Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1855-09-15

ally augmented" [Say's Pol. Econ
Book Ii, Chap. X, Page 1851 Ii
this short passage will be found the
secret Of our country's unparalleled adj
yancement in wealth and greatness. The
foreigners who are now focking to the
country are precisely such as have con-
tributed so largely to our manufactures,
and the mechanic arts. Some who come
hither paupers when | was boy, died
mlllionaires; many died possessed Of
large estates, and almost all of them died
in easy circumstances. Few, very few,
comparatively, fell upon the parish. -
They enriched the country by the whole
amount of their accumuations-by Just
so much more than it would have pos
sessed without them. Just so will it be
with those who are now coming into the
country. If the amount expended in
support of the hopeless, be compared with
the amounts raised by the industry Of
the sound, forany three years together
the first would be to the last, less than
one to thousand. You would fling
away the eagles to save the cents. You
would retard the growth of the country
hundred years, to save lands for your
children upon which your children will
not be permitted to enter, unless they
will consent to commit the keeping Of
your graves to their slaves! Splendid
statesmen are coming out of the Know
Nothing factory truly! The last Mas
sachusetts Legislature exhibits to us the
fabrics of this machine in their highest
perfection. In that body were five and
twenty preachers, (one-dfth Methodist, J
christians many, and Know Nothings al
most all Their acts need no comment
They will remain, burnt into the char.
acter Of the State, in lines so deep and
-gangrenous that even the Offspring of the
Hartford rebels, and the murdcrers Of
Bachelor, win sicken at the sight o.
them. These hiorarchal Know Nothing
Legislators are your brethren" in I
double sense, and the ntiraJae sigaam
that none but Americans should rule
Amcricaw Doyou not blush to frater.
nize with such men? And can you be-
licye that you are favoring your country
or your church in espousing their prin.
ciples?
But if these paupers be q nuisance
whom do they adiict. Why, Massachu-
sets and her colleagues, in war upon
your constitutional rights and christian
character. With these people you could
not, as Mcthodists, harmonize. They
drove yot away from them by insults
and injustice, insufferable---wept crocodile
tears when Fiey SAW yoiA going-brom.
ised you peaceful parting, and an out
/ fit from the common fund and no sooner
were your backs turned, than they dc.
nounced you as schismatics and sinners
cabbagod all the common property, anC
| kept it until the end of seven long years
when theywere forced 10 disgorgo a par
Of it under the whip Of the law. But Al
Know Nothings, you can harmonize witt
them, JOIN them in an onslaught upor
Catholics and foreigners who never in.
jured you-nay, who are your neighborl
and friends-and even turn cold should
er to native brother to your door, be.
cause he protests against your mode Of
warfare! Verify, if you did not review
Catholic sins three hundred years old t,
justify your wrath against that Church
if you did not at times eyince highel
regared for the sinners of your Order
than for the saints of your Church, an,
chafe at opposition to you from an,
quarter, / should regard yours as til,
lnaster-institution of the world, for teach
ing mon to forgive injuries, and low,
their enemies.
But however lawful it may be 70
your confreres to rcpel the poor iron
your borders, it is not lawful for me an,
you to do it. Much less lawful is il 70
you to complot with sinners to terrif,
them from the land, when the laws al
low them 10 come. Take care, brethren
j beseach you, how you practice you
Know Nothing tactics upon this class o
Gods creatures. They are under Hi
peculiar care, and he will hold you res
ponsible if you do not take them undel
yours likewise. In his vocabulary, 4" til,
poor" means the poor Of the world. s.
Paul understood it when he collected
contributions in one country for the
poor in another. So Christ teaches il
the story Of the good Samaritan. "Hatl
not God chosen the poor Of this world
rich in faith, and heirs Of the kingdom
which he hath promised TO them tina
love him2 But ye have despised thu
poor. DO not rich men Cypress you,
and draw you before the Judgment soatsi
DO they not blaspheme the worthy name
by which ye are calledY Blessed b.
ye poor; for yours is the kingdom Of
God" "But woe unto you that arc
rich for We have received your consola.
ton" Defend the poor and fatherless
do justice to the afflicted and needy
"Deliver the poor and needy; rid then
out Of the hands Of the Wicked" liz
that oppresseth the poor, reproacheti
bis Maker" II know that tho Lord
will maintain the cause of the afflicted
and the rights Of the poor" Thou shall
neither yex a stranger nor Cypress him.
"But the stranger that dwclleth will
you shall be as ono born among
you, and thou shalt love him as myself.
But enough. Your Know Nothing doe
trine is directly the reverse Of the Scrip
turc doctrine in regard TO foreigners,
poor and rich. You are bound, if need
be, % go 10 the poor Of distmt lands
with the gospel on your lips, and charity