Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-22
speech Of Kenneth Rayners Of north Caro-
lima. In HaIliMOfe.

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speech Of Kenneth Rayner. Of north Caro-
| lima, in BaItimore.
! Mr. Rayner said Fellow Americans: con-
graduate you upon the glorious auspices under
which you have assembled this evening, and as
sure you the kind greeting which you have ex-
tended 10 me Is appreciated because IL affords an
earnest that American Protestantsm burns bright
" In the Monumental city. We have met as
Americans and as Protestants, to avow the pnnci'
pies by which We viii be governed, principles
founded upon right and VIII Oh would prevail de-
spite the Vaccinations Of the Roman Catholic
church. Our enemies have already reported that
there has been disruption In our party, and that
the elements of tho great American party are 30
distracted that It will be impossible TO heal the
breach.
disagreement upon the great cardinal principles OF
the party. We met as brothers, and parted us
brothers, those who were said to have seeded re-
| naming In the Council until its close. There was
question which has created division In all par
ties of the country and all the churches of the
country had been divided by its agitation, but It
did not affect the great principles for which they
commended. They tell you that portion Of the
North seeded, but that Is false; and the great
body of the North and South are united and right
on the great question, and will be found together
when they come to the ballot box. know that
the RoInish hierarchy Of Baltimore cacklsd with
more delight at the supposed disruption In the
National Council, than did the devils of Pandemo-
ninm When they had turned man from the path
which the Creator had ordered him to tread, but
they will be more disappointed than were the
same devils after their second visit TO the earth,
in the vain attempt to tempt the Saviour from his
God.
4 The question, and will say it without disre-
spect to our fathers is more momentous than that
which caused the patriots of the revolution to
draw their swords in the revolution. 1t is ques-
ton of administrative policy. The Wing and
Democratic parties divided upon the question,
not whether the country should be governed, but
how 1t should be governedf But those parties
are now extinct. What Is the cord which binds
together two millions of the people Of this coun-
try but the perpetuty of the free institutions es-
tablshed by their fathersp This is the first time
| the people of the country ever rose In the power
of their might to establish their nationality. In
the early days Of the country, the people sought
to change the wilderness into tillable soil from
which to produce the staff Of life, and did not
suppose that foreign population would ever pre-
sumo to take from their control the government Of
the nation which they had planted for their pro-
geny. But the time had come when their liberty
was threatened, and the same spirit which i'm
PEELED the sres of the revolution to rebel against
the extortions of a foreign power now prompted
the people to rise up to put check upon the
priestly aggressions Of the Romsh church. When
Martin Luther sounded the proclamation of the
reformation in the streets of Wittemburg, he was
not prompted by a more holy feeling than that
which has taken hold Of the people Of this coun-
try in this movement; and our glory is that we
| intend to march on to victory. A voice in the
crowd--Go it North Carolina; 60 it old Dismal
Swamp
These sounds, gentlemen, are welcome to my
ears Go back to the past and you will see that
my assertions are warranted. You do not come
10 meetings like this armed for an ARRAY, but your
dependence is upon the great CONSERVATION, the
baiiot-box. What was there now to be feared to
the free Institutions OF this country but from the
foreign population, which, like the serpent through
your kindness, taken from the most sbject poverty
| and armed into life, repays your hospitality ty
stinging your yitalsf They attempt to destroy
your freedom. He would welcome TO the land ali
who would come, and, by industry and frugality,
| make themselves respected, and grant to their
children participation in tho government Of the
country, but he could not extend that privilege to
them. am willing to extend the hospitality OF
the country TO all but what my friends, would you
think 1t you were to receive stranger into your
house and treat him kindly, If he should usurp your
place, and, after having been with you for short
time, ask you to walk out of doors and surrender
your premises to hims
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flag Of the nation, which will trail in the dust in
dishonor through the workings Of this foreign
horde. We have met here to swear before God
that we will exalt that flag, and make it wave
proudly aloft over free, untrammelled and happy
people. If you win go back to Jewish history, you
will see that that people were prosperous while
they maintained their nationality and 1t was a
portion OF their ceremonial law TO abstain from all
foreign customs, and the Book which we all regard
as the guide TO all truth, informs us that all their
| misfortunes begun when they violated these laws.
In those days the native Jews were admitted 10
the inner court of the Temple, while the Gentiles
were obliged 70 stay in the outer court, and even
those who were proselyted to the faith were denied
the privilege Of participating in the government Of
! the people. Such, too, was the case in ancient
Greece. II was impossible for foreigner, by pur-
chase or settlement TO exalt himself TO any of the
rights Of native citizen Of Greece, which was con-
sidered high honor.
! have told you that the ban of secrecy il re-
moved, and so il is. 1t was necessary in youth
TO be secret and there could be sin in secrecy,
because some Of tho ancients deifed IL. We have
only done as the early Christians did, who were
compelled 10 do II through fear ; but when they
became powerful they threw Il Off and did not
stop until they had made the circuit Of what is
now termed the Christian world. You should ever
keep In mind the sacred precepts Of your fathers,
and remember that your blood Is the same as that
which watered the soil in the days Of the Revolu-
ton. Your associations are not like those Of the
foreigner. Who does not reoollect with emotions
Of pleasure the Fairgrounds Of childhood, the
brook where in boyhood we bathed our feet, and
the home hearth-stone, around which we heard
the stories Of the days which gained the liberty
which We enjow The foreigner cannot feel these
emotions. His birthplace was far away beyond
the ocean, and II they loved this country more
than their own, they were unworthy Of the land
which gave them birth.
suppose this meeting is what the Roman Cath
Ole party would call mob. II Is very true Sam
Is no barbed knight and he loves TO dwell In the
habitations Of the humble and the lowly the hard
listed and honest yeomanry Of the land. Our enc
mics say we adduce no new arguments and they
may speak truly, but our arguments were truth,
and truth would bear repetition. There Is another
great principle for which we contend. We are
| fighting for the Bible and the right Of religious
liberty. fpeople feel so disposed they can send
their daughters to the nunneries let them do so
but we will battle against the control Of such In
stitutions when those daughters are shut out from
communion with the parent. No man can be a
| true American and true member of the Roman