"It seemes this end in plantation hath beene specially reserved for this later end of the world," &c.

pp. 9, 10.

The passage is rather long, but we could not shorten it and clearly establish our point, which is, that the Planter intended to affirm religion to have been the motive for the plantation then in hand, and to show how low and contemptible all other motives, however good in themselves, were in comparison with it. Now we do maintain, that, when considering those motives, if the author in the "New York Review" professed to give from the Planter what he thought they were, he should not have selected the worst and most derogatory to the human character, that were mentioned only for the sake of contrast, without stating even that fact, and have entirely suppressed all notice of those better ones which were positively assigned. We know not what our author may think, but we call this garbling.

Something is however said about the use of italic letters to make sentences emphatic, and a feeble attempt is made to turn upon us, for not emphasizing all the words quoted from others in a passage of our author quoted by us, the charge which we originally brought against him of giving no notice when the use of italic letters changes the sense of an author cited. To this a very brief answer is enough. We understand a broad line to lie between the making of a sentence emphatic merely for the purpose of putting in bolder relief its manifest and simple application, and the so laying emphasis upon one part of a passage at the expense of the remainder, as to give to the whole a particular meaning, which, if read in the ordinary way, it would not bear. The first course may be adopted, with or without notice, by any writer, without incurring any censure. It was resorted to by our author in many instances, and we made it the subject of no remark. But when he practised the other, as he did, we think, in the case in hand, it is our opinion that he should have put the reader on his guard against misapprehension. For his failure to do this gave to his citation an application to a particular point of his own making, which it never could otherwise have been made to bear.

Neither is it enough, in our estimation, that an author, when he quotes a passage, should confine himself to the "precise words," if he stops short of giving the whole sense of it. We did not charge the writer in the "New York Review" with forging, or inserting extraneous matter in his quotations. We charged him with a suppression of certain important words, which were essential to the full meaning of the author he quoted. In the oath ordinarily administered in our courts of

law, as much consequence attaches to the words, "the whole truth," as to the other terms, "the truth," and "nothing but the truth." And so it is in the rules for quotation. We consider our author as having overlooked this in the following instance. Page 63, he says,

"Our author then goes on to speak more at large of the motives which induced them to come. He says, As it were absurd to conceive they have all one mind, so it were more ridiculous to imagine they all have one scope. Necessity may press some, novelty draw others, hopes of gain may prevail with a third sort,' but he is persuaded, that the most sincere and godly part have the advancement of the Gospel for their main scope.'

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"These facts, and abundance of others of a similar nature, contained in the work, authorize the inference that the colonists were regarded as factious persons, and that their opponents did not credit the pretension that the advancement of the Gospel was the sole or chief object of their emigration. It is here also confessed, by one of the party, that necessity,' 'novelty,' and 'hope of gain,' as well as love of the Gospel, were among the causes that moved the colonists to come to this country." — p. 64.

When persons are about to draw inferences which they hold to be authorized, they ought to be very sure that they state the facts correctly upon which they rest. It will not do to affirm, that one of a party confesses that "necessity," "novelty," and "hope of gain," were causes for their colonizing, when he tells us, "he shall make bold to manifest not only what he knows, but what he guesses, concerning their purpose." He accordingly proceeds to "guess," that among many men there may be many motives, and among these motives, such as he mentions may prevail with a few; but this is surely a very different thing from saying that he knew they did prevail. Moreover, in the extract as made, it does not appear, that any idea is given of the proportion in which these motives would be supposed to predominate. For "the most sincere and godly part " might, notwithstanding, have been, as it generally is, a very small part of the whole. But the text does not give it to be so understood. It expressly affirms, that "the most," or in other words, the greatest number, as well as "the most sincere and godly part, have the advancement of the Gospel for their main scope." We therefore insist, that the omission of these two little words makes a very great difference in the sense of the passage cited; a difference which, considering the sinister inferences that were designed to be drawn against the characters of the individuals concerned in the settlement, can in no way be reconciled to the principles of justice and fair dealing.

If therefore, in our review, we used the words "falsification of authority," as applicable to the course of our author, it will be seen, that we did so, not without what we hold to be abundant justification. We consider the true sense of "The Planter's Plea " to have been perverted, in the passages which we have quoted, so far as he is relied upon to sustain the inference, that other and mere worldly motives had quite as much influence in the settlement of New England as religion, when he distinctly and repeatedly declares, that, as far as the diversities of human nature will ever allow, religion was the great and only motive; and, further, that those lower motives operated upon many of the settlers, when he asserts, that, if they operated at all, they were confined to few. Nor, in justification of these perversions, will it do to say, that it is taking the evidence of a witness against himself; for there is no confession, other than what his enemy arbitrarily thrusts into his mouth. His meaning, when gathered, as it should be, from the whole of the context, is plain, and can only be avoided by torturing and maiming his language. That our author has, in our opinion, attempted to do this, is the reason, and the only reason, why we have felt it necessary to treat his arguiment with a degree of unwonted severity. Of this he has no reason whatever to complain. Every writer, who voluntarily ventures to come before the public, does so under some degree of responsibility. If he has appeared to us to have overlooked or violated his trust, we, who profess to notice such things, have a high duty to perform to that public in warning them of his errors. And if, after a due setting forth of his offence, he insists upon making us follow him out into other expositions of it, we regret the necessity, but see no alternative.

We now drop the subject, conscious that it may not be of so much interest to general readers as to ourselves. We hope, that our author will be too wise to continue in the menacing tone of the conclusion of his present letter; and that he will cease to play the ghost for the future, or warn us of "Philippi." To say nothing of the taste of this, it is not so alarming as it sounds. We acquit ourselves of any wish to turn him into a spirit, though he seems to think, that we have dealt at him a few rather sharp passes. But, if the worst should come to the worst, and the fate of the younger Brutus be meted out to us, we shall hope, at least, to enjoy the credit, with the world, of enduring it like him, though in a far more humble walk, in the defence of the same general principles of liberty.

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