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???, Lee and Davis?
The incident so profusely commented upon on
both sides of the ocean, of Bishop Polk(?) of Louisiana
having accepted a commision in the Confederate
army, is no derogation from the religiousity of Confederatism, but rather the contrary, irrespective of
the right or wrong of the proceeding itself. Bishop
Polk had been educated as a soldier; and he was
?intecedently to his consecration at first 'missionary-
Bishop of the South-west,' an office he held before
Louisiana was raised into a Diocese, a proprietor--
a slave owner, we grant, on a considerable scale--
but a seigneur-cleric, who baptized, catechized, and
married all his belongings. He believed, with
whatever truth or falsehood, that the irruption of
the United States' invading army would