The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-08-22

some hints been thrown out against Mr. Moorc's
certificates, injurious to his character this com.
uunication IL intended to remove any discrcpan
cy which might possibly be ,hooghtto appear III
them ORD.
NJ r J, Hoit0H IN piece banded ont 10
The public Us Dr. d, r. and Rev. J. NJ. NJ. Gala.
we'll, through the columns Of yogr paper Of July
18TH ls43 there arr some things with which
am Identified which am not wiling to let re.
maln before the public without some correction;
because standing ~ they do, they arc calculated
70 make false impression. Something's which
mentioned IN conversation with Rev JIM VI Cald.
well. and certificate which signed, tbey have
employed to charge Dr u. r Dunlap with false.
hood, which think will not serve their purpose
when all circumstances are known. 1t is stated
m their communication that We have been in.
formed by two Of the oldest, best known and most
respectable Mcthodists v THIN u miles Of Char
oNe that 4 certain Amos Garrison and not Dr.
y K Dnnap gave Mrs, NJ and others their FIRST
lessons IN Methodlsm That TO a certain excom.
muneatcd SecGder, and not TO the Black River
Camp Meeting, belongs the glory Of establishing
ne Bethesda Church" Now, am onr OF those
two referred 10. J will state tho circumstance
g,-rentng Mr.. Garrison as | was Informed TIN,
hy whom 90 not feiurrhor, hut the thing DO
1ememb,yA While Mrs. Martins mother lay on
her deh oci in her house. Amos Garrison, who
Lived distance Oh, and was a Methodist called
al her door, iceIhaps 10 nsk the way,A aud Mrs
NJ knowing hin 10 sc 4 relig. ous character, ask
cd him to light TO soc her mother; he did so, and
talked to and prayed with tho cid woman These
religious exercises Of his, so far preluilced her
IN favor Of Methodist pieiy that she requested
4 q a..
her house, which understood he did Now, this
latlc passing circumstance perhaps Dr. Dunlap
never knew any thing OF and is It not probable
that the impression made on Mrs. II. mind at
that tIulc was the moving cause of her going TO
Dr Duulapt to receive her first lessons IN Meth.
odsm" Asto Bethesda society owing its origin
(Which think better word than estdblshingN
to an accommodated Scccder. it is true but
what moved him to get up tho society know not.
lie might have been at Black River Camp Meet.
ing for anght | know. This ] do know, tina,
previous to his getting the first members to put
down their names as society in order to obtain
Methodist preaching some how and somewhere, I.
his mind had got a very different religious turn /,
from what j, had when in his own church which !
noticed with a degree of surprise, knowing the |
opposition Of that church 10 rcvlvais.l
As 10 my certificate, the connection in which /
came 10 sign it dor il was drawn by MI VI.
VI CaldwelD no knows hestated, not thinking |
II sutfclently expressive OF the thing intended
The inquiry was, If knew any thing of his fl.
ther gong to those who were suspended from the
PRESBYTERIAN Church on Mr.. w {. Davis's &C.
count, and proposing to receive them back with.
out any acknowledgment, if they would not join
the Mcthodsts My answer was, that knew
nothing of his father making any proposal in
the case, to any but myself, and that his father
and Ilopewell Session did receive mo back with
out any Acknowledgements. Now, my ignorance
Of Mr. S. c. Cadwcl's dealing with others was
what intended TO attest by my certificate yet,
in the Messrs. Culdwolls publication am thrown
in class with those Of whom had stated, that
had no knowledge. Was this tumble of things
done designedly to hide the true intent OF my
certificate, and make it speak foreign language,
or was It accidental My own case stand thus
After being held in suspension from the church
ordinances for about two years, those two Meth.
odist societies in question being then in existence,
but had not joined, there was Sacramento
occasion at ilopewo tho Rev, $. c. Caldwell