Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-28

1 TAYLoRsyILLE, N u, June zoln. 1ooo. Z
DEAR SIR: information having been made 70 our
Council of which you are a member, that you have
been denouncing tho ORGANIZATION, It's princip!ee
and Objects and making representations that are m
consistent with the obligation you have taken u DC,
comes my duty to notify you to appear before the
Council on Saturday evening" the 3Oth instant, q.
TaylorsviIle, to answer said charge, otherwise we
will be under the painful necessity of dealing IN the
premises as we are 00u" VIM NJ C. g. JAMES, seoty
This letter was post-marked TaylorsVille, directed
to me at Little River post office, and duly received
The painful duty alluded to will be found IN the otn
Article 9Th Section of the Constitution OF the North
Carolina State Council, and in these words:
"The person so expelled to be thus published as
neriurer and traitor, unworthy the notice or re-
gard of good men,. go
have not carried their threats into execution
neither know nor care. Perhaps the miserable IT,
rade the unmany and vituperative attack upon me
made by A. NJ Boyle, the organ and advocate OF inc
Know Nothings on the 2Sth of July,in reply to my
remarks is considered fulflmcnt. In that attack,
he labored to produce the impression upon the au-
dience then present that had sworn to the obga-
ton which he there publicly read over, and repeat
ed in the language of his formula and that, too,
notwithstanding one of the Know Nothing MEM
bers reminded him of the exception heretofore men,
toned. .
A. NJ Boyle may allege that did not positively
deny the charge at the time in answer to which
reply, that neither disposition nor habit has ever
prompted me to provoke or prolong controversy
ness of passion by giving the lie direct to any one
nor where the facts are equally known to both, OF
teaching truth and courtesy to any one VINO CLAIMS
for himself the cognomen of gentleman The only
notice then took of him to turn round and al.
dress him in these emphatic words: You have ut
tered language which in another place you dare not
do"
Or perhaps the threat of the Council was fulfilled
when their organ said he did not kaooo that was
PROPHET when I simply alluded in my remarks
to the phrophecy of John the Evangelist, in Rev.
18th chap. 9th verse, and 18th chap, 5th verse;
as limiting the existence of Popery to the year
1856. being 1900 years from the time the Bishop of
Rome assumed supreme temporal and ecclesiastical
power the Kingdoms and churches of the world
and by that contemplate witticism placed the sa-
cred prophecy of the beloved disciple upon level
with the lewd, fanatical, and degrading tenets of
Mormonism, which, like the Order of Know Moth
ingsm is of native American origin. If malice,
Misrepresentation, and SANDER, with a prosecuting
spirit be a characteristic of the Order. and II Its
members think proper to enforce their threats
against me, can only pity and forgive them, and
hope they will furnish farther evidence of their
connection with the Father Of Lies.
The substance of my remarks at Taylorsville on
the 2sth Of July last, was, that as professor OF
religion, patriot, philanthrcpist l could not
remain a member of the Order. Because, swearing
is forbidden by Scripture-Matthew, 9th, 34th
and 37.h, James, 5th 18th. That my commu-
nicatiois being limited to yea, yea, and nay, nay,
If were asked the question, Are you Know Moth
ing not would be rude to say yea would be
a lie, because that is not the name by which the
Order is known in their Councils to say nay would
still be lie. because it would convey the impress.
sion that did not belong to an Order upon which
public opinion had stamped the name of Know No
thing. This is position in which man, set
of men, have right to place either a Christian or
an honest man. l said that voluntary oaths were
man authority that my affirmation to the oblga.
ton expressed in the formula OF the Order, could
not possibly be binding, because it contradic.
tory in ITSELF to wit: you first swear or affirm to
Of tho faH nj
North Carolina. These instruments declare there
shall be religious test for office. In the same
oath, affirmation, you swear, or affirm, that you
ciU make religious test for office, in defiance of the
fundamental law of the country-thereby endeav-
oring to substitute bare numerical majority in lieu
of the provisions of the Constitution of the United
States which requires alterations and amendments
itself be made by the States in their sovereign
capacity, without reference to majorites per cdptc-
itd which only affect the legislative ordinary law
making power, and which is subordinate to the 9TH
er, in all the constitutional governments of the
world If you observe the first part of your obiga-
ton you cannot keep the last. you keep the last
you guilty Of perjury and treason in so doing
And this is the point to which the ahti-savery poll
ticians of the North have been laboring both in
Congress and out of it, to bring the people Of the
United States, since the admission of Missouri
into the Union and Know Nothngism is the ground
work of the plot to effect it, by bidding defiance to
Constitutional law.
would here earnestly entreat the Southern pros
elytes to Know Nothingsm to pause and canddly
to compare the reported speech of Rufus King of
New York, in the Senate of the United States upon
that occasion, with the mastery refuation of Will
liam Pinkney of Maryland, i'll reply, together with |
Mr.. Kings subsequently revised and printed speech
which materially differs from the delivered in !
the Halls of Congress- And then take up the speech
of VIM. II. Seward, of New York, in 1852, at Day |
ton, Ohio, with the more recent speech of Wade, |
Sumner, Chase, and others, in Congress, upon the .
Kansas and Nebraska Bill. And be not fathess to |
the Constitution of your country. / further said,
that humble member of the Baptist Church of |
Christ could not remain in the Order because the
Baptist Church is not numbered with the Protestant /
Churches of the world and claims affiation with
them as such. The Constitution of the Know Moth
ing State Council (Article 1st Section 2nd declares
GA person to become member of any Subordinate
Council in this State, must be twenty-one years of
age he must believe in the existence of Supreme
Being the Creator and Preserver of the Universe;
he must be native-born citizen Protestant eth
er born OF Protestant parents reared under Pro-
testant influence, and not united in marriage with
Roman Catholic" I could not remain member of
the Order, because my Bible teaches me to hate no
man, to love my enemies, and to pray for them that
despitefully use and prosecute me.
Can !, then, make war upon the Catholics? Or
scorn and prosecute the stranger that is within my
gates? That heaven-born charity, which is some
thing more than sounding brass tinkling GYM
bal, which is the bond of peace and perectness, for
bids it. As patriot could not remain in the Or
der because the liberties of my country OBJ
tanned by the combined arms and efforts, the blood
and treasure of colonsts, Catholics and foreigners
because the Constitution of the United States, and
of North Carolina declare there shall he no RELIGIONS