Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — Freedom of Speech. [ARTICLE]

Freedom of Speech.

Rev. C. Winger, one of the Ministers of the Diinker or German Baptist denomination here, has handed us the April number of the Gospel VZst/or, which contains a letter from Rev. S. Garbe,r one of the Ministers of that church, who formerly resided in Tennessee and now lives in Ohio. He says that being invited to preach at the Old Salem Presbyterian Church, Washington County, Tennessee, he took his text from Isaiah, 58th chapter, 6th verse, and preached a serman on the yoke and bondage of sin, alluding in general terms to oppression, contentions, strifes, wars, intemperance, &c., and predicting a time-when love, peace good will, mercy, temperence and truth, would universally prevail. At the close he stated that among the yokes and oppression might be named slavery, but that was a subject he did not feel at liberty tospeak on then—that when a resident of the State he expressed his mind freely upon it, but under the circumstances then, he would not. When the meeting closed, another Minister rose and said he would preach four weeks afterward and show that the text had no reference to Slavery „ Soon after this the Jonesboro Vmdica/or contained an article falsely ■stating that Mr. Garber, a Northern Abolitionist, had had the audacity to deliver an Abolition sermon and followed it with threats of lynch law., tar and feathers, gallows Considerable excitement ensued. Mr Garber had ’nvitations, however, to preach, and continued so to do. But a few Sundays afterwards he was arrested for preaching “that Abolition sermon,” and refused to obey the process till Monday, when he was bound over to Court. He determined to appeal, but his friends urged him not to do so, as serious consequences might result, and he was mulcted in the sum of $23 1. This is j what it costs to preach in Tennessee against . oppression generally; for the church where! he preached f'e obnoxious sermon unanimously testified that there was nothing said by him, which could justify the charge of his preaching specially against slavery.— South Bend Register. (pj Scientific men assert that there is an intimate connection between the nerves and muscles of the face and eyes, and allowing the beard to grow strengthens the eye. 1 is said that surgeons have proved, by experiment. in Africa, ~i. i . .idiers wearing their beard are milch less liable to diseus ■ ol the eye, and it* is generally conceded that it is a protection from disease of the throat and lur.gs. (gS"A woman has b< en indicted in Andersen, S. C., for being a “common scold.”