Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-12
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY BY
EDGAR SNOwDEN.
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY H. 1879

Bishop Haven. Of the NJ. II. Church, Ike
Senator Window, has ouly one means at COM
maod for kecriog himself before hopub'lc end
for preventing his subsidenoo to that ignored
existence to which bis na!ural deficiencies and
narrow uinjcincss would otherwise and justly
dorsign hia1. That means is his intense hatred
nf The South aud i!s people; and the uetorIcty
Inst gives him induces him to air It upon a oc.
oatioDs 10 and out o! season. As 0 sample Of
the way by wti,h he employs this means to
keep tho people from forgetting that any such
character as GILBERT Haven ever lived, We re-
publish in another column az account 81 40
Interview he recently had With newspaper
reporter in the North. That tho Bishop POUNDS
his ASSERTIONS upon unDatrloic, sectional aud
unchrisian animosiy, and not upon tacls and
reason, is made 50 apparent by what ho said III
this Interview, that, stupid as heis, It'll remark
able he did not perceive how he siullihed him
self, aod to what ridiculous degree he pro-
duocd Li Inconsistency. How. for instance,
could no reconcile, even to bis own biased igno
rance, his statement about the oppression OF
LuU VI STOCS III UcUISlas HHciC tutS naSC eo
little protection that they mako no labor con'
tracts, with bis subsequent 600 that moro OF
their children than those Of their white neigh
bis 20 to school, aud that they will soon be-
como the possessors Of tho land in that State
He also says that the "Catholo Church il
identified with tho rebellion. when, even with
his limited knowledge, he must have known
that no church was identified with tho rebel.
lion," hut that tho people CT all tho churches
10 tho South, during the civil war. Methodists
as we'll as Catholics, anl tho latter no morc
earnestly than the former, hoped, and even
prayed, for the success Of the cluso 10 which
themselves, their relatives. friends, acquau.
iances, States and section woro all engaged.
Tic advises tho negroes who may be induced
by tho dcceptiors ct such rspacicus impostors
as tho reverend General Conway to leave their
homes 10 the South. not to colonizo in Kansas,
but TO cater and settle all Cv,r tho Nort1.
Now this advice is not objected to by the
South, inasmuoh ;s if followed tho people
Of the North will, though 10 their cost, be dis
abused of many of the erroneous notiots re-
gardiug tho negroes that have been instilled
into thei. minds by such men as Bishop Haven, |
and may probably be Induced thereby to look
with more favor upon their southern fellow
citizans, and not thick and speak Of them as
blood thhsy and negro hating sa7agcs, be-
cause, instead of making lions Of such monsters
as Ccx, the murderer and outrager Of Mrs. |
Hull, they hang them to tho nearest tree,
AID thus mctc GU! natural justice if not law,
aad sav, the State the expense of costly trials.
There is ono thing about this Interview that we
dou't exactly understand, and that i, why the
Bishop should call his church the Northern
Methodist Church. The name of the church
is tho Methodist Episcopal Church. and its
members here, among whom sre many Of our
oldest and most respected citizens, deny that
they belong to the Northern Methodist Church.
The Bishops autipatby 10 tho South leads hin
sstray, and We don't think he is al honor to
the church TO which be belongs. 10 matter
what may DO its oorree! name. or by what name
he may choose to call it.