Bibles from the North for Hood's army.
--Our Northern brethren seem to have the Christian spirit of the Spaniards who first settled America.--Washington Irving relates, in his Knickerbocker History of New York, that the pious Spaniards, after preparing the Indians for Heaven, immediately sent them there by shooting them, burning them, pouring hot lead down their throats, and other such mild measures. The New York Bible Society is trying to fit us for Heaven, and the Yankee Generals propose to send us there. The Selms Mississippian of the 16th says:‘ Sixteen thousand copies of the Bible and Testament arrived in Selma yesterday evening en route for Hood's army. They are the first installment of fifty thousand presented the troops of the Confederate States by the American Bible Society at New York. They came by way of Memphis.
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