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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
gorgeous churches, where the minister has a grand levee on the first day of the week, in which he endeavors to entertain his visitors to the best of his ability, whilst the sexton is so particular as to the appearance of the guests who are admitted that, if St. Paul and St. Peter were to make their appearance at the door in the same apparel in which they evangelized the world, he would take them out by the coat collar and hand them over for safe-keeping to the nearest policeman. They have Beechers and Tyngs, who surpass all other preachers in their pretensions to superior zeal and godliness, and urge robbers and murderers to overrun and desolate the South, holding out to them the pardon of their sins and the hope of Heaven as the reward of their crimes. They have Christian Associations, made up of very nice people — i. e., according to Dean Swift, "people of very nasty ideas"--young men who, up to the period of the present war, were so handsomely dressed that they looked the very pi