North Branch democrat., October 07, 1863, Image 2

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IfARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
TUN&HANNOCKr PA
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1863.
S. M.Petfenrlll DT CO.—NO. 37 PARK ROW
NKW YORK, A 6 STATE ST BOSTOT, are our Agents
fbr the N. B Democrat, in thnse cities, and are author
ize it* take A ivertis iineiits and Subscriptions
us at our lowest Rates.
DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. G. W. WOODWARD,
OF PHtI.ADEI.PHIA.
FORJUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT :
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHENY COD NTY.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES
GEORGE D.JACKSON,
OF SULLIVAN COUNTY.
JOHN C. ELLIS,
OF MONTOUR COUNTY,
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COUNTY TICKET.
FOR SHERIFF,
AHIRA GAY,
OF MESHXPPEN.
FOR PROTHONOTARY,
H. L FURGERSON,
OF FALLS.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
0. L. PARRISH,
OF MONROE.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
EDWIN STEPHENS
OF Sit HOI SON.
FOR CORONER,
DR. J. C. BECKER,
OF TUNKHANNOCK BOR3.
FOR AUDITORS,
HENRY NEWCOMB,
OF CLINTON, 3 years.
E. D. FAS^ETT
OF WINDHAM, 1 Vf&r.
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Democratic State Central Committee.
The following i? the State Central Ccmmittee AS
appointed by Hon. FINDPAY PATIERcON, of
Washington county, who, as President of the fate
Democratic Convention, was authorized by a resolu
tion of the body to announce the Committee. It con
sists of a Chairman, and Representatives of the sever
al Senatorial Districts into which the State is
divided:
HOP. CN ARLSS F BILDLE, Chairman,
f Theodore Cnyler. ")
lit Diet. J R " her ' J Hemphill, 'v Philadelphia.
lit UIHI. <, J |(hn Puller,on, Jr., f r
( Isaac T.eech, J
2d " John D. EVILS, Chester conniy.
3d " Wm H. Witte, Montgomery county.
4th " Wm T Rogers, Bucks county.
sth " Thos. Heckm in. Northampton county,
6th Hiester Clvmer, Berks county
7te " William Randall, S. hufyk'dl county.
Bth 11 Asa Packer. Carbon county.
9th " Michael Mylert Sullivan ccranry.
10th " Stephen •>. Winchester. Luzerne county.
11th " Mortin r F Elliot. Tioga county.
12th '• John H Humes, Lycominfi csunty.
13fh " William Elliot,Norteumberland count v
14th " Samuel Hepburn, Cumberland county.
15th " William M. Brishin,Lebanon county.
16th \ George Sanderson, > Lußeagter co
10 ( James Patterson, $
17th " John F Spangler, York county.
18th ' Henry Smith. Fulton county.
19ih " J. Simpson Africa Huntingdon county.
20'h " William Big er, Clearfield county.
21st " Thomas B. Seawr'ght. Fayet'e county.
23d " W. T. H Bauley, Green county.
24th " S JamJVßare, \ AU^hiln >' f,oUn^"
25th " James Campbell, Butler county.
26'h ' David S Morri , T,nwi mce county,
27th " Tbos, W. Grayson, Crawford 'county,
28th " Kennedy L flood, Jefferson county,
Another Lie Nailed,
The following letter has been handed to the
Editor of the Wyoming Republican, f->r pub
lication in his issue of tins week.
To the Wyoming Republican :
I saw in your
paper of the 30ih nit., an attack upon Ahtra
Gay, the Democratic, candidate for Shetiff,
signed AJVA BRI<*H ; and referring to myself,
my brothel, Edwii, and a eon of Mr, Brush*
as witnesses. Being thus broiigiit la-tore the
public as giving credit to Mr. Brush'* hbel up
on Mr. Gay, I feel bound 1.1 say that his
statement is not true. Mr. Brush was, at
that time pi wily under the influence of liquor.
In a subsequent conversation, when Mr.
Brush remarked upon this sulject, we (my
brother and tm clt) told Mr. that his
statement teas untrue, and yet he refers to
us as witnesses of its truth. My brother is
■till absent tn the army, or his testimony
would be added to mine upon ihis subject.—
Mr. Brush further stated, in that conversation
that he meant to publish his statement in
ease Mr. Gay should come up for office.
H. M. JAQUES.
tamoD, Oct. 5, 1863.
Rev. L.. Peck on the Cause of the War.
We learn that, on Sunday last, Rev. Mr
Pe< k of thia Bor uph, in the pulpit of th
Methodist church, underto -k to show that
'he abolitionists of the North were not re
sponsible for thewa—that they were tin no
way connected with its cause; and to sua
tain this position, quoted the following ex
tract from a speech of A. 11. STEPHENS of
Georgia— the same exi raci that has appear
ed for some time past at the head •' the Wy
oming Republican~s\7.: ''Can either of
" oh to day name one. govern mental act of
' wrong deliberately and purposely done by
" the Government at Washington of which
' the South has a right to complaint 1
challenge an answer "
This speech was delivered in lftfiO pnor
to the inaugura'ion of any federal Republican
administration, and with the view of defeat
in? the efforts of the secession party "f that
State to take it out of the Union. He was
speaking of 1 governmental actsn >t at all
of the acts of the abolitionists of the North,
who up to that time had never been in con
trol of the government. In asking '' what
right the north had assailed," he had refer
ence solely to the government , and its acts
m reference to their rights—thus snowing,
that, as yet, there was n Justification f..r se
cession • and in 'he same speech, indicating
his belief that IN the Union and tinner the
Coiisti'ut'on was the surest hope of a v:ndi
cation of their rights in reference to their do
mestic institutions.
! If the R*v : d gentleman had thought prop
|or to read the whole speech, his hearers
| would have learned how far Mr. S'.ephen*
j holds hint and such as he irresponsible h<r
| the'rouble- winch they hay.; brought upon
the country. At the v-rv time that Mr.
Stephen* was laboring thus against secession
Horace Greeley was advocating the right to
si cede. See J\- Y. Tribune. in Fall and
Winter of 18G0-01. Mr. Peck must indeed
be hard pushed for proofs in support of his
shaky position. The abolitionists not re
sponsible? Let us see.
Negro Slavery only exists in the Southern
section ot the Union. It is therefore a sec
lional institution* The abolition, or ri pub
lican party is bawd upon the idia of hostil
ity to this institution. It is theref >re a sec
tional party. Slavery is not, and never wa>
a national institution. To drag this subject,
therefore, into the national politics was a*
great a wrong to the South as would haw
been an at'empt on its part to force into the
national politics an issue involving the right
fulness of an institution belonging only to
the North. The creation of a sectional party
in the North, based upon the idea of h'stili
ity to an institution of the South, naturally
and inevitably resulted in the forming of a
sectional party at the South, based upon the
support of that institution. There, then,
was just the state of things of which Wash
ington and Jacks in warned the American
people to beware, and which they earnestly
admonished 'hem to avoid. There was the
N >rth arrayed against 'he South—the S -utli
against the N -rth.
At the North, was cultivated a teeltng .f
hatred of the South ; ai the South, a feeling
of hatred towards the North. Ftrs' came a
division of the churches. This feeling of mu
tual hatred was nursed in Congress, in the
pulpit, on the s'limp, everyhere. After the
separation of the churches it increased ripid
ly. Democrats following the lead of Wash
ington and Jackson, sought to keep this
baneful subject out of the national politics.
Webster, Clav, and many other Whigs labor
ed to the same end. But through the pnl
pit and the press the agitst'on was continued
year after year, until thi feeling of deep and
hitler animosity culminated in disunion, a
the Fathers of the Republic predie'ed. It
was the sectional quality of these pa* ties.
North and South, that made them dinger
oue, and finally fatal to the Unto —the rai*
ing an issue involvine the right of one sec
tion to control its own institutions, and thu
arranging each sec'ion in 'rt at'i'ude of hos
tility to the other. This outline will be rec
ognized bv every candid nan as a true his'o
rv of the rise, progress, and result of this nt"*t
miserable and liaß'r>us sectional epilation
And yet Mr Peck and his party are " in no
way responsible* 7 for such result— Oh no !_
They were only carry : ng out the ''higher
law n d<>c'iinc. Bti' the Rev'd gentle 1 an will
never find exci*e or justification of h< party
in anything ever said hv A H Stephen*.—
That party, C'rtainly, at that time, was not
the government.
We conclude thia article with the follow
ng:
Appeal to the Voters of Wyoming County.
Surely ii<> candid man can donbt as to ilie
cause 'hat flnalh carried the Sooth nut of
the Union. Wendell Phillips ha often boast
edthat he labored fi>r many year to bring
the North ant of it. Dining all that time
the abolitionists were laboring in concert
with htn, and he with them. The so called
Republican party, fr-n the day of its - rgani
zaltoit until the present, has labored in con
cert with bo*it ; making of d<ffc*rent el
etnents one pmly. The reading and o>ntr<ill
• jng -pin s t ibis party have ovr ami again
<bclred th< -, r hostility to die restoration of
t the Union under the Constitution,. a it was.
! " The Union as it was" has become the theme
' of their constant ridiculing, and the Consti
tution as it is, " a mere pirehment," the
! popular v< nerstion for wfuch is to them a
|u suhjec <f wonder. Tfie grand result of
' the great struggle of 1776 is laughed at, de
! Tided, despised. Incredible as a'l tin-may
seem to men who are willing to make any
and every sacrifice for the preservation of
the gfc-rroas work of the Fathers- as they left
it to us, it is the sad, 9ad truth. We -ay
again that no cantful man can donbt as to
the cause that led the South into secession*
It wa.- hatred of the North —kindled, nurs
ed into warmth, and finally fanned into a
consuming flame by the unceasing cff >rt of
the men in the Noith who IIOW constitute
lbs so-called Republican party. For thirty
j years this bad Work nl cultivating bad bb>od
between ibe two sections of the country
went on, until-the people of the S with. pro
voked beyond their powers of endurance,
smarting aider % sense of wrong, insult, and
contumely, insanely forget ihtir reverence
for tne Union, and madlv declared eternal
hstility-to what? To the Union, be
cause of ha'red of the Union ? Never ! But
because of their hatred f that malignant par
ty who*e relentless pursuit and prosecution
of its sectional purpose had finally brought
them under the dominion <,f pa-sion rather
than of reason. They said w we have tried
'• to live To pe9re with the Yankees," (a*
" they denominate this mischievous element
"of the North.) "but they have ever per
sisted in their fforts to interfere with our
" r ght of self government; in subjecting us to
" insult and abu-e ; they desire to In? rid of
" a*, and we of them ; having no sui* of iheir
"own of which to repent, ihev must even
"assert and exercise the right of repenting
"of ours." They are too good, to pious,
" too religious, too much devoted 10 the
" higher law," to it main in a Union with
" States whose domestic institutions do not
" square with their Marred notions, and we,
" therefore, t k * the a a.' l i -ir w rd."
VVliile some of tile secession eat It rs fiave
occasionally, in th advocacv of stcession, ad
ded other reasons f r that most un r unaie
and ill-advised measure, is any man in the
North weak enough to suppose that anything
other than this long combined and malignant
anti-slavery agitation could have ever united
the South in favor of sesession ? That man
inns! indeed be blinded by partisan feeling,
or sect on il iia red, who ftils to recogmze in
this miserable, sectional agitation the cuime
of secession j and therefore, of all the teri'ble
calamities that have followed secession.
But, it wilt doubtless be said by these " lay
al" agitators that this is evidence of "sym
pathy with secesioti, : ' that it i treasoruble
to criticise their conduct, shodd. cui' ractor-i
aruiy speculators, and t!ie tens ol thousands
of government plunderers whom these tuiser
able times hav • turned loose to prex upon
the country, will, doubtless, express the same
I 'j*al and patriotic opinion.
It is false— fal-e a* the hearts that have
conceived sntl open expressed this sentiiu. ni
before. We have no h••pea m this world thai
are not connected with the Union as our
Fathers cave it to us. We denounce alike
the cause and the effect) secession was a great
wrong—a w ong for winch even the so called
Vice President of the southern c mfederacy
pretended no justification. But while it hat
no justification, it had a cause; and that
cause wa also a great wrong.
Fellow citizens, to doil successfully wth
the nations' troubles xve must deal with their
f.auses- -a policy that ignores "he true causes
of the national trouble, will assuredly never
furnish a successful remedy. You are abouf
to perform the most important civil duty of
the citizen at a time when incalculable in
tereßts must depend upon v<>ur action. The
law expects each of you, in casting your bal
lots, to give expression to your own choice,
your own sentiments ; and it does not ex
pect you to shun this duty. No true pitri
ot can omit this duty without wronging
him-eU, as well as his country. Under our
system of government, it is to the collective
wisdom of the people that the decision f all
these questions must finally come. Let your
action be audi, then, as may save your cun
trv frotn secession at the South, and from *ec
ticnal fanaticism, shoddy and wholesale plun
der in the North.
ADVICE FROM THE ARMY."
*• Extract from a Private Eetter."
In the last week- Republican we find with
the above caption, an ex ract from a letter.
S'gned " James C. Hastings," in which he
exhorts his father and every hotly else to
vole for Curtin. A friend has ha' ded u- a
letter of a later date, written by this same
James C Hastings to his mother, here, fr< tn
which we make the following ex<ract :
CAMP NEAR CI'I.PEPPER. Ya. i
Sept. 221 186J, \
DEAR MOTHER :
Tell Pap, 'hat I say if he
has any feeling for his ibree sons in the ar
inv, he will vote f-r A G. Cm tin, f--r G-v
ernor of Pennsylvania. And if he hasn't let
him voti f.r Woodward f well remember
the chap! II"-ent me lojad h.r thirty dav s.
t > plea-eold L'slia Sharp slid Porter Marcx !
lie might go to h—l, b> tore I w uld vue
t>r In in.
J. C HASTINGS.
Injusiice to the II n. George W VV T i.u|
warn, our candidate f<r Governor, we feel
bound to s ate, that he was never guilty of so
gross an outrage on the personal Idier'i- sol
the wriur; who. it seems has made a slight
mistake in tiie matter of iden ity ty con'o.Hid
ing lum witn Warren J Woo Iw.r , late Presi
dent Judge of this disirict. The last named
gentleman, autre three yenrs since, upon con*
victi' u, by a jury of the county, of'-feluiiei u
ly" abstracting sundtv fowls from the hvti
coop,o| one Wdliain Lee, of ihis Borough did
sen ence Mr. Il tsiiiigs to thirty days, in our
county Jad, as will <ll re fully appear oy the
records ot the court, reference thereto being
had. For aught t Irat appeals in ihe letter
before us, ihis " advice troin t lit army," is
noi based upon anything Curt in has done
for the soldiers, bu oily upm wnat the wri
ter, through a mistake, supposed Woodward
to have done to tiuu. it la not on pulilicul
but personal grounds that he opposes Wood
waid's election ar Governor. He, doubtless,
thinks, (and he is entirely correct in his
opinion.) that in any future raids upon his
neighbors hen-roosts, he would be uiore se
cuie under tile rule of Curtin, than thai of
Wo dwaid. But we rattier opine that the
owners of shanghias, Will not be tM"Ved
by such coinuderauoiis, or itris Advice
friu the army," to vote lor A. G. Curtui, the
canditate and pairn t amy contractors,
stale robbers ana thieves tftnerally.
jkc See uew advertiseuieots io to-days
paper.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Er th- Democrat.
RSV'D H, BROWN-COM BE
DEAR SIR : IN yh.ur
very meek and genileuianlv reply t< un uti
gendetuauly one of a piior date, you see
fit to raise a personal issue ra'her than 11
di-cuss th>* question proposed I t>ve
regretted from the outsp. that you shoiil l
cms'aotly ihmsi *our ■••ffi.sial inH>ieav m p
this question instead "f argument. This, sr,
is what f understand hi preaching ones-self ;
and IU tlie legal profession ft is regarded A>
quite impr >fesS'otial I shili not, there! n <
declare my priva'e opinion or belief on the
slavery question, notwfrhstandin ♦ your p-n
--rot.izing cxh ration- to do so. is • fteu n pea *
ed. iam not quite vain enough, to seek to
rest a question of tins kind ot. the counter
balancing opinions of r ur-elf and in\-elf,
lto|wii bsiauding yor charges .( a <li-p-11 i..0
to" exhibit my leg.il 1 .re and logiea l acu 11 n;''
and as you amlbute itns t<• iny cowir 1 ce, I
will add, that I deem r f uruiia <•, ifmj sei.s
--ol piopi'uty would not so ilieta<e, thai the
same " in-tn c " thai prevented FiHrtatf Iroin
sinking the heir apparent, should also re
strain me in tins particular I cannot see
that your repeated declaration ol your cm
vicnon.s is necessarily conclusive 011 the suit
jet acc unprn ted as it is with the asi.und
ing coiifeFaiuu, (hat y< n arc "not so ign .r
--aul" as to supposi that you are "infallible." I
should really like 1 KIIOW by what system
of ex ended indue ton you arrived at ibis
same conclusion. Perhaps however, it vas a
mere -I qipuig over I lie bruit when 'be ve-sel
was disbursed, that d es teU s i truly denote
the pressure thai is witom, a- hn wll -ii 1-
c.•it'll.natty oz ug -ut at iv.li pole. I suit
awaic too, liit a ri.fr in a recent number
i<f ihe Republican, while im!r-mg you a
"the man b-r the title-*—llif right ui-in <i■ • tt
riielit place," iadd : "tha', m hee nines
•he people 1 not car - s- uitch ah-nti v* at
GotJ has decreed a< what men r. doing,"
Still lam inclined t• think that there aie
B'tine exception* to tins. I ft" ink the public
would have uv-re regard for the teachings of
the Bible, than lor any npinu.li that i vu you,
sir may enteitan For mxself, at leai, I
must sax, that I appreciate the assumptions
on which x ■ ur < x no tation- are baed, and
hat the i tin iin mis iln tii>eiv s " pais bx
trie as the idle wind wuich I respect not." |
h jie you Will hive the goo I sen-e, -ir, alter
Having givell the chtlleiige. to proceed villi
the argument or desist with your ex-mrta
ttons.
But you are astonish- d at my " audacity in
presuming that" y >u "would stultify" yi ur
self i accepting a proposition that Wotitd re
quire you •* to prove a negative," I think
Elder, you xvil. come safely out of this aston
ishment on a moments reflection It is ju>t
as much of an affirmation to siy that slaver
is inconsistent with the B ble, a- it is to say
that it is crosiste it. \il if inMnup v, it
is much eas er to prove it, as you can point
directly to the contradiction, while, it noh
tng were said on the subject, it would stilt b*'
consistent, and yet to prove it, would ivqu'tv
the citing ol every text. You sax it is tt e
satne question that B>sh -p II .pkms dn us-ed
He slates theqtiesti >n : "Whether t' is a mor
al exil—a positive sin, to hold a human being
ill bondage, &e. : ' D>> yoll I")' Wonder now.
thit /am not astonished at your audacity "•
supposing that 1 would stnlnly myself by
coii-entuig to accept your proposition to lis
cuss a question that would reqmr. >e to
prove a ne-.-*•-" thai it is not a Sill to tlolo
a trtiman tieing in bondage ? s>in is a tlaiis
gr ssio ot the law. II "v eay then to slew
it. But lioxr prep sti-rmis to umh rake to
show that tin re is no transgression. T i
would cer'ainU b- r< quiring a man to pr v.
thai tie is not guilty. Still lamn >t asi >lllll
ed, Fdder. for I nc- Hect ilia' it was 01 (me
designed to tiptfy your profession of whom
But ler vrroie :
" lie would distinguish an I divide
A hair 'iwixt south and south wrst rule ;
On either of which, Ire would dispute,
Change hauls, ant stilt '-onlute"
The difference hetxveeti •* lwef.|lt'-|ip a!.<l
tweedledum " is certainly av • vfi siibj-o
fur ifftu '<> talk ah >nt. A<xl whr'e y>n are •> -
h rung un i< " lnv aside tin- lawyer," ! re
turn the one*-u rae t in" •i f vmi ex'ein'e I to me
n y<>ur " car I." —" *ry again, Sir, ihere is yei
hone in your case."
In regard In your reference to the slave
trade, gambling an rum— elhrig, t is snffi
cienf to say, that a'l the legislation upon
these subjects, is restiictiee; and that tfere
fore the legal implication is, th it thev are
wrong, while the provision 111 the c<- s'iui
tion requiring the return of fugitive -laves is
protective and raises an opposite presntnn
lion. The two lotmrr are prohihi'ed lv ou r
laws, fedi ral and s'ate. respectively, wlide
this lat'er is restricted to a few ind'vidtials.
With- ijt our law- everr person, if di-po s ed.
coitld engage in them Thr- doe* n -t an
pear to answer Voiir purpo-e. E'drr, hut <
you say, s-> say I, " try again, ir, there i
yet hope in your cased'
You say that inv review < f v nr sermon
wa an "onslaught' l on von. " uncalled for
and nngen'lemanlv." and that the caution
lilac d over it, v ; z : " Jimwnsc aboli
tion Herman." was " false and s'anden>u."
Y'it then deny that voti are an ahoiitjonist —
that yon ver have heen such, or that you
have ever preached abolitionism, l/'t u see,
sir. on what grounds voiihw the gent eman
ly charprs of falsehood, and whether yon are
an abolitionist or not.
Wha* did Volt mean, sir. when v n -aid in
your " card" in the Republican, ht there
was "hope in mv ease"—flat I ' rr'cdt
yet repent and become an ah •liM , nit V A*
in your egotism voti sad " the world Mill
did ynii not mean to sav that I
might vet hec me what vnu already were—
an abolitionist ? " I ahall expect, sir, to use
yi.nr own language. "a prompt and cntegor
iial answer." Y'u sav an ah h tioriat is
one who dv >cates the extirpation of slavery
whether if be right or wrong—legal or ille
gal, conatitutional or unconstitutional." la
this, sir, tbo millennium you were loreahad
liH' I'g, fit* r- peil'l life I• I WMch y <••• •it 'X
l.or'ing tne—tin* advocacy < * th'tig "'wlteih
.yr rgbt, r w rm ?" It* u to 'hi* that the .
world t" rnlrt.g } ? If *., yd l m ghr your/:
hackvi in the Ifepvblicmi w f " thinks n.u'
ate 4 the man <r he .tunes," tleelire tha v
'•-there are "those *t I"> 'dure fct without first
ii• q■ •'r• utr what G-'l ha* decreed lint, ir,
I ii<. not charge \• -ii wih this. I la-live'tlia!
when \ il said 11; I '' might r< pen' and hi*
pome an nil h'ioii*t," v u nicest I i r 11'> **,
an I •(••I cmtie**, thai i/nu were one. Yon
nij Hiit by the term, the aiue thai I dbf,
wjien I .t. ain rth'iv mail who dniii-,
,s " l:l ) i'oi-r, ix<i-ei*is
j the light to inn ri re with tin* <h ine*nc tn-
Isll'lltloll ol I lie* >olllii 'I hi.*,. \; l| ('4 il ife - *
to he *our tioHtii'ii by statu g t'hfct it i* tin
• 1 " ' | V' *
position > f i tie eh ii tell n. which you la long. ;
I il n> therel re thai *he caption was •• fa!*e
and'staii ler ■us,'* ..r affi in, tfiat i' ft wa*
5.., \ oil we'e tile Hist t if erf.
What da-* i'e pub'ic tin ler-Uu d by
preaching abolitionism -.p b> pointed | reach
nig ? I* it not th agi'atioti ••! the question
in Notlln rn ptllptt", w.iere tie in* nuuon
dies m t exist aid where, there'me agi'a
tion Ci n only have :t fiotiticot itttd, by
bolstering up a political paiiy, basi d solelv
|mi its hostility to the institution '/ Did ymi
not confess to thi und< rsianding in ihe in
troductory pari of your h-c nrse by tilling,
tliat sillv s ory ab >iu the mercliat 's siriku g
out d ff rent words m his sign to p]< a-e dp- j
fen-iii indiv duals, un'il it was all •If ced ?
Did on iiot alo confess that \ou were i.<>
nig to j react' abolitionism, thus understood, j
! hv li srcganling ihe disapproval of the nub
lie m not following the example of the im r
! chant ? So impressed are you with Hits mi
; .leis'aodii.tr l .at you seem to Ii ink I Dot I
haV-. mi le this cliatge aga nst yon. You
seem nls •to tlituk that I have dec-land
i '• nupr per io dt-c '*• 'hi - qu< slum < f *!a
v , f\ " fi \ im * V1 i \ *ii fn ! ;Ht
known in i I h V- *iid no -neb thing. Are]
j not liieir. *r, c • ii. ssioii-, mat voii j
I were going to p|-< iCil p> C- ••' lllueil-m,
ja* utidi rtood hi the pufihe ? A 1 . sir, i
1 tin- is not the irue deßintioo f ii> >tn oni-m,
' and of preactnng ab •liM 'timii. di I v u ev r
j know an altoliiionisi ? W nM y.u act now I
| edge yourself a Methodist, whether meth d
ism " ho right or wr *ng, legal or illegal, c m- j
stitii'i->nal or iincoiistnuii >nal I" I have m.. ,
much respect for you to la-beve, for a mo- !
oieiit tliat von would acknowledge voiir-elf ;
-
any thing on anv such basis But you d i
acknowledge your-elf a method Ist, ami quot.
| your D sfiphne, making it v -ur duty as a
mini- ter, to • eek the *xtirpatton of slavery
'by all lawful and christian uu-atis To i|e<
j doctrine you -ay y>u "'most lu-aiiily -iP \
| scribe." ami ii w, sir, let me a-k y on, if ymi ,
do not m so doing, a fini' y .ur-.-lf, over your
.•wo sigiiitnre, an a'loli'loii.si ? \\ :i- nn j
tins the rejauiietice to w Inch v u -ii' 1 ! I
| might yet at'am, and which < to uiak> im
| an " ah ditioi.ini sir, if -üb.crilt ng to
| this d'cirii'e or embracing r, c.ii-t iu'e- a
!
abohuoiiisr, Would not preaching n con-ti !
tuie preaching aleiliti mism J I ak thi
qiiestioii with ah (fue respect y ut i-ui
p -a 11 c dentil that \ <u are an abohti uiist. or .
'hut you have preached aho'itio-nsm W• .-n j
y .u ftave aiiwered ''ii* q-n-s ioo, tin y and
fairly, von will hive de'er uined t i wtm-e
I >.r the g.-n' Vuriiilv c oirge i.f'al-vtio'd anil
| slander helot gs. And now, s-r. since v-n
apfiear lint • • be al ail hack want in m>ki g .
I charges. I tuoie Vou w ill in. |>n.<r p r-ist in ;
cowar llv iisinuati..iis I uitla riii -s m my re j
v • w of vonr ser uon vvitiph evi-u y u d n- j
'•ot charge I'ivc'lv. If there are any other
falseiioods an I *hniders, cooia'ued in i', point j
thein on?, with 'he same tree In 'i Mia' y.u
have these, and :f thev pr .ve '<> 5.,, I ill
nia'-e the amende hn-mrab'e j but if the j
C large* themselves pr v • (•• be " lai*e and
shm ler i n," i< in?.- ir >, y i uiy i'i • c i
si• lei' your course.
Tips is deemed a sufficient reply to ytn
••eit'lem t"'y charges •! fil-.-h i id out -l.inder
Bu' indepeit lent of y .ttr own cotifpssi. n*,
haVe not tie ni the a r g'n to nil vou iu ah
olpi -nisi ? bupnose llt-ii a p.lit'cal par'v
was form -It 1 c nth up n "he idea "f ••*
tiblt-hwig mor munis in :e the otdy lawful re
llg ill! of ihe Noil'. ; and S. lldief" pleach
er* and laymen iet-is;einly agitated tips sub
ject, (assuming the right to do -o) with a
view to sue i a result, seeking to fn re it upon
us hi defiance "f our right to decide such mat
i te-s ft ourselves; w ull we no denoiniua'e
| all adv.ica'es m l stipp r er> of > to i a p >b c\
, mormonisls 1 \V<>us<l such an epithet be
I f iisc an I sbui ler <u- ? And let me fun In r
i ask, Woti'd not we <T the North a-serf onr
: right f.i control our own iiisiiiu'i nis w
jor anil earnestness ] Bu , were it not for
; your deli itlioii of i.n ab.,l tioins , I might an
i ticipite, as i reply, that ahditionisiu is riir 11 1
; "<! in <i iiioiusni wr tg, an' tiiat thctifoie
;if e ai'euuieiit i* iv t s< mid. But who gave to
! „i,y abolimmist the right t<< j."*tif lit* action
i .d-1- tb g dis'tucttou ? Tie S'a'e govern-
I llien s. a- -lie . lat I p XCbl-IVe Colitr<d of
*IICb 111 a I 't*t* , fe -i- i|i'l< Jiemleot of each oth
er a* lb s. ; ti 1 B . in and 11< I' lited
S-a'i-. I i hi' ia S. ; <t, i i • trio f't man
\ii ill lit l av I■ 11.M o if* ci < upon, or in
ei fere mit b our ac i <'•. w ii , : "i t e on r< a
l si •!! We In Ve l>o light to lull lb l e Willi I hell ao
tii-n upon the siibj ct f slavery. Nat then
j inilsi be I lie result of tins agita 11 n in Sia'es
the iiislitut loii.tloes not i xtt ? Ii n is
I productive of any icsulis, hi eXlirpulnig -lav
erv' it inusi sh in plain violation of tlie
•>t inde|ieiideiit sta'e, and of die laws of tlie
laud. Is s,.cb limitation, then, within tbe
Vi ry leinisol yi tir discipline—" to setk its
ex irpation U\ all lawful and christian
means V' I concede, your legal right to ta'k
about tbe msiitiiiion, but insist mat, if it lias
any practical etF ci in extirpating 'he in-ti u
turn such etfec' would he in viohiiton ot the
|
laws regulating 'lie rights of independent
Sates, and therein* unchristian lint,
aside from tnis, would it he wHl.inihe ii-utis
" christian men- ?'' Where do you timl au
• hority lor it, either in the example or teach-
inga of Christ aud his apostles? They re
bilked sin w i er-vei Ihey t iltxl it, n. ih <■ face.
<>f tin- 11 insure-sop, th mg,, I |, v were tinprta
,o!ie 1, tu head,- | ,11 i hurried at the ; bnt
ihey nNi. enrov...| evil < i , -iking an I bickbit
ing. The troiiiiiiissi.rfi IM to preach tlie gospel
to . eery crva'ure." not ab -ut tiiem. How
keen the re' tike'nl preaching io men about
slavery.— who are in no way responsible for
I' P'lniaii c.| Hi the injunction, to •' shake off
, ii* 'iusi o y ~,r n_aiusi tln.se wiio d i
not nceiie y n. [,, arcordntyee Willi this I
find HI the d >ci|il|i|.. j.,i| q.|<.te, aiming the
•• rule. Ir a nr.-aeh, u' n.iuci," ihe follow
tug : ■ N pi ak • vil of no ■,)* • l M -eatise your
wtr I, i-spt daily , w on I 1 cat a. ,-anker.
Keep ymir thoughts VVMlpn Vnfir own fit east,
• it' i on come to the pefsoii cnc.•rnetl." Thus
sir. i* your abolnioii {•reaching:, nnamhotized
hv the < xmiple of Chr si. condemned by big
precept* and !<irhu]iieu by the, iute* pnscilb
c<l f.r v hii cui luci liy 'he c torch of winch,
you say, von have the " honor of being &
member ami verity, sir, ! think you have
ii.oiv liouor of the Chut Cli liiat prescribed
-uv'h rd •*, Ifian rfie C onch bits of yotl, who
violate • iit-m. lb vv mify ha.e the ,l eVif
w rd- " so per>|s!enily sp. ken of ihe people
of tfit mil, eaten a- doth a canker," into
the vioy hear sof the people i f tnat portion
of our c mutry ; and li o* U'u'v are th*y now
preying uion the very vifahs of the naiion—
Ho a ht'oad cast 'he turn a d dismay thus
br .ugto tn t.ui cMinin by those whose nns-
Moll it W;t To !;iVi- preiltlied "'glad tidings"—
- iMti] will mi eaith ami peace among men."
I coitfess, ir, that I .mi a<!iiiiisl;tsl, ihat yuii,
who have tuned this, as the true cause
~f ~(11 troubles, sh -Iti'l rt 'W HI! let'lake tojus
hfy n, ad in your practice out h nil even
lierod Is it thai tiie tlines are inn congenial
t'i ihe tXiic se ..I christian viriues, and the
maituaiiraure of a christian spirit ? Was it
tins ti,at le i \Wslev . the ( underW tin tho
ii.mii. in ihe ti.uk days.ol pie Ame i'ic i in* eV■ >•
inn. ii, :, -peak Wa-htngtoii ami his coin
patriots, in their i It ris in establish this goY
i rumen!, a- rebels, with as tnnch littterinss,
il p .ssih'e, a- yon now pr. adj about ileum
no-. win' are etnleavoting t>> "USt iin it. as
ii. v In queattied t in u-, denouncing them as
'• Cupp'-iheads ?' U't.y is it, sir, that the
mi in.vii i s U'tU/r urch, iu<>re ilian tlmse •if
a. y i.tln r, are g- vi-n oVe" t. this hiUirinss.
Is ii, sir, it at \"U MI in 'hese tunes on op
portunit v >■! mailing war n| u a p"ftleu in a
church. He unity el whieti yuii had not the
patriotism in maintain ? H< inemb. r Sir, that
vnur piiai isaicol p:. ■ test a tt. .lis . f pat rti>-ism,
uncer these circumstances, are 1 <uked up n
with s'lspicnii'.
And now, Sn. since y nih tve seen fit t
eiiar,> me with lalseho d and siainler, MI the
capt ion el the ii vii-w el your sermon, over
looking ilie laCt, tliai m that review, I iiottc
e>i ilti- cnarge ma te br you against a brother
.■I iiitsqmunig the Scriptures, without any
pioet iiati Vi i .i luaMirUiit ought tJ have
ai.i'jcteu your attention, as the cliarge was
one titat .'] ittvd vr dtcttteii or retract ton at
Hie hands I any honorable nun— l hnW,
i a. ~ call your attention to it. Ami asy.>u
si em so MUX "i- to h.•coin * a martyr — dec ar
um y-'tir in'i-niton t • act only on the iJefen
iv., winte titik.iig g(,,n-,Ulcss charges of
lieo.i an t slander Upon olnet's I now
s.ti, Sit, dial when y tt Charged Bi-h p Hop
kins with misquoting the Scriptures, standing
u- ~.i> itnl uj the w .i.eh-tewer, in the pres
i-ute el your Maki r, you lu-d in your very
tn:> at.
Vety t.tjly yours,
•I. UEV? it r.
Tunkhaniiock, Oct slii, ISO 3.
NEW i ON, Oct 5 1863
FIJI END SICKI I K
DEAR SIR :
My son Isaac
wr.te V"U a lei it r s..me time since, and
t..u pninis ied Min your excellent I) ill >craf
ic piper II toh{ you all ahont tin* ilesecra
ti .I: o| die I'ifshyten in Churc'l ill IT s place,
atloilt tee S'e ding ■lt>•>k ,A N I tell i oil 11
has kicked ip i lug tune here. otrgo >d
ul I parso iilv.J Ii A I mis. i-ab is ng IVi iC
in outrage us y. II us*s son- pretty
I aid l.iigu.ige 1.-r :i pal-on I ted you, he gets
on In- old hot'of. ( X-gcr i Ins non •). I know
hnu bv toe • at•, (i-ni is the norse)., tlieti he
g.-es it Ir iu h 'usi- to house, abusing my son
1..r lell'ng the truth, in l.ict, the trtilli nearly
crazes ilie old man. he tell-. |>eopie that he
h.as written to vm to kaiow who Isaac is,
but tiuii \ "U |iv it" attention —be takes on
He Isaac -atd he wmtM write y••U again and
tell <>f some of bis actions But as Isaac is
y..inig 1 mid IIMII I wonb| write nv*ell, n i
spn iu\ nniiit. ami then the parson Would
know wb" I-awe is, us i am nis latin r, —that is
if yon publics my letter. Y u see some
tune ego i lie re wis a tearing up of cushions
in theci if * i i r titan ie •. 1\ c I it <l.l loik
as though there had been a tiller camp
meeting tnstile, 'he books were *tofeft, Bible
and all. A* lam bound to a!' *' "1 tie 'ruth
all about I mti-t say the lierd co nno ily
called Black Kepiiblica- s are awful liars, at
least the broe<! we b.ve m Newt-.n arc.—
Sothcv set t.> Work ab >ut tins matter, and
p.i up a turn he, the crew hi 1 done a mean
ac ahi n mii-t he charged on t'ie D m >crats,
so tlicv publisie'd tn tbe sunt mtchttiu at
Ibttston, and in the Black Republican at
Tunk!iiiini"ek. !ii it 'lieC <p <erhea<ls in New
ton bad ihs"< r.ne<l a church, had t<>re up
the cushions helot:,; |tig to Republicans anil
st.il. all the hooks' Nov there never was a
blacker lie conceived in 'he heart of fallen
Mi ni. I it'll }• I'll ii|i" my h"inr us a man?
hat tin- cushion* lel.i*r"'g < Republicans
were not touched Ami tuern is not one .f
the w hole Mack rrw H a' <tare c-uie before
the public ami over Ins or her own name say,
lam Republican ami owned a cushion in the
Presbyterian church at New lon ami hail it
desiioyeil. If 'h re ' s one person Inse
eiiontih to do so, the go.*! people ut Newton
will prove him * r In r a har. Tn* is not the
first nine lil ick Repu'ilman scamps have
ci'iniiii'ied mean ac'saii'* then charged it on
Uciu icr i's. Uu-hioas were tore up •> d mb',
but they did not belong to Black Republic