New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-17
PREACHING AND PRACTICE.


We recoliect TO have read Of parson who, on
certain occasion, zealously exhorted body of
troops, about to engage in battle, to be Of good
cheer and fight valiantly for the cause, concluding
with the comforting assurance that all who fell in
battle would sup in heaven. The charge was
sounded, and as The troops rushed into the fight it
was observed that the tracks of the parson were IN
the opposite direction. Being hailed and reminded
of his parting words, he answered that he never
took suppern Just 50 is the contrast between the
loud professions heretofore so vauntingly made
| by the demsgogues of the Republican party, when
| there was no hazard of life and limb, and the &c
ton of the same men now when gciurrfaaged war
is at hand, Where now are the graceless zealots
who have urged On the igorant masses Of the North
in this heartess and Enfernal crusade against the
people Of the South2 With the solitary exception
of Governor Banks, who has taken the precaution,
with the rank and pay of Bri5adier.General in
Lincon's army, to shelter his little carcass behind
tie wagons and defences of the Commissary De-
partmeat, we find scarcely an individual of the
numerous Peters, heretofore prominent in preach
ing this crusade, in the front rank of danger. On
the contrary we find many of them enCased in the
panopy of foreign missions, and fleeing from the
war which they have called into existence as from
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to heCour of England Dayton, CT New Jersey, &c
France; Csssus NJ. Clay to Russia Carl Shurz te
Spain; the redoubtable Burliagame, unwilling
l even to wait for a brush in Canada, his fayoritt
fighting ground, is off to Austria; and that mirro
of chivalry, the Chevalier Webb having carefully
! oiled and put away his patent percussons, ma
hogany stock case and ALL is about to start for tht
Court Of Brazil in order to realize the enjoyment:
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country; whilst for those who remain at home the
fat Offices in the gift Of Old Abe suffice to reconcile
| them to surrender of any renoWn which may be
acquired on the field of battle 1t is evident, how
ever. that to and all Of these fanatics sappel
in heaven affords no attraction.
How different has been the course of the leading
men of the South in this unfortunate controversy
With scarcely an exception, they have rushed as
one man to the field of danger, and thus have
shown, by the sacrifices which they have made
and prepared to make in this holy cause of the
South, that when they warned the infatuated bigots
Of the North, and told them of the resistance which
they might expect to their insane schemes, they
knew what they were saying and intended to act
accordingly. Not only are Brown, Bonham, Pryor
Wise, Floyd, and Others of note, prominently il
the field, but many members of the late Congress
of the United States have enlisted as privates and
are daily engaged in the laborious duties which
| appertain to the construction of batteries and
| other military works, whilst nearly every Southern
born officer has resigned his commission in the
| Federal Army, and rendered his services to the
| Confederate States, without thought in relation
to pay or promotion. Yankee politicians stimulate
others to do the fighting, but take care to keep
| their own carcasses out of harms way! Theoreti-
caly they are as fierce tigers but practically as
gentle as lambs.