Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-08-31

| VNNf' hOS iuN All lilf lclltI upon Int
table, but IL there should be such q
probability, he desired to awaken
their fears by telling them that as
there was no other regular conference
In which they could adopt the letter
they must go unrepresented. No,
they could not adopt letter at cad
meeting, but they could turn me out
at one, which they did the aext Fri.
day night, and that rery night the
letter was taken up from the table
and adopted, contrary to the ruling
OF Ed. s. Was the like ever known
before? Does it not plainly show the
liked purpose Of my expulsion, and
the personal feeling Of Ed. S? When
Ed. 5. made this ruling, n brother
moved to lay the whole letter on the
table which was carried. This shows
that the opposition of the Church to
bis measure was so great that they
would rather go unrepresented than
have 1t pass. Yet l am expelled for
creating schism by agitating this rery
question. The vote being announced
by the chair, a brother asked that 1t
be taken again. Being unacquainted
with parliamentary usage, he did not,
IN 1cords, call for division Of the
question, bat this was evidently his
design In asking for the vote to be
taken again. Ed. s. then ruled: 3
"The vote has been taken, and can
not be taken again"
Pending the discussion of the
Church letter, O brother used the
word "secede," while speaking OF
leaving Bethel Association and Join
ing the new one. Eld. S. then ruled:
4. " any one uses the ,O0rd seccdc
again, I ,ciI max him take his seat. -
Now, In speaking Of leaving Bethel
Association, the word secede would
be the very acord to express the idea
intended to be con veyed. Why then
object to 1t? Besides a moderator
has no right to make any one take
his seat, while properly discussing
any subject. If any one by an inn
proper use of words, Or DEPRESSING
from the subject Is out OF order, the
Moderator should call him to order,
but not make him take his seat. II
the word secede was an improper
word to use, Eld. s. should have
called him to order and not, as he
ruled, make him take his seat. All
the. rulings We're taken down that
night, and I can produce first-class
certificates they were his rulings.
Now, / ask any candid reader il
these rulings do not bear prima .fdcie
evidence of a fixed purpose to have
me expelled by employing his pas
toral power and influence. NJ. Vim
gram, editor of the Tobacco Leaf,
says: ",Such is his influence that The
Church is disposed TO foHo,o any ad-
vice he gives.o To bring it into the
Church and hiding himself behind il
and operate through his partisans,
and all because had the boldness to
kindly oppose, conscienciously, a
measure he proposed, and which op-
position was afterwards confirmed as
being correct by the action of the AS.
sociation. That my expulsion was
determined before l was accused will
appear from the fact that when ED.
5. opened conference, he read certain
Scriptures and made long talk, from
which his purpose was apparent ia
bias the minds of his members. On
occasions of this kind, especially
when he was personally concerned,
modesty would have suggested 81.
lence, but he spoke in severe terms of
the excitement caused by my resist.
ance to his measure. One of the
Scriptures which he read was this
II beseech you, brethren, mark them
which cause division and offenses
contrary" mot to the formation of a
new Association) "to the doctrine
which ye have learned and avoid
them" The reading of this detached
Scripture shows his purpose. 1t was
the formation of u ae,O association
and not any doctrine, that was the
was the cause of the agitation, for If
he had never introduced his measure
there would have been no cause for
opposition. When the letter was
laid upon the table, and his measure,
according to his own ruling, thereby
lost to the Association, though il was
afterwards resurrected, can any one
tell how? L. b. Ely then stated
that it was rumored that himself
+. L. Fox, j. l.. Yates (all these his
partisans) and b. N. Herring (the
Moderator then arose and added NJ.
V. Ingram to the numbor) We're gull
ty of creating schism in the Church,
and moved the appointment Of a
committee to ascertain If IL were
true, and report next Friday night nj
praye i then kneW but
one would be implicated. Their
names were coupled with mine to
make the appearance that there was
impartiality. They We're used to di-
vert attention from me, the real ob.
ject of their wrath. AL three of them
that very night spoke in favor of the
request, my opposition to which con-
stituted my guilt, and for which
was expelled. Does not any ono see
thesophlstry of the motion? Strange
rumor should have implicated all
these? Strange one of the implicat.
ed should bring up the charge him.
self! Strange all three should speak
in favor of the request, and one my
self oppose it, yet all charged
alike -. And sure enough none
were made guilty but me. Now,
affirm aud demand proof to the con
trary, that created no schism. BE
tween the time Eld. Sears made his
proposition and the night 1t was laid
with the letter upon the tdbie, being
one month, made no disturbance
Opposed, however, TO the formation
of u new Association, found, by list
the sentiments of those who were foi
or against it, and | would not have
done this, but ED. :. was going
among the membership trying TO in
fiuenee them favorably to his side
He commenced his olectioneering a
week or ten days before took any
steps to ascertain what would be the
vote. He had drilled all but one that
l saw. did not ask any one to vote
but only found out hOW the vote
Wouid DC. But ED. $. went so far as
to tell some if they failed to come,
and the letter containing his request
was not sont TO the Association, he
would leave the Church. Ed. S. dp-
pointed the committee. The next
! Friday night, only three nights after