The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-22


The world with the light Of my experience upon i be-
fore them.
In 1880 The State violently atated by party con-
tests Every species Of argument esored To- and the
most m0nstr0us political hereses preached All through
the State and right under the Of the college The
States degraded 10 ths level Of counties ~ some n
and their opposition TO the central government anao
EiAed 70 the opposition Of county 20 State such
doctrine had never met the sober sanction Of any party
II Was dangerous to spread among the youth and the
yeomaury Of the country and stu moredangerous 70
send from the South 20 the of the abolitionists
therefore cautioned the graduating class Of that year
against Il and set them right upon this head. This
regarded a. horrible respass upon the rules Of decorum
In me By the compromisers
Governor Fooe shocked and saw in il the loss Of
az least fifty students TO the university One Of my best
friends ia the board Of trustees wounded Hot blood
was manifested all around me; and the Memphis Eagle
sooner saw that was disturbing its nursing the college,
in this way than il made stoop upon Of awful porten
Foole grew calm; my friends wound soon healed ever
but the rage OF the Eagle il seems be appeaSed
No goslng editor yelled abolition knight Of the goose
quill, no bat from the "order" muck-worm from the
slaughter-pen Of character attack mo creep
but here the Eagle in fast fellowship with the aanoyer
TO be sure II Is too young yet TO 90 more than scratch
ard did not some people believe 70 be the nlltedged
bird OF Jove and respect IL accordingly would Il. IL
scratch on bnt for the sake Of such and yet for the
sake OF truth and comfy will gre il notice that may
be Of service 70 il and IFS colleagues.
The State Of Tennessee gives clever patronage and
therefore tor rather the parons-haye right 10 be
heard, and viii be respectfully and thankfully heard in
any matter which touches the interest Of the college But
this eternaly aggressive sheet which with the emblem of
liberty at its masthead is making pratcsl incursions
into our State and firing into most sacred structures
IN the mere wanonness Of mschewbo 1t letters of
marque and reprsa 10 the colege2 BY what au-
thory does il set at defiance all the rules Of comfy de-
eency, and propriey which prevail among citizens of diff
feren SatesY In all fairness should assa another
n matter involving character private aud Official upon
vague runor who absoived the press from the obgaon2
The obligation is tenfoid stronger where the assaan and
the assaled have common interests and live under diff
ieren governments By the ethics Of the world age
titled TO respect and "doage TO pity but the hedgngs Of
the Eagle and Enquirer TO regard them rs crimes
and hold them up to public condemnation And this
they do upon no better authority than some anonymous
defmer who the dues of old age by its
for know-noibngism
the publicl hope when you shall have numbered your
threescore and four years you will find that the press
veres and encourages the young to do the like You
WILL then have enjoyed the pleasure Of rudeness TO il 10
youth without its pains in the evening of life
In July last had Just heard of organization in
the countrysecret in its INDICTMENTS, and going under the
name OF know-nothngs Its principles understood 70
be opposition 10 Catholics and foreigners to be planned in
the dark strengthened by oaths and manifested at the bal
lot-box II filled me with alarm,
in it the elements of rapid expansion and awful
explosion exhibited them TO the class That graduated 10
that month and orewarned them to have nothing TO do
with it Had been inspired could hardly have toreshad
owed its history accurately than did OF my pre-
dcton nothing remains to be fulfilled but the outpourng
OF blood My forecast in relation TO il ought to insure
respect for Judgment in and about Oxford at least but
is the very forecast which is raising buzz Of discomfort
against mein this vicinity This the sin which brought
against the reconcile presses which have named
above 1t ia called dabbting in politics y but its true
is Jnpatatabie 7ru,Ap This is the sin for which
perchance to be sacrificed They that stoned the
prophets Of old yet alive and why should expect
better fate than thers2 Well do not know that better
could be made of my old than the offering OF II
up the altar of this Araercdh' Baal An incense
might arise from it that would do more to purify the
Church and the State from this modern determination than
anything which from my poor rost-covered
brain. The public has the total of my political
sins public and private shall speak at large Of the
order in appeal TO my Church at future day il
may be allowed to do am committed against il, and
shall oppose it foeyerno in the Classroom but every
where else; not as partisan but Christian This
the patrons of the university should know For all the
honors and emoluments of earth could be induced
to assume position OF neutrality in regard to it. If
all experience be not falsehood, and all history ka-
BILE it will throw this country into ceaseess commissions
if it be not crushed and that speedily. In my view,
every man who has seruples influence should rise
against itnow, Immediately, be forever too late
Indeed, 1t allows neutrality. With its protested
Americansnr 1t absolute dictatorship Ill
will allow to question its purity its policy 1t
gathers within its pale of dignity talent and piety
preachers and teachers and with them the most dprayed
abandoned desperate Goddefying sinners upon earth
binds them by oas in bonds Of fellowship and them
all to work in politics, and nothing but politics. find
Christian brother among them read to him II Cor vi
Ia and and liuplorc him TO out from such
nexions and it addresses in tones of despotc author
y on this wise; Sir, my name is Pot'cs you are
clergyman and clergymen should have nothing do with
postcs ~ Right" cries my brother; Gold man. you'll
ruin yourself if you meddc with politics say TO him
oaths are against the laws OF God ana your Church
Sir It responds @do you thus denounce the pious Of my
order Have you respect for the Church your place
denounce the sinners of the band and the saints reprove
me reprove the saints and the sinners denounce me-
The saint shields the sinner and the sinner the saint Ii
such combination is not enough to make the Church and
State both shudder know what would
On the order bears with ntolerabe pressure 1t
rises before like the ghost Of anquo my every step
in the pathway of duty.
an preacher If preach upon the sanetity Of oaths,
it regards itself nsulted and attacks accordingly If
preach TO Christians to out from the wicked it in
suits for assailing know-nohing If preach that the
love OF Christ is bounded by State lines it charges me
with attacking the article of its creed against foreigners
4 am teacher If | teach that unlawful promises are
not binding shall be charged with justifyng tha expo
sure of know nothing If set the lesson my
pupils wherein B. Say says that every accession of
to country Is accession of treasure 10 be pub
shed to the world matchmaking my pupils in anti
know-nothing politics. As ever TO be gored by this
Let the order keep its hands off me, the church.
and the constitution, and | will never disturb ii ;
but when IT ceeps from its den under the of poll
tees with one arm around Methodist preacher and the
other round the desperate demagoguc and introduces them
to me as united by triple oahs in indsoube bands Of
wedlock shall noe stop to inquire whether its suits
its character, what the decaces of my calling demand
the union adnerous by the prior esponsa Of the
one, and the utter prostitution of the other will
the rs by the shade of Wesley TO 10 his first love
ere bis candesck be removed out Of its place and will
the other BY the shade Of Washington repent and
return to the principles of that great he make re-
publcanism stencil ia the nostrils of all patriots
And If they heed not will with God help drive them
out Of the land though cost my life to do IT, When it
throws its asso into my ecureroom and drags from il to
its OF foser-chldren and indocrnafes