The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-27
OH A r L E ST ON
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 81, 1866.
WOLVES IN SLEEPS CLOTHING.

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In recent number of "Thc Methodist" o
religious newspaper published in New York
city, we find the following choice morceau,
pertaining to this old burgh of ours
In tho New York Preachers meeting, the
question for discussion WAS takon up, and Rev.
| Mr. Lewis, Of Charleston addressed the meeting.
He gave-a stirring account OF what our missiona-
ries are doing in the South, and OF the state of
feeling among the Southern people with reference
to our Church. He went to Charleston in 1865,
and had not left the field until the present time.
| All the missionaries had takena decided anti
very position, and had faithfully preached anti
caste to all the people. As result, the white popu
| lation generally are hostile to them and their
preaching, while the colored people rushed into
their churches and became their warmest friends.
They have eighteen hundred live members in the
city of Charleston. They have three fine con-
| gregations there and have labored to establish
the country round about, preaching in the woods
| and sleeping on the ground, forming societies in
forty different places. The South Carolins Con-
| ference is unit on the question Of equal rights,
| and the great question of tho day touching the
colored people.
Mr. Lewis is evidently opposed to the conoila-
ton me sures of some of his brethren, and thinks
that short residence in the South would efectual-
| ly cure those among us who advocate them. He n-
ssts that the whites of the South disrust the NJ E.
Church, and that though slavery itself is dead, the
spirit of it is alive and powerful When he frat
went South, they would touch their hats with
great pohteness, and were very conciatory;
this exists, and Mr. Lewis attributes the change
to the policy OF Mr.. JOHNSON. The very worst re-
suits may folow ,N this policy of pacidcation.
DR.. Alonzo Webster confirmed what Mr.. Lewis
said with reference to the temper and attitude of
the people South.
National indebtedness, heavy taxation, the
wreck of ten thousand fortunes and the hec-
atomb of slaughtered victims, ore not the
most lasting and terrible effects of the war
through which we have passed-the most
ruinous and saddest effect is the religious
or, more correctly, the irreligious develop
ments of this awful crisis. <,,.a,.
1t is not tha-prerogeive of this journal to
inoulcate religious lessons. But none can
dony that if tho Chriotia- -elisior. Los auy
popularity ut all distinguishing it from all
preceding religious developments, it is its
peaceful and forgiving character. aye have
heard it hath been said by them of old time,
thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine
enemy; but soy unto you love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to themthat
hate your and the advent of the teacher of
these doctrines was announced by heavenly
choristers who sang in glorious harmony,
"Peace On earth, good will toward men,"
The Northern, particularly the New Eng
land States, have claimed to be eminently
Christian. g., eminently Christ-like-i. g.,
eminently merciful, philanthropio and forgiv.
ing. That is what they profess; but how do
facts support this professiou9 1t is now no.
torious that the most vindictive, blood thirsty
and relentless sheets published North are the
ralI IoIn nd 1ouolook
pitiless and uncompassionate class ore the
Northern clergy. HORACE GREELEY isnow
an angel of compassion compared with these
editors and preachers who daily "breathe
out threatenings and slaughter" against those
who differ with them on the one political
question of the day, viz: the unquestioned
supremacy of New England in the national
councils and Government. Prominent among
this class of relentless haters and infuriate
| political ineendiaries are those who rushed
| to the Southern States as missionaries as soon
as the war was over. Under q canting phi.
lanthropioal pretext, they have come among
us devoting their individual energies to the
prolongation of wars miseries by an indefi-
mite protraction of civil confusion.
Armed with military orders and preceded
by glittering bayonets, they have taken pos
session of Southern churches and church
property, and mock their assembled hearers
with political harangues and farcical decla-
nations about rebels, races, caste and equal
ity. But it is "their work and labor of love"
to beget hatred between the white and COL
ored man. To accomplish this they have
stopped at no extreme and been deferred by
no soruples. Tho colored man is haraneued
at the South, and the press of the North teoms
with their misrepresentation The Southern
white man is held up in the religious press
in the North, in Cinada and even in England,
as the deadly Upas that blights the mental
growth and the social development and re-.
ligious elevation of the black man. And in
proportion as mercy is granted and political
liberation extended to him, in exact propor.
ton is he revengeful, violent and revolution
ary. Il
i The reverend gentlemen named in the ex-
tracts above, flying from the heat and fever