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M ESSRS. EDITORS AS disputes about
1VA ecclesiastical, ar civil matters, and the
practice q rrfision, seldom 90 together, and aS II
gives me no pleasure TO hold up 10 tie public
view the faults OF nv brethren, ''Old" or New"
could have wished thai the writer, who SignS
himself Truth, had continued TO pursue the en-
quTy-UhGi - truth and had not attempted TO
frlier away my facts touching the charge Of aho-
liilonSm against my New School friends by vIo-
lent ASSERTION, and unfair and sophiStical IeaSon-
ING. Now, however, no alternative II left me
hut an inglUrtouS retreat, or 10 tnicr R0ae.-The
Rubicon IS passed, aud Al l may YET have To ex-
claim. "fi Ia Brute" shall fold around me, as
gracefully aS may, the ample folds OF my togo
and submit TO .Iil, not however ia an attempt 10
take away the liberties and privileges OF nv fel-
low-chrisiianS but in defence of the ,ceak aud op-
prfSSeA
Truth, like willy polemick, 'di,courScs'
learnedly, Il not elOluen,ly, about 'falsc impress
SONS, &c at The very OUTSET and seeks thereby
10 Invahdsic nv FACTS. Will follow him:
The hrSi false impression. says Truth. that
my communication IS adapted 10 produce, is,
that the Old School party IN the South have
charged their New School brethren in the South
with aboliiionism." IL II will relieve the scnsi-
iIvencsS Of Truth, nor directly charge the lead
ers Of his party" aud few others of them with
having made this "talSe impression" respecting
their New School brethren" And l will prove
h;-in conversation with highly respectable
cent adjournment Of the Old School Presbyiery,
lac informed me that two OF that body a minis
ter and an elder, had called 10 sec him during the
Silngs OF their PrcNbytcTy, and 10 question he
put To them touching the difficulties Of The
Church, they both replied thar, "they believed
a'oiiii0nisa 'cas one of them" And the gentle
man remarked 10 me that he was greatly sur
pr,Sed At this. for" be added. II have observed
that the Rev. McsSIs. Hargrave, BOYD, Royall.
and mos, of these men, archie sons of Virginia ~
But again ! aver that the same impression pre-
vailed IN almost every family entered And is
u not known IL the readers OF Mr.. Plnmer,s pl-
per, that ITS whole scope has been calculated to
tasIen upon their minds 'he "false IMPRESSION
that the New School, sn Haarss are al least s.in
i'ciei" with abohtioniSmi So much then for
my "hrst faise IMPRESSION and the proof Of H.
Ag1in"-SayS Truih-"abolitionism n,r,y
di form motive, nor occasion a necessity for
the accommodation Of 500 ministers aud g., 600
communicates" Very well; agree with Truth
now pfeciseiyi and hope tie reader will marx
u. But. strange irfaiuaiion, Truth, anxious 10
clnv 81 his neighboT of a design" 10 make false
Impressions" avcr> "a the sentence Immediately
preceding the citation just made, that abolition
i,m did form 4 motive for The extending acts ~
IL DID, 5ut It never did" Is It surprising. after
all. that men should - write, who ate m the ha-
BIZ 81 calling their brethren IN their paprrs
'AbohonIs,s. Agi,ators, Armcnlans ApostaIes,
NewSchool, " &c men, among " HON are many
who adorn our Halls Of Science are eminent m
every profession and among the best OF our ciii-
zcnS IA all the paths Of life.
am aware that Truth may seek 10 evade the
consequcnces Of hs folly ia this matter, by PLAY
iur upon the words ''ercision" and "eroo,amuai-
oHion." lie Will. as Ia this instance, affect 10
believe that there - great difference in the
meaning 70 he attached 10 the words. Dut every
impartial man will say, under me circumstance,
mere y no difference. Who would not soon
he accommodated as TO b. cnl of with s,,ch q
tSHgs0Res And when cut oil hy the ''frns syfho-
DR. Church." where are The etcindcd members,
Truth says 1--WE admit there are COMPARE
utc'y fac sbO'itOnIsis among the o ; chufch-
a. O! The North and Northeast" Among the
20 s :" Aud ,rho are they Was Truth afraid
mat some % his readers might believe that even
u would "adsa!t a frr aboiitonis,s" II the Oh
hool party AID was he wiling that others
night fell into the mistake that he vas audhg
imply" 20 an Oid society. an O,i.iaaaih So
ciriy, or some other that an excited fancy"
N sH indicated IN no other conneKiOn docs
Ifuih use the initials, .. s.. f3r Oid Sehoof IIrrs
BIZ D. evidently afraid, or ashamed Of his title -
TINS may seem liiiie matter % some pcrsons
lIt % ls generally "a HAs things that NC discover
t- ingenious man, She true gentleman. the real
CHRISTIAN. Truth Knows that such have been .hc
nets of hS party and such are paas 81 he clc-
in~nts ot which % is composed that a requires
r1 .iuic tact and every liu.e help b. can bring 10
OFF, aid when afraigncd before aa impartial and
enlightened puhtc Pour fellow he iai Ia cad.
inii" hat he 20 s have among them "a few
atoiinoaisis % To tins I reply, ihat q IS known
90 every Intelligent gentleman Who has travelled
extensively f"Wct and Northwest" hat q ma
i.riiv % the Pfssbyicucs ip thos. regions are
pf Sshooi, and most q them abohuobistsi A
coleman. Who has oftea VISITED she West. re-
r.nily informed me. that hr has always. t.en m
hoYcd when there By ihcse aboiHionists. that they
we're continually poking al him their paper. .
&r And does Truth deny that dIc Chiilcoihe
Prrsbvtsry sent an iAesH9isy7l" communicative 10
We" Winchester Prcsbyicry three years since -
DIS be give ans proof that 80 he memhcfs q
nat od Sehooi Prcshytcty were not then aboi.-
li"nisis, % hat they are not 80 now NJ e.
tt' seems o. take % for GRANTED hat deeply ia
ieresiet pablo WILL on ,his SUBJECT BE- sstsfed
vHh his si,is, and, othet iopies. with his ies,
ftrt but hc vii find hlnseir "s1f.v out n
Place
But. says Truth. Or Beman. he eorveh,ros
81 he Mes School party aud zoe Of their M,sie-
ia'ofs, IS a. aboiii0nist II the faukcst tFps ''-
~ Wso--Does the existence al enc. % 81 a hun
dfel affected" shcsp IN he Constitutional party
prove that ~ dock" - not deplorab!y eoniam,.
mated frafh, "a man q God, !" would not BE-
guhiy 81 "siPPrfpie rTiT--a suppression Of
ne frvfs; not be and yct he knc,,1 hat Dr. Be.
lfoao never acted a. Moderator q ne New