New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-19
Queer Consolation,

One of the subjects of pretty heavy raid by
horse gang, that went beyond the sphere Of legti-
mate business to take his watch and money, a
Northern man recently become southern cotton
planter, went TO the town close by, where lives
another Northern-born man, who had lived In the
South long enough to become acclimated beget MI.
merous sons and daughters of the South. and to
think, feel and act very like q Southerner, AID
told to him the story of his wrongs, Of course ca
pecting, naturally enough, much sympathy. This
acclmated man had happened to be in the line OF
one of Sherman's marches, and could appreciate
the misf0rtunes of his new acquaintance.
"And you complain at such a trife get blue
and feel like drowning yourself or quitting this
lovely, quiet peaceable country where you've
nothing to do but to grow cotton and grow rich
Nonsense, man, nonsense | had gold watch
myself once, a costly one. You came, you saw,
you took my money from my pockets, rings from
my fingers my breast pin. uttered meier word
Of complaint. You got a rope and tied II about
my neck, and throwing the end over limb OF
tree, pulled down on it until saw stars, You let
me down, and said you would pull me up again
unless told where my gold was buried. assured
you upon honor had none, but didn't complain
one Bit You put Niger guard over me, and
gave me until the next day to repent and confess
to the gold Or be hung good. Not murmur
| of complaint escaped me. You went to my house;
your stripped it of every thing. You took away the
last ounce of food, my wife and childrens clothes,
stripped the beds, and to the cold,
it was bitter cold night, you know, you happened
to be along-and my little ones to cry for food
she conld not supply. Did you hear me complain
You got my silver table plate. Twas nothing to
| complain Olive got tin ware now, and it does
Just rs well. You carried off my horses and mules
killed all my hogs, broke my farming tools, car
ried off my wagons and every thing-,you might
have left me one rooster to crow tor the hours OF
| the night, after you had got my watch. never
said word of complaint. You released me from
guard the next day, and said you had concluded
not to hang the poor devil. l didn't complain, a
that. You told me to so home and be loyale
home-such o home But it was the best ha'
then, and didn't complain. | was told you hat
beaten my neighbours wife with the lash. l di
complain little, easy to myself. Ioa'te go
nothing to complain Of. Come along and let
; take drink and you'il feel better, and then yo
can laugh at tribes"
That man had queer way of administering con
solaton.-[ Meridian Messenger.
Two APosTLEs.-Under this head the Ne,
York World of the LIST instant illustrates and com
pares the respective positions Of two ministers G
the Gospel:
Two remarkable sermons were preached las
Sunday in this city-one from the pulpit of
? cathedral, breathing peace and good will; one i
Puritan temple, bowling strife and hatred
Bishop Lynch pleading for the misery of tn
stricken and suffering, counseled "calmness, low
! and good feeng;" Presbyter Cheever,. belyin
national triumph reved, in priestly billingsgate
the chiefs of the people, who shrink from oppres
sion and are building ruin. 49,. .
Which bears the Divine commission he VIII
7 urges submission % in true charity" to the lawir
power which has asserted its rights by force,
t who filings dirt upon rulers whose moderation
l wiser than his fury? Which is the Christian pas
d tor-the Southerner whose voice is raised in pei
suasion to raternal love- instead of complaint owe
e injuries, or the Northerner who denounces tn
y powers that be as " hypocrites and robbers b
/ cause they are not wild with his own madness
For this ravng prophet the land is not full enoug
l. of woe, and her wounds must be torn open an
Y drenched with the vtriol of his virulehce ratht
:. than that he should forego the display of Thu
!, clerical ribadry which insults decency as grave
J. asiprofane swearing offends the law. :
II Once and again during the war we took occasit
TO rebuke the violence of this zealot, and to wal
h him that his Political cursing dshonored his robe
il and that his religious teaching sayored of the vel
f. geance enjoined on the old Hebrews rather than
ri the mild spirit of the Christian gospel. The peat
lie that was won by brave blows, not hard words, az
ii that will be established through justice workir
ID with wisdom, cannot be disturbed with impuni
u by dervishes, whether on the platform or in Il
h pulpit. He who assumes to speak by Divine a
b. pointment must show better credentials than
Id rancorous heart and works of discord. Reli5it
re will be justified of her children by the detection
80 the chapgeings; nor can any clam OF sancu
er save one who so abuses his Office to tue service
g evil from wearing the brand OF devils apostle.