Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-03-15
For tho Clarksbure Register.

Mr.. Enron. 81 observed in your 'sRe
gister', of the god of February an artiel
over the signature of !: Justice. or as HI
more handsomely styles himself, al
.' American Yirginian, = which, with you
Indulgence, shall try very briefly 70 no
tice /:
Z And in doing so it could not reasona
bly, be expected that I should notice eve
rything alluded to by Justice in his peri
ginations through more than two col
1mns of that tsfse and beautiful docu,
ment.
| And first, if in a single instance have
misquoted his statements assure ham IN
all caudor 1T was 5unintentional aimed
to represent his statements fairly which
II yet think must be the case, and were il
Jimmy power at: present, / should furnish
you with one of those rare Richmond
documents, that you might Judge who has
been fairly represented:
I.now ask if it be. representation to
say that Justice tries to make the impress
sion that the NJ. E. Church in. Buckhanr
non held general meeting to consult
! in regard to the views of their minister,
Is this not the fair inference when he
Esays that he knew something of this con-
ference. That ,''the head Sine" -further
in describing it, he what did
these wise men, these pillars. yea, these
class leaders do;' DC, now, l must again
say that such meeting has not been
held in Buckhannon, SO far as we can
learn. And I am informed that these
pillars and wise men Gas he terms them)
are willing at any time to answer for
themselves. Hear Justices English fur
ther He SAYS ga consultation was held
and after much counselling the heads
met" With whom did they counsel p
Surely not with each other before they
met, unless they were a little more than.
mortal. He says the meeting was at q
saddlery "where they had another talk
Whether the second talk was had before
or after they met, we are not informed
Now is it not evident from his own Lam
guage that he either4did not know what
he was talking about when awake, or as
has already been charitably intimated that
dreams have been haunting his imaSlna,
ton.
Justice now says that he did not say
that the Buckhannon minister with four
ffths of. the ministers of the Western
Virginia Conference are Ultra A5oti-
tionists.'' Well, whether he said SO be-
fore or not. surely this is the more RAJ
tiOnal conclusion.
Again he says, "where did the first
blast breeze from for a dissolution of our
glorious Union 1t came from Northern
Aboltionism. Where dil Abo!itionism
have its birth place? Among the crown |
ed heads of Europe" What think you
Justice, must not "the first blasts OF dis.
solution of our Union breczed from Eu-
rope alsoY' Yes, sure enough, you say
in another place. that a certain preach
er might be under the REGULAR pay of
Abolition societies of Great Britain" and
you say ''Lhcir aim is a dissolution of the
Union. Here we haveit. Well, what
ever its policy may now be, we know
that there has been period in our ma
lional history in which England was in
favor Of slavery in the United States
But admit what he says, that England is
seeking dissolution Of our Union; have
we not as good a right to believe that she
has her paid cmissuries in the South as
we'll as in the North. If our dissolution,
be her policy. must we not believe that
she as much pays those Nashville Con-
ventionists, NuIliders ana factionists in
the South, whose policy it is to dissolve
the Union, as to believe that she pays
diSunionists in the North. And to ap
proach Il little nearer home, "who knows
but this man who assumes the name Of
Justice and is clamorous in raising party
strife under the sanctimonio1s garb OF
a religionist and patriot, is n5s now un-
der regular pay OF Southern factionists in
league with the " British Government"
We w Juld fain hope othcrwi5c.g .Bib if
any man in this country receives such
pay (and if we judge pay by the wofk,)
wouldn't not be reasonable to suppose that
he of all othersis most to be suspected. q
Justice says f'AboIitionism is a pestife-
Ious curse ;''oa new 1pestyerous word
coined, sposc. If he means to cay IL is
a great evil, we say the same, and every
true Virginian most truly detcsts Ultra
Abolivionists and factionists in the north:
They also, most cordially detost and alb
hor Ultra faction men and disunionists in
the South. iaar 500 EwuaJ ngl- -
Justice denies that the su5jcct'of ,divi-
sion has been advocated in Buckhanhon
for nearly five years. 1t is we'll known
that in the ensuing summer, five years
will have elapsed since j. K. Hedges de-
livered his first discourse in the Career
Church, at the close of which he stated
thathe was semitic preach. and intended
to occupy the ground. Yes" he re-
Peated, with emphasis, 81 say we intent
to occupy it." During the latter part OF
tie same summer, the Rev. Mr.. Thorn
ton, an unexceptionable man ond preach.
er, assisted in organizing the Churcl
South, in Buckhannon. The members,
(then as now, about eleven in number, in
Guiding town and three or four miles Of
its vicity) were taken, too, from the old
| Church, but they principally belonged
| South in Eastern Yirninia Yet afier nj