Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-12-12
tn. new Church In Un,on,own.
WHEELING TOWNSHIP, Dec. 8, 1867.
m The EfiNor Of fhe RclrinnL f,h.nnicLc. u

through THE CHRONICLE, give the pub
lie some information respecting the
Church that has been established at
Uniontown, called sometimes the Nasty
Church, and sometimes the Church of
the negro exterminators; eitherOf which
appellations is appropriate and signifi-
cant.
Since mention has been made In the
public prints of a church at Uniontown,
having Rebel Chaplain for its presid-
ing minister, many persons In other parts
of the County and State have inquired
of us with astonshment If this is so.-
We can assure ali persons who may
chance to read this communication, that
there is u church at UriOntown after the
model of Nasby's Church at Confederate
Cross,Roads and another Of the same
kind near Warnock's Station, in Smith
Township, and that these churches, act
ing together, have employed q Rebel
Chaplain to preach for them, at a salary
of nine hundred dollars they also agree
to pay the expense of removing his
family from South Carolina to Union
town.
~ The Chaplain evinces no disposition
to conceal the fact that he was an early
and earnest advocate of secession and
rebellion, and took voluntary oath of
allegiance to the so-called Southern Con-
federacy, and voluntarily served as
Chaplain in the Rebel army. He belongs
to the Associate Reform Church, South,
and the church organizations over which
he now presides are under the fostering
care of that church and the Democratic
party Of this County.
The Associate Reform Church, South,
was Lefore the war, a Shareholders
church, being under the exclusive con-
troll of that class of persons, and having
no existence except in slave States. Its
intense Pro-Slavery character may be
inferred from the fact that 1t had but
feeble existence in any State except South
Carolina.
The Democratic party has shown its
regard for these Nasty churches by
nominating and elccting to office in this
! County four men WHO are members of
the same, viz: Irwin, Nichol, Taylor and
Caldwell. Had the party in this COun-
ty in convention assembled, endorsed
Rebellion 10y resolution, it would not
have been more etiectually endorsed than
1t is in the nomination and election of
men who cannot get the "pure gospel
from any thing short of a Rebel Chap
lain.
1t is proper, however, to remark, in
this connection, that Caldwell Is not q
, jealous Nasbyite; he is u clevernIan and
l good citizen. The same might be said
! Of few others who belong to the Nasby
! church. Taylor is II clever man and u
! good citizen, but a jealous Nasbyite; he
: is particularly clever with men who,
during the late war, wore the conied-
crate gray. Nchol lacks only the abil-
o ity, courage, and opportunity to be as
: good q rebel as Jeff. Davis cor any other
j man."
4 The men who led in the organization
1 of the Nasty church at Uniontown left
$ their former church for the alleged rea
;, son that their ministers-J. B. Johnston
It and ID. f. Read-preached politics but
u as the Rebel Chaplain whom they sc
= much admire preached politics also it i,
r evident that their objection was not tt
: politics, but the kind OF politics. The
If above named ministers had SONS in tn,
i Union Army, and in their prayers anl
n sermons they gave utterance to expires
t sions that proved their hearts to be will
i the army that wss struggling to roll back
= the wave Vt treason and rebellion: ant
: bee use they did this their prayers AM
: sermons were not To be endured. Bu
e the Chaplain showed his heart to he on
g the side of Rebellion by urging men /,
u JOIN the Rebel army, and by Joining /,
himself; and because he did this he i,
loved and admired.
8 We cannot suppose that the organizer.
o Of Nasby churches would have complain
8 ed of political preaching, had their min
v listers during the war preached in a way
3 that justified rebellion, and since it.
!. close had preached the doctrine that TN,
n negro is not human being, proving il
g. by referring to the discovery lately mad,
|. by DIR. IL. >. Clark, the anatomist, viz
r that the negro has no bone in his nose
:. "nothing but gristle, like dog :" or b,
s quoting that scripture which SAYS tha
e the hairs of your head are all numbered
IS and says nothing about wool ben.
.r numbered" If such had been the char
Is ncter of their preaching, they woul,
have been, in the estimation of thes
l. men, saints, entitled to place in tn,
s. Democratic calender of saints, alon,
p with Saint Stoncwall Jackson, Sain
e. John Morgan, and that most persecute,
,e of all Observation-Disclosures.
1, The Nasbyites would have the publ
r believe that they were elected from thei
Of former church and are, therefore, MARTYR
vi To the principles of the Democratic party
IA They are the same kind of martyrs ha
g. jeff Davis and his associates were whe
A they left their places in Congress to Ell
ID gage In rebellion. or that Judas IscariO
r. was when he left the company OF tn
j. Savior and his disciples to seek mean
at by which to betray them. They wer
,e not expelled from their church,, but lei
~ it voluntarily.
To us it seems solemn mocllery fo
10 men to profess the Christian religion
ID who deny the humanity Of any of thei
IN fellow-beings, or who would treat me
ce who have skin not colored like thri
a. own as having no rights which whit
of men are bound To respect AS beings tina
he can rghtfully he made property, to h
,e bought and sold like swine in the nmrse
Il. We are told that many shall come in Tn
A. last day pleading that they had been pr,
AS fessOrs of religion, and had set down 1
ly the communion-table, to whom til
no Savior will say, ~ never knew you;
rs, was hungered and ye gave me no mea
y. thirsty and ye gave me no drink, wa
A n stranger and ye Look me not in, make
N and ye clothed me not. sick and in pri
d. son, and ye visited me not, forl ina
ye much as ye did it not to one of the lea.
ii. of these lyour fellow menl ye did il n,
Nv to me-" In that day what will he you
m plea, Mr.. Democrat and professor OF r,
n ligion? You have been u citizen OF
ne republican government, and votel
a will 1t avail you anything to say tn,
nd YOU were jealous supporters of part
ut that treated the negro AS berg pass, s
ing no rights that white IN "a Wei
bound to respect--that you dId what yo
could by your vote, and your intluenc