Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1860-01-23
Extracts from Northern Method
list JournaIs.
Principles Of tho d. B. Church North

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The taAdpocate and .JoursdE, !" the !
Northern 'Atethodist paper, 90 highly re-
commended by the Rev. ARrnuR on
Thursday night last, contained the fol
lowing ii its ttieader.a Thisiis the pa
per that9Ethe celebrated ABLE sTEYEss
edits, and he is. the author Of the article
from which we make the extracts Wei
would say further, that this7is the most
conservative paper published by the
Northern Church
These extracts appeared less than three
months since III said paper
"Three things are undeHiable Fl.
That the Methodist Discipline is more
anti-slavery than that of any other large
Church 10 Christendom 2. That ils
character is an anti-slavery body, would
be nom patent II its own preachers did
not ,impeach il; and, 8. That our ener-
gies instead Of being wasted, as they
have been for go long q Tins, in flteTne-
/ cling wars and quarrels about words
would be infinitely better applied for the
slave, as well asthe Church, II undivi-
ded.
| In another part Of the article he says !;
s"As ii IS now admitted that none Of the
new; rules can be consummated atthe en-
suing General Conference and as it is
also admitted. by leading men, that any
such change can be practically valuable,
chiefly as a Testimony +. we submit that
lthey ought Ia. be able to barmonize on.
some safe and general satisfactory sd-
justment, Every observer must see that
in the excitement oflhe recent events on
the Border. Cat Harper's Ferry. now ex-
IRENE measures would simply result in
the overthrow of our design respecting
1.-THE slave, and Of the Church in all that
region, if indeed not along the whole
Border
The substance Of all this ISIS We, the
4 M. E,sCharch, North, intepd, If we can,
lto abolish slavery. For this purpose we
Unjust haveBa footholl in slave teriitory,
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] An editorial in the Pittsburg Adroeate
fof the.3l let Of May last, contains the fol
lowing significant language; we say sig
1nifcant, because-it was a short lime before
1.-THE outbreak at Harpsr's Ferry: 81.
/ q The face of the NJ =. church-not
Its back--is upon Texas and the rest Of
the South country. Peacea5ly Of she
lean J; iftnot Otherwise
II Was Or. Baird advised Of the in
tended attemptof5ofd Brown tolrepo-
Ilutionize the4tiie South when he wrote
that editoriall
The following. IS from the Zion
! Herald ana Wesleyan Journal" Of
tlsae 23rd Of Nov. 1859:
I" DR.. S. lG,Howe, Of Boston, has
published d letter inlrelatiputoC Cooks
! confession, duplicating rim. Though
| denying all completely with the IIar-
per's Ferry. outbreak. he still feels
i obliged to leave the United States, IN
view ofIliabiIity to be summoned be-
i fore d Southern court as a witness on
some pretext or other, and afterwards
turned over to the mercies ola South
ern. mob. He accordingly left for
i canada, on Wednesday morning last.
! We fear.that if thed1 waits for q sat
4 istactory change m the matter com
/ planned OF, he may die an exile"
i In the above, it ID evident that the
i Northern Methodist editor looks up.
/ on, the authorities Of Virginia as tihur-
defs.
i In the same paper ofthe same date
1.-THE editor has the following:
i Ut has thrown the Virginians into
| another spasm of terror. =
/ a"The Independent, in some com,
! ments on John Browns movements
at Harperfs Ferry, observes - we
j carefully analyze the actionsin the
Hight ofthe here's character and mo
lltive, we shall find that the Grim aasas
]lpses itself in the errGtic; that the
sheer ilnpraeticabilfty the scheme is
| the real ground for its condemnation !;
and that the ethical wrong IN the case
Hay in the grave and palpable pruden-