Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-02-21
POLITICS IN RELIGION AND NATIVITY.

one class of our people against another, we shall
preach sermon, deduced from Biblical history
While do not expect to overcome their prejudices,
and thereby make them better citizens we shall feel
much pride in being able to uproot the whole foun
daton upon which they have built the fnsy struc-
ture of acknowledgment, from texts drawn from
the very Books which they all pretend to 1t
is singular, that such benighted ignorance should
prevade the minds ofthousands of Clergymen in our
country, in reference to the precepts and commands
of the Bible and New Tcstament,--the very books
which they so handsomely paid to study, and
beyond which, as general thing, it is every where
conceded, they kn01c nothing. Oflate years preach
ing has been made easy, in consequence of the print
ing of ponderous volumes of Commentaries and Ser
mons upon every chapter, and almost every
in the Old and New Testament. The itineracy of
the Methodist Church saves vast amount ofstudy
in the Pastors of the denomination, owing to the
short time they are permitted to remain in one local
ity Old Sermons in places, are Just as good
if they leaped, instinct with heartfelt fervor from
the brain of the Preacher, at the moment of deliv
cry. We must to eXorduln, and get at the text.
In job Sth chapter and 9th verse, we find the
following words which shall serve US as the subject
of discourse -
(For are but OF yesterday, and know moth
ing, because days upon earth shadow
1t is no uncommon thing in this country to hear
individuals speak of the down-trodden and pauper
population of Europe, in whose favor the strongest
sympathy is expressed. Their deep distress calls
forth bitter animated versions against their oppres-
sorS, and many American heart beats
sponsively to their longngs for liberty. 1t often
happens that some of these pauper subjects of cruel
masters get to this county, either by their
ertons, or through the action of their Rulers. On
reaching our shores, should they DE successful in
obtaining employment, it is fortunate for themselves,
and evidence of their desire to enrich country
to the extent of their labor. Short sighted political
economists however, who have never yet compre-
hended the fact that labor is the of wealth.
subject such cmigrants to the vlest abuse and the
coarsest vituperaton, because, they, in their ig
norance alege, the foreign born deprive the native
born population of a remuneratve price for labor,
choke up the avenues of industry. The laws of
demand and supply are things unknown to the whole
body of croakers. But how stands the matter, if
such emgrants fail to turn their bones and Snews
to account in support of themselves and families?
The cry at goes forth, that such fore gnerS
attempting to fasten their support upon country
men, By finding place in the Aims House. Com
plants of this kind frequently made by persons
whose ancestors came here equally poor, many of
whom sold to service for term of years, in
der to pay their passage money. Many proud
head would be dropped and many bitter tongue
silenced, to make public the facts have
in this connection
In Massachusetts, where Know-Nothingism is at
present rampant the authorities have recently sent
back to the scenes of their early suffering and OPP
PRESTON under co!or ofsolac law number of down
rodden paupe"S, to be again subject TO the tender
mcrcies of their tyrannical masters. Did it never
occur the minds of some of these American
lcrs of America" many of whom profess to be the
ambassadors of Christ to a lost world and all of
whom their reverence for the teachings of the
Bible, that He who the end from the beginning,
and who foreSaW the probability OF strangers this
and every other country, in poverty and want had,
in various places in that Bible, commanded to
minister to their necessities and provide for their
wants. There are in that Bible a multitude of
prccepts which rebuke, in the strongest manner,
the fell spirit of the Know-Nothng doctrine. In
Exodus, xxi chap. 21st verse, it is said
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor Cypress him.
for strangers in the land of Egypt.
In LevitcuS xix chap. 9th and 10th verses find:
9 And when We reap the harvest of your land thou
shalt not wholly reap the ofthy field neither
shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
10 And thou shalt not CLEAN thy vineyard, neither
shalt thou gather ercrg grape of thy vineyard thou
shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: l nm
the Lord your God.
Ofsimiiar import is Lev xiii chap. and ODD verse:
% And when We reap the harvest Of your land,
thou shalt make clean radiance of the corners
of thy field when thou rcapest, neither shalt thou
gather any cleaning of thy harvest thou shalt leave
them unto the poor, and to the stranger; an the
Lord YOUR God.
BY still decisive language is the same duty
enforced in Deuteronomy xiv chap. 10Th, Goth and
Dist verses, accompanied by the significant admo-
milton in the ODD verse.
10 When thou cuttcst down thine harvest in thy
field and hast forgot a shicf i'll thy field thou shalt
go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger
for lhc atherleSs, and for the widow that the Lord
thy God may bless thee in ali the work of thine hands,
90 When thou bcatest thine ove-trce, thou shalt
not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the
stranger for the fatherlcss and for the widow.
81 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vine
yard thou shalt not CLEAN it afterwards: it shall be
for the stranger the atherles$ and for the widow.
% And thou shalt remember that thou vast
bond man in the land of Egyt: therefore |
mand thee to do this thing.
But in order to prevent those Pastors and Chris
tians who in alliance with Know othingism
from taking exception to the record found in the
Old Testament shall refer to few extracts from
the New Testament. The same duties enforced
by our Saviour, in his sounspring Sermon the
Mount. In Matth. V. chap. and 7th verse, he says,
Blessed the merciful for they shall find
cy." In Matth. XIV chap from the 41st to the 10Th
verse, the duty is placed in still stronger light
Al Then shall he say also unto them on the left
hand Depart from me We cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
40 For was hungered, and We gave
meat: was thirsty, and We gave no drink:
43 I was stranger, and ye took me not in naked,
and We clothed me not SICK and in prison, and We
visited me not.
A Then shall they also answer unto him, saying,
Lord when thee hungcred thirst
or stranger, naked sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto thee
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verify,
say unto you inasmuch as we did it not to of
the least of these, we did 1t not to me.
Ye Christian advocates of the abominablc and
proscrptve doctrine of Know Nothingism, now mark
what follows The 46th of the chapter says
46 And these shall go away into everlasting pun
ishment.
This much we have given to show our duty to the
poor stranger who may be found in midst. The
political phase of Know Nothngism to have
commenced at very early period in the history of