Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-12-08
!, q aIiapt1 N;I|lItp Star.
ME-. Church North and the ssEapawha
Republican again.

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onths 18th of last september, we pub,
hshed tho proceedings af a;public meet.
ing held IL BoothsyilIs, in Taylor County,
aud, on the 18th Of October, the RepuJ-
7ieaaaof ibis place, came out II Pm Edi,
toriaI, id which Ii denounced the Resolu-
tons passed Al said meeting. as y gross
Y and watton SANDER On Tire N. j.. Church
North, and spoke Of the'. sstar n 4 con!
demnatoty manner. for publishing those
proceedings. III our issue Of the Goth Of
OctDber, we called on DUR neighbor! II
the most respect almannsr, to point out
the PARTICULARS III which the Resolutions
passed WI that meeting, were gross
and Wanton Islander I Ion that Church. ;
but the, Republican, instead Of promptly
responding 10 our inquiriss.li in d bold and
candid manner, remained silent for more
than month, until it presumed that the
public had forgotten thelissues between
Us. and then came out il an article in
whiciiit artfully seeks to evade tie whole
matters i'll controversy aad reiterates the
stalecharSe, that The proceedings q that
meeting ARE \. 1 gross and wanton SLAM
der without producing particle of tes-
timony 70 sustain It's charges, and with
W. 81 aE
outeyen ~ much as publishing The Res
olutions Oh The B9othsEille meeting. in
order that1the readers Of the Republican
might BE- enlightened as To the nature and
extent Of The /" SANDER We now cali
upon the Republican to publish the pro-
/ seedlings IF that meeting. and to point
out TO- It's teaderS single particular in
which those Resolutions are /" SANDER
on the N. u. Church North.
Is il a SANDER on that Church, to say,
II the language Of the ssrond Resolution
of that Meeting aThattbe presentposi-
!" tion Of tic Northern division Of tie Al.
II. Church on.the slavery question. the
NJ action Of its general and annual COME
4 Z rences the course taken by its Editors
4 and Clergy, prove il to be as thorough
"ly abolition AZ any party u the coun-
/" try ~ OF is il a |" slander" to- say,
4 that the]fye Christian -ddpocates, pub
lished in tie cities Of New York, Pitts
.burghs Cincinnati, St Louis, and Chi
2 cage, have become abolition sheets ?p
J But the Star has heretofore proven. by
J various extrscts from those papers, that
they are abolition sheets. and even the
, Republican il forced 70 admit that there
Krc /" occasional articles from the Metho-
dist papers published in the free states,
condemnstorJ Of the institution Of slave
ry.'''5 The Republican has. not had the
sudacity to deny that the 4 Methodist pa
pers published in the free states and
the Conferences, general and annual, hol.
den ID tile free states. are free soil and
abolition, but III seeks 70 erade theforce
ofthese facts, By attempting II draw 4
distinction between the Meth. Church in
the free states, y and the Northern diyis-
ION Of the Methodist Church in Western
Virginia. AS we'll might the miserable
and contemplate faction mi Virginia.
which rallied beneath the black banner
Of Fremontism In 1856, have said, altho'
weare pant and parcel Of a great section
al and abolition party, whose power and
strength is III the " FREQ States,' and al
though we advocate Abolitionism and
Black Republicanism, ret We are not
!" northern men, but native born Vir-
ginians. and therefore il is a I. gross.
sIspder" nottosay that we are 'sas far re !
moved fronAabolition tendencies as any
other equal portion Of the citizens of the
State" I-#E l I'll
/ II the WesterR Virginia Conference
IS not an abolition body. let is ministers
refuse to act as agents in disseminating
the abolition jout.als Of the q Methodist
Church. published in the free States. Z
and Let them refuse to fratefnize with
their abolition brethren III the . free
States. !" who denounce slavery as the
..sum Of all yillanies - lei chem cut
loose fromthe northern abolition schoon-.
Or, upon which they haye7b been embarked
sys- since the division Of tie Church. IN
1914. While tie clergy Of the Western
Virginia Conference sail On such craft.
III won'tdo TO hold out any other than
abolition colors. III
Blu. the clergy of the Western viz
ginia ConferenceEof ths Nortbera Church
are not only allied with the n Methodist
\ Ghurch in The flee States, 4 and engaged
iHc:irculating The abolition papers Of that
Church, publis6edin the free States, L I
but their own ofhcial acts clearly indi-I
lcale that tlacy afe part and parcel Of The
greas abolition family whose Origin and
power is ID tlle 4 free States. /.
AT the last General Conference Of the
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