Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-02
HOSPITALITY

who exercise it hdDe sometimes e'tteTe@tse1 "yet0
anaacares" Hospitality is for the stranger 1of the
nersecuted for the oppressed. Bishop Horseiy IN
his great speech in England alter the french reVo
luton of 1900 used these noble words, appilcaole
in all respects to the present condltion Oh our OWN
happy country:
INV lords, the storm of anti Christian persecu-
ton which has ragged in France since her revolution
has driven numbers both of the secular clergy ana
persons of both of the religious ORDERS 70 Jake
shelter in this hosptable land by the natural gene
rosty of Britous and the influence OF the oeneYo-
lent principles of the Protestant rellgon-the UNI
versa asylum of the prosecuted and the oistfesseo
This hemisphere was set out before tne Ha' i!
of the world dedicated to liberty and hospitality:
It's chefest glory has been won by the SACRIFICES anu
services of gners who fled here from the pros
criptions of their own lands, and prepared the way
for those who had suffered like themselves, 5or
a long time the savage natives refused to extend to
the newcomers the blessings OF hospitality. Ihou-
sands of the early strangers who came mere lot pro-
lection from the storms of religious prosecutions
were butchered with their wives and families, by
the rude barbarians, who claimed the soil as their
own and it was long before the infant colonies
could make stand against their foes But Ood was
over ALL He followed them over the stormy, deep,
sheltered them on the barren shore, rolled back
ward the tide of Indian war, and gradually built
I'D their nation as beacon-light to all the nations
of the earth. 1t like house OF rest and OF res
cue in the midst of a noisy and a ogoted worid
like that diamond in the midst OF the DESERT
where the champions of opposing creeds could
shake hands and be at peace IN a Word IL was as
a home heaven, which all could enter, with none
to modest and make them afraid. Imagine a man
who is himself recovered from the SHOWS of winter
and from the horrors of starvation, from both OF
which he had been suffering, warmed and fed, and
finally made comfortable and rich-Ilnagine such a
man barring his doors to the future waytarers, and
setting his fierce dogs upon all who implored the
shelter of his roof the crumbs that lell IRON MS
table. Would he not be scorned as an migrate and
a tyrant? Would he not be held up as an adnont-
ton to the young, and Stunned as Topper by all
men?
This new prescription is the most scandaious in
hospitality 1t is a double crime. 1t shuts the door
in the face of the stranger, or 1t admits nun ony -
torture him. 1t compelS him to abJure his falth,
else to submit to the brand of inferorty Tor adj
ing to it. 1t marks him as one who has been al
lowed to enter the household which it supposed
was open to the oppressed, on conaition mat ne
parts with his sefrespect and lis pride of character
We say, also. that when we give up our regard
for the sacred rite Of national hospitality, We dis
card, also, the virtues that accompanied this noble
element in the perilous days OF the past. hat
would have been the boosted liberty of our forefath
ers if they had not been hospitable and tolerant?
Indeed, without hospitality their professions would
have been cheat their invitation to the people of
other lands hollow hypocrisy, their whole political
creed a miserable show How can those who would
not be here themselves, but because of these very
virtues, venture to select for sacrifice and for
contempt cardinal and leading element of our
political and social system like this virtue of hosp
tality? What is federation without it? What is
ligiOn without it? What is civil liberty without it?
Can he who thrusts the stranger from his door be-
cause he does not worship at the same shrine with
himself-can he be tolerant? Is the minister of
God truly pous man, sincere follower of the |
meek and low y Jesus, who refuses to sit at the |
same table, or to share the same dutes with the |
papist the dssenter? And what kind of patriot |
is he who distinguishes between men of differing |
nativites, and regulates citizenship by degrees of
latitude, and not by the immortal qualities of man,
or by the known fitness for the duties of member
of republican community?
St. Paul tells that the hospitable man "some- |
times entertains angels unawars." What picture |
of the American past! What a key to the American I
future! 1t is true that the American people opened
their to the brave foreigners these advocates
of freedom were welcomed as so many angels of de-
verance But who knows how many of those
sharing with the blessings of liberty may, in the
future, become the champions of our periled liber
lies? Who knows that when such traitor as Ar
hold Burr shall threaten to shake the founda-
ions of our constitution, seek to sell US to the
foreign foe, other Lafayette may not come to
Is from the great world beyond the sea-, and res
,ue US from the fangs of internal treason? Who
Knows that among the foreigners sought to be
degraded and the citizens sought to be disran-
;hsed, some spirit like Montgomery may not give
lis life to his adopted country? Who knows that
mong the millions in distant ATTITUDES now gazing
through their tears upon this, their only refuge on
Gods footstool some Koscusko, some De Kalb, |
nay not be set apart for the work of defending
lappy republic from the hand of the spoilers? And
hall not feel therefore, the apostle felt, that
ain angels ?" Shall we not cling to it to
he last? Shall not keep the heart open, and the
open, for the poor and the sorrow-strcken, the
weary and the heavy-laden; the stranger hunted
ut of house and home by the wild beasts of OPP
ression; the bold heart tempest tossed the
f life; the champion of truth trampled under foot
y the man aters of the world the searcher after
reedom, who has no place whereon to lay his weary
cad, and who sees the welcome light of our" home''
leaning through the midnight pail of oppression
bright hope that beckons him to field whereon
e may avenge his wrongs against the tyrant, and
erve God in aiding to elevate and to improve his
ellow-bengs? Remember, the doors Of the despotic
0tions are closed to the wanderers and If they
ours they must perish!
Wash. Union.
WILLIAM AND MARY CoLLEGE.-The Williamsburg
azette from the records of the College, thus, sums
p what old William and Mary have done;
The college has had 6 Presidents, old Commissary
lair, being the first: = He appointed in 1893.
he first honorary degree conferred by this nstitu-
on record A. M to Benjamin Frank
n in 1855, just after his new experiments and OBJ
rvations on electricity made at Philadelphia
doubt was the first degree ever conferred on this
ustrious philosopher. -
in the catalogue, of these: Three have been Pre-
yer) l, the first President of the American Con-
'ess, Randolph,) l. Chief Justice (Marshal y 3
gners of the Declaration of Independence, DIETER
m, Braxton and Harrison.) Lieut.. Gen. of the y.
(ScotE 3 Vice Presidents 10 U. S. Senators, 8
ovs of Va. Zone each of Maryland Missouri and
orida,) Secretaries of State, other cabinet of
:ers. 9 Judges Supreme Court. of the Court of