Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-31
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Prom the Central st. LOUISE Christian Advocated
Our readers have been duly and fully advised
of the alarming state Of things on our South
western border. The terrible storm has been
brewing for several months. The Central Advo.
cate has often been arrested aud suppressed by
officious postmasters and other hirelngs of OPP
preston. Our ministers and members have
been narrowly watched by vigilance committees
and pro.slavery spies in general. At the late
session Of the Arkansas Conference, held in
Texas, MOB was gathered and set upon Bishop
James and the wOrshiPping congregation on the
Sabbath daV. OF this shameful affair, and those
who figured prominently in it, full account was
in our paper. Since the adjournment, the storm
clond has thickened. The most violent meas
ures are being adopted against our preachers
and people, in conformity with the advice Of the
Texas Advocate for their eXtirPation from the
State. Our poor brethren arc hunted down like
beasts of the forest. they are threatened with
death if they dared to preach the Gospel of
Jesus Christ under the auspices of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church. A number of our preach
crs have been compelled to fee for their lives.
Others remain, endeavorins to keep the little
flock together, but so on with their very lives
in their hands.
The Rev. Wm. Bait, presiding elder ofTeXa<
District, is en- route for his field oflabor, but a
terrible reception seems to await him. friend,
writing us, SAYS: "Fathcr Rewley has gone to
litS circuit, DNE IL Is uOubtiul WuelNeT ug cFSI
returns to his family again; for as the blood
hounds howl Tor the blood Of the fugitive slave,
even SO do these fendS of oppression thirst for
his blood" Whata spectacle is here. An aged
minister of our Lord Jesus Christ Of INDIANA
bic life, who has served, for 4 number of years,
as presiding elder in Missouri, Arkansas, aud
Texas, who served representative in the
last General Conference, and who, for many
years. has proclaimed the unsearchable riches
OF Christ upon the frontier, that he is to be
hunted down and murdered without the slight
est provoCation, except that of being n minister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church on slave
territory. What the result of this awful on
/ slaught is to be, God alone can fOresGc That
our friends, our Christian brothers and sisters,
there arc exposed hourly to the tortures of
martyrdon, is now placed beyond dispute
When we read the letter Of our friend, our soul
was filled with grief and sympathy. We ask
the Church-thc entire Church-to join us in
earnest, importnnate prayer, for our suffering
brothers aud sisters and their bitter prosecutors.
Womb it not be we'll for oar Bishops to an
nouncc Il day of fasting and prayer for our SUI
fering brethren? Might we not Inemoriaiize
the Governor of Texas to protect our people
lf this is not sufficient, let take some further
steps to secure the recognition uf the rights OF
oar pcople rs american citizens, aud as law
abiding Christians?
| We merely suggest these thoughts for the
consideration of our churches at large.
Perhaps it would DC better to address the
Governors Of the several States, asking their
official and fratcrnal interpoSilou through the
Governor of TeXas, for protection. Surely
we shall not be denied the common rights oil
American citizens.