sued from the press, calculated to elucidate certain phases of the Rebellion and the War, but we have observed no one designed to meet the demand which this volume is intended to supply, or which at all occupies the ground which several of its chapters cover.

We are indebted to many writers for the facts we present, and as far as possible have endeavored to give them credit in the body of the work, though omissions may have occurred.

With this statement of the object of this volume, we lay it before the public, in the confident hope that the Church and the Nation may soon come out of this strife, purified and invigorated, restored to those principles which were the glory of the earlier and better days of the Republic, and prepared for that great mission to which we have always fondly believed they were destined by the Ruler of the whole earth.

NEW YORK, August, 1864.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION..

.Page 1-35

Against Popular Government, 1; Southern Domination in the Government, 3;

False charges by the South, 5; Against all Measures for Peace, 7; Perpetrated

by fraud and violence, 16; Prosecuted by cruelty and terror, 21; Its desolation

of the country, 27; It aimed to usurp the Government, 28; Popular Govern-

ment universally endangered, 32; To perpetuate Negro Slavery, 84.

CHAPTER II.

CAUSE OF THE REBELLION

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36-70

Slavery the cause, 86; An opposite view, 38; In what sense Slavery is the cause,

40; Modern views and power of Slavery, 42; Proof that Slavery is the cause-

official testimony, 45; Individual witnesses that Slavery is the cause, 48; Testi-

mony of Religious bodies to the same effect, 51; Incidental confirmatory evi-

dence, 54; All Slave States officially claimed, 55; Unlimited extension of Slavery,

57; The restrictive policy, 58; The expansive policy, 60; Reopening of the

African Slave trade, 61; Reopening of the trade denied, 62; Proof of the de-

signed reopening of the trade, 64; The cause fully developed, 68.

CHAPTER III.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE REBELLION.

71-105

Abolitionists charged with the responsibility, 72; Fallacious reasoning to sustain

the charge, 73; They would discuss the subject, 74; Abduction of Slaves, 75;

The whole North charged with it, 76; Abolitionists not Republicans, 77; Aboli-

tionists complimented-the People disparaged, 78; Responsibility of Abolition-

ists disclamed at the South, 81; Discussion the germ of the troubling element,

84; What class of Northern men responsible, 87; Responsibility among Politi-

cians, North, 87; Responsibility among Churchmen, North, 88; Southside view

of Northern Clergymen, 89; Responsibility of Northern men thus determined,

93; Northern responsibility in another light, 96; Slavery may be examined at

the North, 97; A subject for all mankind, 99: Free society pitied and lamented,

100; Slavery the proper condition for all laborers, 101; Who, now, is responsi-

ble? 104.

CHAPTER IV.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR BEGINNING AND CONTINUING THE WAR. 106-151

John Minor Botts on Secession, 107; Narrative of events, 108; Rebel Government

formed-the South arming, 110; Our Government inactive, 110; Siege of Fort

Sumter, 111; Congress not aggressive-Star of the West, 112; New Administra-

tion-attack on Fort Sumter, 114; The unavoidable issue, 115; Gen. McClellan's

opinion, 116; Southern assumptions vs. "Northern aggressions," 117; Diplo-

matists from South Carolina, 118; Their demand insolent, 120; What President

Buchanan intended, 122; Hypocrisy of their peaceful pretensions, 123; Irrefra-

gable position of the President, 124; Further negotiations-Confederate Com-

missioners, 125; Peaceful solution declined, 128; Unjustifiable reasons for refusal,

180; The Commissioners defiantly court War, 131; A Diplomatic quibble, 132;

Public facts decide the case, 134; Rebel conditions of Peace since the War be-

gan, 135; The Rebel President and Rebel Congress on Peace, 187; They mis-

represent the case, 189; The real question ignored by the Rebels, 141; Rebel

official mendacity, 143; Another effort for Peace-Niagara Falls Conference,

146; Mission to Richmond-Peace again, 148.

CHAPTER V.

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SOUTHERN CHURCH FOR THE REBELLION AND

THE WAR....

...Page 152-206

Early agency of leading Divines, 155; Dr. Thornwell aids the Rebellion, 155; His

Fast-Day Discourse, Nov. 21, 1860, 157; He vindicates the Secession of South

Carolina, 158; Open resistance counselled, 159; Charge of Treason established,

160; Drs. Thornwell, Leland, Adger, and others, upon the stump, 161; Early aid

of Dr. Palmer, 163; Dr. Palmer and the mission of Senator Toombs, 163; Speci-

men of his Thanksgiving Discourse, 165; Resistance counselled-"the last

ditch," 167; War welcomed-the Union denounced, 167; Prophecy fulfilled un-

expectedly, 168; His Sermon steeped in sin, guilt, and crime, 169; He further

vindicates Secession, 170; Dr. Smyth strikes the same chord, 171; Judgment

and blessing, 172; Resistance universally instilled, 172; The Clergy of all De-

nominations aid the Rebellion, 178; Leading Clergymen in the Rebel army, 174;

Many Ministers go South and aid the Rebellion, 175; Other Rebel Clergymen at

the South, 176; Southern Churches organized in aid of the Rebellion, 177; Ad-

dresses of Southern Churches sustaining the Rebellion, 179; The Presbyterian

Church, 179; The Protestant Episcopal Church, 180: Christian Association, 181;

The Baptist Church, 182; Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians,

Lutherans, German Reformed, and other Churches, Ninety-six Ministers, 183;

Southern Religious press on the Rebellion, 184; At New Orleans, 184; At Co-

lumbia, S. C., 185; At Richmond, Va., 186; At Fayetteville, N. C., 187; Educa-

tion in aid of the Rebellion, 188; Great Southern University, 189; Disunion-

Fighting men to be educated, 189; Endowment, five or ten millions, 191; Pro-

fessorship on Patriotism, 191; Episcopal University of the South, 192; Rebel

Major-General Hill as an Educator, 193; His hatred of the North, 194; He

teaches Secession by algebra, 194; Specimen of algebraic problems, 195; Aid

of the Church indispensable to the Rebellion, 196; This aid acknowledged by

Rebel Statesmen, 197; A Statesman's view indorsed, 198; The Church led the

Politicians, 199; The proof conclusive, 200; Loyal Clergymen in the Border

States, 201; Loyalty of Northern Churches-their duty, 202: Duty of the South-

ern Church the same, 204.

CLERICAL DISLOYALTY IN LOYAL STATES....

.Page 207-246

Clerical Sympathizers in Maryland, 208; Disloyal Ministers in the District of Colum-

bia, 209; Rebel Sympathizers among Kentucky Clergymen, 211; Rev. Thomas A.

Hoyt, 211; Mr. Hoyt's Disloyal Sermon, 212; Political Preaching Defined, 214; Re-

ligious Preaching defined, 215; War preached in the name of Peace, 216: The grand

distinction-Religion and Politics, 217; No possible Neutrality, 218; Dr. Stuart

Robinson, 219; He edits a Disloyal paper, 220; Its Disloyal course in general, 222;

It vilifies the Church for Loyalty, 223; It abuses the Government, 224; Speci-

mens of its Disloyalty-his position defined, 227; God's “curse" with the Presi-

dent, 229; The War charged on Northern men, 230; Our Government worse than

the French Revolutionists, 231; Charge of Disloyalty, 233; Calumny self-refuted,

233; The Remedy-two examples, 234; Government Orders vindicated, 236;

Church application vindicated by the facts, 239; Chief ground of complaint, 241;

Government and Church vindicated by the Law, 242; Vindicated by Rebel au-

thority, 244

CHAPTER VII.

THE CHURCH, NORTH AND SOUTH, ON DISLOYALTY

247-275

All men subject to Civil authority, 248; Obedience to Civil authority a Religious

duty, 248; Ministers to preach subjection, 249; Omission of this duty a sin,

250; The crowning guilt, 251; Disloyalty punishable by the State, 252; What

Loyalty and Disloyalty are, 253; Disloyalty punishable by the Church, 254;

Reasons founded on Revelation, 255; Spiritual jurisdiction broader than Civil,

256; Disloyalty actually condemned by the Church, 258; Presbyterian Church

-Dr. McPheeters, 259; Individual opinions in the General Assembly, 261; Dr.

McPheeters on Military Orders, 264; False criterion of Loyalty, 265; Gen.

Rosecrans's Orders, 268; "Honor to whom honor," 271; Doom of Traitors-self-

condemnation, 273.

CHAPTER VIII.

SOUTHERN PROVIDENCE IN THE REBELLION.

276-302

God's providence extends to Nations, 276; Its designs toward the United States,

277; The dead fly in the ointment, 278; The Irrepressible Conflict, 279; The

difficulty beyond human wisdom, 280: Hopes dashed and raised again, 281;

Providence from a Southern stand-point, 282; It upsets their Theology, 284;

The true doctrine of Providence, 286; Southern exposition of it-Dr. Palmer,

286; Providence frustrated, 287; Southern Theology rebuked by Scripture, 288;

Providential rule supreme, 290; An explanation needed, 291; A solution pro-

posed, 292; A providence of man's devising, 292; Southern providence further

illustrated-Dr. Smyth, 293; Blasphemy and Fanaticism sublimated, 294; The

providential climax-Dr. Stiles, 295; The Southern Confederacy to usher in the

Millennium, 296; Rebel Victories by miracle, 298; A new Siege of Jericho, 298;

The Confederate Armageddon, 300,