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TIIE LATE TRIAL. 
Williams vs. Himes. 
OPENING ARGUMENT FOR THE DEFENCE 
The following, is the argument of A. PAYNE, Esq., Counsel for 
the Defendant, after the testimony for the Plaintiff was all in, and 
before proceeding to offer testimony in defence to the Jury. We 
give it in compliance with the request of subscribers, who will 
thereby be enabled to see the issues which had to he defended, 
and the nature of the testimony which caused the abandonment 
of the case. 
If the Court please, gentlemen of the jury, I 
suppose it is fair to presume that the Plaintiff 
brings this action into Court thinking that he 
has a good cause of action, and is entitled to a 
verdict from you ;—that he is preferring his ac-
tion in Court in good faith, and for that purpose; 
and, I suppose it is equally fair;—if a man 
comes into Court and says he is not guilty of 
anything which is charged against him ; and 
that he ought not to be held responsible to the 
Plaintiff, to presume that he is entitled to a de-
fence against the same. 
It is unfortunate for all of its, gentlemen, that 
any action should have occupied so much time 
as this must necessarily occupy. Nevertheless, 
a necessity is upon us, and each one of us has 
a duty to discharge. 
You have now heard, during these three or 
four days, the testimony of the Plaintiff, and 
the law upon which he relies ; and we have no 
doubt that you will give equally patient and 
careful attention to anything that may be stated 
on our side. 
The Defendant, gentlemen of the jury, says 
that he is not answerable to this Plaintiff in 
damages, for anything that he has done ; and 
you perceive that what he is called upon here 
to do, — whatever may be the form of the 
pleadings, or whatever may be the law, is to 
reply to any and all charges which may be 
made against his character during his whole life. 
This Defendant stands here, and, by some 
means or other, the Plaintiff in this case seeks 
damages for injuries which he says the Defend-
ant has done to him. The Plaintiff has the 
right, and has, for four days, enjoyed the privi-
lege of bringing all the evidence he can find which 
can in any way affect the moral character of the 
Defendant ; and what the Defendant is bound 
to do, is to show that his character is not sub-
ject fairly and justly to the reproaches which 
may be made upon it. We know that when a 
question of this kind between man and man is 
to be considered, that any fair-minded person 
would give his serious and candid attention to 
the matter, if called to express an opinion. 
And when by the laws of the land, a question 
of this kind comes before a jury sworn to give 
a true verdict therein, according to the law as 
interpreted by the Court and according to the 
evidence given, however tedious it may be, what-
ever may be some of its aspects and however 
frivolous the character of the representations, 
they will of course give serious attention to all 
proofs, and will weigh them carefully. 
Gentlemen of the jury, there is another reason 
entitling this Defendant to a fair and impartial 
hearing. He is a man, as was said to the Court 
by the opening Counsel for the Plaintiff, of no 
little eminence. By the voluntary suffrages 
and election of large bodies of men in differ-
ent sections of the country he has become their 
spiritual instructor. He is a minister of the 
gospel. Now, may it please the Court and gen-
tlemen of the jury, this position which he holds 
does not screen him in the least from any in-
vestigation into his character : on the contrary, 
it renders such investigation more proper. His 
position does not, I am free to admit, make it 
any more likely that he will not be open to 
charges against his moral character, but when 
you consider the effect, which a verdict, finding 
him guilty of these charges, may have upon 
this religious community, you will see that 
there is an importance in his character, inde-
pendent of any injuries which the Plaintiff, or 
the Defendant may sustain, If this man, occu-
pying the position he does in the community, 
is found by the verdict of a jury guilty of the 
conduct imputed to him in the course of thi* 
trial, it will seriously shake the confidence of 
large bodies of men in an eminent religious 
teacher, and consequently in religion itself. I 
do not suggest this, gentlemen of the jury, for 
the purpose of hinting that you should be any 
the less ready to render a verdict of guilty if 
you find him so ; but as a motive, addressing 
itself to the common sense and good feeling of 
every man, to make you cautious in examining 
the testimony which has been, and may be pre-
sented. 
This is one of the religious denominations in 
the country ; there are various others ; we all 
have our favorite views ; one denomination is . 
more extensive in one portion of the country, 
and another in another portion ; one prevails 
more extensively in one class of soeiety, and 
one in another; but any one of these denmaina-
lions is of vast and salutary influence upon the 
community at large. Forms of faith may be 
all important, but the essential elements of re-
ligion are in all; and these essential elements 
render any association of men professing faith in 
the Christian religion, eminently beneficial and 
salutary in its influence on the community as 
a whole ; and any act, judicial or otherwise, 
which shall have a tendency to shake the con-
fidence of a large body of any one of these de-
nominations in their religious teachers, will 
have a tendency to impair the religious senti-
ment in the body and through that of the com-
munity. This is a reason which does and must 
address itself to every man of good feeling, after 
giving a careful consideration to this case. And, 
gentlemen of the jury, when a man by a long 
course of public conduct has raised himself to a 
degree of eminence, arid has acquired the con-
fidence of a large body of men by the force of 
his own talents, by the energy of his conduct, 
and by his disinterested labors, in a cause which 
he believes just and important ; when, I say, he 
has acquired this kind of eminence, he should 
not be rashly deprived of it; he should not be 
deprived of it except upon clear and ample tes-
timony. These positions in the world are not 
gained without labor, they are the most valua-
ble which a man can attain in this world ; and 
when a man has once attained a good name, 
and a good position by his own exertions, by 
devoting himself to the welfare of the commu-
nity, he should not have that good name taken 
away from him by slight and unsatisfactory tes-
timony. The jury should require, in such a 
case, clear and satisfactory proof. Now, what 
we say, gentlemen of the jury, in this case, is, 
that our client has acquired this position—this re-
putation ; and the Plaintiff seeks by a verdict of 
his jury to have it proclaimed to the world that 
he is unworthy of the position he occupies. If 
he is unworthy, there will be no harm done in 
the verdict ; but when a man comes before you, 
as did the Plaintiff's counsel in opening the case, 
and tells you that the Defendant does occupy a 
position of eminence in his denomination, and 
it is sought to brand his moral character by the 
verdict of a jury, all that we say is that you 
ought to look closely to the evidence. 
Now gentlemen of the jury I think it neces-
sary in order that you may understand our de-
fence, that before we put in our testimony, you 
should understand what we expect to prove, 
and what is our position in this case. I will pro-
ceed to show this as briefly as the nature of the 
case will admit. 
We say, and we expect to prove, gentlemen 
of the jury, that in the spring of 1850, or early 
in that year,—the Defendant then being the 
publisher and proprietor of the Advent Herald, 
(a paper published in Boston) ; being also, and 
having been a minister of the Advent denomi-
nation for a great number of years, and having 
been in a position peculiarly exposed to charges 
against his character in these relations, which 
made it necessary for him to be on his guard 
against attacks, and always ready to meet and 
disprove them ; that at that time, in 1850, he 
ascertained that some unknown person was 
making secret exertions to injure his reputation, 
by secret correspondence and secret associations 
among disaffected persons, who were circulating 
stories unfavorable to his character. This fact 
he ascertained ; and in the paper of which he 
was proprietor and publisher, in an article there 
published, he called the attention of the public 
to the fact that such charges were in circulation, 
and such efforts were being made against him ; 
and he called upon any person engaged in that 
business, or any person inclined to believe that 
there was any truth in the charges, to come for-
ward and give him a hearing arid an opportu-
nity for defence before an impartial tribunal. 
That, in a mere private man, may not have 
been altogether a necessary proceeding ; but he 
was to a great extent a public man, and these 
charges were in circulation against his public 
character ; and as such, he called upon any per-
son, who had any charges, to come and give 
him an opportunity to vindicate himself. At 
the same time he stated that he had made this 
appeal because he had ascertained that these 
secret exertions were being made to blacken and 
defame his character and reputation. No name 
was given in that article, and no person was al-
luded to ; and as we shall show you, no expres-
sion was used necessarily pointing at any per-
son. Immediately, or very soon upon the pub. 
lication of that article, Mr. Jonathan Perkins 
Weethee—one of the witnesses in this case, 
and Elder George Needham, another witness in 
this case, came forward and claimed that they 
were the persons, therein alluded to ;—that El-
der Himes had inserted in his paper an article, 
which I have described, which had pointed them 
out as the men who were engaged in this se-
cret conspiracy against his character. No person 
was named or pointed out in any way ; yet 
they came before the public and claimed that 
article alluded to them. And you will recol-
lect, that they have both sworn upon the stand 
that they had been engaged in this kind of cor-
respondence. Now they perceived that by corn-
ing forward and claiming to be the persons, that 
they brought themselves into a direct collision 
with the Advent denomination and with the 
Defendant in this case. 
We shall show the next step in this proceed-
ing. After these two gentlemen had rather 
unadvisedly and suddenly put on this coat, 
which seemed to fit; after they had avowed 
themselves to be the men who were meant,—
and had thus directed the attention of the de-
nomination to themselves as men who had been 
leagued together in these secret operations 
against Mr. Himes's reputation,—when they 
found themselves before the denomination and 
Mr. Himes, in this position, they sought an 
adjustment—about which you hear something 
from some of them—which adjustment they 
explained to be that they would withdraw all 
charges against Mr. Himes's character, pro-
vided Mr. Himes would, through his paper, ex-
culpate them from all connection with the " se-
cret " workings and reports against him. That 
is what they meant by the adjustment. That 
is what they would pay for having circulated 
reports affecting the moral character of others. 
The next step was, that M r. Himes demanded 
an investigation before a proper tribunal. The 
next step was, that a committee of this church, of 
which Mr. Weethee was pastor, and of which 
Mr. Himes was a member, attempted to investi-
gate these charges which were said to be in the 
possession of Mr. Needham. The officers of 
the church were added, and the parties had a 
hearing before this committee ; they called up- 
on Mr. Needham to produce the authors of the 
charges ; Mr. Needham declined to give the 
authors ; and the committee not being able to 
obtain from the person who brought forward the 
charges, the names of the authors, or any evi- 
deritT respecting them, voted that the charges 
were frivolous and dismissed them. 
We shall show that the next step was, that 
Mr. Hines, knowing perfectly well that these 
charges, although dismissed by the committee, 
would be kept in circulation unless he met and 
refuted them, went before the church and de-
manded that the church should act upon them. 
The charges were of a nature (which you will 
see when I come to that point) which affected 
his character and integrity as a man, and more 
especially as a preacher of religion ; and he 
called upon this church, of which he was a 
member, to investigate these charges. 
Of this church, Mr. Weethee, whom we ex-
pect to show you was one of the original con-
spirators, was pastor ; and ex officio the pre-
siding officer at church meetings. He would 
not allow Mr. Himes a hearing. He would not 
allow the committee which had been appointed 
by the church to make a report ; and pronounced 
the motion that Mr. Himes should have a hear-
ing, out of order. He decided that the charges 
were killed—for reasons which we will prove. 
We shall find that the defendant could not have 
a hearing, because the pastor would not put the 
motions, and would not allow him or his friends 
to have called, according to the usages of his 
denomination, a council of ministers to hear and 
decide upon these matters. We shall find that 
failing to get the church to take any action, 
because of Weethee's refusal to put motions and 
let the church act, Mr. Himes called a council 
himself, and gave the proper notice to the other 
parties, to appear before it and substantiate their 
charges ; which they did not do. The council 
after investigating, voted that the charges were 
unfounded, and acquitted Mr. Himes. 
At that stage of the proceedings Mr. Wee-
thee, and the disaffected party, in the church of 
which Mr. Himes was a member, finding that 
their measures had displeased the majority, arid 
that they could not carry on their proceedings 
against Mr. Himes, contrived a plan which I 
will now detail. 
Mr. Weethee, the pastor of the church, with-
out the authority arid direction of the committee, 
who had the sole power to take such a step, 
called a meeting of the society for tusiness on 
Sunday afternoon—stating in the call, that it 
was made by authority of the President of the 
society, who had given him no such authority 
to call it ; and then proceeded—as is sometimes 
done in other bodies, ecclesiastical as well as 
political : Having given notice around to par-
ties that were of one way of thinking, that there 
would be a meeting, he got what is called a 
" packed set," and, having called a meeting with-
out authority, raised the question whether they 
would leave that place of worship. The Presi-
dent of the society refused to put the vote, stat-
ing that the meeting was irregularly called, and 
that the business was not in order ; but inas-
much as there seemed to be a desire among 
those present to know how many were in favor 
of removing he would call upon those who 
wished to remove to stand up. No vote was 
declared and no count taken ; and this they 
called a vote of the society to remove from that 
place of worship. 
We shall learn that the officers of the church, 
(the Chardon street church) seeing that this 
manoeuvre was going on, and understanding 
perfectly the whole movement, decided not to 
have the regular church meeting on the follow-
ing Tuesday ; and, also that the church should 
not be opened for meeting on that evening ; 
and then, as has been stated by the other side, 
these parties who united with Weethee, a mi-
nority of the church, some of whom had been 
recently admitted for the purpose of joining in 
these proceedings, met at a private residence 
and appointed a committee to seek another place 
of worship. This is what they call the removal 
of the Chardon street church. 
These parties, with Weethee at their head, 
went to Washington Hall. A majority of the 
church had no actual knowledge of their pro-
ceedings, and not a solitary person was present 
who was not in the interest of this party ; and 
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themselves the Chardon street church and ap- case ; when suddenly he was surprised to hear lating a libel ; I did say that : what could he say the same as the first charge on page 52. They 
pointed a committee, not to hear and decide ap- from the grave, sober, learned and impartial, not less ? what could he say, except that it was a then present the other specifications, which are 
on the charges which had been made against to say pious judge, a sentence of condemnation. libel ? and when he is charged with having at- the little scraps of gossip that Mr. Needham 
Mr. limes, not to try a minister or member of He then looked more closely at the judge, when trbuted to Mr. Williams the offence of breaking had picked up about town and induced people 
the church who had been supposed to be guilty, lo ! under the wig and robe, he beheld the dock- up a religious meeting, he says I never said any to sign. Then, as we proceed, they go on with 
but appointed a committee—consisting 1 think master trying the case. He thought that that such thing, in the form and manner affirmed, their specifications about these charges, and on 
of seven, and comprising at least three who would not do ; so he took an appeal. After a Then he comes to the trial. I will now, to page 60 a little more than half way down, [the 
were voted into the church for the purpose of considerable time, he came to the second trial. show that the book is a libel, take these matters jury were all following Mr. Payne, and turning 
acting at this time, and all known to be violent He thought he was safe now. He thought all in the reverse order in which the gentleman to the pages in the pamphlet referred to] we find a 
enemies and opponents of Mr. Himes—" to was perfectly clear, and could not see any doubt put them ; and, perhaps, as we have been over statement that is a repetition in the trial of the 
search out, and investigate the charges against that he should be declared innocent ; but again the ground once we can get back quicker than charge on page 52—the fourth charge. Again 
him." 
the same learned decision was pronounced, and we came. 
on the 62d page, near the top, the 5th charge 
Without any notice to Mr. limes, they ap. he was more confounded than ever. Upon In the first place, I shall call your attention, which is also a repetition of one on page 52. 
pointed a committee—thus composed—and pro- closer examination, however, he discovered the gentlemen of the jury, to the matters which we The next passage which we set up as libel- 
ceeded to appoint Elder George Needham— old dock-master again, in a different wig and say are libellous in this book; and they may ous is one which is the same as the fifth on 
who originally brought the charges against Mr. robe, deciding the case against him. Now upon be reduced, may it please your Honors, to a page 28th, which is a specification under a gen-
Himes—who, when called upon before the corn- examining the proceedings recorded in these very simple statement,—with the exception of eral charge. On the 64th page, about half 
mittee of the church, to give the authors, re- pages—[turning over the leaves of W. and N.'s one or two anomalous cases in this action which way down they say —a That J. V. Himes did 
fused—who, when called upon to appear before Pamphlet—a copy of which had been supplied were gone into this morning. Those do not loan money to one Nichols a liquor dealer, to 
the council of ministers and present the charges, by the Defendant to each of the jury, and aided seem to come under either of the heads, and assist him in his wicked business, he knowing 
refused to do so—church advocate. He was materially in giving them an insight into the will have to be considered by themselves. All the fact. These we have set up as libelous." 
to assist the committee in searching out and in- case]—we find that those who originated the the rest of the matters which we set up in this We have set up as libelous, the charges af- 
vestigating the charges against Mr. Himes. charges, carry on the investigation and publish plea as libellous, may be brought under two fecting Mr. Himes's moral character, and such 
The next proceeding in this remarkable the report. That is the history of these affairs. general heads ; lying and dishonesty. 
It is ne- specifications as seemed to us definite enough 
church trial was, that Mr. Needham the original Respecting this book, it is a book of which cessary that I should call the attention of your to be made out by proof. The next which we 
accuser and depository of the evidence against the more you read, the more you feel as if you Honors, in order that the jury and Court may set up as libelous is on the 65th page—the 
this man, who had twice refused to produce his do not want to read any more of it. It is a very understand what is to be done and what is set sixth charge, " That Elder J. V. Himes has 
evidence before an impartial tribunal, goes about difficult matter to read the whole. There is one up. This book is a sort of omniurn gatherum, been wanting in that scrupulous regard for 
from house to house, sometimes alone, some- gentleman mentioned in it, Dr. Pierce, who in it professes to be the trial of Elder J. V. Himes truth which should distinguish every Christian." 
times in company with one or more of the corn- the course of his deposition swears that he tes- before the Chardon street Church, published by That is a general charge of lying. Then on the 
mittee, and calls upon sisters C., and B., and tified only in a political sense : he took a large order of the Church. You begin to examine, 67th page is one specification—the third, near 
brother A., and everybody he can find, who has number of copies-500 or more, but they would and von see that the first thing in it, is a Vin- the bottom of the page, " Deception about his 
a particle of gossip, an old stale worn-out cal- not sell ; it has been a difficult matter to give dication by J. P. Weethee and George Needham. real relationship as to the property of the Her-
umny, or some heresy which has been reported them away, and he has them mostly on hand. It goes on with what they call "An Historical ald," &c.,--is an instance of lying, which they 
about Mr. Himes. He writes it down himself, We obtained from him, gentlemen of the jury, Sketch," in which they give their version, may set up, and we allege to be a libel and expect 
gets sisters B., and C., and D., and all the rest the copies with which to supply you. Thus it please your Honors, of the proceedings which to prove it so. We come next to the 82d page; 
of them to sign it. After he has got his evi- the thing did not work. It was designed to 1 have been narrating to the jury. In this book that is a specification under a general charge, 
dence in that way, occupying some three or counteract the influence of Mr. Himes's arti- Weethee gives a sort of a biography of himself : and is the same which we set up as libelous on 
more weeks in the middle of the summer, they ties in the Advent Herald, but it did not ac- in which he says he has been President in sev- the 28th page. Here it is introduced in the 
send notice to Mr. Himes, for the first time. Af- complish its object. 
eral colleges, and Professor in several, and also course of the remarks about an oath in the 
ter the evidence has all been taken, and written Mr. Needham came to Providence : the same that he has performed six years' study in four court. We say, that it is libelous, and we ex- 
down, and taken in this way too, on the afternoon difficulty had grown up here as in Boston, and and a half years. After this is a sketch, in pect to prove it to be so. 
of the last day of July, they send notice to Mr. he came and took charge of the Anti-Himes which Weethee and Needham give their ver- The next charge is on the 86th page near the 
Mimes that on the evening of the next day a party ; which had seceded from the Church. sion of the story ; arid therm comes the seven bottom—specification 9. It representsMr. Himes 
committee will meet at the house of Bro. Wood The Plaintiff boarded with Mr. Needham ; and charges which Needham produced against El- as claiming to be a personal donor of tracts and 
to hear the report on this matter; and they sum- you will see that they undertook to get Mr. der Himes; three of which we set up in our papers, while charging the same to other per-
mon him to attend,
Himes to say something against Weethee or plea as libelous,—the others being indefinite and sons, which we say means that he falsely rep- 
Mr. limes had known what had been pass- Needham, that they might prosecute him for frivolous. 
resented himself to be the donor of tracts and 
ing for weeks ; he knew that the Church of slander. The only way in which they could The first charges him with " testifying before papers when he was not : in other words, that 
which he was a member was still worshipping manage, was to get this Plaintiff to go about to a certain court, bthat he held the property in his he pretended to be giving away, when he did 
in its accustomed place, and that any body the different meetings where Mr. Himes was possession, in the same mariner as the Bible not give away. Again, beginning on the last 
eould inform, themselves of its character; and present; in order to get Mr. Himes to say some- Society and other benevolent societies held line of p. 88, he is accused of "conveying the 
he sent word to this committee, who were thing that they might make use of. He soon theirs, amid then subsequently declaring that he idea in all his papers and publications that he 
members of his church, that he declined to recog- gained attention to the book, by presenting it at was the sole owner." This, we say, is intended was merely the agent of the Advent body &c., 
nize their jurisdiction over him ; and he acted such a time, in such a place, and in such a to represent him as testifying one way in court, until April 29th, '51, when he claims all as his 
accordingly. The committee then proceeded to manner as could not fail to arrest attention. No and another way out of court, which would be own,"—and on the 89th page, the 13th specifi-
adopt the report without his presence ; and on one would read the book, unless somebody in- perjury or falsehood. The next charge, that tion they say," That he has published deceptive 
the first evening of August, or second perhaps, formed them that there was something wicked of unbecoming Christian conduct, we did not set accounts of the pecuniary affairs of the Advent 
in Cochituate Hall, they assembled together to in it ; and so Williams had to tell them that up as libelous, because we thought it would be a office." Also on the 96th page, under the sev-
complete this trial of Elder limes. And we there was something wicked in it : they did difficult matter to show a jury what was " be- nth charge, that " He has treated the Church 
find, according to the testimony which they not care anything about the book itself. I do coming " and what was " unbecoming." The of which he was a member, in an unbecoming 
have put in, that
b this Elder Needham read this not know but Mr. Williams was actuated by next item accuses him of misrepresenting the manner," the third specification is, " That he 
report or portions of it,—for he does not pretend love of God in relation to this matter. Mr. affairs of the Chardon-street Church. That is a has repeatedly made slanderous charges against 
himself, neither does Weethee, that the whole Ashley says he was doing this from the love of distinct charge; and that we set up as libelous, the Church and authorized others to do the 
which was published was read at that time,— religion, and from a sense of duty ; I do not Then we set up as libelous the fifth charge, of same." That we say is libelous. 
but the larger portion was read over to this as-know but he was. There is nothing which this "having dealings with a liquor dealer." All These are the specifications and the charges; 
seinbly, which, having voted the charges allidea will not prompt people to do. I think it those are on page 28th. We say that this last and there is the end of the report which was 
true, and all disciplinary, voted also that they likely that he does think he is doing God ser- charge, in this age, in the present state of pub- prepared by this commute, and read to the 
should be published, and that Professor Weetheevice ; but what we say, and what we expect to lic opinion, especially when the Maine Law is Church. The report of the committee to the 
and Elder Needham should be appointed a corn, 
about going into effect, is a libel—that it is a body of the so-called Church, containing evi- 
mittee to prepare the matter for publication.—goes around, does so with the view of creating an libel to charge a man, and especially a minister, dance under the charges and specifications which. 
This is the report of the ecclesiastical trial at impression among people, that Mr. Himes was with encouraging a man in the liquor business. was read ever to them, extends to the 96th 
 
which Mr. limes was found guilty of thesenot a very good sort of man. Mr. Himes came to These people evidently viewed it so. They page. Then follows the plea of Bro. Needham, 
enormous offences. At this trial Mr. Needham this city by request of the Church here, for the 
; 
proceed in this historical sketch, at much greater beginning on the 96th page, and containing sev- 
appeared
purpose of holding a series of meetings and it length than I have gone through with. We 
as counsel against Mr. Himes, and 
 
 
eral passages which we also set up as libelous. 
made his argument after the report was read ; appears that whenever he is present, Williams set up these three items, Numbers 1, 3, and 5, It is difficult to see what need there was of 
appears with these books; arid improves every on page 28, which are covered by the plea as 
and this Mr. Weethee, this pastor of this re-
pleading against him : when all the evidence 
opportunityto make remarks, and circulate his libelous. They say on that page that common 
markable church, presided ;—calling himself (1 
 
was against him, when the judge, jury, and 
believe I quote from his own language in the bookpamphlets. It appears to me, that in return fame charges him with these things. We say witnesses, were the parties against him, and 
Mr. Himes did about as little as anybody could, common fame charges no such thing. The jury 
which he has published) the' President Judge ". 
 
had voted that the charges were true. The 
of " the Highest Earthly Tribunal ;" and calling under the circumstances. He makes use of no can read for themselves their version ; and we passages in N.'s plea which we set up as libel-. 
the meeting at which these proceedings tookharsh language ; but when it appears impossible will present ours, and we expect to prove that ous are first, declaration on page 98th, " That 
to have avoided speaking, he seems to have said we are right, 
place, the " Supreme Church of God on earth."
the want of economy, openness, candor, and 
Now gentlemen you see from this, what kind to his congregation : " That book which this man We continue the examination, until we come unbending integrity in his management of the 
 
of a trial this was, if we prove what we have is circulating, is a libel on my character; this to page 52. They had then finished the busi- Second Advent publications is sustained." That 
 
now stated. In the first place, Elder Himes finds man is going about disturbing my meetings and ness of searching and investigating, of taking was the first charge on p. 52d ; and Needham 
 
the testimony, &c ;— and they send a citation alleges, that it is true beyond doubt. Then, 
that these accusations are
. made against him destroying the interest in them." That is all 
and calls for an investigation. He finds that that he is charged with, and all that is proved. to Elder J. V. Hirnes ; in which they inform on the 104th page, beginning with " What a 
 
Weethee and Needham are together in these Having done that, Mr. Williams brings his ac- him, that they have appointed a committee to prostitution of moral principle does the testi-
" search out and 
 
investigate" these charges, and many to sustain the fourth charge present," is 
charges. He calls for an investigation, and they tion. 
refuse. He procures a committee of his own Now we come to Mr. Williams' statement, desire him to be present. On the 52d page also set up as a libel ; for he virtually says there 
Church to investigate the matter, and gets an He says he is much aggrieved, that he is enti- they publish their grounds of complaints ar- was testimony produced to sustain the charge. 
acquittal. A council of ministers is called and tied to damages at your hands for the injury ranged under seven heads, which they send to Then on the last line of p. 104th, Needham says 
Mr. Himes. They set up " Want of economy," on lending money to a liquor dealer, a I need 
they find that the charges are frivolous.— done to him by these words spoken, and far 
&c., which we say is not true. Therm the 4th only say that there can be no doubt that he knew 
Weethee and Needham, finding that a large special damage, which he has sustained by Mr. 
majority of the Church are against them, and Himes's persecutions : because of his having cir- specification charges him with " Want of in- that Stephen N. Nichols was in the liquor traf-
that notwithstanding their own exertions, it is culated that pamphlet, and following Mr. Himes tegrity in his Christian character ;"—referring he ; and yet he keeps him in the Church if 
utterly impossible to carry any vote against him, around in these meetings, disturbing them and to the course he has pursued in relation to the Church it may be called and loans him money," 
 
call a meeting without authority, secede from breaking up the religious interest. 
Second Advent cause in general. This is the &c. Also on the 109th page, " It is astonishing 
the Church, go to another place to worship, Now it comes in the shape of a declaration, fourth charge. Then charge fifth, "In secular that a man in his right mind should attempt to 
search out and investigate charges, appoint one very learnedly set forth according to ancient dealings showing a want of integrity." play such a double game," &c. These we set 
 
up as libelous, and we allege that the inuendo 
In the sixth they say, he has not shown a re- 
of the original accusers a magistrate to take forms, that this Mr. Williams being of good 
evidence, and the other accuser to preside, vote name, fame and reputation, never having been gard for truth. In other words, in these four is equivalent to a statement that lie had played 
that the charges are true, and then vote to pub- guilty of the abominable crime of slandering charges they charge him wi h dishonesty in a double game. It refers to his management of 
 
lish the book as a fair trial of an ecclesiastical another, never being guilty of disturbing public three forms, and with lying. These are alleged the Herald property. Then if your Honors will 
 
Court.
turn to the 113th page, you will find at the 
meetings, was charged on a certain occasion by the plea to be libelous. 
Such is the trial. It is very much like the with circulating a libel, with disturbing public On the 53d page they say "On Friday even- close of Needham's plea (1 call the attention of 
case of the old sea captain that ran into a Dutch meetings, and breaking up the religious interest ing the church met according to adjournment the Court in order that your Honors as well as 
port where he was much abused, and finally in those meetings. He says in the declaration in Cochituate Hall, and there proceeded to an the jury may see how the book proceeds) the so. 
taken up by the dock-master and held to trial. that he was circulating a book. Mr. Himes investigation and final disposition of the case." called church resolve, " that the testimony on 
He went to the Court the next morning. At then has to have a lawyer, and puts in a long We now have the charges, specifications, and the specifications abundantly prove each of the 
the trial he did not take much noticeof the pro- statement which you have heard read, the sub- testimony, which were read before the church. seven charges." They then vote to withdraw 
ceedings; for he thought that he had a clear stance of which is: I did say you were circu- On the 54th page is the first charge ; it is fellowship from him, till he shall make ample 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
satisfaction for his conduct ; and also vote that 
their doings, and a history of the case be pub-
lished for general circulation.. 
Then the Pamphlet goes on with something 
that is neither a " historical sketch," nor a por-
tion of the " trial ;" but such further gossip and 
stories as these elders were able to find, during 
the progress of the work for the press, which was 
never before the Church, but which they have 
published on their own responsibility. In that 
part of the book we have set up two passages as 
libelous ; the first of which is on the 132d page, 
which affirms that " Mr. limes is an old sower 
of discord and division," &c. The other is the 
sentence on p. 135, " You should not therefore 
receive," &c., meaning the testimony of Mr. 
Himes. We allege that that is a charge of 
prevarication. These are the libelous passages, 
twenty-five in all, as they appear in the differ-
ent portions of this book—comprising a histori-
cal sketch, that which purports to have been 
read and voted upon at the trial, and that which 
is said to have been collected afterwards, and 
has nothing to do with the trial. 
The whole of these matters we say are libel-
ous. The Plaintiff's counsel, as I understand 
from their opening, do not undertake to deny 
that they are prima facie libels; but they set 
up certain matters in avoidance of our plea. 
That is to say, they make certain issues in this 
case which have nothing to do with Mr. Himes's 
character, or with the truth of the charges in 
the book against Mr. Himes. This is a little 
singular, if, as they pretend, their object is to try 
the truth of the charges in the book. But we 
must meet all the issues they have made, and 
we have no doubt of our ability to do so. In the 
first place they take the ground that these mat-
ters were previously published by us. I is true 
that for the purpose of refutation, we took the 
charges on page 28, and in our paper said such 
charges had been made against us, and pro-
ceeded to remark upon them to show their fal-
sity. Another defence of theirs will be that as 
far as the facts are concerned, whether these 
things are false or true, they are the report of 
a trial, so far as they stated what took place at 
the ecclesiastical court, and are therefore privi-
leged ; and the last defence they set up, is that 
they are true. They then offer to prove them, 
and they have gone on to put in their testimony 
to that effect. 
Now, gentlemen of the jury, in the first place 
a man who has been a minister, and to some 
extent a controversialist, actively engaged in a 
new cause, and actively engaged in a variety 
of philanthropic and benevolent enterprises dur-
ing the last fifteen years, and of an excitable 
temperament, who can stand the sifting which 
this Defendant has been subjected to, with these 
men on his track for three or four years to hunt 
up all that they can find against his moral char-
acter in the course of his whole life, needs no 
stronger evidence than that presented on the 
other side, and to which you have listened, that 
no real and substantial statement against his 
character can he made and sustained in support 
of those charges. 
What are those charges? A prominent one 
is, a money transaction with a Mr. Buffett) 
down in Lynn some fifteen years ago, long be-
fore he was connected with this Church. After 
twelve years had gone over the transaction no 
man of common decency and common feelings, 
would think of raking up a charge so long bur-
ied. Then they produce here, as evidence that 
he encouraged a man in the liquor business, the 
fact that he had a friend from whom he obtained 
money at times, who had accommodated him in 
business. We shall show, in addition to their 
own testimony, that this man had taken the 
pains to conceal the fact that he sold liquor 
from Mr. Himes, and that the statement that 
he encouraged a man in the liquor business 
is without foundation. Then they bring for-
ward a controversy between Elder Himes and 
Joseph Turner, who made each their own state-
ment before a council, where Mr. Himes was 
believed and the other was not. These and 
similar testimony is all they have been able to 
produce before this Court against Mr. Himes, af-
ter raking and scraping the whole course of his 
life fur fifteen years. Now we expect to prove 
that every specification upon which they have 
fastened is distinctly and unqualifiedly false—
not only in appearance but in fact. 
As I said before, these charges arrange them-
selves under the heads of lying and dishonesty. 
Before calling attention to each of the matters 
separately, I will state that we shall clearly show 
the fact that he was the legal owner of the Ad-
vent Herald, and the property connected with 
that office; that he always has been, and al-
ways avowed himself the owner; that such was 
his peculiar relation to his denomination, that no 
man, no member of it, in possession of ordinary 
intelligence, and fairly acquainted with its af-
fairs, ever had or ever could have had any sort 
of doubt about it ; much less could a minister, 
in or about the city of Boston, ever have had 
any doubt of his title to it, I shall show that 
it was not possible to have had more than one 
opinion upon this subject. 
Of this property, some money was stolen—
the office was broken into and complaint was 
made against the thief, alleging that the prop-
erty stolen belonged to Elder Himes. When the 
case was on trial it was necessary for the counsel 
to scrutinize the testimony closely. We shall 
show that he testified that the property was used 
the same way as charitable societies do theirs, 
and used for the purposes of this Advent cause ; 
and we shall prove in explanation of what was 
said about its belonging to the Tract and Mis-
sion fund that the treasurer, Mr. Bliss, was di-
rectly responsible for a part of the amount. 
That was an entirely different part of the case. 
We shall prove that the way in which that came 
up was this : the money was not only to be 
proved to be stolen, but it was to be identified, 
and a twenty dollar bill was identified as be-
longing to the Tract and Mission fund. The 
Plaintiff here has put in much colorable testi-
mony to make this conflict with the claim that 
Mr. Ilimes's money was stolen. The fact was, 
it had belonged to the Tract and Mission fund ; 
and the Treasurer had passed it over into the 
general funds of the office—charging himself 
for it, and crediting the Tract and Mission 
fund , and charging the office in the account 
between that and himself. His testimony iden-
tified the money. Elder Hirnes's testimonyto 
what everybody knew respecting the use to 
which he devoted his funds was like this ; he 
turned round as if to explain to the Court and 
said : 1 know that there are reports in circula-
tion about me ; but I wish the Court to under. 
stand that while 1 own this property I use it for 
the benefit of the Advent cause—as the Tract, 
Bible, and Missionary Societies use their funds. 
That is the deception respecting his relationship 
to this property, which they adduce as evidence 
of lying and of dishonesty. 
Now we will show you in relation to this 
matter of property, that it was in this wise. 
Some ten years ago, I do not recollect the exact 
time, Elder Himes having become associated 
with Mr. Miller, being a man of talents and en-
ergy, and being a poor man, he published one 
number of a paper called " The Signs of the 
Times," to defend this doctrine. Before a sec-
mid number was issued, he made a contract 
with Dow and Jackson to publish this paper 
semi-monthly for one year. Elder Himes was 
to furnish and prepare all the matter, and Dow 
and Jackson were to furnish the paper and print 
it. In other words, he was so anxious to have 
a paper through which he could speak to the 
aoinniunity, that he engaged to furnish the 
matter gratuitously and let them take all the 
proceeds. At the end of the year they saw that 
it was to some extent profitable. He wanted 
the control of the paper himself. They saw 
that the subscribers had become numerous, 
and they thought that if he was going to take 
the paper into his own hands he ought to pay 
them something for it. Finally, he agreed to 
give, and did give one hundred dollars. He 
has been the proprietor of that paper since that 
time ; and it has always been a subscription 
paper. We shall show that he has also been a 
writer and publisher of books and that he has 
been an Advent minister, and a traveling min-
ister; that he has received from the proceeds 
of this paper certain sums of money ; that he 
has received from the proceeds of his other pub-
lications certain sums of money ; and that he 
has received from the friends of the Advent 
cause donations amounting in all, during the 
whole time and from all sources, to less than 
$10,000. We shall show that he has expended 
in this cause, in paying ministers, in supporting 
the cause and society in Boston, and holding 
tent meetings, more than $12,000 over and 
above all the money received from donations; 
and that he has paid this from the profits of his 
paper and other publications—the produce of 
his brain and his own talents. So much on his 
ownership of, and relation to the Herald. 
We shall show, moreover, that he has never 
pub&hed in the paper anything to contradict this 
view, and has always declared that he was de-
voting himself and his labors to the cause. To 
prove that he has always done so, we will show 
by the files of the paper what representation 
he has made ; and then produce witnesses who 
have heard his statements at the places to which 
their own witnesses have alluded. Here, gen-
tlemen, let me call your attention to a single 
fact that bears upon this point. You have 
heard the Plaintiff 's witnesses testify that the 
Advent body is not an organized body ; and 
that it never had any organization as a body. 
They seem to make no distinction between a 
man being an agent appointed by the body, and 
between his holding certain property—holding 
it as its legal owner—and using it as if he were 
an agent ; which is the position in which Mr, 
limes has always been. Whatever may be 
the imputations which have been cast upon him 
in other places, or here ; whatever may be the 
faults of character, or, manner, of which you 
may have heard; we challenge you to produce a 
man who has done an equal amount of equally 
disinterested labor; and we shall show that he 
has not made provision for his family should he 
die, and that he has expended, or is using in 
this cause, which he believes to be the cause 
of truth and religion, all that he has earned and 
received during his connection with it. 
Again, gentlemen of the jury, in regard to 
giving away tracts charged to the Tract and 
Mission fund, the real facts are these : In 
1848 Mr. Himes was sick, and some of his 
friends proposed to raise a fund, called " the 
Tract Mission Fund." They appointed a treas-
urer, for the specific purpose of purchasing these 
Advent publications and distributing them gra-
tuitously, because he was himself unable to 
preach. This fund was supported by his friends, 
and was an act of good nature on their part. Over 
it he has had no control—another man being 
its treasurer ; yet he has himself paid large 
subscriptions into it—more than was by himself 
personally distributed. This is the way in which 
he has used this fund ; and this is the only con-
nection that he has had with it. 
Then as to another matter, the Chardon-street 
Church in Boston. They have attempted to 
say, gentlemen of the jury, that he made false 
statements about his relation to that Church ; 
in other words, that he represented that that 
Church was a great burden to him, when as a 
matter of fact it supported itself, and was never 
a burden to him. 1 may as well say in the out-
set, that so far as he is personally concerned, it 
makes no difference to whom he gives. He may 
as well support one society as another, and he 
exercises his own discretion. But we shall show 
on that subject, that when he received from the 
sale of the Tabernacle, a sum of money, concern-
ing which Mr. Dickinson has testified, or about 
that time, that he bought the use of Chardon-
street chapel ; because, he thought it was for 
the interest of the body to have a fixed place of 
worship, where they could be more comfortably 
situated. He found in 1848, that this would 
accommodate the society, and his paper, as a 
printing-office, and he bought of the late Dr. 
George Parkman, the lease of that chapel—
then having eight years to run, and put it in 
repair for thirty-eight hundred dollars. It was 
an unexpired lease, of which the yearly rent 
was $446. Taking this yearly rent, and $228 
interest on the thirty-eight hundred,—saying 
nothing about taxes and insurance, and we have 
$674. This, in connection with the fact that 
upon the expiration of the lease the chapel will 
belong to the owner of the ground, for which 
$475 of the purchase of the chapel should be 
added each year, and you have $1150 for the 
yearly rent and interest of the chapel. If you de-
duct from this $200 for the rent of Mr. Himes's 
office, the remainder, $950, as we shall show, is 
a fair rent for the chapel in which the society 
worshipped. Yet he rented it to them for $600, 
and subscribed $200 towards the payment of that. 
This shows that it was a burden upon this prop-
erty, which he had purchased and was using for 
the cause. Then we shall show that he has 
given in addition, large subscriptions from time 
to time, to meet deficiencies—giving over $400 
at one time, and $600 at another. We shall 
prove that he has been in the habit of making 
up the deficiency whatever it might be; and 
we shall do this, expecting to satisfy you. I do 
not mean to contradict what has been said on 
the other side and show that the whole burden 
of that society came on him : what he meant, 
was that the society was depending on him to 
be kept from debt; and that there was a large 
deficiency which he always made up. We shall 
show you finally, that in order to relieve the 
minds of some who pretended that they did not 
wish to have it known that he subscribed so 
much, that he afterwards called the rent $400, 
instead of subscribing $200. But, as I said be-
fore, it made no difference how much he gave 
or how little to that particular object, while he 
used all his property for the benefit of the cause. 
The next, is the church organization. They 
say that lie lied about that ; i. e., they say that 
he pursued an inconsistent and dishonest course. 
We shall show you that he was always in fa-
vor of church organization. He never agreed 
with those people who were afraid of Babylon. 
He was in favor of organizations before he went 
to Europe, and when he came back. When 
he went out West at the time they testify to, 
there were in this city of Boston two par-
ties—one in favor of a Scriptural organization 
and the other opposed to all organizations ; and 
they could not agree. While he was absent, a 
committee of conference—seven on one side and 
seven on the other—was appointed. This was 
the course which the thing took: The friends 
of organization could not come to any agree-
ment with the other seven, who pretended to be 
" in favor of the right kind of one." 
They finally proposed to the seven who were 
opposed to organization, to draw up a kind of 
form to which they would assent. They inti-
mated what they said would suit them, the 
others all agreed, and they came forward and 
made a unanimous report to the society. When 
Mr. Hirnes came back from the West, he found 
what had been done, saw what kind of an or-
ganization it was, which did riot suit him, and 
he expressed an opinion unfavorable to it. It 
was then explained by his friends, that they 
had much difficulty in getting any plan at all, 
and that they had put in a provision that it 
might be amended. And so they had a meeting 
and amended it. That is what Mr limes 
meant by breaking it up. That is all the in-
consistency there is in his views upon this sub-
ject. The organization thus amended continued 
until it died out ; and when he told Elder Need-
ham there was no organization, it had become 
inoperative. 
[The Court adjourned until the next morn, 
ing, when Mr. Payne resumed his remarks 1 
The coal bill, gentlemen of time jury, is the next 
item to which they have directed attention. By turn-
ing to the fifteenth page of the book, in Weethee's 
historical sketch, you will see near time top that he 
refers to that matter as a grave offence. He says 
" the following facts were elicited," and proceeds 
to convey the idea that the office had been using the 
Church coal and had then charged the Church for it ! 
On the 64th page we find in the 4th specification, 
that it is termed " a fraudulent transaction ;" and 
then, on the 115th page, Needham says in his plea 
that is the worst of the charges. Well, gentlemen 
of the jury, it is the worst charge in this case ; and 
for these reasons : It is a charge in reference to his 
conduct when a member of, and at a time when the 
actual Chardon-street Church would have had a 
right to try and discipline him. It was not a transac-
tion over which fifteen years had passed,—occurring 
long before this Advent body had any existence, or 
any right to discipline him. It was a transaction for 
which if fraudulent, his Church had a right to dis-
cipline him. This charge is of a grave nature, It 
is a practical arid definite charge, which men of the 
world as well as the Church can understand ; for if 
true, it is cheating—this attempt to swindle in such 
a way ! Now you have heard the testimony of Mr. 
Young and Mrs. Blanchard, and you have heard 
other witnesses to this point. You will hear in mind 
that Hamlin, who says he was the Treasurer of the 
society, and was the Plaintiff's witness, does not swear 
to any presentation of such bill of $125 for coal ; he 
swears that he knew only of one for $8 50. You will 
bear in mind his declaration that he understood that 
Mr. Himes was perfectly correct in his money matters, 
and that he did not know anything to the contrary. 
You will recollect Mr. Young's testimony and the 
manner in which he cross-examined the sexton ; and 
you will recollect also Mrs. Blanchard's testimony. 
1 was present at the taking of her deposition in Bos-
ton, and have no doubt, notwithstanding the appear-
ance of these figures upon the paper, she was a right 
honest old lady. She told her story so that I un-
derstood it perfectly. No imputation ought to lie 
against her on that account. The amount of it is that 
she did think the bill was $125, and she was sur-
prised at time amount and wrote it down. She made 
the sign or mat k of dollars, and was going to write 
125, butt she put it so near the edge, that there was 
nut room to carry it out, and she put the 25 on the 
other side, and fixed it when she got home. She un-
derstood that there was a bill, and had no disposition, 
evidently, to tell a falsehood ; and it was just as evi-
dent that she did not know much about it. We shall 
show that the facts were these : Mr. Emerson was 
a coal dealer, and at that time the Treasurer of the 
society ; and all the coal that was used in the chapel 
or in time office, was sold by Mr. Emerson to Mr. 
'limes, and was all charged to him. Mr. Hirnes in-
tended to charge the society, or to keep an -account 
of how mach they used ; and up to January '50 he had 
charged the society for the amount of coal used in the 
cold season $8 50—estimating that they had burned 
that amount, he put it down on a memorandum. Af-
ter the 1st of January he made no estimate and kept 
no account of the coal that the society burned. They 
had long protracted meetings, and they burned the 
coal as they wanted it. On the morning of the ail-
neat meeting„ he and Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Harn-
hn, knowing that the society were behind in their 
expenses, met to consider in what way they should 
show the society how they stood ; and they agreed, 
among other things, that Mr. Emerson, who wished 
to make a donation to the society, should do so by 
making it a present of the coal burned after the 1st 
of January. You see Mr. Emerson had charged all 
this coal to Mr. Himes ; amid they intended to add tie 
coal burned after the 1st of January to the bill of Mr. 
limes against the society ; but Emerson says, " 
wish to give something to the society." Mr. Himes 
replies, " Here is this claim for coal since January, 
you may make an estimate of it, and credit me the 
amount in your account against me; and then you 
may make the donation of it to the society, and repre-
sent to them that they have burned so much which is 
not charged in this bill ; arid it shall be considered 
Mr. Emerson's donation to the Church." That is 
what took place. When they went into the meeting 
of the society, Mr. Emerson as treasurer made a ver-
bal report of the condition of its finances, and stated 
that there was due Mr. Hitnes for rent, $308, fixing 
stoves, $4 50; for fuel up to the first of January, 
$3 50 ; for advertising Weethee's meetings in the 
city papers, $27; and for cash paid ministers, $60,—in 
all amounting to over $400, &c. Mr. Emerson rep-
resented that, as the debt due from the society to Mr. 
Himes, and stated that lie should make no claim on 
them for coal burned since the 1st of January—he 
should give that in,—that was his donation. Mr. 
Himes itnmediately followed Mr. Emerson, and stated 
to the society, that as they were in arrears ; and 
as, he wished to encourage them, he would cancel his 
bill of $400, and over, which he had against them, 
and that they would be pleased to accept it. He then 
told them that they were owing Mr. Weethee towards 
$100, and that as Weethee had said he should hold 
him, Mr. Himes, responsible for his salary, he would, 
pay that also, if the society wished him to ; but he 
thought the society should pay that. The society 
thought so too, and agreed to pay that to Weethee. 
Mr. Himes then left the meeting to fulfil an appoints-
went at Salem. After he had left, there came np, a 
discussion about time coal. As this bill of Mr. Himes 
did not contain all the coal that had been used, these 
other people, not understanding the facts in the case, 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
heard this discussion, in which as their witnesses took their dismission, formed a new church, and 
have stated, pretty much all the male members took called Elder Himes to settle over them ; and he was 
parts How could they understand Bro. Young regularly installed as their Pastor. It is said that he 
cross-eXamined Mr. Hopkinson; and how they got had a secret understanding with these men, to draw 
an idea of a matter, the beginning and end of which them off ; but they had no such understanding : they 
they did not understand, it is difficult to tell ; but went of their own accord, not knowing that he would 
that no bill of $125 was presented will be made clear he their Pastor ; as we shall show you by those who 
to you—notwithstanding their three or four witness- went off. They had formed their new Church be- 
es to that effect. I think it quite likely that the im- fore they knew that he wculd come and be their 
pression might have been that they had used one hun- minister. Now the other side have brought this in. 
dred dollars' worth. You saw that up to the 1st of After their Church trial was through, they found 
Jan. they were only charged $8 50 worth, and any this old pamphlet by the committee of the Sea street 
body knows that they must have used more than that. Church, in which the old hunkers make their statement 
That is the coal bill. 
of what they understood, and not what was said. 
The next charge is, slandering the Church. I The only point in it is, the claim that he had a secret 
will take that up in connection with his being a understanding with them to go away, which we 
sower of discord, which I had separated in my list of shall disprove. 
charges, but which they have melted together in The next charge is that he has practiced deception 
their testimony ;—that is, under this head of sower of about the pecuniary affairs of the Advent Herald of-
discord, by the direction of the Court, they have intro- fice. This comes under the general head of lying, 
duced testimony to show what Mr. }limes has said in and also of dishonesty. As I apprehend, it is both 
conversation with various ministers and members of dishonest and false. 
churches, about different ministers in different parts The amount of it is, that they have taken some de- 
of the country. Now with the exception of two in- positions and read some proof, that whereas he rep-
stances,—that of Needham's, in which he says Mr. resented to others that he was in great distress and 
Bliss and Mr. Hale or Himes were present and he wanted funds, at the same time he loaned $400 to a 
cannot tell which, and that of Ostrander, who testi- friend. In opposition to this, we shall show, by a 
fees that Mr. said he would not be the villain to deposition which they have taken and his bank ac- 
preach to such a set—excepting these two instances, count at the time, and by Mr. Bliss who is the business 
in all the cases where there are witnesses we ex- agent of M. Himes, what the pecuniary situation of 
pect to show that their witnesses have not represented that office was at this time ; and that this loaning of 
the conversation as it was. We of course have no $400 was an accommodation to a friend of Mr. Himes. 
testimony in respect to the private correspondence of Elder Himes, in order to accommodate, did what 
Needham. Here was a denomination in difficulty, only good natured men do ; and which they sometimes 
divided into two sections ;, there are secessions in do, even if they borrow the money. As we shall 
the churches, and controversies among ministers. show by and by, Docter Pierce to whom it was 
One minister at this trial gives a fragment of a con- loaned finding that Mr. Himes wanted the money 
versation in which Mr. Himes freely expressed his made an exchange : he made a note running to Nichols 
opinion. Whether that opinion was correct or incur- instead of Himes, so that Nichols could let Himes 
rect there is no evidence. All that can be said about have the money. And as to the bonus that the Doc-
Mr. Himes, and all that this case shows, is this : for was to pay : it appears that Dr. Pierce agreed to 
being an out-spoken man, of activity and energy, he pay a bonus, and Mr. Himes said he did not want it; 
said something about a villain, and immediately took but afterwards while Mr. Himes was in England he 
it back ;—that is, he stated " You ought not to put too goes to Mr. Himes's wife and gives her the sum of 
much stress upon what I said : that is my way." twenty-five dollars, which was this bonus. That is 
What we have to say is, we do not think a jury will the statement about the pecuniary relations. We 
find a man guilty of sowing discord in the churches, shall show that the representations in the paper were 
and slandering the Church upon controversial dis- true. The other side have published an article from 
cussions among ministers, on evidence brought here, the paper in the book but they have left out an im-
of that kind, years afterwards by those who were at portant part of it, which would explain what they 
the time friendly with Mr. Himes. Mr. Needham have published, as was shown to you. In the Herald, 
was then sympathizing with him in these views of there was an appeal to the supporters of that paper 
Marsh and others and expressing the same views, on the ground that they wanted funds : in that ap-
Why ! it is proved that N. has made use of the peal, the mode was set forth, in which that appeal 
hardest terms in the Conference and in letters about might be answered—by paying up hack subscrip-
this Marsh ; and they are not shown to be unjust. tions due on the Herald, &c. Weethee and Need-
We shall show, gentlemen of the jury, that Mr. ham copy a part of the appeal into their pamphlet, 
Himes was led to his opinion of Marsh by the in- and to make it serve their purposes are very careful 
formation given him by Needham, who had previ- to omit the explanation of how that appeal may be 
ous to that time occupied the columns of the Herald met, as we shall show you. This is the way in which 
in showing up the iniquity and selfishness, covetous- these elders expose dishonesty ! And we shall also 
ness, and bad conduct of Marsh. The amount of it show you that this is by no means a solitary instance 
was, that Marsh was an editor of a paper origi- in which they have made extracts in the pamphlet 
nally started, by Mr. Himes, and wanted to take a from Mr. Himes's papers, and omitted the very por-
certain course. He got into controversy with Elder tions which showed the consistency of the parts 
Needham, who filled the country with reports against quoted ; but which if given, would have defeated their 
Marsh, and finally brought Elder 1-limes to his opin- object in making them. By presenting you the arti- 
ion ; and Mr. Himes expresssd this opinion. Iles entire, we shall disprove the inferences they have 
drawn from them. 
The charge which they make is, that he represented 
the office as pecuniarily embarrassed, when he had 
money to lend," The fact is, he made this loan to 
his friend by borrowing the money himself. 
Then there is one other fact about the sowing of 
discord. They intended to introduce this mass of 
testimony under the head of treating Christians in 
an unbecoming manner, but that not being set up by 
us, it is permitted by the Court to go in here to 
the jury for what it is worth. 
They next refer to a transaction which happened 
in 1837 in the Church in Sea street. We have some 
testimony about this : we desire you to understand 
that part of the case, and to find the facts as they 
are upon the evidence. It seems that in 1837 Mr. 
Himes was the Pastor of a church in Sea street in 
Boston, and that he was at the same time a public 
lecturer on Slavery and Temperance. Now you all 
know that when a minister takes up temperance and 
these other things, and makes himself active in this 
way, that a part of the congregation will want him 
to go, and a part to stay. So it happened in Sea 
street. In other words, the Church gets divided, 
into old hunkers and subterraneans. These old hunk-
ers had an interview with Mr. Himes and induced 
him to ask for a dismission. They knew perfectly 
well that if they dismissed him, there would be oppo-
sition to it ; and that it was very doubtful whether 
they could dismisss him at all. At this interview, 
after some conversation, he agrees to leave off this 
lecturing, or to resign his office. When lie comes 
before the Church to inform them of his intention to 
leave, being a man of warm feelings,—much younger 
than he is now—and feeling an interest in that congre-
gation, he makes a sort of parting speech. This, 
and the old hunkers getting him out contrary to 
his wishes, made some disturbance. Then this 
church in Sea street divided ;—there was another 
room opened in Boston, and some withdrew. They 
Ceive receipt in full : the receipt was $20. Mr. 
Himes. had made a failure, the creditor, doing as he 
is often obliged to, taking a part and giving a full dis-
charge. 
I will now take up in immediate connection with 
that, Mr. Buffum's case ; which is another of their 
great cards. You will find it on page 62. 1 wish your 
to look at this matter attentively. You recollect Dr. 
George Pierce whose deposition was read to prove 
that he was owing the office $400, at a time when 
they said the office was poor. This Dr. Pierce after-
wards turned to the side of the opponents of Mr. 
Himes, and talked with Weethee and Needham res-
pecting this Buffum. 'When he comes to be cross-ex-
amined, to say whether the account of the matter is 
true, he swears that he does not know anything about 
the facts. He said he was quite warm in his feel-
ings at the time, and said what he did in a political 
sense. This explains why this letter of Buffum's 
happens to be addressed to him. It seems that Mr. 
Pierce, who was co-operating with Weethee and 
Needham, met Buffum down in Lynn, and informs 
him about the case. This transaction occurred fif-
teen years ago, before the Advent body existed ; it 
was an old transaction, which all decent men would 
allow to sleep, unless there were strong and stringent 
reasons for bringing it forward ; and they present 
none. When a man becomes a member of a church 
it is a new thing to discipline him for a transaction 
which happened and was all settled ten years before 
he joined the church. Well, Mr. Pierce says to Wee-
thee : " Buffiim has got a case ;" and they call upon 
Mr. Buffum and get him to write down his testimony, 
which he does, directing it to Dr. Pierce. At the 
end of the letter there is an affidavit. It appears that 
Mr. Weethee desired to make it a little more em-
phatic. He wanted him to put in a little more of 
the stingaree. It might have been made at the sug-
gestion that he was searching out and investigating 
charges ; so he swears Mr. B., and it goes into the 
report, and is published, as a case of dishonesty in 
Mr. Himes. 
The next case is that of Elder Turner who testi-
fies that he was convicted of falsehood, on Elder 
Ilimes's testimony. It seems that several years since 
Mr. Himes was holding a meeting somewhere in 
Massachusetts, at which there was present a man 
named Pratt and his brother-in-law, Drake—both be-
ing then very good friends of Mr. Himes. Drake 
said to him, we wish to send a letter to your paper re-
specting your mode of preaching, as I have now heard 
you, to counteract some reports to your injury. I can-
not write it out very well, and I wish you would, for 
me, give an expression of my opinion. A jealous 
suspicious man, on the look out for rogues, would 
have hesitated about writing a letter respecting him-
self, and leaving it in the hands of others ; but these 
men were friends, and he sets down and scribbles on 
a piece of paper what this witness, Mr. Pratt, swears 
are the sentiments of his brother-in-law. Now Need-
ham, in his plea in the pamphlet, admits that under 
the circumstances in which this was written, no blame 
attaches to Mr. Himes for writing it. But Mr. Drake 
then gets his brother-in-law, Pratt, to take the scrawl 
of Mr. Himes, and write it out more full, and send 
to the office. Mr. Himes had not praised himself 
sufficiently to suit them, and they want to do the busi-
ness up thoroughly. So Pratt writes his letter and 
sends it to the Herald office. It passed of course into 
the hands of Mr. Bliss, the actual editor, who con-
sidered it so fulsome and in such bad taste, that he re-
jected it, and it was never published. Mr. Pratt, 
you recollect, swears that at the office they would not 
publish it ; so he files away Mr. Himes's original 
scrawl, for future use. There are some men who al-
ways keep every piece of paper they get hold of and 
file it away. Such men should always be watched. 
Well, it seems that in the course of time this Mr. 
Pratt came to be on the other side, goes about show-
ing this piece of paper, and Turner saw it. Now, 
for the case of Turner. This is the gentleman who 
delivers his testimony in this very slow manner so as 
to be sure to be right, and have every word just so, 
and tell to the best advantage. He goes about, saying 
that the letters which are printed in the Advent Her-
ald in commendation of that paper, are not written by 
those whose names are signed to them, but are writ-
ten by Mr. 'limes, and sent out to A. B. and C., to 
be signed by them, and returned for publication. 
Turner was the editor of a paper in Hartford, and 
his trouble was that Mr. Himes's paper was more 
popular in the denomination than his ; and he wanted 
to make out that the letters in the Herald, which 
were so expressive of its character and the manner in 
which it was conducted, were no evidence of the ac-
tual popularity of that paper ; and so he reported 
that they were written by Mr. Himes. It is very 
likely that he was not aware that Mr. Himes had 
written this at the request of somebody who wanted 
to send it as a letter of his own sentiments, when he 
said that those published were concocted in the office. 
But these religious papers are just like a worldly paper 
in that respect; ifone gets a big circulation it will take 
something from the others; and although all are co-
operating, so far as the cause is concerned, it does 
make some difference as to other respects. So this 
Elder Turner says this Herald is not puffed by the 
people who read it, but it is puffed in the office, and 
by the editor This story gets abroad and there is 
some writing about the matter in the two papers—the 
Advent _Herald and the Hartford paper—and after a 
while, they have a mutual council down in Boston re-
specting this and other statements of Turner. Mr. 
Turner has given you his version of that trial, and 
we will give ours. When Turner was charged 
by Mr. Himes with having reported what I have 
stated, Turner said that he had seen a letter com-
mendatory of the Herald, written by Elder Himes 
and sent out to be signed. He was called upon to 
tell who had the letter, where it was, and where he 
had seen it. He declined doing so. After Mr. 
Himes had made these demands, he tells the council 
that he never wrote any such letter as Turner had 
described. The fact was that not being in the habit 
of writing such letters, not recollecting that he had 
ever written that scrap some three or four years be-
fore, which was written at another man's request 
and to express another's sentiments, and knowing to a 
certainty that no letter of that kind was in the col-
umns of his paper, he denies before the council the 
writing of such a letter as Turner charged him with. 
You will bear in mind that Turner was not being 
tried for having asserted anything respecting this let-
ter; but for asserting that the letters published in the 
Herald commendatory of it, had such an origin—that 
being only one of five specifications for which he was 
being tried. On the trial, he admits that he has 
thus reported respecting those published : and then 
refers to this, to show that he had cause for thus re-
porting. After a patient investigation, the members 
of the council, the most of whom are here present as 
witnesses, and will substantiate our version of it, de-
cided that Turner was guilty on each of the five spe-
cifications. Now Turner comes into court with this 
scrap of paper, and complains that Mr. Himes was 
believed, and himself disbelieved. But, gentlemen of 
the jury, if you will turn to page 85 of the pamphlet 
where they have published the paper that Pratt 
swears to, you will find it is not such a letter as Tur-
ner described before the council, and therefore was 
not such a one as Mr. Himes denied having written ; 
for it does not even allude to the paper called the 
Advent Herald, and therefore was not written in 
commendation of it. 
- Then there is Buffum's " Receipt :" they have 
offered testimony to show that at the church meeting 
Mr. Himes read something from Buffum. Whether 
it was a note or a receipt they do not know. They 
think it was a receipt which, they say, went to show 
that Mr. Himes had paid Mr. Buffum what was due 
to him, when he had not paid. They mean to use that 
fact in connection with other testimony, in order to 
show that Mr. Himes in a church meeting had rep-
resented that matter differently from the representa-
tion in Buffum's letter. But it appears from Buf-
fum's own receipt, that this claim which had ex-
isted against Mr. limes was at a certain time set-
tled, by Mr. limes giving up what little property 
he had at the time, and afterwards paying some $20. 
He read that receipt, and explained the case. They 
do not attempt to give his explanation. They only re-
member that he explained the case, and read the re-
ceipt, and said that this is like other charges which 
have been made : they all end in smoke when ex-
plained. What we understand is this : He did re- 
Mr. Himes had some difficulty in finding out the 
true state of this case—it was so long ago. But it 
will appear that the facts were these : In 1835 this 
Mr. Buffum and Mr. Hitnes, became trustees of a 
Manual Labor School in Beverly. You know that 
as long ago as, that, a new fancy sprung up, for hav-
ing Manual Labor Schools ; and they had one of 
these in Beverly, the policy of which was to have a 
large shoemaker's shop in connection with it ;—being 
a region where large quantities of shoes are manu-
factured. They took a boy, and made him study 
part of the day, and then make shoes the other part. 
It was an excellent plait to develope the physical 
powers ; and you will not be surprised that this 
kind of school found much favor for a time. Mr. 
limes was in favor of this: And he, and this Mr. 
Buffum, who is a very good sort of a man—a Quaker 
—were trustees in this school : they hired a farm,-
erected a shoemaker's shop, and got a number of stu-
dents. It was pretty hard work, and the only way 
in which they could raise the funds was for Mr. 
Himes to go about and get subscriptions and dona-
tions from the people who felt interested. Dr. Chan-
ting and others subscribed, and thus the school was 
supported for a time. Now this school was kept on 
a farm owned by Col. Amos Sheldon, of whom the 
trustees rented it. They intended to purchase it in 
time, if they could raise the necessary funds, which 
they supposed they could. But this farm had a mort-
gage on it of $3800, held by a Mr. Patten of Rox-
bury, who was pressing Col. Sheldon for his money. 
In order to keep possession of the farm for the ac-
commodation of the school, it became necessary for 
Col. Sheldon to pay off Mr. Patten's mortgage.—
There was no way to do this, only by borrowing the 
money and giving a mortgage on the farm as security 
—the other being paid off by the money thus raised. 
In the winter of 1837, a Col. Perkins of New Bed-
ford, a friend of the school, was a member of the 
Legislature then in session in Boston. Mr. limes 
had some talk with him about taking the money of a 
Mr. Arnold,—then on a tour in Europe, and who 
had funds about coming due, which he had left to 
Col. Perkins to re-invest—and taking up the mort-
gage with it. The prospect of getting the money 
from this source, he communicated to Col. Sheldon and 
Mr. Buffum, and they were to learn the result, when 
Mr. Perkins should return from New Bedford, where 
he had gone for a few days on a visit, and who on his 
return would report what could be effected in that 
way. But that resource proved fallacious, and no 
money was thus obtained. 
It so happened however, that in September follow-
ing, Col. Sheldon found a man who would be willing 
to advance $3000 cash and take a mortgage of the 
farm, unincumbered by any other mortgage as secu-
rity. This would enable Col. Sheldon to pay off 
$3000 of the 3800, mortgage—leaving 800, to be pro-
vided for by other means. To enable Col. Sheldon 
to take up the entire original mortgage at this time, 
Mr. Buffurn, catne to Boston with Col. Sheldon, and 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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signed a six months' note with him for $800 ; and Mr. 
limes, and the broker in whose office it was done► 
endorsed it. 
Now Mr. Buffum in his affidavit which they have 
read to you, swears that he was induced to sign this 
note by the false representation of Mr. limes, that in 
a few days Col. Perkins, a member of the House of 
Representatives, was to return from a visit at New 
Bedford to take his seat in the House, and would 
bring the money from the estate of Mr. Arnold, and 
take up this note. This alleged misrepresentation, 
on the part of Mr. Himes, is all the point there is 
to this case of Mr. Buffum. Mr. Buffum swears 
that the note was not thus taken up, that Col. Shel-
don soon failed, that he had to pay the note and sue 
Mr. Himes for it, and afterwards settled by giving 
him a receipt in full. 
Now, gentlemen of the jury, we shall show you 
that Mr. Buffum was entirely mistaken about being 
induced to sign this note by Mr. Himes's representa-
tions concerning money from Col. Perkins. And 
we shall show this by a subsequent deposition which 
Mr. Buffum has given, in which he acknowledges his 
mistake. The fact is, the thing occurred so long ago 
that he had mixed up in his mind things entirely 
disconnected. Remembering the talk about money 
from Perkins in the winter of 1837, when P. was a 
member of the House ; forgetting that that arrange-
ment had all fallen through, and that the arrangement 
in September was the result of that failure ; and 
knowing that he had to pay the note, he had become 
confused in his mind respecting them. 
The only way in which we were able to convince 
him of his mistake, was by finding the original notes 
on the Court Records, which showed that it was giv-
en in September 1837 when the legislature was not 
in session, six months after Col. Perkins had gone 
home to New Bedford on the adjournment of the leg-
islature, and six weeks previous to the time when 
the members for the coming legislature were to be 
chosen. This made it perfectly clear to Mr. Buffum, 
that at the time he signed it, he could not have been 
expecting the money in a few days from Col. Perkins 
on his returning from a visit, to take his seat in the 
House. On seeing that he was a signer of the !rote, 
and Mr. Himes only an endorser, it was also very 
clear to him that that could not be the note on which 
he sued Mr. Himes; for the maker of the note could 
not sue an endorser. Also on showing him a certifi-
cate of Col. Sheldon's given to Mr. Himes, that this 
note was given solely for his (Sheldon's) personal 
benefit, and was to be paid by him, and that Mr. 
Himes was in no way responsible for the same, Mr. 
Buffum recognized the signature as genuine, and cer-
tified to it in his second deposition ; and he also rec-
ollected that at the same time Col. Sheldon gave 
him a certificate of the same import, which he has 
found and appended to his second deposition, as we 
shall show you. On further search, he found that 
the note on which he did sue Elder Rimes, was a 
joint note of $600, given in the winter of 1838, after 
the foregoing, transaction, and signed by himself, 
Elder Himes, and P. R. Russell, payable to Col. 
Sheldon. This note it was found on farther investi-
gation, was given by them as trustees of the school, 
to Col. Sheldon for money expended by Sheldon in 
support of the school. This note was to be paid by 
the income of the school, and not by the trustees 
personally. The fact undoubtedly is, that Mr. Himes 
at this time had entire confidence that he should be 
able to raise the money by donations and subscrip-
tions to the school ; and he manifested his high con-
fidence by signing the note. But the great financial 
crisis came on at that time, the school went down, 
the shoe shop went down, and the friends of the 
school, of course, would not subscribe money to sup-
port a school that had already failed ; and no more 
funds came in for the payment of this note. There 
had been paid on it, $140, and Mr. Buffum, as a man 
of property had to pay the note and sued Mr. Himes 
and Russell, each for one third of the balance—$153. 
Mr. limes being a poor man, gave up his furniture, 
and afterwards paid $20, more ; and Mr. Buffum, as 
every sensible man in snelt a case would do, took 
what he could get, and gave him a full discharge. 
Mr. Buffum, having the note to pay, and also Col. 
Sheldon's $800, note, always felt bad about it ; and 
haring got the different transactions all mixed up 
in his mind, he placed the things in the wrong place. 
The evidence which we shall present on this point, 
as I have explained to you, will entirely disprove the 
charge of falsehood and dishonesty, which they have 
endeavored to fasten on Mr. Himes in reference to 
this transaction. But, gentlemen of the jury ; sup-
posing that we had not been able to present so clearly 
to you the facts respecting this long buried transac-
tion,—had we been unable to present to you Mr. Buf-
fum's second deposition, in which he explains and 
corrects the former, it seeme to me, that a transaction 
which happened fifteen years ago, and about which 
the party in his first deposition, could not remember 
the items, date, or place, should not have been brought 
up as a charge of dishonesty. 
Then there is the case of Mr. Hoyt. They have 
read to you his deposition, intending to show that Mr. 
limes gave hint a lot of books, and afterwards 
charged them to him as beingsold. The sum claimed 
to be thus charged is only two dollars and amounts 
to this. Mr. Himes, at one of his tent meetings in 
Western New York in 1845, gave Hoyt some books ; 
and afterwards in 1851 a bill was sent to him of two 
dollars, made out by a clerk in the office for books 
had in August 1846. Mr. Hoyt writes back, that 
he did not recollect of having received any hooks at 
that time. Mr. limes replies to him that he has no 
charge against him for any books had then, but for a 
hundred extra papers. That is the whole of that. 
His deposition goes to show that Hoyt made the mis-
take. In August 1846, when Mr. Himes was in Eu-
rope, and could know nothing of it, the clerks in the 
office, sent to Hoyt's order one hundred extra papers 
and charged $2. We shall show you the original 
entry, shall make it clear to you that no books were 
then charged, and that the papers were charged and 
sent to him in Mr. Himes's absence by Mr. Bliss, his 
agent. That is all there is of that transaction. 
The next case of alleged dishonesty was at the 
great tent meeting in Newark, New Jersey, in 1842 
to which the depositions of Flavel and Hollister re-
fer. In 1842 the big tent was pitched in that place. 
Before the day had arrived and when, as Mr. Dick-
inson said, friends were thick and money plenty, 
Mr. Flavel, who was a firm believer at that time, 
who was a man of property, and a man of zeal, was 
very anxious to have the tent brought to Newark. 
He consulted some of his friends, and wrote to Mr. 
Himes to know upon what terms it could be brought 
there. 
Mr. Flavel agreed with his friends—(a committee 
that was formed) to be responsible for all the defi-
ciencies and to guarantee all the expenses. Contrary 
to their advice, he set up a victualling tent in the 
neighborhood. The meeting was held under a large 
tent ; and it so happened that there came up a tre-
mendous storm. The people who worshipped, got 
along very well by striking the tent and removing to 
a church which was provided for them ; but it had 
a serious effect on the victualling tent. The rain de-
stroyed much of the provisions, and scattered the cus-
tomers ; and Flavel lost a large sum of money by it. 
Mr. Himes collected as usual, from voluntary dona-
tions, certain sums which he disbursed for certain 
expenses, and was then some $150 out of pocket by 
the meeting ; so the matter ended for a time. Mr. 
Himes made a statement of the finances at the close, 
showing what the expenses had been, and it was pub-
lished immediately in the paper in New York, of 
which he was publisher and another man editor. 
Soon after this Mr. Flavel gives a lot of land, be-
ing much interested in this cause at that time, and 
a hundred dollars. The lot of land was to be sold, 
and the proceeds applied to the free circulation of the 
Midnight Cry, or some other Advent paper. He 
placed this property in the hands of Elder Nathaniel 
Southard, the editor of the Cry, who disposed of the 
land, and expended the proceeds, according to the di-
rections of Mr. Flavel ; and Mr. Southard's deposi-
tion, which we shall read to you, will show that El-
der Himes had nothing to do with that transaction in 
any way, and that he had no knowledge of it, till 
some years after, when this Flavel first complained 
respecting it. It was a transaction entirely between 
Mr. Flavel arid Elder Southard. 
This Mr. Flavel is a Dutchman, a very fine man, 
with a good deal of zeal ; and he is a man of property. 
He was a prosperous and thriving baker, unques-
tionably a firm believer at this time in the Advent doc-
trine. He lost this victualling tent without a murmur. 
All was right ! But he had fixed his mind upon the 
exact time for the Advent, and was as sure that it 
was coining on a certain day, as that it was to come 
at all. He did not hold the doctrine as many intelli-
gent people do, that it is a revealed doctrine and yet 
that there may be some doubt as to the exact time. 
He held that it was then or never; and as it did not 
come then, he surrendered his faith in this doctrine 
altogether. The lot which was sold was in Brook-
lyn, New York, which place since that time has 
been increasing very rapidly in population : and this 
lot which was then sold for $300, all it was then 
worth, has since greatly increased in value ; so that 
by this time, as I have been informed, it is worth thirty 
or forty thousand dollars. Mr. Flavel sees this, and 
having become more interested in worldly concerns 
than he was before, and regretting now his loss, he 
undertakes to say that the doings at the Newark tent 
meeting were the cause ; and lie gives his deposition 
(of which we had no previous notice) in which he 
undertakes to make it appear that Elder limes did 
not do exactly right about that meeting and those do-
nations. He thinks his private loss on the victual-
ling tent ought to be paid. He says that Elder 
Himes did not appropriate the proceeds of the land 
as he ought to, but used it to pay for the circulation 
of a subscription paper the Midnight Cry. Elder 
Himes had about half a dozen papers in different 
parts of the country, and this was one. 
We shall give you our version of the tent meeting, 
and also show respecting this land, by Mr. Southard 
the editor, and Mr. Tullock the financial clerk, that 
the money was given to Mr. Southard, who had the 
whole direction as to its use. Flavel did notiattend to 
the matter at all ; and Elder limes had no knowledge 
of it. Mr. Southard took Flavel's direction as to 
how the land should lie disposed of, and expended 
the proceeds accordingly ; and Flavel knew how it 
was expended—that with it, Mr. Southard caused to 
be published extra copies of the Midnight Cry, to the 
amount of this donation of land, and circulated them 
gratuitously. Elder H. had nothing to do with it, and 
it never went on the books of that paper in any way. 
The only connection that Elder Himes had with it 
was, that by the consent of Mr. Southard and Mr. 
Tullock the paper was printed at his own establish-
ment ; so that they got the papers for free distribu-
tion by paying only for the press-work and paper. 
So much for that. 
There is another case of alleged dishonesty—the 
case of Mr. Hollister ; the drift and purport of which 
is to make appear that Mr. limes agreed to let Hol-
lister have his papers for $2 per hundred, and then 
charged $2,50 ; and that when they came to settle, 
Mr. Hollister gave his note for the balance, and Mr. 
Himes agreed not to present it until he should again 
come to New York, and that he did not do as he 
agreed. The dishonesty lies in these two points : 
Agreeing to let him have the papers for $2, he after-
wards charged him $2,50 ; and agreeing to hold on 
to the due-bill, and not retaining it as he agreed. 
We shall show that Hollister was an agent for Mr. 
limes ; that is, he received a large number of pa-
pers weekly for the supply of subscribers in the city 
of New York, and was to account to Mr. limes for 
them. He became an agent about the close of 1845, 
when Elder Himes was supplying his agents with 
the paper for $2,00 per 100 copies ; and he supplied 
them to Hollister at that price to the 1st of Feb. 
1846, as lie did to the others. At that time he en-
larged his paper, and also raised the price at which 
he supplied agents,—putting it to them at $2,50 per 
100, instead of $2,00 as before. Now Hollister was 
one of Elder Himes's largest agents : i. e., he circu-
lated more papers than any other agent. In some 
respects he was a very good agent ; but he was also 
very slow pay. To remedy this, and spur him up to 
prompt payments, Elder limes, when he enlarged 
his paper, wrote to Hollister that he should still have 
them for $2,00 as before, according to his letter 
which Hollister has appended to his deposition. 
But in that same letter he writes to hint that he shall 
charge him $2,50, the same as the others ; but that 
if he pays promptly, and settles every one or two 
weeks, he will deduct the 50 cents, and make them 
come to him at $2,00. The account ran on, and 
Hollister did not settle promptly. At the end of 
three months, he was $75, behind-hand ; and at the 
end of six, he was $1,50 behind. Therefore he was 
not entitled to the deduction of 50 cents per 100, ac-
cording to the condition on which it was promised to 
be made. Accordingly his account was made out the 
same as others, at $2,50. On presenting it, he com-
plained that he understood that he was to have them at 
$2,00. Elder Himes, who had been absent six months 
in Europe, and had no charge of his hooks or accounts, 
had forgotten the circumstance ; but on Hollister's 
presenting the letter referred to, notwithstanding it 
was to be deducted only on the condition that he paid 
up every one or two weeks, Elder limes promptly 
deducted the 50 cents per 100, on all the papers on 
which it had been charged,—amounting to over $50, 
from his bill. This was in Dec. 1846. Hollister con-
tinued his agent till Feb. 1, 1847, when Mr. Tracy 
succeeded him as agent. Hollister did riot settle till 
May following, when not being in funds to pay in 
full, he gave a due bill for the balance. Mr. Hollister 
says that Mr. Himes agreed to keep the due-bill until 
he went again to New York ; but instead of so doing 
sent it to New York for somebody else to collect. 
Now gentlemen it is difficult to see where the fraud in 
that transaction lies ; he gave Hollister six months to 
pay it in, and after that sends it to a gentleman in 
New York. When a man gives another what we call 
a due-hill, and the man who receives it waits six 
months, corresponds respecting it, and when it is not 
paid, he sends it to a mutual friend in N. Y.—not to 
demand collection, but still to wait the other's pleas-
ure,—and we shall be able to show that Mr. Himes did 
so—we do not think it a serious fraud. I knew a man 
once when I was a small boy, an old gentleman who 
made ox yokes. I used to watch him while at work 
for hours together. He was in the habit of going to 
New York State to dispose of his yokes. He went 
to a neighbor one day, and told him he wanted some 
funds, that he was going to New York State, and he 
wished to borrow $5 : and he said when I come 
back from New York State I shall pay it. He put 
the statement in that shape. The man who let him 
have the money, waited a long time, several years, 
and heard nothing from the man about refunding the 
money. At last he said to him, Well, Mr. Cady 
about that $5 which you were to pay when you 
came back from New York 1 Oh ! said Mr. C., 
haven't been! This case of the note is similar. This 
Mr. Hollister agreed to settle with Elder limes, 
when he came to New York ; and when Elder limes, 
after so long a time, wrote for it, he ought to have 
been in funds to pay it, but did not ; it was then sent 
in a friendly mariner to a friend of both parties in 
New York, and was paid after running about a year. 
That is that breach of contract. 
The only matter that remains, gentlemen, is this 
case of the liquor dealer, about which I have some-
thing to say, in addition to what I said last night. It 
seems that that Mr. Nichols was a friend of Mr. 
Himes, and a fine man, engaged in the lumber busi-
ness, tobacco business, and general grocery business. 
At one time he was also secretly, (and without his 
name appearing in the firm), for five months only 
interested in the liquor business ; and they show 
that liquor was bought there. There is, however, 
no proof whatever that Mr. Himes knew that he sold 
liquor. On the contrary, all their own evidence goes 
to prove the opposite. 
The fact was that Mr. Himes needed accommoda-
tions (as every man in business needs and extends 
accommodations) ; and Nichols was one with whom 
he had been accustomed to exchange accommodations, 
not knowing that he was in the liquor business. Now 
we shall show you that (luring the period Nichols 
was thus connected, it so happens that no such ex-
change was needed, and no accommodation extended 
by either party to the other. But had there been, 
there is no evidence that the Defendant, at the time, 
knew of any such connection. Billman, the Plain-
tiff's own witness, swears that Nichols had distinctly 
requested him to keep the knowledge of the fact se-
cret from Elder Himes. Nichols never appeared to 
be in the business ; and after ransacking the whole 
city of Boston fir two years, with Weethee and Need-
ham to help them, they have not been able to find a 
single witness, who knows that N. was in the liquor 
business, who will undertake to charge Eider Himes 
with knowing it, or will testify that lie aided him in it. 
With regard to the opening of a letter from Wee-
thee to his wife, about which you have heard some-
thing, we shall show you that at the time, it gave no 
offence, and that the circumstances were these : 
Weethee was holding meetings in New York city, 
and they were expecting at the office a letter from 
him for the Herald of that week, giving an account 
of his success there. The paper goes to press on 
Wednesday, but no letter came till Wednesday morn-
ing, when one came into the box of the _Herald office, 
directed in Weethee's hand-writing to his wife. At 
the office they concluded that the same envelope might 
enclose a line for the paper. With this belief, Elder 
Himes hastened to Deacon Lang's, where Mrs. W. 
hoarded, where he learned that she was in a distant 
part of the city. In this dilemma, in the presence of 
Mrs. Lang, he opened the envelope, but finding no 
separate letter for the office, did riot read Mrs. W.'s 
letter. When Mrs. W. received her leiter, she found 
that it did contain matter for the Herald,written on the 
same sheet with her letter. She brought her let-
ter to the office, and left it there till they set up the 
portion designed fur the Herald, w hen she received 
it again. She made no complaint of its having 
been opened. Weethee made cone on his return from 
New York. He continued to receive his letters 
through Elder Hirnes's box till the June following 
(that occurred in January), when Elder Himes di-
rected the P. M. to place them in the general de-
livery, and infurmed Weethee where to find them. 
We are also prepared to show you by one witness 
[Elder D. I. Robinson,] that Weethee told him, that 
he should not have thought of bringing this up ; but 
as he was collecting charges, he thought he would 
include this. Thus you see that there was no fla-
grancy attached to it at the time ; and that the act 
was prompted by the desire to add to Weethee's 
fame, by reporting his success in New York. 
So much gentlemen for the truth of these charges 
which they have set up against Elder limes ! So 
much for these instances of liyng and dishonesty 
which they have attempted to prove:! And these 
are the points upon which Elder limes feels the 
most interest. He finds himself compelled to answer 
for his conduct, and he is anxious to set before the 
jury the right view of these points. 
Gentlemen of the jury, I wish to say here that for 
them to make out their case, it is necessary for them 
to prove these charges. Nevertheless, we shall show 
you, that these charges are false. I want you to re-
collect, Mr. Foreman, as a matter of law and common 
decency, that they are to be proved by the Plaintiff, 
may it please your Honors, with as much certainty 
as they would have to be, were Mr. Williams .here 
indicted for slander and the justification set up was 
the truth of these charges. If I bring an action of 
slander against Mr. Ashley for charging me with any 
offence, as stealing, and he sets up in defence that I 
did steal ; then he has to prove it, with the same cer-
tainty as if I were indicted by the government for 
stealing. That is the whole state of the case with 
us. We set up in answer to Williams, that this book 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
 
 
is a libel. He says they are true, and he is held what have they a right—what ought they to have a 
to the same proof as if he were indicted for scan- right to do? They can only dismiss me from their 
der. They say, that the Plaintiff shall only turn church. Suppose that after they have voted me out 
the scale of this proof against my client. I say it of the church, they publish a pamphlet, and say in it 
shall be with the same certainty as in an indictment that 1 am a thief, and I sue the man who published 
for libel,. How, I ask in the name of common sense, it for saying that 1 am a thief, can he come into 
are they to prove conversations which transpired fif- court and say I do not know that you are, but this 
teen years ago ? Then they have statements from the is a privileged publication which I have circulated, 
disaffected portion of this denomination from all the and I have a right to circulate it ? 
Statesof New England, Western New York, and New Again, we say, gentlemen of the jury, that no 
Jersey, which they are able to scrape together with church has tried Elder Himes. This body which 
the aid of three lawyers in this city, and three in pretended to try him, were not a church of which he 
Boston. And upon such frivolous matters as these, was a member. They say it is a case of division. 
they hope to be able to get a verdict. The only seri- We say it was a withdrawing of the minority of 
ous charges, as I said last night, are the case of members for the purpose of getting up this pam-
liquor dealing, the coal bid. and the case of Buffum. phlet. At the most, it was a division of a voluntary 
They disprove the liquor charge by their own testi- association, in which the party going off to Wash-
Inone ; and riot proving the coal bill, we shall dis- ington Hall knew perfectly well that the other party 
prove it. Now they take another issue, and say if claimed to be the church, and retained its ordinances 
these charges are false that they are privileged. If and its place of worship. What right had they to 
we disprove and show the falsity of every one of try those remaining, as we did, in the church? You 
them, nevertheless, they claim that they are fair re- will have to decide the question. You will have to 
ports of a privileged publication ; and hence that you judge whether,—being in a church of seventy mem-
cannot stop their circulation of them. We shall bers, and twenty-seven of the members go off into 
prove these charges to be wholly false ; and then the another street and to another place of worship,—
Plaintiff asks the jury to find that they are privileged : those who go off have a right to try or discipline the 
that some shield has been thrown over these false party who remain in the old place of. worship, and 
statements in some way or other by the law of Rhode claim to be the church. You will judge if the party 
Island, because they are the trial of some ecclesiasti- retiring have a right to try, and convict, and publish 
cal court. If Elder Himes proves that he is in- the conviction of a man who did not go off with them. 
nocent, and they were t.) get a verdict on the simple That is the first question. 
ground of privilege, it is of no great consequence to Next, if they were this church, after they had left 
him. It would not take him down from the eminence this place of worship and sought another, they would 
to which he has risen. But it is of some consequence, no longer be the Chardon street Church. But sup-
it seems to me, to this State and this country, as a pose you find that these parties who went off, were 
matter of law, whether or not an ecclesiastical tri- the Chardon street Church, and that they had a right 
bunal has the right to do this thing, and then to throw to try Elder Himes according to their usages and ac-
the shield of its protection over such proceedings. cording to the laws of that Church : Did they do so? 
Why it is the most monstrous pretence of which I What was the organization of the Church as proved 
ever beard ! Think of a Church in this country, having by Weethee, and what were its laws ? He says 
the power to try a man, to find him guilty, to record plainly that their form of organization, in substance, 
their judgment against him as guilty, and then to cir- was, that they agreed to bind themselves together as 
culate it broad-cast over the world, and to publish a a Christian church, to be governed according to the 
book setting forth their doings ; and then, when called Bible. That was their organization, and they went 
upon to answer in the recognized tribunal, in the off under that organization and no other. What 
courts, to answer without contradiction that, true or then were they bound to do, in the course of a regu-
false, malicious or not, it is privileged, and you have lar trial? Weethee and Needham and every minis-
no redress. That is why the gentlemen on the other ter knows that the mode of church discipline, under 
side are so anxious about their case ; they have hunted such an organization, is perfectly well settled by the 
the books,without finding authority for such a course : Master himself :—an authority which seems to have 
It is, as they say, a " new case." When the question about as good an idea of impartiality, about as clear 
was put to the counsel, on introducing a certain au- a notion of justice, and about as correct a view of the 
dimity, they said that the Court did riot sit to decide fair way in which one Christian brother should try 
cases as they have been decided ; but to apply princi- another for a fault, as had this self-styled Chardon-
pies to new cases. Well, we understand the princi- street Church with Weethee to preside. 
pie to be, and to extend no farther than this : that a This is the law : " If thy brother shall trespass 
Church, or any ecclesiastical body, is a voluntary as- against thee, go and tell him, his fault between thee 
sociation, and has the right to discipline a member ac- arid him alone." They never took that step with 
cording to its usages ; that a man is not responsible Elder Himes. Neither Weethee, or Needham, ever 
for what he does in the discharge of such duty , in good went to Elder Himes upon this matter at all. They 
faith in the course of such a trial ; and that they of do not, and cannot, offer proof that they did that. 
course have a right to enter their proceedings upon Neither did any member go to Mr. Himes and say, 
their records. But there the right ends, neither they such and such reports are made against you : what 
nor anybody else has a right to publish what is elicited. explanation can you make? On the contrary they 
A fair report of a trial in a court may be published, know that they were corresponding with people in 
but one intermingled with comments and insinuations different parts of the country, for the purpose of 
may not be published. We hope that the doctrine hunting up these charges, and imposing secrecy 
fur which they contend will not be established as law upon them : such seems to have been their policy. 
in Rhode Island, or anywhere else ; and we have no This is the way with people in the world; they 
fear that it will be." 
much more apt to listen to accusations and believe 
What is a church, according to the law of this them, than they are to go and speak kindly and 
State, and in the eye of the law of this country I—A inquire if what they have heard is true. Then, 
voluntary association of men agreeing to certain " If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy bro- 
usages. The law knows no more about churches than ther." If he does not satisfy you, and makes no 
it knows about Temperance Societies. If a man be- proper reparation ; " If he will not hear thee, then 
comes a voluntary member of one of these societies, take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth 
he agrees to abide by its usages so long as he re- of two or three witnesses every word may be estab-
mains a member and subject to its discipline ; and lished." Then, he is to call together some of his 
they have power to try him, so long as they proceed friends with him, and have a hearing before them. 
according to their usages ; but after they have done They did not do that ; they do not and cannot offer 
 
all that they have power to do, if they spread abroad any evidence that they took such a step. 
 
over the world their report, and then come before a I remember in the trial of Bishop Onderdonk some 
court and the proceedings are proved to be false and remarks by Bishop Hopkins. His opinion was that 
 
malicious, are they to set up the shield of ecclesiasti- this was a point of canon law, and he decided certain 
points of that case by these rules, which he considered 
cal privilege ?—a shield never heard of before, and 
which probably never will be again in this State ! to have been laid down as inspired ; and which apply 
They contend that this is a rule of law. Suppose here : " That nothing shall be construed as testimony 
 
against a man, unless it is found that at least two 
that theirs was a church, and suppose that a church 
witnesses are produced to prove the charge." Upon 
has the right, I being a member of it, to call me 
t 
before it to answer to a charge of dishonesty, and 1
hose points which rested only upon the testimony of 
 
am tried for this charge before a committee of dea- one witness, he refused to find • anything against 
cons, brothers, and sisters. All sorts of testimony, I3ishop Onderdonk. This is good sense, especially 
 „ they 
 
have not the powers and 
all sorts of hearsay may be brought forward, without in tribunals where 
 forms of law. " But if he shall neglect to hear them, 
giving me the benefit of commencing a proceeding 
then tell it unto the church." That they would not 
according to the recognized forms of legal investi- 
gation. There is no power to administer an oath. do. They would not let him be heard before the 
 
There can he no aid rendered by counsel. I have church ;— they would not put the motion, when 
 m 
appeared before such a tribunal once or twice as made, that he should be heard ;—they would allow 
 
counsel. I know something about the manner in him no chance at all. 
 
which ignorant and zealous " brethren and sisters " 
 
 And what if he will not hear the Church—if he 
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administer justice. The witnesses cannot be held remain contumacious ? Their power under this or-
responsible to the civil tribunals for lying. Under ganization is simply to " Let him be unto them as a 
heathen man and a publican ;" and leave him to go 
these circumstances, if they convict me of dishonesty, 
about his business. There is much common sense in 
the good, fair, and plain dealing between man and suppose he was judged guilty by this Church, that 
man which results from that rule ; but they went di- they had a right to publish their judgment, that they 
reedy contrary to these injunctions. 
did and that this is a fair publication of it, all of 
Now look at it for a moment, gentlemen. See this which matters we of course deny and expect to dis-
sober staid and shrewd man—Mr. Needham—having prove; but supposing those things so, and supposing 
been a minister ten years, quiet as a lamb,—writing that Elder Himes nevertheless was in the pursuit of 
articles about the hypocrisy and jesuitism of Marsh, his ordinary occupation—of his ordinary and lawful 
talking about the scampism of Turner, and the snake- calling,—that he is holding a meeting of people who 
istn of others ; he gets up these charges against El- wish to hear him speak, in a place which he and his 
der Himes ; he gets a committee of known avowed friends have procured for that purpose, and for which 
and proclaimed enemies of Elder Himes, gets himself they, and those who come to the meeting for the pur-
appointed " Advocate," arid goes about from house pose for which it is called, alone have a right to be 
to house, to all the old women and old men and present—no other person has a right to be there 
young men and young women that he can get any- for other purposes than those for which the meeting 
thing from, writes down what they say, and they is held—and suppose a man goes there and holds 
sign what he says they say, and reads a part of it, up this book, proclaims that is his trial, that he is 
for he does not pretend to have read the whole of it, a corrupt man and that that book shows up his char-
at Cochituate Hall, at a second gathering of persons, ter ; and Elder Himes says no more than this—does 
who are as mad with Elder Himes as he is, makes not seek au occasion of quarrel—(so the people who 
a plea at the close of the reading, in which he does were present testify) but, in the discharge of his or-
what every person making such a plea always does, dinary avocations, when this book is held up, he 
says : " The duty assigned me by the Church is one simply says, " That book is a libel upon my charac-
of the most painful of my life : it is no less than that ter." Now, may it please your Honors, has not a man 
of prosecutor before this Church of a man whom 1 had a right, under such circumstances, to say that he is not 
ever regarded since personal acquaintance commenced guilty of such things? Can malice, which is an es-
as a friend "—and so on, with a long string of this sential ingredient in the action, be found in the ut-
kind of godly pretence, which men who engage in tering of these words under circumstances like these? 
that kind of business always have in their mouths. That is our point. As to the matter of contradiction 
And that is called a trial ! 
between the pleas, that I will explain when I come 
I should like to have a verdict of twelve men, who to read the authorities. The point here is, that 
would find that that hind of proceeding was a fair a man has a right, in his own defence, in the prose-
trial of a man, and give judgment against him upon cution of his own interests, to pronounce such words 
any law they can lay hold of, or in any Court in under such circumstances ; and the essential ingredi-
Christendom. These people themselves would call ent of malice cannot be found in such a case. 
it unfair. There is nothing under heaven to conceal As to this part of their declaration which charges 
the meanness of such proceedings, except this idea the party with having disturbed a religious meeting 
which they have got, that they are in the service of in the sense of the law,—to that we simply say, not 
Goo ; and when this notion is in a man's head, he guilty ! We simply said, " having broken up the 
will do a great many mean things, and still think interest in our meetings." That we say cannot be 
that he is doing GOD service, which no man from a charge technically of disturbing a religious meeting. 
other motives and under other circumstances could It is what the man means ; and there was no inten-
eyes think of doing. I have no doubt that Weethee thin of charging the offence of breaking up a religious 
believes himself to be serving Gnu in this matter ; or meeting for public worship,—only of breaking up its 
else 1 should not think he could live through it—it interest. 
would kill a decent man who had not some such no- 
As to the necessity of our justifying everything in 
tion. 
this book that is false ; I do not think it is- necessary 
Williams says that he is in the service of GOD in to say much upon that matter. We say in the dec--
circulating these pamphlets, attending the meetings laration that they were circulating a libel against 
setting on the benches in front, holding up the books, Elder Mmes. We say, " That book which you are 
and grinning at Elder Hums. This would not do circulating is a libel, it is a gross, scandalous, untrue, 
in any political meeting : if a man should get himself and abusive libel." 
in such a state, and act in this way, and should We have not put in the word malicious, and the 
say that he was in the service of GOD he would not be declaration does not in express terms, charge malice. 
allowed to remain. This is so, according to Mr. They say in their declaration that they were eircu-
Ashley's own account ; and is so according to Wil- lating this book, describing it by its'tille, and that we 
liams's. 
pronounce it a gross, scandalous, untrue and abusive 
Then, may it please your Honors, we expect to libel upon Elder IIirnes,—we do not say in our plea 
show, even if all these things are found against us, that he had any malice in circulating it. We reply 
that he circulated this pamphlet maliciously. We in our plea, it is a gross, scandalous, untrue and abu-
do not set up in our defence that he did anything sive libel. 
more than to circulate them. That is all we say in Now if 1 understand the position which is taken 
on the other side, they claim that we are bound to 
our plea. We do not in our declaration charge any 
malicious design. They say the charges are true ; show the falsity of every part of this hook, which we 
and if not true that they are privileged, and that they say is a libel, as if Williams were the defendant 
are circulated with good motives. They admit that against an indictment for libel, and it devolved on us 
if he had malice and they are not privileged, that he to furnish the proof and justification in an action for 
is liable for circulating them. We expect to show, libel, when the justification must be as broad as the 
and to satisfy the jury on this point, that this kind of charge. We say, in the law, that we have a right 
business implies malice. Legally, we mean in the to say that the book is a libel when we pick out some 
courts of law, where the matter of a man's charac- twenty or twenty-five libelous statements, and that 
ter is subject to be judged according to some rules, it that constitutes the book a libel. That seems to be 
will not do for a man to act in this manner, and then to a sufficient answer to that argument. 
claim as a defence that he was in the service of GOD, These are matters upon which we are now to be 
In law, expressions and acts may be malicious, when heard. First, we are to show that these charges are 
not uttered or performed with that express purpose. false ; and, we expect under the direction of the 
We shall show that this man went from one place Court to show that there was no trial, that if there 
to another, using opprobrious language, holding up was a trial they had no right to publish it, and if all 
these books and representing that they showed up these things are found against us, that they ought to 
the character of Elder Himes. And we expect the find that, whether guilty of these charges or not—no 
Court will put it to the jury to find malice in this matter what the offences were, if a man is employed 
course—whether or not it is malice in the sense of an in any occupation, that to anybody who comes to in-
evil motive in the heart. They will find that the terrupt this occupation and charge him with old of-
Court will tell the jury what malice is, according to fences, he has a right to say that they are libelous. 
law, and the jury will judge. 
And all we ask of you is, simply to say about how 
If I am a temperance man in favor of the Maine much a man is entitled to in damages—how much you 
Law ; and if I go from place to place delivering tem- think Mr. Williams,—who it appears is a member 
perance lectures, and somebody happens to think me of Mr. Needham's Church, boards in Needham's 
very dishonest and has written a hook against me, or family, and has it appears been aided in this case by 
has a book which somebody else has written, and his friends Needham and Weethee, and by all these 
wherever I hold a meeting, sets in front, makes faces, people—how much Mr. Williams: who has taken this 
proclaims me a corrupt man and charges me with book, prepared, as it is admitted on the other side it 
having a bad character, the jury will judge whether was, followed Elder Himes about to the meetings he 
was holding, and held it up in his face, circulated 
that is really the way in which a man may serve the 
Lome and whether after all it is not malice against it among his audience, and proclaimed to some that 
 
his neighbor. 
it was true, and that Elder limes was a corrupt man 
Then there is one thing more may it please your —Elder Himes being almost driven, one would think, 
to say hard things yet saying nothing against Mr. 
Honors, that seems to me equally important with the 
question of malice : and which demands a distinct Williams,. but simply saying, " That book is a li-
ruling of the Court upon it, although it is not at bel "—how much damages ought Mr. Williams to 
all necessary in the present case. Supposing these have for that, is the question that you will have to 
charges to have been true, supposing that Elder decide : if you find that there is any law which ena-
Himes was guilty of the things charged against him hies you to give him any damages. All the damages 
in this book ; suppose that he was a member of this they have proved is what Elder J. S. White, who is 
Church, that he had a trial before this Church, and not the most friendly to Elder Ilimes, heard about 
ss, 
and the Christian's Hope. 2. The Sufferings of 
Christ and the Glory to follow. 3. The Conflagra-
tion of the Earth and Restitution. 4. The Resem-
blance between die Antediluvians end the Genera-
tion destined to behold the Coming of the Son of 
Man. 5. The Contrast between the Righteous and 
the Wicked in their Death, and at the day of Judgs 
ment. 
The meeting-house is the most commodious in 
New Bedford. It was not filled, but the audiences 
were large, and the subjects presented were listened 
to with great attention. At the lecture on the Con-
flagration and Restitution, delivered on Thursday 
evening, I was informed that four ministers were 
among the audience. The subject of the Saviour's 
return was introduced in each discourse, arid some 
could rejoice in view of his near approach. Elder 
Smith who was present expressed his interest in the 
subject of the Saviour's return in glory, and the new 
heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteous-
ness ; and was delighted that others had the oppor-
tunity of hearing 011 a theme to him so precious ! 
I have adverted to the above in order to show that 
some in the Churches are willing to hear on the sub-
ject, and to hear with candor. The assertion that 
the Churches have wholly rejected the Advent doc-
trine is not true. There are some in nearly every 
evangelical denomination who are willing to hear and 
rejoice in the hope of the Saviour's return. Hun-
dreds in the churches in England are believers in 
the truth that Christ's corning will be pre-millen- 
nial, and that it is near, even at the door." Drs. 
Cumming, McNeile, Bonar, Ryle, and many others, 
preach the truth to crowded audiences. And my 
prayer is that God may add to their number, and 
bless their labors even more than heretofore. 
As 1 have preached in different churches in this 
country and in England, I am prepared to state that 
I have had as candid a hearing, as when preaching 
to some professed Adventists, and in some instances 
more so. The churches, it is true, have rejected the 
" pot of messages," " isms," and conflicting " great 
truths," that certain theological geniuses have mis-
called Advent doctrine, and marred the glory of 
" that blessed hope,"—and who will blame them ? 
If the churches are all dead, it is our duty to preach 
unto them the " gospel of the kingdom," and arouse 
them. If they are fast asleep, it is our duty to cry, 
Arise and trim your lamps." If they are " dead 
in trespasses and in sins," it is our duty to point 
them to the Lamb of God who bore away the sins of 
the world ! Those who are awake need not be 
aroused. They that are whole need not a physician, 
but they that are sick. 
CHRIST came not to call the 
righteous but sinners to repentance. 
Next Sabbath I expect to preach at Newport, after 
which, in consequence of the inflamed state of my 
chest, I must cease preaching for a time. 
Yours, " looking for that blessed hope." 
New Bedford Aug. 10th 1852. 
The following, is•an original letter never before published 
from Mr. Whitefield, written the year of his death, to the 
Rev. Daniel Rogers, of Ipswich, Mass., who was at the 
time a tutor in Harvard College. The poetry, both of Mr. 
Whitefield and Charles Wesley, now appears for the first time 
in print. 
On board the Minerva, Feb. 26th, 1740. 
MY DR. BROTHER ROG E RS :-1 long to hear what the 
Lord hash enabled you to do and suffer for His own name's 
sake. Receive this as a proof that I do not forget you. No, 
you are dear to nty soul and dearer still will you yet be, if I 
hear that you have been fighting the good fight of faith. Pray 
he as particular as may he concerning the state of the Church. 
I suppose you have heard how the Lord has dealt with me. 
Christ is kinder and kinder to me every day. 
How cold this clime ! And yet my sense 
Perceives e'en here his influence. 
The fairest of ten thousand He, 
Proportion all and Harmony. 
How do His glorious streams of light 
E'en through this veil, refresh my sight ! 
I long to see His excellence 
Which at such distance strikes my sense. 
Wouldst thou dear Lord once set me free, 
How would I haste t' unite with Thee ! 
I'd for no angel's conduct stay, 
But fly, and love on all the way. 
But hold my soul ! You and I my dear brother must first 
suffer great things, before we enter into glory. I cannot 
therefore address you better than in the words of Dr. Charles 
Wesley to me : 
Fully thy heavenly mission prove 
And make thy own election sure ; 
Rooted in faith, and hope and love, 
Active to work and firm t' endure. 
Champion of God, thy Lord proclaim, 
Jesus alone resolv'd to know ; 
Tread down thy foes in Jesu's name : 
Go—conquering and to conquer go. 
Thro' racks and fires pursue thy way, 
Be mindful of a dying God ; 
Finish thy course, and win the day : 
If need be—seal the truth with blood. 
With great affection I subscribe myself your 
WHITEFIELD. 
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at the ticket office, at half price. Ask for camp-meeting 
tickets. 
Elder 0. R. Fassett will preach in Boston Sabbaths, Aug. 
29th and Sept. 5th, and in Providence, Sabbath, Sept. 12th. 
Elder Edwin Burnham will preach in Hartford Sabbath, 
Aug. 29th. 
"THE RAPPING SPIRITS."—The first edition of this 
pamphlet has been exhausted—the second will be out in a 
few days. 
THE AD-YEN T HERALD. 
271 
this transaction ; and he says that they thought that 
Mr. Williams must he a sort of a persecuting mali-
cious man, when they heard what he had been doing. 
They formed that opinion, which we ought not to be 
responsible for. 
[NOTE.—Mr. Payne, here closed his opening ar-
gument, and proceeded to put in the testimony to 
substantiate his position, and to disprove every point 
raised, and every issue on the other side. Every 
charge, and every point mooted by them was met and 
triumphantly refuted. Some forty witnesses testified 
on the defence, and sonic thirty witnesses were pres-
ent, whose testimony was not needed, and who were 
therefore not called upon. When the testimony was 
closed, and before the closing arguments were made, 
preparatory to its submission to the jury, the senior 
council for the Plaintiff arose and discontinued the 
case. The discontinuance at that time, was regarded 
by the court, jury, and spectators, as an admission 
that they had got no case—that they had been de-
feated, and had nothing to hope for by continuing it 
further.] 
Note from Mr. Hitnes's Counsel. 
Mr. Payne's argument was reported by Mr. Thompson,—
Phonographic reporter—ot Providence. We have sent the 
proof-sheets, day by day as they were in type, to Mr. Payne, 
for his examination and correction, who has returned the fol-
lowing note : 
Providence, Aug. 17, 1852. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, ESQ.—DEAR SIR :—I have looked 
over, at your request, the proof-sheets of a report of my open-
ing statement for the defence, in the case WILLIAM M. 
WILLIAMS vs. JOSHUA V. HIMES, recently tried in the 
Supreme Court of this State. I have not undertaken to cor-
rect the report, and I have observed some instances in which 
the language used by me is not accurately reported—such er-
rors, as in a report of a rapid extemporaneous speech, em-
bracing such a variety of details, it would be next to impossi-
ble to avoid. But I have examined the proof-sheets with 
sufficient care to be able to state, that as to all matters of 
fact the report is substantially correct ; and I will add, that 
I know of no material circumstance in which the testimony pro-
duced by the defendant failed to sustain the statements made by 
me in the opening. Yours truly, A. PAYNE. 
PENCILINGS OF A JOURNEY. 
(Concluded f rom our last.) 
Leaving Rochester on the 29th, I went to Lewis-
ton, N. Y. This is a beautiful village, of about 1000 
inhabitants, opposite Queenston, on the Niagara 
River. There are a few faithful Advent believers 
in this vicinity. A magnificent Suspension Bridge 
has been constructed across the river at this place, 
seventy feet above the water. It is so wide and strong 
that teams of any size may pass over it abreast, in 
perfect safety. On Queenston heights, above this 
bridge, at a distance of three hntidred and seventy 
feet above the water, stands Brock's Monument.—
This shaft was erected by Upper Canada, in memory 
of Major General Isaac Brock, who fell at the battle 
of Queenston, October 13, 1812, while attempting to 
dislodge the Americans from their position on the 
heights. His remains repose beneath it. A misera-
ble miscreant, named Benjamin Lett, in the time of 
the " patriot war," in outer to gratify his unspeaka-
ble meanness, and to provoke, if possible, hostilities 
between the English and the Americans (he liv-
ing in the United States), had the audacity to mu-
tilate and nearly destroy this monument, by means 
of powder, which he put within it during the night, 
so that it now serves the double purpose of a memorial 
of his rascality, as well as of the bravery of the Brit-
ish officer. It is, however, not long to remain in this 
Condition, as it is in contemplation to rebuild it soon. 
One of those occurrences, the recital of which makes 
the blood congeal in one's veins, took place on these 
heights, after the battle of Queenston. The Ameri-
cans, having wasted all their ammunition, and being 
overcome by superior force, surrendered to the Brit-
ish, who as soon as they had possession of all their 
arms, left them defenceless, to the mercy of a com-
pany of Indians, who fell upon and scalped numbers 
of them, and drove some three hundred over the pre-
cipice, very few escaping immediate destruction. 
Queenston derives its importance from being on 
the Niagara River, and the reminiscences of its his-
tory. 
On Saturday, July 31st, I visited the Falls of Niag-
ara. My expectations were fully met, except in res-
pect to the roar of its waters, which was not so loud 
as I had supposed. All the imaginings which I ever 
entertained otherwise, never exceeded the reality. 
He must be a very practical person, who can view 
this stupendous cataract, and feel disappointed, un-
less, indeed, he expects to see, that which was never 
warranted by pen or pencil. Well may it be said of 
such : 
" Why, nature, waste your wonders on such men ?" 
The rapids are seen sweeping down a declivity, 
whose summit appears to lean against the blue vault 
of heaven. 
" In awful whiteness o'er the shore, 
Which shines and shakes beneath their roar," 
"they madly course along towards the precipice, where 
they plunge into•the abyss. An awful light obscure 
reveals, through the clouds of mist, the prodigious 
agitation of the waters, at the foot of the precipice, 
whence proceeds a low, muttering sound, like thun- 
der, which increases into a terrific roar when ap- 
proached. The water, just emerging from this 
dire commotion, wears a very creamy whiteness, but 
soon loses this appearance, and passes down the 
stream, whirling in all directions with amazing ve-
locity. Goat Island, situated between the Canada 
and American falls, with its " warbling woodland, 
resounding shore," and jutting precipice, with the 
frowning bluffs, rising on each side of the river, 
crowned with trees or shrubbery, adds to the gran-
deur of the scene. 
A contemplative spirit may find here large means 
of entertainment. The mind is impressed with awe 
and wonder, and crowded with inexpressible, overpow-
ering thoughts. It impresses the proud worldling, 
who struts abroad as if he were lord of creation, with 
a sense of his insignificancy. It constrains the giddy 
to seriousness. The devotional eye recognizes 
" The present God 
In Nature's wild and savage features." 
After visiting the Falls of Niagara, I returned to 
Lewiston. On the next day I attended the meeting 
of the Presbyterians in that place, and received a 
good impression from the services of the day. 
On Tuesday, August 3d, I took my departure from 
Lewiston for Montreal, on board the new and splen-
did steamer New York, which, however, goes only 
as far as Ogdensburg, passengers there leaving it, 
and taking the Jenny Lind steamboat, which plies be-
tween Ogdensburg and Montreal. 
The scenes of this passage were among the most 
interesting of my journey, extending as it did through 
a portion of the beautiful and peculiar Niagara river, 
whose deep green, fall and clear waters flow on per-
petually the same, affected neither by the drought of 
summer nor the snows of winter ; over the broad 
and placid Lake Ontario, upon whose bosom may be 
realized many of the scenes and sensations of a sea 
voyage ; and down the river St. Lawrence, with its 
fertile banks, studded with cities, towns, villages, 
farms, or forests; and its broad landscape, sometimes 
a level, extending as far as the eye can reach, and 
sometimes terminating in a range of mountains, in 
the hazy distance, whose appearance illustrates and 
proves the truth of the couplet : 
" 'Tis distance gives enchantment to the view, 
And clothes the mountain in its azure hue ;" 
with its " Thousand Islands," and its fearful " rap-
ids.'' Perhaps it is not known to all that the de-
scent of this river is now made in perfect safety by 
steamboats, though the ascent of the rapids is not 
considered possible, and boats return up the river by 
means of canals. To one unacquainted, it now ap-
pears hazardous to attempt the navigation of these 
foaming, roaring torrents; but under the pilotship 
of men who have spent their lives in traversing these 
waters, it is done with entire safety. 
On Wednesday evening, I arrived at Montreal. 
This large and growing city (the largest in British 
America, having over 50,000 inhabitants) is situated 
on the island of Montreal, which is some twenty-
five miles in circumference. The Roman Catho-
lics have here a strong-hold, and their Cathe-
dral is a building of immense size. One of their 
churches was burned in the late fire, as also the Bish-
op's Palace, a splendid edifice. It is said that neither 
of these buildings would have been destroyed but for 
the foolery of a priest, who attempted to stay the 
flames, as they were approaching them by holding 
before them a crucifix and preventing the action of 
the firemen, in the absence of whose labors the de-
stroying element soon did its ruinous work. The 
devastation caused by this fire is immense. I wea- 
ried myself in traversing the ruins. One sight, 
which is very unfamiliar, and quite uncongenial to 
the American eye, is much seen here—that of " red 
coats," perambulating the streets, there being a regi- 
ment of a thousand men stationed here by Her Maj-
esty's government. 
On Thursday I took an early start for Waterbury, 
Vt. Crossing the St. Lawrence to La Prarie, I took 
the cars first to Rouse's Point, and afterwards to the 
place of my destination, crossing the bridge which 
spans Lake Champlain at Rouse's Point. 
Waterbury is a pleasant, thriving, country village, 
situated on the Onion river, about twelve miles from 
Montpelier, and surrounded by an amphitheatre of 
hills—some of the Green Mountains of Vermont. 
The Advent cause is well sustained in this place. 
Tuesday, Aug. 11th, I left Waterbury for home, 
where I arrived at night, thus concluding a most 
pleasant and prosperous journey. Your affectionate 
S011, 
JOHN G. L. HUMES. 
Boston, (Mass.), Aug. 11th, 1852. 
LETTERFROM J. W. BONHAM. 
BRO. Hisses :—The past two weeks I have spent 
at New Bedford, and although my health is feeble, 
as Providence opened the way, I supplied the pulpit 
of the first Christian Church, corner Middle and Pur-
chase-streets, two Sabbaths, and one evening during 
the week. I delivered a series of discourses on the 
following subjects : 1. The Christian's Tribulation 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, t840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its filmic 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, amid an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Filth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, Mr MI 'everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and aflectionate warning to 
tlee from the wrath to come. 
Tice course we have marked out for the future, into give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and pratticai nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will he those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencermt of the 
Millennium. 
His J udgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
Ins Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living, Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" " The sec-
tal woe is past ; and behold the third woe corneal quickly"—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumnia-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o. 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
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every man's conscience in the sight of Con. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
GOD is at hand, it beconieth all Christians to make efforts fbr re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted [bent for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures 
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hoped, for the honor of GOD and his cause, that Adventist. 
everywhere will dissociate themselves from all sympathy 
and connexion with such proceedings. The argument of 
Mr. Payne sets forth matters in a clear light, so that all who 
wish can see, not only what we proposed to prove, but did 
triumphantly sustain. Our only regret is, that the prosecutor 
saw fit to withhold the case from the jury. 
Letter from P. B. Morgan. 
DEAR BRO. :--1 regret to say that duty seems to de-
mand that I should for the present leave the dear flock of 
this place. There are about sixty brethren and friends here, 
who I believe are firm in the faith of the gospel, bound to-
gether in unity and love, awaiting the coming of our Lord. 
Our congregations have been good, and the interest in the 
community I cannot think is in any measure decreasing. 
For the present this church is without a pastor ; but I trust 
they will be remembered in the prayers of brethren. " Now 
ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular."-
" And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer 
with it." 
I shall again locate with the church in Addison, Vt., and 
shall be happy to labor and attend protracted meetings with 
any churches who may desire. I purpose spending some 
three weeks in Connecticut, after which I shall go to Ver-
mont. My Post-office address accordingly. Your brother 
in the blessed hope. 
Portland, Aug. 3d, 1852. 
A Popish Sermon.-A Canadian priest, in a State border-
ing or, Canada, is reported to have used the following lan-
guage, in a town hall, which was courteously granted hint for 
holding public worship. After he had implored the assist-
ance of the saints, he said : 
" Hearken, dear Catholic brothers, what has grieved me 
since the last time I visited you is the tact, that several of 
those that had taken the body and blood of Jesus Christ at 
the foot of this altar, are now in the assembly of the demons, 
the heretics. Brothers, do you wish me to tell you what the 
Protestant religion is 2 It is the invention of the devil. 
Now, my brothers, if you have any of those books that are 
corrupted, such as tracts, Protestant Bibles, it you are afraid 
to burn them, bring them unto me, and I will reduce them to 
ashes before you."-N. Y. Observer. 
CANADA EAST.-By the kind invitation of Dr. Hutch-
inson, we have arranged to visit Canada some time in Sep-
tember. Special duties will perhaps defer it till about the 
middle of the month. Due notice will be given. J. V. H. 
Something, of a Difference. 
" We are happy to believe that the finally lost will bear 
to the saved, somewhat the proportion that the inmates of 
our state prisons do to the whole community."-New Eng. 
Rel. Her. 
"Enter ye in at the strait gate ; for wide is the gate, and 
broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there 
be which go in thereat : because, strait is the gate, and nar-
row is the way, which leaded' unto life, and few there be 
that find it."-Matt. 7:13, 14. 
Religious Toleration in the Turkish Empire. 
In August 1843 an Armenian, who had become a Mussul-
man and subsequently returned to the religion of his fathers, 
was beheaded at Constantinople. The Christian powers of 
Europe immediately remonstrated, and it was hoped that the 
law against apostates from Mohammedanism would be per-
mitted to become a dead letter. In a few months however, 
a firman issued from the government ordering the decapita-
tion of is young man near Brooza, who was put to death for 
having promised in a passion, but had afterwards refused to 
become a Mohammedan. Lord Aberdeen, the British Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs, demanded of the Turkish Sultan 
that the Porte should not insult and trample on Christianity 
"by treating as a criminal any person who embraces it ;" 
but should " renounce absolutely and without equivocation, 
the barbarous practice which has called forth the remon-
strance now addressed to it." To• this communication the 
following answer was made early in 1844 : "The Sublime 
Porte engages to take effectual measures to prevent, hence-
forward, the execution and putting to death of the Christian 
who is an apostate." On the 15th of Nov. 1847, fur the 
first time, a firman was issued recognizing Protestant Chris-
tians as a distinct community, and forbidding any molesta-
tion or interference " in their temporal or spiritual concerns," 
and permitting them " to exercise the profession of their 
creed in security." This corning from the Vizier, did not 
necessarily survive a change of ministry ; but in Nov. 1850 
a firman was issued from the Sultan himself establishing the 
policy of the empire in respect to Protestants, and confirm-
ing them in all needed civil and religious privileges. Thus 
has the Mohammedan government formally and forever re-
nounced the power it had so long wielded, of compelling men 
to apostatize from Christianity. 
BRO. HIM LS :-Permit me to say, that I have been una-
ble to meet several of my appointments within a few week. 
past, on account of sickness in my family ; and this is to 
give information to my friends who have been disappointed. 
N. BILLINGS. 
CORRECTION.-BRO. MIRES :-There was a mistake 
in the notice of the death of my daughter, published last 
week. She was the daughter of WM. C. and APHIA HALE. 
Yours truly, \V. C. HALE. 
Rufus Choate on Kossuth. 
" On the fifth day of the last December, there came to 
this land a man of alien blood ; of foreign and unfamiliar 
habit, costume and accent ; yet the most eloquent of speech, 
according to his mode ; the most eloquent of history and 
circumstance ; the most eloquent of his mission and topics 
whom the world has, for many ages, seen ; and began among 
us a brief sojourn ; began, say, rather, a brief and strange, 
eventful pilgrimage, which is just now concluded. Imperfect 
in his mastery of our tongue, he took his first lessons in it 
in the little room over the barrack-gate of Buda, a few 
months before, his only practice in it had been a few speech-
es to quite uncritical audiences in Southampton, in Birming- 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, AUG. 21, I 8 5 2. 
NEW WORK. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c.: A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
ceed from the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al-
mighty.' "-Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single- 
$8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single 
copy 2 cts. for each 500, or any part of 500 miles. 
This is the title of a pamphlet published at this office. It 
begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
and the three chapters next following-ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.-Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
7. The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth Vial.-16:12. 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Vial.-16:17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17;1, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of Babylon.-18:9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial-
that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits-that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief common to Pa-
ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decem-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,-that demon-
worship is connnon to those three religions-that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship-that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Dent. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon-that this battle will commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God-that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible-and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
The Great Camp Meeting. 
A Camp-meeting will be held in the town of WESTFO RD, 
Mass., commencing on Monday, August 23d, and continuing 
through the week. The churches in Worcester, Lynn, Low-
ell, Salem, Westford, Westboro', Fitchburg, Newburyport, 
Haverhill, Lawrence, Nashua, Providence, R.I., Hope, and 
other places, are expected to participate in the meeting. 
We hope a committee from each church will unite with us 
in arranging the details of the meeting, so that all things 
shall be conducted in " decency and order." 
The prime object of this meeting will be to arouse the 
churches and ministry to the great work of bringing sinners 
to Christ. We need a revival among ourselves in this great 
work. 
Directions to the. Ground.-The ground is located on the 
line of the Stony Brook Railroad, a short distance from the 
Westford depot, on the land of Abijah Fletcher, eight miles 
from Groton Junction, and the same distance from Lowell. 
Fare from the junction and from Lowell, 25 cts. Those corn-
ing from Providence, Worcester, Northboro', and vicinity, 
will pass over the Worcester and Nashua Railroad to Groton 
Junction, and take the Stony Brook cars to the ground. 
Those coming from Lawrence, Haverhill, Newburyport, 
Salem, Lynn, and Boston, will go to Lowell, and take the 
Stony Brook train. 
It is designed that each church shall bring a tent, or pro-
vide for themselves in any other where room may be had. 
When not impracticable, it would be better for each church 
to provide a tent for themselves. There will be a boarding 
tent on time ground, where those who wish can provide for 
themselves. Horse-keeping near the ground. 
The brethren at Worcester have made arrannements with 
the Nashua and Worcester Railroad to carry passengers 
thence to the Groton Junction for half price, during the 
meeting. Those wishing for tickets can get them of Bro. 
J. J. Bigelow, No. 3 Merchant's Row. The fire from 
Worcester to Groton Junction and back will be eighty cents. 
Brethren who go by the way of Lowell are informed, that 
the cars on the Stony Brook Railroad leave as follows : 
11.30 A. M.; 7.15 and 4.45 P. st. Fare to Westford from 
Lowell, 25 cts. From .Groton Junction, on Worcester mad 
Nashua Railroad, at 8.5 A. M.; 12.25, 5.40 P. M. Fare, 
25 cts. 
J. V. HIMES. 
To Correspondents. 
H. T.-We are not surprised at the remark you extract, 
viz., " The issue in the late trial at Providence was not 
made on those charges at all "-referring to those in Wee-
thee's pamphlet. 
A great stretch of the broad mantle of charity may enable 
those who do not know the man, to suppose he did not know 
that he was writing a deliberate and premeditated falsehood. 
He well knew that the truth or falsity of the pamphlet was 
the issue on which the case turned-as Mr. Payne's argu-
ment will show. He knows that every one conversant with 
the matter is not ignorant that it was so. Hence it requires 
a front not a little brazened, to deliberately write thus, and 
still preserve his remarkably innocent and impartial aspect. 
We have long since ceased to believe that he would hesitate 
at any declaration, which would in any way serve Iris own 
selfishness. A greater truth was never uttered than that 
which Needham, befirre his fall, confidentially communicated 
to his wife. 
J..211.-Bro. J. CuMMINGS has not requested us to give his 
notices, for some time past. Those sent us for his meetings, 
by you or others, he informs us, were not by his direction. Ile 
does not sympathize with us in our course. Brethren will 
understand, that we never reject the notices of fellow-labor-
ers. Sometimes we have given the notices of those who 
were using their influence against us, much to our injury. If 
we have erred, it has been on that side. 
THE publication of Mr. PAYNE'S argument, contained in 
this number, is being called for, and will be timely. We 
find that there is a rallying of all the old elements of disaf-
fection, covertly, to sustain the authors and abettors of the 
conspiracy, and slanderous suit. All the old charges and 
stories are being reiterated, with new ones, to retrieve their 
unfortunate position. Under such circumstances, it is to be 
ham, Manchester, and Guildhall ; bred in a school of taste 
Appointments, &c. 
and general culture with which our Anglo-Saxon training 
haul little affinity, little sympathy ; the representative and 
impersonation, though not, I believe, the native child of a 
but Oriental still as ever, in all but its Christianity ; the day, appointments must be received, at the 
latest, by Tuesday 
race from the East, planted some centuries ago in Europe, morning, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
with them on the first, third, and fiturth Sabbaths in October, tint 
cannot remain during the week time. 
NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
The friends in Kerinebunk, Me., are hereby informed that I will be 
The friends in Peacedale, R. 1., are informed that I will visit them 
011 the second Sabbath in October, and remain two or three days. 
pleader of a cause in which we might seem to be as little 
EDWIN BURNHAM. 
concerned as in the story of the Ion Pelops, or that of Troy I will preach in Piermont, N. H., the fourth Sabbath in August ; 
at Hill, 24th ; Lake Village, 25th ; New Durham Ridge, 26th ; et 
divine ; conning before us even such-that silver voice, that Barnstead, 27th ; Rye, N. H., Sabbath. 29th, Hampton at 5 P. at., 
where Bro. Bachelor may appoint; Kingston Pi
le. iHns.,T3iilos.
t.psEoaNc.h, 
sad, abstracted eye, before which one image seemed alone to except Sundays, at 'I P. ta. 
hover, one procession to be passing, the fallen Hungary-the Bro. D. T. Taylor will preach in Champlain village, N. Y., Sun- 
day,Aug.
t 
 2a2m5pm. 
9th. 
andh 
unnamed demigods,' her thousand deathless sons ; that 
Bro D. W. Sornberg,er will preach at Eaton, C. E., Aug. 25th 
earnest, full soul, laboring with one emotion ; have held 
There illtiltEc
eaiCiioLnLI:erence in Brookfield, N. H. (at the Town 
thousands and thousands, of all degrees of susceptibility, the House), commencing
j 
 Saturday, Aug. 28th, and hold over the Safi- 
coldness and self-control of the East ; the more spontaneous 
_TEILleKrAeNNAV 
H 
N
beica.
fooRtirsod.
a.ys' meeting held in the grove near the Un- 
sympathies of the West ; the masses in numbers w idiom ion Hallja Harwich, commencing T 
st 
hursday, Sept. 9th, at 10 A. M. 
number : women ; scholars ; our greatest names in highest 
There will he a Conference at North Danville, commencing Oct. 
places ; by the seashore, in banquet halls ; in halls of 
6th, and continuing over the Sabbath. All ministering brethren and 
delegares from every church in this section, are requested to be 
; among the memories of Bunker Hill : every- present on 'Thursday, Oct 7th, as the Conference will be opened 
where, he has held all, with a charm as absolute as that fur business.-B. S. REYNOLDS, S. W. l'ituitami, 0. DAVIS. 
A Conference will he held in Vershire, Vt., commencing Thurs-
with which the Ancient Mariner kept back the bridal guest day, Aug. 26th, and continuing over the Sabbath. B. S. Reynolds 
and Henry Eastman will be present. 
after the music of the marriage feast had begun. 
" The tribute of tears and applaudings ; the tribute of 
Camp-Meetings, &c. 
sympathy and of thoughts too deep for applauding-too deep 
A Camp-meeting will be held in Vernon, Vt., on land owned by - 
1'. F. Burroughs, in a beautiful grove about one hundred rods from 
for tears, have attested his sway. For the first time since the North Vernon depot, and four miles south of Brattleboro', to 
the transcendent genius of Demosthenes strove with the commence Aug. 240. and continue over the following Sabbath. 
W e hope there will be a general rally for a large ineetiug. W e 
downward age of Greece ; or since the prophets of Israel think the prospects are, that more good might be accomplished here 
than south, where there have been many meetings of this kind. 
announced-each tone of the hymn grander, sadder than be- while matey in this region have heard but little ',leaching on the 
speedy coating of Christ, and some none at all. We hope that all 
fore-the successive foot-falls of the approaching Assyrian who can will come vvith tents and provisions, prepared to stay on 
beneath whose spears the Law should cease and the vision the ground. There will he a tent Mr the accommods Mai of those 
who wish to provide for themselves. Arrangements have also been 
be seen no more ; our ears, our hearts, have drank the made with Mr. Burroughs for all who may desire board, horse-keep- 
Mg, &c., on reasonable terms. Elders T• M 
Prelil. A. SCOTT. 
Burnham are earnestly invited to attend. (For the brethren.) 
sweetest, most mournful, most awful of the tones which man 
O. 
may ever utter, or may ever hear-the eloquence of an ex- 
The Lord willing, a camp-meeting will he held in W iiisted, com- 
piring nation. 
mencing Aug. 30th, to continue one week or more, upon the same 
ground occupied last year. The cutup ground is about twoniiles 
" For all this tide of speech, flowing without ebb, there from the depot at the terminus of the Naugatuck Railroad ; and 
those coming by cars or stages will be'accommodateit with cheap 
was one source only. To one note only was this harp of en- conveyance to and from the meeting. 
e invite every friend ol' .lesus, and all who are willing to seek 
chantment strung. It was an appeal not to the interests, eternal life through him, to meet with us in the tented ;rove, to 
not to the reason, not to the prudence, not to the justice, not worship the Gott of heaven. 
Board and horse keeping on reasonable terms, with an invitation 
to the instructed conscience of America and England ; but to the poor pilgrims to come and eat, without money and without 
price. S. G. MATnEwsoal, 11111AM MONGER, A. 1.5. SMITH, MILES 
to the mere emotion of sympathy for a single family of man GRANT. Comnummuntee. 
oppressed by another-contending to be free-cloven down A Camp-meeting Will be held on the ground owned by Mr. Steel 
and others, five miles from Bellefonte, and three stiles front Miles-
on the field, yet again erect ; his body dead, his spirit inca- burg, Pa., to commence Aug. zath, amid continue over the lullowhmg 
Sabbath. They unite in soliciting all to draw near unto Him who 
pable to die ; the victim of treachery ; the victim of pow- is the fountain of living waters, with devout and importunate pray- 
ers, that a pentecostal shower of divine grace may descend upon 
er ; the victim of intervention ; yet breathing, sighing, the faithful servants of God, that they may be instrumental in guid-
lingering, dying, hoping through all the pain, the bliss of an ing saint and sinner to the Lamb of God. Elders J. bitch, 1. H. 
Gates, .1. T. Liming, and J. D. boyer will be present. (By eider of 
agony of glory ! 
For this perishing nation-not one inhab- the committee.) .1. T. LANING, JOSEPH EZKLEY, ROBT. MCAIUL- 
LEN, JACOB 611EARER, J. D. BOYER. 
itant of which we ever saw ; on whose territory we had 
A Canip-meeting will be held in South China, Me., on land owned 
never set a foot ; whose books we had never read ; to by William Pullen, to coin inmate Aug. 24th, and hold over time Sab- 
bath. It has been our aim in selecting a place, to accommodate the 
whose ports we never traded ; not belonging in an exact brethren in Maine, and hence we have chosen South China, as the 
roost central and convenient place between the Kennebec and Pe-
sense to the circle of independent States ; a province rather nobscot. b4 e invite all who love the Lord to come. Let the breth- 
ren be on the ground at an early hour with their tents. Let there 
of an empire which alone is known to international law and be a general rally. Bro. Couch and others will be there to aid 
the services of the meeting. (For the brethren.) F. if. iltatteR. 
to our own diplomacy ; for this nation he sought pity-the 
intervention, the armed intervention, the material aid of 
pity ; and if his audiences could have had their will, he 
would have obtained it, without mistrust or measure, to his 
heart's content ! 
" When shall we be quite certain again, that the lyre of 
Orpheus did not kindle savage natures to a transient dis-
course of reasong"-.N. Y. Times. 
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CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chap. 4.) The Little Ragged Boy. 
Interesting Anecdote. Teaching Children to tell False 
An Extraordinary Stomach Load hoods. 
Parental Dirties. The Mother. 
The Seasons in Iceland. Profanity. 
The Peewit 
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