New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-28
POLITICAL PREACHERS.

II II is quite noticeable circumstance IN the nis
tory of the times that those people Of the Nolu
who most resolutely oppose the reunion Oh tn
1 States and are the most yindictive and uhreasoh
| able in their coprse towards the Southern people
1 are those who never shoudered a muskes mo-
drew a sword while the war was going on, but con
tented themselves with fighting for the Union VIII
| their tongues only The soldiers OF the war-botl
officers and men--are generally, II not unani
mousIy, in favor of accepting the surrender o
their former enemies in good faith, and devotml
themselves to the cultivation of the arts of peace
When the brave men whom they have conquere
profess their willingness to abandon all thought 0
future resistance, and honestly acknowledge tn
failure Of their cause it happens that the very fot
to whom they succumbed is the first to trust thei
sincerity, while the non-combatants Of the Union
on the other hand, are engaged only in devisin
schemes for prosecuting and degrading thos
whom they never had the courage to face on tn
field of battle.
\ These are the doughty warriors of whom it ha
been truly said that they are " invineible in tint
of peace, and invisible in time of war;. Invisible
they certainly were during the late contest excep
safely beyond the reach of bullets and prudently
distant from the smoke of battle. They were tt
be found not in the front of the fight but in egis
lative assemblies editorial offices, and sensational
pulpits. They were shining examples of that mar
| tal prowess which fights by proxy, and conspicu-
Gus illustrators Of the inyincibility of an army
which never ventures within ear-shot of artillery
Perhaps the most distinguished soldiers OF the
non combatant school who figured in the late war
were those clerical gentlemen who Numbered their
anathemas upon the head of the Southern people
from the pulpit and illustrated the gospel OF peace
by stirring appeals for war and carnage. The
tribe of parsonical politicians who, like Brownlow,
prayed nightly for blood, constituted too marked
and numerous class in all the North to escape
obseryation--and now that the war is over, and
the object for which they struggled supposed to
be attained instead of finding them quiescent I'M
der the exhaustion produced by their labors, and
resting sereneIy from their severe struggles they
and bracing themselves for fresh crusade against
the helpless and impoverished people of these
Southern States.
Although it is not easy to perceive what special
qualifications for an agency Of the freedmen's bu-
reau attached to the person or character of a
preacher, yet it is somewhat curious fact that it
is this very class who seemed to swarm down upon
the South after the war over and get installed
in the bureau in numbers altogether out Of proper
ton to their numerical strength in the country.
The fighting part Of war being not at all to their
taste, the doctrine of compensation was finely il
Illustrated by the avidty with which they inclined
to the pacific. duties of con6scation and freedmen,s
affairs, and the ready alacrity with which they
pounced upon any unfortunate Southern gentle
man who did not adapt himself with sufficient ra.
piditv to the altered condition of affairs The Gal
lahans and the Conways were true representatives
Of large class of natriotic ecclesastics who left
their country for their own good and came into
the south for the laudable nurnose of REMOVING
az far AZ noss;hle all vestioes of what Mr. Sumner
calls the barbarism of slavery together with
whatever mnortable nropertv,, MIGHT chance tn
come in their wav.
with the excention of two mr. three cbnrcbes
whose minister's wbethar at the North or tbo
south. have never MINGLED in nolitcal bro;ls tba
so-calIed relipions elemant has baan tbe most
active in eneenderinp sectional animositias and
refus;nq-t accent the absolute surrender of +bo
Southern neonle excent mon conditions never
thoupbt At nor dreamed Of at the heo;nning of tho
war. Those who fonebt for tbe preservation of
the Union are not those who are now clamor;ng
for negro snffraaa and contisc.tion who orc
tbirstine for the blood oe jefferson Davis who oro
contr1v;np either the nernatnol axcnsion of sortb
ern Representatives from Congress. or else the
,nttng DOWN If +ba;r oIit;co1 st,anr,t,, H., ou..
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