American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-07-14
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The Lexington Gazette very soundly be-
rates an anonymous scribbler for the Rich
mond Enquirer, who dates from Monroe
county, and who, being exceedingly wrath
tul on account of the handsome majority
which the American ticket received i'm tha [
county, consents to be guilty of most un
just and illiberal attack upon the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. The Gazette reasons thus:
g" Because this Conference includes within
i's limits 2 portion of Pennsylvania, he ca
il Northern MethodSm, and represents it as
hiagonistic to the Methodist Church South.
Now this is extremely illiberal, and indicates
"a mind completely blinded by the prejudices
oil party spirit, when man can deliberately
charge Conference which meets in and
bears The name of Southern city. and in
cIudcs within It's bounds a large portion Of
Maryland and Virginia, with undue sympa-
Thy for the North and hostility 10 the South.
lie goes further and says that "many of the
preachers sent by the Baltimore Conference
into Western Virginia are Free.Soilers and
AboIitionis,s." Whether this declaration be
true OF false, it is not very complimentary
to the soundness OF Western Virginia on
the great question of Southern rights, to
charge her with allowing her pulpils to be
filled by lree-soilers and abolitonists. He
winds up his assaults upon the ministry CT
The Baltimore Conference with the follow
ics,seSee:: sh'tlcSs;.s -.a.5ysy;;, ,.i 81
"lt is time that every patriot and friend
OF The institutions of the Sonth and South.
ern nights should arouse and expel from the
Old Dominion every Northern Methodist
preacher, and have introduced in lieu there.
of preachers attached to the Methodist
Church South, for ! can assure you these
Northern Methodists are bitter and deadly
enemies TO our institutions, aud unless they
are expelled, will abolitonize Western Viz.
glnia."
Everything nowadays that does not fall
down and worship Locolocoism, is denounc-
ed by that party as abollionism Because
the Methodists in Monroe generally support
The American ticket, the Baltimore Confer
'ence is publicly branded with Norhernism,
and the Ministers represented as the deadly
enemies of the South. Such gross Injustice
to that Conference and its ministers oroh,
not TO be tolerated.. 1t is an insult upon the
pie,y and patriotism Of the cIerov Of that
Church, who, with spirit of self.sacri(iciny
devotion to The cause ,hey esoousc eodpr 20 q
privalions, suffer hardships, UNDERGO the
coaseess labors Of The missionary. tha, ,bev
may bear the glad tidings to the hnmblest
inmate of the rudest hut of thc maintains
1T is an insult to the LOYALTY Of Western
Virginia to her own institutions and her o,v,
rights, to charge her people with beino under
The influence OF dcpraved and desioniue alb.
olilionss.
But is the baltimore Conrerence y,b,sh
this distinguished Locofoco so ferociopslv
and unquaIifedly dubs "Nor,hen Method.
ism," Justly obnoxious 10 the CHARGE Of abo.
lition propagandfsm /? Judge that Confer.
cnce by her own action and ree how sbo
4 stands upon the slavery Question H.
In 1916 she unanimously aIop,ed HE fol.
lowing resolution:
"The Baltimore Annual Conference dis.
. claims having any fellowship with abolition
ism. On the contrary; while it is deter.
mined to maintain its web known. ana g,sS,ssss
established position, BY keeping the travel
ling preachers composing lis body fee from
slavery, it is also determined not 10 hold con