Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-01-21
WAR OF THE ROSES ,
OR. a PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
M'. Editor

NJ. Editor
I'Ihe seat of truth is in our secret hearts,
Not in the tongue, which falsehood of imparts"
TIE dignity Of truth is lost with mach pro.
testing Tie difference between truth and error
is well known for error is fruitful, truth is only
one Truth stands upon lofty pedestal, an
covered, whilst error is cropping its way through
the labyrlnths of darkness which may be felt !!
In all controversies among the followers Of Je-
sus, how important it is to guard against any S.
every thing calculated ID raise suspicion in the
mind OF worldly man that they do not, us the
protested disciples OF their Lord and Master. OBJ
serve, religiously, the injSincti8a to speak the
truth at all times, even should il Be TO their own
hurt
| was surveying, carefully, and with a good
deal OF caution, the various champions who
have stepped forth upon the arena of dissraceful
Christian strife, and whilst looking at some of
the personages, my heart bled for the Church Of
Christ a protesting Christian need not exclaim
that ne has never put pen to paper in detractiou
or censure OF his tellow-men, in order to satisfy
them OF his neutral position, when he may be
traced from scene to scene, encouraging the
combatants to urge more hercely the unholy
| crusade Tor temporal power 1t is said BY some,
but how true, know not, that men, occupying
responsible positions in society," sustaining re-
lation Of the most solemn misunderstanding
between the living and the dead--are either d.
rectly or Indirectly engaged in this lou and
shameful business. Good God Is it SO How
grovelling the hearts of Christian men
Upon whose shoulders rests this awful respon.
sibility! now leave them in the hands of mer-
ciful God, whose sins He may remit, upon true
and genuine repentance and would offer my
earnest prayer TO high Heaven for my very wor-
thy friend of the "Messenger,a for the soft and
Christian expression of 'srilc sinner" am sat-
'stied it was nothing more nor less than an eb-
ullilon OF a moment of excitability, and could
not have proceeded from settled purpose to de-
stroy any good effect my former Communication
was designed 10 have. His relation to the
Church torbids it.
This whole controversy is resolving itself, as
fast as possible, into clear and open scramble
for the LoAyEs and FISHES !! Men followed the
Redeemer whilst He on this earth some,
from motives as high and lefty as Heaven; 9TH
ers, from motives as sordid and low as He'll
This Christian controversy is beginning to as
sumo a hue that eren Methodists must breast il,
and aid in putting 1t down. This may be look
ed upon, by some, as prophetic. now tell You,
as told you before, ~ am proud to say, be,
long, to no party or sect" Nor am & prophet
Or the son prophet; but speak nothing but tho
wordsot "truth and soberless."
Let me now call upon Christians, whether
| they be pfesbyterians, Roman Catholics, Metho-
d!ss or Epscopalians, to come up from the
world, to the rescue of the Church; for she is be,
set or all sides, her enemies numerous and if
not repealed by fasting and prayer & a holy life
on the part of Christians, she must suffer loss,
and that TOO. in the rery house of her professed
!tllends. The Banner of the Cross TO be trailed'