Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-29


ings from Vicksburg-More Anglo Rebel Pr
racy.
In the name of common sense what is DIR.
Bacon about? Doesn't he suppose people
can read and have read? When was the day,
from colonial days down, when, over all the
south, there were not congregational churches
Let the eulogies now coming from such
presses as the New York Independent on
Stonewall jackson, among other things for
his CHRISTIAN graces and virtues, also attest
that these churches can nurture the holiest
aspirations of the human soul. What do our
radicals meanY DO they suppose history as
well as common sense has faded out OF the
American mind Boston Post.
This remarkable utterance of the Post is
directed against Rev. DIR. Bacon because he
predicts that there will be " Congregational"
churches at Vicksburg, in New Orleans, and
along the Rio Grande, when slavery disap-
pears. Will the Post be so good as to name
one place in the region referred to by DR..
Bacon where there are Congregational
churches at the present time? In the far
south there are Presbyterian churches, Baptist
churches of the ''hardshell" sort, one or two
Unitarian or Universalist churches, religious
societies belonging to the Methodist and Pro-
testant Episcopal churches; and some of the
less numerous denominations, probably, can
be found there; but, it remains for the world
to learn from the Boston Post whsre in that
region the Congregational churches are to be
found.
Stonewall jackson was one of the elders of
Presbyterian church. 1t is said that he was
very religious according to the rules and GER
emonials of his church, and we have no rea-
son to doubt it. He has gone to his grave, and
we would not undertake to sit in judgment on
his soul. 1t is enough to know that each one
of us must answerto God the Judge of all. We
must, however, in behalf of all that is divine
in virtue, deny that ''the hottest aspirations
OF the human soul" can dwell in loving fellow
ship with the blacklist and most inexcusable
treason the world ever heard of. Some of the
famous buccaneers of the last century were
extremely religious according to the
doctrine and ceremonial they had &C
cepted; but, notwithstanding the SEEM
ing sincerity of their religion, such as it
dllOhtu lilcill u utllcN6 WIFI equal SIN
cerity that they had right to be buccaneers
They have given their account to God; but
while it is our duty to leave them to his judy
ment, 1t is equally our duty to deny earnestly
that such men were animated by ''the hottest
aspirations of the human soul"
The rebel leaders are guilty of the blacklist
crime that has disturbed civilization and as
sailed the welfare of mankind since christen-
dom emerged from the dark ages. There is
no excuse for this crime. 1t was prompted
by the most unchristian feelings and motives
that can be imagined. 1t came from the guilt
lest and most reckless personal ambition,
supported by that sovereign contempt of jus
tice, order, free institutions, and duty to the
republic, and that general debasement of ideas
and character, that had been produced and
nourished by the Institution OF slavery. The
crime of these men is as black malign, and
defiant as the basest devil pandemonium can
show or imagination portray; and no one
who feels towards il as he should, will attempt
to whiten it by describing them as models of
virtue. Schiler's ''Robbers" was, in a GER
tain way, magnificent production; but,
while rebuking injustice, it gravely lbeled
virtue, and even in Germany was not consid-
cred wholesome. Just men find it impossible
to believe that robbers or great criminals of |
any kind have much to do with ''the hottest
aspirations Of the human soul" The most
charitable thing that can be said of the seces-
sion leaders is that they are what the influence
of slavery has made them.
'What do our radicals mean?" 1t seems to
be their purpose to assert the claims of JUS
tice, deal with treason as it deserves, and
crush both the rebellion and its foul cause.
They have not been accused of sympathizing
with traitors, nor of plotting to make treason
successful and give it control of the whole re-
public. A radical" is one who goes to the
root Of the matter. A radical" Unionist is
one who seeks to cure our present troubles by
removing the cause of them; believing there
can be no safety orpeace for therepublicin any
measures that stop short of this: and believ-
ing, also, that, if the cause be not removed,
the changeless law by which human affairs
are governed will doom the nation to hopeless
debasement, decay, civil war, dissolution, and
eternal shame. The earnest ''radca" is no.
wise likely to become ''copperhead.'