Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-12-02
SENTIMENT AND PULPIT POLITICS

SnUTHEhN SEN ~
Ii seems that our Northern contemporaries
ar. receiving unmiStakahle indications Of
Southern sentiment. The New York Times
i sin receipt of numerous communications
concerning the lIarper's Ferry affair, and the
varieus topics connected with it; they are from
all quarters and on all sides. Sc
yeral letter, from Virginia, representing the
feelings of the people i'll that State as i"te"se'y
excited. bostjle t" tie North IN" ""t"'m'"si "''
; mmeiiait dixaaioE.' Unfortunately, the
.Time," adds, We do net credit these rsl"ss'"'
.,,;on." If our contemporary will he advised 10y
us. i, will ''crcijt these representations. lhey
speak the sentiment Of the State at this Tune;
they are not the cxpedicntS of politicians. IN
,roof of which We would instance the nnani'
mi,y of sentiment and purpose that pervadeo
rho columns OF the '.Richmond Wing. the
"Eyamincr," and the "Euguiver. The oPpo'
s;tioD and Democratic parties no longer dis
pnte about dividing issues; a common wrong
upites all parties in a common defence. INC
people Of the Virginia Opposition. :" amy repre-
sen,ed bv the Richmond Wing, feel the
rropr dome the State Is acutely, and arc ;~
ready 10 defend It's honor and demand us Just
RIGHTS os are the Democracy. Such unaui'ni'
f. &C sentiment never before. within our
knowledge, pervaded t!c state; there Is no pa
per of either party, of the least responsibility
Of influence, bu; what has given expression TO
the pcrvading feeling that now ap>"f0N inc
pcople. The Times" should credit these re-
nreser,a,ions, and should have spread them
before It's readers TO warn them from the iata'
,hvss Of disnnion. upon the brink Of which the
country is standing.
The fines does great injustice 10 ourselves
and contemporaries in saying iia, "the Rich,
mond Enquirer Wing, aal Examiner,
which furni>l. the principal reading matter Tor
the whole State. are careful 10 cnpy every a'ho-
Iition speech which the malign industry OF the
Herald mas trump up for their Use, and what
ever else may feed the decisions Ga which they
rest their selfish hopes. EUt noihi"s from "
conservative quarter i permitted 10 reach their
readers" .As Cor ourselves, tn" only abolition
speech printed by us since the riot at iiarpers
Ferry, was Wendell Phillips brooklyn lecture,
which re clipped from the rot'""' q tie Y:
y "7Tues" As for our Richmond c"ntclnpo-
raries, we assert that their columns will exhibit
all the legitimate conservatism that tArii pace
allowed. We assure the Tires TINT public
sentimen, in Virginia needs not the sP"rrMG
of abolition harangue>, but rather ;he r"rh OF
Northern conservatism,
The Times" seems To give some Importance
TO the Thanksgiving sermons Of New York
CITY, twenty Of which that paper re-
ported. We are frank to confess we did not
read one line OF any of them. We do moi 90
to the pulpit for conservative politics, but Tor
Christian love and we have been so frequently
disappointed in Our object by the Northern
pulpit, that we avoid it as much AS possible.
We hold in high estimation Il pulpit from
which cmana,c> Christian piciy, not cut-throat
politics from which Ctri>t> religion, not
Sharpc'S rites, is preached, But we loa'he
and deSpisc ,Ac icnctS Of aboiitionism. even
when pichIed in the preserving juices Of pul.
pit cloQuencc, and deliberately displayed in the
columns of the New York Times.
Hence, we did no, reproduce the Thanks
irving sermons which the Times" reported
so well. The South respects neither theoio,
sical politicians nor political theologians; she
loves religion in the pulpit and politics on the
~Stump-and dcSpi>e> both, when they change
places and swap sentiments.
But if the "limeS' believes neither thc>tatc-
mcn,S put forth by the Southern press, nor the
representations Of its own co:rcspcndents--P,r'
haps it will be induced To heed the warnings
coming up from every section, where large as
semblagcs of the people are being held, and re-
solutions adopted. ~evincing i determined resist
ancc to further aggression on Southern rights.
See also the movement in the South Carolina
Legislature,
Let not the people OF the North hr deceived
let them weigh well their actions, u; the pre-
sent moment-a crisis has arrivcd-thc fate OF
the Union hangs, as it were, 10y a single thread,
which, if it can be preserved aud strengthened,
will require the united efforts OF all it, friends.
North and South.
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