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FORTH AND SOUTH- "

LETTERS TO ''THE GUARDIAN,"

(a OHnaoa or ixolahd rim publubio m loxdoh,)

BY THE

REVS. J. E. HOLE, AND J. M. NEALE

ON THE SUBJECT OF

"NORTH AND SOUTH,"

WITH REPLIES DT

THE REV.

or TBI DiocEai or — — o. w.,

RECENTLY A PRESBYTER OP THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE rONFEDERATE STATES OP AMERICA.

18«».

<' NORTH AND SOUTH;"

BIB,

Following in the wake of Dr. Neale,
permit me also, by tlie expression of my cu*
tire sympatliy witli the cause of the North,
to relieve the impression in your corresiion-
dent's mind, that the English Clergy are ao
•unanimously on the side of the South.

For myself I can truly lay that having
from the outset watched erery phase of this
great etrnggle with the closest interest, I
have never seen aause to waver in my entire
conviction of the justice of the cause of the
North; nor does Dr. Neale's litter in t'.ie
least exaggerate the scale of rejoicing that
(in common I doubt not, with many others)
I have experienced at the recent success of
the Federal arms.

It were well, I think, If many who jiow go

with the stream of popular opinion (bccaui*
it M the popular opinion), and who derive
their impressions from the prliH« that seek
only to reflect the public feeling, were tc
read first some of the standard works that
have lately issued from the press on tbii lub-
Jeot. After a perusal of RuinU't Diary,
Trollope and Diety't Lttkrt, Mri. Ktmblt't
Rendimce in a Georgian Plantation— tkniUon,
all of whom have been eye-witnesies, and on
this account, and as being of known integrity
aud standing in their profession, may be
considered reliable,— it is probable that
their opinions mi^ht undergo a coniiderable
change.

r J. B. H0L9.
WashforJ Pyne Rectory, )
Aug. 13, 18V3. y

"NORTH AND SOUTH."

To the Editor of the Guardian.

SIR,

la the Supplement of your Issue of

Aug. 18, 1 observe a short letter from the Rev.

I J. E. Hole, " VVaahford Pyne Rectory" of

date Aug. 13, 1863, on thtj subject of "North

and South."

Mr. Hull) lias thought proper to express
thus publicly his sympathies with the N irth,
•nd ther.fore I hope you will permit a broiher-
clerjryman, from this side of the Atlantic, to
exprcsa the pain, and surprise, whicii Mr.
Hole's letter caut. d me.

That a Clergyman of the Church of Ensr-
land should feel himself ciiUei) upon to give
public expression of his fympathies wiih a
Government which, hy its modi; of carrying
on the war of aitem|.lfd extermiiMiion it is
now engaged In, has excited, and is siill ex-
citing the horror and deiea'ation of all irood
men who know the facts of the cnsp,— this
to me, is a thing of grief tiiid mortiQcalion.

I WAS for upwards of two year^, a witness
«ud a victim, ()( (he atrocious tyranny niitj
oppression pnicM'scd Wy tho Northern Gov-
erninent ; and I huve, more than once, had
my hf art miide sick win, in me, by tlie cry
for blood and slai^ghter issuing from Nor'horn
pulpits. But I little thouglit to hoar a similiir
note struck by a priest <if that cliurcli (ihe
church of my youth, and of my couiitry) of
which I am now, by the go d providmce of
<iod, a recognized, thongli imworlhy mini.ster.
I little thought to hear any Englisliman, any
lover of right anfl justice, hold up tor public
approval "The Justice of the Oduac of the
Korth."

I should like to ask tho Rev. gentleman,
to whose letter I refer, wheiher ho thinks he
would be qidto so enthusiastic about the
'Juitico of the cause" he admires, were h<',
as/havo havo been, «xposed to its tender
■dminisirationV Would it call forth hii
public note of approbation, for Instance, were
he itquired to vacate " Wushfurd Pyne Ric-
tory" on tho satisiactory cull uf a " military
necessity"? And wt ihia la somn nf i\,..
■wpois of " the Justice of the cause" which /
have tasted. I, a fresborn Hrilish subject
liave had the honor of receiving a visit from
«he Northern Militarj Oorernor of Alnxun-
4rl» In Virginia, who then oad thtre, in tbe

presence of my wife, and with that cooftesy
which, I dare say, the rector of " Washford
I'yne thmks necessarily allied to " the just
cause," told me that she and I, and our tive
little children must turn out (into the streets
It needs be) that the parsonage might be oc-
cupied as "a military necessity." I rather
tliiiik that such a demand up )n " Washford
Pyne Rectory" would slightly modify the
extacies of its worthy occupant over '< the
Just cause."

Piirther, I have had mv door besieeod hy a
band of ruffian soldiers who, in spite of ray
r'monstrances, and with many throats, per-
sisted in neillne up n vile co-ton rag of about
the ya.jo of three pence sterling, iirtended to
display "the stars and stripes"; and, noon
niy representing the wrong and 'nsuit to tho
atore^aid military governor, his n-ply waF,
that ' no one should ho ashftined of that
plouoiH emblem." Would the rector of

Washford Pyne" appreciate a like adorn-
ment to the fore-front of hia handsome
C welling?

Furthsr, I hiivo been served with a printed
riotici! to "Appear lorthwHh at the oftice of
the Provost Marshal, and miike sati.-fa.i'ory
proof (if my loyalty to the G.iVcrnmeiit of
tho UPit.'d Stat.-s" (take that is, the oath of
allegiance) "or failing to make such p-oof
within forly-eight hours afcr reoeivinn v.iii
noiic! you will be sent ouiaid« our lines"!
U|X)n tTiis call of " the just ciuse" 1 '• ap-
I)f;ored," and presented my cndciUiuls as a
British subject. But, th.' replvof the respuc-
latilo and enlightened official whom "iba
Just ciuse," has located a "ILal Qunrters
Provist Marshal General Defences South of
tho Potomac" was, - lat he cared not whether
I wiis a British sul j ct or not ; neless I ] o-
fiiased myself " an unconditionul Union 7nau"
(a 8tere(>iyppd phrase in gn.'at vogue among
those who maintain 'the Just cause") 1 could
not, bo suffered to remain. And I grieve to
be oblig-d to add that, against this low Ivr-

«.>«,» Il...,ii:..l _" I IT ^

,. . .,-!., ,,■■!- vi iiu piutec-ion. Lpnn my

Kpplyitig at the British Legation at VVHsbing-

ton, I was told inoffec that I was coiui I t-ly

in Ike power of " the just c use," and that

no security could be given me, nor any steps

token ia my cue, until I iUoi;aa bo s«nt to

Pyne"

fort Warren, or Port LaPayette, or somo
other deleotabla receptacle for "rebels"
ajjaiiiBt the mild aw»y of "Northern jmtico."
la point of fact, it was a most sigoal Provi-
dence wliich opened a door fir me in Canada,
or I, aod my Utile lielpless family might have
been driveu away from our home, and exposed
.0 absolute priva'iou and want. This would
nevitably have been the result of our bein"
lent within the So , them lines, where (thank*
the "just cause") every article of food and
;lothing would be utterly bByond the m»an3
)f one whose sola 8upp.)rt was derived from
'je ccugrngation from wliich he was thus
hreatened to be violently severed. Woidl
he rector ol " W^shford Pyne" like to furnish
wh aa iliusiration of '• Northera justice" in
lis own proper person?

Further, I have !ouu been deprived of my
looks anl furniiure— not miny, nor much,
JUt myall. They hiive b»en shut up in tlio

ci'y of , Virpriaiii, wliere, a' the breik-

og out of ih<f war, and for twelve months

after, I r>'Sided as iocumbont of — church,

(in whiit I (Ure say the reclorot " Wa3hf)rd
Pyne" would Cill a culpable if not immoral)
connexion with tluit ' reb 1" body, tlie Pro-
tes Hni Epiacopul Church in the Uoutbderate
States of America. Now "the just cauit;'
whl permit noihiug to bo rcinoVrtil from
thtnce by any one except such as have
taken the oath of allegiance : aiul si ic.;, if I
knoiv niyni'lr; I would not tfiko that, oa^h to
save my lif.-, m icli less my books, tJieae litior
mity bt; siif'ly ros:a'iled aj in Jer)|>iirly. It
might be iliouKhl that a a'itish sul j jot could
clami liHg')ods atul chattels; li'it, my experi-
ence (if tlif protection air ird -d to her Miijes'y s
liUBu Miibj cts by her d"puties williia the
juris lie i m of " Northern justic;' (riycs mj
huh' iKMrt t) apply. N.jw I coul I iilmoH wish
that Ihe almitati.u of the rector of " Wash-
ford Pyn !''f )r "the just cans ;" wjre s ibjoctod
to Some such test astlii-. Ho^v vouldne liki
to hive his easy cliair^ and Ids -springy
lotanges, and hisdo^vny beds, and his mui;h
piized foliiia, and his yaliifd q'lartos, and hi<
DBwest o.tavos, and duodecimos— iiot to talk
of the elf (1 18 .(f his privat" u;piiius--8hut up
within the brisi'iag linos of Yink-e b lyonets?
1 fmcv it would bo an exptrinentum crucii
which w mid " put anew song ia Ids mouili."
1 have dwell thus long (in my p^rsoLal
experi. nc", a^ I cincLivn it lo be a kind of
arguinentuin ad homineiu which the r ctor of
" WHHiilord PyD«" cannot fail to Miipn-ciate.

But my eXDHii nco is not only personal.
From the date ot the burning of the navy
yard ut N ixfidk, on the mnetien'h of April,
1861, to wliido Biz weeks of ili.; present date,
. was H close observer of the conduct of iha
war in Virginia. May ! not thereforr claim
to be u better juJiie of «' The jU8,tice ot ih«

ctuse of the North" than Mr. Hole «<in posti-
bly be? He sees and hears at lecond hand,
more than three thousand miles away, seated
la his comf.ir-able rectory, / was on the srot.
and tcce tifuum !

, If invading, pillaging, burninjr, «nd dfsfroy-
ing the homes and properties of nt.n com-
batants, old men, women, an i chll.lren-lf
/Ais be the letjiiimate province of a "just
cause" then do Ihe Northern hordes of cut-
thro-itsand ruffiins stand at quilted and ap-
proved, B jt, at the same time, may not poor
Virginia hold up her hands to high heaven
and ;;ro<e>/ against such justice ?

If attemiiiini? tofirceago/ernm-nt which
in the estimation of ei«ht mdlions of hninaa
beings, is ih • most odi us and datestable the
world has ever known— if /Ai» beconci'ded to
_' The jusiic) .)f the cause (if the North," tlieo
in the nam>^ of ell that is fair, liberal, honora-
ble and ritfhteoua, I ask Mr. Hole to define
his idea of " a jisi cause." Has he forRoitcn
that the N irh tn Government Mself stHnds
(or used to stanJ, u itil Abraham Lincoln, 'nid
his minion-, established their low. lud
crushing tyranny) upon the wji: yf the
governed? Dies he not know tlia' It was
upon this very ground that their beast'ul
claim Was (oiiiulwl . f being " the beit gown'
menl on earth? And does he not perceive
thu gluring inconsistency of n'tenipiiiig to
force a governiuent ot this kind upon a people
who spurn it wiMi contempt a: d abliorianci?
Nay, docs he not perceive tho atrucitv of
endt;avouring to compass tli.ir eiuls by lire,
find sword, and carnage ? Shame, up„n the
j'lsliceloviMg lOn.'lisliiniii who tilks <d " the
justice of liie came" that carries war, and
devastation, havoc and ruin to llie liearihg
and firesides i f thise whosj only riquest is
to bi3 " Lei ttloue" ! I

Mr, Hole intimites his wlsS to show that
the English clergy are not "so universally on
the side of the St-uth." He is .tn txcption,
L-'t us hope ihit he stands aiom', or neailyr
alone, in his syinpa hies ; and that the bulk
of Eiiglishinen, church and liiiy, have not
outlived tlieir koon seosd of -lijUt, ot Jusiiuo,
and of humanity.

But, to return to matters of obscrViition. I
have known of helpless women and children
being tleprived of the very necessaries of lite
—actually It T without a bienkltst— by the
pillaging and pjnndeiinsr h irdes who main-
t tin, in the lie I, "The jus Ice of th» cause of
the North." Ami T liavo knowu thiit fritm
this oppression, there was little oi no le'divis,
even by npi'u.il 10 the hitiheit ollic-rs. 'I'ha
highest orti:.rfl ttemselves very, very fre-
qiently, set the example. There was «
O.'ueral Uleiiker, f.r e.xainple, so notoricnis
for Lis thefit au .1 robberies that "blcukrring"

4)ecame a cant phrase to express the act of
.f IllagiDK and plundering.

And if the rector of " V7aahford Pyne"^ erer
iisppened to read thr: offlcial documents of
those bragsingr, boasting, infamous Generals
Pope and Milruy, he must bave seen thut the
strongest stimulus was furnished to every
ruffian in an army composed of ruffians, to
maltreat, and abuse ihe helpless. Fortu*
Dittt'ly, tor the poor snffKrers exposed to such
wre'cb s, a Hecoiid " Bill Run" put to flis;ht
the diic >mfitleJ hosts of Pope, and himself At
the hetid of the retrnai; mn'Mng good, for
once at least, his boastful a^sei'iiou that his
" Headquarters were in the ioddle''; and oy an
igDorainijus flight from Wincliestcr, the
brutal and iohuaan Milroy freed Yirginia
from his hat*"*! presence.

But Mr. Holt) will probably object that such
abuses are iiiseperablft from war. Not sj.
Let hi'n r.ad the procLiimitions of Oliver
Cromwjil, for instance (a mun whom English
churc!imeD hnv ' small cause to admire, or »o
txpcjl rtny good fr.)ra), aid he will see that
the puniahmenf of rfca/A was threatened (and
those who know thi' cMarhcVr of the man
e»niiot doubt that it was inflicted) agf'inst any
<!' his soldiers who shoulJ molest or injure
private in-lividu Is. And this too, in an ai{a
irhich we nre acuustomed to regard as some-
what l)ehind theciviliziiion of the nineteenth
centnry, and esDRCially the civilizaii'>n to
which " Thft greatest nation on earth" claims
to have attaiaed.

I have known of an old man of eighty and
nine years being drngged from his home, and
hurried along in an army waggon for some
fifty or sixty mi es, until at last worn out
i^atiiro gava w»y to fatigue and exposure,
•i>d the old man lay down aD<i died.

I hare known of another aged, and most
Tes,iectable physician of f ighty mid four years,
having bis house lava led by a guard of de-
moralised soldiers, placed there by authority,
without eren a charge against him. &ad I
have koown that ased and inoffeosi/e gen-
tleman to be subj-^ted, by those ooldiers, to
the indijjoitr of witnessing the reception of
abandoned women on bis prcruises.

Eren as I wr'te, a letter hap come to me,
from u former pariuiiioner, anoouacing tbe
death of his molber- a Udy whom I lovel as
a near relation-^and here is his aooouo' : —
"I do not Ihink the apparent didcase was

BufBcient to kill her. But the constant

state of exoit«m«ot in which we havij been
liTing for more than a y.ar, not knowing
what Hibitrary order to leave our homes and
prop"rty, and go pennile'S anion/ sirang'-'r?,
might be pro nulgated from day to day. — i —
AH tb?8e things comhinid wire too much for
her and" tAe died I

Let the rec o; of " WasUford Fyne" thank

his Heavenly Father th^'t his wife, or liatsr^
or mother may go to bed without the fear that
the morrow's light rday bring an order for
tbem to turn out of their homes ; and with*
ont aay hope of re*t gave tn tht grate where
" They hear not the voice of the oppressor."
Doubtless U/. Hole would be glad to bear
something al>out the morality of x\\i, reverend
officials of '.hat North with which he sympa*
thiz '8. All a preface to this aubj -ct, lei me
rtjfer him to «corM of serm us preached in
Episcopal pulpits at the North, and regarded
as choice evidences of patriotism, in which •
spirit or viryce against the iSnuth, redolent
of the fume) oi hell, is openly and unblush-
ingly announced.

I might piint him to worthins of tfap cloth
who have proclaimed in iheeara oft heir admi-
ring audience that ' The tin of the rebellion hae
no parallel tave i\ the $in of ;he fallen angeh:'
I might remini him of those who have pro-
faned tbe housg of (Jod, and uttered the most
horrid blaspaemie^ in His namo— telling their
deluded hearers that '*to dit in the cause of
the Union, would be a sure and certain passport
tohfaven" I a.lgtt remind him how tnose
reverend wortUies call it their glory to
" Cry havoc and let s/ip the dog* of wnf."
To hound ou their brutal and ruffian packs
in their work r,{ blood; and to promise them,
in the nam^i of God, tbat the more SouUiera
homes th'jy lay waste— the mme smoking
ruins they leave in tlieir tiack-the more
widow's moans, and tbe more nr|)haii's cries
they occasion- (Ae more rebel blool tbe> shed
—the brighter will be their crown of endless
gliirvl

Bat let me mention instances of Northern
clerical morality which oamu under my per-
sonal knowledge and observaiioii. I have
known ai> army chaplain to borrow a robe
belonging to the vestry mom of Christ
Church, Alexandria,— " for a few hours," aa
he said, and never to return it I have
known another chapUin (in tnis case how-
ever, I think the reverend man was not an
Bpiacopalian) to fib his trunks from tbe
shelves of a private library, the owner, of
course, being a 'Tebel " I have known still
another, (•' Horriaco reforens"!) upon whose
head Episcopal hHnds were laid, to be openly
accused of drunkenness in th" public streets,
and of consorting with harl>its, and to be
unable to repel tne charge, but at ihe same
time, to retain hi^ post secum a.ainst disci-
pline civil, military, or eccli siasiical.

Much IS my personal kuiiwi>-dge of the
moraUty of the North- that N inh for '" the
JusMce of the cause" of \«lt!('!i, an English
beneficed elereyman "foiluwug in the wako
of" another, thinks proper to < uuU up. Aod^
u Oud is my wiia^ss, twelve atontU'i te«i>

Is, or litter^
the fear that
a order Tor
; and with*
?ro»« where
ippresaor."

[lad to bear
tue, rtterend
) lie 8yaipa<
)j '01, let ma
J reached ia
id resrardefl
, in which •
lib, redoleot
td unblush-

'if 'he cloth
r their ad mi.
rebellion ha»
lien angel*.'*
lo have pro-
'ed tbu most
tnlling their
thi oiune of
ut'n passport
how tDoae
iry 10
f war."
uffiiD paciia
}inise them,
tt Boutliera
le smoliiag
—the morn
I thill's cries
> t tbe> shed
a of eudlesa

of Northern
der my per-
III. I liavfl
rrow a robe
. uf Christ
f hoars," aa
it I have
I case bow-
was not aa
3 from the
e owner, of
known still
upon whose
lo be openly
ibiic streets,
, and to be
at I he Slime
.juinst disci-
ical.

•-dge of the
ih for " the
aa English
in the wake
d up. Aod^

«. ;..'\ce in'the Coiirederacy, foU'o^itts twelve
gtar'i reeidence ih Virginia, hnt^t furnished
me with no evidence of this kind,- ilor of any-
thing like it.

Somt profanity, it is true, 1 beatrd of, and
witnessed, among; the soldiers. But, im-
morality am ing the ofiSodrs, in my experience,
was rare, among the chaplains, unJcnoton.
Those of the officers whom I kn -k^ were gen-
tUmtn ; those of the chaplaias. hard-workinur.
God-fearing, earnest men, zealous, and untir-
ing in the cause of their Master.

> Now is it not somewhat stratage that " the
}tut cause" affords no hap,-)ier illustrations - or
at least is very fertile of such a6 I have men-
tioned, while (what I must su^ipose Mr. Hole
regards as) the rrbellious and inlMmous South
may claim AjiM rack among Vhe recognited
nations of the earth, not only for able States-
men, and Generals— speaking from a mere
worldly point of view— but also for men who
professedly act with the fear of the Almighty
God before thejr eyes, and With a constant
Appeal to His Justioi?

The rector of ''Washford P^e" will under.
Stand that hi) short Intter is not regarded by
me as of salBcieot importance to call for Ibis
long reply, were it not that I wish to avail
myielf of this mode of appealing to the houor
and good feeline ot English churchmen, in be-
half of a^reaily oppressed and much suffering
Spop'e. Glad in heart am 1 to infer, from
[r. Hole's letter, that, although the Englisfh
Clergy may not be "unanimouely on the side
of the South," yet iht-y are so neirly boss to
tall for Am imlividual protest. I'oulypray,
from my s ol, that that protest muy prove of
small avail in gaining converts ti> his ** just
cause." And I pray further fir his own
speedy conversion to the side of the noble
South : wliich conversion I would injure, for
a small am arit, were he to be subjected,
even for a brief space, to the irresponsible
atrocities ot the p ople be admires, under the
ausiiices of a Pope, a Milroy, a Burn^ide, or
a Uutler.

Finally, I w<uld recommend the rector of
•'Washford Tyne" to read and study with
care, that adniirable letter of Mr Beresford—
Hope in the Fame number of The Guardian
in which Am S"ea the linht. TAer« ia the view
of a master-niiiKl which look« at things un-
distorted by Hiiy such medium of funalicism
as iliat which pi i nis to act on the virual
organs of Mr. Ilol", iind Mr. Neale, and those
cxctpiiouul oiiirrs, wiiosofver iiity mny iic,
Who j' And foil h i-uch valiant chAiniiloub for
"1 he justice if the cause if the Norih."

Ye frcfnirn ol England, call that cause,
*' lust ufpOMii,'* "grasping ambition, or
diercenary cupidity of unscrupuUius po.'i-

ticians,"' " oppreteioD," "tyranny," despot --
ism of ''execrable vulgarity'," but ir the
name of Heaven, jKofaue not a revered ano
sacred Woid, by calling it " jiM/ie«."

Canadii West,- Sept. 8ib, 1863.

To the £dUor of" The Guardian."

SIR,

Your issue of Sept. 2nd, 1863, contadUB'
a letter from the Rev. J'. U. Neale, of " Suck-
ville Oollege," in answer to that of Mr.-
Beresford-Hope on ''The Church in the Con-
federate States."

With the argument of Mr. Neale, I have
now nothing to do. I (Consider Mr. Hope
much'thore competent io treat cf such mat-
ters than ei'her Mr. Neale, or your humble
servant. If At thinks the captious objectionr
of .Mr.- Neale worth noticing, he will do so
ettectuutly, and to him I leave it.

But, tK(. re is one nafl!>age of If r. Neale's
letter wb'oh I cannot permit to pass without
comment, llis that in which he quotes from
somi! Col. Gstvan "u soldier of fortune," and,
as tuch of course, worthy ot all credit.

Tills Col. Estvan a-serts that the Churches
in Richmond were withheld from being used
as liospitalH for OonfoderatCKoldiers, and that
the Oleraymen of wh it Mr. Neale facetiously
calls Mr. Hope's "b«'loved Southern Church,"
were shameiully and brutally negligent of
ttie wants and comforts oi the wounded and
dying men.

Now this' 1 nounre to be tnf«nM/y and
u««r/y^ false. Aad 1 call upon yon, in com-
mon justice, to permit me to correct the
misstattfinent.

I am intimately aciu- 'nfed with the city of
Richmond, and with ivery Bpi'copal Okigv-
man therein. I whs in the city only a sliori
six weeks before the ninhslroas retreat <if the
Federals from the CliickMhominj ; and t
am ri i»dy to pledge inv Hi' st solemn oath-
Ihiit, to wiy pntonul knowledge, the citrgy of
tlie c'tv, and li-lmp .'■ nnsat thiir head, were
z alnu-ly, and unilr nirly i-ngage-l in Visiting
lliu hospitals of the ciiy, i.f wiiicli theie were
maiiv. I kiiow als' tS h lar-oCi'Tgyrn'-" wt?a
appiiii.tfd by the Kpi-copal Ohurcli, whose
sole business it wa» m go from hnspitalito
1 ospital, day and nii^iit, iw Dccaston di inmideJ
to minister 10 the wants and comforts uf tlie
sufferers.

Further, riate Seardl, from uonrco which
Irave no room for doubt, that, when the tine
required it, iiitry tuitabU ehureh in the city
was vacrtied foi* hospital purposes. I liariicu-
larly heardof St. Paul's (the church in which
the Prince of Wtiles worshipped during his
visit to Hichmoud) being given up.

What purpose this Col. Bstvan could haye
had in milking his cruel misstatement, it is
hard to conceive. It may be that his merits
did not meet their proper reward among the
Confederates, and that a little piquu and dis-
appointment may have caused him to dip his
pen in gall.

But in common honor, justice, and princi-
plp, Mr. Ne&le should have been slow to
credit, and slower to rtproduoe, from "a
soldier of fortune," so base a calu-nny and
slander How would he like a similar charge
to be pill !i(;ly brought against himself, as to
the performance of his ministerial functions ?
A suit for hbel would most probably be his
ready answer. But he hesitates not to
(wrongfully, as it turns out) accuse and ma-
lign his brethren who have no present
redress.

As to the conclusion of Mr. Neale's letten
I cannot express the horror it exditd in my
bosom. According to him, there are " Eng-
lish priests who long hearlily, who expect
fully, and (I hope) who pray earnestly for
the success of ih« ^orih."

Great God ! " English priests" in a frame
of mind to behold with Patis^ictjon, and to
"pray eamss'ly lor" the success of rapine,
plUiige, and slanchtt r ! To coDiemplate, yea
to " long hcBrtil^" for, the annihilation of
mi7/ion« of tender women, and liiile childr & I
To "expect tnlly" to witness the dnvastaiion
of hundreds of thousands of homes and fire-
sides 1! All this, dofs "the Buocesaof the

North" imply : and at no less price can it be
had.

Canada West, Sept. 28th, ieC3.

Cmaba WiST, Oct. 16th, 18«3.
The following letter has b*en, this dsj,
received, and wiU speak for itself:—

TBArALOAR Lawn,
JBarustapIr, Devon,

MtDsabSi^ ^^P»-2»^

I have read, with fetliosu of
great delight, an admirable letter of youri
in The Guardian neMvspaper, tiOmmencing
" North and South,'' in which you have given
the rector of Washford Pyne (my nephew) s
treicendous Tubbing down, which I am hear-
tily glad of, and which he will not easily
forget.

1 have had many battles with him on the
seme subject— he raahly advocates a cause,
the merits of which he knows nothing about,
I know not one single officer wiihin the
Army or Navy of England who does not
strongly wish success to the Confederates.
And the Clergy of the Establishment almost
univtrsaily lean the same way. And <oa
may make use of my name as an / Imiral
of the Navy, in assuring you of thia fact.

But, my dear sir, have the Confederates s
chance of succeediiiR in separating the two
countries— North and South? I gincerdy
hope 80. 1 admire the abilities, and de'i'F-
mined bravery of the Sontbern armies It is
quite marvel ioU!< that they have stood their
groond so well as they have done, unler
such overwhelming disadvuntages. It is the
iron clads and the gunboats that do all the
misch'ef to the Souiherners, who are i-hut
out almost altogether I'mm Europe, in crm-
8f qu«nce • f the Ports of America being b ock-
aded so strictly against them. The Federal
Government do not CHre how many men oa
their side are kil'ed, as thty can get others
to supply their places from Europe, and
principally from Inland.

Had Lord as much courage ns Lord

—— has, the Americana would not crow hs
they do.

Pray Ictus have more of your stringont
I tiers it) the papers— but why not send tin m
to The Tines? Pray excuse my troubling

My dear sir.

Very truly ymrs,

tEVVIS HOLR,

•Ml n AdmiiaL

The Rev

Ac, &c., &C.

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