In South Carolina. 431 



Capers had the pastoral charge, which brought the 

 members into such fierce antagonism with each other 

 that no efforts for an adjustment which he could put 

 forth proved successful. Being more than willing to 

 escape from this painful agitation, he was transferred, 

 early in the year 1834, to the Georgia Conference, 

 and stationed in Savannah; and in connection with 

 this appointment he was made superintendent of the 

 missions to the colored people, near Savannah, and on 

 the neighboring islands. After remaining here a 

 year, he was transferred to the South Carolina Con- 

 ference, and connected with the station at Columbia, 

 with a view especially to his taking a post in the 

 State College, the fortunes of which had greatly 

 waned under the administration of Dr. Cooper; but 

 after his removal there circumstances occurred which 

 led him to decline the professorship to which he had 

 been appointed — namely, that of the Evidences of 

 Christianity and Sacred Literature. In May, 1836, 

 resolutions were passed by the General Conference 

 held at Cincinnati authorizing the publication of a 

 weekly religious journal at Charleston called the So/it ii- 

 ern Christian Advocate, and Dr. Capers was elected 

 editor. He accepted the place, and the first number 

 of the paper was published in June, 1837. The fol- 

 lowing paper relates to this subject: 



Prospectus of the Southern Christian Advocate. 



At the late General Conference of the Methodist Espiscopal 

 Church, resolutions were passed authorizing the publication of 

 weekly religious papers on the same footing with the Christian Ad- 

 vocate and Journal (of New York) and the Western Christian Advocate 

 (Cincinnati), at Richmond, Nashville, and Charleston. At Nash- 

 ville, the paper thus authorized has already been issued. The one 

 intended for Richmond will, we doubt not, soon be put forth. And 



