The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-30
The Match to Tourgees Sixteen
Dead Ouakers.

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the Northern Methodist Church, written
from North Carolina, in which he flour
ishes the old Ku-klux phantom before
the minds of his readers for the purpose,
We suppose Of firing the Northern
heart preparatory 10 the approaching
political campaign. VIZ referred to this
small game of a great bishop, as our
readers sill remember, In a humorous
vein, more as a mat Ter OF amusement than
otherwise.
The Methodist Adrocate, published at
Chattanooga, one of the organs OF the
Northern Methodist Church in the South,
is greatly exasperated at what be calls
An attack on our distinguished Bishop
Bowman F" and it comes at Us like a mad
snake.
What we said admitted Of an ingenious
reply, which would not have put the Id
rocate SO completely in our hands, II the
editor had not been too stupid, or too
angry to see it. As it Is he hasJust let out
his venom towards the people OF the
South to no purpose whatever, except to
Justify all that We have ever said, and
more, about the deep seated hate that
ne.tles in the heart OF the Northern
Church toward the whites Of the South,
and especially towards the Southern
Methodist Church.
For instance, be CHARGES Southern
Methodist editors" with being "uny0rna.
In sensitive concerning the k~u-klux-klan.
II does not satisfy his spleen simply to
deal with US who have provoked his rage,
but he must strike at the whole frater.
nifty, and strongly intimate that they all
once belonged to the ku- klux-klan.
But the little viper is not satisfied with
having bitten all the Southern Methodist
editors. He strikes furiously in another
direction:
s'Our minister's" he says, "have sui
fered far less in those heather lands Gin
dia, Africa, Turkey from persecution
than they have in these Southern States. I
o, yes! Here is the true inwardness
Of the hornets indignation. 1t is not SO
much the fun we poked at his ''diStin-
ruished Bishop Bowman" at last. What
| had the Southern States to do with that!
But here is an opportunity to curry a
little Episcopal favor by slandering a To-
calitv-a whole people whom this editor
| cordially hates.
But let's see. Is it then a fact that
these Northern bishops are ''nerrous''
when they come down South? We had
been disposed to treat that idea rather as
a Joke. We do remember of hearing last
year of one who got frightened at the yells
| of come boys who were opossum hunting,
his Reverence imagining for the moment
that it was a band of ku klux, but we
supposed that that bishop was an excep-
ton. Do they really feel safer in the
heart of Africa, India, or Turkey than in
| the Southern States? Has all the stump
tous entertainment which they have en-
loved at the hands of our best people
has all the courtesy which has been
shown them-has all the welcome which
has been extended to them both publicly
and privately dore nothing 70 calm their
fears of violence? They have been re.
ceived into our best families, our pulpits
have been thrown open to them wherever
they have gone, they have been duly in
troduced to our ecclesiastical assemblies,
and greeted and welcomed by GU bishops
and other representative men. When
did they ever receive anything but kind
ness and courtesy at the hands of the
people of the Southern States ?" Dc
none nor all of these things give them
assurance of safety? Are they still OPP
pressed with a horrible sense of alarm SC
that they feel more safe in the heart O.
some heather land than inthe ''Southerr
States? 2"
But to return to our irate editor. Ht
goes on IN his fury to tell US that ''tht
Southern Church" (by which he mean,
the Southern Methodist Church) ere
CARDS colored people aud a certain elias.
of white people as unworthy of Christian
endeavor."
Is this all that the efforts of DR.. Hay
good, DIR. Evans, and DR.. Galloway
backed by the whole General Conferenc,
Of the Southern Church, and the liberia
contributions of the Southern people fo
the benefit of the colored people, to sa!
nothing of our domestic mission system
amount to in the Northern mind?
How settled and heartless the malic,
that dictates such deliberate misrepresen
tation and elimination of a generou
people, and then even denies them tn,
privilege of a protest!
That our readers may have some ide;
of the kind Of history that passes curren
in Northern Methodist circles we quot,
our editor as follows
"He may therefore call to mind tina
the ministers and members of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church were the specia
victims of the bloody Khan" Thei
houses of worship and institutions Q
learning were burned. Many were in
humanity beaten, many were butcbered
and many were called from their beds a
night and ordered 10 leave the ountr O
die. This state of things continued unit
our bishops appealed to the United State
Government for protection against thes,
outlaws"
This bit Of history is news to us as i
will be to our readers. We were here il
the days of the ku klux, as our rabiC
editor was not. We heard many thing,
about them. In a few cases, and only
few, they were guilty Of acts of violence,
but we never heard Of any violence suf
fered by a Northern Methodist. w
never heard of the burning of a Church
or school house by the r.-GoldsborC
MethOiiSt Adrdnce.