Mobile register and journal., 1845-05-23
From he I.oui.YlIIe IournnI.

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 Dr. Pierce, of Georgia, took the floor, and having called for the reading of the resolution which Dr. | Smith spoke yesterday, he proceeded to remark, that it WAS always great trial for him 10 speak m | a deliberaive assembly That his difficulties were Inci eased by Ihe opinion thai discussion the top- Ics of he resolution Is premature, and that should wait for the report of the coninittee organization l He thought differently He wished to discuss this subject with great solemnity aud deiberation. These matters are sometimes defended wuh so much warmlh and violence and with so many personaIni 2 l that many who might have been are repulsed. | Dr. smith has fully and ably argued out ihe princi- | pies that govern l will content myself with ar- | raylng facts before the people
 After return from New York, months ansed | before our people would forgive us for stayrne an hour in General Conference after the virtual deuosi
 tion of Bishop Andrew by that body. But the steps took there, and the certainty of speedy separa- l tion only, enabled live. And we will not be | countenanoed in return home if there is any a- baement m this process. say this, not for effect, but a fact. But may noi hope for a compro
 mise from the Northl Win they not recede. as- sure you have not the least expectation of any re- l cession or compromise and security that would be satisfactory. The fact is hat when this question is stripped of all it's trappngs il is evident that North
 ern brethren make this matter of conscience; there. fore there em and will he compromise.
 The popular doctrine is thai majority of votes must seue affairs and thus make their decision law : and as the North have, and always will have, the
 balance of power in their hands-will matters grow any betteil No, sir never They are in the major
 ity-lher consciences tell them they purge the church of slavery and poserity will demand of them
 why they d moi do it. Thus they feel and there.
 fore thus they act. Why then should any of this convention or ihe South iaIter in this mattel Eve
 ry man that has Southern oraton and a Southern
 heart him will that il Is not safe for him to remain with them. The cause being sufficient, the
 sooner the South goes the better. The desOlang
 tempest which has ravished our country, and how Is over the South, will the lull away into the bo som of broherly affection.
 am the oldest efficient man this floor. l inti-
 mately understand the yexed question oi slavery and
 abolition, and say leatessly that the agitation of
 thls subject has done more harm than hell with
 as it's legIons. We told them il would manace our hands and form chasm between and the popula lion. We always told them this. Not single ex-
 ceptiOn to this remark. And ihe Southern dele
 gates certainly best understood their localities.
 Dad hey believe that lhe delegates would liel Yer they nurled ruin among us by their acts. Besides,
 the Sluh were placed under prescriptions as regards
 the offices m the gift of the General Conference. We leit and drew up protest, which would have been presented as far back 1852 but for the re-
 quest of valued friend. And lhe first great opl,or-
 tunii, they had they showed their nvceraic spirit
 in dposng Bishop Andrew An acl above law and without law, the forms of trial. We are unwill- ing o be the victims of secret laws We cannot submit 10 the erection of in the eldership of
 the church; oIr ministry would not be respected d
 moment afterwards
 We are now wiling to suffer for righteousness sakt but not because we happen to live North or Souh. We farther charge want of fairness in the
 othcal papers with regard 10 Us. We can prove this by documentary evidence from the immediate vicni.
 y of these presses. They represent that are
 making this disturbance for the support of our belo, . ed Bishop Andrew, and thus they make the impress
 siontlrai our devotion is to man and not to prime ple--,he result of preudicrs not of rr,nci
 ples-and then they infer that 1t would be less evi for Andrew to resi- gn than to divide the Church or . arc',mt of one man This is false issue. vii
 say ad. sedly that if the laie General Confer erce now, his resignation would settle the diff cuty, he would resign Yea, he offered to de ii :, B,t that sacrifice would moi lay lhe fearful spiri lhst has arisen terror To tine SOuth. The lru, grand is that Andrews covered by th,
 law of the church, and that they tried 10 hin from office notwithstanding.
 Az "dernipr resort" we have been told that thu , sian of separation of the late General Conference ii
 null and void because the constitution of the churcl , does not contain any such provision Therefore ih, Conference has no right to make that plan ana there fore is unconstitutional and not binding This il . spscous argument and apparently conclusive i,u - would ask, since the Church of God in It's vari1u branches formed, did any branch ever make pro s vision for it's own division? No SIT; ant fl we wal
 till constitutional and staluor, laws are made fo our separation, we shall find ourselves bound by al adamanine chain. In the nature of the case lav
 
 and ecclesiastical laws must yield before that law
 Just nethlnks hear a whisper passing round l. the import of which is, "Consince of that neces n sits and will go with you in thIs natter" l vii t prove il to you then. In confederation of confer , ences, the delegates of the South, who know bes . what Is necessary, rise in their places and decar d that fact. Does not that prove itl Real abolition | sts would swear ii coffin that such legislation
 would save and suit the South would ruin the North
 We told them that their action would dig such ahaanu hat. and her ] not be spanned with bridge, which Il wou Id b. safe for venture And such legislation as wou,
 suit the North would be ruin Now Can yo
 wish any better for separation than the mpos
 sibty of united leg isation without ruin 10 the Nort or South! l deeply sympathise with those in th slave States who live along the border. hope tha
 preachers, members and citizens may be harmonize, and go with us. Many of them do not think that th time has come to divide. They say let the maiorii have time to think and revlew, and with accumulate, light rciudge this matter in l8l3. Others say, W, can live in our present position well as in th, "Church South" But we ask, are you disposed tc ! sustain the action had in the case of Harding ant . Andrewl Is it safe for you to remain under the jurisdictionf Can you promise yourself prosperity, peace? Can you live and preach and pray and sim and love and die together with your brethren, part one organization and part in another? No, there ii no way for peace but to go with us.
 If you open your heart to them you will giv, them place in our territory to lombard US from Now we do not want cross firing. Will yon then d,
 so! You m not indeed endorse every item of ou vews-but il lhe main essential principles we em body are by you endorsed, then under our flag
 Two or three complainers can do much harm. Yol
 should come out and say that the majority did who'll, right wholly wrong. Let others do as they will go with the South. You may put ne down for
 Some people love, next to their wives, our common
 Melhodsm; therefore they are unwilling to separat, from her. Now Methodism does not consist in mum
 bers or location.
 We find it in Canada, in England and America l go for the Methodist Episcopal Church. will mol
 give up of her articles of religion, if you argue
 with me till January. And now ad,ei tse you lhaI
 if you wish 10 find pure Methodsm you will find il
 in the honest souih We are not carried about W wltf divers and strange doctrines, l assure you. Her in. tnerant features, too, will be there, with better guards than have of late been thrown around them.- Do you believe God will be more elori6ed, more souls saved, if we live together in this fire than il
 we lived on both sides of itl No! Let then di- vide for the salvation of souls and the glory of God
 And believe, too, that it will most efeciually cure the political union of,hese U. States thus gel boundary to he hue and cry of abolitonism.
 No church prosper while in contention a vi- tai principle. It is dreadful thought that preacher whose crown Is begemned with souls, but who has inherited few slaves. or received them with his
 wife, should therefore he excluded from his prvile- ges in the Church. verify believe that if we now promptly separate, four years will close the contro- versy, and if we travel north shall freeiv be ad- miited into their pupits. We shall be bellIgerent parties. My remarks are for the public. am pa cihc but decided man desire 10 soft words and hard arguments, and will close by asking Kentucky if she believes principles to go with us in the practice.
 Dr. Capers presented facts relative to the early | introduction of Methodsm into North Carolina, and it's speedy destruction by the abolition sentiments ot