The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-25


conserve and perpetuate the institution Of
slavery or that they held opinions heretical
and blaSphcmouS, self respect would have
prevented IL from seeking traternal rela
tions with them. We did not deny that
mistakes had been made but we asserted
that if made they belonged to both sides
and that our earnest desire was to forgive
and forget IN the spirit Of the Master
and we asked the same charity in return,
but all these declarations were not Sutli-
clent To satisfy the committee from the
Southern Assembly. Indeed it became
evident that they would not be satisfied
with anything We were authorized
to say. Their language was us follows:
You brethren have not authority
Was the assembly only competent, surely
your authority is ample to recommend to
it whatever in your judgment may b.
proper to seete these troubles. If your
assembly could see lis way clear to say in
few plain words to this effect That
these obnoxious things were said and
done in times of high excitement; that
thcv are to be regretted and that
now in calm review the imputa-
tion cast upon the Southern
church We're disapproved, that would
end the difficulty at once. Many reasons
readily suggest themselves to your COM
mittrc against acccdiug t. this request
1t not only required you to rejudicate
and disown the imputations cast upon
the Southern Church as charged by them,
but il also required YOU to revise the
actions taken by the old and new school
assemblies more than ten years ago.
which we had already declared to be null
and void and to express regret for and
sspprobution of the same. Moreover,
this request was made upon the ground
which they endeuvorcd to estab-
llsh bv agreement, and that the two MS
scmblic, of 1873 and 1874, from
which we received an appointment,
were not entirely sincere III their dcclara-
tions and that our Interpretation of
another meaning could not be accepted
as correct. We declined to discuss these
points, saving with regard to the argu-
mcut, by which you reply to our former
statements We make no answer; indeed
we can make none since you seem un-
willing to receive our positive assurance
A. to the unity and operatiyencss Of the
acts which YOU complain and in reply to
the request, which was based upon these
arguments, We deemed ii sufficient. To
say that 1t was one decided and unanl-
nous conviction that no action
Of our Assembly for the
last five years on this subject, we had
fully rccited to them. constituted Suif-
cicnt ground for traternal correspond
encc. It will be- observed that the COM
nlttcr from the Southern church IN set
ting forth those things which dcbarred
them from holding official intercourse
with the Assembly North, and the re-
moval of which they deemed indispcnsi-
bic before fratcrnaI relations could be cs-
tablshcd, summarily state them under
two heads:
Fir,t-Uujust and injurious accuSa-
tions have been preferred against the
whole Southern Presbyterian Church.
Properly, ipasmuch on the same state
mcnts with reference to the first charge
were not satisfactory to the committee
from the Assembly South, We did not
deem it necessary To enter into any con-
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probably amount 10 9Z'ooo'ooV 10 pass
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all the property 10" III "c'u"I I,'iS"''ot,
or likely ever u come 'i''" u'SPu'c' "ouiu
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