New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-18
aNTf.nErIOCRaTEC DIVINITY.

The correspondent of Philadelphia news
paper in letter from the Armyof the Potomac,
mentions that he has met with q Doctor OF
(slayeholding) Divinity. most aged person.
who baptized all Gen Wisc's children, and was
intimate with Gen. Beauregard at Bull Kun.
This very venerable ecclesiast il not only Par
son and Doctor but be is also prophet, and
foretclls things amazingly. His father Kept
over a thousand slaves "-or "a speak with n
nearer accuracy, = thousand slaves kept INN,
and his family into thc'bargain. Such being his
past. his views Of the future are nightly mo-
uarchlcal and suggestive OF unlimited lines OF
cmpcrors kings, aud princes. Virginia, he an
nounccs, will be- q Kingdom. Pennsylvania
previously suhjueaicd by the Coniederates-will
be n principally. South Carolina will be a
dukodom. Here bis suspration, not inspha-
ton. appears 10 have suddenly failed him, ~
that although this rcycred seer probably knows
exactly villa, the other States Will be, he failed
10 communicate n. thrilling intelligence 10 ms
auditor. We arc told tia, this far.sccing old
gentleman Is among the "lcGling diyinos in
Virginia and most diabolical ditch be would
lead Virginia into. His sheep went stone-blind
long ago. and here is the shepherd quite beyond
the blessings Of barnacles.
Verify. this j. strange fate which Is predict
ed fur Virginia. We hardly see how any mon
arch could rule ia those parts without IL perpet-
nal mi-ini from Patrick Henry in his royal cars,
or duo at rai.tais from Patrick Henry aud one
Thomas Jefferson. The frst-namcd Numbered:
A" G.. or bad his Brutns. Charles the first his
Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by
their cromplci" Jefferson said, what an old
English Democrat had -a.d before tha, he did
not think tLAi mankind ramc into the world
AL faadlrd and bridlcd, 10 be- ridden BY kings.
But, in spit. of the exhaurtlcs, and cxhausting
augmentation of Mr.. Calhoun, II now appears
that Democracy and Slavery make but an eS-
pio-i,c MIXTURE and tiat those who are peril
naciou- -lcklcr, for their own liberties, ANA in
corieible thieves of the liberties Of Others. arr
not the most logical OF dwcllcrs III thi, most III
consistent world.
That the Confcdcracy. in the event Of its
independence, would be- obliged 10 giyc up IT.
Democracy, or rather the forms of it, for that is
substantially all that it possesses, We have no
cause to disbclcyc. The aged clergyman in
Virginia, for such u very aged clergyman, Is I'M
commonly right. In bodies polite, no more
than in anything else, can men 90 on forever
praiing one thing and practicing anothcr-blow
ing hot and cold in breath-crying out good
Lord and good Dcyl-enacting fine theories
which they never regard in any other action,
and making by all that they do and say flip
pant iallacy Of their fundamental law. SO that
mauger the Monroe doctrine aud in spite Of a
thousand traditions Virginia would lapse as
easily into II Monarchy ~ the STAKEHOLDER, per-
Laps originally amiablc, lapscs into coarse and
hcayy-handed tyrant. We must Try to save
the Old Dominion from this ignoblo destiny, il
only for the sake OF old acquaintance.