The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-15

LIVED OPSAaC6of AooSRN14OhOS "a OoE
and action, modesty, prudence, reverence
for old age, and courtesy to all. Do
not, I impiore lyou, substitute for this
teaching your cavern tactics, your BAN
dit like oaths and signs, and grips and
and passwords, and nonsensical forms
Teach them not to sunder all other ties
for those of the Know No lings.-
Throw one sacred element .nto your
combustible combination hat shall pre-
vent it from setting FIRE to our schools
and colleges Observation-Disclosures
picture to yourselves your son, not
out of his teens, standing amidst a mot
ley group /; gathered from every grade
of society, with one hand on the left
breast and the other upbearing the flag
of his country, while some wretch, per
chance from the sinks of society, letters
him with oaths, which are to seal his in.
dependence; freedom of speech, freedom
of action, and freedom of suffrage fol
ever If this does not drive Christians
out of the ouder, welcome be they to
their religion ! If this does not unite
every father in solid phalanx against it,
let no man eovet a place in a school or
college in Mississippi. Yea verify I an
in my 'dotage,' I am a raving mailman,
or the Church and State are on the high
road to ruin. Such lis the order Of
which 1 may not speak at all or only In
court phrasei
Now, gentlemen, editors and Know
Nothings, you have something sensible
and tangible to harp upon, without re-
sorting to rumor. I am against you for
life. You peck at me as though you
supposed it would distress me sorely to
lose my place. You are mistaken sirs;
1 was twice on the point OF resigning
but by earnest entreaty was induced to
retain it. Be assured gentleman, after
filling five chairs for five years, and per
forming duties enough to wear out most
men in that time, it will not cost me a
sigh to relinquish it, Mover will 1 hold
i upon condition that L must treat
Know Nothingism with respect.
Nations, like men, u mad at times
and nothing but time and blood letting
can cure them. Still, while there il
hope, all good men should strive to re-
Iieve them. My course is taken-care.
fully, thoughtfully, prayerfully taken.
am no Catholic. Put Methodism and
Romanism on the field of fair argument
and / will stake my all upon the issue
but / am not such a coward as to flee
the field of honorable warfarefo savage
ambush fighting, or such a fool as to be-
lieve than a mans religion is to be re-
formed by harrassing his person. Nor
am I quite SO blind as not to see that,
when the crushing of churches is begun
in the country, it is not going to stop
with the overthrow, of one. All Protest
antism almost will be against me-two
thirds of my own church, 1 judge will
be against me-the trustees will be
alarmed for the interest of my college
my colleagues of the facul'y will be un-
easy-my best friends will be pained,-
but I have an abiding confidence that
nothing will be lost by my course in the
end. It will be madness in men to with
draw their sons from the able teaching
of my colleagues for my fault-to attack
the college to injure me but these are
days of of madness, and this is the
way in which obnoxious professors are
commonly attacked. Be it SO 1 have
done my duty and 1 leave the consequent
ces with God. And here 1 sign my name
to what 1 deem the best legacy that I
could leave to my poor childrcn-a rec
ord of proof that neither place, nor poll
cy, nor temporal interest, nor friendships,
nor church, DOR threatning storms from
every quarter, could nov their father for
an instant from principle, or awe him in
to silence when the cause of God and his
country, requires him to speak.
"ACGUs1Us B. LoNGsTREET."