Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-02-06
All god Southern ProcIIvitles of the Baltimore

The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune thus writes upon what he terms the Prevalence
of the Secession Viruz :"
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.-There is no doubt that the
condition OF this city is deplorable one The amount
of secession corruption 10 the social veins is vast and
by no means decreasing and it will be to have an
other eruption before the thing done with Nearly
every Methodist preacher ia the city is secessionst
every Baptist preacher. with single exception is said
TO be sympathizer with treason large portion of
the Presbyterans also while, strange to say, the min
listers of the Episcopal Church all loyal their cen
gregatons being generally disoyaL) Dr. A. 9. Coke
and Bishop Nottingham have severe task in STEM
ming this tide. They have been very brave about it
Dr. Coke refused to give his congregation the commu-
MON few weeks ago. declaring that he had heard of
things indicating spirit unworthy to participate in that
sacrament So he eTconunaunacated them for uhIe
Even the somewhat windy and vapd youth who fills
the Place once so worthily occupied by Dr. Burnap in
the First Unitarian Church ook palms, on one occasion
to pray for the Governor and Mayor aad leave out the
President. He is from somewhere around Boston
Now all this means something. 1t means that there
and must be never ceasing social influence bearing
upon the Unioniss and the wavering very dangerous
to the authority of the Government in that quarter
ew nave any lGea OF how largely in the majority the
secessionists are both in numbers and wealth.
Nearly all the leading families here are intimately re-
lated and connected with prominent families in Eastern
Virginia. The wife of DR.. Thomas, LOW in Fort War
rem, has brother Douglas Gordon in the Legislature
at Richmond who is worth several milions-mest of
which, it is said he has deposited safely in New York
or Europe The Bartons, Braxtons &C., of Eastern
Virginia, are all represented here The aim now is to
ostracise as beneath the upper ten all who sympa-
thze with the Union and they certainly have succeeded
IN producing many painful divisions"
The Methodist Church in this city will be broken
into fragments 1t is not known now whether there is
any Baltimore Conference not. Nothing more COM
petely represents the result of religious compliance and
temporzng than the history of this Conference Years
ago it undertook to become the great, powerful and
fashionable Church of all Maryland and Northern
Virginia. For this un-Wesleyan object it became all
things to all meL in the most Jesuitical sense It sent
Prosavry preachers TO the Southern circuits and con-
servatlves to those Of Western Maryland Thus it
spread itself like a green bay tree 1t did become
wealthy and fashionable. But now the waves descend
and the foods come and beat upon it, and the ruin Of
it bids fair to be entire.
once heard one ofits old Minister'S Hersey by name
who had not forgotten the testimony of Wesley against
the 'sum OF all viaines" prophesy in this city that
the Church would be wrecked on its in6dety 10 the
rights OF the black He is now in his grave
but his words Fastening toward their fulfIment
When the ties of this Church are broken thoroughly
the State will feel the jar