The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-27
Horrors or War.

Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. published in the Memphis Daily
Appeal:
DR.. Shipp spoke Of resolutions OF sym
pathy passed by the last General Con
ference, affecting the church at Colum-
bin, S. c.; of its sufferings at the hands
of war; of its former prosperity; its
boundless liberality; of the generosity of
it's members. He said thai of all suffer
ers in Columbia, the Methodist Church
bore the most grievous calamities. The
church building was reduced to ashes,
the homes Of its members were burned,
and NIL their property swept away. The
congregation is too poor to rebuild their
house of worship. aud have only little
chapel inadequate to the wants of the
congregation.
DIR. Sehon moved the adoption of re-
solution providing for q concession of all
that is asked by the petition.
DIR. Smith, of South Carolina, said
that the church spoken Of had suffered
MS none Others. It's people were poorer
than those of any church or city in the
South, and that South Carolina was in
the worst condition Of any in the South.
The difference in the social and indus
trial condition Of the two States, South
Carolina and Georgia, was most strongly
marked and palpable. In Carolina the
people were still trodden under foot by
the harshest task-masters, who held
Offices with not the remotest idea Of pro-
noting ends of public good. They only
sought to oppress and rob the people
and gather wealth for themselves. The
own. rship of real estate in Columbia be-
gets poverty. A house that is rented for
5000 is taxed S575. Columbia, once
famed for the intelligence, public and
private morals of its people, and for the
genius, eloquence and learning of i'll
dividual citizens, whose lofty character
and many virtues gave tone to society,
is reduced to the utmost strait. OF
designed to degrade and destroy. The
tasteful scholarship of Legare, the
matchless moral and intellectual gran
deur of Calhoun, tho splendid oratory
OF Preston and McDuf1ie, once made
Columbia the abiding place of all that
made life delightful. The condition of
the ruined city to-day presented
mournful contrast with its pristine glory
and splendor. It is sad and sickening
to contemplate the present and dream of
the past Of wealth there is none, and
poverty in its rags and gaberdine has in
vaded alike the palaces of the rich aud
hovols Of the poor. Indigent rs are
these people, they are generous to the
last degree. They share with one
another the little that is left them, and
widows and orphans are not forgotten
by those who have more than the abso-
lutte wants of life demand. The little
chapel they occupy rs place of worship,
will not contain the congregation that
often gathers about its doorway, and
! ~f o<~c
other denominations, especially of the
Bishops Capers, Dunwoody and other
great thinkers and orators of Methodism,
sleep in the churchyard hard by. Their
monuments had been overthrown or de-
stroyed by bloody, redhanded, war and
dcsecreation, and horrible outrage, and
nsufferable calamities marked every
feature Of tho church's fortunes. Will
not those more blest in abundance help
those so utterly impoverished? The
sympathies of this flourishing city would
be touched if it may listen to simple
recital Of woes which have befallen the
church at Columbia.
Bishop Andrews approved tho utter
ances of DR.. Smith. Ho had dedicated
the Church ut Columbia, years ngo, to
the Most High. Capers was there, and
many of the purest and best, and most
learned men. The character of the con-
gregation. its virtues and Christian worth
had not been too highly colored, and
there can be no worthier object OF our
benefcence. It was first in all Christian
virtues. Many of its strongest mem bers
have fallen beneath the weight of terri
bic calamities, and the survivors are
hardly able to live. There was once no
limit to their generosity and deeds of
Christian charity. Help them; they will
soon be able to help themselves, and n
church edifice worthy of the people will
soon rise from the ashes of that which
was destroyed.
DIR. McAnnally spoke with fearful eyes
when he said that each member of the
Conference should forward sum for tie
purpose Of rebuilding the Columbia
church, and erecting memorial worthy
of the fame and virtues of DR.. Capers
A singular and horrible accident oc-
Cured at Colgate's soap factory, New
York, Monday afternoon. A lad named
| Charles Platt, with some other en-