The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-01

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soAAk OF IT'S souTHRRN REPRESENTA-
TTyRs DfTEBA AfISED no ssftdES5R ALooF
FROM THE CORRUPTED RRL1a1oN OF
THE NORTH VIOLATIONS OF THE
PRINGIPIEs OF l1Ttz. s.
The Presb2ter;s 81 Ee4inston, Va.
met in Harrisonbhi On Wednesday,
the 10th inst. This body embraces in
It's territorial HI6iis R0cKbridge, Au-
gpstas an 4 Roelsing gham, wfthsome adj
jaeent counties On the west. At this
meeting, nineteen nisterial Numbers
were present, and the churches were
represented by tosl ltteen ruling elders.
The Roelinghain Regfster says /: THE
subject which leEt II the most interest
was the ne elatiofs the PreslJYtef
lShufgh IN the N 20 those IN the
= D a. ~ " . ~. ifti4eyl sepafdted.
Ihe committee having this matter in
hnnd presented Q reports, agreeing
IN sentiment; Bnt differing much in
1ength and part Qlarity. The more
elaborate one read thongh not written,
by Coli Preston, preventative of the
Lexington church was, after Consider
able amendment, adopted. From this
It. appears that the great fault found
with the,N Northern General "A ssemblylfs
1
byterian Confession Of Faith, in one
place stated thus; ''Synods and coun-
ctlS are to handle and conclude moth
ing but thnt Whichd eecele lesiastical and
are not TO aleddie, ,aSfth ciViL affairs which
concerns. the CohmonweaIth,Sl Slunless
by way of humble petition in cases ex-
tflordinary.h The General Assembly
in the United States required all lis
members to submit to their ecclesiasti-
cal inteFpretaH Hon5 of the I'd doetrfney of
State rights and of slavery. This
change of N religion body intosn politi-
cal meeting necessitated tho withdraw
al of the Southern part of the Presby-
terian Church, and the continued Epo-
littcRl character of that professedly
ecclesiastic body prevents a reunion,
Tho document referred to details a
number of instances in which this at
tempt to regulate civil matters by a
church court has led to decisions and
doctrines most erroneous and injurious.
The discussion upon this report was
extensive and interesting, and plainly
revealed the fact that this Presbytery
considers 1t a solemn duty to keep it,
self aloof, as far as possible, from the
corrupted religion Of the North. The
Northern Assembly has gone so far as
toresolve to wrest the Southern church
property from its Legitimate owners
whenever u few mnlcontenis can be
under that Assembly's Jurisdiction.
Against this the Presbytery protested,
and warned the churches under its
care. 5gs'
q Another Theory of Davis Trial.
Il Colonel Forney, in dispatch to the
Press referring to the trIal; q, JEFF. Da7
Wis, gives the following theory ~.
think & VIII result that every trial like
that of r ilSne and ms assoeiate and
now Of Yirz, sct and pfepara-
tory bearing on the case of 5sffefsoIi 4
Davis. That he leas co iiizant OF every I
atrocity cannot be nied-indeed, 1t is |
not denied. His ownsilence is not that |
of wounded pride, but studied, and, |
counselled silence, and is |
perhaps significant of his apprehension
that his knowledge of if not his direct 1
comp licity in, these, cruelties Will be es-
tablished. You may take any of thel
chief criminals of the rebellion, who
deliberately violated the rules OF war,
and twill be shown that they had the
sanction of Davis. The confessions of
Beale and Kennedy, who We're execp=
ted at New York, proved that they act
ed 'by authority The attempt to con-
Yey the plague into our great cities by
blackburn; the deviliBh invention of
Harris and Oldham; sthe composition,l
AOlSSs91E s4h1CCd1l0uCEli Iue lleIlulSIli
DarDarfty of Wirz, who seemed to reveIl
IN the murder of his victims, and I'M
the success of his eontrivances; the robe
berries and raids of the n Sorthern border.
ike the plan to fire the theatres and ho.
tells OF New York and others, were only
parts OF one grand system, and were as
Wei. isknoNSn TO Jefferson Davis as the1
Inut1iatlons Bull Run, the torpedoes
at williamsburg, the horrible a9oniesI
of the prisoners at Libby and Belle
Isle, and the nameless fnfamies upon
the colored prisoners. Gradually and
surely the warp and the woOf of testi-
mony IS being prepared, and when it Is I
completely viii be closely md COM
paetly woven into the conviction of the
greatest traitor since the days of Judas
Iscariot." Il u
,FEN1AS RforIN IRE1AND.--!Ac conflict
has occurred between the constabularyl
and the Fenians, at a place called Dam
gan in the county of Cork. The police,
seven in number, had arrested a drunk
en- and disorderly man during the
morning, it being q Fair day, in the VIII
lnge, and some two hundred people at
tempted to affect his release by force.
The police, however, were successful In /
resisting this attaok, and repaired to n |
cabin in the vicinity with the prisoner.
At this stage n young PEASANT, Jumping |
on an elevated part of the ditch near,
addressed the crowd calling on thenii
us true Feniansw not to be afraid of
a 'handfnl of police, - bntto show TINT |
they were able to fight for the freefloml
of f1reland.Y The crowd then attacked |
the cottage into which the constabu-
larry had entered, breaking the doors
and windows with stones, and threat