Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-30
CLEvELAND. sATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3O, I859
MORNING LEADER.
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breaking up of NJ. Il. Conference in Texas.
The committee appointed by The slavehold.
ers of Fanuin county, Texas, to notify the
Methodist ministers in conference at Timber
Creek to break up their meeting and leave the
county on pain Of Lynch law, duly and charac-
toristicaly performed their mission The fol.
lowing statement is an account of the affair.
On the Sabbath, the great day of the confer
ence, Bishop james was in the pulpit, aud the
introductory services were in progress, when
from the windows of the church, far away on the
level plain, might be seen some horsemen APP
preaching. Tho house was about two thirds
full, when they knelt in prayers on arising, the
horsemcn had arrived, tied their horses, aud
crowded iato every open place in the house As
the Bishop arose to announce his text, the lead
er Of the mob, about three feet from the Bishop
before him, exclaimed "I have some business,
sir, rather unpleasant to me, and more so to
you; we have resolved in public meeting that
you shall not preach or hold meetings in these
regions The Bishop replied that it was not
his place to decline TO preach, it was for the SO.
ciety living there and owning the house TO dc.
eide whetherit could be occupied that morning
according to appointment, aud unless the trus
tees or proper authorities forbade him, he must
preach The leader of the mob replied threat
eningly, declaring that in + II that region Meth
odist societies should no longer be tolerated.
The frmness of Bishop James enabled him to
finish his sermon
The Conference resolved to disperso rather
than provoke such breach of the peace. The
New Orleans Christian Advocate speaks in the
following strain of this gross outrage upon
body of Christian ministers, aud of its own de-
nomination, too:
We regret to chronicle such things, but tn,
truth requires it. The Northern Methodis
Church has been trying Ito press Southwark
into Arkansas and Texas. For years they have
had few scattered and insignificant people, anC
| tc,o men called preachers in Northern Texai
and parts of Arkansas, which they called the
| "Arkansas Conference" It was a name whicl
showed well in the papers, but has been
all the time a ieorthless and hopeless Investment
| Bonham, Faunin county, Texas has bccn a sorI
| of center A conference was held there severa
years since, Bishop Simpson presiding. Re
Gently another conference has been held at Tim
Der Or, elk, IN the same vicinity, Bishop Jane
| presiding; and the results which might hdr
been expected from the first have at length beer
developed. This calamity has been inpoked b.
| them, and not by any means through the nnu
once Of Southern Methodists.
"While the South, #" comments the Pittsburgl
Gazette, is thus showing its entire disregau
of law, decencv, roligion and the vested right
Of the people, il Is clamoring for rigid enforce
menG vr Jue Fugitive Slave Law in the North
and the National Administration is doing it
best to oblige them Bishop James aud hi
clsrical hrethrnn ara Irivcn out nj Teyas E,r py
ercising their constitutional rights, and Rev
MIR. Peck and his christian brethren are immuret
at Cleveland for obeyiug tho dictates of human
| ty and religion. The ono is done in defiance
oflaw, the other under cloak of it but botI
are done because Slavery commands it. Th
law s to be respected only when it is upon it
| side"