The New York herald., 1864-08-15
NEWS FROM the SOUTH.
TIE North and tho SOuth-C0nservatlsm
and RAltOnaIism. 30.
TRroun tha Rich,n liant uel

Thc important and dircuS Thing in the world is
cult thing know ones enemy. Sell love clouds oar
judgment in the former case and prejudice dstoru IN
starting into separa.s national existence causes,
what distinctive characteristics bave begoten settled
causes are sely 70 continue and be enhanced or 70 be
diminished and removed IN the future.
Looking TO The setensnt and history sne Trposns
The south settled by conservatives le North by
ratonasts In matters OF religion, as wei - o. GOV
ernment the Cavaliers. TOR men agreeing with them 10
religious and political opinon) and the Catholics, who
the st settlers OF the SOUTH aud whose descen-
dan,s eomoose &c majority o the southern popula-
tiop and give tore and character 10 the whole Sec
tion almost 10 man conservatives in refgian as
well as IN politics. The new sects and various jmmi
grants the trst settlement most
probably chose south their adopted home because
they conservative In feeling, sentiment and
opinion Be that II may, the religious sects Of the
sosIh are now all equally conservative and zeaously
IRON their colonial birth TO the day Southrcns
distinguished (ad sometimes fdicu.sdJ tor
their hatred Of Their respect past and
their adherence to s custctna habits, practices and
opinions as well in private az 10 public me- 10 nne, 10
religion and politics and ~ all the affairs OF il 9. lney
were distinguished faith and respect for authority
They inquired into the abstract OF things,
and adopted reec,ed them as iney cOocurred with
governed by the experience Of the
past and the weight " authority, human and divine.
Tney did not attempt 10 bring down the Bible 70 the
standard OF their own faible reason nor
on abstract political principles Things thas
had worked well that had been long tested and approved
ny human authority they adopted and followed without
inquriEg their reasonablepess. Ts they wero, ~
every sense 10 public and private e, CONSERVATIVES
Conservatives BY pedigree, descent hsb association
within the present century impulse and more
decided character given 30 their habiuai but as yet
polca philosophy, rather OF his contemptibe poiiti
cal chsrlsanism the assertors OF human eauaty The
riiy IN all things whether divine human who relied
unaded unnspired human reason, and Hubordinated
somn,ous sns M made dsdy onsaa b. on au us
tuOn old and almost 20 unvera AZ mAnkp0 an sDsti-
ordained Of God ana accepted and upheld BY the
laws and practices OF all civilized countries, a. least Ut
some period OF their history.
The institution of domestic slavery thus ssiailed,
could only be properly and successfully defended by
conservative argomen 8. We were driven 20 man.
tain tnat II right because u was ordained and
uesses or W All '0q pa,iops We rejected 10 il Dc
fence all mere absira& reasoning, because We saw tha
nothing human divine. nothing In the moral and
pothDg tho physical world could ttsnd the test OF
such ressonOg AL existence withered and disappeared
before it, with and there, perchance, idea noat
ing dsconnec.edy In the ity Of space. Such we
found 70 be the sad TRUMP triumph ,so,s q speeuss s
we we're called on 10 defend human slavery
This compelled US 70 rely on coosersativs
along conservatives 10 feeling sentiment and opinion IN
all our customs habits, usases and practices aud con
Il vas efore easy and natural for rely and
10 conservative arguments and authorities % Ofpcs
tion 70 radical destructive, speculative ratioDasn.
We think this little will suiEce ought to suice 70
show that and shall continue probably to be the
s s 70 Sy
whether 10 peace In war; a. they become dl'y more
speculative, radical. sceptca infde ana ralonaiss'c
While the South was being settled BY conservatives
the North about the time settled by the Pur
tans who emnently radical and revolutr nary n
political we'll religious doctrines. They upset
the monarchy In England, beheaded the King, and
would instituted general anarchy and copius,on bot
for the VIII and despotic rule OF ell They
were at war With all existing forms q religion s
existing forms OF political poHy They eyeo abufed III
America Tor a time the common Law Of England az no
ri uf I
religious iaitb made It's churchin faci sci
It's own God ana construed the Bible ,ust whss
they pleased those congregations were little demo-
cratic theocraciee who established reiRi~Ds, Laws
and government according 70 the hsn's Of tier
own reasop irrespective Of the WISDOM the authority
the experience Of the east They weIe,1 America, AZ
they had been in England, rash and pesumptuoos fea
rationasts They not tno nrst ra.iousL
the earliest and most conspicuous Of
rationaliss the socioians or Unitaraus, who
the doctrine Of the trinity because contrary
to human In ike manner Inc Quakefs
raoneiss because they made oil religion 20 consis IN
obeylpg dictates OF their inner hight They
did not reject the Bible
light and accepted because IL copcurred With THAI ~
writers the doctrines Of the early ouakers wnss
they now know not Rationaiism, introduced by
the purans is gradually undermining all religious and
political faith and all conservative opioons at the North
fne marriage institution, re1uced by them 70 mere
civil contract besst frequency and facility Of divorce,
led next 10 hormonsm and We suppose bAs culnnatsd
free But Yankee reason rs ab ut 10 achieve
still higher triumph in mtermarrying the blacks with
the whites This last str lde at ratonAnsm tAey term
The ins,i,ution Of marriage the only sssaed
Private properly especially separate property 10 lands
denounced By all the aootorsts, who the ruling
power al the North Indeed, almost every old aud
venerable Institution has beepIsu bected the
crucibe OF their raticnastic philosophy, and found
wanting, found Incompatible with pure, abstract hu-
closets Of their phiosop ophers-caud every one, es.
pecially every woman a. the North, s philo-
World and make Better ore in iss plsss that .ia nex
Of thugs shall be established called communism,
mi nf n DpOu hpp Ia 4 ov
and the other sociaistc philosophers may hnd The DIS
banded so!diery admirable instruments ~herewth &c
carry into practical elect their brilliant theories and
phiiaDtnropic purposes.
Virginia and the other in Connecticut, just after the
English revoution-that admirably illustrate the oppo
site character OF the two sections When tbe Virginia
they by solemn resolution denounced II Us the blsckest
Of crimes, and his judges the bases OF traitors and
. hoy san. Some years wards OF the regc
tied nnecticut AID died there, and marbi noDu
neni been erected 70 bis memory at laie College
In all other societies, except In ColoIia America con-
servaves and radicals, or as We re'cr 10 call them,
ratooats were found side by see aud almost as eausi
In numbers as males and females Here the spr roiar
spectacle presented Of ADJOINING colonies or
teshe one seci ali CONSERVATIVES, the other all "a.
These opposite traits OF character have been growing
more aud more distioct. and deeply marked from the
first ttcmeuls up this time Beginning with LIBERAL
Il and free inquiry North about wind up
witb love- amalgamatoD nhdety, agrariaBisrn and
ansrcny, whle tho south becomes daily more conservs
We have already said that ali q tho churches Of The
South conservative. TINS is the natural normal
usual cpdin OF all religious socetios and iBstitu
Liberals, radicals aud iundes cuntnuaiy charge
Christianity with upbodng government aud opposing ali
change, innovation, progress aud Improvement This
charge c1sno justly be preferred against the churches of
the North TIE clergy there, o. all denominations, are
the reckless the Jzers and sccu tors the bodest
innOvators the must jealous rsionasis and RADICALS 10
be found ia. the commogny. They are all abohiionss,
socialists, Communists, sceptcs agrarisus or inhdos.
Tney take the I'd politics. AID have made the pulpit
far stump ses AID abolition lectures
When religion becomes cnlcal srd revoIuiivuafy,
government aud all s aud institutions Ia danger
one reason by we have enpioyed tue 70 M 'faiOoal
sun rather than "rAdcalsnn ~ The opposite oi con
ervatism " because very numerous and learned sect
Christians have been called, Tor e last iorty
years ARts vhose distinctive peculiarly H. that
tney reject xhatever rac 0us fupernatrai IN the
oibie And accept only what cDcurs with uelf
SOU obsofrstion aud experience Isis Das MADE the
term curreni aud inteIgibe. hEioDalism 10 politics h
older than rationalism religion IL began witn Plso
lt failed prscttca. only u