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THE WEEKLY
LARTEKSVILLE express.
Is published evorv
FRIDAY MORNING,
n CHrti*ravH!e, Bartow Cos., G«.. by
Samuel 11. Smith,
EDITOR and PROPRIETOR at the fol
ding
Kates of SJiiisrription:
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On®copy six months, 2.0*! 4
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(Invariable in advance.)
Parties Advertisinjj will be restricted,
in tk oit Contracts, to their legitimate business;
that is to say, all Advertisements that do not
refer to their regular business will be charged
for extra.
Advertisements inserted at intervals to be
charged as new each insertion
'/’Ac above m vriit be strictly adheared to
PROFESSIONAL CARDS,
MURRELL & BRO.i
RESIDENT DENTISTS.
Office Over 8. Clayton & Son,
CJtnTERSriLLE, GEORgIJt
Having permanently located here, and belne provi
ded with the latest Improvements In Dental Material,
are prepared to do anything pertaining Dental Sur
gery.
AIX WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION
DBS. M. prepare a “Supe.lor Vegetable Tooth
Powder,” guaranteed to contain nothing injurious to
the teeth.
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
Cartersvrilie, Ga,.
BY
BTJICE &HILL.
The undersigned have associated 1 n business. »nd
a'ter refuting and re-arranglng that COMMODIOUS
HOUSE recently occupied by A. R. llu Igens as a Fam
ily Grocery and Confectionery, on the EAST SIDE
of the itAIUItOAD, near the late BARTOW HOUSE,
have opened in the game aFI FIST CL ABB HOTEL
for the Entertainment of the TRAVELING PUB!,IC,
which will be kept upon ihe EUROPEAN PLAN. —
J..,th parties are experienced In the Business, MR.
HILLL having formerly Proprietor of the Ten
nessee House. Dalton, but more recently of the Car
tersville Hotel, and Mr, BUIOE formerly Proprietor
of the late Exchange Hotel, Cartersvllle, Ga., but mo; e
recently of the Washington Hall, Atlanta, Ga., Mr.
W. Hill Is General Superintendent, and Mrs.
Euice Lady Superintendent.
BUICE&HILL
may 23, Bm.
DR. F. M. JOHNSON
Dentist.
T F.3PECTFCLLY offers his professional
IV services to the citizens of OartersviUe
and vicinity. He is prepared to do work , .
on the latest and most improved style.—
Teeth extracted -"ithr r . (by means of narcotie
rpray). W<> s «.l warranted. Office oyer.T. Elsas’
Store, CARTERSVILLE, Ga. Feb. 20, 1363wSm
JERE A. HOWARD,
ATTORNEy AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
PRITCHETT fy WOFFORD ,
Attorneys at Law
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE OTER ELSAS STORE,
Oct, 17, 186 7,
THOMAS WTIV! ILN ER,
Attorney at Law,
r ARTERS VILLE. GEORGIA,
Will attend promptly to business entrusted
.» his care. Oct. 5 wly
j 0 H N J. J 0 K E S
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cartersville, Ga.
YTTILL attend promptly to all busi jess en
\\ trusted to his care. Will practice in
,he Courts oflaw, and equity in the Cherokee
Circuit. Special attention given to the collec
! >n of claims. Jan. 1, 1866. ly
John J - Jones.
" JOHN J.j"oN7s~”
REAL ESTATE AGEST,
CARTERSVILLE GA
l am Authorised to gull, and have on hand several
Houses and Loti®, and also numerous building lots in the
town of Oartersville. Also several plantations of vari
ous sizes in Bartow county. Parties desiring to buy or
sell will do well to give me a call. AJI communications
romptly answered. July 17. 1866.
S. H. Pattillo,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
am attend promptly to the Cutting, Repair
ing and M tking Buy’s and Meu’s Clothing. (M
,fl;ce in back room cf Blair & Bradshaw’s store. (I.J
OartersviUe, Ga.
The Eartersvllle Ootel.
nR. THOMAS MILAM having
charge of this House, would he jj j
pleased to accommodate a few Board-H
ers with BOARD, with oi without QbS&L
Lodging. Call end see him at once for teims
OartersviUe, Jan 17.
O-rsv W • «• MOUISTCASTLE,
Jeweller and Watch ami
"<ty Clock Repairer,
in the Front of A. A. Skinner Ac Co’s store.
Caiteraville, jan 25
“'sTb’S KCI ‘ELCSj
Fashionable Tailor ,
URTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY. GEORIG
>|g Irf prepared to execute all kinds
of work in the Fashionable Tail- Ka
—ing line, with neatness and indu-«itt
table style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store.
Cartersville. jan Sii.
,T7H. rURTELL!
MERCHANT TAILOR,
W ltlle Hall Street, Atlanta, 6a.
("ILOTHINU made to order in the very
J latest style, and at short notice.
25, 3t.
1858. 1858.
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama Street,
•A TliJtJTTjt , Ga.
Nearest House to the Passenger Depot,
WHITE & WHITHQCK, Proprietors.
W. I>. Wiley, Clerk.
11AVI NO re leased ami renovated the above Hotel,
11 we are prepare. 1 , to entertain guesU In a most sat
isfactory iuaauer. Charges fair and moderate. Our
efforts yjll be to please.
£4jr baggage carried to and from Depot free of
charge a P r &w>f
EE. SAS3EEN. B. W. YOItK. K. T. JO CRD AN
SASSEEA/'S
TJnited States Hotel
Cor. Alabama and Pryor streets,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Wit}tin 100 yards of the Passenger Depot.
>As>ERtV, YORK and JOUR DON, Propr «
j. W. F. BRYSON, )
\ Clerks.
R. T.JOURDAN, )
Dec. 20th, 188:7-if.
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
VOL. 7.
Mortgage Saie.
A GDFEABIE to the conditions of a D®ed of Trust
made nnd executed bj J-ihti W. Rnckrnan to
S»mu"l H. Smith, on or abont the loth of January,
IBfi7, to secure the payment of the purchase money of
32 acres of land, lying In the 4th district and 3rd sec
tion of Bartow county, and adjoining (he town of C»r
tersvilla, and the place whereon John 11. Ruckman
now resides, will be sold before the Court noose dcor
In the town of Cartels 'ill®, on the first Tuesday in
August next, within the leva! hours offa'ejthe above
described land containing SI acres, more or less. Sa’-ff
land is bounded North l y the r-'Vrn nf C-- irs-’m,
Fast by lands of Tl,os. H. beak. South by lands of Dr.
W. W. Leak, and West by lands of J. A. Terrell. The
said Deed of Trust provides that if the payments on
said lunds are not met within one hundred days after
tnatu’ity of notes, the land may be gold and lilies per
fected by trustee, .after advertulng property thirty
days, and in ha much as the notes have come to ma
turity and the additional lapse of time expired, and no
part of said notes have been paid, both amounting to
about $2200.00 principal. The above dercrlbed lands
will be sold under provisions of said mortgag, or trust
Heed. SAM’L 11. SM ITU,Trustee.
July Ist ’C3 80d
Georssa, limloxv county.
■ytT lIERE.4S, Thomas A. Word, Administrator of the
YV estate of John J. Word, deceased, applies to the
undersigned for letters of dismission from hts admin
istration. Therefore all persons concerned arehereby
required to show cause, if any they have, why said
administrator on the first Monday in December next,
should not be discharged. Given under my band, and
seal of office. This 14th of May 1333.
J. A. HOWARD,
Ordinary,.
Georgia, Harlow County.
VT7HEREVS, Thomas A. Word, administrator De
Y V bonis non of the of the estate of George Si ovail,
deceased, applhs to me for letters of diem is! on from
bis administration. Therefore all persons concerned
are hereby required to show cause. If any they have,
why said administration on the first Monday In De
cember rext should not be discharged. Given under
rnv hand aud seai of office. This 14*h day of May,
1363. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
Georgia, Bartow County
WHEREAS. Thomas A. Word, administrator De ban's
nan , of the es»ate of Thomas E. Franklin, deceased,
applies tom® for letters of disinissolnn fr m h’s admin
istration. Therefore all persons concerned are hereby
required to show cause, If any they have, why said
administrator on the fi'st Monday In December next,
should not be discharged. Given under my hand and
seal of office. This 14th cf May 1363.
J. A. HOWARD, ordinary.
F. M ddlemau, C. 1 Brown.
F. M. EDO LEM AN & C 0„
Wholesale Dealers in
Boots, Slices Leather,
French and American Calf Skins,
LASTS, PEGS, LINING AND BINDING
siciisrs,
eilOE FINDINGS, AC., AC.
Next door to Moore A Mcrsh, Decatur Street.
Atlaata, Ga.
Es”“3hoe Manufacturers and Merchants will find
to their advautjge to call on us before making thetr
purchases. apr. 29, ISCS.wtf
FiCKSIooTIND SHOE
House.
ARE now receiving their FALL and "■ ■■«»
WINTER STOCK of BOOTS j,ND PO \
SHOES, the tarcest ever brought to Ljf \.
this market, These goods came direct
from the Eastern manufactories, and win be sold to
Country Merchants and the Trade at New York prices,
expenses added, consisting of Mens’, ‘Boys’, Youths’,
tid Childrens’ Wax, Kip, Calf, and Buff Brogau3 and
liulmora s—Boots of all styles, thick, wax, kip. calf,
dos tha Qaest. q lalittes. Ladies’, Misses’, and Chil
n;’ .Boots aad Shoes, of every style, aud all made to
ier G. H. FORCE.
B. W. FORCE, form®rly of Charleston will be glad
to see his old customers. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 10-ly.
BLACItaMITHING,
jg|U °M. GOODSON.
I J-VVLNG COMPETED THEIR NEYV
Sri op adjoining Strange’s Tin Sltop, on West
side of Railroad,Cartersville, Ga.. are prepared
to do all kinds of work in the Blacksmithing
line. They flatter themselves, that they can
do as good work, and at as low piice, as any
like establishment in town. They ask a rea
sonable share of the public patronage, and
promise satisfaction both in the character of
their work and the reasonableness of their
charges. A. & M. GOOD SON.
Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 31st, 1868-wly.
V, R. TOMMEY. J. S. STEWART.
Newton Cos., Ga. Oxford, Ga .
TOMMEY & STEWART
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
At the Sign of the
MILL SAW and GAME (JOCK,
Whitehall Street, Atlanta, G a.,
Respectfully call the attention of merchants and oth-.
ers to their large and well assorted stock, of
Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
C insisting in part of
Iron, Steel, Nails,
Builders’ and Carnage Materials*
Agricultural Inip'.ements,
Grain Cradles,
Svthe Blades,
Toolsul all kinds, &c.,&c.;
-ALSO
LEATHER, LIME AND COTTON YARNS.
AGENTS FOR
Hook’s Anti-Friction Metal.
Baugh’s Ravvbone Super-Phosphate of
Litne,
Buffalo Scale Works,
Nonpareil Washing Machine
* PROPRIETORS AND AGENTS FOR
Brook’s Patent Portable C ot
ton and Ilay Screw and
Revolving Press
In over onehundred counties In Georgia.
SCounty Rights for Na/e.-tBS
June 51y.
Errors of Youth.
A Gentleman who suffered for years lrom
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all
ihe effects of youthful indiscretion, will, for the
sake of sufleiing humanity, send free to all
who need it, the recipe and directions for
making the simple remedy by which he was
cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the
advertiser’s experience, can do so by address®
ing, in pcrlec t confidence,
JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar Street, New
York
KAYTON’S OIL OF LIFE--Cures Sprains, Brui
ses, swellings and Corns,
KAYTON’S MAGIC CURE--Cures Coughs,
Colds and Sore Throat.
KAYTON’S MEDICINES for sale in Cartersville,
Ga.i by W. L. Kirkpatrick, Druggist.
REDWINF. & FCX, Atlanta, Ga., wholesale
agents for Kay ton’s Medicines.
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. JULY IT. 1808.
FSAWOFOR’ffES!
ri DIE undersigned would announce to the
1 J citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that
ho is fullv popared to furnish
-*S5=X| PIANOrORfES.
>•
JIV J V 7or 7 1-3 ll llf j J
OCTAVES, with ail the very latest improve
ments, and most elogas.t style nnd workman
ship, one hundred dollars leas than thev can
be purchased elsewhere south. They will be
fully warranted,
PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRED
In the very best manner, and all work warran
ted, and shall be pleased to give all orders
prompt attention.
MR, S, TANARUS, ANDERSON will kindly give
further information at present, and deliver any
orders, or you can address, by mail,
F, I„ PREFER, Kennesaw House,
Marietta, Ga,
He >s also agent for the sale of ail kinds of
ORGANS, Jan 25wtf
toT THE XiAD llls.
' PREMIUM FAMILY
SEWING MACHINES.
best machine for every dcscrijition of
family sewing made.
Call and examine machine and specimen of
work over S. Clayton & Son’s stire, Carters
ville, Ga. ' S. H. PATTILLO,
Agent for Bartow county.
Dec. 13th, 186 7-ts.
DRUG S, &C,
tfie dune Zoom unc/e't /Ac
BARTOW HOUSE,
an </ am nova Aoca/ccA on
M A I N ST,
aiea:/ (Aooi /o
Gilbert & co., hardware house.
c=. / fAy yvobdonaA a/ton/eon t-i
f/tven /and /Ate <A/i ft cn-J tny oj
nyCEIDTOIISrHIS,
an aan de/Amy a// ai=
fto/cd in any Aine, due A ad
MEDICINES, Oil,
PAiNTS, GLASS, &C.,
AS CHEAP
ad can Ae jAounfAojf f/ie dame
ai'a/tft: cAdevaAiete. «=;X 4e-
doAieif a coaifmci
ancc e<A fAte AcincAnedd
Acute ZeccivecA.
J’ IP. IBIEST. _D.
Druggist aud Pharmaceutist.
Feb. 7th, 1868-wlv- Cartersville Ga.
SADDLERY AND HARNESS
MANUFACTORY.
riAHE undersigned, determined to give the
I people of Bartow and adjoining counties
no excuse for going - abroad to purchase their
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, &C.,
and for repairing the same, have opened, in
the town of Cartersville, a regular,
SADDLE AND HARNESS MANUFAC
TORY,
where they propose to put up everything in
their line in the neatest, most substantia! and
durable manner, and at prices that will
defy competition. They flatter them
selves that they can and will do work, which,
in every respect, will compare favorably with
any work done North or South, lbotSi ist
qoalsty and Let no one ig
'.'lore our work because it is done in the South,
nor our pfices,before giving us a tiial, for that
is all we ask to secure trade. Our work is all
wart aaltd and that is a sufficient guar
antee to purchasers. We are determined to
build up a name nnd business in Cartersville
that will be a heritage to our children after
us, if prompt attention, good work, and mode
late charges will secure that end, Rooms it
the front of the Eclipse Salo and Livery Stable,
THOMPSON & STOCKS.
Cartersville, Ga,
Jan. 7th, 1868-wl v,
JORDAN, HOWARD & HARRALSON,
TOBACCO '
Commissi on Merchants
/
Whitehall Street. ’
AIL ANT A, GEO RSI A,
Keep constantly on hand, a large
and fine Assortment of CHEW
ING and SMOKING TO
BACCO, CIGARS, &c., which
we offer at the Lowest Whole
sale prices.
June 10, ISGB. wtf
~i(AYTON'S DYSPEPTIC PILLS--Cures Liver
Complaints and Dyspepsia.
KAYTON'S GIL OF LIFE- -Cures any Pain or
Ache in from one to five minutes,
KAYTON’S DYSPEPTIC PILLS- -Cures Sick
Headache and all Biiiious Disorders.
KAYTON'S OIL OF LIFE--Cures Pains in the
Back, Breast, Sides, Shoulders and Joints.
KAYTON'S MAGIC CURE--C ures Diarrlioe and
Cramp Cholic*
*rL& <gk
to o
fc.JI ■
AT
Loewensie in
4’
PFeijev 9 s .
XXTE ARE NOYV OFFERING A Sp’en
YV did WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
*
DRY-G-OOPS, boots.
SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING. GROCE
RIES, ETC., ETC, ETC.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE
GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS Daily,
AND WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION
OF BUYERS COMING TO THIS PLACE
THAI WE CAN SHOW NEW GOODS
WHICH WE GUARANTEE CAN BE
BOUGHT AT LESS THAN ANY PLACE
IN THIS MARKET.
Call and see Us,
an and convince
■you r selves.
Remember the
UNDER COURTHOUSE,
Hi C€ VV• E \S' n SIDE RAILROAD.
LOF.WENSTEIN & PFEIFER,
Cartersvtlle, Gu.
May 14, iddß.
To Cousumptlves.
The Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON will genfi, f ee o
charge, to all who desire it, the prescription with the
directions for making and using the simple remedy By
which lie was cured of a lung affection and that dread
disease Consumption. His only ol.jcct is to Benefit
the afflicted, and he hopes every sufferer will t• y this
prescription, as it will cost them nothing, aud may
prove a blessing. Please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON.
No. 163 South Second Street, Williamsburg. New York
Cartersville, Ga.
[Frctn the Sonthem Advocate.]
T3»e WiiHlro L?l?»r lur! the
Laic General Conference.
I\fr. Editor : Wal ro his expound'
J n d.«y! «*?.*:> to he ihe doctrine
’ cf Northern Methodism upon the rignf
of conquest. His wickeil letter’to the
i Knoxville Frep Press has been very
generally republished and Northern
Methodist papers have with great show
«>1 indignation, denied both its authen
ticity and its genuineness. They have
reely charged that it was written by a
Southern “rebel” with set purpose to
defame their Church, and one, at least,
ha's expressed the opinion that it was
concocted in the office ol some South
ern Methodist Advocate ! It miy be
mentioned just here, as a singular cir
cumstance, that the indignant denun
ciations of these Northern Methodist
organs have been directed rather
against Southern papers for publishing
the production, titan against the atro
cious sentiments it contains.
A special committee appointed by
the General Conference of the M. fcL
Clinch, North, during its late session
at Chicago, to consider a memorial
lrom the Holston Conference, M. JE,
Church, South, (of which and the re
port upon it I have something to say
hereafter) appended to their report
some remarks and a recommendation
about this YVaUlro letter. The Com
mittee says ; “No effort that we have
beenable to make has enabled us to
discover any such person in this city.
Certainly, no such person has any
right to speak in our behall, or declare
our purposes, much less does he de
clare them correctly. We recommend
tliat the paper be dismissed as anony
mous, and unworthy of onr further con
sideration.”
►Suppose, for a moment, that the M
E. Church. North, ha! never violated
her plighted faith with the Church,
South, as to property and boundaries ; j
mat iter Bishops and managers had
never taken advantage of the military
occupation of the Southern States and
of t!ie potent influence of partisan
mobs to hold Southern Methodist
churches and parsonages against their
rightful owners; that Bishop Simpson
had not evoked the authority of Secre* -
tary Stanton to dispossess our minis
ters of their pulpits ; that Bishop
Clark had not organized his Holston
Conference in a Church that cunning
and violence had won from Southern
Methodists, in the name of “loyalty
and religion that other Bishops and
agents and bummers had not exhausted
every art known U their unmeasured
craftiness to get control of our Publish
ing House in Nashville; that under
the inspiration ol the crusade they have
led against us, we had not had so
many brethren martyred in Missouri
and so many outraged in East Tenn
esse ; suppose, if your imagination is
equal to the undertaking, that North
ern Bishops and Lite, fanatics they have
duped and the hitelings they have
bought, had uctually done in the South
nearly all that YYaldro only claims the
right to do, how would his infamous
letter have been received ? If ith con- %
tempt. It would have been dissmissed
as the ravings of a maniac, or des
pised as an irreverent hoax.
I take it upon me to say, that the
one quality about Waldro’s letter that
has. among Southern people, who are
acquainted with the history, the meth
ods, the associations and the issues of
this eclesiastical invasion, excited
attention or aroused indignation is its
strikiny verisimilitude. llis letter is
so essentially like other emanations
from the “advanced thinkers who
have inaugurated these enterprises
against Southern society and religion,
and who are responsible for the outra
ges that have attended them, that we
can only regard Waldro—whoever he
is—as a bolder or less politic paitisan
in these unholy crusades, whose avow
ed purpose, if Dr, Curry be competent
authority, is our “disintegration and
absorption.”
I am glad to believe that within the
communion of the Church, North, are
many thousands, who, knowing the
facts, disapprove "these wicked schemes
for the eclesiastical conquest of the
South ; and these, in God’s name,
should cry out lhe wrongs, and failing
to correct it, rebel against a dominant
majority tint threatens to drag into the
maelstrom of a common apostasy all i
that is free in the State or sacred in
the Church. 1 believe that the great
majority of that communion—long un
der the dominion oi an intolerant bigo
try, created and nourished by an ever»
active press that has spent its chief en- i
ergies in slandering the South, are ig- \
norant of the facts, and for this class l j
entertain, a sinere commiseration and
feel it to be mv du'y to pray that they
nny yet be enlightened.
The able C.miniitev say ot Wald
ro :
“Certainly, no such per«*<n has a
i l ight to speak in our behalf, nr declare
• 'Mir purpoe. s, much less does he declare
'Hiein cnrreeilv.” Ha« this committee
then, and the General ConfcriMt'-e that
•adopts its reports—have all these Bisli
| ops and Editors and Secretaries and
Delegates a right to speak in bi-haif of
j the Church, North? And docs this
j body represent that Church correctly?
Let us consider the report made bv
i this committee upon the main subject
they were directed to ir.vestlaate—the
memorial of the Holston Conference of
the M. E. Church South,
The Holston Conference of the
Church, South, did at its session, last
j October, order the appointment of a
! committee of seven “to memorialize the
General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, to be held in Chic
ago, 111., in May, 1868. setting forth
the wrongs we have suffered in the
taking and holding of property in
i churches and parsonages by preachers
and lavtnen connected with the M. E.
Church—pronerty belonging to the M.
E. Church, South—and earncsltv pray
the said General Conference that they
will devise measures by which said
property'shall be restored to iis right
ful owners, for the honor of Methodism
and a common Christianity.”
This is the language of the resolu
tion called forth the Committee,
consisting of E. E. Wiley, W. G. E.
Guntiynsrham, Jas. Atkins, B. Arbo
gast, G. YV. Miles, G. Stewart, and ont
other, whose name I have not before
me. We know that the memorial was
such as it became these Holston breth
ren to offer.
Wednesday morning, May 13th,
Bishop Clark rose in his place aud said
to the General Conference that “he
had in his hand a memorial from the
Holston Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, making some
complaints about our brethren there.—
They sav. they have disturbed them."
The memorial was referred to a special
committee of seven upon motion oi
that model “disintegrator” and mem
ber of the Republican Convention—
T* 11. Pearne.
On Friday, May 15th, afi r duly
considering the necessities of the case
—a case tn u he had helped so much to
create —Bishop Clark announced the
following Committee : “On Memorial
of Holston Conference of the M. E.
Church, youth—Luke Hitchcock. Jos.
Castle, J. M. Reid, N. Shumate, G. \Y'.
Clarke. John Kizer, J. M. Walker.”
I give you their names—they de
serve to be held in perpetual remem
brance.—(See Daily Advocate ol May
14 and 15.)
'After protracted incubation this com
mittee, on the last day of the session,
June 3, brought in the report ihat is
certainly one of the most remarkable
documents ever passed upon by an
eclesiastical assemblage. From the
account of it in the Daily Advocate,
we are left to infer that the report was
adopted without discussion—so unan
imous was the General Conference.
The Committee among other ti.ings
reported io the Conference : “By per
sonal examination” (they do not mean
of poor Neal’s bleeding back it is sup
posed) “we have endeavored in vain
to ascertain what foundation there is
fur the affirmation that our ministers
and people encourage violence toward
the ministers of the M. E. Church,
South. We believe aud truul there is
no foundation lor the charge : for if
true it cculd not but meet our unqualified
disapprobation.” It is gratifying that
such disapprobation, though long W'th
held, is at last expressed, and as it is
to be hoped that the zealots of Missou
ri and Eeast Tennessee will consider
themselves very sternly rebuked and
govern themselves accordingly.
The Coinii it tee go on meek 'y to ob
serve :
“Our own ministeis and people in
the Sooth suffer severely in this way,
and sometimes, we apprehend, at the
hands of our Southern brethren.”
To illustrate what we mean by “suf
fering severely” “at the hands of their
Southern Brethren,” you must allow
me, Mr. Editor, bv way way of paren
thesis, to refer to a very startling para
graph in the Duly Advocate of May
5. “We learn from Rev, J. YV. Tal
ly, (!) representative of the Alabama
Conference, that the spirit of perse
cution is raging to a fearful extent
against our people in Georgia and Al
abama. Rev. tl. Breeßenridge, ol
Griffin Ga., on Saturday, Aptil 26th,
was driven away from Griffin, and pur
sued by over one hundred men,’
News, certainly, to our worthy friends
in Griffin ! But the Reverend gentle
man escaped from the furious “over
one hundred” and ’placed himself tin
NO. 4.
| der ib< protection of the military at At
lanta.”
Henceforward let Zenophon and his
! ten thousand be forgotu n and Joe John
' ston's str !, etfv he mentioned no mnri
1 t f *rev«r For the eomfort of your dis
tant readers. | may remark, that ne
collision has oeurr'd between the ex
eited “one hundred” and the garrison ;
j that Atlanta is not in a stale of siege,
i anil that G. n. Meade, up to last advi—
] res, had not asked for reinforcements.
I The same issue of the General Con
! ferenee organs informs ns of the hair
! breadth escape of another loyal and
! pious propagandist. “At Adairsvilie,
Kev. Wesley Prettytnam, Presiding
Cider o| Atlanta District, was driven
away from the quarterly meeting by a
m b. lie escaped just in time to save
his life from the hands of lawlass
men !”
Os this statement T take the liberty
of rem irkt’ie that ev -rv mar, in Adairs
vilie knows it to be false.
I mention these items in the report
ami th< se slatidi rs in the Daily Advo
cate that our people may see how it is
that Northern Methodists have come to
hate us so relentlessly. These jour
nals have carried the art of slander to
its utmost perfection. The Daliv Ad
vocate in these reckless statements lias
been matched onlv once—when the
tNew •York Observer in reciting the
brutal outrage recently commuted up
on our brother Neal represented that
lie was a Northern pntrtot or saint,
whipped by Southern rebels !
These very mild and general dis
claimers were to he expected in the
Committee's report, but m that part ol
it which considers the complaint of the
memorialist that the Soul hern Church
in Easi Tennessee has suffered, at the
hand of Northern Methodist Mission
aries and their abettors, the loss ol
much valuable property, there are some
expressions—considering that the re"
port winds up with a professed repudi
ation of the principles of Waldro’s let
ter — that are suHicientiy startling and
that furnish an admirable appropriate
text for Waldro’s strange homily on
the "doctrine of conquest."
In considering tins part of the Hol
ston memorial, simple denial is impos
sible. All the world knows that they
do hold property that hue long- been
in the undisputed possession of the M.
E. Church, South. It was entirely
satisfactory to the Committee and the
General Conference to say in vindica"
lion of their course in this business ;
"It seems that much oj the property in
question is deeded to th<‘ M. E. Church,
it being so held before the secession
of the Church , South. IVe have no
proof that amj contest is held otherwise.'
I'hey have the grace not to attempt
the vindication ot their right to the
property they hold that has been ac
quired since the separation. But as to
the other class of Church property that
existed prior to 1844, what is thei r
claim and title ? What does this well
considered offi ial utterance of the
General Conference mean ! That in
their view the Church, North, is enti
tled to all the Church property held
in the Soutli prior me separation !
Ail such property they have appropri
ated whether they have been able to do
it and now their General Conference,
speaking tor the whole Church, ex
plains the ground upon which they
have proceeded: "Much of the prop*
erty. in quc.iltou is deeded to the M. E.
Church J" 1 have long known that this
was thoir practice, hut they would have
the shamelessness to avow it, l could
not btiieve —even of them. VValdro’s
letter has nothing more abysmal in de
.pravity than this. That they should
again, in this solemn way, repudiate
the plain separation”—drawn up by a
committee ot nine, six of whom ad
,tiered to the Church, North, and adop«
led by a General (Jonlerence in which
Northern pieachers were overwhelm
ingly in the majority—does not sin
pnse me, but U does sui prise me, that I
they should be willing to go before the
country with tins avowed contempt of
the decrees of the Supreme Court cf
the United Slates, aud thus openly de
ny their obligation to observe them.—
It that Court ever decided any question,
it decided that the property they now
claim with such assurance is the prop
erty of the M. E- Church, South.
I had read, in an earlier number of
the Daily Advocate, Dr. Porter’s bit
ter and unrebu *ed denunciation of the
Supreme Court that compelled them
to keep their word ; 1 have known
all along how they have smarted under
that decree; I have Known how anx
ious they are to re-open the Courts—
more favorably related to them—and
as one of them has amiably expressed
it, “rip up that decision,” but that this
“truly loyal” body should openly deiv
die authority ot the highest Court
* I
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■ * ’ # I
f**n '■* to our Constitution ta ;<!mo-t
incrdible.
EiUiei thrsp gentlemen have nei
recognized I heir ohllgat ion to re*|> t
the law as interpreted by the Supreme
Court, and have hitheito k ;pl lh> ir
bands ofl our property because tin y
have lacked opportunity, or else, this
Genera! Conlennce —in the very spir
it of the Waldro letter—takes the rn
sition that the fortunes of war have
changed the legal status of the pa-iies,
and that Bee's surrender has worked *
reversal ol what Dr. Porter feel* fr *e to
denounce as “that infamous decasiou
given in the interest of slavery.”
Certainly this General Conference
lias “made history.” It has by simp!**
resolution put itself “outside the Con
stitution and the law. and resolved itself
into a prayer meeting-—moving earth
and heaven, to the drest of its ability—*
f )i the conviction and deposnl of a po
litical enemy on trial before the Senal*
of the United States?
And what worse does Waldro say?
He says : “Methodism in the South
was conquered and subjugated, ami
henceforth has no claims on anything
used, or belonging to its former self.”
The Conference savs with the utmost
complacency, us the full vindication of
its agents in East Tennessee, “Much
of the property, in question is deeded
to the M. E. Church!” Such, then,
is either their opinion of “the powers
that be” that they recognize no sort of
obligation to obey them, or else the
whole of them stand on Waldro’s
broad doctrine of the rights of conquest
The General Conference has placed it -
self in this dilemma ; if it save its “loy
altv” from one horn, its honesty is im
paled upon the other—unless, indeed
we are no longer to determine questions
of honestv by that old fashioned Book
which says, “Thou shall not steal."
and are henceforth to shape our conduct
hy the comprehensive maxim ol Bryce
Jagger :
“ Mariners have, no rights after the
keel touches sand]"
But why waste words? I have rare
fully read the Daily Advocate, and l
declare to you that there is not in the
address of the Bishops, in the reports
of the Committees, in the debates before
the Conference, a single word to show
that they are conscious of ever havrng
done the Southern Church any wrong*
There is not one word of rebuke
or regret for anything done, or
attempted, bv their Bishops and agents
in Ne*v Orleans, in Nashville, in
Charleston, in East Tennessee, in West
Virginia, or in Missouri. There is not
a single syllable of assurance to en
courage the charitable hope that then*
r***p*ar»ndiafa would not. to*
morrow, if they could, seize upon s'l
the property of the church, South, held
prior to the separation, and set up a
claim to it, like this by which the Gen
eral Conference dares to justify to the
world its hold upon our property m
East Tei nessee, and that all the bal
ance they would hold by right of eon"
quest.
II Emory College were in East Ten-*
nessse and the mob were strong en«
ough to help them reverse the decision
of the Supreme Court, they would seize
it to-day and report at the next General
Conference—in reply to any protesting
memorialists —“This property is deed
ed to the M. E. Chureh. it being s<»
held before the secession oftheChurcn
South !”
Waldron says; “We propose Ur
make a proper application of our Bibb
to all the Southern States and people,”
Let him be comforted—tfie application
has been made I
“The good old ml#
Sufficeth them ; the simple plan
That they should take who have the power
And they ahould keep who can 1”
In report No, 2, on the state of the
Church, the General Conference re
joices that “as far as is known, she
numbers not in her commuuion, one
single rebel against our noble govern
ment *”
If we recall the partisian and pro
scriptive virulence of the political res
olutions passed by nearly all their An
nual Conferences, the shameful specta
cle of a great General Conference re
solving itself into a prayer meeting to
influence the voles of suspected Sena
tors, Bishop Simpson standing beside
the infidel Carl Shurz and invoking
Heavenly benedictions upon the Chi
cago Convention,—in a word if we con
suler this General Conference, and the
Church which it represents, as openly
contemning the authority of the Su
preme Court, and as allying itself with
a dominant majority in Congress to
overthrow the Executive obstacle that
has stood in the way of their ambition
it is impossible to mistake what they
mean by “rebel against our noble gov
ernment,” or the animus with which
thev propose to extend their work m
the South. Sir, this Gospel of the
“Higher Law” grows while they
preach it. To oppose this Church pr
not to vote with the Party to which it
has married its political and ecclesias
tical fortunes, is disloyally. There
was a time in France when not to he a
Jacobin Was “incivUmi.” Men dual
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