The true Democrat., 1855-07-24
From the Georgia Constitutionast. Letter from the Hon A. B. Long street, on Know Ncthineism.

glan now President of the University of Mis- slsSippi The name of Augustus B. Longstreet is endeared to the people Georgia by many ties in the history of the past It is a name which we were taught to revere in early youth as sy. anonymous with all that was bold and fearless in the character of the advocate, with all that was parental and digni6ed in the sage instructor, and with all that was pure and honest and upright in the minister of the gospel. The old men of Georgia have been accustomed to love him as a brother; the young men, scattered throughout the State; who, from his lips, have heard the lessons of wisdom, continue to revere him as a father. There is no man in Georgia who will dare stand up and say that A. B. Longstreet speaks from impure motives. The indignant frowns of an honest people would parays the sacrilegious effort. Judge Longstreet has been forced from his retirement to come out and speak upon this question; but having come ort, he has met the issue with that boldness and honesty which characterizes the man. He speaks to the people in the voice of warning wisdom, and tells them to beware-of an organi- zation, which must lead to religious intolerance and persecution.
 The circumstances which led to the publca- tion of this letter, arose from an attack made upon the Judge by the Memphis Eagle and En- 4uirer, charging him with preaching anti-know nothing doctrines.
 After alluding to the editors of that paper, who have assailed him as the head of the Mis- sissippi University, he proceeds to condemn the order in the terms to be found in the ex tracts below. Let every Georgian read them carefully and ponder over them we'll, whether he be know nothing or ant~know nothing
 |" In July last had just heard of new of- ganzaton in the country--secret in its move Io1an nfu and ha ct Hpn nothinga Its principles, I understood to be, opposition to Catholics and foreigners, to be planned in the dark, strengthened by paths and manifested at the ballot,box It filled me with alarms.
 saw in 1t the elements of rapid expansion and awful explosion. I exhibited them to the class that graduated in that month, and fore warned them to have nothing to do with it. Had ! been inspired, I could hardly have fore shadowed its history more accurately than 1 d.d. Of my prediction, nothing remains to be fulfilled but the outpouring oi more blood.- My forecast in relation to it ought to ensure respect for my judgment in and about Oxford at least, but it Is that very forecast winch is raising buzz of discontent against me in this vicinity now. This is the sin which brought out against me the recondite presses which l have named above. It is called "dabbllng l1 politics." but its true name is Unpalatabe Truth" This is the sin for which 1 am soon, perchance, to be sacrificed. They that stoned the prophets of old are yet alive, and why should expect better fate than theirs? We'll, do not know that better use could be made of my old car oass, than the offering of it up the altar of this American Baal. An incense would arise from 1t that would do more to purify the church and the State from this modern abomlnation, than any thing which can emanate from my poor frost-covered brain. The public has now the sum total of my political sins, public and pri- vate. 1 shall speak at large Of the new order, | in an appeal to my church at some future day, if I may he allowed to do so. 1 am committed against it, and I shall oppose it forever-not in the class room, but every where else-not as a partisan, but as a christian. This the patrons of the University should know. For all the honors and emoluments of earth 1 could not be induced to assume position of neutrality in regard to it. If all experience be not false. hood, and all history fable, it will throw this country into ceaseless convulsions, if it be not crushed, and that speedily.
 In my view, every man who has a scruple's | influence should rise against it-now-imme- diatelv, ere it be forever too late Indeed, it | allows no neutrality. With all its professed Americanism, 1t assumes an absolute dictator
 
 rity or it's policy It gathers within its pale, men of dignity, talent and piety, preachers and teachers, and with them, the most depraved, | abandoned, desperate, God-defying sinners upon earth; binds them by oaths in the bonds of fel- | lowship and sets them all at work in politics and nothing but politics. l find a christian brother among then--I read to him II Cor, v 14 and on, and implore him to come out from such connections; and 1t addresses me in tones of despotic authority i'll this wise: Sir, my name is polltics-you are clergyman, and cler- gvmen should have nothing to do with politics" "Right," cries my brother "old man you'll ruin yourself if you meddle with politics." 1 say to him "your paths are against God and ytur church." "Sir," it responds, " do you thus de- nounce the pious of my order-have you no re- spect for the church or your place?" Idenounce the sinners of the band and the saints reprove me- I reprove the saints and the sinners de- nounce me! The saint shields the sinner, and the sinner the saint. If such combination is not enough to make the church and State both shudder know not what would.
 On me the new order bears with intolerable pressure. It rises before me like the ghost of Banquo, at my every step in the pathway of duty.
 / ana preacher: If I preach upon the sanc- tity of oaths, it regards itself insuted, and at- tacks me accordingly. If preach to christians to come out from the wicked, it insults me for assailing know nothings If preach that the love of Christ is not bounded by State lines, it charges me with attacking the article of its creed against foreigners.
 / ona e teacher: If teach that unlawful promises are not tbinding, shall be charged with justifying the exposure of know nothing secrets. If set the lesson to my pupils wherein J. B. Say says that every accession of a man to a country is an accession of treasure, am to be published to the world indoctrinatng my pupils in anti know nothing politics. As am ever to be gored by this young mad bull, had as we'll take it by the horns at once. Let the order keep its hands off me, the church, and the constitution, and will never disturb it."
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