The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-12

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soil, rests upon my skirts: I am not respon-
slble for single scalding tear that has
bleached the cheek, or single pang that
has rent the bosom. Can they lift their pol
luted hands to God, and say as much Ali !!
can they While they with traitorous hands
and hearts were plotting the division of our
glorious church, was battling for its pre-
servation-its unity; for that they would de-
grade me, and publish me to the world as
bad man and gross offender; for that they
have inflicted the highest penalty known to
the church-deposition from the gospel min
istry. Had I been lebauchee, they could
not have acted with greater violence.
protest, Mr.. Editor, that never belong
ed to them in their present organization.
+. During the dark days of the rebellion, our
connection with the mother church was sus-
pended, without our agency or consent, but
not broken off The intense pressure being
removed, amidst the general apostacy of the
South, we have unwaveringly adhered to our
good old mother church-the church of our
fathers. We are in her service and in her
confidence, and with the blessing of God, the
illumination pronounced by her enemies will
fall harmless at our feet We were opposed
to the rebellion in all its features, and ex-
pect to oppose its friends and supporters in
all time to come No class of men in the
South has greater responsibility resting on it
than the ministry, and none more than the
so-called rebel Presbytery of Concord. They
preached, they prayed, they labored in every
possible way for the rebellion. Verify, the
blood of our slaughtered fathers, brothers
and sons, rests upon their guilty souls. And
yet, with this fearful responsibility resting
on them, they dare to sit in judgment on,
and defame the character of better men,
When our unhappy country was bleeding at
every pore, and its true friends pleading for
peace, the cry of these blood-stained traitors
was Eve are not ready for peace yet" No,
Mr.. Editor, they were not sufficiently satia-
ted with blood. Like the horse leech, their
cry was give give" while the fathers,
brothers and sons of the land were falling in
battle and by disease, by thousands and tens
of thousands. And now, these arch-traitors
to their country and their God, dare to sit in
judgment on, and defame the character of
those, who OPPOSE their he,i-born and wick
ed conduct. appeal from their unrighteous
and wicked edict, to the decision of fair
minded and impartial public sentiment. By
that decision, am willing to abide. am
not the first man who has fallen into wicked
hands. The Jews crucifed The Man Christ
Jesus, the Lord of life and glory. Paul
"was in peril among false brethren" and
" five times of the Jews received forty stripes
save one" Luther was accommodated and
mathematical by the Pope And hundreds
and thousands of Others have been called to
die at the martyrs stake, for truths not more
vital and important, than these for which
we have been called to contend, and to suf-
fer. We trust, We are sincerely and truly
thankful to God for the tokens of his love,
as manifested in his blessings upon our la
bors, and in the gift of many friends, in
whose estimation we stand higher to-day,
than we ever did before
And now, Mr.. Editor, am done with the
subject at least for the present. have
nothing to retract. / have used strong, and,
what may seem to your readers, severe Ian
guage 1 trust they will recollect that l
have been extremely and severely dealt with,
by body having no constitutional right to
direct or control me in any particular; a
body endeavoring to enforce kind of eccle-
siastical CONSUMPTION over me, and then, as
far as their censures will do it. they degrade
me because defy and resist their assumed
and unrighteous authority. Such a body of
men is not entitled to the courtesies awarded
an honorable foe. The language have used
falls far short of expressing the depth of
their depravity, as exhibited in their action
in my case. Reckless of the rules of decen-
cy and common justice, they proceeded, in
stantly, to victimize me, and then go through
the farce of trial and deposition. I am
under the necessity, Mr.. Editor, of appeal
ing to your generosity to reach the subject,
as have no idea the papers of the church,
that publish the slanderous action of the
Presbytery, so-called, would publish my re-
ply. No, sir: they love darkness rather
than light, and refuse to come to the light,
lest their deeds should be made manifest"
truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid her worshippers."
JOHN c. CARSON.
Boylston, Henderson Co., N. c., May 90.