Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE RELIGIOUS DISUN.ON.

The RELlGlOUS DlSUNiON.
/! We q.ole below from The Iasl N. !
journal o Commerce, some remark
equally just aud puutc,i on The results 4
! the reccul CUnvrn,iuns. II is most lru
! lnal tile Sou'hern people nave not urge
on thl. fatal dissenllou. They hav
! sonShl in every peareable way to escap
II. Iney have iUrDure long ana enIreale
iUI peace and tuleralIOu. The auswe
: has been only reiterated alIuck. insults
prosecutions. When il became evIdeu
that there was no hope OF peaceful UNION
they have had recourse 10 peaceful srpa
ralioi. They have moi relorled-lhey
have done uolbIus that was not merely
necessary. AclIne firmly. tney have alst
acted with Christian charity
we publish The Address Of The Baprls
CunvenlIun-It needs no continent Ul
deIeuce--II places their cause where al
CHRISTIAN men would desire 1t To bt
placed.
The Washington Union discusses hi.
subJec' al length, and uIdKrS an earnest
appeal 10 the North III beliall ol tt- Union.
Fur ourselves, we make no lnUre appeal
They are useless-tliey are treated either
with coarse derlsIOn or utter iu'iIfirr uce.
The spIrlI Of tyranny, oil, dugnlalIsln, Of
strlle, OF usurpauou, moves aud governs
the Nortn Oh ibis question Ol slavery
They will never let Us alone, while the
Union lasts. They believe themselves to
be the Uuhed SGales, aud Tue South oul,
Il teirirory-wiiich 1t is their privilege. if
notlneir duty, to tax and narrdss as much
as pussiDle. They do MOI hold us cupabIe
eltherol governing ourselves or Of seriously
resisting, their encruacnnreuts. Every
appeal we make tU their turuearance, lney
regard as The craven cry for quurler, and
the proof OF lneir successful powers. But
we Intend merely 10 Iutruducc The follow
Ing extract :-ChuS. Mercury.
From The N. Y. Journut Of Commerce.
THE NOKIu AND lnE SOUTH.
Scarcely any'hImg has occurred OF late,
nIUre deeply 10 DC regretted, than The
division ol sOne U, our principal religious
CONNECTIONS by geosraphIcai lines. Our
readers are aware that Southern Melhp.
dist COuYeUlIUui is, or bias receuflY been, in
session al Louisville, KY. aud IL Southern
Baptist Convention at Augusta, Gu. and
tina, boIh have adopted measures lor ii
separation from their brethren al the
North. And why? Not from choice, but
from necessity. Not because they lacked
Christian charity toward their Northern
brethren. but because they found II MAS
impossible to meet them OH equal terms
BECAUSE IN FACT, whenever they met. SLu
verg, SLAVERY, SLAVERY, was HE
perpetual, ue, er-ceas'hS suuS sounded III
tIeI ears, aud often ~ zones ui bitterness
bordering upon uallsnIIy, aud of crnsurc
tndiscrItmInalIng and without measure. Al
he last General Conference of The Meth
odisl~ Church, u Southern Bishop was
virtually sill 'uced because he was Il ,Iav"
ho.drr, not b. purchases, but 10y marriage.
I e separation lnlh. Presbyera" hurch
although not Made III srltt mcuIddncr
wi,h geographical lines, was, we have GU
dmubI precipiIaled ny he same question
whlc mas now DIVIDED the buplists and
MriIIUiists. Ihus line ui dernarkaIIun
has Dern drawn between arInust Ihr enIlrr
bod, ,ui Northern aud Southern Chris
lians. aud henceliIth thuse Dl eurl section
will act separately from. aud independents
Iy of eacn other. WhuI pullrical cunse
quences may ultimately l"w !run tn"
separation, IL is impossible 10 foieser.-
But il is obvious that the D,.,dS If our
nauonal union are wcakenrd'i thereby -
The Ann rlcan Bible rracI, and Mission
AIRY Societies, which have had the wisdom
10 adhere 10 their appropriate work, With.
uul turning aside 10 o. sIluns with which
they have nohlns To do, will still operate
TO some extent as ii bond OF union, hui
The strongest bond,-lhaI which united
the more than a million Melhuhisl church
members throughout he Union in com.
pact mass, aud The half million of Bap
tists.-is broken. Southern minister. aud
delegates will M longer cun.e TO The North
to be iusulled.-anrl Is they are beyond
the reach. so they ale. III agreal measure
beyond the influence of Northern ecclesi
aslical associations. Were the. Nort
separated politically, as she is ecclesastI
oaily, from the South. her hold upul
slavery would entirely cease. Yet Ibis i
precisely What Northern AboIlionists seen
10 desirei
Ii ought 10 be understood and remem
bercd, that the ecclesiastical separation
which has taken place, was fnrced upor
the Soulh by the violence Of NorIherr
men. The necessity was deeply regret
ted by The SUuIh, bui could mol he avoided
From the Charleston Me curry.
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