The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-04-12


Church bonds, Conference votes, min.
isterial example and influence were
alike impotent TO swerve them from
their noble, glorious '1NTEaRIrY." They
refused to adhere to the mad policy Of
the M. Il. Church, South, in driving,
or in attempting to drive the plo%l
share Of rebellion and destruction
through the land, This is the head
and front of their offending. at hath
this extent, no more" But Ia this u
just occasion of reproaclff Can this,
truthfully, be called "a wdnt Of integ.
rity" On the contrary, their conduct,
herein, manifests "sterling, unhinch-
ing" aye, glorious "INTEGBlTY!" for, a
man who is true to God, cannot be
false to his country, and a man who is
false to his scountry cannot be true TO
God. ..,.
Equally at fault is this reverend re-
Viler, in assigning the cause of what
he denounces The loyal ethodists
of East Tennessee were not induced to
renounce and leave the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and join the
loyal NJ. e. Church, by "love OF ease"
nor because "afraid Of difficulties and
prosecutions" They compromised no
principles from such, or from any mo.
tives. The men whom Dr. McADnal.
ly thus tradpces, traversed the Cum
berland mountains in the dead of wir.
ter, in dark, stormy nights, at peril
of life, to avoid compelled service in a
rebellion they abhOrred and to enroll
themselves as defenders of the ma
tion's honor and integrity. And are
such men "lovers OF easel" Afraid
of difficuItiesW "Compromisers"-
Self stultifers, furnishing theib honor
by base and unworthy compliancesy
Never ~ se,e. v..
, Ii tho want Of loyalty to tho South.
ern Confederacy, and Of adherence to
one of it's earliest, most activs and
constant supporters-the Methodist
Episcopal Church, SodLh---As mani
tested by native East Tennessahs,
aaldzes and distreSces DR., McAnnally,
be will have abundance of amaEement
and distress, for they are Pftacipled In +.
their loathing Of both and neither
"loye of ease" nor "fear, of difficult
ties" can unsettle them from slead=
fsstly abiding in this, their present
faith. -r te
1t only remains to add, that Rev.
DR.. McAnnalIy was, iol several years,
editor of the st, Louis Christian Ad-
vocate, an organ of the NJ. Episcopal
Church, South; that 1t was always
intensely sectional that, during the
war, it WAS o staunch supporter of
treason and rebellion; that, on this
account it was suppressed and it's edi'
same Dir. McAnnally, was
imprisoned, lyingin Jail for some time
tor reasonable practices. Dr. Nc
Annually has shown "bis faith BY his
works" He has manifested sun
dinching integrity" .'even unto
bonds" but it was in the wicked
cause of rebellion EQally, unyield-
ing and unfaltering in their purpose,
the loyal people Of East Tennessee
have manifested "sterling, unfinch-
ing integrity" !" hot in the unholy
cause of treason, but in the cause of
itelligeht, God.approved, patriotic, tri-
successful loyalty, Yet is
not this venerable rebel a beautiful
specimen Of consistency, to read loyal
Wen lecture for not being dislOyaly
That he should DO "amaEed" and ''dis-
tressed at loyalty, is not strange
An acid immersed in an allsili will ef-
fervesce. An animal with bydropho.
bia will go into spasms at sight of
water. Treason cannot endure 10y
atty.
THOMAS II. PBARNE.
Knoxville, Tenn, March 26, 1867.