Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-06-28
Interesting Questions SIS The Church
South ..- The Status or Ordained
Preachers--.The Negro and Free.
dom.

letter Of recent date from m old friend, tray
cling preacher in former days and citizen of Bun
combe county North Carolina, concludes in these
words
What viii become of the Church South? VIII
II 10 by tho board or will IL still keep up IL organ
ization, and In body go back 10 the old church p
Are ministers who have been ordained rs some Of
US In the Church South, but who opposed the war
all the time, still be permitted to exercise our funo.
tions rs SUCH or will we suspend Till the matters are
settled | wish TO do right if ] can only know
what right Isl and MS you know we have been cut
of from all news and, like the old woman, barely
know our Saw died ] suppose you are as busy rs
any man can be- but still hope ii will not be CON
sidored amiss In me 10 trouble you little as M old
friend, who has been with you 10 politics and reli-
gon all the time Again will the negroes be all freed
NJ once, OF will II be gradual If freed at once will
they not be removed from among u.s. With the
boSt wishes for your prosperity and happiness am,
as ever
First as 10 the Methodist Church South. The
Southern State will be rapidly filled up with loyal
Metbodists from the Northern States and the Meth
odist Church, proper will organize Conferences in
all The Southern States, having already organized
one in Eastern Tennessee, with fifty preachers to
start with, and several thousand members, The best
thing true mon eau DO is to fall in with theie new
Conferences, Our opinion is that the two Churches
North and South will again unite and that thoy
ought TO do 50, The cause Of the Church separation
has been removed, the i,Teprsssibls mgroi and as
the two Churches srs one in doctrine and one In
government, thsre is no reason why they should not
unite as one organization.
A. it regards the ordination Of ministers, they
will be held IS valid and ought to BE- in all cases
prior 10 the rebellion The acts and deeds Of robel
Bishops, and ministers, who went into the rebellion,
should be repudated, and We hope will be- Southern
Bishops who went into the extremes Of the rebellion,
ought not to be allowed to preside over an Annual
Conference North or South, and will not be- as we
believe. Instance the case of John Early Who
desires TO see him preside over Conference or or.
dain minister
The negroes are all free now, and forever here
after and We rejoice in il most sincerely as pun
ishme!t TO rebels. The South by the rebellion, set
the negroes free, who bit for the rebellion never
could have been emancipated under the Constitu.
ton. The negroes, like the Indian tribes, will
gradually become extinct-having no owners to care
for them, and no one owning property in them, they
will cease to increase in numbers--ceased TO be
looked after and cultiyated-while educated labor
will take the place Of Stare la5or Idleness starva.
tionr and disease will remove majority of the ne
groes in this generation The better class Of them
will go to work and sustain themselves, ard that
class ought to be allowed to vote the ground that
loyal negro is more worthy than disloyal ,ohite
man SENIOR EDITOR OF THE WHO