The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Rev. Mr. Walker.

The Rev. Mr. Walker, Rector of one of the Episcopal Churches of Alexandria, has been reluctantly compelled, in consequence of the Federal hostility incurred by his fidelity to the Southern cause, to relinquish religious services in his church in that city. His steady refusal to use the prayer for the President of the United States, combined with his well-known Southern feelings, have made him a target for such Black Republican hirelings as the Washington Star and the Baltimore Patriot, whose abuse is a sufficient guarantee of his worth and loyalty. In regard to an intimation which has been made that the prayer for the United States President was used in his church by a Northern Episcopal clergyman, it appears that the very reverse was the fact, and that he neither used it himself nor permitted it to be used by any other person.--Mr. Walker is, we believe, a native of Richmond, where he has many friends and admirers.