Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-06
FROM THE KANAwI1A.

LETTER FROM THE kANAPI1A.
Reflections Over n Pool of Blood
| Christianity and SkePtlcis inflow
! to Deal with the South-AIajOr
| FrnnkIIn OF the Zounves-InhuenCc
of Good Men-Return to Camp Red
! House-Winter Quarters for the PI-
! att ZOuaTes.
CAMP FRANKLIN, VA, Oct. %.
When last wrote you was on picket
near where a Bushwhacker had received
| fatal wound. 1t was there that felt, as
read from somebody in your paper of the
| nth that "rel:giou was an absolute neces-
sity;" and thanked God with my whole
heart that my faith in Judge of the
whole earth that will do right" and n Sa-
vior that has died for my sins and rose
again for my Justification, WAS strong, i'm
movable and unshsken. 1t is on this faith
rest amid all the war and desolation that
are now sweeping over our land like
| food. "Tne Judge of the world will do
right" Order shall be born from the pre-
sent confusion-justice shall prevail over
| injustice-treason shall submit to loyalty
and the innocent that have been (and
others that will yet be, before this unnnt-
ural war is endcd) deeply wronged, will be
avenged, and they shall receive double for
all their losses, sutferings and privations.
t.Thc Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice"
Gentlemen, there never was profound
man who was a skeptic. "Sciolists"-
those gentlemen of Index learning
(which turns no student pale,
But holds the ell of science by the tail.''
are they who vaunt their skepticism; not
the profoundly learned-not the ripe scho-
ar-not the deep thiuker-is it that ever
for a moment, has a ray of skepticism to
cross his mind. Do you tell me that Hume
is an exceptiou2 All! but Hume confess
ed that he had never read the New Testn-
ment through seriously in his life So
says DR.. johnson. This same DR. john
son also said that no honest man had ever
seriously read it through, and remained
skeptic. As for Hume, see his argument
against miracles, about the weakest, film
siest and most sophistical that ever was at
tempted to be made.
The cold logic of COmpte dissolved it
into thin air, and the captious sophist was
constrained to say, "the Scotch theol2gY has
beaten me-" In fact he confesses before he
gets through his argument (if argument it
may be calledl that miracle may be per-
formed as the foundation of Il system of
religion, and yet Notwithstanding all this.
YOU will hear braiuless aud would be skep-
tics vapOnng about its being irrefutnble.
Don't talk to me about the wickedness of
secessionists-that is great enough in all
conscience-but compared with that of the
propogater of Infdelity, it is Angelic puri-
ty. The greatest enemy of Col and hu-
manity is the avowed Inidel, who takes
pride in the propagation of his miserable
misanthropy, for it is just that and nothing
less. But we ask of them nothing but
what we ask OF the secessionists, au open
field and fair fight, and just as certainly
as the Union of these States will be re-
stored, and the supremacy of the Consti-
tuition re-established, just so certain must
they for the ten thousandth time be bea-
ten.
Bulwer lin "Eugene Aram," somwherel
tells the render that if he chooses, he can
skin a long speculation, disconnected with
the story in which he had indulged.
In the same spirit, say to you, Mr.. Edi-
tor, that you can draw your pencil across
this whole sermon about religion AMI skep-
ticism, if YOU deem it best. Yet ! will
confess that, being my own offspring and
irrefutably true, l like it.
How long we will remain Mt Camp Frank
lin (for such is the name OF our present
place OF sojourn) I cannot tell. As the
houses are mostly vacated, we are well
unartered, and haze all that n soldier
could desire suitable to camp life. The
main object of Major Franklin is to break
up the miserable, cruel and treacheroas
bushwhacking that obtains so extensively
around 10 this part of Virginia. To d"
this effectually, the only possible way is to
do it through their property, for in no 9TH
er way can they be reached. He gives
every man a chance to come forward and
take the oath.
Ii he does so, his property is sacredly
reserved TO him if he Obstinately and
| trcasouably refuses so 10 do, it is seized,
not with the least view to spoil, (for We
have no occasion for spoil, not the slight
est. our Government is the richest in the
world, and able and willing to supply all
the wants of her brave defenders, theugh
sometimes scouudrel officials divert her
| bounty from the soldiers to their own
! pockets, but this is fast being played OUT
/ but solely with view to crush out the re-
/ bellion, and restore this people the peace,
! quiet and harmony that obtained among
! them before JEFF. Davis and his demon
coadjutors (who would rather reign in hell
/ than serve in HeNven), drove them into this
unnatural rebellion
! The impression that is being made here,
under Major Frnuklin's administration, is
! of the very happiest character. When the
| suffering Secessiouists come to him with
their complaints, ue says 10 tHein' 'Oen-
tlemeu Cor ladies, as it may be), let us rea-
sou together He then, in the most cool,
| temperate, and logical manner, demon
! strates to Them the untenableness of their
position the great injustice they are in
I fiiClug upon themselves by the course they
are pursuing, aud shows them that the
course he is pursuing is the only one lett
him in tue peculiar and unfortunate state
of the country. Very many of them leave,
after taking the oath, fully convinced that
secession is political heresy of the very
worst character, aud eheerfully return to
| their nlleCinnce. while all depart with the