Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1865-11-28

Va. Synod, in favor of the elevation of the negro,
&c. He (the Bishop well knew that Judge Wat
son, and all good men, feel constrained noac, un-
der necessity, to 'saccept the situation" They
cannot do otherwise. Did he ever hear of Col.
Reagan, OF Judge Watson, or any other good
Southern man, avowing this doctrine, before the
surrender of Genl Lees army? The Bishop
and his church have always preached up this idea
as far they dared to do so, for the doctrine is
based rule the Seventh of the Discipline of the
Church. Tis the doctrine of that arch .fend, G Geo
Thompson, the English missionary of the aboli-
ton, who came to the U. S. forty years ago, nd,
strange to say, has been permitted to preach his
internal doctrines even now thro' the W est. Sum-
ner, and Phillips and Hale, and Giddings, and
Wade, and Chase, and Andrews, and Beecher,
and Garrison, and all that pestiferous crew, who
have revolutionized New England and the North
Westerns States, ihave been preaching the same
doctrine that produced the personal liberty bills Of
the free States, that nullifed the acts of Con-
gress, trampled on the rights of the South, Sec
tionalized the elections, elected Lincoln brought
on the war, drove out the Southern States, and
murdered million of her best people, beggar ed
thousands, laid waste our whole country, and
now, that the war is over, keep the bayonets yet
in the South, prevents reconstruction and keeps
US all out in the cold. I repeat, the doctrine
that you, and your entire church, preach, as
based on the 7th Rule of your discipline, has
done all this mischief. Your Conference had no
right to travel out of the sphere of its duties, to
ttorc ofS of T. unt re
The Government protects it in its religious rights,
with the unde rstanding that it does not encroach
on what is Cesars. 'Tis no apology, that other
denominations do so. 'Tis the strongest proof OF
my declarations above, that its course precipita-
ted the country into this You indulge in
fling at me for writing over the signiture Of 'sOt-
tobine,'' in saying, 81 do not possess any of the
qualities of that good man." 1 am ready to con-
cede that point, Sir, in qualified sense but at
the same time, regret to say, that the contrast
between this extraordinary man, and yourself
who is his successor, will stand out conspicu-
ousy before l get thro', that he that runs may
read. Bishop Otterbein and the Rev. S. Asbury,
the first Methodist Bishop in America, were con-
temporaries and the former, by the special re :
quest of Ashbury, as listed in his [A's] ordina
tion in 1854. Otterbein died in 1878. He was a
ripe! scholar in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Philoso-
ply and Divinity. Asbury, on hearing of his
DEATH exclaimed, ssIs father Otterbein dead, an
honor to his church and country, one of the
greatest scholars that came to America or
was born in it. Alas the chief Of the Germans is
gone to his rest and reward, 'staken from the evil
to come.' How prophetic is that remark, and how
fully its truth is demonstrated by the course of
the present Bishop, and the Church which he
[O.] founded. Truly, was he taken from the
evil to come. On preaching the funeral sermon
Of Martin Beohm, a distinguished cotemporary
of Otterbein, Bishop Asbury uses this language,
ssHell is full of the skulls of unfathful minister's,
and the biographer goes on to say, ''such was not
Beohm, such was not Otterbein." May the biog-
rapher of the present distinguished occupant of
the Bishoprick, exclaim, 'such was not Gloss6ren-
ner''
The doctrines of your church, as remarked, have
always denounced slavery. Your church organ
the Telescope, has always been one Of the most
violent fanatical papers of the North. More than
fifteen years since when a number of copies were
taken at this Office, I, magistrate, and, as in
duty bound, called the attention of the Postmas-
ter, to Sec. a. of Chapter 1913 of the Code of Va,
which made it his duty to destroy it as an incen>
diary publication, and he did burn large num-
ber in the public square of our village. 1t has al
ways maintained its incendiary character Its
influence on the people in Va, among whom it
circulated, upon the clergy and laity of The U. B.
Church in our late conflict, was most manifest
The large number Of those, liable to military du-
tv, within The influence of your church, who eva-
ded that duty by desertion, and other expedients.
was subject of every day comment. Who is it
that ever heard of chaplain of your church that
performed any service in the army of the Confed-
eracy? How many prayers in the family circle
or at church, were eve heard uttered, by any of
your clergy, in behalf of the struggling, the bleed
ing South Bishop, on what occasion did you
ever perform any service of this sort? You have
lived in Va. many years; married here reared
family enjoyed the protection of her laws, but
when the day of her trial came, you turned your
back upon her. The Bible says che that is not
with us or for us, is against us.' There can be
no neutrality. The man who strikes down the
mother that bore him, is parricide, the vile st
character among offenders. The man who aids
the enemies of his State is political parricide a
traitor The character cf Benedict Arnold stands
out in painful prominence on the page of his tory.
You soy somewhere. that you never preached a
political sermon. Did you ever hear of patriotic
sermon Do you not remember a most remarka-
BILE one, preached by noted Chaplain of the Amer
lean Army, just before the battle Of Chadds Ford
It's author stands out in bold, yet pleasing prom-
nence, on the page of history. Y ou never preach
ed political sermon Oh, no yet You par tici-
pated in the acts Of tha most remarkable assem-
blage-your General Conference-on the day the
eaptuce of President Davis was announced, when
your compeer and brother, Bishop Markwood,
used that chaste and refined language, on being
called on for speech. You enjoyed it, no doubt
He (M.) insisted, as a reason, why he ought not
to make a speech, ssthat the Conference ought not
to waste time over the capture of that infamous,
villainous, 6lack-hearted rebel. If there was any
item of intelligence between heaven and earth,
over which men may rejoice, it is the capture of