Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-08-29
Camp-MeetIng and vandalism.
From the Baltimore American.)
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1 From the Batnore Amer1can.l
! FREDERICK, August nth, 1866.
The members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
are now holding camp-meeting in the ao]accn'
county of Montgomery, near Hyattstown. a ma,
jority of the church-going people oil ina. par. u
/ Montgomery being Methodists, the attendance Is
! large It has been their custom Tor many years 70
! hold such meeting in that LOCALITY, ana always
until now. without disturbance or molestatlon Re
centj,, however. Reys J. p Hall and W. II. Wilson,
the latter of your city, (of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South have been string up the passions Of
the most vicious part of that community, and the
announcement that the above meeting was to be
hold was followed by threat of disturbance Ac-
cordingly, on last Wednesday night week, a party
of the followers of the said reverends went to the
grove selected for the camp and peeled the bark from
more than three hundred Of the trees hoping there
by to destroy the shade and prevent the camp.
Drawing knives were used, that the tree-killers
might not be heard at their midnight work From
the extent of the damage done, quite large party
must have been engaged in this nefarious work
The Methedists Of Montgomery county, however
were not TO be deprived of their usual religious fes
tival by such means as the large number of tents
upon the ground plainly show.
The enemies of the camp, having attempted to
destroy the grove circulated report that the meet
ing would not be held, hoping thus to prevent the
usual attendance from this place and the adjacent
community. Failing in these attempts, they have
since threatened to poison the spring. Proper means
have been adopted to defeat the execution of this
diabolical purpose.
Until the "anti-political" preachers, mentioned
above, and their co-aborers, made their appearance
among our neighbors of Montgomery, the Churches
enjoyed harmony and peace; but their advent has
been the signal for scenes of violence worthy of
Hottentots. Some of the followers of these rever-
ends recently broke into the Hyattstown NJ. E.
Church on Saturday evening, and engaged in gamb-
ling and drinking all night, and until Mr.. Hall ar
rived on Sabbath morning and preached TO them !! I!
These church decorators boisterous advocates
of /" my policy As evidence of this some of
these msled persons, when demonstrated with, and
told that they had interest in religion, they
should not disturb Christian people, replied that
"they were getting things ready for the fall cleo
ton In the face of all this these preachers of the
Church South go about declaring against meddling
with political matters y
The following flaming notice, published in the
Maryland Union of this city, throws light upon the
above enormities; and these enormties are COM
mentary upon their ecclesiastical tolerance and free
dom from partisan proscriptiveness:"
QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE NJ. z. CHURCH SOUTH,
NEAR HYATTsTowN, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ND.
The second quarterly meeting for the Montgom-
cry circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
will be held on the 4th and 5th of August, on the
ground where the camp meeting was held last year,
about one-fourth Of a mile beyond Hyattstown,
David A. Zieglers on the road to Clarksburg. The
Rev. Samuel Register, p. E. and the Revs. S. S.
Roszel and John Posal will attend this meeting,
and preach to the people on Sunday at IL o'clock,
A. NJ, and o'clock p. NJ. Those who wish to at
tend the preaching of the Gospel disconnected from
the ecclesiastical intolerance and party proscrptive
ness of the radical Northern Methodist Church, by
such men as Roszel, Register and Poisal, who rep
resent the old conservative Gospel Methodism Of
Maryland cordially invited to come to this
meeting. JOHN P. HALL,
Preacher in Charge
II is understood that a combination has been
formed with the design of making an onslaught upon
the camp meeting during its progress, and that a
scene of butchery is contemplated similar to that
which recently occurred in New Orleans. Verify
we are being reconstructed Elk.