Daily Republican., 1879-07-08
Mr.. Has any and His Charch Trial.
For the Republican.


For the Republican.
MEssRs. EDITORS The very free use
you appear to BE- making Of my name
in the public prints, without any per.
mission on my part to do so, while al
the same time shielding your own prop.
or 1 ames under that OF "Committee -
has lnduc-d ME, in order that the pub
lie may STE and know who you are, tc
address you by your several names, LOT
however, because suspicion rests upor
you, "or any one of you, :" for being
the author or authors Of the severa
communications that have already ao
peared over the above named signature
In the REPUBLICAN ofSaturday last, you
speak of gross misrepresentation a1d
false assertions made by myself to gaiI
sympathy.
In response to such stuff would
merely say, that you are wide OF th-
mark, when you tell the public that
want sympathy, for you have the most
su ubstantial reasons that can be given 10
any man, or body of men, that a very
lager majority perhaps six -sevenths Of
The quarterly Conference Of Asbury
Church, which is composed of its local
preachers, exhorter', class leaders, stew
arts, trustees, S. s. Superintendent &c ,
aes am bled as they were on the night OF
the 2Slh of June, (last Saturday night
week, in ther official capacity were
ready to aun'h,late forever, IT an oppol-
tuuity had been given them the pc
credipgs of your famous cou mitte+,
sanctioned as they were by a young
vindictive administered judge.
1t is an old and true saying that
straws tell which way the wind blows.
Did not the quarterly conference above
spoken of most positively refuse to elect
the man nominated by the preacher in
charge for Steward, he having been a
member of and recording secretary Of
the famous committee, and 1t looked
very much like as if his nomination was
intended as a reward for willing SER
vices rendered, for it is admitted on all
hands that he had no other quallfica-
ton for that position. Poor unsympa-
thizing fellow, what a rebuke both he
and the man that nominated him met
with at the hands Of the conference.
Will he ever offer again No Sirs,
it is not that wants sympathy, 80 don't
prate any more about that article;
but permit me to say just here that |
am, and Of right ought to be, under
perpetual obligations to the Quart
erly Conference of Asbury M. E. Church
of Wilmington, Del, for the sympathy
so nobly expressed by that body,
through all this unholy and mos! hate
ful persecution toward me. Most of its
members are as familiar with the origin
and design of it as | am, hence their
action in the premises. Aud now you,
Messrs. Committee, appear to desire
that should ask for your record to be
published, this to me is amatter OF en-
tire Indifference.
If you think it will be of any service
in lifting you out of your present dilem-
INA, publish it, bat rememberit is your
tecord not mine, and | would not give
the one-halt of a Smyrna fig for ali
hats in it. If. however, you propose to
publish it for the benefit of the church
particularly or for the community GEN
orally, let pe say to you, that 1t is not
your record that they want to see, but
upon the other hand what they do
want to know is, what has been the
81 all ~
church.
What was the cause of this pros ecu
tiou Ia King pIac, after the lapse OF
tb'r'y-sev-n years: was | the only nau
in oil the membership of Asbury
Church that its Pastor could find to lay
his heavy land upon, to be made feel
the force OF dscip may law | think |
can give reasons that will satisfy any
man, and am ready to do so at any
time, why have been made the par
ticn,ar object of the vengeance OF bis
reverence in this wbO'e matter. In or
dsr to 10 this viii have to begin wit q
The commencement of his pastor1te at
Asbu y, with the letter written to DIsh-
op roster dI CueS't 'titoWu III IeSaAu v
his appointment there, aud from that
ou up through all his tlme here t" tp-
meeting OF The Board OF stewsds
b-ld in M;cL last, when
made motion that his salary shou d
be one-thousand, instead of twelve
hundred dollars, tor the coming year,
for | believed then, and sti'l believe
that the last named amount was more
than lie would ever be worth to tna
congregation worshipping tbere, for
in addition to this he had fair tene-
ment rent free. GEO. s. HAGANY.
TO Jacob Williams, Lewis H. Orr, John
Gray, Joseph Grant, Robert b. Flick;
Charles C. Weldin and William 7.