1863 J. C. STILES. National Rectitude: An Appeal to the Confederate States. Plea for Repentance. Civil War very few of these were

very few of these were actually produced

left his pulpit during Sunday worship and went down to the North Bridge in Salem where Colonel Leslie and his troops were standing

There was no trace of misery

Edges of His Ways

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1863 J. C. STILES. National Rectitude: An Appeal to the Confederate States. Plea for Repentance. Civil War very few of these wereA very unusual sermon preached by a Confederate divine in the midst of the Civil War. In it, he argues that greed, filthy lucre, avarice, etc., will be the downfall of the South. One cannot help wonder whether this is all a euphemism for slavery, or whether he sees these as the core problems, and the plight of the slave as secondary, etc,. It is notable that he lays responsibility for the continuing war on the heads of the Southern plantation owners