Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — NO PLAIGARIST. [ARTICLE]

NO PLAIGARIST.

Dr. Talmaga Resent* the Imputation and Will Seek Legal Redre**. The discovery has recently been made, by tho celebrated Brooklyn preacher that a sermon which he claims he delivered* some twenty years ago has been republished by a New York publishing house; and credited to Wendell Phillips. Dr.i Talmage has given to the public the following card in explanation of his action in seeking legal redress: Brooklyn, Nov. 16. “To W horn It May Concern: “A great wrong has been done me. My sermon on ‘Christian Citizenship,’ or “The, Christian at the Ballot Box,’ which 1 preached and published about twenty years ago. and which may be found in one of the volumes of my sermons, published at the time by Harper Bros., has been published in compressed form in Maynard, Merrill & Co’s ’Practical Reader’ and credited to Wendell Phillips. From letters recently received it is evident that this publication puts me under the charge of plagarism, a charge that I will not abide. The article quoted Is mine. I do not believe that Wendell Phillips ever delivered it. I have instructed my counsel. Gen. B. F. Tracey, to take immediate stops to set me right in this important matter. T. DeWitt Talmage