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Advocate seemed reluctant to accept the death as a fact.88 Even
before he was willing to accept it, however, Carnes wrote sug-
gesting that lynch law was justified in the case of Bewley. "But
even admitting that it was not," he continued, "the worst that
can be said is that he fell victim to a reign of lawlessness which
he and others of his kind have for some time been laboring to
inaugurate and promote in Texas." He took the fact that the
Arkansas Conference was not scheduled for regular episcopal
visitation as evidence of "the withdrawal of the emmissaries [sic]
from the public eye." That
convinced the Texians that a more secret plan of operation had been
adopted, and prepared them to hear at any time that preachers of
the Northern Church had been detected in some subterranean effort
to further their mission of slavery 'extripation' in the State.
He could not decide as to Bewley's personal complicity but there
was no "doubt whether an active abolition incendiary found in
the county during such a time as we have recently passed through,
is properly liable to the infliction of summary punishments."84
He later said that in his judgment "any man who settles in this
State and continues to hold his membership in that Church, is
not an honorable or safe citizen.""5
D. R. McAnally of the St. Louis Advocate was equally reluctant
to accept the fact of Bewley's death under such circumstances,
especially since he had known him personally and favorably ear-
lier in his career. When the fact could no longer be evaded he
spoke out. The guilt of Methodists of the North was "undeniable,
and it has been clearly proven, and, in many cases openly con-
fessed. . . . The people very naturally arose in their own defense,
and for their own protection." They would never have resorted
to extreme remedies without extreme provocation. The Texas
incendiaries were "murderers at heart" and worse than mobs
"and deserve to be hung as high as was Haman." Equally guilty
and equally deserving of hanging were "those by whose teachings
they are incited to action.""8
88Texas Advocate, September 27, October 4, 186o.
8Ibid., September 13, 1860.
51bid., November 22, i86o.
SBSt. Louis Advocate, September 2o, i86o, quoted in Texas Advocate, October 4,
i86o.34o
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