American Scoundrel
“John’s Episcopal, on H Street across from Lafayette Square, had on entering remarked that, after the ice storm of Friday and a frigid Saturday, this was the warmest Sunday of the year thus far. By noon, some said, given the stillness of the air, people on the street would not need their overcoats. The Reverend Smith Pyne, rector of this national parish, was a considerable pulpit orator, whom the President nonetheless thought talked at too great a length. Invoking the prayers for fraternity and ...the health of the President, he looked out on his divided congregation in the pews.1 Here sat many of the potent Southern legislators and their spouses. Their confident, vivacious features seemed to need little help from the humble Nazarene who had died for their sins. They prayed to an august God that he might prevent abolitionist fervor from splitting asunder the Republic, which represented the highest political achievement of humankind. But directing their prayers to the same deity were antislavery and abolitionist members of the newborn Republican Party, and some antislavery Democrats as well.MoreLess
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