The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-23
EVENING yEssioy

letter.
EVENING yRssIoy
Inc Conference met at the usual hour, and |
was opened with religious exercises The
Jonrnai was read and approved
- Il. hilbert offered long plan and resolu-
lions, which were Az read As these were at
tprward wtthdrawn, think II unnecessary to
trouble you with synopsis,
H. r.. Brooke took the platform and said -
l only came TO give n few ideas | don't be
iieve that the true issue is that of time, or
mode, or abstract right The issue is between
Our Conference and our people. Separation
itself is The true issue. can't put this matter
in the hands of any Convention. / wish
merely to call your attention to the report
passed at WiGches ter last year. 1t is signed
by committee of ministers and laymen, and
was adopted unanimously. 1t says: 1--WE
have already decided what shall be just
cause Of severance. Any violation of our
rights as now held under the Discipline of
1885, There you are, Brother Then, one
of the resoluti tons in the same report says
mo action of the General Conference can in
duce us to violate these pledges" Now, what
are our rights under the Discipline OF 1907
Have any of our rights been violated? In five
respects, insist these rights have been VIC
lated.
!; We had the right, under the Discipline Of
us by the Constitution OF the Church.
T.. L. Phelps said he would not circulate the
Discipline under the New Chapter. He is an
honest man. Here one of our rights is viola
ii
AS to preclude its use. These yankees may
drink that wine with strychnine, but it kills
any Southern man in fifteen minutes.
We had a. free peSpls, and preachers the
any inquiry as to our fsish in the moral right Of
| slavery.
| Now. a brother can't be ordained If he re-
| fuse TO subscribe 10 the New Chapter. AL
| ready the conscences of those young men are
| shifting them who were ordained last Sun
| day.
| s. No STAKEHOLDER ca be admitted to tho Church
| unless under censure.
| Here is right violated.
| g. We had the right to preach before the Church
| and the world, that onr membership were free
from disciplinary censure.
| Now thousands of our best members re-
Coguized with four sins on them, any one of
| which will exclude from grace and glory
| It's a bar TO membership. This is worse than
| a test. Those that are in ought 10 go out, and
| those that are out ought not to come III, If
| Shareholders.
s. We now live undera book which makes us
all linked with political institution, and sets Us
forth as pronouncng on the moral character of
| that institution.
| The aggressive character of our Church,
under the new Discipline, is gone forever
| This thing is a violation of our right to preach
| the Gospel unembarrassed.
Here, them violations of our rights
Now, is there any remedy There is an in
separable bar to any remedy in the North. /
take it for granted that the conservative ones
there are the friends of the border. Bro. Nor
gan said, in published article, 81 believe
that the majority tried to avoid everything
that would Cypress the border" Bro. Coombe,
| of the Philadelphia Conference, said" DIR
Kingsley said that, when the cry of pro slave
ry was heard up here. stood up for the Dor
der. Nothing but q sense of duty has led me
to do this. There is war at the North, As well
AS with you q the South" DIR. X. refers tC
this state of things up there AS the reason why
| the New Chapter should be passed. There
| ut ha
many members there. This thing, then, be
came TO them necessity. Mr.. Hill said
There is a public sentiment here as well as
| wit Won" The war was carried into ART
| ca. They lost because of the Discipline of 56
That very thing was doing bad work. Ie
| You dream of redress at the hands of these
men who base their action on such reasons
| You dreaming
| Suppose you delay. Everything precludes
redress. And if you don't put moral princi
pies before property, pity you. You kno"
| they cant gave what you demand. Iou by
| your demands, tie both your hands and theirs
and then ask for redress. If you ask for your
| property, those Yankees will turn and ask
| stOn what principle do you ask for property
T We are loyal TO the Constitution. The Genera
| Conference can tdiyide the Church. rather
- Griit tn said this in 1874.
| If this constitutional authority ba once ad
| mitted by them for you, where viii 1t leaC
| them Other Conferences might then ask th'
same ! don't balieve the Yankees would
| give what you ask if they had the power
| 7.
| fusing to carry out the solemn Judgment o
| the General Conference, can be convicted o
being unworthy of being Methodist preach
: err And yet you go to him for redress. DR.
Thompson said that shareholders were clos
ing the mouth of hell" They scorned you
: they spit upon you. Our delegates had to 81
| and take all their slang, that made thu
blood of their brethren on the border boil
They subjected you to the inquisiton.-
After breaking you on the wheel then, as thu
custom always has been, they said, you ma,
: go, pale, depleted, consumptives-well CIV
you potion--well give you lingerin!
: death-we'lI dig your grave" What can you
expect of fanatcism Especially of the ia
| naticism of the abolition mind-especiall.
= when Joined to an abolition conscience-espe
| cially when that conscience is Joined to al
Q | abolition heart at the affairs of God? As wei
handle pitch and avoid pollution-as wei
= take fire and not be burned-as we'll expect I
move the Rocky Mountains into the Paclfi
e Ocean, as to expect to drive back the abolition
! | mind.
1t was ordered that $50 copies of each pla
presented by Messrs. Wilson, Register an
\ | Morgan, be prin ted. Messrs. Berry and Rick
e etts, of the Lay Stewards, were appointed t
| attend to this.
$ The order of the day was postponed unit
to morrow, at 10 A. NJ.
a | The Conference adjourned.