1863 J. C. STILES. National Rectitude: An Appeal to the Confederate States. Plea for Repentance. Slavery May seem to promise many

May seem to promise many years of rest

and his first ever formally published illustrated poem [Image #2 in this listing]

and again it returned

Each month has an extensive section of accounts of revivals

He befriended

1863 J. C. STILES. National Rectitude: An Appeal to the Confederate States. Plea for Repentance. Slavery May seem to promise manyA 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