Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-09
Correspondents Of the Petersburg

Superior Court-An Exciting CaseAtlantc Road. &C.
GoLDsBoRo, N. c., March g.
Dear Express The Superior Court of law for Wayne
county commenced here today his honor Judge Cald
well presiding. The of Robinson Dortch, or
the State against Dortch-I don't know whch-is now
in progress of trial. Rev. DR.. Deems, prominent wit
ness in the case was on the witness stand this morning
A great and good man-his Office between the parties
seems to have been only one of peace. deep inter-
est to be felt The court room is crowded. but
there is no marked excitement Both gentlemen have
many strong and influential friends. 1t is impossible to
predict what the result of this trial may be- but be
assured that when the waters have ceased to you
will be apprised of all that will prove important to your
thousands of readers.
The track layers on the Atlantic road have reached
within two miles of town. and it is supposed will reach
here by Saturday next The great celebration comes off
at NeWbern on the 29th. Won't you be out? under
stand that the n c. Road, the W. & W. Road, the Sea-
board Road, and the r. & q. Road, will run trains
trough to Newbern on that day. Come out, and we
promise you that on your way down you shall have the
company of NEUsE.
p S-Since writing the above the case of the State
vs. Dortch for shooting VIM Robinson has been closed
and his Honor fined the defendant s75 co. This decs
ion seemed to have astonished large number of the
dense throng of spectators but the friends of Mr. Dorch
received it with marked symptoms OF satisfaction.
The REv1vA1s.-We regret to see that the newspa-
per press of the country general thing are disposed
to speak in light terms of the sweeping, apervadng
tornado-like religious revivas that are everywhere
spreading, like the fire the prairie, throughout the
Northern and portions of the Southern country
This to be regretted because the press should be first
and foremost in commentator of everything In which
there is even shadow of good and the last to condemn
or crtcise upon anything which has at its foundation
principle shadowing forth the antest semblance of vr-
tue morality and religion Because these revivals seem
not to agree with preconceved notions concerning
such things shall we take it upon ourselves to say that
God is not in the work. and that it is merely the work
ings of fanaticism
That all that glitters is not gold is clearly estab
lished maxim and that there many who may be-
come subjects of this religious excitement and prove
in the end twofold the children of he'll is also very
likely. But when you come to deny the existence of
any good in the premises if there be any, who but
God knows how much-we cannot agree that such is
the AS it however in the days of Christ and
his Apostles, so it is Unbelief the damning
sin of the Jews Skeptcism and practical nfdelty
the rocks upon which the people of our day and our
country wrecking their interests for eternity.
On the day Of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit rested
with coven tongues of fire, upon the Apostles, and
under their sublime preaching five thousand
vered in day they merely accused of being drunk
by the blind and hypOcritcal Pharisees. The same dew
ish spirit is prevalent in 1858. Whether Christianity
presents her claims in the still small voice. that pene
tates the solitary chamber of the silent sleeper
with the startling voice of the whrlwind that breaks
upon the of thousands there will be found scofers
and rdiculers. Why should it be thought thing in
credible that God who holds in his hands the hearts of
kings and turneth the imagnations of men where he
WILL should operate through his spirit upon the minds of
his creatures? Certainly there nothing unreasonable
or unscrptural in the idea
But to the truly pious and Christian heart in these
Indications there the gimmerngs of brighter day
and he is reoced in the hope that is the beginning OF
those mighty upheavings and tremendous revolutions,
which to usher in the dawnng of that glorious day
in which Righteousness shall the earth the waters
the great deep Anything is better than stagna-
ton AS the body is dead when the crimson tide
to circulate, is religion dead in all but name when it
ceases nce its votares to earnest ervent and con-
slant activity in wel-doing Then let these waves of
religious enthusiasm roll on, with increasing rapdity
widening deepening, and rising higher until not only
country but the whole face of the earth shall be
submerged under their sacred influence May the day
come when all nations, now SO bound in the chains of
and SIM in the service of the king of darkness shall
raise another standard wereon shall be inscribed- The
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