The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-26
PersOnages i'm the Kentucky
SYNOD.

PersOnages I'm the Kentucky
Synod.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazctte1
DR.. $. B. MCPHEErERs. Rs.-There is but one
man among them who dared to advocate the
doctrines of the declaration at any previous
time during this PERIOD and that was DR.. S.
b. McPheeters, who, for his secession views,
spoken with comparative mildness. was sent
away from the Pine Street Church. St Louis,
and told to stay away till it should please the
authorities to let him return. He came to
Kentucky, and as the war drew toward a
close, and the vigilance of the Government
was relaxed, he succeeded in sttfeuing up the
backs OF those preachers Of this Presbytery,
who had been all the time d;sloyal at heart.
Dr.. STUART RoBiysoN.-There WAS also a
champion of secession among the clergy of
tins Presbytery, who, all the time. had the
courage to declare his principles during the
war, even among those who, be should have
known, would be in duty bound TO silence
his reasonable tongue, and that was the Rev.
DR.. Stuart Robinson. For some time his
abode has been in Canada, where, greatly TO
his agony, no doubt, he feels compelled to re-
main, deprived of the privileges of personally
fighting in this Synod He is. however, pres
ent in spirit among the twenty three signers
of the declaration and testimony and their
friends of the Synod whose minds, doubtless,
frequently wander over the border where
their leader sojourns in the flesh.
REy. ID. 0. DAvIES.-Another brave ore is
Rev. u. O. Davies, who was compelled to
leave Cincinnati because loyal congregation
would not tolerate his treason while the Ma
ton was bleeding, as it were. at the hands of
rebels. He settled at Paris, Kentucky, and.
as member OF this Synod, seeks to tie a
champion Of secession. During the first day
he seemed 10 be the principal oracle of
schisnatic mischief makers. until DIR. Breck-
lnridge administered to him a rebuke that
crushed to the very floor even man of his
impudence. He has not been heard from
since.
Dr.. SAMUEL r. Wusox-But the ablest
man on that side of the Synod. especially
among the ministers. is Dir. Samuel r. vii
son, whose father was well known in Cincin-
natl, and over whose fogyisn DIR. Lyman
Beecher triumphed many years ago. When
the venerable old man passed to the great be-
yond. II was thought by some of the old First
Church that the shoulders of the son were
broad enough to bear the mantle of the faith
er. But the only thing for which the son was
noted, during several years. was dullness, and
the obstinacy of the friends of his father, in
retaining the son. caused the church TO split
Straightway there went up the fine building
on Broadway for the seeeders, and the Wilson
section, in order not to be outdone. threw up
an uncouth pile of brick near the corner of
Fourth and Main. and one of them boasted
that they had the highest steeplen in
America.
Exactly when and under what auspices.
the son came to Kentucky, have not learn
ed but enough, that he is far more talent.
aI hon h. ~
warmest friends in Cincinnati. and instead
of growing with the times, as every man
should do. he is vast extension of the
fogyism of the father-so much SO that it is
expected of him to champion slavery and Sc
eession. even now after they have been silenc
ed by the thunders of war, and been extin-
guished in the flames of our unparalleled
civil commotion.
So much for the foreign element in the
ranks of clerical treason in kentucky-one
from Missouri and two from Ohio! Me
Pheeters and Wilson are learned and talent
ed and Davies is impudent. Wilson is
ready debater, and Mcpheeters is strong with
ample preparation. Perhaps disloyal Ken
tuckians are proud to be led by those who
have sloughed upon them from loyal cities.
HoN. G. A. WIcELIFrE.-There is one more
person, who is a genuine Kentuckian, that
suouiu uc hhCutloHtu. as ut itHds TesttlGt-
bility to this cowardly, ill-timed and malicious
attempt to enshrine with sacerdotal sacred
ness doctrines and institutions which the war
has refuted, abolished and forever destroyed.
| refer to the Hon. c. A. Wicklife whom the
traitor portion of Kentucky failed to elect
Governor. There he sits in the midst ofathe
reprobates of this Synod, man who, from his
appearance, would be selected as the very
Lucifer of this rebellion against the Presby-
terial, Church. That he is man of power.
his Websterian brow, with deep set eyes and
heavy features, fully attest His heavy frame,
which las scarcely bent under the weight Of
more than three score and ten years, crown
ed with large brain, over which his thin
white hair is backward combed, gives him an
imposing presence. that would have power
with any assembly, were not the distance so
great between loyalty and disloyalty. One
can read in his expanded and expressive
features the play of contending passions, as
he sits there listening to the words of truth
and patriotism. He keeps cool, but there is
malice enough in his soul to exhaust all the
resources of vengeance against those who
have conquered treason and crushed slavery,
could he get the power to move. But, poor
man, he is compelled to "grin and bear it,
hoping to wreak ost some crumbs of comfort
from this attempt of his brethren to disrupt
the Presbyterian Church and erect an ecelcfi-
astical barrier against the unity of the two
sections whose legions have so recently left
the field of carnage.