The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-04-26
Albert Rarnes.

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High in social position in the commune. !
~ where he has lived so ylong--high i'm;
the sacred profession which he adorns.-is
the gentleman whose name we have taken
the liberty to put at the head of this article.
he is an able, accomplished and Christian
gentleman, gentle in every sense. Unlike
most OF his clerical brethren, he maintain. !.
cd the sentleness of tone throughout the g
conflict OF fierce passions now happily at an
end, and with clear and fixed opinions- :
and those, too, on the side Of the govern !,
ment-we have never heard or read one .
word from his lips or his pen which seem. !,
ed like the uttersnce Of ill-temper or intol-
erance He never prostituted his pulp.t
by truculent harangues. He never defiled
the sacred elements he administered by
reading bulletins of bloody strife. He
never haunted clubs or leagues. He pray
ed for victory for tho cause he thought the
right one, but he blessed no flags waving
over ghastly 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 us, the reader will
see in the following extract from sermon
of Mr. Barnes, which we find copied in
orc Of our exchanges, and which we gladly
reproduce. What contrast to the scream
of yindictivo fanaticism which comes from
every corner Of infidel New England, and
as inidel Ohio, where New England seed
is sown, whose organs are Sumner and
Stevens and Wilson and Wade:
hesitate not to say that, on the whole.
the conduct of the South in the feelings
evinced on the termination of the conflict
has been such as to demand 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 uni
versal; the acknowledgment. that they had :
been overcome was so prompt, frank, and
manly; the readiness to return to the Union
has been so general and apparently so sim
cere the recognition of the fact that slavery
is extinct forever has been so wisely ad-
m!tted as tact--vast as are the conse.
quences involved, and is the change in their
habits; the readiness to come under the ar
rangements for collecting the revenue has
been 80 prompt; the disposition to resume
commercial intercourse with the great cities
OF the North has been so marked; and the
willingness to come into the great arrange
mcnts of the nation for perpetuating tree.
dom has been so general, that we see in
this, L think, the return Of the feelings Of
the best days Of the republic. There are
exceptions CndividulD, but there has ney-
er been civil war closed where there was
less lingering animosity, or more Wiling
ness to unite again under the same govern
ment. Can We forget, when we think Of
what is in the Southern bosom still, that
ongcherished opinions, feelings and Gus
toms do not soon change among a peopleY
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 engendered fingered in the bosoms
of Englishmen? 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 a portion of that nation; how
firm was the conviction that he was the
rightful heir Of the crown; how strong tho
hope that he would yet come to the throne?
| Shall we blame our Southern brethren If
some similar feelings linger in their
bosoms? ~
We are exceedingly sorry to say that