do hogs.
You had the heroism to say thu such
doctrine was damnable, and s.:xing gton,
away yonder before the war made YOU
suffer for it as they are now doing me,
and the parallelism between your expe-
rience and mine is so striking that the
newspaper men here have printed it;
and yet you seem to be trying to damn
me with faint praise. l don't want it,
and won't have it. do not expect any
better from the average Lexington editor
or average preacher, but have right to
expect better from YOU. If you are not
square out for me. l don't want any OF
your sugar with vermifuge in it. If you
like my style stand up for me like man,
and if you don't, Just Jump on me with
both feet like the others do.
The Lord "spewed out" the Laodiceans
because they were neither hot nor cold
1t seems that change has come over
the spirit of your dreams Excepting
myself in my book THE Rational View =
and not in the Blade, you are the only
man who, in my memory and knowledge
has ever written an atheistic argument
here. You sat down and did that thing
on cold collar here, not long ago
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ing special to call it forth, and you
printed it in the Illustrated Kentuckian
published in this city. over your full
classic name, and address, at your fa-
nous residence. And now you bounce
me and Bro. Ingersoll for denying the
existence of the Creator and Ruler of the
Universe"
can not tell lie; Bob never did il;
did it with my little hatchet, or Blade.
deny in toto, that either Col Inger.
soil or l have ever said one word "of
fensely abusing Christ" and / challenge
you or any man in the United States to
produce the well authenticated language
l have greater admiration for Jesus OF
Nazareth than have for any character
in history: have a greater admiration
for him than any man in Lexington has
and l have come nearer being like him
than any man in Fayette county has
done.
| You are all wrong on IngersOll. He
does not come up to the standard that
would like to see him reach, and that hi
could reach; but he is the greatest geniu.
that America has produced, and is one o
the greatest benefactors ofhumanity tha
the world has seen