Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-07
THE DOCTRINES OF NATIyE;AMERIcAN1s

Quoted under the auspices of protested devotion to
the sacred and benign tenets and doctrines OF reg
ion Christianity itself has been prostituted by
bold and bad men, to the subversion of the inalien-
able privileges of the many and the inspired oracleS
of Heavens eternal King have been dragged into
the arena political strife and employed asian lnstru
mentality in the promotion of the purposes of sordId
and unchastened ambition. The mad career OF ma
tive Americanism and its still more mercenary ana
corrupt ally know-nohngsm, furnishes an addition
al illustration of the desperation into which msgu-
ded and corrupt men will permit themselves to be
hurried when they have selfish and ignoble purposes
to subserve The preteXt for these two organizat-
IONS kindred in the dangers which they threaten 10
our political and social welfare, IS one In which the
qeE5,.ious clement bears a very conspicuous part
The plea is that the Bible is excluded from our COM
mon schools, that the purity and freedom OF Divine
Revelation seriously endangered, and that IL
demands the ArguSeyed vigilance OF secret ana
confederated band of natives and know-nothngs to
prevent the oracles of God from falling into disuse
and disrepute. In word-"t tell it not in GATH
publish it not in the streets of Askelon
tangled secret conSpiratorS have lmplouSly ana
presumptuousy set themselves up the defenders
lur ercelkence of the lovely and heaven-descended
religion of the ''meek and lowly" Jesus, and would
fain impress all the world and the rest of mankind
with the conviction that they have been sing led out
by Providence the peculiar guardians OF that
blessed system of doctrines and truths promulgated
by the Redeemer of the World Every one ofthem,
indeed claims to be not less than another Gustavus
Adolphus with his significant title of " Lion Of the
North and Bulacdr& ct the Christian Faith ~
But mark, now, how plain tale shall serve to
humble the lofty pretensions of those deuded and
dangerous men in the dust. The doctrines of ma
tive Amercansm so far from being in correSpon-
dcnce with that Bible of which they wish to be re-
garded the erclusire advocates expressly and
significantly forbidden ty the teachings scattered in
rich profusion it's sacred pages. Already in
the day of MOSES were the teachings of an exclu-
sive and proscriptive nationality expressly repudl-
ated and forbidden by this eminent and inspired
Jewish lawgiver. Among the laws enacted by him
for the regulation of the governmental policy of the
people of the Hebrew Commonwealth, we discover,
bearing the point, the following as recorded in
the book of LeviticuS, 18th chapter, 33d and 34th
verses:
"If stranger sojourn with thee in your land, &c
shall not rer him but the stranger that dwelleth
with you shall be unto you one born among you,
and thou shalt love him myself for ye were stran-
gers in the land of Egypt L am the Lord your
God"
We regard this section of the Mosaic enactments
as directly to the point With a sagacity amount
ing almost to intuition, this ancient and renowned
lawgiver perceived how the very distinguished priv
ilgcS conferred by beneticcnt Providence on his
countrymen would serve to foster in them most
morbid and dangerous national pride, subyersive of
the principles of genuine philanthropy, and utterly
at with that liberal and humane policy which it
was the design of the Bible economy gradually to
unfold and ultimately to extend the entire hab
liable earth Moses, it is plain to us, profoundly
in the subtetes and d. ccitfuness ofthe human
heart and, looking with prophets eye through the
dim vista of futurity, he clearly forcsaw the time
when his favored countrymen might wish to exclude
the stranger and alien from any participation in those
sacred and glorious blessings of civil and religious
light and liberty, which, in comparison with other
nations, in the advancing tide of provdential deve
opment should be copOusly conferred upon them
Clearly did he foresee that party of NATIVES might
arise in his land just there has arisen one in ours,
denying to the ALIEN to the emigrant from other
lands, equal participation in the same superabun-
dant blessings followed by correspondent course
Of inf oT1In mi
unworthy the recipients of the especial favors of
Heaven This evil it was the determination of the
Jewish lawgiver at the very outset, to resist He
regarded his countrymen in the light of almoners of
the distinguished blessings to other nations.
The light of the pure jurisprudence of Heaven
not to be crcumscribcd within the narrow limits of
his country, but its beams were to radiate grad
ually over the whole earth. AS by rebound from
the Jews the principles of an enlightened civil and
religious polity-a pure and rational worshp-were
thence to lnure to surrounding governments anG
people, and from participation in these blessings
none were to be excluded. The ALIEN, attracted by
the beautiful lustre of such institutions into the
Jewish empire, was not to be repused. He was not
to be aggrieved nor rered. On the contrary, he
to be welcomed into the ond, and treated
born therein! Beautiful system! worthy the pure
and equitable Jurisprudence Of the skies OH how
it causes ones blood to rise i'll the veins, and ones
flesh almost to CULVER, to see it so sadly outraged
and profaned by men claiming to be the advocates
and defenders of the naxims, policy doctrines, spirit
and genius of the Bible! Oh Christianity numer-
Gus. sad, and dcplorable are the outrages upon
common humanity committed in thy most sacred
and excellent name
The same policy, in regard to foreigners which
pervaded the Jewish economy, it is almost needless
to state likewise charactcriZes the governmental
arrangements which it has pleased the benef-
cent Providence, under different auspices to confer
upon US. Ever since rejoced in national exis-
tence-cver since, confederacy of States, we !
have had local habitation and name"-ever since
wise and patriotic orcfathers the 4th of July,
1875 in the State House, in Philadelphia, declared
the then colonies free and independent since
w ashington fought and Jefferson wrote-t has
stituted one of the crownng gories of our excellent
institutions, that the stranger coming into midst
from lands of tyranny and oppression, is not to be
'ered, but is, under certain weldefined and judic
BUS limitations, to be born dna0ny u.s. that is
ne is to be admitted into full participation in the
political rights and imu.unties granted by free
and wise constitution to all citizens whether of
native or foreign birth. This principle, borrowedb by
our illustrious forefothers from the Bible, which is
old as the days of Moses promulgated 1890 years
before the Christian era, is incorporated in our De-
,laraton Of Independence, constitutes an integral |
part of our constitution, is inscribed in impershable
characters upon State papers so volumnous that it
would require realms of paper to Transcribed These
principles are the rich legacy bequeathed to us by
he heroic men of other days. It is these that have |
made our country what she is-free, prosperous,
1appy, rejoicing, grea. and strong-as Kossuth so
declares, "a POWER among the nations
If the earth" These principles are interviewer
With the very texture and framework of our nation
il organization nay, they constitute the very cor
ler-stone OF the ediice that they cannot be re-
moved without tearing with Goth and Vandal ruff
nlsm the entire superstructure in pieces, never
more to be reconstructed until the last syllable of
ecorded time
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