New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-15
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The heathenish ferocty Of Jefferson Da7s'd
Proclamation is mt lasc accounted for. The
Southern Confederacy is suffering under a
Iamentable lack of the Holy Scriptures. 1t
turns out that if we were dependent upon the
Shareholders for cotton and tobacco, they in
turn, were dependent upon US Tor Bibles ard,
AS meu cannot live 10y bread alone, that their
e,iCency is more intolerable than ours. It is
painful TO find the Cobieder..tcs in tho same
cruel category with tue painted and plumed
barbarians Of the earth, and, in spiritual cultI-
yalion ut least, behind the Sandwich islanders
or the native East Indians, wLo have q plenty
# y bles carefully translated into their respCc.
tive languages. 1t is something, however, TO
know that tae Rebels are conscious Of 40 inn
portant u deficiency; and that they have sept
tae Rev. DR.. Moses Hodge OF R'chuond to
Europe for the sole purpose of buying Thirty
Coniederacy; OF, il not 80 many, rs
many D. -Four Thousand Dollars VIII pay
for. This is soothing to the contemplating
mind, on, rather, it would be-, aid not one or
two suggestions naturally occur, to mar the
complete felicity of tue intelligence. We are
Tod that Or. Hodge has taken with him
81 600. But toe narrowing doubt arises,
whether this sum may not BE- IN Conieders ate
pager, and whether Paternoster Row will care
to let its good Bibles 30 in exchange for
fmsy Nirguan dollars-to say nothing OF the
pout OF caslisIry, whether resding Bible
bought with such S0inplasters can possibly BE
81 any advantage 10 the SOU OF the reader.
but this is not all. Is the Reverend MuGes in
tic lealt sure that be- can find in Lcnloa my
edition Of the Bible q. all suited TO tue South
efn market We put tue question, because
it 10 well known that the Bible IN common
use among Christians is considered in
slave States to be n hercely incendlnry
document, with the perdsal Of which even
the most pious negroes are not to be
safely trusted. Sambo may join the
church. but he is forbiddea to read the Wofd
upon which tho church is founded. The Con-
i.deracy, differing from al other Christian Da.
tjon,. lnasnuch as il believes that God has not
made all men Of one blood, wants Bible OK
pursated of troublesome negatives, apd amelic-
rated by a judicious sprinkling of convenient
Alternatives. When Brigham Young desired to
make poygamy q religious duty, what did he
dot Why, he had new revolutions, amenda-
tory of the old gospel, to be sure That is
ju,t what our Man-O Owning friends are in need
Of. They want Bible authorizing maI-steal-
ing the oppression Of the poor, concubjnage,
cruelty, aud all other pleasant, convenient and
profitable sins. With the old. and to them
somewhat obsolete work, they have had world
of trouble. The necessary CLOSES have con-
tinualy put the shrewdest Doctors OF Divinity
to their lrumps. 1t has taken tuna OF lexi.
cons to make Slavery square with Chris
tianity. The Confederate Leytes have
lived in rainy season Of cIe2esis
Paul and Onesimus long ago lost the uup OF
novelty, aud have lately stalked about, like
exenteratcd ghosts, in very threadbare con.
dition. Tho Mosaic diapen.ation has had an
ugly way Of going out of fashion in the nine.
teentb century. a Religion founded upon
Slavery has become necessary, since it las not
been found possible to establish Slavery founded
upon our Religion. SO, while DR.. Moses
Hodge ia about 1t, instead Of looking through
Europe for an expurgated Christian Bbe
when will suit tho views of his employer
instead of bringing back with him four thou
sand volumes which will DO good for nothing
in the Coniedcracy except for fre-AiDdling and
razor stropping, let the good man make neat
Job Of it, aud import aometbiDg novel il the wa,