The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-21
THE DOCTRINES OF NATIyE-AMERICANISM FOR
HIDDEN By TILE BIBLE

All history furnishes irreiragabe attesation that the
most dangerous and wicked crusades against the mpre
scrptbe rights OF man have often been conducted under
the auspices of protested devotion the sacred and be-
ngn enets and doctrines of religion Christianity itself
has been prosttued by bold and bad men the sbver
sion of the naenabe privileges of the many and the in
ped oraces of Heavens eternal King have been dragged
into the of political strife and employed nstru
mentality in the promotion of the purposes OF sordd and
unchastened ambition The mad of nativeAmeri
canism and its still more mercenary and corrupt ally,
knownothingism, furnishes additional illustration Of
the desperation into which misguided and corrupt men
will permit themselves be hurried when they have self
sh and ignobe purposes TO subserye The pretext for
these organizations kindred in the dangers which
they threaten TO political and social welfare, is in
which the religious element bears very conspicuous part
The plea is that the Bible is excluded from
schools that the purity and freedom Of Divine Revelation
seriously endangered and that it demands the Argus
eyed vigilance of secret and conederated band of
natives and know-nothings prevent the oracles Of
God from falling into disuse and dsrepute IN
word tell il not in Gath, publish il not the streets of
Askelonthese newangled secret conspirators have inn
piousy and presumptuousy set Themselves up the de-
lenders par excellence of the lovely and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
religion of the meek and lowly Jesus and would fn
impress all the world and the OF mankind with the
conviction that Mey have been singled by Providence
the peculiar guardians of that blessed system of doctrines
and truths promulgated by the Rcdcemer of the World
Every of them indeed, claims be less than
other Gustavus Adolphus with his significant title of lion
Of The North and BulcarhefMe Christian Faith =
But mark, now how plain tale shall to humble
the lofty etensons of these deuded and dangerous
in the dust The doctrines of nativeAmericanism, far
from being in correspondence with that Bible of which
they wish be regarded the excluoe advocates
pressy and significantly forbidden by the teachings
tered in rich prousion its sacred pages Already in
the day Of MOSES the teachings of exclusive and
proscrpve nationality expressly repudiaed and forbidden
by this eminent and inspired Jewish lawgver Among
The laws enacted by him for the regulation of the govern
mental policy of the people of the Hebrew Commonwealth,
we discover bearing the point the following record
ed in the book of Levicus 10th chapter 33d and saith
verses:
If stranger soourn with thee in your land ye shoH NOT
him but the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be
unto you born among and thou shalt love him
hyself, for ye strangers in the land Of Egypt am
the Lord your God"
We regard this section of the Mosaic onactnens di-
recily the point With sagacity amounting almost to
intuition this ancient and renowned lawgver perceived
neicent Providence his countrymen would to
foster in them n morbid and dangerous national
pride, subversve Of the principles Of genuine phian-
hropy, and utterly at with that liberal and hi,-
name policy which it the design of the Bible
economy gradually unfold and ultimately extend
the entire habitable earth Noses ii plain us
was profoundly skilled in the subteties and decefness
Of the human heart, and, looking with prophets eye
dim vista futurity clearly oresaw
time when his favored counrymen might wish to exclude
the stranger and alien from any participation in those
cred and glorious blessings of civil and religious light and
liberty which in comparison with other nations in the ad
vancing tide of provdentia development should be CO.
pousy conferred upon them Clearly did he oresec that
a party of might arise in his land just there
has arisen in ours, denying TO the ALIEN, TO |
the emigrant from other lands equal participation
in the same superintendent blessings, followed by
correspondent course of intolerance prescriptions and
even inhumanity unworthy the recipients Of the es-
pecia f.yors of Heaven This evil ii The determi-
nation of the Jewish lawgyep the very outset 10
resist He regarded his co1n'rymen in the light OF amon
ers the distinguished blessings other nations
The light of the pure Jurisprudence of Heaven
be crcumscribed within the narrow limits of his own \
country but its beams were TO raac gradually the
whole earth As by rebound from the Jews the princi-
pies of an enlightened civil and religious poi,ya pure
and rational Worship thence inue surround
ing governments and people and from participation in
these blessings 10 be excluded. The at
tracted by the beautiful use of such institutions into the
Jewish empire, 10 be rcpulsed lie be
sggreved uerea On the contrary he was TO be well
coined into the land, and treated as barn therein!
Beautiful system worthy the pure and equitable jurispr
dence Of the skies Oh how il ones blood rise
The veins and ones flesh almost culver see SO sadly
and defenders Of the maxms policy doctrines spirit
and genius of the Bible Oh Christianity numerous sad
and deplorabe are the outrages upon common hu-
manty committed in Thy most sacred ad excellent
The policy in regard 10 foreigners which pervaded
the Jewish economy it almost needless state likewise
the arrangements which has
pleased the benefcent Providence under different
auspices to confer upon Ever since rejoice in
tiona exsenceever since coniederaey of States
have local habation and name'ever since our wise
and patriotic forekhers, the Alb Of July l176 In the
State House in Philadelphia declared the then colonies free
and Independent eyer since Washington oughtand Jeer
wrotet has constituted OF the browning gore Of
excellent institutions that the stranger coming into our
midst from lands of tyranny and oppression, is not 10 be
sxsi bnt is under certain weldefned and udicous mi-
ations to be born among that is he is to be ad
United into full participation in the political rights and
mmunities granted by free and wise constitution 10