The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-03-25
From tlc BlarF RIrsr UaitRman

the public press, IN order TO deter them, It
possible, from carrying into effect what now
seems 10 be their determination, viz: se-
verance of their political connection with
the Union. Why you should have deferred
this work, to this late date, remains with
yourself TO explain. Ii seems TO me, how
lever little strange, that you should have
remained profoundly silent, while matters
have been tending 10 the present crisis tor
50 long a time. | have read your Address
with great deal of pain and NOTIFICATION.
II 1t were to depend upon its intrinsic merits,
| would not deem it al all necessary TO no
tice it, But your high reputation for piety,
candor and talents-your exalted ecclesas-
tical position, give your bare opinions, UNI
supported by the shadow of an argument
more weight, in the estimation Of many,
than tine conclusions OF huudreds, based up
on the soundest logic. And ii is apparent
too, that you are perfectly conscious OF this
fact; for you say my life guarantees my
sincerity, and, on your part personal good
Twill" But, strange TO say, while you pro-
pose to instruct the good people of this
State, as to their duty in this political crisis,
you set out by telling them that you know
nothing of politics | remember TOO, when
some years since, your name by mistake, was
mentioned in connection with some politi-
cal movement in another State, you prompt.
Iy corrected the mistake and not only So,
but added, that you had not even gone to
the polls for some twenty years! |, Dear
Brother, am as much opposed to Ministers
OF the Gospel engaging in political strife as
you possibly can be. But it seems, that
, you too, can speak, when an occasion, i'll
your judgment, demands it. Believe me,
, my Brother, when tell you in all candor,
/ that in view Of your past indifference to po-
litica matters, it is rather unseemly in you
now, to thrnst your. fears and 1cdrHlRgS be-
fore the public mind. 1t would appear that
= you have gathered all these terrific vaticin-
) ations from your five months tour, in the
: performance of your episcopal duties in the
States named in your address. And Dear
9 Brother, you seem to have az opinion Of
e your Oa0n either, in regard to the wrongs
which are goading this State to the exercise
. of the same pOtce, IN going out Of the
: Union, which she exercised in becoming an
d integral part Of it. As a sovereign she came
h into it, and as sovereign she will 60 out OF
: it. Your address, | say affords the evidence
0 that you have no opinion of your own as to
the extent of our grievances. Speaking OF
e the overwhelming majority in the South
i ern States opposed to secession, you say
y the reason of this opposition, l hare IN
e deyStOod to be, they do not consider the acts
e of Congress to be violation of the Consti-
, tuition" And then you go on to say further,
: 9" understand it to be the opinion of our peo-
! pie of South Carolina, that Congress has
: violated the Constitution. And then you
. arrive at this portentous conclusion from the
above premises" at most then it is a moot
: ed point, and not 4 settled fact ~ 90.
S most lame and impotent conclusion" My
Dear Brother, have never heard you rea-
son after this sort in the pulpit; and sure
am |, you did not reason thus when you ad-
= vocated a dissolution of the bonds which
: held together the Methodist Episcopal
Church in these United States. Why, my
+ Brather, is there the .4etio3}rsar- Church.
North and the Methodist Church South !
Was it small matter that split in twain a
S Christian Church Are those thousands
+ dead at the North, who hurled their brethren
h of the South from their bosoms, and des-
poiled them of their Church property! Or
y if alive, are their arms thrown wide open,
e and in accents of brotherly love, are they
l. calling back their much injured brethren
All my Brother, the deed has been done
g the foul wrong has been inflicted, and they
e glory in it as having done God service. But
II perhaps you say, "the whole Southern
d Church was prepared for the disruption"
But | ask you, if all the Southern Church
J. had agreed to the terms of the North, but
d the Conference of South Carolina, would
d you have said to this Conference, SUbmu?
'r 1t seems, my brother, from the tenor OF
e. your Address, that you have taken counsel
g of your fears. You are specially terrified at
r the DecUniary sacrifices to be made in this
struggle for our rights. "Charleston will
be shut out from the rest of the word-her
commerce perish--her merchants slave her
r. in despair, while from her very Suburbs, her
Rice and Cotton shall be carried to Savan-
Is nah and Augusta for a market" HiRc lila
+: Lactryme. My Brother, our brave fore.
): fathersd id not calculate the value of liberty
e in dollars and cents
n After depicting the poUerty entailed upon
ID the State by secession, you ask the question
n "Can patriotism demand the sacrifice Z" A
!. thousand swelling and indignant bosoms cry
r "Yes Yes! Patriotism demands any sac
W rifce consistent with honor and religion
.e Liberty is always dear commodity-its
,s value is told in thousand blood.stalneC
10 fields. Oh! My Brother, remember Fort
9. Moultrie, Eutaw and Cowpens, and no Ion
W ger talk about dollars and cents. Did yol
d, ever admire the following sentiment "Mil
ne lions for defence--not a cent for tribute.
" Or this. DuLce ct decoruns est pro patrtc
m MORT" Ohow jeJune and fiat to talk abon
le patriotism in connection with dollars an
RS cents. Tell it not in Gath-~-publish it no
in thestreets of Askalon, that South Carol
ma patriotism has become commercial com
en- modify.