Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1855-09-15

" They are such as serve not the Lord
Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and
by good words and fair speeches deceive
the hearts Of the simple" They are
given to debates, envyings, wraths,
strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swell
lings, tumults." "With fcigned words
they make merchandise of you" They
are ashamed "even to speak of those
things which are done to themin secret"
These be the men to whom you have
yoked yourselves. l do not say all your
companions are such; but know many
of them to be such and most of them to
be men Of the world. l would with
draw you from them; but. if | cannot,
and a final separation should take place
between us, remember, ifyou please, that
you made the first move in it.
But why not quietly enjoy our own
opoinions, and live in peace? Ianswer,
because your lodges will not allow me
to enjoy my opinions in peace, but upon
pam of surrendering the freemen's right
Of speech and because, with my notions
OF the moral character and aims of your
Order, we never can live in peace while
you remain in it, and remain in the
Methodist Church. How /" can two
walk together except they be agreed 2"
| am mott the only Methodist by hundreds,
if not thousands, who entertain my
opinions of your Order; and / should
suppose, whatever you may think of it,
that for their sakes you would abandon
it, upon the principle that you should do
nothing whereby thy brother stumbleth,
OF is offended, Or is made weak" Your
opposition TO Catholics and foreigners, |
deem ilnpolitic and unchristian but this
will never disturb our peace, if you viii
not prosecute It in way dangerous to
the peace Of the country, eneryating to
Professionalism, fostering to Romanism,
paralyzing TO Methodisln, humiliating to
her ministry, distracting to her member
ship, encouraging to falsehood, smother
ing 70 truth, and demoralizing in all its
aspects achievements And here ] bee
you to bear it in mind, that it is not your
principles to which / object (if naked
conspiracy against two elias es of mon
can be called principlos) so much as to
your manner Of proragating them. But,
as | cannot hope to wean you from the
Order, without at least shaking your
confidence in your principles, l shall, in
the first place, address myself to them.
In what ! have to say upon this head,
shall take it for granted that you all
szont oyer 70 the Know Nothings with
t'ood iite1fuHs: that 500 sli1aasely be-
hcye the Catholics are abbut to lake the
country; and that foreigners are about
to take it too; and that handled as it has
been by Wings and Democrats, it is even
now hardly worth having: and that,
{ without the intorpoition Of Know Moth
. ingism, il VIII soon be a putrid carcass
upon any party that shoulders it. |
cannot reconcile these suppositions with
each other; but they must be made to
reconcile The professions of your Order
vita sincerity.
l viii go still farther, and admit, for
the sake of the argument, that every
emigrant who comes into the country, is
{ a pauper and Catholic--that the Pope
/ of Rome isfully advised Of every election
that comesoff in this country, from Cal
T ifornia to Maine, and from Oregon to
l'lorida--that every Catholic in the land
feels lsimself bound to vote just as the
/ Pope orders him toyote, in every election
That occurs in this country from that Of
village constables to that Of President Of
! the United States. Let this tissue Of
absurdities be admitted, and still main
tain that Know Nothingism is not the
remedy for the supposed evils and that
if it were, it is remedy with which you
should have nothing to do. TO the
proof:
Paupers are annually coming by null
titudes into the country. Very well ;
and who arc paIpers2 Why, they arc
poor people. They are not necessarily
lazy Or dishonest. So far from it, they
are generally both honest and industri-
certainly as honest and industrious
7 as natives in their condition. These, an
oppressed, afflicted, down-trodden, over
wrought, enslayed people, seek shelter
and living in your free country, where
millions Of idle capital are only waiting
the hand Of industry, to loom out in all
that enriches, adorns, ennobles and
strengthens nation these are the
people which your Order would drive
from our shores, simply because they are
poor! You tell us, with more candor
than self-respect, that the rich may come
without opposition, but you will not have
your country burdened with paupers.
With you, the old motto which you
learned from the lips of your sires and
grandsires, Z" America, an asylum for
the oppressed" is changed TO " America,
an asylum for the oppressor and a scouree
TO the oppressed !" Your aims are az
impolitic as they are inhuman. Hear
the language Of one who knew the eff
fects Of immigration upon a country far
better than the wisestman Of your Or
der: a nation receiving stray child"
(u Jo,ttort, a crown mani =" into its b0s-
ON again, acquires real treasure; in
asmueh as it receives in him an addition
to it, population, an accession to the
profits ofnational industry, and an ac-
quisilon Of capital. 1t, at the same
time, RECEIVERS lost citizen, and the
means for him to subsist upon. II the
exile bring back his industry only, at
any rate the profits Industry are added
to the national stock. 1t IS true that a