Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-04-12

N"U We VIM HOI 'OHSet hCep Tue IeducI
from the baIderdash Of this Irish divine.
who is like disgrace 10 his nativity and
his calling.
For the Democrat
DIR. DoLBEAR :-Havin! cleared the
way by some preliminary observations in
my last article, now proceed to place the
editor of the Register" between the
horns of the following dilemma, and or one
Of them he shall hang. 1 arrai5 IN him at
the bar of public sentiment, demand of
him impartial ami unercePtiOnaJLe prof OF
the sLanderOus allegations copied by him
from the g Richn ond Christian Advo-
cate" THAT scandal to all religious prints;
or. in default of this. he shall stand CON
violed before the world as a public SLAM
derer. and defamer OF the largest and
most influential church in Western Va,
and in the United States ind that he is
guilty of this baseness either to CRAFTY
the spleen of ~ few rencgadeS. or tor the
sake Of little cash. In investigating the
history of crime. have Thought that the
devil takes a great deal more pains " get
his deputies into difficulties than he does
to get them out. And this is case in
point.
Now. then. Mr.. Cooper. editor of the
" Cark>burg Register" stand up here,
sir, and hear your Indictment. Luok the
jury right in The face, sir. while it is read.
Why d" you hang yoIr head down after
that fashion LOok up. | charge, sir,
that the aforesaid article published IN your
paper Of the 9th OF March, and signed
" u>Iice." is false and slandcrous in four
important points
LIST. In regard TO the preacher now sta
toned in the Methodist Church in Buck
harmon.
81. In its statement relative TO the
members of the NJ. E. Church in Buck
harmon.
81. In it's statements relative to the NJ.
E. Church in Western Virginia.
4tI. In itA statements relative to the
NJ. E. Church in the United States.
Now. Mr.. Cooper. wish to taxi. no al.
vantage OF you whatever. You have pub
liShed the above statements to the world
as truth. for the sole purpose Of cx"itins
a spirit Of hostility and hatred against II
majority Of your fellow citizens. IN my of
whom hive hitherto been your patrons,
and have been paying you Tor slandering
themselves and their preachers. And
now that you are caught. and the base
ness, unreasonableness. and ingratiIude
Of your conduct is dragged 10 the light,
you must not find fault, as you have no.
MOxly. and tell him you have walked up
a passenger you did not expect. That a
storm has been raised that you have no
power to control. Tell him that your
conduct in publishing those articles is
considered by the public mind not on
ly base. but cowardly. That when you
branded the ministers and members of the
NJ. E. Church with aboliLioni<m, that you
had effectnally gagged them. so that
they dare not reply. Tell your masters
that you and them had sadly miscaIcua-
lated the influence Of the NJ. E. Church,
AMI the attachment Of the membership 10
their ministers. Tell them that they might
as well attempt to sever the coIds Of af-
fectiOR between parents and children, as
between the preachers and members Of
the NJ. E. Church. Tell your masters
that there is as much difference in this
respect between the NJ. E. Church and
the Church South, as there is between
light and darkness. Tell them that the
ministers of the old Church are talented,
pious, God-fearing men, whose labors
make the world better while the labors
of the Southern preachers in this country
makes society worse. Tell them that the
union existing between them and their
preachers is r holy, sanctiied union.
growing out of the relations they sustain
to them as their spiritual children. And
tell them that this is bond of union that
no slanderer has the power to dissolve
Tell them that in this respect the two
Churches are entirely dissimilar. Let
Them know that the preachers Of the oil
Church are men OF one work, aud that is
toSaye sinners and build up believers in the
TAI h and hope of the gospel. and that it is
painfulEor the II to have to turn aside 10
attend to anything else. And do not for. /
get. Mt Cooper, to inform your masters.