Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-08-17
PRIMITIVE BAPrIsrs. copy from the Banner
Of Liberty the following article in reference to the
shovo nsmod denomination of Chr;c%;,n..

PRIMITIVE BAPrIsrs.-We copy from the Banner
Of Liberty the following article in reference to the
above named denomination of Christians:
The late session of Warwick Baptist Association,
which was held at New Vernon, near this village.
was largely attended Besides a considerable num-
Der Of preachers from this State there were in at
tendance Elders L. Cox Jr, of Massachusetts, P.
Hartwell Of New Jersey, D. L. Harding of Penn
sylvani, Samuel Trott Of Virginia c. B. Hassell of
North Carolina j. L. Purington Of Georgia, W. C.
Norris of Alabama and j. F. johnson of Kentucky.
During, the second and third days of the session
the crowd was SO much greater than the house
would hold, that preaching was had and meetings
held in the adjacent grove to accommodate the null
titude.
This Association is of that order of Baptists so
often blackguarded by brainless bgots as Hard
Shells and by superficial tops and ignorant college
calves (who have not possessed capacity enough to
learn common politeness from Alma Mater, bur-
lesqued as Ignorant because they cannot he
gued by the Peter Funk schemes Of religious
mountebanks for swindling money from the weak
sent on this occasion there were some half dozen,
any one of whom is far better qualified BY natural
ability and attanments for professOrships in COL
leges than nine-tenths of those who occupy them.
Nearly I'LL spoke as dramatically as is common
with college graduates; and those who expressed
themselves without reference to book rules had no
difficulty in rendering themselves understood. and
producing impressions upon their audiences that
any orator might be proud Of Although We have
heard many Of the most distinguished orators of our
country, we never heard more refined, soundly loe
cal and effective eloquence than on the occasion re-
frred to-
In this connection We will take occasion further
to remark that it is good fortune to he acquant
ed with some thousands Of the members of this or
der; and as body they are at least unexcciled in
intelligence and good judgment by the adhcrcnts Of
any other order. They are naturally cool-headed,
clea..minded men, who cannot be hun,bugget either
by religious political impostors They arc there.
fore, almost unanimously Democratic; and we do not
believe there can one of them lie found even in New
England who would not welcome a brother from
Georgia or Texas, as though he had never been
south of the magic line $3.50.
Wesay this much, not for the purpose of Aatte
~, but for the purpose of according the justice due
from an independent editor to illuminated demon
nation Of men, and for the sake of cautionng Demo
cratic,editors from copying from Black "Republi
eaa.papers any Of those revamped old Jokes int
which some D. D. Dandy Ounce has incorporate
arowdy slur or rufiiany lie upon that good old dc
nomination whom their enemies call "Hardshells.
because they are themselves too soft and empty il
their shells to successfully meet them in argument
and therefore have to resort to abuse and slang tn
usual Sdbtenuge of the vanquished.