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1 Defence of the Ladies &c. against the Bishop of Maryland, and His Aids 1845

handle is hein.trials/defladc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A DEFENCE OF THE LADIES, &c. IN the Conspiracy I have said, Here I declare solemnly that whoever attacks those true-hearted ladies, ATTACKS ME ; and I will defend them with EVERY ENERGY. Wo unto the man that touches a hair of the heads of the four witnesses whom I procured. (p. 9.) This is my public pledge, and I have been thus called upon to re- deem it, in a letter, dated NEW YORK, January 31, 1845. Rev. and dear Sir,-In your pamphlet, entitled ' Conspiracy,' 'by a Conspirator,' you boldly avow yourself one of the main instruments in procuring witnesses against - [the name being given, which I cannot write, with a proper sense of self-respect :1 You speak of the extreme difficulty of persuading the Misses R. to testify, and that if any one dares say aught against them, or their testimony, they attack you, and you will defend them by espousing their cause. The uncalled for, coarse and unmanly, un- christian attack of the young ladies above named, by William Rol- linson Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland, deserves a castigation with a cow-hide ; but your cloth forbids that. You are, however, called upon to do it with your pen, or in any other way possible, and likewise to make such further expositions of the base conduct (and there are enough,) of the guilty Bishop as to silence any re- maining doubts (? !) on the subject. I think all the witnesses have been most shamefully treated by some of the dissenting Bishops, but none half so badly as these young ladies. What says Ogden in reference to Miss J.'s testimony . but that is not half so bad as.what Whittingham asserts. What do you think of the re- marks at the bottom of p. 318 (Trial,) wherein your own name is mentioned ? What of the beginning of the second sentence on p. 319, and what of the third sentence wherein he says, ' these are improbabilities surpassing belief?' You are now called on, as you romised to do, to defend them; and in so doing, anything further that you can prove respecting that guilty old bishop, will sustain them. I do look upon this Whittingham as bad as 0- himself, and you must shew him up. You are as competent to the task as any other man ; and they are all afraid of you, if you are crazy, or' more to be pitied than censured,' as - says. Yours, &c., JUSTICE. With this letter in general I agree. I feel that my word is passed, and as a Christian, as a minister of God, as a gentleman, I am bound to redeem that promise ; for verbum script m manet; the written word remains, or as the Turks say, what is written cannot be rubbed out. There it stands, staring me in the face ; and the bleeding hearts of those noble witnesses call upon me, like a voice from Heaven, to visit the sins of men, who have so little regarded their duty as judges, as gentlemen, (for 1 arraign them at the bar of honor too,) as Christians, as Ministers, as leaders of the hosts of God against the battlements of hell. No wonder that an indignant people cry out, as with ten thousand throats, what I never shall be able to utter.

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