Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-08-08

publication of this letter, arose from
an attack made upon the Judge by
the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer
charging him with preaching anti.
Know Nothing doctrines. -
After abiding to the editors Of tba,
paper, who have assailed him as the
head Of the Mississippi University
ne proceeds to condemn the Order
IN the terms to be found in the CIV.
tracts below. Let every Georgian
read them carefully and ponder over
them well, whether he. be Know
Nothing or an anti-Know-Nothinc.
In July last l had just heard Of a
new organization in the country
secret in its movements, and going
under the name Of Know Nothings,
Its principles, / understood to be, op-
position to Catholics and foreigners
to be planned in the dark, strength
enedb by oath and manifested at the
ballot box. 1t filled me with alarms
! saw in it the elements ofrapid ex-
lpansion and awful explosion. / ex-
hibited them to the class that gradu-
ated that month, and forewarned
them to have#nothing to 90 with it
Had ! been inspired, | could hardly
have foreshadowed its history more
accurately than J did. Of my pre-
diction, nothing remains to be full
filled but the outpouringg of more
blood. My forecast in relation to it
ought to insure respect for my iudg
ment in and about Oxford at least;
Ebut it is that. very forecast which is
raising a buzz of discomfort. against
me in this vicinity now. This is the
sin which brought out against me the
reconcile presses which have nam
ed above. 1t is called 'ddbdling in
| politics. butts true nameIis 'Unpala,
table TruM.'' This is the slnfor which
I ! am soon, perchancc, to be sacrilic-
ed. They that stoned the prophets
of old are yet alive, and why should
I expect better fate tina d theirs? =
| Well, | do not know that better
use could be made of my oldcarcass,
than the. offering UP of it on the altar
| of this american Baal. An incense
would arise from it that would do
Hinore to purify the Church and the
Estate from this modern abomination,
than anything which can emanate
from my poor frost-coyered brain
The public has now the sum total of
my political sins, public and private.
Il shall speak at large ofthe new or
| der, in an appeal*to my Church at
some future day, if l.may be allowed
to do so. = ] am committed againstit it,
and shall oppose it foreSer--not in
the classroom, but everywhere else
moi as a partisan, but as Chris
tian. This the patrons of the Uni
tversity should know. For all the
honors and emoluments Of earth
could not be induced to assume a po-
sition ofneuhnfg in regard to it.
| If all experience be not a falsehood,
and all history a fable, it will throw
this country into .ceasclcss convul-
sions, if it be not crushed, and that
speedily.
/ In my view, every mani who has n
scrnplc' sinfluence shouldtise against
Iit-now--immediately ere it be for
ever too late. Indeed it allows no
neutrality With all its protessed
Americanism, it assumes an absolute
dictatorship. 1t will allow no man
to question its purity or policy. 1t
gathers within its pale, men of digni-
.ty, talent and picty, preachers and
teachers, and with them the most
depravcd, abandoned, desperate
God -defying sinners upon earth,
binds them by oaths in the bonds OF
Fellowship and sets them all at work
in pahiihs and nothing but politics.. |
find christian brother among them
Il read to him II Cor, VI, Ia and on,
and Iimplore him to come out from
such connections; apdit addresses mic
in tones Of despotic authority in this
wise: "Sir, my name is f9liticS--you
are a Clergyman, and Clergymen
should have nothing to do with, Ppf-
tics" Right cries my brother,
sold man, you'll ruin yourself if you
medd4e with politicsp lsay to him,
"your oaths hrc against the laws OF
God and your Church" "Sir," tire
spends "do you thus denounco the pi-
GUS of my order-have you norespect
for the Church oryour placer" i de:
nounce the sinners of the band and
the Saints reproye me. ] reprove
the Saints and the sinners denounce
me. The Saint shields the sinner
and the sinner the Saint. IL such a
combination is pot enough to make
the Church and State both shudder,
Il know not what would.
On me the new Order bears with
intolerable pressure, Itrises before
me like the ghost Of Banquo, at my
every step in the pathway Of duty:
lam a preacher If lpreach upon
the silnctlty of oaths, it regards itself
insulted, and attacks me according
1y. IfIpreach 10 christians to come
out from the wicked, it insults me for
assaiHng Know : Nothings. IL !
= Il :. ~ Io.o oc rhrisf Ia not