The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1872-03-27

North and of the South, we beg leave to say ne
is strangely forgetful. Passing by other things 1t
is our duty to remind him that in May 1900 a
whole year after the war closed, he made " V'SH
to Richmond and Us Surrounding" and concern
ing that visit he published letter in one OF the
most widely circulated religious journals IN New
York. And now concerning that letter, written
over the ashes of gallant but PROSTATE and dis
tressed people, We affirm that it is one Of the most
malignant, one of the meanest in its whole tone
that human hand could pen So much so, that
in publishing cOpious extracts from it there seemed
a sad suitableness in printing it Immediately by
the side of an infamous charge given to Federal
Grand Jury by Underwood, misnamed Judge
and appointed, as if by some scOrehing sarcasm on
the disonted times, to administer law, and justice
and cOurtly manners, in the seat once filed by
John Marshall We shall not trouble the author
or our readers with more than few morsels from
this dainty dish. Take the following; the italics
are ours;
Near Richmond the more malignant ex.rebes
are refusing to employ their former saves-pre-
ferring white labor-aud in Richmond there is a
hateful grudge against the niger (who upset
the Dagon Of their idOlatry, aud brake 1t in pieces
Out through the interior of the State the blacks
are generally at work some of them with single
mule on few acres, raising little crop. As they
are loill,Rg to loork, they have better prospect
before them than the lazy, shiftless low whites.
To-day The best population a, old Eastern Virginia
lgearS a black skin.
DR.. Cuyler is entitled to bis taste and to his
opinion. So also when he says again, Dutch
Gap is little ridiculous ditch. This, with the tall
tower of observation on neighbOsing height, are
nick-named Buffers monuments He left bet
ter one at Neeo Orleans" This is enough without
giving in full the refined gentlemanly remark,
taken from the mouth Of negro, about "Old one
legged Htel" General Ewell
Perhaps DR.. Cuyler may enjoy another HEARTY
laugh" over these extracts. How far he may use
them as illustrations of his jealous labors "since
the war to promote cordial fellowship between the
Christians of the North and of the South, and Of
his efforts to avoid every syllable that is calcu-
lated to awaken enmities,' is not for US to say.
We leave his "old RiacetOnian fellow.studeuts
and brethren to consider their appropriateness
for that purpose.
DR.. Cuyer is quite mistaken when he says his
religious articles are often copied into this jour
nal. Their affected -smartness and sensationalism
have never been to our liking and it is consid
cred, moreover, that the Richmond letter was
enough to last our readers lifetime.
The closing sentence of this letter states that it
was written amid the pressure CT blessed revi-
val" Far be it from US to make light of holy
things; but it is remarkable that the Richmond
letter of 1866, was written under similar circum
stances. 1t has been often rmarked of a certain
class of men, that if they have any thing special
to do which ought not be done, they are almost
sure to be overtaken by special fit of "prayer"
or desire to "save souls" or something else that
looks uncommonly pious Of that Richmond let
ter we took occasion to say at the time" Here is
the remarkable fact that this is the same person
Who just few weeks ago, made himself conspic-
uous in the newspapers, as the great instrument
in one Of the most amazing REVEALS Of religion
in his congregation, known in modern tines
Straight from scenes of this wonderful revival
his soul bathed afresh, under the Cross, with the
spirit Of heaven (for such, according to his pro-
teSSion, was the case, he comes to Richmond, and
then returns to write this letter of s,0eet charity
DR.. Cuyler, it is understood, will soon go cut as
delegate to represent the Northern Presbyterian
Church in the Presbyterian Assemblies of Great
Britain and Ireland. We beg of him single
favor, Let him tell them to his hearts content
about the beauty and advantage Of introducing
women-preachers into his pulpit and let him say
what he viii about the Southern Presbyterian
Church But if he should speak of US over the
water he does it in this letter. as being part and
parcel of his o10a denomination, we protest it
would be such Mimcbaasea, as never yet
visited the staid regions of the Old Dominion. -