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

Lee nd DAVIS and johnson (and Jackson, nao
heslived,) ought to suffer a malefactors DEATH
Ask yourself, if you were there, ,and then remem-
Der the prophetic speech of the sainted Asbury
when he exclaimed of him, whose mantle you
wear, s'taken from the evl to come" Would not
conscience do its appr opriate work, and cause
you feeling of remorse, almost greater than
you could bear2
Should you desire to visit the Northea stern
portion of your bishoprick, and travel less than
twenty miles, down the Valley you would enter
upon the burned district, in which you find, In
stead of comfortable man sions, surrounded by
we'll filled barns, distended gran aries, crowded
stock yards, black and SIN ouldering ruins, and
crumbling chimnies, marking the face of a once
beautiful and plentiful region. Ask YOURSELF
what completely you and yonr church had, In
| producing this ruin7 Extend your progress,
and m ark particularly, how many of those edi-
fees, sacred to the worship of that God, whose
vice. -gerent you are, and note, if you can, their
defaced and RUNE condition, and their walls,
once adorned with extractssfrom that Bible, you
may perchance, oft times, in former days, have
opened their desks, now msrred with obscene
and ribald Inscriptions, and ask yourself, whas
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your eye takes in the several objects that pre-
sent themselves at New Market, and Rude's
| Hill, and Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek, ana
Kernstown, you note, with more than ordinary
| interest, the modest hillocks now sodded ana
green with verdure; all, that marks the last rest
| ing place of the thousands of brave and noble
hearts, that poured out on these telds, their
precious blood, to keep back from your hcme
and mine the ruthless foe, and then recur, In
imagi nation, to the abours of that Conference
where you had tears to shed and sympathy to
bestow, net on these brave men, your defenders
and mine, but for the bastard foe that laid them
in the dust. You have lived the greater part of
your life in a slaveholdng community, and
been an eyewitness of t he care, and attention.
bestowed by the owners upon tn at unfortunate
race which your church with he negr Ophilists
Of the North seem to have regarded with 50
much sympathy, that your efforts and theirs
have resulted in their instantaneous manumis-
sion. AS you meet them now, In your daily
walks, pale, haggard, ragged, hungry, st arving'
does conscience not do its proper work
But when you read, as you do daily, of their
horrid condition, all cyer the South, at Wash
night for remorse, 70 r the agency you and your
Church have had in precipitating them, poor,
ino fen sive, passive sufferers they are, into
this condition, horrible fa- tn an the enid
die passage" We presume you have re ad
something Of. history, and remember the condi-
tion OF those of the West India islands, that
belonged to England, before she manumitted her
slaves, and can contrast their condition theb,
and now, You are not an Indifferent observer,
take it, of the present candition Of Jamaica,
in which the last remnant of the white race Is
about being exterminated, by a orse than saw
age race Of negroes. Permit me to call y our
atteution TO late article from "Druid,'' the
Intelligent correspondent Of the New YORK
News. in which he warns the authorities at
Washington, of the: imminent danger of an tn
surrection in that city, and throughout the
South, and stand o3host, at your insane folly,
! in prating about placing the black man on an
equality before the law with the white man.
Why, SIR. do yop not know, that you, with
| your co. la borers in the North, have been on
gagged in digging deep, deep gulf, between the
| two sections, that yet yduns With horrid DARK
ness, notwithstanding good men on both sides
are trying to bridge it, in various ways, and l
would fai n see it filed up-yet l am naught
bat spec linen of weak human nature, and can
not forqet the past. Neither do believe 1t is
nossible that this chasm can be q led up, or
bridged over, whilst so many of those wh0 aid
ed in digging it, remain on this side, and yaunt
themselves of what they have done. try, to
for get the past, but Ills impossible, and when
am told of the necessity Of practicing that char
H.
/ turn to th bishops and clergy, as ersmslars in
this good work, but alas when fird 'em sing
ING bosaanas over the death of our purest and
best Fmen, and bounding OH licentious and
Wand al soldiery, whose equals have not been
found, on the pages of history, since the days
Of Alaric, confess my pisty is unequal to the
task, and I fall back to be, what Byron
termed, good hater. ] ou charge me some
| where, with disposition to pull own and de.
stroy the U. B. Church. ueayen save the
mark, most meek and pious successor Of the
good Otserbein, am not guilty of the charge,
and have very scant knowledge Of any thing
pertaining to your church You are the only
minister off hat 1t has ever been my fortune
to hear, that l now remember, and that was
many years ago when, it, may be, you were
better man than you are nov, for, at that time,
/ would not have suspected you of being will
ing to sing the doxoloQy over sucn ne as
your own church organ describes your last
Genl Conference to haye besn. Oh, no, Bish-
op, could not, if disposed, and certainly hay
never felt the disposition to do half as much to
pull down the u. b. Church, as a certain sue
cessor Of the good Otterbein has himself dope,
whose mantle your shoulders wear, but, re-
) gret to say, do not grace. You, and your CO.
,obo in Va. have undermined your church
In this Valley at least, aud you have none to
blame but yourselves. Many OF your own de-
n ominatoD, in charity for your weakness, do
say, that your over-weaning ambition TO pre-
serve your bishops gown, has induced you to
conform to that wild fanaticism, that swept
over the North, and North West, and that, to
retain your position and your inhue Zee, you
had to lend yourself to those rabid fanatical
partizans, who carried you, as | sincerely be-
Iieve, against your better Judgment, into those
excuses, at your Conference. have hereto
fore given you credit for sincere piety, and
believed ", q to he a 90 cd man. thO' far infe.