The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1855-01-05

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; deep imprss,ion. on sitSho read it,
A rspi.t sot sfa,riot.
fros ,Ae. .TAsn{,eiyj6a sermon OF the
Rev. DR.. Mow@, pubs<hed by the Harpers,
We copy the .folisk~E passage, announcing
j startling but very suggestive doctrine, that
no mao can be an American Patriot and ct !
Ibe ssms time true Pspist.
Patriotism 10 hove Of country. So that to |
ks patriot. man must have country. A !
patriot 10 England, hustria, or Russia, is one
who sustains the institutions Of those coun-
tries With zeal and energy. A patriot with
W. is one who sustains our Institutions with
zeal and energy. Each country has its own
peculiar Institutions; and he is a true patriot
who sustsins oil that is good, and who we'd
seek, in all right ways, 10 rectify all that is
evil 10 them, because of the love he bears
his country.
There has been manifested in this land
patriotism that has astonished the world
The fathers OF our government sacrificed ev-
etything hut honor to found IL; and wisdom
was given them from above to inaugurate it
as constitutional government. And patri-
otism calls upon their sons, and upon all who
wosld seek here home either from tho pov.
srty or the oppression of other lands, to main
tsin our institutions as they h I'VE been trans
mitted to US, and to en,rust their manage
Insnt only 10 those who are acquainted with
thoIn. And upon this topic the signs of the
times should induce all sober men to think,
and to act. When we see cur streets crowd.
cd by military companies offoreign name and
birth--when we see and hear our most sa-
cred institutions, even to the Sabbath and
the Bible, denounced in public assembloges,
by men unable to speak our language
foreigners are mustered to the polls to de.
feat the election o. an American citizen, be-
cause Of his regard for law and orde.-when
emigrunts from other lands surround the
polls, and murder peaceable citizens when
going to tie ballot.box-when those Just es.
capped from the ignorance and degradation of
other lands. burn our Bibles, and would turn
them out o. our schools. and would thus, in
obedience 70 the altar dictnion of imported
priests, trample in the dust all that has made,
and all that sustains US, as a free people, il is
time for the American spirit to rise, and
wisely 70 adjust its action to crcumsta aces.
Let the foreigner have no vote until he as
had abundant time to learn our language,
and the genius Of our institutions; and, then,
lot him be content with the protection OF
our laws, and with all the rights and inmun-
ties Of citizen. This is alike due to the
best interests Of the foreigner, und OF the
csuntry; il would take the stranger ont of
the hands Of our base politicians, who mis-
lead them, and degrade them by strong drink
10 secure their vote, and then desert them;
and it would save the country from the polit.
cal iAnuence OF the swarming mutitudes
who are seeking here a home from other
lands, and among whom the most wicked
and unscrupulous, and the sworn enemies of
our religious freedom, WELD nearly all the
power. Foreigners coming here for home,
owe It 10 themselves, and to thei children,
and to the country, to drop as soon as posi-.
BILE their pecuarities, and 20 become, in the
hroadeG sonse, Americans. And hence,
voud have no Scotch, or Dutch, or German.
or irish, or English churches;-nor would |
have any such military companies, or political
parties. would put the broad American
stamp upon all churches, creeds, associa-
tions, and parties; and to those who would
net receive it, | would say, "the road back to
the old countryis no longer than when you
came" We may entertain all right aifec-
tion for the country Of our birth but the
country that feeds, clothes, protects U.s.
that secures to us our liberty and our privi-
lsges--that receives US as children, though
slicas--that open up to US every avenue OF
business, as to her own children, ana which
we desire to lake the home of our descend
ants--tbat. that should be the country of our
love.
There is yet another point on which our
patriotism will be soon tested. Our consti-
tuition and laws forbid US to ostracise any
man for his religious opinions, be he Turk,
Jew, Pagan, Protestant OF Papist; but they
forbid "s to raise any to Office who are bound
by superior allegiance 10 any other govern.
mont than to our own. Now, the Pope of
Rome, as the v!ccgerent OF God, claims Il
universal supremacy in things spiritual and
temporal. lie has never withdrawn his claim
to the power he welded, when he dethroned
kings and princes, and absolyed subjec q
from their allegiance to their sovereigns.-
And 'hsre is sn cath upon the soul of every
archbishop. bishop, priest, ecclesisstc, "to
preserve, defend, increase, advance the rights
hoRors, privileges, and authority of the lord,
the Pope; that they will help to defend The
royalties o! st. Peter against all IN -
This sworn allegiance 10 the Pope they new
eT change, save with their office, or On their
conversion. The Pope receives obedience
from the bshops,the bishops from the priests,
and the priests from the people. And the
people that will not obey the priest, the
priests that will not obey the bishop,th bish.
oP. that will not obey the Pope are cursed,
sad exsommunicsted. and given over to hell
and the devil. When tho interests of this
ssuntfy come in conflict with the rights hon.
ors, privileges, and authority Of the Pope
there 10 not a bishop, priest, Oh Papist, in the
Hand, that is not bound by oath aud principle
TO go against our countr y. and for the Pope.
30 ths, nancan no more be Papist, aud
. true and loyal American citizen, than be
can serve tso masters. lie must be either
bad patriot or had punisf Ia thia ao1 II