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FRIDAY MORNING NOyEMBER. 20 1856
From tie LouieriHe JauraaF. i.
The First Epistie of Aaron to the
Church of TeuneSsee.

From tie LouleraHe journal.
The First Epistie Of Aaron to the
Church of Tennessee,
We eanddly confess that we were simple
enough to believe that the days of Apostolic la
bors had passed away Bat it seems that in this
we were mistaken A successor OF the ilustri-,
Gus Paul has turned up in Tennessee. This
man, WHO claims to be the son of saint, is
named Aaron, and sirnamed Brown; he has adj
dressed an epstle to the bishops elders and other
ministers, itinerant and local, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, warning them not to
be carr led away with the new and strange doe
trines of the KNOWN Nothings. This Epislle a.
bounds in ext,ayagdnt assumptions, affected ap
peals inflated exhortations, and false logic, urg-
ing the ministers Of the Gospel to regard the A..
merican parry as zabonination % @llich non j
shoal3 adhere uI16 exp1ek to enter the kngiom 81
HeaT1ns zSpare prone to believe that, whaN.
our Apostle penned his piping Epistle lie wasS
maryelousiy moved by the Spirit; but the nature
Of that spirit. whether it came from Fralee,or Ja-
maica, or was caught at home, Scoring through
the rye are interesting particulars as to whici
we are left to oconjecturc.
The Apostle opens his Epistle to the Church
by announcing that he is the s.son of q santed
nth.r.' This is done, doubtlessly, to render his
teachings more impressive, aud to invest them
with the sanctity of Inherited piety. Solomon
said tLat ea living dog better than dead lion,
so G are bound to believe that the living Brown
in addition to his own piaty nherits the pietY of
tie dead one. It docs not appear, however, that
| the pios,sly disposed Aaron has ever taken up his
cross and followed in the footsteps Of his "sainted
tatii7, tu, he has wandered off into the tents of
/ the tribe Of Democrats, who have made him one
Of their high priests and rulers. 1t is good 20
| be benevolent, ana the g;ver should be bessed,
In,
Thought Aaron, when, resolved not to weary in
well-doug, he dispatched his admonitory epistle
to tie bishops aud selders Of the church South
| This son of saint and apostle of Democracy
speaks to them as one who is wise aud competent
to instruct; he is graciously pleased to tell the
i ministers Of the Church thot they are the ssrepre-
sentatiyes of religious denomination whose creed
he approves and whose growth and progress he
has witnessed for years with the highest satisfac-
i ton Asran TO the grass, or dew to the fow-
i ers SO must be this gracious and refreshing ap-
j proval-tbis condcscending patronage--this free
4 endorsement, by the wise and mighty Aaron, oi
the orthodoxy and respectabliity o. the Metho-
J dist Church They cannot fan to be struck
with the humility of the Christian and the con.
deacension of the man. Noble, generous Aaron
protector OF the church and defender of the faith
| how kind it was III you thus to come forward
and lend the prestige of your high name and tht
patronage of your position to the Church! 1t may
+ now be regarded as occupying high ground, sinct
i you have given it countenance and support; ant
i the respectabty of the institution has been en-
!. dorsed by the pious Mr. Aaron V. Brown.
81 Aaron, the son OF q saint, says: "In the muta
tons Of parties in this country, new one has late
+ " arisen, to which, | apprehend, more of tn
B Methodist ministers hvye attached themselves, q
ri least III the Stateo Tennessee. than might hay
various questions which have heretofore divide
: the former political parties Of this country A
Ter expressing his astonshment that any ministe
: or professor OF religion shonn continue in "a pai
ty so peculiar as the KNOWN othings, he pre-
leeds thus: aK now n othingism has an organiza
Ition Which we hold to be both uaclri tan and al
!, larftl. and therefore, when rightly understoos
must be Abandoned How kind and considered
Z it is in Apostle Brown to tell the stupid preacl
ers Of Tennessee that they do not know what the
are about : that they are SHINING from sheer i
. noranca. We will wager Q shilling to sixpenc
y that these preachers think they understand VIII
> they are. doing. and that they comprehend Il
principles and approve the aims Of the par
with which they are acting. But Aaron says,
: q We signpls ones, ye know not what ye do. He
me; for I will speak Of excellent things; and 7
8 opening of nv lips shall be right things t
YOU that the Know-N othings are unchristian,b p
cause they take oaths, and they act unlawful
because they are consprators. They conspi
against the dearly beloved Irish, the Dutch q
Catholics. q -
II Is probable chat If Aaron had not been ma
Into county court lawyer, and q pot house pe
tician, he would have been an itinerant prsacf
of the terrific, blood-and- thunder school .deeli
n damnation round the land, for be appears 70
. about as learned in things spiritual as he IS
f1;,<r,o krs,9raraI his fhaolaov and his law