Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-10-17
cTERLISG L RICE,
Major General Commanding

The N'w Fo't HrreId AID the rrea hsrs.-Be"ne't
against tn P"fpt n"E 'ne Pulpit against tho sonth.
Our New York flies Up 10 the 5th bring to us NJ
o Importance lie spicest selection have been
able 10 make is tie following fIom tie New York Her
old, wherein Bgnaett pitches into the preachers some
what after the fashion OF the B9nicia boy
FORMING OF TIE RING-BENNETF ENTERS AND SAYS
BY the ntrigues OF TIE British anti-slavery }cie
aDd The gold of the English ai8tOcr1cy-by the propa
gand!sm OF American Abolition societies, playing iutc
their hands for the last thirty years and by The anti
sav ry dsunon doctrines preached from The pulpit and
reiterated by the tanatica press civil war las broken
out in the Am rcan republic, and two hundred thou
sand insurgents on the banks OF the Potomac, sm1la
ted and uamed by the abolition crusade against South
domestic institutions, stand ready to march against
the Union army TO the national capital end to adj
far northward the success OF their arms will
warrant. We know not the moment when the terrible
collision will lake place between four hundred thousand
in arms all Americans and brothers. 10 the midst
of this national calamity the President, whose wise, pa
trotic and conservative course has golden opinions
for him throughout the land issues proclamation for
national fast in the hope that such OF the people
had been led astray by the demagOgues OF The pulpit and
the press would consider the Of their ways and
make up their minds to return to the ancient landmarks
of the Constitutions departure from which is the
cause of our present misfortunes.
FIRST RoUND-BENEETT UPON CHEEvER
The day was observed by the whole people as fast
part do the clergy play this great national occasion?
How do they improve the opportunity offered them OF
helping to the country from the pers by which it
is beset? Not man of them exhibits any statesman
ship not of these moral and spiritual physicians
to understand the disease which be prosses to
treat They bit upon every case of our troubles but
the true Some attribute II to this sin some to that
and some to arother, and some to all the deadly sins
combined. But, to give OF the most active agents
of Satan his DUE Cheever refutes all their theories
while be fails to establish his He says:
Our teachers gravely tell that God is angry with
US on account of our atheism, Sabbath-breaking
proaneness iutemperance, and, in fUe, every
of the sins that has characterized all the generation:
of mankind in nations down from ADAM save only tht
one gLdrfng sin so peculiar to US nation. \
Nearly all nations the earth have danced chewed to-
bacco, drank ardent spirits, forgetting God il aany
ways, and profaued Ills ordinances and His Sabbaths
but we have no proof that God ever judged nation
with desolating or rebellion growing out of auy
one OF these sins, or any sin that characterzes u.s. ex
cept it be oppression"
Beecber, it seems was afraid to preach but Cheeyer
who has just come over from England with his trunk
fall of British soveregns amply makes up for the oms
sion He is more impudent and astiacious than ever
He maintains that slavery is the damning sin which has
brought afctfon upon US, as it brought similar jndg
ments upon the Jews of old; though, if We are to be
eve the Bible the institution was expressly sanctioned
and provided for BY the Almighty in the laws Whiehhs