Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-09-01
CaTY AND sfATR NEWS.

tho Ohio Trust Company, hes been arrested on sui'S
of the Merchants Bank OF Wheeling and Farmers
Bank OF Virginia lie entirely incorrect, as ar as tr
Farmers Bank is Concerned, and thar the Farmers
Bank OF Virginia has he'd transaction whatever
with the Ohio Trust Company.
SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN NEW ScHpoL) Cos
vESrioS-THIRD DAY, AUG. 29-MuRSiSG SLssioS
We copy from the Dlspatch.-The following rssoiu
ton, reported from ths Business Committee, was
omitted by all reporters Saturday, by accident:
Resolved Tbat We recommend to the Presbyrrle'
in convention with the New School General As
sembIy of the Presbyterian Church. to withdraw from
said body.
Hon. w. n. Cooke, OF Tenn, moved to appoint a
COMMITTEES on credentials. The motion was adopted
tee Hon. WIN. Cooke, Rev. DR.. Charles II. Read
and Prof. A. A. Blair.
Sons discussion ensIed on the credentials necessa-
nv for the admission of delegates.
Mr.. j. K. Tucker called for the order of the day.
On motion of DR.. Leach, the Convention resolved
itself into committee OF the wh0le-Rev. Mr. McDear
mon in the Chair.
Mr.. Matthews moved to proceed to the considera'
ton of the resolutions reported from the Business
Committee. Carried.
On motion of Mr.. Handy, the resolution, were ta
ken up Ser1afem.
The first resolution being taken up Rev. Mr.. Ley.
burn moved to strike out the words New School, as
being a mere party nppellatiou.
Mr. Boyd said it had been merely inserted for The
sake Of distinction.
Rev DR. Converse moved to amend the resolution,
40 as to say General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church. often designated as New School,
DR. Leach objected to the insertion of the words
New School" at all. He said it did not belong to
the body and had been applied in asperty, and with
O slanderous meaning.
Rev Mr. LeyGurn was opposed to the use of the
words New School, They had been applied to the
body as a stigma, and a term Of naughty designa.
ton.
The resolution to strike out the words "New
School," was adopted.
Gen Fred a Ross-I suppose then, we are all Old
School now.
On motion of Mr. Mitchell, the committee Of the
whole rose, in order to receive new members.
Hon w Cooke, Chairman Of the Committee OIL
Credentials, reported the following new members
Hon S w Lucky, Holston Presbytery; DR. Pope
Mr. e A Rice Union Presbyteryi S II Gaines, Kings
TOM Rufus Britain, New River; II Broughton
Richland West Tennessee; Rev a Dickerson
Bowling Green, Ky; Rev J j Mcmahon, How
ard, w Is Hudson, Juo Venabls, Med Venable
Z Edmund, Ed Shelton, L Duu,on, Il g Bell, Han
over Presbytsry; Rev Mclean, Mississippi.
A resolution for emitting the examination of the
credentials Of members already sitting, was adopted
and they were admitted.
motion allowing the committee Of the whole 10
cit again was defeated.
Mr.. Z. r. Grattan moved to reconsider the amend
meut striking out the woids New School" in the
first resolution.
DR.. Ross said that the tine.honored name, New
School, had been reverepced In Tennessee, for sixty
years He loved it, aud hoped it would not be struck
out It would appear to the world as if they were
going right over TO the Old School. Hshonored that
grand old body, but was not prepared TO 60 over to
them just yet.
DR.. Leach entered his objections TO the name OF
New School.
Mr.. Marshall of Tenn favored the insertion of the
words $50 called" before the name Nsw School, a
compromise with those gentlemen, who wished the
name struck out He did net think it matter oil
very great importance.
Mr.. Ley burn of Va, thought if the words New
School" were left out, the world would yet know 10
what body the resolution reerred. he thought il
would be doing Injustice to themselves 10 assume the
name and recognise the propety Of the term, and i,
was surrendering principle for which they had con.
tended twenty years.
Mr. Shngford Of Pa, was here as one Of the
floating members Of the Church, placed in that posi-
ton by the action of the late General Assembly. lie
here to represent men of piey conservatism and
New School or any thing else introduced here, the
effect OF which would be- weaken the cause at the
North.
Mr.. Dickinson of Kentucky, moved that it be go
amended to say "the Prespyteries sympahsng
with the objects of this Convention are invited 10
The amendment was adopted
The first resolution, amended, was then taken
up aud adopted with few dissenting votes. II resis
as adopted, as follows:
/. Resolved, That the Presbyteres sympshizng
with the objects of this Convention are invite: to
withdraw from their present eccesascal relati rs.
The second resolution was then taken up. 1t reads
as follows:
Resolved, That in the judgment of this Couven.
ticn. nothing can be made the basa for discipn: in
the Presbyterian church which il not speciticalI!Te
terred to in the constitution as crime ur heresy.
Rev. Mr.. McLan of Mississippi, offered res.lu.
ton, inserting the words "or implicitly after he
word specifically.
DR.. Boyd opposed using the word "inpliecy'
urging s dangerou. character. He said thathe
abollliousls of the North had urged that slavery NJ
piled oppression.
Rev. Mr. Rogan of Tennessee, favored the u's Of
the word. as there might be ua-y breaches Of I:hi
which were 10, nau-d in the constitutions.
Mr. Williams Of Virginia, said it would be aim.
congruous light and darkness truth and error to
reconcile specification and implication.
DR.. Converse said everything is heresy wtch
comes in conflict with the bible as We interpret tat
work in our confession OF faith. He felt the danger
of inserting the word "inpliedly." In 1876, ater
two weeks discussion, the General Assembly aid
down the doctrine found in the second resolution, ud
experience has taught US that it is from Which
1t is dangerous TO depart
Mr.. Fletcher, Of Virginia, said if tho charge Of p.
preston WAS brought against member, he wisted
20 know whether the sccuser would have TO specy
what character of oppression. He did not refer .
slavery or any other question
Mr.. Shillingford, OF Pa, opposed the use OF tie
word "impliedy," saying that, with the CONSTRUCTION
given it the North, charges might be tabled again
him when he returned home, which, though he VT
not afraid to meet them, would yet be likely to i'll
pair his usefulness az asympathissr with this body
Rev. MIR. Mitchell sald that 1t was useless to al
tempt TO legislate to please brethren at the North
He thought The action Of fathers in the COuven
ton of 1918, declaring slaveholdng 10 be mora
wrong, was an insult to the shareholders OF the South
and out of that had sprung all our trouble lie bt
leved crimts are included under the specifications
the confession of Faith.
Mr.. Rogap, Of Tenn, moved that the I'd resolution
BIZ indefinitely postponed.
MIR. Morrison, of Mo-, opposed the postponemen
the gist of all that had split aud dismsmbered tn
church.
The question came up on the motion 10 postpone
and the motion was lost.
The question then required on the amendment Q
Mr. McLain, of Miss, inserting the word "impliedy
The amendment was withdrawn.
Mr.. Fletcher offered an amendment substituting
the word designated" for the words specifically re
ferred to-"
The amendment was defeated.
The question then came up on the resolution, ant
il was adopted.
The third resolution then came up and wls adopted
without dissenting voice. The following is th
resolution:
Resolved, That the General Assembly of the Pres
byterisn Church has no power to pronounce sentence
OF condemnation on lower judicatory on iudivid
uals, for any cause, unless they have been brough
before the Assembly in the way prescribed by th'
constitution.
The fourth resolution came up. The following il
the resolution:
Resolved, That the Convention recommend to al
Presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church, which arr
opposed to the agitation of slavery in the highest u
dcstury Of the church. to appoint delegates in the
proportions prescribed by our form of government
for the appointment of commissioners to the Assem-
bly,, to meet at Knoxville, Tenn on the I'd Thursday
In May, 1853, for the purpose Of organizing Gene
raj Synod, under the name of THE United Synod o.
the Presbyterian Church in the Cuted States Of Anne
rica."
DR.. Leach moved to strike out all after the words
1853, and insert the following 'for the purpose Of
organizing General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church South
Rev. Mr.. Boyd said there had been much diversity
Of opinion in the committee this resolution. Some
proposed the names of constitutional Synod.
"Presbyterian Assembly, ""General Assembly of the
prpshyterisn Church Southn d.c The committee