The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-19
Rev. w. VI. FerEusoni and His Pres
bytery.

Dytery-
We find the following in the Missouri
Presbyterian of Oct. 26th.
In pursuance of the call, special
meeting of the Presbytery of GAINESVILLE
was held in the First Presbyterian
Church, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Tuesday.
The signers of the call for this meetin z
were Revs. John Kelly, Henry Fulton,
and w. Morris Grimes, and Elders Bur-
lingame, of GAINESVILLE, and Hamilton,
of Brownsville. These worthless, with
the sanity Sam Galloway and the pious
Rev. j. NJ. Piatt, as instigators, were
actuated bya peculiar Christian charity
Of bringing about o Presbyterial trial
and conviction of their brother in the
Church. Rev. w. NJ. Ferguson, for writ
ing letters from st. Louis to the Ohio
Statesman, during the late session of the
General Assembly, in which the emf
nent christian virtues (O of that infalli-
bic and immaculate body, were not prop
erly recognized and sufficiently appreci-
ated! Well, the Presbytery ofZanesville
met on their call, aud asked for their
developments. But these detractors
shrank from making the direct assault
Of themselves, and proposed to Presby-
terry to appoint q committee of some
kind, into whose hands they might put
their prepared bantling, and thus avoid
the responsibility of its paternity. This,
however, Presbytery did not see fit to
grant. The expedient of committee
failing them, and being fairly cornered,
after recess of two hours, allowed them
for consultation, one of them finally
hauled out OF his capacious pocket pa
per on which We're written, at great
length and with much circumlocutiOn,
false charges against Brother Ferguson,
for his reported disrespect of clerical
and lay Radicalism as manifested i'll the
General Assembly by the contorted Gal
lOway and a number of radicated ID. DIS.
The dried ink and dingy appearance of
the formidable document indicated an
antecedence of at least several weeks;
the fact is it had been prepared weeks
before, secretly, by Platt and Kelly.
One of them moved that the precious
production be received and adopted by
Prcsbytcry.
But Prcshytery did not like the looks
of the thing, and disposed of it by adopt
ing a paper disappearing of the spirit
that evidently actuated Mr.. Ferguson's
FRnff5sig4aasse- FRnf5 gc4aasse--also implying that Mr. Fer
gusOn acted imprudently in writing |
ahnnt Sam Galloway. truthful as has
statements rere. So ended this huge
tempest in teapot. The whole thing
was conceived and brought forth in po-
litical animosity; and has resulted i'll
giving Mr.. Ferguson nOtoriety that
his enemies might envy. Thousands are
anxious to see and hear him now, who
would never have thought of him had
not the hate of party spirit given him
prominence. That the act of the Assem-
bly, was most diabolically unjust was
the almost unanimous opinion OF this
large and truly conservative Christian
body of men. This meeting was quite
full, thirty members being present, and
all but three voted to sustain MIR. Fer
guson, and expressed profound regret
(many indignation)-at the bitter and
wickedly malignant course pursued
against him by the majority in the As
sembly, and by Messrs. Platt, Kelly y
Co.-in the Presbytery. The bad spirit
i'll which these gentlemen have acted
has lowered them much Ill the opinion
of the good people of the community,
ana rendered tHc lWO udLItu, ophoAtOu'
to charges for SHINING grossly against
Mr.. Ferguson with that ''unruly mem-
Der, set on fire of hell" and so "tull of
deadly pOison"-the tongue.
We tender Mr.. +. our congratulations
in thus being so happily delivered from
the foils of fanatical malignity, and
would warn his detractors of the sad
end of Haaman, the Agagite, and OF
Judas Iscariot.
This ebulation of political hate has
eventorated greatly to the advantage
of Mr.. Ferguson in more than one way.
1t has given him the heartfelt sympa-
thics of thousands OF the best men in
our land, both in and out of the church,
as well as established his character rs
a bold, peaceless advocate of truth and
Justice everywhere.
We who heard Mr.. Gailoway's har-
angue, for the just criticism OF which
Mr.. Ferguson was expelled. knows it to
have been most detestable and dirty
affair-even more than the critic pro-
claimed it to be. How such a bufioon
as its author ever got seat in the as
sembly, is wonder to the wise, If any
thing of this kind may be regarded sim
cular in these days of clerical degener-