The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-09-15
The Religious Press and the Knew
NOthingS.

The Religious Press and the Knew
Nothings.
1t is gratifying sign TO notice that Of the
leading religious Protestant journals taking
strong ground against acknowledgement. Among
other powerful articles which have appeared in their
papers, we find a communication in the New York
Chrfstian Inquirer, styled letter to the Know
Nothings," Thoroughly exposing the folly and injus-
of their doctrines, from which make the fol-
lowing briet extracts:
'sThe idea of ignoring mans individuality, and
OF givIag hun badge society according TO Inc ae-
ctdent oil his biTth was one the main results, il
is OF the chief props OF arrogance IN man and OF
despotism III governments.
A man is born a Christian, and he has all the
characteristics of the Jew.
4 lnan is born jew, and ne has all the impulses
of the Christian.
A man is born Roman Catholics who detests
Pope and Jesutism.
A man is born a Protestant, and his sensuous ma
ture leads him 10 the most sensuous religion.
A man is born in Europe with all the instincts ol a
republican.
A man is born in America with proclivities TO ex-
clusiveness and arIstoc acIes.
Don't You see your shert-sightedness You can
not Judge by what they profess be- or by what,
from the inference OF their birth, you supposed them
10 be. You must Judge them by What they II
YOU wage war against aH who corrupt, whether
born here abroad, whether Catholics or Protes-
tants, you viii succeed, because there IS justice and
common N your war. From the moment,
however, you descend from that comprehensive plat
form and single out one or the other accidents OF
birth, your special enemy, you will not only fail
In your endcavor to reform, but you will destroy the
republic which you wish 10 save, by destroying the
principles OF religious liberty and political equality
upon which it is founded"
.sYou argue the adopted citizen is too narrow-mnd-
ed 10 comprehend institutions BY eTowdng
hm out from Your political society, you rob him OF
~ee ouly chance which ne has OF eevating his mind.
heN'You argue, further, they cannot bear ailegdnce
to two powers-to the Pope OF Rome and the Con-
sutution OF the United States.
The animal principles OF GavazzI has materializ-
ed your understanding Nour fascinated
by the ge>tculations Of the Italian, AID your
does not Iay homage TO the genius OF tie American.
Your reason does nor pay homage to he lnnumerabe
agencies OF eulghienments which the pulpit, the
school house. the press, the FORUM the whole
phere Of American ii provide Tor defeating the most
tortuous Vaccinations of the Jesuit, well as the
most God-detymg rawlings of the lntiel. Like all that
is divine those Influences silent and you do see
how they work But ike all that Is uugodly, resent
ueut aud Intolerance are bo>terouS and noisy, and
thus have for champions all those whose minds eyes
shut, whJ are blind, aad who do not hear unless
they hear noise.
'.rhe talk about the oath Of allegiance to the Pope
is sheer nonsense. If the old mau himself had the
slightest notion OF the validity that OATH the first
thing he would have done when be fed IN 1919 would
have been call 10 his assistance all his subjects
lfthey had cared straw about hlu, they would have
rushed et aasse 10 Rome 70 his rescue.
ssYou libel your American intellectually bv re-
peating the trash of Italian quack eloquenee."
.:Ofcourse popular passion is blind always. Mobs
follow those who most successful. Crowds o
needy politicians who now decatm against you will
soon crouch at your feet. But there God in
Heaven, and as sure as He, in His goodness, never
deviates from His divine prime Fes, and sends eve
~ day his Sun to illuminate this wicked world lest
darkness might make wickedRess wicked, iust
as sure will those who have Christ in their heart and
Washington in their mind never devate from their
divnely-inspired principles and long hence, when
you and your efforts forgotten, history will speak
with emotion Of the national who, by wagiug
War against alt corrupng Influences, and By shun-
ring invidious distinction created by accidents OF
birth, brought The country back 10 the practical
Christianity of Saviour, and the dgniiied and
modest virtues OF the republican Washington"
Cr WARxGxG VorcE OF WAsumGroN.-In a let
ter addressed 10 the Roman Catholics OF the United
States, December, 1899, George Washington, then
President, used the following languages
GAS mankind become more liberal, they will be
apt TO allow that all those who conduct themseive,
/ worthy members OF the community, equally
entitled 10 the protection Of civil government. hope
to see America among the foremost nations IN
examples ofjnstce and beTaIity And presume
that your fellow citizens will forget the patriotic
part YOU took in the mpshment Of their revou
ton, and the establishment of their government OF
the important assistance received from nation II
which the Roman Catholic religion Is prolessed."
Writings OF Washinton, vol. xiii, page rs.
The Know-Nothiugs profess to have great regarj
for the ''doctrres of the revered Washington
What do they think of the above?
| DEATH AZ EpIToR FRoM FEAR CHoLERA.-
| Mr.. Wilson, OF the editors OF the Reform Ban
ner, at Hamilton, Canada west, died lew days ago
/ 1t appears he had great fear of the cholera, and il
said that since the appearance of the disease there
he would never go out of his house, except with &
bottle OF cholera mixture his hand, and parcel
chloride of lime in his pocket, and he regulated hi,
diet and the economy OF his family in strict confor
nifty 10 the rules laid down by the board of health
but unfortunately his children, three beautiful boys
could not be restricted when they got out of sight
and they seized with cholera from eating greer
fruit. Soon after his wife taken and died. See
/ ing the approaching dissolution of his wife, poor vii
son became quite frantic He rushed of the house
leaving all his sick children behind him, and went tc
a lodging house up town, where he also died .nex
day, from nothing else than downright fear. The
! poor panic stricken and if it had not beer
| for the attention OF friend, the family might have
been left altogether TO themselves. One OF the ch
! dren has since died.