Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-10-14
THE DAILY TIMES.
From the Raleigh Register.
REV ARFI

A correspondent of the last Greensboro Patrio
cautions the public to have their eyes open to the
movements oftwo men, protesting to be Wesleyan
Methodist ministers, who have been outraging the
public security, of late, by preaching the most in
cendiary and sedtous sentiments, at sundry pa.
ces in Guford county. Their names are Crooks
and Mcbride; and we would reiterate the warn.
ing IN the Patriot, that our people be prepared for
the coming of these foolhardy and misguided yea
lots. Our State and our communities must be
purged OF such characters, and it becomes our
Judges and Magistrates to exercise their vigilance
and authority. In the language of the Patri is
correspondent, "these men are doing evil, and on
ly evil, and if they can feel, should be made to
1eel, that although they are in free country, OF
which they boast, that they are not Mt liberty to
trample upon the rights of freemen, and cndanger
the property and safety of our citizens
The correspondent, who is himself evidently
Clergyman, remarks, in speaking of discourse
delivered by Mcbride, in the Friends meeting
house, at Jamestown:
He commenced the service by reading the first eight
or ten verses OF the 5Sth chapter of the Prophecies Of
lsaah together with the 23d and oath Psalms After this
hymn was sung and then followed long prayer in
winch wicked, sinful, and oppressive shareholders were
largely remembered and such petitions as the following
made" Lord have mercy upon such as are depressing
tner fellow men, such are separating man and wife
parent and child brother and sister, such as are tearing
ohoieu NUN lle T motnerS breasts, and holding them
IN IRON bondage, and deprivng them of their liberties"
&c, &c. The speaker then took his text in Johns
Gospel 18th chapter and 18th verse; Iye knor these
things, AaRpy are ye if ye do them" From these
words the speaker attempted to show the difference be-
tween true and false religion spurious and false con-
0erslon. In true religonI. there must be KNOWLEDGE
i. knowledge of God--2 OF Christ-3 OF the
Scripures-4. Of ourselves H. In true religion there
must be obedience. On this point the speaker came out
fully OIL the doctrines of Abolition He was as strong
an ancendaary in his denunciatons OF owners of SER
wants as Gddngs Smith, Thompson, or the far famed
Douglass. He said there were many men, and among
them men OF learning, Doctors of Divinity, who
proiessed to preach the Gospel, and free sal
vahon, who were all hypocrltcal, insincere and
wlcked-holding men and women in bondage
ed, and their bands full of blood whose end was
eternal death, if they repented OF their cruel deeds
oil oppression and dsobedence to the gospel which they
knowingly perverted. He then went on to shew the
injustice OF Withhold ding the scriptures from servants and
refusing to teach them to read-the bdf5dritg of the
laws OF the State of North Carolina on this subject
And then again in sentence the whole South
ern Church to hell-declaring it impossible for them to
be saved. The above, and such like denunciations he
SAID he et his bounden duty to make regardless of
men, or OF human laws and institutions the contrary
and that he not afraid to declare the truth which
he was commissioned to declare do not profess to
uttered, but the substance. The reader may in some
instances, say, that the representation is surely too
strong. do not think it strong the reality with
the circumstances OF the case-for there were some
twenty or thirty darkes, whether bond or free know
not, as was stranger In the pace-stDg before the
speaker hear the whole. This circumstance heehten
ed greatly the criminality OF his DISCOURSE"