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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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