Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1860-01-30
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| Leading Northern MetlIodist Journal
From Zio9's Herald 81, 18TH June, 1888.
SIaTsholdtry ColFsntlon.
During tie last X week Il s sIaveheld-
| efs Cony ention has beer held II Bal
Itiih09s, whose members come ron
| diGhrent partsiof Marylaads Ahe main
lahjeet Of Ebiek seems tellave been
To- guard against the eAcFoachment
lof freedom upon slavery in that Ror-
de- State. 3 larlY IS tie pres
ence Of SO. 900 free colored people ID
| the State adingiF diaagreeahle.
Measures, tberefare, are pfppesed fol
|sAregnlafings2 them, whfeh nfieolsss
us aaiiee word smeanmg A04seiens lave
them When eW6 afenecti .tllat The
most Of them were anticipated, 81
Earc the descendants Of those who, we're
temancipated, BY religious fnasters,
| from ] ncohscientiods Opposition IL
| slAyelioidiig, y ia when We reascl
particularly 8lat q 1aese majority q
these owners were members 81 che
.Methpdist Episcopal Church, which,
PROCESSES even now 10 is Discipline
To be as much as ever convinced d
1.-THE great evil OF slavery. We deelifsit
mot inpeFt ihent, even 1t this Stance
from tie scene Of epefations, To give
the spbjeet At least aslitiles notiee.T
lncsW We observe 10 the teleeraphic nc.
counts Of the Convention, that, !. I'VE
Jacobs, Of orcester county, pre-
iseited q long and ably written ad!
dress .Sdetailing The l5erniri6ns IN
lAnenee0 of freenegroisH1, 3 .shdEocal
ting the prohibition pf emsneipation;s
and Offering s. resolutions asking p
1.-THE Legislature laws tp.coInpel tfef
negroes to leave the State Of to bs
lsold for lie. ~. Now. what do OH otil
sseddefs thinkz6f it5&hen wesadd THAI
Col T. Japebsa il q Methodist, &c
Icordipg TO bis own proud eyoxal i
his very speech ID the Convent ion, /
member, We suppose, 6f the very
same church with thep rnask Of thosl
lwhos read these dimes rand be shows
that he is "as much as ever convinced
lofy the great eyil cf siaveyyp bysask:
ling the Lei islat dfe s0f His State to roI
teose00 free men, woman and bAildrer
iof their homes, and drive HEN iuts
Ian exile which I'M their particular eds.
Iwould Be worse tIlah deaf oil tS Ell
lslaye them enslaxe Them, s6. as Il
Iglye their, masters the HfiFile o
buying and selling those, men, womel
land gphildrens on the auction block
fannuiling marrage compaets, saat
fforbiddingi children 70 honor atheil
fathers and mothers Thissis Meth
DQdisiu lrHb9 the preposer oF fiji
Ieyi4e, . crime, to which The cata
Hpgue of national barbaRities womb
find parallel, vaunts him
Iseif on being q Methodist !. z: g.
\ Insthea meantime what says ath,
I Baltimore AChfislaih "A Advocate, A6a
tss.organ in those paris u OF cohfs,
lnot avWords Silence giEes consent.
lI,sA still SOW drinks the milk asLa VI
Idpn the vplgarity OF n lei proYprb. /, il
lthis case 1t expresses the truth sos,s +
The Christian Advocate aof Aey
fKotk, has, not been silent .sou tlHl
'lRnatter. Since the establi shments q
1.-THE BaltiineTes Advocate. Al has spo
ken. ont nervouslY and directly, :aiie
IitsWas to arepeL its, influence that Mr.
gacobs avowed himself q Methodist
fleIsi When prepstipg this aelariOa
sc. ~ salsa1s isiseaasn4 30 ~ sses
i We arc more than ever eonKincet
THAT the time has come Isl the Meth
iodist Episcopal Church ealmly, al,
deliberately tosbid an etcrnalsadie6t b
aexpediency z and take just pfeeisel.
1.-THE. right ground on slavery, snel
lground alone 10 God can approve
land TO Withdraw All fellowship What
Lever from the holders Of slag les. 4
this act repdschnrches mud oonferen
Ices, 80 much the better the tesEiano
Y az viii be, SO much the stFanget an.
more acceptable TO God. Only Ief Il
lido II Deliberately trdthfalIy, eonsci
Ieutionsly and hbn0Eab /, the
EIby, and BY, when alls theaehnrehe
lshall have taken the same sfeps, anl
Iwlien American slavery han hay
II Eeen eAhdred - and ififivaTf i from IL