Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-04-23
MUNICIPAL TROUBLES AT NEW ORLEANS.
Albert Barnes.

High in social position in the community where he
has lived so ong-high in the sacred profession
which he adorns-s the gentleman whose name we
have taken the liberty to put at the head OF this ar
tcle He is an able, accomplished and Christian
gentleman, gentle in every sense. Unlike most of
his clerical brethren, he maintained TINS genteness Of
tone throughout the conflict of fierce passions now
happily at an end, and with clear and fixed opinions
and those, too on the side of the government-we
have never heard or read one word from his lips or
his pen which seemed like the utteTance of i'll
temper or intolerance. He never prosttuted his
pulpit by trucuent haTangues. He never defiled
the sacred elements he administered by reading
bulletins of bloody strife. He never haunted
clubs or leagues. He prayed for victory for the
cause he thought the right one, but he blessed no
flags waving over CHASTITY fields of fraternal war;
Such was the tenor of this good mans course during
the war; What it has been since the war is over and
the blessed light of peace is shining upon u.s. the
reader will see in the following extract from SER
mon of Mr.. Barnes which we find copied in one of
our exchanges and which we gladly reproduce
What contrast to the scream of vindictlve tanatl-
cism which comes from every corner OF nhdel New
England, and as nfdel Ohio where New England
seed is sown whose organs are Sumner and Stevens
and Wilson and Wade:
81 hesitate not to say that on the whole, the
duct of the South in the feelings evinced on the
termination of the conflict, has been such as to de-
mand the confidence of the North, and to secure the
admiration of mankind. The surrender of armed
forces was so complete and entire the cessation of
hostilities was so immediate and universal; the
acknowledgement that they had been overcome was so
prompt frank and manly; the rediness to return to
the Union has been so general and apparently so
sincere the recognition of the fact that slavery IS
extinct forever has been so wisely admitted as
fact-vast as are the consequences involved, and is
the change in the habits; the readiness to come
under the arrangements for collecting the revenue
has been so prompt; the disposition to resume COM
mercia intercourse with the great cities of the North
has been so marked; and the willingness to come
into the great arrangements of the nation for per-
petuating freedom has been so general, that see
in this think the return of the feelings of the best
DAYS of the republic. There are exceptions Gndi
vduaD, but there has never been civil war closed
where there was less lingering animosty or more
willingness to unite again under the same govern
ment Can we forget, when we think of what is in
the Southern bosom still, that longcherished
opinions, feelings and customs do not soon change
among a people, Can we forget how long after
the wars Of the Roses" and after the civil wars
that resulted in the'establishment of the Com
monwealth" in England on the cessation
of the forms of war, the feelings that had been en-
gendered fingered in the bosoms of Englishmen p
Can we forget how long after the Revolution, the
Punishment of James, and the accession of William
and Mary, love for the Pretender" fingered in the
hearts of portion of that nation; how firm was the
conviction that he was the rightful heir of the
crown how strong the hope that he would yet come
to the throne Shall we blame our Southern brethren
if some similar feelings linger in their bosomsl