Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-15

W we puohsn In another column q list
OF the donations received by the treasurer of
the relief fund in Pittsburgh. At the risk of
being called all sorts Of hard names by the
Pittsburgh papers, we suggest that this thing
has gone far enough, unless some person or
persons can afford to subscribe the full amount
Of the nine millions of loss, and let it be dis
tributed to each man as he lost. There were
many individuals burnt out Of rented houses,
II is true, who were poor; but they had but
little to burn. Tbs constant labor and in
crease Of wages which thi, crisis has enabled
them TO demand has m ore thin remunerated
them for all the losses they sustained and thew
are absolutely better of than they ever were;
yet many OF thsm press pretended distress up
on the relief fluid. There are others who have
capital in their labor and intelligence. They
want no donations, but a loan would be useful
70 them. To this class the fund that has been
subscribed might be useful If used ONLY in the
way OF loans. But in the mean time those
engaged in the charitable object OF giving re-
lief are spending their tim. in quarrelling
about Its disposal to such an extent as seems
more than probable that thay might earn more
by work than the fund over which they are
talking amounts to. If so, evil instead of
gool is growing out Of the subscription.
O~s- The Washington "organ" expresses
the conviction that the annexation measure
will soon be consummatcd. Will the same
hot haste extend to Oregon?
AMNESTY the Rhode Island Senate,
on wednesday, an act Of amnesty was pro-
posed, directing that no farther prosecutions
be commenced for participating in the Dorr
rebellion, and that all Indictments now pend
ing shall be discontinued; also, restoring all
their civil rights and privileges to parties UNI
der conviction, and directing the immediate
release of Thomls w. Dorr, BENJAMIN NJ.
Bosworth, and Wilmarth Heath.
day, May the 9Th, the following resolutions
were submitted by the Rev. J. Early.
RESOLVED, That a committee be appointed
to be called the committee on education.
whose duty shall be to take into consideration
the condition of our schools and colleges. and
recommend the best method of improving
them. o
f'eootoed, mat a be appointed
to be called the committee on finance, whose
duty shall be to consider the best method of
securing a just portion of the book concern
and chartered fund, and recommend the best
financial system for our future operation.
Both the resolutions passed.
On the resolution of Drs. Pierce and Smith,
Mr.. l.. Campbell AMI G.. F. Pierce spoke
They were separatists. We may infer how
far they go from the following extract from
Mr.. Pierce's speech.
Now, In view of all these considerations |
the great and vital question before the con-
vention was whether they would remain
under the jurisdiction Of the general conference
ana thus beIeave the negroes of the South,
under our influence, OF the iIupe Of tho GOSPEL
or dissolve their connection with il, and
relieve the Southern portion of the church
from all further apprehensions IN the subject.
Ihe prospect itself of such a consummation
mad gone very far towards allaying the fever
OF public excitement andinspiring confidence
IN the Nethodi { ministry; 30 much so, that
IN Alabama open doors were presented to our
missionaries On every side. He had no preju-
dice against the North, but whether there be
peace CT war as TO the principles Of the
government, powers of the episcopacy. and
the like; he could never stand by and see the
spiritual prospects of the negro in the South
put IN jeopardy. He longed to see the day
when Msthodism, precious and blessed should
In the Southern country rise in the majesty of
her strength and the tenderness of her love.
and move abroad, untrammelled and free, in
her God-hke work of blessing and saving the
souls OF mon, of all conditions and in ali cir
cumstances OF human life. He besought the
convention to intcrpose no let or barrier to
her progress, but give free scope to her energies, |
that In her errands of love and compassion.
she might go to the bedside of the dying negro
and point hrs fading eye to the brightning
giories OF the cross and the immortality be-
yond. Even now the fields are white TO the
harvest, and men, with strong arms and heavy
scythes, were gathering souls into the garner
above. "
He wished the report Of the committee was
ready to be presented this very day, that the
Intelligence might go out TO master and slave
in the length OF the land that the southern
ministry were freed from the trammels of a
dominant majority, and that su~spicionless
they should be welcomed iuto a thousand
plantations. He had heard Of doors being
lett open. For his Part he wanted but one
door open that which Wesley had left osen viz:
the only condition required of those who desire
admission into these societies. desire "to
be saved from their sins" He would have
the convention very careful how they entered
INTO entangling alliances with those from
whom, as Wesley said upon another occasion,
"God bad so strangely set them free" The
hand OF Providence is broadly seen in the /
whole matter. The North had taken their
ground; we have taken ours, and cannot and
will not abandon it. Reunion, then, is inn I
possible. We have no overtures to make
IL is due TO the church, to ourselves, to the
country, that we stand upon our rights; and
Witii the North comes back to the scripture
ground, he, for one, would say SEPARATION
AND iNDEPESDEscE NOW AND FOREVER.
That cause must be, indeed, desperate, which
a man who has made il his study, cannot find
plausible arguments to sustain.
0s The following statement is from the