Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-04-18

There had been no information according to the
forms of aw-no presentment or Indictment If
Massachusetts, can act thus, North Carolina can
also and if the Catholic schools can thus be scar.
ched, under bare imputation suspicion Of crime,
Protestant schools can be subjected to similar sear-
ches and examinations. Wbo then, under such
system OF Legislative espionage, would be safe from
intrusion, from impertinent curiosity. from injury
and modification as the result of suspic ion or i'm
putation Of misconduct or crimea We said there
had been no " oath taken in this matter-we
were mstaken-these very Know Nothings had
bound themselves by the most awful obligations
to prescribe, and persecute, and vex these very Ca
tholics. 1t was part of their business. They
had sworn to do it; and nos only this, but to re-
gard the countrymen of Emmett, and DeKalb
and Lafayette as unfit to hold Office in this free
land! =, - - ss-ssasts zs-eze q
So Cromwell, with deep oaths and vows,
Swore all the Commons out O. the House."
The Cavaliers goaded, and rowelled and wor-
,ied the saints; and the saints or Roundheads, in
turn, prosecuted, searched out, and punished the
Cavaliers. 1t is the old story of religious stres
and hatreds. IL come not, said the Redeemer
Of mankind himself, to bring peace, but sword"
not that his kingdom was not one of peace and
goodwill but because of the wickedness of the hu
man heart. If pure religious truth be not now
upon the earth, and even among the people of
Massachusetts, it will never descend from the Skies
IL can neither be made nor unmade. Men haze
had 1t in its fullest and most saving revelations
for eighteen hundred years-had it, and disre-
garded it, and perverted it, and wrested it to pur-
poses of wrath and vengeance; and SO it will be
until its Great Author shall be pleased to ordain
otherwise. We hear too much about sectaran doc
trines-too much about peril here, and damnation
there on account OF rorms or worship And shades
of belief; and too little about purity of intent, no
matter what the forms or the name may be, and
Of faith in the Great Source of creation and re-
demption. Purity of intent, purity Of life, and
taith-how do we see these things illustrated by
these Know Nothing champions of Protest
antism! "Deal justly, love mercy, and walk
! humJly before God" Are we to take these men
as patterns in this respect! "Pure re!ig ZION and
undefiled before God, the Father. is to visit the
widow and the fatherless in their af1ction, and to
keep ourselves unspotted from the world" Who
does that Is there man among ye who can
"throw the first stone"! Did these Committee
me bethink themselves to 60 down into the abodes
of wretchedness in Boston ?-did they visit, with
messages and deeds of kindness, their colored
friends, the free negroes, wheet6s starving and
shivering within few roast5E them s-did they
remember the priest and the Levite, who passed
by in their pride, and the poor Samaritan, who
bound up the wounds of the stranger by the way
side did they enter the factories in their own
State, where many thousands pale girls toll for
twelve long hours each day in the hot air, for no
more than will barely support them, and deliver
words of encouragement and hopes-did they re-
member tina: their ancestors dared the dangers of
the stormy main, and encountered savage foe,
and underwent separation from home, and friends,
and kindred, and incurred privatous and suterings
untold, to establish that very spot that liberty
of conscience and those great principles of person
al right which they were engaged in violating
and Winthrop making descent, in omnibusses,
armed with the power of the State, on an ordinary
school-a school kept by feeble women for the
education of little girls! Good God lis thai
Massachusetts,? Not is base counterfeit; new
men have got in, Webster is dead, and Everett, and
Choate, and Loring, and other great spirits have
been silenced. The "Rump Parliament" exists
again under Know Nothing auspices, and like John
Randolph's mackerel by moonlight, "it stinks and
shines, and shines and stinks." Every gale from
Boston brings to US the stencil. The odour is thai
Of compound of BRASS bigotry, witch burning
Of three cent pieces heated, and Of real Guines
negro. This is "Sam. - He looks as if he ha6
been on an egg-sucking expedition, instead of at
nunnery. His bowels Of compassion for the poo
} foreigners" and Catholics are SO moved that h
fairly grins with woe In the agony of his prayer
and tears uttered and shed in the cause of Protes
tansm. he has absolutely forgotten his tobacco ant
. his rum. Poor, dear fellow when the piou
> paroxysm passes, he shall enjoy both in doubl
measure. e..
But seriously hear Daniel Webster We quot
from his great discourse, delivered at Plymouth
\ Rock, Dec. 1920:
i The principle Of religious liberation, to schic
the soertd has come so s0DLy, IS at the mos
9 just and the most acise Of all principles %
J.. Again he says:
"Thanks be to God, that this spot aoas honored q
the as jlus Of religious liberty. May its standard
reared here remain forever May it rise up as hig
as heaven till its banner shall fan the air of bot
| continents and wave >aS glorious ensign of peac