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Division Of The Methodist Church

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Day
19
Month
May
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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' Oir readers are a ware that the propri ty of a división of the Methodist Episco pal Church into two parts, has been dis jciissihg for some time through all the nprninatiori. The principal topic o difierehce has been Slavery. A Conventionof the Sóuthefn portion of it favorable to disvision assembled at Louisvillo Ky. May Ist. We notice that ninelyfhree delegates wére present from' fifleen conferences, viz: Kentucky, Missouri, Holston, Virginia, North Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Incïinn Mission, South Caroíina, Gíeorgia, Florida, Alabama, and Texas. A very fair Convenfton for nombers and ialenf.- On motion oí Dr. Capers, Dr. Piercé, of Georgia, was called to the BishopjSotile, Andrews and Morris appeared in (he Cowvention, and look seats m the aliar. The Bishops having been request' ed to preside over the deüberations of the Conventiony Bishop Soute made a speech in reply, anfíouncing the consent of himself and Bishop Andrews, but the dissent of Bishop Morris. The later proceedirygs have rrot reaclicd us.QCf The Porfliac JacksoTiiart has some remarles favorable to the new udiciary bill that we püblished sorrieíime' sïftce. - The following thoughfs deserve dttention: "Without expressing an opinión upan nny other portion of the bilt, we shotrld think the provisierns which relate to' the payment of the costs of litigntior. should be put in operatitm. ft is wrong, dictdedly wrong, o mnke thö whole body of the people pay for rm afttusement indulged in but by a smnll partioi). The salaries of our Judges, Chancellrj clerks of Courts, eet., should, in all fairness, be paid by those lor whose exclusive benefit the cóurts are kept open, vrhile the people pay for so much of the'rr sevices as is required for ihe adminïsiraiion of jiistice.-1As matters stand now, iho heaviest bitrthen borne by the people of the several counties of this Stntë, is that cré'a'ted by the sessionsof the circuit c'tfürís--tíie pöyment ofjurors, witnesses, cct. in thiscounty, sincethe cstab'fishnrfoh't of crirninnl ccrürfs ihefc luis ftol b'cén a süit tried in w'iich the" péofplö" of tlie county had the slightest interes!, and vet, taxes have lieon Inviel to a large amount to font ihe bill, and enable those wholove tfielaw Jgr'atiCy their taste."'"DeáiBCtíd Slavery, considereií ás a ucriptural íríslitíitionjin n orrcspcmdence betwcen Rev. Richard Guller? af Beaufort, S. C. and Rev. F'raneis Wnyíand, of Providencc, R. I. líevised and corfeetdd by the auljiors. Doston: Gould, Kend.-tll and Lincoln. New York f Lewis Colby, 123 Nassau strret. Price 37 i cents." Sucli is the tille of a volume of 254 pages thflt "C have received. It contains fourteen íef(?rs from these gentlemen, nd an additiohal letter Trom' Dr. WayJand, which is a review and summing up ofthewhole correspondencf, ar.d is thc nblest oí the series. 1: has not yet been publUhed entire in the papers, and we .■ere intending to place il in the hands )f the compositor, when we wei'e reminded by a pencil note that the eopy righi wassecured. So ot)f readers must buy the work, if they wish to have this letter, ílowevcr, we intend to publish a Ijrief extract from it, showing that if the Gospel Banctionsf Slavery, it makes tto dislinction on account of color. Jesús Chnst gives no exclusive privileges to any set ol men. Should the slaves of the South be able to reduce the .vhite masters to slavery, t would thcreforej be the duty of tlie whites to submit vith a!l obedience to their unreasonable and froward black masters-, ns well as to the good and gentle! This Scripturenigument is a two edged sword that duts both ways.ff A Southern pnper, in comparing tho schools of the Norlh and South, has the followir.g anecdote of the Boston schools: "The poorest boy in the freo" schools feels as high and as proud is tho son of the richest. 'Ydü do not mean,' said Governor Barbour of Virginia, after visiting the superb free school at Boston, tvhich he admired very much, 'that these schools are free? 'Indeed 1 do,' said the committee man. 'You remembef the boy that got the medal in the class we have just examined, and the boy that lost it? - The first is the son of that wood-sawyer there (pointing toa man who Was sawing wood in the street) and the second is the 6on of John Quincy Adams, the President of the United States.' The Virginian started inastonishmentat a spectacle like thU, and no longer wondered at the prosperity of New England." ff The Toledo Blade tells a story respecting S. C. Benrdsley of that place, who left for Cleveland with $2,000 of 6t. Cldir Bank notes, On arriving there he fo und the bilis selling at a ruinoüs discount. Having heard that the Bank had specie on board of a steamboat then in the harbor, he sent oüt an attaohment at 12 o'clock at nighi, and seized twoboxes of specie ol 61,000 each, Thus by his promptness he secured his pay. (!ƒ A moiion for the unconditiotia] release of Dorr baa been iotroduced iuto the Jgis!atwc of Rif de hhná. .

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