Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-01


wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our
hArps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For
these that carried us away captives required of
song; and they that wasted required of us mirth,
saying sing Us one of the songs of Zion" This is
literally true of the Loyal Methodists Of the Sc
ceded States South, as it of the captive jews in
Babylon. With this difference, however, the Jews
were not murdered and run into the georges of the
mountains TO freeze and waste away by the slow
process Of starvation. did hope when the war
closed that the Methodist Church would again har-
monize and present bold front, as she once did,
against the powers Of darkness and the Of sin.
But no. The arrow is sped. Malice has emptied
her CULVER. The sword las leaped from her scab-
bard. The bloody scenes of 1ssl-'62 and 'e3 are
again being inaugurated In the Nashville Chris
tan Adcoeatc of the 23d of January there is quite
learned, elaborate, indicative not to say unchris-
tian article of one column in length over the sig
nature Of " Holstein.n Judge from the character
Of the article the knowledge he has exhibited of the
plan of separation" the nGEice be has manifested
in said article, that be is bona fde regular built
member and preacher Of the N. e. Church South.
If however, Mr.. "Holstien," you are only an er-
fSsSNf " S9S sSts~Cfs JoA Cdsty OhSf
age for this country. Well, now sir, with your per-
mission we viii notice a few items in your commu-
nication. The heading Of your article, a The Two
Methodist Churches" and the first paragraph in
your article, presuppose "schism.p Well, sir now
for the proof. Turn TO Webster and Walker. Web
ster has it, Division in a Church." Walkers def
milton, A separation or division in the Church"
Now, sir let US notice Websters and Walkers def
milton Of another word which seems 70 be so odious
to your cultivated mind. Walker, "Secede, 10 with
draw from fellowship" Webster, Secede, to with
draw" There now, air, is that good authority ?
And still in the face of these authors you insist,
" The separation had nothing of the nature of Sc
cession in it." Stars and garters Mr.. H.. have
you the debates Of the General Conference of Is447
have them, and have read them over and over
Do you not know, sir, that the Southern delegation
during the session of the Conference of AZ met
and resolved TO separate before the "plan was
agreed upon Nay more, do you not know that it
was settled fact with the Southern delegation to
secede before that Conference met, upon the con-
tingency that they deposed Bishop Andrews?
have slways understood il, and have never seen
it contradicted And still further, you know it was
PAbhohoN W bhD NOAlo ApOD ROOu dubuOFlLyi u lew
years ago, that DR.. Cspers was closeted with John
c. Calhoun in Washington City, and the "plan
was then and there cencected, when on his way as
delegate TO the Conference of IA. Judge sir, it
is susceptible of proof. Let US notice another idea
advanced by this etaste writer "How any man on
leaving the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and
joining the Northern division, can believe that he
is going back into the old Church. is strange thing
TO me and if any do believe it, it is a new proof of
how easily some people can be humbugged." There
now, ye ministers and people, fathers and mothers,
young men and maidens, lads and lasses of the NJ.
E. Church, just see how you have been humbugged,
bsmboozled and csjoled into this " old Church by
set of Northern Church Robbing Negro Equality
AbotionF Anatical- Yankee Radical Rascals, whose
highest aim is TO mercilessly fleece the lock aud
leave them the bag to hold with both ends open Il
This is but family drawn picture of what these
Southern preachers believe of the ministers of the
NJ. Y. Church
Having proved from standard authors Of the
English language that you have been guilty of
schsm," have seeded, and are secessonists will
now prove by the authors that you are regular
built schismatics. "Schismstic one who separates
from Church" Forty years ago the schismaties
were stencil in the nostrils of all orthodox chris
tans in this country. They we're made up of the
hoofs and horns of other denominations having
been srpsLLed l0ithdral0n from other denomina-
tons, and they about as tsOlent and dognpGti-
cat as you are And, sir, if Doctor Pearne will par
don me will notice one two items in your lovely
review Of his pamphlet. In the Nashville Advocate
of the 3Oth of January, you refer TO page four of
his pamphlet. Both force and Misrepresentation
were used to dispossess the Methodist Episcopal
Church Of occupation of the South" Then you
ask very significantly what kind of force it was,
whether it cavalry force" or infantry "force,"
a land, a sea Hforce" Now, sir, propose to an
swer some of these questions, in part, at least by
comparison. suppose it was something like the
force" used by Rev. Mr.. McTeyeire (now Bishop
in 1872, then editor of the Nashville Christian
ADVOCATE when he urged the men of the South to
take their guns to the blacksmith and have them
repaired; if they had no sword to sell their gar
ments and buy one one Southern man could whip
Eve or six Yankees" perhaps it was more like
the "force" used against Bishop james at Bonham,
Texas, about the year 1858 or 1855, when he had
pesceaby convened his Conference for the dispatch
of its business, when, on the holy Sabbath, OBJ
of about one hundred mon, headed bys Judge, (who
is said TO have been Southern Methodist,
and who was such) entered the house
and told him authoritativey he had TO disband his
Conference. And so of the kindred force" st
tempted by Fountain Z. Pitts during the rebellion
stumping Il in many of the villages and depots of
East Tennessee 10 force the Yankees back, and
force the Slave States out of the Union similar
4" force was practieed in Western Carolina during
the rebellion by the Rev. Mr.. Parker, Cone of your
Southern preachers,) "forcing loyal young men
out of the country, and orcing" their horses from
them hens from their roosts, bee gums from their
stands, and other valuables from their houses
Likewise q similar force was employed against |
the Rev. Mr.. Spears in Franklin, N. c., when he |
was attempted TO be forced y from mis- house one
night by a mob supposed to have been set on by |
Methodist preacher. Hence he was forced into |
Tennessee, thence forced into the Federal lines /
for his safety, and then ct the never-to be-for
gotten Conference Of 1861, at Athens, Tennessee /
" forced out Of The Church by that body, while |
several others were forced to locate because they
were enemies 10 their country And yet another |
the Rev. Mr.. CdLlahaE, who during the rebellion |
forced himself with company Of reb soldiers) |
into the French neighbOrhood in Knox county,
booted, spurred and whiskered, pursuing |
conscripts, riding rough-shOd over the very people
who had fed and clothed him. This is the game
played by many of the preachers of the NJ Z.
Church South during tho rebellion. We are not |
quite done with this subject of I" force yet. You
imPiieate portion Of the ministers of the ~ Z.
Church in East TennesSes with encouraging the