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because, to say nothing else, our{underlined}
laity{underlined} -- of the South would not
tolerate it. Then where are we?
Now, my dear Sir, the time was
that I did not think it worth
while to {struckthrough: think} discuss such things.
It is with the extremest reluctance
I admit the necessity now, but
I must be blind -- as a churchman
hopelessly blind -- if I did not see
them. I say then where are we,
as a church, in these dioceses
cut off in feeling & sympathy &
fact, from the dioceses of the north,
with a wall as high as the heavens
between us? Look over your clergy
list, & the lists of all your brethren
around you & see from whence it
is, you & they have obtained the
men that fill your & their pulpits.
Look over the lists of the teachers
of your schools, your governesses
& your {illegible}, & from whence are
they? It may be said the good
book teaches, "Sufficient for the

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because, to say nothing else, our{underlined}
laity{underlined} -- of the South would not tolerate it. Then where are we? Now, my dear
Sir, the time was that I did not think it worth while to discuss
such things. It is with the extremest reluctance I admit the
necessity now, but I must be blind as a churchman hopelessly blind -
if I did not see them. I say then where are we, as a church, in
these dioceses cut off in feeling and sympathy and fact, from
the dioceses of the north, with a wall as high as the heavens
between us? Look over your clergy list, and the lists of all
your brethren around you and see from whence it is, you and they
have obtained the men that fill your and their pulpits. Look over
the lists of the teachers of your schools, your governesses and
your , and from whence are they? It may be said the good
book teaches, "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof". It
is true but that good book never takes a one sided view of anything
for we read in it also, that "a wise man, foreseeth the evil, and
hideth himself, and the fool passeth on and is punished". Talk
of slavery those mad-caps at the North don't understand the thing
at all. We hold the negroes and they hold us. They are at the
head of the ladder. They furnish the yoke and we the necks. My
own is getting sore, it is the same with those of my neighbors,
in church and state. We think it safe to avail ourselves of the
sensibility still left. There is such a thing as induration. We
are afraid of it. But besides we are afraid of the Northern
domination in our schools and pulpits at the South",these northern
men with southern principles." We are afraid of this influence
of northern seminaries, colleges on the minds of southern youth.
We revolt at the humiliation to which the impotence of our posi-
tion and resources subject us now, and still more at the deeper