The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-26

i THr IJN1oN REVIVAL 1t is very crafty
mo to see with what ease and rapidity the
political backsliders of the South are being
j reclaimed from the error of their ways, and
4 with what remarkable facility they return to
the Union fold, and ask to be baptised in the
4 true political faith. Under the preaching of
the Sentinel, who is but late convert, and
evidently displays more zeal than knowledge
I in his discourse the work goes on braveiy,
! and some of the worst political sinners IN all
the handsome that we even thought repro
bates in principle, and apostates from the
faith are among the converted.
There is but one drawback to our pleasure
at witnessing this, that is a lingering fear
that the work is not genuine. This easy re-
pentance, and quick conviction do not lndl-
cate a genuine work, such as is necessary to
produce radical, permanent and enduring
political reformation. Too many OF these
protested peni,ents have dry-eyes. They do
not weep over their political sins. There Is
want of depth in their penitence. Their
sorrow is not sufficiently intense. These are
not the marks of deep work, nor the indi-
cations of genuine revival. Another sus-
picious circumstance in connection with this
political movement is that nearly all the
conventions are in private, and nearly all the
peuitents come through in secret meetings.
Before we have heard that they were even
mourners, we learn that they are converted
experience meeting which is to assemble in
Philadelphia. We wanted to attend this
meeting, and be present at the organization
of the new political Union church, but some
of the new converts tell US that we are not
invited And the Sentinel, the organ, edited
by the uncalled, selfappointed apostle OF
this new movement says, they will not receive
into this communion g un-circumscised radl-
cal Yankees"
It is therefore evident that if the Sentinel
has to prescribe the terms, and fix the con-
ditions of admission into the communion of
this new political church, that there is no
chance for u.s. But we did not know before,
that circumcision the initiatory right,
prescribed as the condition without which
no one can be admitted to membership In
this organization. Nor had we been before
informed that our contemporary had been cir
cumscised2 When was this painful and
bloody rite administered to the editor of the
Sentinel? We would like to know. Certainly
it must have been performed very recently.
Or is this idea about circumcision all hoax,
invented by the Sentinel in order to get the
faithful sons of Abraham to vote for his
friend Jonathan2 1t is all political trick
to deceive our unsuspecting Jewish popula-
ton, so as to get them to support his man
for Governor. "Verily how are the mighty
fallen 2" This view of the subject is render
ed probable from the fact that the original
call says nothing about circumcision as a
condition PRECEDENT to admission into the
Union Convention. The Sentinel says that
we can not he admitted, because we are an
uncircumcised yankee. 1t therefore repre-
sents circumcision as necessary. Yet the call
says nothing about it.
Who would have thought that our cotem-
porary would have come to this He must
be mono-maniac, from Worth on the brain.
-Nelcbern Times.