The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-04-18

creating THIS h0rrid sa0 and dreadful notion.
But cVtm tho Koilmn' Catholics lave aIways
i'listartsd 1T and substituted a Temporary pun
ishmcnt la pnrgatory) from which II liberal
payment Of money will release the vietiu-
But the whole masses of the South arc stepped
in Tie grosscst aud darkest Ignorance and
worse than heathon superstition The whole
religion Of tho Southern people may DO classed
as land the same, and that of the worst pos
siblc tendencies. Nor is there much sign f@;ri
hope IN the future. Better Indeed if every
house and schoolhousc in al the Southern
Statcs,@crc burned to the ground and every
ffatlva born there forever prohibited from
teaching OF 'prcathing as y"u call it. l., this
event teachers from the North would alone
in less than century there would be rcli-
yio Worth the name
. :1saturlns'to' Bishop Simpson, wc who
know him arc Of the opinion that his; OILY
fault in dealing with you people South has
been III recognizing any of you at all us de-
serving to bo classcl as Il religious 'ohy So
lar from considering Southern Mc,hot,list MS
existing in the South: the proper way would
be to disregard al CLASSES there alike (hcca,,sc
all arc alike any way ut hcart)
/ 'TlIc'ohly difference being the price we have
TO pay for very poor effort OH the part Of
some to appear Northern in sc:imtiiiicnt-cvcn
Wm.5G. Brownlow, who, of late wears (sincc
lS6iD has rr"rsscl to bc Northern in religion,
yet VIC who knew Him, best while lie .Stumpcd
the Western States III 1862 and 'G3 are at a
loss to measure his reliability.
Now. have spoken plainly and candidlv.
Just what ill N"rh%SfA& Ns.tholists feel aud be-
licvc'but very few of them have the courage
to crlnc out and speak their true sentiments.
Likewise the other minor denominations Of the
North is bound To rule this continent, and
those who stand in the Way> IiS yoii' a1l 'tln III
the South must get "ut Il the way Rel. .iun
to ks such Is Progressive. 1t is no longer !.
dull. lumdrun,. dry reading of The Bible and
that after peculiar Interpretation Of past cen
turlts. 'lodcrn science and better cnliyhtc,,-
n2!!t Of the human mind have discovered new
S1'ir9ecS oi Tight and :, far wider felt for the
application ui Biblical truths. The Bible like
~'-'-t u s-tinns must be subjected to the test of
experiment, and il found ilaprlicallt'it nlst
be studied to reveal the ,ilctiiii2s aud III.
tcrrrctat"ns more i'll harmony with man pro
srsS. We have only recently begun to dis
c":er the true p"wcr and application Of the
FcdEctal Constitution. SO, likewise arc Ne lust
beginning t" see and comprehend that the
Bible is i'll fact the best constitution any State
or nation can have when applied to every day
life among me" in rotical'bcdy!: Wcrt"p'<e
t" make proper application OF our bible to
all the Southern States and people.
~ suhju"atcd people have no more right
to apply their own peculiar moral ideas than
they have 10 u>r their physical implements ul
WAR: Conquered Ia all: and hence, ior liz, pre-.
sent (an'l some decades to come, you pcopl,
ought to be like children seen but not heard
in al religious matters, which, as before
said, are really also loiitical.
"R-spectfully,
s. f. WALURO"