Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-29

thew afaict? why, Massachusetts and her COL
leagues, in upon your constitutional rights
and christian character. With these people you
could not, as Methodists, harmonze They drove
You away from them, by insults and injustice insult
ferable-wept crocodile tears when they saw you
gong-promised you peaceful parting, and an out
fit from the common fund and no sooner were your
backs turned, than they denounced you as schis-
mates and sinners, cabbaged all the common prop
ery and kept it until the end of seven long years,
when they forced to disgorge part OF 1t UNI
der the whip of the law. But as Know Nothlngs,
YOU can harmonize with them, join them in an on
saught upon Catholics and foreigners VINO never IN
iured you-nay, who are yonr neghbors anu 1rienos
and even turn cold shoulder to a native brother
at your door, because he protests against your mode
of warfare! Verify if you did not review Catholic
sins three hundred years old to justify your wrath
against that Church, if you did not at times evlnce
higher regard for the sinners OF your Order, than
for the saints of your Church, and chafe at OPPOSE
tions to you from any quarter, L should regard
yours as the MISREPRESENTATION of the world, for
teaching to forgive injuries, and love their
enemies.
But however lawful it may be for your confreres
to repe the poor from your BORDERS 1t Is not lawful
for me and you to do it. Much less lawful Is II ior
YOU to complot with sinners to terrify them from
the land, when the law allows them to come. Take
care, brethren, beseech you, how you practise
your Know Nothing tactics upon this class of Gods
creatures. They are under his peculiar care, ana
he will hold you responsible if you do not take them
under yours likewise. In his vocabulary, "the poor,
means the poor of the world So Paul understood
it when he collected contributions in one country
for the poor in another. So Christ teaches in the
story of the good Samaritan. Hath not God chosen
the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of
the kingdom which he hath promised to them that
love him But we have despised the poor Do not
rich men Cypress you, and draw you before the
judgment seats? Do they not blaspheme the worthy
name by which ye tcalled?" Blessed be ye
poor; for yours is the kingdom of God" But
woe unto you that rich for We have received
your consolation" defend the poor and father
less do justice to the afflicted and needy" Deliver
the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand Of
the wicked" HE that oppressth the poor, reproach
eth his Maker" | know that the Lord will main
tain the cause of the afflicted and the rights OF
the poor" "Thou shalt neither vex stranger nor
Cypress him" But the stranger that dwelleth
with you shall be as one born among you, and thou
shalt love him as myself" But enough Your
Know Nothing doctrine is directly the reverse of
the Scripture doctrine in regard to foreigners poor
and rich. You are bound, if need be- to go to the
poor of distant lands with the gospel on your lips,
and charity in your hearts for them. You are bound
to do good to all men-to feed the hungry, clothe
the naked, and relieve the distressed no matter
where found where born. If this be true, you
should rejoice that the poor abroad save you the
trouble of going to them, by coming to you. Let
lawmakers exclude them if they will; but You
have no business quitting your work to hunt up
lawmakers to do it. Much less have you any bus
mess working under with all sorts of charac-
tiers, to put down all lawmakers but those who will
do it. repeat it. brethren, take care how you trihe
with this class of Gods creatures If you have eX-
take that you do not put the souls of men in
the crucible, or blow up your own souls.
And what is your remedy for immigrant pauper-
ism? Why, you will vote for no foreigner, rich
or poor, for office f! Does this remedy touch the
disease, or even the person diseased? Men come
hther from Europe, sick; and your medical colleges
are going to them, by prescribing strict regi-
men to all the sound who have come from the same
country, through the first and second generations!
If the statement of such does not shock your
understandings, pray you, in mercy to yourselves,
and for the honor of Methodsm, surrender your
parchments forthwith. You either gulled, or
you pretend to be; and in either case, you wound
the character of our Church. l am panied for the
future destiny of our Heavenblessed country, when
| that the daring author Of this nonsense should
have succeeded so well.
Turn if you please to Bascom's Sermons (page
29S) and read the letter which prefaces the sermon
beginning at the page. Many Of you, with me,
heard preached at the first General Conference of
the methodist Church, South. We all admired it,
but we did not know the intent with which it
delivered. He explains it in the Introductory letter,
from which the following is an extract:
1.-The many virtues and christian death of your
son, not to overlook the noble charity he founded
by requesting and obtaining from his father twenty
thousand dollars with the addition of suitable
grounds for the establishment of an Orphan Asylum
in his native city" Petersburg, Va) must be to
you, sources of consolation beyond any earth can
offer. The following thoughts on death may ell
nance your estimate of this &c. For these reasons
&C." | ask permission, my dear Madam, to dedi-
cate this discourse to you.'-He had previously said,
that it intended offer consolation to the moth
ers afflicted bosom, under her then recent bereave
ment.-The father of that noble son is of the
lovelest specimens of the christian character that
I ever saw. l have it upon credible authority, that
the magnificent donation mentioned by Bascom, is
only about double the sum which he gives every
year to benevolent purposes and " when he doeth
aims, he lets not his left hand know what his right
hand doeth." He will be offended at this exposure
of his virtues know, but he will pardon it trust
when l assure him it is made only to save his
Church from peril, and her ministry from discred-
it. That man is a naturalized foreigner. If that
candidate for Office requiring speci-
al trust and confdence-if he were candidate for
any office-you would vote for the most abandon
ed prohgate in the land in preference to him. Your
to that effect registered in heaven. Nay,
he was recently candidate for petty Office in his
city, and suppose Methodist Know Nothngs per-
haps preachers, walked around that Asylum and |
over those consecrated grounds to vote for some |
competitor of his, at the sight of whom Religion
would start and Charity shrek.
"But have we not right to vote pease?' |
No, gentlemen, you surrendered that right when |
you joined the Know Nothings; and am amazed |
that you made the surrender; for when you did |
that, you virtually acknowledged yourselves incom-
petent to advocate any men or any measures. You |
advocate the claims of no man, because you do |
not know that you will be permitted to vote for him
yourselves; and no measures, because they have |
none. A beautiful prcdicament for freeman to
place himself inl When preacher votes it is to !
be presumed that he votes cCnScentiously and upon
principle; but you vote you ordered, and on |
ly according to mans birthplace. "Know We not |