324 John Bachman. 



During the controversy occasional letters signed 

 " Many Protestants/' appeared in the Charleston 

 News, showing the deep interest felt by the Pro- 

 testant part of the Community in the defence of 

 Luther. On the Romanist side, Dr. Lynch, (after- 

 wards Bishop) and others appeared. 



The Watchman of the South, and leading Protestant 

 Journals, united with the Charleston community in 

 the request, that the defense of Luther should be 

 preserved in a permanent form. 



The following lines are found on the fly leaf of a 

 copy of Dr. Bachman 's Defense of Luther, in the 

 hand-writing of his friend, John L. Girardeau, D. !).: 



" When the great German Reformer and the Pro- 

 testant Reformation were assailed in the Council 

 Chamber of Charleston, Dr. Bachman intrepidly 

 came to the front and vindicated them in the im- 

 pregnable argument of this book. 



" John Bachman was one of the noblest men I ever 

 knew, and one of the most glorious men of this 

 century. 



"As an original observer in the field of Natural His- 

 tory, he did not have an equal in this country, and 

 no superior among his cotemporaries in Europe. 

 His personal investigations went far towards settling 

 the question agitated in his day, of the Unity of the 

 Human Race. He was equally remarkable as a 

 practical philanthropist. By night and by day, in 

 sunshine and in storm, he ministered with un- 

 wearied assiduity to the sick and the poor; and when 

 the destroying angel swooped down in season of 

 epidemic, he opposed him, as if he were an angel 

 from Heaven vested in the garb of humanity. 



" When Bachman died, Science and Religion 



