Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-03
More oalumnIes.

Rev. DR. McAnnally, of st. Louis, No, IS we'll
known in this country. BE was formerly a citizen
of this State and member of .he Holston Confer
ence of the ME-. Church, South. He certainly
ought to know East Tennesseeans well enough to
represent them truthfully. Yet, as I conceive, be
has grossly slandersd them. The circumstances are
these A few months since, he was here on visit
OF several weeks, during which be Travelled from
Bristol to Chattanooga, stopping also, At intefmeol-
ate points He was in Knoxville some time. he
had therefore, good opportunity Of Observing mea
and things in this State He could not have been
ignorant of what had transpired in East Tennessee
before, since, and during the war. Yet on return
ing to Missouri, he writes an account OF MS V'si'
here in which we have the following language
am amazed and distressed at the manifest want
of sterling unfinehing integrity on the part OF
many people. They are such lovers OF ease 50
much afraid of difficulties or prosecutions thab IN
many instances, they viii compromise principle ana
do things which neither their consciences nor their
sense of propriety approve that they may ior Inc
time being, pass along more smoothly ana tnls,
agreesbly to the bestinformation can got Is pre-
cisely the condition Of large proportion-ina
large msjority-some say nine-tenths-oI al those
native East Tennesseeans who have united with the
What will loyal Mstbcdists of East Tennessee
think of that7 They certainly cannot be charged
with q want Of sterling, unfinching integrity, as
persons lcyalto God and their country The trouble
with them is they were not advocates and abetters
of secession; they could not be dragooned into it.
by aattery nor by fear Church bonds, Conference
votes, ministerial example and influence were alike
impotent 70 swerve them from their noble, slesisss
UNIFORMITY They refused to adhere to the mad
policy Of the NJ. E Church South, IN driving, orin
attempting to drive the plowshare of rebellion and
destruction through the land This is the head and
front of their offending 1t hath this extent no
more.7 But is this a tust occasion of reproach2
Can this, Faithfully, be called 0Gt Of integrity ~
On the contrary, their conduct, herein, manifests
STERLING unfnching,n aye, glorious ''INTEeRITY ~
for man who is true to God cannot be false to his
country, and man who is false to his country can
not be true to God.
Equally at fault is this reverend reviler, in as
signing the cause of what he deDounces. The loyal
Methodists of East Tennessee were not induced to
renounce and lesveth Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and join the loyal Ne E. Church, by Glove Of
ease nor because afraid Of difficulties and perse-
cutions." They compromised no principles from
such, or from any motives. The men whom DR.. Nc
Annually thus traduces, traversed the Cumberland
mountains in the dead of winter, in dark stormy
nights at peril of life to avoid compelled service
in rebellion they abhorred and to enroll themselves
as defenders Of the nations honor and integrity
And are such men lovers of ease ~ Afraid of
difficulties ?" " Compromises ~ Selfstultifers,
furnishing their honor by base and unworthy COM
pliances2 Never
If the want of loyalty to the Southern Confede-
racy and of adherence to one of its earliest most
active and constant supporters-the Metho dist
Episcopal Church, South-as manifested by native
East Tennesseeans ansazes and distresses Dr. Nc
Annually, he win have abundance of amszement
and distress, for they rincpIed in their loath
ing of both; and neither love of ease" nor "fear
of difficulties" can unsette them from steadfastly
abiding in this, their present faith
1t only remains to add that Rev. DR.. MeAnnal-
y was, for several years, editor of the St. Louis
Christian Advocate, an organ of the II. E. Church,
South that it was always intensely sectional; that
during the war; it was q staunch supporter of tres
and rebellion; that, on this account it was sup
pressed and its editor-this same DR.. MeAnnally
imprisoned, lying in Jail for time for trea-
sonabis practices. DR.. McAnnally has shown 'fhis
faith by his works" He has manifested "unfinch-
ing integrity, even unto bonds but it was in
the wicked cause of rebellion Equally unyielding
and unfaltering in their purpose the loyal people
of East Tennessee have manifested sterling, I'M
hinching integrity not in the unholy cause of
treason, bat in the of intelligent Godapprov
ed, patriotic triumphant, successful loyalty Yetis
not this venerable rebel beautiful specimen Of
consistency, to read loyal lecture for no be-
ing disloyal2 That he should be amazed and
f" distressed" at loyalty, is not strange. An acid
immersed in an alkil will ehervesce. An animal
with hydrophobia will go into spasms at sight of
water. Treason cannot endure loyalty.
THOMAS ii. PEARNE.
Knoxville Tenn March Is 1867