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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1866
RELIGIOUS CONQUEST OF THE
SOUTH.
It cannot be doubted that the lenient
eatment of the rebellious South has en
onraged the reorganization and perpetua
ion of the guilty churches and institutions
n that section, and has secured them, to
ome extent, the active sympathy of dis
oyal church members of the North. It is
ierhaps one of the least auspicious circum
stances for the future of the South, and of
the whole land, that men so ingrained with
the principles of the late pro-slavery rebel
lion, as its ministry and its editors, are
'permitted to hold their former places of in
fluence. The most fertile sources of the re
bellious spirit are thus established among
the permanent elements of public opinion at
the South. We can never be brought to
admit the rectitude or the safety of such a
course. The Southern churches and reli
gious and other papers have forfeited every
right to exist, by their fierce zeal in behalf
of a pro-slavery rebellion; by their mad
endeavor to stop the onward movements
of Christian civilization; by prostituting
their sacred functions and their influence in
motioning an unjustifiable and bloody war,
by goading on the men of the world
put new fetters 9n the unhappy slave, and
seize, even at the cost of the Union and .
National life, a broader area for the
ielopment of American slavery.
These Churches, these religious papers
unchanged They are still the leading
itiences in the South. Encouraged by
seeming weakness of the moral send
it of the loyal North as to the sin of
iellion, and by the active sympathy of a
of the men of wealth or our section,
are gathering up the scattered elements
their church organiiations. They are
lying the somewhat discouraged pro :.
'cry sentiment of the South. They are
icentrating their sectional churches on
old issues, in spirit if not in form,
ch originally divided them from their
'them brethren. They are nursing, not
in their hearts, but by open efforts,
undying hostility to the spirit in the
'them churches which led to the aboli
of slavery, and the suppression of re-
And if the North is content, and the
them Churches are indifferent, the con-
uencc must be the perpetuation, in all
most objectionable and dangerous fee
:3, of that perverted politico-religious
ttiment, which, for nearly a generation,
; been the mark of the apostaoy and de
;ement of the Southern Churches. How
backwards into the North it will be
to fling its noxious influence; what
urbances it may yet originate in Church
State, we do not know. We believe
Northern Churches know a little more
they did, and are, with the whole
d people, on a higher moral platform
they were, when the various disrup
s of Churches took place; and that im-
ved sentiment, under God, is our hope.
t the surest way of preventing mischief
he North or the South, is to push vigor
. and wisely our measures for the
igelization of the South. This is a
•k which the Northern Churches must
That terribly false sentiment of the
th must be met. We must not leave
comm.unity entirely to,the influence of
lurch founded on such a sentiment.
.t is plain we must begin the Spiritus,
instruction of the South with the loyal
tents. Unlike our grievously mistaken
trident, we must make these, black or
;e, the core of our new organizsitions.
most vigorously must we push, and
;t liberally sustain, every effort to rally
se elements, and make them the nuojeus
healthful influence upon the indifferent
the hostile. And as the loyal element
ilmost exclusively colored, our efforts at
tiling up a true Church of Christ, em
/ing the principles and exhibiting the
it of the gospel, should be largely di
ced to this population. Most affection
[y, indeed, should we cherish the few
living sparks, that never went out,
ig the faithful white Christians of the
h. And it has been the unwonted
1 fortune of our Church to meet and 1
some back, after eight years of separa
ton, a whole Synod of such faithful men
women in the hill country of Tennes
. With scarcely any more attention than
needed by the new settlements of the'
est, thirty-four churches, and two thou
‘d two hundred and sixty members in
Tennessee were raised to their feet,
:ered, encouraged, and established in a
•eer of the highest usefulness for their
lion, and for the whole country. But
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beyond this, our efforts as a denomination,
for the spread of, a pure gospel through
the South have been almost nothing at all.
In Charleston, South Carolina, we have a
flourishing church of colored Presbyterians,
which is indeed encouraging; but that is
the extent of our achievements, out of
East Tennessee, on this great field.
We believe our Church has its part to
perform in this work, and with the proper
degree of faith and zeal it can be no small
part. The vantage ground of East Ten
nessee has not been given to us for naught.
When the Union army had once fastened
their hold upon this territory, the doom of
the rebellion was sealed. 'Can we • regard
our position in that territory as 'less signifi-
cant in a religious point of view?
We heartily rejoice at the successful
I efforts of other Northern bodies. .The Con
gregationalists have our cordial wishes for
success in their movements in Nashville,
Memphis, and New Orleans, where, we be
lieve, they have organized independent
churches. The Baptists are laboring with
great success among the colored people in
Petersburg especially. The Methodists
organized a complete Conference in Charles
ton, April 2d, upon the basis of "the com
mon brotherhood of mankind," the blacks
having no foolish prejudice against the ad
mission of their pale-faced brethren to=
their ranks. The Conference includes two
districts, about three thousand members,
with twelve itinerant and sixteen local
preachers, including Chaplain French, U.
S. A., with 'a large number of Sunday
scholars and teachers, and a " Baker Theo
logical Institute," having already a class of
fifteen students. This movement has made
a great stir in Charleston ; in the language
of the Southern Christian Advocate, " the
war of aggression has begun," anditi the
‘" religious fillibusters" are marshaling their
hosts for the conflict.
We ask the attention of the young men
just leaving our seminaries to this great
work. We appeal to our Home Missionary
Committee, and to our General Assembly
to act zealously, practically, and liberally in,
the matter. We are doing almost nothing
for black.or white, in a field, which, we are
sure, is more important, just now, than . any
in foreign lands; yea, we verily believe than
any at home. Encourage and enable in
telligent, pious colored youth to offer them
selves, and sustain such institutions as the
Lincoln University (late A shmun Institute)
in their noble purpose to train these youth
for the work. We repeat, as the colored
are the great loyal element of the South, a
large proportion of our interest, attention,
and liberality should be directed to supply
ing them with Christian ordinances and a
Christian education.
We are glad to see that our Presbyterian,
Monthly, of the current month, gives evi
dence, in its opening article, that the Sec
retary of Home Missions not only has this
matter on his heart—where we know it has
always lain—but desires to arouse the
Church more extensively to its great im
portance. We subjoin, in conclusion, an
extract from a letter bearing on this sub
ject, written by one of our brethren, until
lately acting as chaplain of a colored regi
ment. It is dated at a town in Alabama,
on the 11th of April last. The reference
is to a colored congregation belonging to
another branch of the Presbyterian Church.
I have made some developments here which
I wish to lay briefly before you. The
Presbyterians are dissatisfied with the old
form of treatment, and are willing to do now
as Northern men direct. They number from
two to three hundred, and have no church,
no head, no encouragement. They say the
Methodists left the Southern organization,
and are now in a prosperous condition, and
say if any one will help them now, they will
join him, if he be a Presbyterian and from
the North. What steps will be best? If
God directs, I can return here , by October,
and enter the work in building up a church.
The Lord has blessed our regiment in a
wonderful manner. In some companies over
two-thirds have come out on the Lord's side,
and Five bright evidence of the fact by a
working example. The best men in the
regiment have taken this new stand.
By this fall the colored people will be able
to help build their church. :What is needed
here is a good church building for the people.
What can be done for them at Philadelphia?
I can do something at Cincinnati, but do not
know how much. Ido desire so match to see
hese people aided in their good endeavors.
—lt is a question worth asking, where in
all probability, the miserable btitcher
Probst spent the last Sabbath tefore he
committed the accumulated crimes of which
he has been found guilty. We commend
it especially to our German friends, who so
unanimously oppbse the laws for the pre
servation of the sanctity of the Sabbath.
And we ask them to say, candidly, whether
they desire. among us a state of things
calculated to produce a succession of such
monsters, and a repetition of such unspeak
ably horrible deeds?
Oui regular letter from East Tennessee
will appear next week.
PHILADELPHIA, THIII 3 / 4 ,04-AY, MAY 10, 1866
THE COMING 0. S. ASSEMBLY , AT ST.
LOUIS.
The elements of confusion are multiply
ing to such an alarming degree in the other
branch of -the Presbyterian Church, that i
we almost expect to see the majority driven
to the short and summary method Of dis
posing of them, contemplated by the povers
of the Convention. Should the various
lines of action proposed by different par
ties come before the body in the ordinary
course of 'businets, the session Intuit be
long, acrimonious, and, as it seems to uq,
disastrous in no small degree. The large
majority, we cannot doubt, desire the body
to maintain its position, as assumed since
1861, without change or compromise. At
the same time, there are strong and influ
ential minorities, who desire concessions to
be made. Some wish the malcontents of
Kentucky, and the - border generally, to be
pacified in some way, and to be retained in
the Church. A still smaller number cherish
hope of the return of the entire Southern
General Assembly, and they are agitating
in the press, so far as it will give them a
hearing, and they expect to agitate in the
coming Assembly, for concessions broad
enough to encourage the rebel organiza
tion to come in bodily. If these minorities
are not in some effective way silenced
beforehand, they will assuredly fill, the
:whole session with their clamor. We have
too much► faith in the temper of the reno
vated 0. S. Assembly to believe they will
carry their point; but of their almost un-.
bounded power to disturb and harass, no
one can doubt. The election of such ultra
rebels and radical pro-slavery men as Stu
art Robinson, Dr. S: R. Wilson, and Henry
J. Vandyke, D.D., as commissioners, means
war of the most unrelentivg character.
As in all our dealings with slavery and
rebellion, the most ominousand- unwelcome
phenomena were indications of sympathy
in the North, so our brethren find it in the
situation now forming. The well-known
benefactor of the Church in Chicago—the
wealthy inventor-McCormick—has thrown
himself ardently upon the side of the
Southern portion of the Church, and has
corresponded and published. largely in The
Interest_of an ecclesiastical re - construction
quite as liberal as that proposedy the
Executive for the nation at large.
It appears that Mr. McCormick com
menced his efforts at reconstruction as far
back as July 14, 1865, when be wrote to
Prof. B. M. Smith, of Union Theological
Seminary, Va., in reply to a request for a
donation to that institution. Be hesitates
to give the donation, preferring to wait, in
the hope that " the position of-the General
Assembly [North] will be set right at its
next annual meeting." He has " reasons
for believing that many able men in the
Church contemplate a prompt and vigorous
movement in that direction." He trusts
" that, when that is done, the churches
South will as promptly return to their for
mer connection with it." Reverting to the
money question, he says : " I should, before
contributing. prefer to see some indications
to that effect."
However, without waiting for the " indi
cations," he sent his donation of one thou.
sand dollars. Then the indications came—
such as they were. Dr. Smith's letter re
fers to the loyal action of the General As
sembly of 1861, which our readers remember
as the Spring Resolutions; he says he
agrees with Mr. McCormick in characteriz
ing those acts as, in the mildest terms of
charity, a " fatal error," and adds :
Then, in my humbleitiew, the prime and es
sential step toward that reunion is to be taken
by the Northern Presbyterians.
Subsequently Dr. Smith so modified or
restated his, position, under the manipula
tions of Mr. McCormick, as to leave him
self, in the language of the latter, "uncom
mitted upon the subject until further action
thereon should have been taken by the
Northern Assembly."
Meanwhile the Southern Assembly met at
Macon, and the correspondence goes on.
That Assembly presented features which
convinced ." conservative".men in the
Northern body that the Southern Church
was a fixed fact; and they began to revolve
in their minds quite a different sort of
Union—that with the radical and once sus
pected " New School." It was "a corol
lary," they said, from the failure to reunite
the South. Mr. McCormick and Prof.
Smith view the matter differently. The
formcr . says:—
"I am glad to find that, since the meeting of
the Macon Assembly, you still think there is
some prospect, in some way, of areunion of our
Church at some time."
Prof. Smith paints the, prospect as very
dark.
involved in
Dr. Ffodge's position even is "un
sound." He comes to the painful conch],
.
8/ "E that reunion is impracticable for the
present, but by no act of theirs (the South
ern bod y) He .
-I) thus puts the alternatives
the situation :-
- -
If , hen, the radicals have the upper hand at
St. .uis, union is out of the question ; the
s° men will be put out. If conservatism of
yo n u n r. •ort gets the upper hand, we may be able
to co e together. In any event, I look forward
to a v ition of sound, good Presbyterians by in
dividhala, churches, Presbyteries and Synods ;-
and
:re shall have under the name, it may be,
f iv u d a
or
Southern Assembly, a pure and, able
h
or, under the name of the old Assem
bly, a reformed and regenerated, but still great,
eo i
pure' ~nd able church. So mote it bel
Mr.McCor i miok introduces the correa
poodence, which the Presbyterian refused
to
York prin t,
but Which appeared in the w
Observer' Ne
server and' the Tribtine, as follows :
ie
snot decline to cast in my mite of help in
the acl struggle, the result of which, at the ap
pri E 1
0 11 a , 513g meeting of the General Assembly,
w
ilmy judgment, decide that question at
least Othe next quarter of a century.
w E . diftliktiltether Mi. McCormick could
ra ll y k.ore than a score of votes at St.
Louis in aid of his proposal, pure and
simple,', to make substantial advances to
ward tr. rebel General Assembly. His
sbytery, of Chicago, have sent as
o se
ie W gedm n n Pr
mi s
1,
oners two ministers, who have
file call for the c-)uvention, and two
dmording to the Presbyter, of the
same w,
w. yof thinking. And the demeanor
of s tu rt Robinson and the border men
generaFY, may be so unwise as utterly to
f r i g ht e '. from conservative breasts all traces
of sym athy with their cause, and consolidate
all int one temporarily radical body. But
we f e ae the nett result of all may possibly,
for thJ' sake of peace within, if not for en
large ent without, be a sensible letting
down f, f l he moral tone of the body by a
- moth *in, more or less extensive, of its
existin b lionorable record. Against this con
tingency, ie vigilance of the faithful men
in the majoiity should be most cautiously
directed;--'---
RETRIBUTION TO ENGLAND.
. .
The Fenian ovement in this country,
so far as it has y real military meaning,
is crushed, and w ee are heartily glad of it.
So far as it can pe made a means of gather- -
ing 41 heavy tax from the earning t of the
poorest classes i l in the community, and of
enriching a fe v designing men, it will pro
,/
`iAre cannot say that there is
bably contin ,; and we are sorry for the
poor dupes
ht r.l ; -4. f m.o_v amen t, from-beginning
to end; which ought to excite a single emo
tion of sympathy in the breast of any sensi
ble person, and'we much doubt whether it
does. The Irish Catholic population in
this country will nOt,"in a generation, out
grow the effect of their affiliation with the
disloyal elements of the North during the
Those who constituted the bulk of
our secessionist minorities, and showed their
readiness to aid in destroying the country
of their adoption, naturally cannot expect
any considerable sympathy in a wild and
revolutionary effort to gain a country of
their own.
We have no hesitation in saying that the
chief interest felt in the movement by spec
tators iu r t" Jds, country, arises from its peon
culiar providential relations to the attitude
taken by Great Britain towards ourselves, in
our own struggle for national life and lib
erty.
The prevailing opinion in Great Britain
—with many noble exceptions, to be sure—
was upon the side of the rebellious South.
How a Christian people, one of whose
holiest traditions and most marked charac
teristics is loyalty, could take such a posi
tion, was almost inexpli,cable. But it was
the fact nevertheless. Evan the detestable
object of the rebels—to establish a pro-sla
very government—did not avail to divert
the sympathy of the ruling classes from
their cause. Help was afforded them, and
a whole piratical rebel navy was built, arm
ed,_ equipped, and manned in England,
sheltered in British ports, ; repaired in Bri
tish 'dockyards, and coaled from British
vessels in every part of the world. The
British provinces on our borders were the
refuge of rebel conspirators, who there
safely concocted the most infamous plots of
wholesale arson, poison, and robbery ; who
made raids into our peaceful borders with
but a hypocritical show of intezference on
the part of the British authorities, and who
laid there the whole plan of the atrocious and
diabolical act which crowned the rebellion—
the assassination of the President.
Within six months after that act, Eng
land had to deal with incipient rebellion in
three widely separated parts of her domin
ion; Ireland, Jamaica, and Canada. All
the annoyance, disorders, exposure, blood
shed, and nameless perils of a
,great civil
outbreak, seemed hanging over her head.
The evil plight in, which she rather exulted
to me a neighboring nation, and to the
measure' of which she allowed her subjects
to co ntribute, seemed about to become her
own. The policy of disintegration, which
she had defended as lawful and good - for
us she seemed about to have a full oppor
tunity to test in regard to her own widelY7
extended and somewhat slightly connected
provinces. And the sympathy she had
given to our rebels, was returned in the
most cordial manner by millions of our
population to her own rebels. It was mani
fested in very much the same manner, too;
by organizations, by the collection of vast
sums of money, by the issuing of bonds for
a rebel republic—likely, too, to be worth
about as much to the owners as the rebel
cotton loan now is in Europe. ' And what
is worth noticing, the sympathy, for Eng
' land's rebellious subjects comes - not from the
loyal classes in the North, who were most
deeply wounded and embarrassed, by her
course in the war. They are her friends,
so far as she has any with us. The Feni
ans are mainly Northern secessionists.
Thus the friends and sympathizers'of the
rebels here are punishing England for the
encouragement she gave them. It is they
who have been returning the chalice to her.
own lips, while we have but needed to look
on. Of course, the rebellious-winded are
the ones who are sure to make the most
prompt use, for themselves, of any conces
sion to the spirit of rebellion, in the case of
others. This plain truth, forgotten in a
surprising manner by England has been
speedily and emphatically brought to her
mind.
The Fenians, too, have carried out the
parallel, by a threatened invasion of Canada
from various points on our border. And .
the fright and the arming and drilling and
emigration from the threatened localities in
Canada, have been about equal to that
caused in corresponding parts of our own
frontiers, when Southern rebels made Can
ada a base of operations against the North.
Here, accounts have been most marvellously
squared. And we greatly rejoice that the
Christian element of revenge has come in,
to prevent the absolute completion of the
parallel. Our government has observed
the Golden. Rule. It has sent one of our
best Generals and an ample force to the
disturbed location, and is honestly resolved
that no mischief shall be done. Our neigh
bors, who must have very guilty and very
active consciences just now, as they remem
ber St. Alhan's, will be safe. Their defence
less towns will not be entered, nor their
banks plundered, nor their peaceful citizens
shot in the streets by Fenians in disguise.
We shall say little about the summary
measures taken with conspirators in Ire
land; the quick trials, the heavy sentences,
the suspension of habeas corpus, &c. They
were undoubtedly right. We approve theth
with all our hearts. Nothing but summary
processes will avail with rebels. Tender
ness to rebels is treason to the State. We
confess, we never felt much shocked at the
blowing of the rebel Sepoys from the muz
zles of British guns. The authors of the
unspeakable atrocities of that rebellion
richly deserved n worse fate. We have
always admired the promptness and severity
with which British law is generally admin
istered to rebels. But is it not remarkable
that this justly severe people should be
found siding with the conquered rebels of
the South, and joining almost unanimously
to deprecate the punishment even of the
chief? And is it not still more remarkable
that just in the midst of their calls upon us
for moderation, Ireland should suddenly
give them an opportunity to show how ut
terly opposed they are to such a policy
themselves; how quickly and how surely
their instinct of national self-preservation
guides them to conduct the very. reverse of
their shallow counsels? If the ox gores
my own property or person, I am wonder
fully aided in reaching the most positive
conclusions as to disposing of him; though
when preying upon others only, I saw no
reason to make way with him.
But when we call to mind the outcry
made in Great Britain against the highest
and truest exponent of the nature and pen
alties of treason that•our war has produced
—we mean Gen. Butler—we have but to
think for one moment of Jamaica. Not
that we mean for a:moment to admit that
the cases are parallel. We most heartily
approve, as our readers know, of all the
prominent acts of that remarkable man's
administration when among the rampant
foes of his country, and wish it had been in
the order of Providence that a man of such
principles could have held a prominent
place during the entire processes of recon
struction. But we can, at least, point the
British writers who are never wea'r'y of de
faming him, to Governor Eyre. Yes, it is
truly surprising how speedily a new instance
has been furnished, in addition to the start
ling catalogue of barbarous wholesale p un ..
ishments r which European nations have not
hesitated to inflict on rebels and public ene
mies when they fell into their hands; while
they hypocritically cry out - against any ap
prokimatien to justice in our dealings with
the would-be destroyers of our country.
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We cannot conclude better than by quoting
Gen. Butler's summary of these cruel acts
in his farewell to the citizens of New Or
leans:
The enemies of mycountry, unrepentant and
implacable, I have treated with merited severity.
I hold, that rebellion is treason and that trea
son persisted in, is death, and any punishment
short of that due a traitor, gives so much clear
gain to him from the clemency of the Govern
ment. To be sure, I might have regaled you
with the amenities of British civilization, and
yet been within the supposed rules of civilized
warfare. You might have been smoked to
death in caverns, as were the Covenanters- of
Scotland by the command of a General of the
royal house of England; or roasted like the in
habitants of Algiers during the French cam
paign; your wives and daughters might have
been given over to the ravisher, as were the un
fortunate dames of Spain in the Peninsular
War ; oryou might have been scalped and toms
hawked, as our mothers were at Wyoming, by
the savage allies of Great Britain in our own
revolution; your property could hare been
turned over to indiscriminate "loot" like the
Palace of the Emperor of China; works of art
which adorned your buildings might hare been
sent away, like the paintings of the Vatican ;
your sons might have been blown from the
mouths of cannon like the SepoyS at Delhi ;
an_
d yet, all this would have been within the
rules of civilized warfare as practised by the
most polished and most hypocritical nations of
Europe. For such acts, the records of the do
ings of some of the inhabitants of your city to
wards the friends of the Union were a sufficient
provocation and justification."
CENTRAL CHURCH, WILMINGTON,
. DELAWARE.
Last Sabbath Rev. George F. Wiswell
celebrated the tenth anniversary of his in
stallation as the first pastor of this church.
There are few, if indeed there is any
church, in our connection, that has had a
more marked and favored history. Great
harmony and affection have always pre
vailed among the people, and- between
them and their pastor; and the church
has been characterized, from the begin
ning, by an earnest, working spirit. Its
spiritual history has been very remarkable.
There have been, in the ten years, seven
distinct and general revivals. Perhaps the
most extensive has been that Yin progress
since November last, in the course of which
it is thought that one hundred persons
have been savingly brought to Christ.
Since this church began its record, five
hundred persons have been added to it,
three hundred and twenty of whom have
united on profession of their faith. The
present actual membership is four hundred
and fifty•five.
There are four Sabbath-schools in-con
nection with the church, numbering over
seven hundred children. Of the three
mission or branch schools, two have already
neat and commodious chapels, and for the
third, a chapel is to be erected this season.
There is also in the church an efficient
Young Men's Christian Association, num
bering about seventy-five members, and
much of the church work is carried forward
through this organization.
But our knowledge of this church does
not leave us to infer, that any sense of per
sonal responsibility is lost in mere organi
zation. On the contrary, we believe that
the efficiency and usefulness of this favored
congregation has come from the fact that
each one has felt responsible for his share
of labor in the vineyard.
Our position as a denomination in the
growing city of Wilmington was never so
commanding and promising as now.
There are few more laborious and faith
ful pastors than he who, ten years since,
was installed pastor of the Central Church,
and few can look back over so glowing and
successful a record. In the struggles of
the past five years—such years as have
brought true men to the surface—this
church and its honored pastor have been a
tower of strength in that border State;
and so will they continue to stand unflinch
ingly by the great principles of freedom
and human rights, for which so many have
given themselves as martyrs.
NATIONAL SOLDIERS AND SAILORS'
ORPHANS' HOME.
This institution, located in the District of
Columbia, whose patriotic and benevolent
character is adequately announced in its title,
and whose claims to the confidence of the cit
izens is guaranteed by its list of officers—the
wife of Gen. Grant being the President, is
preparing to hold a fair for the promotion of
its high object, in the City of Washington
during the present month. Contributions for
the tables, or of articles suited to the wants
of the orphans, or of money for the general
support and maintenance of the Institution
are invited. And as the fame of our city for
staunch patriotism and boundless liberality
to the - soldiers and sailors of our Union has
become national, it is hoped that we shall not
fall below onr reputation in this effort at the
National Capita].
Mrs. Dr. John C. Smith is one of the Di
rectors, and one of our most energetic ladies
in all works of patriotism and benevolence,
Mrs. John C. Farr, has been designated to
take charge of the effort in this city.
Donations in money, goods, or fancy arti
cles will be received at Farr & Brothers,. 324
Chestnut street.