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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg — the battle commenced — Repulse of the enemy — probable Continuation of the engagement. (search)
rewd and commercial of mankind. They had improved upon the Christian religion in several important particulars, and as for Moses, he was an ignorant outside barbarian, in comparison with most of the Yankee Doodle theologians. War and slavery, neither of which are prohibited in the Bible, had been ascertained to be high crimes by the Puritan moralists. The capital punishment of the vilest murderer made them shudder with horror. They invented Teetotal Societies and colossal Bible, Tract, Christian, and a hundred other benevolent and religious associations, which celebrated their anniversaries every May in New York, letting loose such a multitude of cadaverous, dyspeptic and unearthly saints upon the country that scarcely a bird presumed to sing or a flower to bloom in their presence. So powerful and sanctified had the religious organizations of the North become, that they confidently expected soon to reform the whole world, and many excellent people in the South began to believe th