4. That we are satisfied with our Book of Discipline as it is on the subject of slavery, as recorded in that book; and that we will not tolerate any change whatever, except such verbal and unimportant alterations as may, in the judgment of the General Conference, facilitate the work in which we are engaged, and promote uniformity and harmony in our administration. 5. That the journals of our present session, as well as all our official business, be henceforth conformed in style and title to our ecclesiastical relation. 6. That it is our desire to cultivate and maintain fraternal relations with our brethren of the North. And we do most sincerely deprecate the continuance of paper warfare either by editors or correspondents, in our official church papers, and devoutly pray for the speedy return of peace and harmony in the Church, both North and South. 7. That the Holston Annual Conference most heartily commend the course of our beloved Bishops, Saule and Andrew, during the recent agitations which have resulted in the territorial and jurisdictional separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and that we tender them our thanks for their steady adherence to principle and the best interests of the slave population.”—Bedford, pp. 500-503. [74] Harrison, 302. [75] Ibid., 318. [76] Harrison, 324. [77] Ibid., 326. [78] Minutes of the Annual Conferences of M. E. Church, South, I, 1845-1859, 16-25. [79] Ibid., 167, 172, 181. [80] Ibid., 273, 290, 295. [81] Ibid., 385, 392, 403. [82] Ibid., II, 214, 218, 223. [83] Minutes of the Annual Conference of M. E. Church, South, II, 1845-1859, 214, 218, 203. [84] American Church History, XI, pp. 66-7. [85] 26th Annual Report of American Anti-slavery Society, 1859, 115. [86] McTyeire, III, 536. [87] Milburn, W. H., Ten Years of a Preacher’s Life, 337. [88] Cartwright, Fifty Years a Presiding Elder, p. 24. [89] Cartwright, Autobiography, p. 157. [90] Col. Recs., III, p. 48. [91] Garrett and Goodpasture, p. 156. [92] Newman, A. H., History of Baptist Churches in United States, p. 338. [93] Briggs, Charles A., American Presbyterianism, pp. 59-60. [94] Newman, p. 305. [95] Ibid., p. 338. [96] Pius, N. H., An Outline of Baptist History, p. 131. [97] Harrison, pp. 65, 91. [98] Col. Recs. VIII, 164. [99] Buckley, James M., History of Methodism, I, 373, 375. [100] Harrison, 58. [101] Riley, B. F., History of the Baptists in Southern States East of the Mississippi, p. 199. [102] Ibid., p. 201. [103] Riley, p. 205. [104] Proceedings of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1845, pp. 18, 19. [105] Riley, p. 211. [106] Pendleton, J. M., Reminiscences of a Long Life, p. 112. [107] Ibid., 113.