Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-05

traducers, then let the indignations of an
insulted public fallsupon US, instead OF
that of a few apostases and expelled mem
bers-the t1eanest of all adyersarles--
and their paid tool, the editor of the Re-
yister. And il they fail to establish their
charge by impartial and unexceptionable
testimony, then will the whitening frown
and rig hteous indignation of the great
public heart. fall in thunder tones upon
our traducers, and they will become a
Kissing and by-word and reproach un-
til they shall have neither name nor place
among us. ska -
l claim that the Methodist Episcopal
church, her friends and adherents en-
brace three fourths of the entire .popula-
ton of Harrison county and of all West
ern Virginia. And want to know whe-
Their these Methodists and their friends
will sustain this man Cooper inthe course
he has adopted for months past, of open
ing his columns, not to a fair and manly
controversy-that would be all right.
conducted by intelligent men over their
own proper Signatures-but by the mean
est of all -apostates from our
LUZ "uO diC LICSC
dists denominated as abolilionists and enc
mics TO the country, by Field. Kelly and
Moxly Bastable, for months past through
the columns of Cooper's paper ? Why.
sir, the best citizens in the land. In
Buckhannon. such men as the Carper's,
Henkles and others. In Clarksburg.
such men as DR.. DAWSON, Golf. Hursey,
Ebert. Stcaly and others; and in Milford.
Jackson, O'Neal. Miller. Stout. Waldike.
the l.ynchcs and others. And all over
the country. the best men and women in
it; men and women who, as church
members or citizens, would do honor to
any country. These Methodists and
their friends are the descendants of the
men who braved the tomahawk and
scalping knife of the savages before this
man Cooper, their slanderer, was born.
And who are the acusers of these noble
men who have been associated with every
enterprise Of the country from its first
settlement. who have helped to make the
laws and execute them, and in word,
who are in .erwOven with the very frame
work OF society? Who, ask. are the
accuserS and slanderers of these Metho-
dists AS far as Clarksburg and Mil
ford are concerned l need not answer
this question as your readers are better
acquainted with the material out OF
which the small societies in those places
was organized, than the writer. There
is one thing certain, with few exceptions.
they were no loss to the church they left. !
and no gain to the one they joined. And
how those exceptions could associate with
the others is a mystery | shall not at
tempt to explain. As it regards the
most OF their preachers, we may say in
the language of the church OF England,
- From such reli 5iouS teachers. Good
Lord deliver u.s. The whole of them.
believe, are either public or private Sian
drrers Of the NJ. E. Church. They seem
to regard themiel as Il kind of land
pirates. having commission to get as
many OF The members OF the old church
us they Can, either by fraud or force, to
unite with them. Finding that. they
were met and thrashed severely. and their
champion driven off. they have changed
their tactics. ana either personally, or
by their emlsSarieS. they g round from
house lu house. with honey on their lips.
and the venom of the serpant in their
hearts. to persua lie our members to Join
them. They have pursued this course
until they have become the laughing stock
OF all intelligent persons buth in the
church and out of it. And these South
ern preachers sent among US from other
States, to Islander US, are paid out of the
Missionary money collected off their
members in the South, aud which they
suppose has gone TO convert the heather.
Their preachers in Western Virginia last
year received 81 ,5OO-and Mr.. Field was
paid $3.50 TO convert the heather Of
CIarksburg. am not done with Mr..
Cooper yet.
y WESTERN vIRGINIAN.
1t is a misfortune, or rather. perhaps
we should say. one of the mysteries ofan
inscrutable Providence, that all things
great and good should have their blem-
ishes. The twelve disciples Of our
Lord embraced Judas Iscariot-the sun
has its spots. and the Methodist Epi<co-
pal church is cursed with Wesley Smith.
1--WE call the writer Of these articles by
name. because zoe know our man, and can
and eUW prove it, if he dareS to deny their
"uth"rship.)
We need not say, as our readers al
rca ly know, that the charges made in the
above article are false from beginnihing
to end. AMI cannot further proceed to no.
tce it, without first giving them our rea-
sons for replying to an article, which so
Enthusiastically stamps its author as
blackguard. To treat everything &C
cording to its nature. as Mr.. Smith says
should be done. would be to apply, the
corrective SO wildly impressed upon his
mind in his school boy days, and since