The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-12

ences, are tried according to Discipline
ry form. Nor has any church or dis.
trlct conference the right to prescribe
other penalty, than that set forth in the
Discipline. The gentleman denounces
our order because its legal head pre-.
scrlbes the penalty which Subordinate
Divisions are to enforce for violation OF
ITS laws, and at the same time calls the
Methodist Church republican institu-
ton, while its manner of proceeding is
precisely the same. How contemplate
must such reasoning appear, even to its
author, upon sober reflection.
Again, the gentleman tells us that
none but Past Grand Worthy Patriarchs
are eligible to seats in the National Di.
vision, and asks why does not the gen.
eral government prohibit all but gov.
ernors, from becoming members ef Con-
gress Here again he has n ade mis-
take. | strikes me that others than P.
U. M.P's are admitted to the National
Division. Of course it was a mistake,
tor the gentleman would not inteution-
ally propagate falsehood. The Con-
stltution of the U. S. declares that no
person shall be representative who shall
not have attained the age of twenty five
years, and been seven years a citizen of
the United States. And that no person
shall be Senator who shall not have at
tanned to the age of thirty years and
been nine years citizen of the United
States. This is evidently for the sole
purpose of having persons qualified for
these stations, and for the same purpose
the National Division requires that
member shall have passed through GER
tain routine of office, before he is eligi-
bic to seat in that body.
W here then are the great anti-Repub.
hcan principles, about which such a
mighty dust IS lacked up!
To the third objection it is scarcely
necessary to say anything, except that
tits utterly false. Comparatively speak
ing, very few rich men belong 10 our
order, the great mass being men from
what puppies, in whining parlance,
term the middling and lower classes.
The constitution has clause especially
for the punishment of those who are
found imposing upon the order, and
there are always enough to detect such
At last, when everything else has fail
ed, the gentleman turns economist, and
talks OF the extravaganza of the order,
in spending money for regalia. am
one of those who hold the opinion, that
a man has right to wear Just what he
pleases, if he pays for it, and withholds
not his hand from the deserving. In
times Of old all men were required to
give one tenth to the Lord, the rest they
We're allowed 10 use themselves, and the
order has given nearly twice as much
for charitable purposes in one year as it
has paid for regalia during the eight
years OF its existence. This assertion is
based partially upon the gentleman's
own statement and supposes zone half"
of the benefits to have been unIeserved-
ly bestowed, which, by the way is quite
a falling off, from "nine tenths" men
toned IN a previous part of the same
article. Away with such trash, digni-
fled with the name of argument!
If | were mathematical economist
would calculate how much ink, paper
and raluable time, together with the cost
of goose quilts and postage, has been
worse than wasted in the last two months,
in an attempt to write down the Order
of the Sons of Temperance, and after the
"battle was lost and won"to keep up
retreating fire for appearance seka.
Verify the gentleman has labored in
vain; "the word has not accomplished
that whereunto it was sent, but has re-
turned void" The y Ger stands, ave
and will stand, when death shall have
slenced all its petty traducers and their
memories shall have persisted in the
track oftime. SONNY.
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