Montgomery County Sentinel

Slavery Discussion.—Rev. Messrs. Leonidas Rosser and George W. Carter, of the Methodist Church, addressed the people of Salem, Roanoke, last week on the questions that divide that church in the United States, and in defence of the Southern church. Mr. R. spoke nine hours, and Mr. C. four and a half.—Their speeches are said to have been characterized by great ability and eloquence. Rev. B. H. Nadal defended the Northern church. A correspondent of the Lynchburg Republican reports Mr. Rosser to have propounded and fully sustained the following positions:

1. The Methodist Church North is the most powerful and systematic organization on earth against slavery, and is doing more for the emancipation of the slave than any other organization on earth.

2. The Baltimore Conference has done more to divide the M. E. Church in the United States than all of the Abolition Conferences North put together.

3. The Baltimore Conference is doing more to abolish slavery than all the Northern Conferences put together.

4. The Baltimore Conference is more dangerous in its influence on earth, on the subject of slavery, than the rest of the Northern Methodist Church combined.

5. The Baltimore Conference is more deceptive in its anti-slavery views, declarations, resolutions and measures, than the open-faced entire abolition North.

6. The Baltimore Conference is in a more critical position than any other Conference in the Northern Methodist Church.