The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-08-26
WORDS as sharp Is swords.

The following indignant bit Of elo-
quence is from II communication in
the Richmond Dispatch. The wri-
ter is clergyman. whose initials
(llev. DIR. J. G. McC.) are only given.
We venture to say that he can lead n
regiment under any fire. We may
state that Hampton was once the
writer's home, and under his pastoral
charge:
You have read Raymond's testi-
nony to the vandalic conduct of the
Hessians at Hampton. If there is a
righteous God in Heaven-if Gus
ticc and judgment are the habitation
of His throne"-if hell be not fic-
ton and a farce, what will be the
punishment of these fends in the
hour of death and in the day of judg-
ment, who have desecrated that an
cient church in Hampton, and viola
ting the solemn and sacred reposc of
the dead, have hauled the tombstones
from the foundations where the hands
of fbroken-hearted relatives had placed
them over dust, which to guard they
would have died and have barricaded
the church gateway with their frag-
ments! 1t is useles, tor any of his
apologists in the Northern papers to
say that Butler does not countenance
this outrage.
81 tell him, though a clergyman,
he lies Butler is no man, but a
dog Z! and a dogs death should be his
doom. 1t is a little singular, how
ever, that the new made grave in that
churchyard referred to by one Of the
correspondents of the New York pa
pers-whcre he saw stakes fixed and
a cross piece above the mound, and
the demoralized demons boiling their
cauldron-is to my own knowledge
the grave of child of Yankee,
who, having made money out Of our
people, fed to his cold, unfceling,
creedles- and Goddess North, as soon
as he found an indignant people We're
preparing to meet the vile invaders
of our soil. The cup is thus pre-
scnted to his own lips. Southern
men would have guarded the grave of
that innocent child, and Southern
maidens would have flung wild flow
crs there but his own brethren hold
hcllish orgies above the dust of his
dead offspring One is almost start
led into the wild cry, lis thi. the
10Th century, and is this the great
nation to whose example the world
was invited ?"
also see M extract from New
York paper, that these mi-crcants cn-
tered the house Of a lady in lamp
ton, and breaking open boxes shc
had packed away little memorials in.
throwing the contents into the street.
also pitching into the yard portraits
Of the family The writer states that
tn, lady was Il relative to the late
Com. Peudcrgras, that his friends"
and admirers, the Lincoln soldiers,
offered these indignitics to the house
of his witc's sister, and tha, the p"r-
trait Of Mrs. p:nacrgrast shared the
fate of tie rest.
''Qr"s Deus v,t!t pclicre pIius dcn.entat."
Let the Lincoln dynasty exult, let
such men a. Winnticld Scott, Sc
ward, Chase. Montgomery, Blair, 1T
idolnn" genus. hold jubilee their
day is short, their doom haStcth, their
destruction il swift, their dauluatiou
i sure.
| have no more doubt that God
(and ! write ii rcverently) has given
the Federal Government in all its
over to judicial blind
ness and madness, than l have that
til. handwriting on the wall OF the
Chaldcau monarch told OF his depart
ed kingdom and his crownlcss brow.
And the men of the Northern pulpit,
from Bishop Wllit,insham to Ward
Beecher, from oily Pine to [ Hctuous
Chaplin, from the teudish Tying to
Gardiner Spring, from the windy
Bellows to the wordy Chcever-wili,
like the priests of Bad. have to NEE,
the reaction of popular sentiment,
which must take place and bear to
eternal fame the scorn and kissing
which shall wrap like a whirlwind
their memory