Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-03
Letters from a Wheeling Boy In
South Carolina.
BEAUFORT, S. c., Dee. Is

Last Sunday the hrst Union sermOn in
South Carolina since the war, was deliver
ed by Rev. Denniso1, of New York City.
He is a Baptist minister; husband of the
poetess has been n chaplin OF volunteers
since the war began was the frs: man
ashore at Hatteras, being ordered to take
possession of Fort Clark on its desertion
by the rebels. He is an eloquent man, and
was listened to by the Rouhdheads and the
rest of Gen. Stevens brigade with rapt at
teutiou. Often n pin might have been
heard drop, as every ear was strained to
catch the Speakers words. When the
bells rang out, it reminded one of home
Their peaceful chimes seemed more fitting
TO quiet Sabbath scene far away over
leagues Of briny ocean, than in the turmoil
Of caup. In the opening prayer, besides
the petitions which soldiers circum-
stances naturally suggest, the Reverend
gentleman prayed for this erriug portion of
our country, that "this moral wilderness
might be made to bloom with the rose of
Sharon and the lilly of the valley" The
text was from Psalm twentieth, and fifth
verse sin the name of our God we will
set up our banners" The exordium told us
that the former pastor of tho church our
service was held in, the most commodi0us
and elegant in the place, was in New York
City, strong Union man. lie was Mr..
LAthroP, native of Savannah. Mr.. Asa
Fuller, the present absent pastor, is also
on the right side. The speaker said he
wished to bring US to II sense of the moral
grandeur of our position. That the inter-
est at home in news from Port Royal was
feverish. He had seen placarls at the
Post Office and street corners thus headed,
draw hundreds around them, and when
they read, "Beaufort occupied by the
Rouudheads," he would not be surprised to
hear n little cheering. Not that he meant
any inVidioua distinction of regiments, for
we were ROuudheads in spirit. To "set up
our banners in the name of our God, !" we
must be Christians. Now he had heard
I that the camp was a place of demoraliZa-
ton, that Christian soldier could scarce
| lY be. This is all palaver. A mans a
man anywhere. The camp is Il kind of
winnowing machine, separating the wheat
| from the chat. If it's in man to be
either good, great or beautiful, it comes
out; if not, he goes under. His ex-
periencc proved that man could be as
good christian amid the tents ofhis coun-
try's army as singing, "Rock the cradle,
Lucy in his own little domestic establish
mcnt. If we SO set up our banners it will
insure Gods blessing. Witness the colo.
nists at Bunker Hill The long array OF
British marched up to that weak band of
y PsAGAAOto ~ u W GiL buG Alle VI lOlLp
OF cleft, left, left, as they came on think
ing the scared Yankees had He'd perhaps at
tho sight But another cry went round
that Spartan baud inside the redOubt COM
ing first from old Israel Putnam's lips,
''wait, boys, till you see the whites of their
eyes, They did wait, and they were not
afraid to face those eyes, and he had never
seen II genuine Yankee yet who was afraid
to look any man in the eyes, be he South.
ron or Britou. The Almighty blessed the
flag set up in trust on Him then, and he
will now. When the speaker landed Mt
llAtteras, sitting in conversation with the
rebel chaplain, that gentleman bad told him
that when the gale WAS raging on the ocean
just before the attack, he had prayed that
it might wreck the llect. The preacher had
told him, and | MAS ut that time on my
knees asking, that the storm might be
stilled till We might get chance to thrash
YOU" After pause. he added, s1Ind I
told him, that thought the Lord Lad
heard ne, and not him" "Sctting up our
banners in the name of our God Implied
Faith, Hope, and Charity. 1t was not hard
to hnyo faith now. We had had some re-
verses, but they were from want of disci-
plinc and not from want of courage. It
was not to he expected that raw troops
could cope nj first with those who had been
two years drilling, and who would even
take the piraticnl resort of masked Bate
ries. Butthis is done for. If they skulked
in the bushes our troops would follow the
example of Samson, catch all the strRy
dogs, tie brands to their tails, and burn
them out. As for Charity he was not
afraid of our boys magnanimity. At Fort
Clark he, the preacher, had felt charity
even when pulling down thataccursed flag,
and trampling it into the sand, and wish
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banner, seventeen thousand, five hun
dred and fifty FIVE fathoms deep into
the soil. Even there he had felt, and
every soldier ComrGds had felt, charity for
the errors of the dcluded men who were
suffering around them. One poor fellow
had fallen at the door of his own tent.
mangled and dying from being struck by a
shell. When he approached and united
his prayers with those OF the dying man.
two hundred rebels uncovered their heads.
When our surgeons cared for their wound
ed as if their own men, they exclaimed /:
care these the men we fght2n We all
know the happy results. Mr.. Dennison
concluded by stating the happy effects of
the raising of our flag here. The Beaufort
OF to-dny would not be the Beaufort of
twenty years hence. The sound of the an
vii and the whirl of machinery will be
heard, and a great manufacturing place,
such as Pittsburgh, grow up. He could
almost hear the roar Of oIr cannon follow
ed by the roll of commerce. Laborers
would be paid just days wages for inst
days labor. Turning to the contrabands,
he said that he was authorized to say to
them that the Government intended to es.
tablish common schools for them, and to
take care of them if they behaved them.
selves, at which SambO grinued, rolled I'M
his eyes AID showed his worries. Before
the benediction, the chaplain proposed
three cheers, one for the Union, one for the
Consultation, and ono for the enforcement
of the laws. They were given as soldiers