Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1855-09-15
Volume I.---No. 6.


rejoice that the poor abroad save Yes.
the trouble Of going to them, by coming
to you. Let lawmakers exclude them
if they will but you have no business
quitting your work to hunt up lawmakers
to do it, Much less have you any bust
ness working under cover with all sorts
of characters, to put down all law
makers, but those who will do il. re-
peat it, brethren, take care how you
triie with this class of Gods creatures.
If you have experiments to try in your
Know Nothing laboratory, take care that
you do not put the souls of men in tho
crucible. or blow up your own souls.
And what is your remedy for immi-
grant pauperism? Why. you will vote
for no foreigner, rich or poor, for office
Does this remedy touch the disease, or
even the person discussed Men come
hither from Europe, sick and your ned
zeal colleges are going to cure them, by
prescribing strict regimen to all the
sound who have come from the same
country, though the first and second
generationsl II the statement of such a
case does not shock your understandings,
| pray you, IN mercy to yourselves, and
for the honor of Methodism, surren-
der your parchments forthwith. You
are either gulled, or you pretend to be;
and in either case, you wound the char
acter of our Church. / am panied for
the future destiny of our Heaven blessed
country, when sec that the daring au-
thor Of this nonsense should have sue
ceeded so well.
| Turn if you please, to Bascom's Ser
mons, (page 2SS) and read the letter
which prefaces the sermon beginning at
| that page. Many of you, with me, heard
it preached at the first General Confer
ence of the Methodist Church, South.
We all admired it, but-we did not know
the intent with which it was delivered.
| He explains it i'll the Introductory letter,
from which the following is an extract:
'The many virtues and christian death
Of your son, not TO overlook the noble
charity he founded, by requesting and
obtaining from his father twenty thou
sand dollars, with the addition of suita-
bic grounds for the establishment Of an
Orphan Asylum in his native city" (Pe..
tersburg, Val "must be to you sources
of consolation beyond any earth can Of
fer. The following thoughts on death
may enhance your estimate Of this, &c.
For these reasons, &C., ! ask permission,
my dear Madam, to dedicate this dis
) course to you" He had previously said,
that 1t WAS intended TO offer consolation
to the mothers afflicted bosom. under
her then recent bereavement. The fa-
Their of that noble son is one of the love-
Hest specimens of the christian character
that | ever saw | have it upon credi-
bic authority, that the magnificent dona-
ton mentioned by Bascom, is only about
double the sum which he gives every year
) to benevolent purposes, and "when he
doeth aims, he lets not his left hand
know what his right hand doeth." He
will be offended at this exposure of his
virtues, know, but he will pardon it /
trust when | assure him it is made only
to save his Church from peril, and her
ministry from discredit That man is
naturalizcd foreigner. II that man
} were candidate for an office requiring
special trust and confidence-if he were
! q candidate for any oilice-you would
vote for the most abandoned prohigate
in the land in preference to him. Your
, VOWS to that effect are registered in
, Heaven. Nay, he was recently candi-
date for petty office in his city and |
, suppose Methodist Know Nothings, per-
haps preachers, walked around that Asy-
lum and over those consecrated grounds,
TO vote for some competitor of his, at tho
sight Of whom Religion would start and
Charity shrek.
, "But we have not right to vote as
we plcase?" No, gentlemen, you sur
rendered that right when yon Joined tho
: Know Nothings; and am amazed that
you made the surrender; for when you
, did that, you virtually acknowledged
: yourselves incompetent 10 advocate any
men or any measures. You can advocate
the claims Of no man, because you do
not know that you will be permitted 10
vote for him yourselves; and no mca-
sures, because they have none. A beau
tifud predicament for a freeman TO place
himself in! When q preacher votes, it
is to be presumed that he votes conseien-
tiously and upon principle; but you vote
as you are ordered, and only according
to a mans birthplace. "Know yc not
that to whom yc yield yourselves servants
to obey, his servants ye are to whom 20
obey.
"But, we love the brother, though
we cannot vote for the manw You do!
What stupendous exhibition Of moral
sublimity! What beautiful combine
ton of religion and patriatism II lacks
but three things to make it perfect.
First, Religion demands that you not
only love your brother, but that You do
nothing to forfeit his love TO you. Sec
ondly, Patriotism demands that you al
ways vote for the most trustworthy.
And thirdly, " cannot" should refer 70
conscience, and not to a gratuitous oath.
/ proceed to the next head:
BY concession, all who come into tho
country are not only paupors, but Catho-
lies. Suppose they were Methodists,
would you object? Certainly not. Then
you would determine every foreigners
privilege to como TO the country, by his
religion, would your And do You not
perceive that this rule would be imprac-