New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-24
FROM DALTEI5ORE.
Prevalence OF the Secession virus.

Correspondence Of The n. Y. Tiburs. .,
BALTIMORE, Jan. ~, lS62
There is no doubt thai the condition of this city Is
deplurable one. The amount Of Secession corfnp'
ton in the social veins ia vast and by no means de
creasing; and it will he sure 10 have another erup'
ton before the thing is done with Nearly ever!
Methodist preacher in the city is Secessionlst
every Baptist preacher, with single exception, Is
said to be symqathizer With treasoni large pro-
portion Of the Prtsb, eraps also while, strange 10
say, tie ministers of the Episcopal Church are ali
loyal their ccngrega tions being generally disoyaIt
DIR. A. C.. Coke aud Bishop Nottingham have a re-
we're task in stemming this tide. They have been
very brave about II. DR. Coke refused to give hH
congregation the communion a few weeks ago, dc
clainp that b. had heard Of things indicating spnt
unworthy to participate in that sacrament 30 he
excon municsted them for while.
Even The some~ bat windy and vard youth who
fills the pluco once SO wor;hily occupied by DIR.
Burnsp, in the Flint Uniiarisn Church, took pains
on one occason to pray for the Governor ard Mayor
and leave out the President. lie IL from somewhere
u oupd b. s,on.
Now all this means something. IL means that
there ia aud must be neyerceasing social influence
bearing upon the Unionisis, and tie waveIine very
dangerous to the authority of tie Government in
that quarter. Few have any idea Of how largely in
tie majority the Secessiobsts are both in numbers
ard wealth
Nearly all the leading families here are intimately
related and connected with prominent families IN
Fac ern Virginia. Tie wife Of Dr. Thomls, nov in
Fort Warren, has q brother, Douglas Gordon, in the
LEGISLATURE nt Richmond, who is worth several mil
lops-most Of which, it is said, he has derosited
ssfely in New.Yors or Europe. Toe Barton', Brn-
tons, &c. Of Eastern Niu.ina, are all represented
here TIE aim now is to osiracise, as beneath the
." upper tcn" all who symrhthize with the Union,
and they certainly have succeeded in producing many
painful divisions
Tie Methodist Church IN ,hi. city will be broken
Into fragments II IL not known now whether there
is ans Baltm re Conference not. Nothing more
completely represents tie result Of religious compi-
ance and tsmporizing than the history Of this Con-
fereuce Years Lgo it undertook 10 become tie
great powerful. and fashionable Church Of oil Mary
laud aud Nuuhem Virginia. For this un-Wesleyan
object II became oil things to all men, in the most
Jceuiiieal IL sent Pro-Slayery preachers to
the s,rhmnsi rlrenita soA ~~-ae.--s'VeS 20 tn"eo
Of Western Mary land. Thus il spread i,eif Ike
en- bay tree. IL did become wealthy and fashion
able. But now tho waves descend. mud the floods
come aud bes. upon it, aud the ruin Of it bids fair
10 be entire.
once heard one Of is old Ministers Ilersey by
name who bad forgotten the testimony Of Wesley
against the "sum Of all viainics, prophecy IN this
city that the Church you'd DO wrecked on its inf
deity to the nights Of the black man. lie is now in
bis gruvc, bur bic words are Fastening toward their
fnlfllmeut When The ties q this church broken
thoroughly the State will feel the jar.