It has never been deemed a necessity in authors
and dealers that the works they write or sell should just correspond with the views of any particular
class or any particular church.
A writer has been thought
to be perfectly free in this country to advocate and defend any theory or doctrine in theology, philosophy, morals, politics,
or any other field, whether it was in keeping with popular opinion or not.
And it is simply an outrage
upon the rights and liberties of an American citizen to arrest him, throw him into prison, deprive him of his liberty, despoil
him of his property, and rob him of his good name among his fellow men because his views are in advance of or divergent from
other thinkers and writers.
The
Truth Seeker, December 21, 1878
