Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-07-30
From the London Herald DERBY Organ June Is.

will not be without good effect that an earneast appeal
has been addressed to the Christian world large by
number of dvines OF vari GUS religious denominations
on behalf Of their countrymen of the Confederate
States The utter ignorance OF American affairs and
American character which, until the outbreak of the
present War, prevalent in England has given to
the advocates OF the Nor facilities for false
hood OF which they have made dilgent usR and they
have conrived, by skul misrepresentation to enlist
on their eide sympathies of coed many persons, and
to deprive the South of the good will OF many more
merely because EDgshmen have failed TO understand
the wide stncsion which txsts baweeb parties bear
ing The same title in England ard 10 America la this
country TIE headers OF the antisavery movement be-
loDged to party which equally earnest 10 their la
bOrs tor tie revival ct religion AID though it would
be fhcult to trace any relation between the peculiar
form OF their Christian faith and their al in the
OF abolition, it has become part Of the creed OF their
counrymen that aboltlonlsn and evangelical Christi
anity in way other, if not IDENTICAL least
Intimate and insepal bile articles of faith In America
this is not the case. The cause oil abolition has been
chiefly espoused by the class of persons who have
espoused with equal earnestness beresies of kind
Paraeed since the decay of those extravaganza mixtures
OF Christianity and heathensm which perpexed the
Hest age of the church.
The leading preachers of the emancipation have been
in some SocDians and Unversalsts but for the
most part open and avowed unbeievers. Their fol-
lowers have been recruited among the yotaries of
Shakerism, Communism, Woman's rights, and Free
Love, who rife among the moDgrel population of
Northern States and aboitonism was, until lately
regarded by sober Christians In America as one among
the many forms OF rebellion against Divine revelation
and social order which has spruug from the unbrided
license of wild and lawless democracy There it has
been closely identified with unbelief as here with
belief of strict and peculiar form and for WILDER
force aud a Buxton its champions have been Garr-
son aud Theodore Parker This is one point on which
Yankee ingenuity has deceived the credulity and mis-
led the sympahes of religious but unfortunate English
men. Another delusion still more prevalent, has been,
that the North was, and the South not, re.
lgious country that piety and Virtu were to be
sought for in the camp OF Butler, and Benker, and
Joe Hooker rather than that of Lee Stone wall
son. The truth is exactly the of this There
his perhaps, been less in the South of that narrow
pharisaic, intolerant Puitansm which distinguished
the founders OF Massachusetts, and is not yet extinct in
New England but the SOutherners have been always
earnest and devoted Christion people, among whom
the oathsome doctrines preached freely and wide
ly accepted in the North have fouDd favor; by
whom MOrmOnlsm and Free Love have been secuted
with Indignation and disgust and among whom man
who valued his peace and social position would
dare to treat with irrCverence the ordinances or
the ministers Of religion. Even that institution
which most provokes the indignation of re.
lgious Englishmen, has never been defeated In the
S1uh Christian grounds, and it has been left
for the AbOouiss to prostitute the authority OF reve
aton to tier peculiar doctrine and TO Cry tor ian
anti slavery church, ant-savery Bible, and anti
slavery God" No similar blaspheIny would have
not the countrymen of Garrison and Charming, but
those of Stonewall Jackson and George Washingt %
who have the slightest Claim feelings Of Chris
tian sympathy and Chris ian brotherhood. AS the
Southern clergy justly remind u.s. their claim has been
ouly for their reedom their demand has oeen but
the legitimate and truly Christian one, that they should
be allowed amcably to part from associates with whom
it was longer possible live in amity under
mon government. They have not risen in rebellion
against sovereign claiming rule them by any title
to bond which, instead of uniting in friendship
States OF kindred blood and common feeling, had be-
come to them hateful aud intoserable yoke. They
asked only, the 1sraeties asked OF old, they
should be allowed to depart in peace; they srove to
the last this end they offered terms to which
no fair exception could be taken aud they drew the
sword only when the enemy had already launched an
armed force against OF their chief Cities less in
violation of law than OF his owR pghted faith. Three
of the States now included Ia the Contederacy only
withdrew when President Lincoln demanded their as
sistance for the sabugaton OF their brethren-when
peace no longer possible, and their only choice lay
between war OF conquest and aid war OF lndepen-
dence. Not the SOutn but the North, IN despite oil
every effort to avert collision, insisted war, and
invoked their heads the condemnation OF re-
Igon which declares that "thty who take the sword
shall perish by the sword"
And for many months past the avowed Cb
ct and only hope of the invaders had been hor
rible that other people would have dared to utter
ton OF the South OF military age they have estimated
the Southern loss in the victories which have
crowned the arms OF people lighting for their airy
their affairs aud their homes and they have declared
that process of ie this loss must exhaust the light
ing element OF the SOuth-that flower OF her people
the men between eighteen and tory-fve years Of age
ID time be EXTERN Mated an that 1t is - thls
result, to be purchased by still larger sacrifice
of ii e, which it is affirmed that the North Cal
afford that they look Tor the final termination Q
tho
this hope OF which any Christian people hea
without shudderiDg and incredulous disgust? Is wa
of which this Is the avowed end which Christian
Powers can allow to go uninterrupted? is not tb
mere avowal OF such purpose-such exp, CATION
crime which not merely justities, but demands, tn
interference OF the civilized world? The deliberate
termination OF whole generation is it's Only means b.
which the North hopes to effect the object and it
expected that shall sit still. We do estimate
the policy OF England toward kindred natloO, or he
duty as Christian Power to the sufferers aud to
kind Aud if should sit still and permit this hor
ribe tragedy to be played out, let it end it may how
can we help tearing that the blood which has beer
will yet he shed Will be rquired, not only the hand
Of those who shed it, but also at the hands of thos
who.e tolerance and passive encouragement render
D sple this gigantic scheme for the murder OF Who'll
people?
The French Tobacco II Richnond-The Firnlnes
II Secretary Wellss.
The Washington correspondent of the New Yor
tribune Is Wrtlng up secretary ees, VINO Is ratne
in bad order just now with the New York merchant
on account of bis inability to catch the Florida and to
Alabama. He shows that however lmbecile that Oft
Ger may be on the sea, he is very good ashore, an
even succeeds in laying out Seward now and then. Th
letter says:
The country will not know iu how many instance
its honor has been sealed from unnecessary concessions
to foreign Powers by the frmness of Secretary Wees
until the history of the shall have been writer
from official records In at least two of these instance
Mr. Welles has been successful in combating tn
views of the State Department than he Was in the Pc