Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-28

We have heard of an incident connected
with the battle at Bethel, which should go to
the world, as indicating the character of the
men who have taken the field in defence of
the liberties of the people of the South. Dur
ing the action in question. one of the Virgil
MIA companies commanded by Capt. John S.
Walker of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the late
Capt. JohnM Otey, OF this city-occupied
position of great peril as a corps de restrue, in
which, though exposed to the shots of the
enemy, they were not allowed to participate
in the defence. When the battle was ended,
Capt Walkers company received orders to
fall hack upon Yorktown, and, early in the
march were dawn up before their command
er. who addressed them upon the incidents of
the day, and adverted to the wonderful man
ner in which they had been preserved; as
cribing their deliverance to the Lord of hosts.
The Captain then proposed that they should
return thanks to their Almighty Protector,
who had shielded them in the time of battle;
and thsre, in presence of the kneeling hosts,
resting upon their arms, and in Gods own
temple of the earth and sky, he sent up such
thanksgiving and supplicatiOn as melted
every heart. The Christian warriors soul
overlooking with gratitude, poured forth in
touching strains its devout Acknowledgements
to the Lord of Sabaotb. The scene, we are
informed, was inspiring, and several OF
the soldiers subsequently informed their
Captain that their views upon these sub
iects had undergone an entire change.
Such is the influence of Christian officer to
counteract the demorallzing effects of war,
aud of idleEess in camps. Who would not
rather commit his SONS to the guardianship of
such a man, than to the control of one who,
however high bis reputation for mere brute
courage, has no appreciation of his respon-
sibility to Higher Power? What made
CromSelfs army SO resistless, but the reli-
gious element infused into it Nothing
turned the tide of reyersas that the arms of
the Parliament at first sustained, but the
God-fearing men composing the remodeled
army of the Protector. The religious char
acter of Washington not only influenced his
own conduct, but inspired his soldiers with
reverence for that peerless character, and in
sured their confidence in him to the last. Our
present Commander-in-Ch Chief, Gen. Lee, is, we
are happy to say, also Christian man. Like
the friend of his illustrious father, he
looks for guidance and support tc the God of
Battles. Our Chief Magistrate, who may ere
long take bis place at the head OF the army,
IS the constitutional Commander +in-Chief,
also own allegiance to the King of Heaven.
How striking the contrast, when we compare
these men with the disciple of Bacchus who
now fills the chair of Washington; with the
old hero of Cerro Gor6o, who recently, we
are informed, drank pint of wine at din
ner: With the drunken braggart, Butler; the
prize-fghter, Billy Wilson, or the guilty par
ticipant in his wife's shame-the incompara-
BILE Sicklesl How long will it take the North,
with such instruments, 10 subbdue people
who appeal to conscience and their Creator,
for the rectitude of their intentions, and re-
ly upon the Supreme Arbiter for righteous
decisionl When the sun again goes back on
the dial of Ahaz, will the North Conquer in
in their unholy war.-Ricimond Elaminer.