New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-12
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JOHN, BY GRACE Con AND THE FAvoR OF THE HOLY
SEE, BISHOP NOZZLE
Beloved Brethren Of The C2ergy and Children Of
the Laity-You will remember that, on last New
Years Day, we addressed you Pastoral, in which
we deplored the unhappy secular condition of this
our common country, and besought Heaven to
avert the Calamities which, to all human seeming,
were impending over it. We mourned over the
threatened Acknowledgement of the grandest COnsti-
tutional government in the Word-the bulWark Of
just, popular rights, and the hope of oppressed
nationalites Gloomy upon our soul fell the
shadows that were dimming its glory, and many
and warm were the tears we shed at anticipation
of the future overthrow. We hoped and prayed
that the tempest might cease, or pass without
harm on its course away. But, alas by Gods
nscrutable providence, its fuzzy appears to rage in
the skicl above US, and brother stands arrayed
against brother, to drench in blood the soil which
their fathers had fought together and died to re-
deem
The sun has never Witnessed sadder spectacle :
and, if the passions Of men are not alayeu~ ma
wiser counsels allowed to rule, God only knows the
sorrow that shall fill the way and line the path
that leads to the bitter end
1t is not within our sphere, my brethren, to dis
cuss the unhappy causes that have brought this
crisis upon us; our thoughts and occupations con-
fine us TO the sanctuary. And when we allude at
all to events occurring in the political world it is
not to mngle in the struggle of parties, but to
counsel torbearance, preach charity, cultivate
spirit Of reconciliation, and establish, if possible,
the reign of peace: in this spirit we now address
you.
It appears to US, my brethren, that mutual re-
ordinations, based on former political issues, are
entirely out of place at the present time. They
serve rather to embitter than allay the feelings that
are already too excited among US, and to give to
war, if war we must have, those atrOCiOus features
which characterize the savage and degrade the
dignity of the civilized man. The stern logic of
facts is before us, and with these must deal. 1t
is hardly to be doubted that the North and South,
in their separate capacity, are united. We fear
that there no longer exists in the North Southern
sympathy of any magnitude the detection of
hitherto well known advocates of Southern inter-
ests proves this beyond reasonable doubt. 1t is
equally true of the South, if incontestable facts
and everybody's experience prove anything, that
sympathy for the North, Or, as it is called, Union
feeling, whatever may'have been its extent here
toore does not now abide in the seeded States.
We mention these facts for the information OF
our brethren in the Morrill, who appear not to know
| them.
| How President Davis came into power, or what
were the incpient steps which conducted to the
Inauguration of his Government it is not for us to
| say. Being matter of mere politics, which our
ecclesiastical position did not require US to ana
lyze or discuss, we have not studied it particularly
| But to call the Southern COnfederacy, as nor eS
t0bllShed an oligarchy-the rule of the few against
the wishes of the many-is, to say the least, a
| grave mistake. The Cabinet of Montgomery now
perhaps, of Richmond, has every evidence OF popu
| lar appreciation, in the seeded States. The laws
in the great city and the village town, were never
better observed; and not single municipal office
| L
word of counsel or threat against violence or ex
| cltement of any kind, showing mObOcratiC o.
| antisocal movement. A few individuals, by i'm
| prudence and indiscretiOn, may have provoked i'll
| treatment at times, as happens in the North and
| indeed, everywhere; but beyond this, social har
| mony is undisturbed.
Planters giving their hundreds of thousands, ant
| ensting in the ranks to defend the ConfederaCy-
military companies organizing at will, urging THEN
| services upon the Government, and taking it tt
| heart when refu5ed--the fingers of ladies, mos
| wealthy and delicate, plying the needle in the
| manufacture Of military goods, from material pur
chased IN many instances by their own cash-the
| generous hospitality everywhere given to the vol
| nnteers along their march to the seat of war the
liberal contributions fer thesupport of those whost
absent fathers, and husbands, and sons, and broth
ers have created family needs add to these The
readiness with which the Confederate Loan ha
| been taken; and who can, for moment, hesitate
| to acknowledge that the present movement in thu
South is a popular movement? No; call it wha
you. please brethren of the North-a rebellion, al
uprising against authority, if you choose. But, a
least, admit the popularity of its character, anC
do not call the Government it sustains an oLIGAR
CHT,
Goa forbid, my brethren, that we should define
OF aogmancally decide open political questions
/ we would be recreant to our sacred obligations i
We did, Apart from the interest we necessarily
teel III the welfare and happiness of the South thu
: kts@aht anar at issue between the two sections al
"a "s We are concerned, stands on its own intrin
StC A'etA.si and these, for obvious reasons w
leaFe II 10 others 10 discuss. As we would not fo
our NE see tae South dishonored, neither do W,
l9qa'te .. tle North the sacrifice of a single prn
state of things conduces to their speedy Settle
ment; this is why we mention the foTeEnino IA cts
. And: now, my brethren, war, civil war, is aIread
! proclaimed; and what is the good that can resnlt
: Brothers blood shall flow, and wealth untojd h
laVished, commerce crippled trade Interrupted in
9 dustry parayzed, lands laid waste and homes mad
q desoate, and then-the end must come at las
W EOFr pprD,r hoo rl,hII boG
the ruins we have made, to sign terms of agree
ment which, without risk of honor, we could 9
3 well have signed before, Take, for instance, Ii
E future issue of the present unhappy conflict I'll
North shall conquer or be repuSed; in either cas-
the Union is at an end. independence shall folio
the triumph Of the South but the South is beate
the bitter memories of defeat will outive the COZ
tlct and the wounds she has suffered rankle in h