Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-03-14
TllE INTOLERANCE OF THE DAY.

%Ht' ''' HOLDEN WILSON.
F,b. :. 1857.
THE INTOLERANCE OF THE DAY.
o,o Of ne worst results of the new Order Of
y,ow. .Nohings is the i'll and bitter feeling engen-
,r.d between native and raturalized citizens. We
-,,Ec,cd this in the beginning of this unmanly
,,s ,rainst naturazed ci liens indeed, what else
,.,,i have been expected? \ man is reproached
and denounced because God ordained that he shonid
!, mr., in Ireland OF England or Germany-or be-
,ss L. was educated a> a Catholic, and chooses to
;5src +, the faith Of his fathers; he is told that he
;.,obc degraded from the right which the Constu-
n gives him of ioting offices and places of honor.
r-of and trust and that he is bound, Catiio-
r in the last resort, to he true to the commands of
,b Pane as a temporal monarch and false to the
land of his Adoption. What grosser injustice, what
more singing insult could he offered to man:
Strife mus, bcgct STRIFE. railing uit he returned fer
-,;irr-ha.rcd between races and between the
CHAMPIONS of crces will spring up and endure: and
fl. fruits Of these things ,sry bc--nay, viii be
disregard of aw and consequent violence and blood
saei This is the experience of all the past The
rarcs Of history tccm with accounts OF contentious
and war, between anita so:,iStc defenders and propa
GATORS of religious crcrdS Human nature has not
changed. The same results must follow here from
the same causes The son will he arrayed against
tae father, friend against friend; and men who pre-
kss to he governed by the mild doctrines of the
Prince of Peace, will be ready to coerce, and tram
plelown, and degrade these who may choose to
Worship God in way differing from their Our
r -, ;f,fio
worsson that L" Congress shall make no law respect
in. an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; GEORGE WASHINGTON, look
in. the great future for his country left record
his opinions in admirable consonance with the Con-
stnton which he was so largely instrumental in
establishing. In letter to the Catholics of the
United States. written in December, 1887, he said:
AS mankind became more liberal, they will be
be more apt to allow that all those who conduct
themselves as worthy members Of the community,
are equally entitled to the protection Of civil gov
ernm.nt | hope ever to America among the
fyrmcst nations in cxalnp es of justice and hbera-
"; and presume that your foliow-citizcns will not
forget the patriotic part which YOU took in the
cOmllislnsen of their revolution and the establish
MT of their government, the important assis-
tauco Which they received from a nation in which
the Roman Catholic religion is professcd.
Again, in a letter written in 1879, TO the General
assembly of the Presby tcr!an Church of the United
States, in reply to one addressed 10 him, lie said:
While all men within territories are protcc-
led in worshippins the Deity according to the die
tatcs Of their cosciences, it is nationally TO be cx
pce' from them i'll return, that they will all be
emuous of cvincing the sincerity of their profcs-
sons by the innocence of their lives and the bene
hCence Of their actions; for man, who is proi-
a
lnuny, Cali be true Christian, a credit to his
own rclig gous society"
again, in letter to the Gcn:ral Committee Of the
Baptist Church of Virginia, written soon after lis
Inauguration as President, he said:
"lf could lave entertained the slightest appre
hrns'On that the Constitution framed in the Conyc-
on where had the honor to preside, light posi-
"y endanger the religions rights of any ecciesi;st
cal society, certainly never ould nave placed my
Sshatu'e to It; and if could now conceive that tine
general government might ever be SO administered
render the Liberty of conscience insecure, beg
.ou Will be Persuaded That no would be more
Jealous than myself to establish cfectuul barriers
Ssal3st the horrors of spir tua tyranny and every
species Of religious persecution"
Comment on such language is not neccssary-it it
Hc'ear, full, conclusive And now who will stand
up'o eontrovert the opinions to oppose the prin-
"peS OF " AsHINGToN!
Duf, We are told, that though the Constitution
p.,hl IN expless TERMS Catholics to hold Office,
W." WV Tue people should vote against them, and that
' "ou'd not oe prescription. This is, IN substance,
suelence made for Mr. Rayner and other Know.
,.0'Inss' by the Raleigh Star. Why, what right
.,' m oe higher or more sacred than right guaran-
W The organic law? But we will quote Mr..
'"s' himself i'll answer to this position. In his
'''" IN the Convention of 1885, in favor of reli-,
s'us liberation, he said: II
os Dat II Is said if the Catholic is excluded from
sbnn1 mat will not deprive him of the right of wor
co pp's Hod according to the dictates of his own
fon Sir, the right of worshipping God free
can OIL personal pains and penalties is right which
An % oe enjoyed in any country in Christcndom.
eiusion emoinsus from the honors the profits, and the
Which, a OF tho State, is The highest persecution
coun,.p pubic opinion will tolerate in any Christian
snr,;cy y IN this enlightened age So that, if you
Won rua the principle recognized in the 32d article
hand se .he rod of persecution with unsparing
Chursh IL used III Spain, or the States Of the
anobaA" and II you exclude one sect, why not
orio orie'' and finally all, except one. 1t was fav-
fom laying OF Napoleon that there was but one ytep
prnoa sublime to the ridiculous; aud on the same
dom =, :, therc is but one step Fl ON religious free
:, " '"e most bitter aud intolerant prosecutions" !"
r,h "ayner said aud said truly, in 1876, that san
no,. .''0n from the honors, the profits and emou.
,m. Inc State, is the highest persecution scAicA
,,, =; op'"'0n ~iH tolerate in any Christian eoun1
,bs. 80 ~" enlightened age''; and now pray tell Us
uuersncc there is between an exclusion b1v TIE