The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-24
Recfinnnl Uisrord

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The nersistent hate with which secuonAhs'' Ia
various parts of the country labor to Keep awe
the cmbers of discord, even In time OF genef~i
ro,,,c.l ouis,uae ia one of the most disccuras'ns
s;srs ~ thu t,mes. What do they expect 10 gam
h. .r,h reasonable agitationf What good Is 10
cnr,. fror, :, 20 the Republic, TO humanity, or 10
N. n.rss ~ free principles throughout the world
Il; s,s-eotvped piece OF cant with the pseudo
n,;,.r,hropists who keep up this constant bicker-
inc this ceaseless vituperston of large masses o.
mir eorutrymen. 'Are we not all men and
bro,hersar II we are, why do they nos exhibit Il
,,ore fr.,srnsl spirit to the "men and brethren o.
other sec,ionsf Or &c they recognize none as
sres wa the color of whose dkia is not as dark
The vin4r.ive malice 4 their own hesrtsa
Most a.nentable of all Is it to religious bodies
engaged Ia encouraging and leading on this N ad
and destructive sectional warfare, converting their
churches into camps and their preachers into cruz
saders against the institutions, the character ana
the fresdes of their own countrymen Inc ia'e
religious anniversaries and assembiages al me
North have demonstrated the melancholy faot tha'
but few of the denominations and henevoienl So'
cieties which once had an organization only oouho-
ed by the limits of the Union, hold themselves
aloof from the distrscting sectional quesuons OF
the day. Why is thisa Is their course IN conso-
nance with the requirements and the spirit OF
Christianity Didnot the founder Of our faith de-
clare that His kingdom was not OF this world Did
he not epoin bis disciples to render even unto the
tyrsnt Cesar the things that are Casar's' Didhe
no. command his follow ers their hope OF salva-
ton TO practice peace and charity, and to forgive
even them that hated and injured them2 Is
i. possible then to recognize as true apostles and
evsugelists of the Prince of Peace those eccesias
tics who are perpetually denouncing the South in
terms Of the most bitter malignity, and stirring up
the elements of civil and social commissions through
the whole length and breadth of the Iandi
Have not these men an abundant field for religious
exertion outside the Southi Have they converted
the rest Of the world, that they thus conue their
attention to single spot upon the earths surface
Are there not myriads of heather perishng for
the want of laborers in the wide vineyards Is il
consistent with the injunction-Go forth into ell
the wolrd and preach the gospel-to permit eight
hundred millions Of heather 10 be damned in the
next world because the men who ought to con-
vert them are engaged in dsmning seven millions
of Southerners in thisi Where do they find in
Holy Writ a word which countenauces their cru-
SADIE against slavery They are preachers of a
new system of religion, and not of the Bible;
system of their own invention, and in much more
danger of perdtion than shareholders, or even
heather.
Happily, the pulpit of the South has never de.
graded itself to sectional or political influence
1t stands aloof from all OF these 1t inculcates
peace and charity to g grievously wronged and
abused people. Let it persevere In this course,
aud let the press strengthen and sustain it. Let
it refrain from indiscruinate assaults upon the
Northern people, many of whom are sound to the
core, true to the Constitution, loyal to the Union
No other country of the world presents 50 sad q
spectacle Of internal dscord and sectional strife as
our owns It bodies no good for the cause of civil
liberty that whilst every despotism of the world
is harmonious and consolidated the only great
Republic of the earth is the of interminable
and increasing sectional discord.