The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-06-29

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such combination is not enough to max
the Church and State both shudder, l kno,
not what would.
""On me the new Order bears with into
cradle pressure. 1t rises before me like tn
ghost of Banquo, at my every step in th
pathway of duty.
II am preacher: If I preach npon th
sanctity of oaths, it regards itself insulted
and attacks me accordingly. HIpreach t,
christians to come out from the wicked. i
insults me for assailing Know Nothinus. I
preach that the love of Christ is not bound
ed by State lines, it charges me with attack
ing the article of its creed against foreign
ers.
II am teacher: If I teach that unlaw
ful promises arc not binding, shall bt
charged with justifying the exposure o.
Know Nothing secrets. If l set the lesson
to my pupils wherein J. B. Say says tla,
every accession of man to a country is ar
accession Of treasure, am to be published
to the world as indoctrinating my pupils
in anti-Know Nothing politics. As | an,
ever to be gored by this young mad bull, |
had as well take it by the horns at once.
Let the order keep its hands off me, the
Church, and the Constitution, and I will
never disturb it.
"A, word to the good people of Mississippi
and l have done. You have University
OF which you may feel proud. For harmo-
ny and kindly feeling among the faculty,
tor good order, good morals, genticmanly
demeanor, study and progress among tie
Foro or1, I,
preceptors and pupils, you may fearlessly
challenge comparison with any other kin
dred institution in the world. For its age
1t has not its equal in point of PATRONAGE
and rank in the United States. In these
respects, it stands at the head of lO3 out of
lls Colleges in the United States; and of
those above it, large majority are over
forty years. older than itself, and three over
one hundred years older And this rank it
has attained throug gh more adverse fortunes,
than probably ever beset an Institution be
Of politics. Your sons graduate in politics
before they come to the University.
"It is now III its palmiest days, and this
you see is one Of the objects Of Know Moth
ing vandalism. 1t has already, l fear, thrown
a fire brand into its peaceful halls. l ap-
peal to you to come to the rescue. Rise
up as one man against it, when it invades
The sanctuary of literature, instead of re-
luiring your professors to kneel in its pres
ence. l am sure there are yet more than
ten thousand Christians in and about the
State who have not yet bowed the knee to
Baal. l call them to its help. Honest yeo-
manry, and farmers of the land, who always
mean right, come ye to its succor! Honest,
well meaning Know Nothings, who in
moment have been drawn into
the order, come out of it, and rally to the
support Of your University.
81 regret having been constrained to an
attitude which may perchance injure the
University for time but be the fault on
the head Of Know Nothings, not mine.
Look at their fruits already scattered through
the land, and surely you will approve Of my
opposition to it. If you do not, your chill
dren will. "By their fruits shall we know
them" What arc they? Most desperate and
dangerous agitation Churches rendering
and fiocks at variance
Christians losing all confidence in each other
and sinners in close embrace :;
Preachers of the same Church getting but
half congregations and half support-one
looking on approvingly, while another is
abused-Tcachers tottcring-their pupils
in midnight cliques-friendship severing-
rage taking the place Of love-father against
son-brother against brother. These things
now are; and they proclaim, trumpet-ton-
gued, what is coming, if the monster be not
crushed at once. And all for what! In
honest truth, to get in the outs, and get out
the ins. This is the true object of the order.
Well, it must take its course till reason re-
sumes her seat.
"Nations, like men, run mad at times, and
nothing but time and blood-letting can cure
them. Still while there is hope, all good
men should strive to relieve them. My
course is taken-carefully, thoughtfully ta.
KEN. l am no Catholic. Put Methodism
and Romanism on the field of fair argument
and | will stake nay all upon the issue but
| am not such coward as to flee the field
Of honorable warfare, for savage ambush
fighting; or such fool as to believe' tia,
mans religion is, to be reformed by har
assipg his person. Nor am quite so. blind
as not to see, that when the work Of crush
ing Churches is begun in this country, it il
not going to stop with the overthrow of one
All Protestantism almost will be against mi
two thirds Of my own Church II Judge
will be against methe Trustees will b
alarmed forthe interest of the College--ni,
colleagues Of the Faculty will be uneasy
my best friends will, be panied; but / hay
an abiding confidence that nothing will b
lost BY my eopraetin the end. will, b