The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-18

AZ Cns,sTlAs AND HuxAss PsorLr."-
In his late verbose dispatch 10 Lord Lyons,
AIR. Seward spsaks oS ~ Eaiesa 6sasss 90 q
...Cbrissiaa and humane people" Aftsr this
declaration, II is useless for this miracle Of
nendaeisy 10 essay any further fight Of -imagi.
nation. He cannot transcend this stnpendous
aud audaeicas lie by any future achievsment
in his peculiar line. He should now be con.
tent u rest on his lsurels, for he has reached
the top Of that Alps Of falsehoods which con-
stilu,e Lis life. and which leave him no equal
in mendacity on terra .frma, and but one ia
The lake Of FIRE and birthstone
The United Statss, in its best days, never
was aud never professed to be & "Christian
people" 1t never, ~ u nation, recognized
the truth of the Christian religion. That it
had within its borders at one period large
number Of Christian people we do not DENY.
But the nation, as such, never acknowledged
Christianity, and in the North, Christianity
even among those who profssssd it, has given
place, in great measure, to bcsotted fansti.
cism which has swept like a desolating Sirocco
over the land. With the exception Of com.
parasively small minority, who have never
bowed the knee to Bsal, the mass of the North
ern population is openly iniide or puritanical,
or Unitarian, or Spiritualists. OF late years
the Christian Associations have represented
the large majority Of the popular religionists
of the North, and Of all the bloody minded
brigands Of this war they have shown the
least of the spirit and principles of Christianity
We have had in our own possession aletter
envelope of one of those associations, in
which the Southern President is represented
as hanging from gallows, guarded by Il squad
of blackguard Zouaves, and a letter breathing
:. ferocity and vengeance which had their in
spratious in any source but the merciful and
forgiviug genius of Christianity. Rev. Dr.
ryng's address in which he declared that the
thieves and cut threats Of Wilson's regiment
might have their souls saved by their bloody
raid into the South, and DIR. Breckinridge's
savage war-whoop for the blood of women
and children were fine illustrations of Mr..
Stewards Christian people,
The humanity is about on a par with the
"Christianity'' Of the North We wonder
that even Seward himself did not blush to at
tribute to his countrymen such q characters.
tic. The history OF modern civilization does
not present picture of such deliberate bar
bariiy and brutality as this Northern war upon
the South. The scenes in the North by which
it was preceded, made the whole civilized
world thrill with horror. Rapine and murder
were deliberately proclaimed as the only mode
Of warfare to Re recognized by this Chris
tian and humane people" "Booty and Beauty"
were openly titunted upon banners borne
through their streets in the broad light of noon
day. Their brutal soldiers declared on their way
to Washing ON that they did not mean to leave
single hearthstone in the South undefiIed.-
Their women exhorted them as they left to
bring back each the head of Southern man,
and their letter bags opened at Manassas con-
tanned wholesale invocations to rapine
which causes the blood to curdle. Their
Grand Army brought with them handouts and
halters to illustrate their " humanity" Not
one usage or law of civilized warfare have
they respected. Women have been ravished
houses burned, farms desolated. Bastiles
crowded with peaceful citizens torn from their
homes, and our gallant priva:eers condemned
to feion's death. Women and children have
been shot down in cold blood, universal rob-
berry of Southern property Iegalized, and the
torch of instruction, kidding the flames of
hell upon earth, they are seeking to light
throughout the whole length and breadth of
the land. All Europe has stood aghast at the
fiendish ferocity of this Christian and hui
name people," If they could succeed in their
present crusade, such scenes of horror would
be witnessed as might well make even Cloths
and Vandals shudder. We ask again, has not
Seward capped the climax even of his auda-
cious mendacity when he calls such a people
Christian and humane?'