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Thtttnitney f Ittntocrmey it lotcmrd the titration otthtindmttriout !, fthtir comfort, thtntatrtia oft Stir dignity ,tht ttlmblithmtnt f their ptnetr.' BY ROBERT WILLIAMSOX, Jr. MS rCOLNTOtf, IV. C NOVEMBER lO, -1841. VOLUME V.-&0. 24. NEW T E R M S OF TJIE LINCOLN REPUBLICAN TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Tut Liscoix Republican is published every Wednesday at 2 50, if paid in advance, or $3 if piyrrient be delayed three months. No subscription received for a less term than twelve months. No paper will be discontinued but at the optiuo ef the Editor, until all arrearages are paid. A fiilure to erder.a discontinuance, will be con sidered a new engagement. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted conspicuous ly for 1 00 per square for the first insertion, and 25 cents for each continuance. Court ami Judicial advertisements will be charged 25 per cent, more than the above prices. A dcduclion of 33J per cent, from the regular prices will be made toyearly advertisers. The number of insertions must be noted on the manuscript, or they will be charged until a discon tinuance u ordered. TO CORRESPOXDFNTS. To insure prompt attention to Letters addressed to the Editor, the postage should in all cases be paid. From the Pillage Star. HOLD THEM TO IT. In the last fall compaign, when the , Whigs were struggling for the power r which they now possess, they promised, in the event of success, BETTER TIMES. Thev have now been in power precisely right mouths, and have had a decided ma jority in feoih Houses of Congress, but slill the promise is not redeemed. So far from improvement in this respect, lite 'limes" iiave teen growing gradually worse since the close of .Van Buren's ad ministration. Money is decidedly scarcer now, than at any time during the Adminis trations of either Jackson or Van Buren, and all the signs fully warrant the belief that we are yet to see the worst. Here is one promise which has wholly failed of re demption. The same party promised the Agricultu ral and Mechanical portion, and the day laborers of the nation, HIGH WAGES. . They were not, po long as Whiggery was in the ascendant, to ork for less than 'two dollars a day!1' AH the working men, if Whiggery triumphed, were to re ceive "High wages and abundance of work." Whiggery did triumph, but the promise is not yet redeemed. The Expenditures of the Government were another point of attack. The people were told that Van Buren had squandered National Treasury that profligacy and extravagance had signally characterised his administration. Give the Whigs power, and the people were promised, REDUCED EXPENSES. ly How has this promise been redeemed : Thev have called an Extra Congress at an expense to the nation of "Half a million of dollars they have voted to tne weaitny Mrs. Harrison S25.000 they have au thorized "a Loan of Twelve million of dol lars," which the people must be taxed to pay and to raise the money necessary for tills Object lliey nav jeviei. a uiu Sugar, Salt, Blankets, Molasses, all neces saries of life, while they have left fiddle strings, jewellery, and all other kind of trumuerv free ol duty, liast year air. van Buren spent $27,000,000, and the reduc tion of the Whigs makes the expenditures of this year $31,000,000 ! ! Here then is another promise which has not been re deemed. The magnificence of the furniture in the PRESIDENT'S HOUSE was another ground of attack upon the late administration. Did the Whigs, on coming into power, remove all that costly and regal furniture, and supply its place with 4 other, correspondent to "the Republican simplicity" of the people ? No. They appropriated $6,000 to purchase additional furniture, that the President's House might be suitably and comfortably furnish ed. They promised also thar they would introduce a salutary Reform in regard to Proscription. If they should bo elected, there would be no PROSCRIPTION FOR OPINION'S SAKE. How lias this promise been mleemed ! By removing every capable and ellicicnt Democrat who was in omce, when they thought it could be done without injury to the Parly. Gov. Gilmer declared a short time aco on the floor of the House of Re Dreseutatives, "that this administration had removed more officers since it came into . nower. than Andrew Jackson and Van Buren had removed in twelve years ! I" Each day experience shows that they never intended to redeem that pro mise. Here is a fair statement of some of their rr,;inv promise, and of the manner in " which thev have been redeemed. Are the People the voters and . Tax payers satis ' lied ? Have they realized by the change iif rulers ihctc rich blesstnes w Inch M ere promied ! An iidignant No ! is ibe an swer of all. From the Mecklenburg Jejfersonian. THE BALL IN MOTION. Our readers will recollect we some time since noticed the proceedings of a Demo cratic meeting in Person County, at which energetic measures of organization were adopted for the important political struggle which "comes off' in our, State next sum mer, A meeting for a similar purpose has more recently been held by the Democracy of Franklin County, and as part of their proceedings, they, propose the assembling of a Siate Convention of our party at Ra leigh in January next, to nominate a can didate for Governor, and also express their preference for Louis D. Henry, Esq., of Fayeteville. We are rejoiced to find our parly thus early awake to the importance of redeem ing North Carolina from the sway of Fe doralism. For several reasons, the next election for Governor and members of the Legislature will be a deeply interesting one; and the great importance of the sub ject must be our upology for suggesting, for the consideration of our friends, a course of policy somewhat different from that propo sed by the Democrats of Franklin. Is a Cun vent ion to nominate a candidate for Governor necessary ? If we should decide upon calling one, is it at all likely that a full representation could be obtained from all parts of the State ? In answering these questions in the negative, we feel sure that we speak the voice of nineteen twentieths of the estern Democracy. A Convention, to eventuate in any good to our cause, must speak the voice of our par ty in all sect'nns of the State; and expe rience has shown that the distant Counties especially ihose in the extreme West, fc which it is all-important to have fully re presented cannot be stirred tip to send Delegates the distance, and the inclement season of the year at which it is proposed to hold the Convention, being too strong preventive causes. How was it previous to the last year's contest, under the extra ordinary excitement which then pervaded the country? hi the Convention that nom inated Judge Saunders, but a moiety in numbers of the heavy voting counties in the West were represented; and, indeed, excepting a few Counties in the immediate vicinity of Raleigh, the representation was but partial, and in many cases, of Delegates casually in the City. Can we hope for a better turn out iu January next! We think not. Bui there is a portion and no consider able one, either of our party that enter tains strong objections to this mode of no minating candidates; and without discus sing litis point, we think their views should influence, to some extent at least, the action of our party. In regard to the selection of a candidate for Governor, there can be no necessity for the action of a Convention. The meeting ia Franklin, we are satisfied, speaks the sentiments of our friends iu all parts of the State, in their nomination of Mr. Henry. So far as a great portion of the West is con cerned, we speak advisedly, when we say that Henry's nomination is demanded by the unanimous voice of the Democracy. Let us, then, dispense with a Conven tion ; let the Democratic Press throughout the Slate, and the people of the other Counties in their primary assemblies, res pond to the nomination of our friends in Franklin ; let a full and complete organi zation, framed and carried out by the Peo ple themselves, be had in every County, and the political regeneration of our Slate will be as certain as that the day of election comes round. Entertaining these views, and feeling an abiding and all-absorbing solcitude for the triumph of our party, audits glorious principles, in North Carolina, we have lelt it to be our dujy to speak them freely, and in time; and we respectfully request our Democratic cotemporaries in this State to give us their response, yea or nay, at as early a day as possible. For, although the Democracy of the West prefer dispensing with a Convention, and leaving the nomi nation of a candidate for Governor, and the adoption of other measures of organization, to the people in their primary assemblies. yet they will doubtless cheerfully acquiesce in whatever measures may be found to accord with the sentiments of a majority of our party in the whole State. ovr dish-rag Governor, Mr. Morehead, takes the stump next bummer, he will have several humbugs which he scattered in 1840 to clear up. That "golden pla teau," which he said Van Buren sent five thousand dollars of the people's money to France to purchase, it is now admitted by the Whigs was purchased by President Monroe ; and the defalcation of Swartwout, which Mr. M. made the burthen of all bis speeches against Van Buren, and the foun dation of all his anathemas against the Sub-Treasury, it is also admitted by Whig gery, was a humbug, got up by "a clique in New York, "evidently for the express pui pose of deceiving the people. Quxrv: If Gov. Morehead knew these charges to be false, did he act like an hon est man to give them circulation ? If he circulated them through ignorance, is he s fit Governor for the people of North Caro lina ! lb. The Allies or Federalism. The Lon don Times denounces President Tyler for vetoing a Bank. That is all proper enough. The British aristocracy helped to elect him, and why should they not call him to account for not consulting their interest in his administration of the Government? For the Lincoln Republican. REPLY TO EPISCOPOS. No. 111. Mr. Williamson ; In my lasl number, I gave the prerequisites necessary to the of fice of an apostle, to which 1 will no;v sub join the following remarks. The word Apostle means one sent from or by another, on any business whatever. Of Apostles we have three orders, ifyou pl;ase, :n the New Testament:. 1. Jesus Christ is the Apostle of God, and his only Apostle direct to the world John, xvii, 3, 8, 18, 21. xx, 21. 2. The twelve attendants, eye and ear witnesses of Messiah whom he commis sioned first to the Jews; and Paul, whom he commissioned to the Gentiles, are the Apostles of Jesus Christ. 3. Those sent by men, by the Apostles of Jesus Christ, by the Churches of Christ are also Apostles of men Apostles of Apostles Apostles of Churches. The last class (Apostles of Churches, see 2 Cor. viii, 23, Phil, ii, 25,) may have succes sors, but Episcopal Btshops, so far as I have been able to learn, are not solicitous to be their successors. The Roman and Greek Catholics made all hereditary official grace and authority flow in one channel; making Peter the successor of Christ afier he was crucified ; and Linus the successor of Peter after Pe ter was defunct ; and so on in the Roman line, down to Pope Gregory XVI. But, Episcopalians generally, give no precedence to Peier, as yet, as the vicar of Christ, "and regard all the thirteen Apos tles as perfect co-ordinates : thus dividing into thirteen rivulets all that flows in one channel from the Tarpean Rock, on which stands St. Peter's Church in the eternal City, and the old-fashioned elbow-chair on which the Galilean fisherman used to sit while Cesar did homage at his feet." Iu the Jewish Institution, the high priest and the common priests were of the same family, concerning whom Moses said much about office, prerogative and succession : "Their anointing or ordaining shall sure ly be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations, Ex. xi, 15. Also see Num. xxv, 13. But Jesus Christ inti mates nothing of this sort concerning the office of Apostles. In the absence of a di vine right, or law, it may well be question ed whether inferential reasoning can justify an institution fraught with such serious con sequences as the episcopal claim of a third order in the christian ministry. But let us here enquire whether such a succession as the present assistant Bishop of Virginia contemplates would not be whol ly anomalous on all other notions of suc cession in every other part of the govern ment of God. The predecessor in every other line becomes extinct before there can be a successor. But in this we have pre decessor and successor acting as contem poraneous co-ordinates ! No doubt Epis copalians would be ready to cite as a prece dent for this anomaly, the case of Timothy, Titus, Sylvanus, Andronicus, and others. With regard to this class of inferior or sub-Apostles one thing must be conceded and that involves their pretensions in ex treme jeopardy. It is this their commis sion is not found written in the Sew Testament. If they are Apostles, in what chapter and verse shall we find their com mission from the Mesiah ! These I regard not as co-ordinates of the Apostles, but as subordinates Apostles of Apostles inti nerating Evangelists without a diocess, and without a permanent charge. We here" submit a few facts concerning Timothy, who according to Episcopos, was the diocesan Bishop of Ephesns : 1. It does not appear that Timothy was in Ephesus when Paul addressed - the El ders or Bishops of Ephesus al Milctum, Acts xx, 1735. 2. The address itself proves that the Bishops of Ephesus (for in the original they are called Bishops,) were under no diocesan or Archbishop, and that the Church in Ephesus was constituted by the Apostle without any suchsuperintendency. , 3. Timothy was only left in Ephesus while Paul went over into Macedonia, and the first letter to Timothy shows that Paul -Arofs to hitn only to continue there for a time. " llence Timothy was never perma nently located in airy capacity at Ephesus. "Till I tome" was the tenor of his minis try at that city ; "but if J tarry long" says Paul, 1 instruct you how, you should behave in that Church, during my absence. All these particulars are not very flattering for a co-ordinate. 4. It is evident that Timothy did not long continue in Ephesus; for he was with Paul in Rome, and is joined with him in his Epistles to the Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, written during his first im prisonment. Paul was more in Ephesus, it appears, than ever was Timothy. 5. Episcopos assumes that the second letter to Timothy was written to him while at Ephesus: "The Epistles" ay he, "are addressed not to the Elder, but to Timothy alone." But that he was in Ephesus is only an assumption it ought to be proved. But, alas for episcopacy! it canr.ot be : for if Timothy were at Ephe sus, then why should Paul have said , to him in that letter, "I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus." If Timothy were the dio cesan Prelate in that place, how dare Paul or any other man interfere so far, as to send another to take charge ? Again, if Timo thy had been at Ephesus, Paul would not have sent him to Troas for his books and parchments befors his return to Rome. It is all assumption and very improbable assumption. Now, let it be remembered, that Timothy not being at Ephesus when the second letter was addressed to him, there is no scriptural authority that he was ever in Ephesus after Paul's first impris onment, or that he ever after officiated in any capacit)' at Ephesus. 6. The Epistle to the Ephesians, writ, ten some two or three years after Paul had left Timothy al Ephesus, affords not the least countenance to the opinion that Tim othy was there, or then Bishop of that Church ; for it has no allusiou to him whatever. Is it not strange indeed, if, as Episcopos contends, he was Bishop of that place and had charge of the Elders, he should not be named in the Epistle to that church ? Without a waste of words, may we not say, that there is not the slightest scriptural evidence that Timothy was an Apostle of Jesus Christ, or that he was Bishop of the Church of Ephesus, in the Episcopal ac ceptation of the term ? With regard to Titus, it is needless to consume time; especially as Episcopos has not urged his claim so strongly, as the claim of Timothy. It is unequivocally evident that the unfinished business assign ed him in Crete was by Paul expected to be soon accomplished; and, therefore, he was commanded to leave that place on the arrival of either A rtemas or Tychicus. His was a temporary employment in Crete. In the next place it is abundantly clear that Titus was Paul's minister, or an num erating Evangelist, and not a diocesan Bish op of Crete; for in 2 Cor. ii, 12, 13, he intimates that he expected him to minister to him at Troas. In 2 Cor. vii, 0 13 we find hitn waiting on Paul in Macedonia. Again, we find him 2 Cor. xii, 18, Paul's minister to Corinth in reference to the col lections for the poor. In 2 Tim. iv, 10 we find him on business for Paul at Dalma tia. All these things, you know, Mr. Editor, are not very flattering to the claims of dio cesan prelates. The case of Timothy and that of Titus, together with the prelatical Angels of the seven Asiatic Churches, when candidly examined, afford no flattering encourage rnent to those who contend for diocesan episcopacy as a New Testament Institu tion, Episcopos appears to me to confound the terms order and office, whereas, there is, to my mind, a manifest difference between them, l'his difference may be shown in the following manner : ; The word Ernitoros, signifies simply an overseer, .and is applied to any person to whom the oversight if any particular work was given, whether of a military, civ il, or ecclesiastical character. When, therefore, the number ofPresbylers was multiplied in any particularcity, as at Ephe sus, and there was a mettilg for the trans action of business, it becanu necessary that some one of them should acas President or moderator for the lime d his holding this office, he,r.by way. of distinction denominated Ae, overseer or bishop, because lie exercised a sort of an oversight of the whole Church in that par ticular place. We may see the same thing exemplified in our own Church in this Town at the present time. We have three Elders or Presbyters belonging to the Me thodist E. Church who reside in this place, two of them belong to the travelling roinia try, and one of them to the. local ministry. They are all of the same order, but d not all fill the same office. , One of then is the Presiding Elder of the District whj has the oversight of the twenty er beside Deacons and Licentiates. It is hit duty to preside in the Quarterly Meeting Conference of each Circuit to take general oversight of the whole Churcf) within the bounds of his District to sef that the preachers whether travelling or local are faithful in preaching the word, and that those who have charge of Circuits strictly enforce the discipline of the Church. Now as to order, they are ths very same, whether they be local or trav elling Elders, but one for the time being has an official superiority over his brethren for the more convenient despatch of busi ness. The same may be said of the Bishops or General Superintendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, they claim to be of the very same order with their brethren, over whom they exercise an official superiority. The same might be shown by a reference to Lite proceedings of other ecclesiastical bodies, where they choose a Moderator or President at the meeting of their Synods ; not that the Moderator is superior in order, but simply in office. Let these things be borne in mind and there is no difficulty in under standing how the term Bishop and Presby ter were applied to the same person in the primitive Church, but if we contend that Bishops were a distinct order from Presby ters it will be difficult for us to show why the same person had the generic names of two distinct orders applied to him. In my next number, I will notice the call to. and qualifications for the Ministerial of fice, so far as they bear on this controver sy. Yours respectfully, Jacob Brown Anthony. Lincoln Circuit, S. C. Con. For the Lincoln Republican. Mr. Editor: Will you do me the favor to insert the following letter of Bishop Ives, in answer to a letter from Mr. Miller published some time since, accompanied by remarks of some writer signing himself "Presbuteros." The Bishop gives the reason why the answer has been So long deferred. - Yours with respect, E. New York, Oct. 21st, 1811. Rkv. and Dear Brother, Your letter, should have been answered on the day 1 received it, had it not found me in the House of Bishops, engrossed with the most urgent duties. Our Con vention having yesterday adjourned. I am this morning, although much exhausted. ai leisure, iu communicate the required in formation. It grieves me, not a little, on account both of Christian charity, and of that truth, in which Christian charity is said specially to rejoice, that Dr. Miller should have thought it necessary to use such as perity, and positiveness of assertion, in his communication. As to the Doctors as perity, I shall say nothing, but in prayer to God, that he may be brought to a better mind. In regard to his positiveness of assertion, I say the following. My first position was that "Calvin fa vored Episcopacy. In support of it, I adduced Calvin's own words. And, now, that the people may see", that I was guilty of no unfairness ; 1 here repeat what be says on the point. - 1. In his commentary upon I Tim. iv. 11, a passage so much relied upon by Presbyterians he gives an interpretation which makes it perfectly consistent with the Episcopal character of Timothy. 2. In his commentary upon a text in the Epistle to Titus, he uses this language "We learn, also, from this place, that there was not then such an equality among tho Ministers of the Church, but that some one had the pre-eminence in authority and counsel." 3. In his commentary on Gal. u. 0. he rrwi it as "bighlv probable that Su James was prefect of h Church of Jeru salem. Now, a prefect is a chief and per manent ruler of others. 4. In a letter to an old friend, who had become a Bishop in the Church of Rome (see Durkll's view of the Foreign Re formed Churches, page 162) Calvin ex- I : t f J.'...'.,. pressiy recognizes .episcopacy as oi utcirtc institution. His words are ; "Episcopatus ipse a Deo profectus est. Episcopi munut Dei auihoritate constitutum est et legibua definiiuni ; "He who is made a Bishop proceeds from God himself. I he office of Episcopacy was established by the au thority and regulated by the laws ol Ood. 5. Finally, in his work at necessitate Iieformandarum Ecclesiarum, Calvin holds this remarkable language : "If they will give us such an Hierarchy, in whicli the Bishops have such a pre-eminence as that they do not refuse to be subjfet unto Christ, &c. &c. Then I will confess that they are worthy of all anathemas, if auy such shall be found, who will not rever ence it, and submit themselves to it with the utmost obedience." - Set Joannis Calvini tracfalus theologici omnes, in unum volumen certis classibus congest, fyc. page 69J The length of this and other passages has prevented my giving the original. 1 he translation, however I believe, will be found faithful. The above testimony from Calvin's own pen, I shall not hesitate to consider suffi cient with all candid persons, to justify my declaration that Calvin was favorable to Episcopacy. My second position was that he en' deavored to obtain Episcopacy from the English Church. My reasons are as fol lows : 1. Calvin desired, as is manifest, to re tain the ' Episcopal regimen iu his system of Church Government. See his explicit language in the confession of Faith, which he composed in the name of the French Churches. In the articles drawn up by the Delegates, of whom Calvin was one, to the Conferences at Wormes, by order of Charles v., are the following words "Our learned men have expressly yielded ordina tion to Bishops.' fSee articles Cal vin severely censures the Clergy of Col len, for endeavoring to put their head Bishop out of his place, inasmuch as he had declared in favor of reformation. Vide Culv. Episl., page 517. Writing to llhavius, a Polonian Bishop, whom he styles illustrious, and reverend Lord Bish op, so far from advising him to lay aside his Episcopacy, he exhorts him to consider what place he holdeth, and what burden is imposed upon him. Vide Johannes Calvinus illustrt et reverendo Domino Jucobo Jlhavio Episcopo EpisU, page 287.3 I'1 Epistle to the King of Po land, Calvin expresses his approbation of all the degrees of the Hierarchy of the Ancient Church ; and he seems to advise the King to introduce the system into hie own Dominions. Vide Cato. Sereniss. Regi Polon. 2. Having, by untoward circumstances, been unable to retain in the Genevan Sys tem the Episcopal regimen, Calvin made, as will appear from the following fact, an actual attempt at one period, to introduce the Episcopacy from England. Tnis fact is related by the excellent and accurate historian Strype; a fact that has remained unquestioned for more than two centuries.. "How Calvin stood aflVcted in the saidi point of Episcopacy, and how readily and' gladly he and oihr heads of the Reformed Churches would have received it, is evi dent enough from his writings and Epis tles." (See Strype' s life of Bishop Par ker, page 69, 70.) "They (the foreign Protestants) took such great joy and satis faction in this good King (Edward vi) and his establishment of Religion, that Bullin ger, and Calvin, and others, in a letter to him, offered to make him their defender ami to have Bishops in their Churches, as there were in England; with a tender of their service to assist and unite together." (See Strype1 s memorials of Cranmer, page 207.) This scheme seems to havej been defeated by a forgery of the Papist?. The last letter of Calvin on the subject was intercepted by Bonner, and Gardner, two Romish Bishops, who returned such an ungracious answer, as offended Calvin and led him to give up the project. Thi is affirmed in a paper ia the hand-writing of Arch-Bishop Jibbot, who was a friend to Calvin, and was apologizing for him in this very document; which was found in the archives at Lambeth. The subjoined is the Paper as published by Strype; (life of Parker, page 70.) "Perusing," say the Arch-Bishop "some papers of our predecessor Mathew Parker,- we find that John Calvin and others of the Protestant Cimreh of Germany and elsewhere, would