Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-03-02
II. g. Church, North-Slayery.

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II. e. Church, North-Slavery.
The citizens of Fabius Township, Mari
on County, recently held a meeting on the
subject of the Methodist Episcopal Church
North, and Slavery. 1t seems this Church
had Congregation and Minister in that
Township. A committee was appointed to
wait upon the Minister upon the subject,
and report to an adjourned meeting. At the
adjourned meeting, Rev. Mr.. Dennis, Pre-
siding Elder of the Church, delivered an adj
dress, after which strong resolutions were
adopted requesting the Church to cease hol-
ding their meetings, and the Minister to
cease preaching. We annex the resolu-
tions:-
LIST. That the peace and best interest of
this community require that the said Minis
tiers from this time, and forever hereafter,
desist from visiting and preaching among
US.
2nd. That we regard it as sacred duty
we owe ourselves and our country TO take,
and that rre DO noD take, high, firm and
positive ground, never to be abandoned
against all abolition influences, no matter
whence they emanate, and that we now
solemnly declare, that while we shall ever
be willing to seek, and glad to receive at the
hands of the law, protection from existing
ills, yet when the law fails 10 protect, we
claim It have the natural night, as commu-
nifty, to resort to the use Of such means as
will afford lis protection.
Sd. That the fanatics Of the North have
forced the question Of slavery into all the
Churches, and by their effort 10 rule or ruin
all who refuse to join them in their unholy
crusade upon our rights, the division of the
original Methodist Episcopal Church was
created--the only point Indifference between
the two wings being the subject of slavery
the Southern wing claiming under the con-
stitution and laws of the slave States, as well
as the constitution and laws of the United
States, the right to hold slaves and to re-
gulate all their own domestic affairs; while
the Northern wing declared slavery great
moral evil, and sinful in the sight of God
and man, and that there is law higher than
the constitution and the laws OF the land,
authorizing them to destroy the institution of
slavery, and for this purpose to send their
emissaries upon every preteXt, and under
all sorts of covers, into every portion Of the
slave States.
4th. That as the tenets and discipline of
the two wings Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church are identically the same, the Min
listers Of the Northern wing can do no good
here, but great harm. And that with all
due respect for the right of religious tolera-
ton as furnished and protected by the con-
stitution and laws OF our country, we, the
citizens Of Fabius and adjoining townships,
do solemnly protest against the practice OF
the said Methodist Episcopal Church North,
in sending Ministers among us, and we res
pectfully request such Ministers to make
no more appointments in this vicinity.
9th. That as we are situated contiguous tc
Quincy, city containing some of the vilest
abolition thieves in the Mississippi valley
: and as we have already suffered so much
at the hands Of those incendiaries, we regard
it absolutely necessary 10 the protection Of
, our slave interest, that we close our doors
+ against abolition and free soil influences Of
every character and shade, and that we shall
therefore esteem it highly improper for any
citizen hereafter to countenance or encour.
age the preaching or teaching in this com,
munity of the Ministers of the Norther1
wing Of the Methodist Church, or the
preaching or teaching of any other Minister
or Ministers, person or persons, the repre-
sentatives of, or in any way connected will
any church or churches, any association OF
society, whether religious or political, or o
L \
t fore, or shall hereafter, take ground directly
or indirectly, expressly or implicitly, ogains
the institution of slavery as it exists in tn
slave States, and we shall regard him VIII
shall thus encourage persons of this descrip
D ton, as unrriendly to our best interests, AM
as disturber of our peace.