New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-22

In the present state Of theological feeling in this
country, We shrink from disregarding whatever
important events connected with it may occur.
ease of discipline noticed in enc Of the relg-
ieus newspapers, has filed US with anxiety aud
awakened our suspicious. certain John Dixon
Long, who has undertaken to preach the Gospel to
a portion of the residents of West Philadelphia,
has had the insuasrable impertnence to write
book about Slavery, in which the buy ing and selling
of men is not set forth as revival of apostolic
sanctities and virtues. In it, as We are informed
he has INDUCED in the most miscellaneous misrsp-
resentaton-be has even slandered Border Ruilians
he bas libelled the people Of Maryland and Della
ware--he has back. bitten the clergymen of those
States-he has generally done injustice to the men,
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of that
iJk, and he has actually gone to the length of
nalgning "the colored people" Who the Rev.
John Dixon Long is we don't know. We have
never read his book, although we may have seen it.
Far be it from us to waste our precious time,
which everybody knows is money, in the perussl of
such pestlent snd dangerous volumes. We there
fore teke an early occasion to present our thanks
to the Reverend Thomas J. Qugley (of whom we
also never before heard), who has taken
tie above named j. d. Long in hand,
and who is after him with the most
deliberately whitfield Of sharp ecclesiastical
sticks. Quigley-the Rev. Qugley-with de-
gree Of fairness for which even the thrice-de
PRAYED Abolitionists will give him credit, has mott
fed Long that at the next meeting Of the Phade
phia Annual Conference Of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, he (the Rev. Qugley) will move to
have him (Long) kicked out, for the crimes, mis-
demeanors and heresies aforesaid. He gives all
his specifications Gas if the thing were court
martia ard bids the out .ast Long prepare for his
defense. 1t strikes US that this is q little too
fair upon the part of our brother Quigey. The
| pulpit if We may say so, with due reverence, is
rather running down than otherwise. Not long
ago, in Philadelphia, certain Rev. John Cham
bers was guilty of preaching (of a Sunday, too, }
against prize-fghting, tive of the denizens of that
City of Brstherly Love having pounded them
selves to msrmalade. IL we are to have preach.
ing against single combats, when it is perfectly
well known that David and GOliah INDUCED in that
pastime, what shall we have reason TO expect next
Quigley (wboever he may be) stepped in at the
precise moment. BY turning them out at the
proper season. We shall ere long get rid of these
Longs.
We have said that we thought QUigley (the Rev
erend) little too fair. We have never been able
|, to see why any quarter should be shown to those
AbotionistS who Turk in pulpit. Our own im-
pression-we state it with difidence-has always
been that such incen6ares should have taste Of
their own favorite element. II would not be a
bad idea to place small package Of sulphur and
iron filings under their pulpit stairs and thus to
remove them BY the blessed aid Of spontaneous
combustion Bat we shall not interfere with the
Quigley method of getting rid Of Long. On the
other hand we have drawn up little form, which
We cheerfully put at his service, and which may
with effect be launched at Longs head at the next
meeting of the Conference 1t is also quite at the
service of other Quigleys. 1t has cost us no great
trouble 10 prepare it, and tie consciousness that
it may prove seryiceable to our Southern brethren
has amply repaid us for our labor. To tell the
truth it is, after ALL musty affair. the moldy basis
Of il being over three hundred years old. Why
can't we, good Quigley, good DR.. Ross, good DIR.
Adams good DR.. Cox, have Councils of Trent in
our day However, we must come as near TO
them ss we can. If Qugley will but fire the fol.
lowing at Long, We are certain that Long will not
Dc for long in this world.
"CASos l. II any one shall deny that both the Old
Testament and the New Testament sanction, support
and recommend Slavery: AnafLema SIT
"CAsoS II. II any one shall say that adultery. for
lctt on the breeding e children for the cake of sell
irs heu, tue putting asuudet Of husband and wife,