Communications: Letter From Rev. Mr. West: No. 4

Mo.nroe, Mich..31st July, 1843. To the. editors Sig. of Liberty. Jinn Jbbor, Mich. "We will take Mr. West's advice, and calmly and respectfully, nnd in goed hu nor, reason wi'h tbem." - Sig. of Lib. lOth July, p. 2. CoJ . 5. Gentlemen: - Tn my last I noliced one inore error relative to the General Awernbly, and two, with regard to myself, as found in your recent numbers. I will mention another, yet, in reference to myself, and thea psss to a part of the SOM of abuse lieaped upon vie, in special, in yonr papers. The Error I allude to now is found in paper lOth July, p. 2. Col. 6. Nos. 5. G. In No. 5, you sar - 'T.lr. West says, Synods, Presbyteries. and Ciuirch sessions can act against sliveholding. Would he recommend them to actt Ko answerl" How could you, in justice, expect my answer, before I received your queslion? I qaote now from yoiir lasl paper come U hand. In it I receive your qtieslion, and in it you say - 'Xo ansvver!' Really this is likeexcludingslaveholders from Presbyteries before they malee application for admission. It is like judgement before trial! - like execution prior to judicial sentence!- How could you teil there would be "no answer?'' 'Would be recommend them to setT Yes, gentlemen he wotild. He would recommend hia Presbytery, or his Church session to act in any case, regularly brought before them demanding invesligation, whether the case should include the charge of man-steaiing, slaveholding, mixed dancing, intemperance, sabbath-breaking, or any other charge. Every mnn ought to have a fair trial when charged with crime. Tliis is a very plain aasuer.In No; C, scn:o Ctíl; you say- He, Mr, West, would repc.il tho rules of liundreds and perhnps thou;ands of chnrches, for the sake of admüling siaviholdcrsinto them,' Src , this charge is made for the purposs of impressing1 the reader how wickec'ly and unjustly I could and would act against the ch'urehes, for the sake of admitting slaveholders into their bo- som. In 5, you scy tliat T said, 'syncd?, and' Presbyteries, and church sessions can act a- gainst slaveholders. In No. G, you say that I would repeal the rules of hundreds and perhapsthousands of churches, for llie sake of admitling slaveholders into them Yes; and a Hule before, in the sume column, you said- 'Mr. West is for ntroducing1 known and avowed men stcalers into every northcrn church.' And vet you have no proofof these bold a&ser:b::s, only that I am for fair and constitutional rights of trial to every Presbytery. church sesslon, and rtiember in every part of our church, whether located in tho Easi, West, North. or South. Vhether you have made tfiis serious cliaríre, ns you cali if, ogainst me, urader the sludird purpose to injure, I leave to every enüghtened reader to judge. I shall now show how "calmly and respectfully, and in wbat good humor, you reason with us." In yourlatepaper?, Mr. West is held out as 'almost a blasphemer - as a coward as pleading for union over the crushed and bleedng body of the slave- as defending Dr. Iiilf, who, as you say, 'sustnins practically t?:e hellbegotten syslem- as guilty of tolerating sin of the blackest die- as guilty of the most despicable servility- as holding it riht, on his principies, to enslave Jeus Christ - that consistently with his principies, he conld own a dozen or two of his brethren in the Monroe Church, and after robbing him of all his days, lenve them to liis children to be finished up - That he would admit men-siealers into all the northern churches - tint he would have broeders and slave -traders received jnto every pulput - that lic would pervert the