Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-08

serve 0oQ anu the devil At the same IlHes
We extract the above from the Union
and american of yesterday. Within the
last few months we have observed several
items of similar character in its columns.
Not long since there appeared one stating
that "Know Nothing" in such locality
had been convicted of ENLIGHTENMENT, and
if we remember Alright, that another had
been arrested for horse-stealing. The Lou
isville Democrat, the only rival of respecta-
bility that our neighbor has in the country
as a malignant and ferocious partisan jour-
nal is likewise the only newspaper of char
acter or standing that has condeScended to
this species of warfare. Of the spirit
which prompts it we have not word to
say.
We are to understand from the above
that Mr. LEWIS was expelled from his
church because he believed that the meas
ures OF the American party constitute the
safest and soundest policy for this govern
ment to pursue And the Union and Amer
lean says, or at least endorses the saying of
another, that "this is right" mo man
can serve God and the devil at the same
time," say these sanity advocates Of reli-
giOus treedom and Mr. Lewis, you shall not
be an American and conduct public wor-
ship for us. Hypocrite, as you are, we
dismiss you and disgrace you-no man can
profess the religion Of the Bible and pro-
feSs Americanism at the same time. Away
with you, you desecrate our sanctuary and
bring US under the condemnation of Hea-
ven for suffering such arrant hypocrisy to
60 unrebuked.
This is the conduct of the party who de-
nounce their fellow-citizens who oppose the
political feature of Romanism, as enemies
to civil and religious liberty" Why, this
is Romanism itself Mother Church, in
the palm of her bloody glory, never was
guilty of more ruthless and unholy pro-
scription. Rome put heretics to death,
and condemned them to hell-pains in eter-
nifty. The pious ( j procriptionists of Buck
Run church expel those they denominate
heretics, and brand them to the world as
unworthy to associate with Gods people,
and fit objects of His wrath. Verify, is
Romanism infusing itself into the creed of
its latter-day apologists and defenders.
We have seen in our time just such
bodies of low-minded, narrow-souled, mean
spirited, bigoted Christians as from this
act we judge constitute the majority of
the members of Buck Run church. We
do not know the sect of the Buck Runners,
and consequently our remarks can have no
application of that kind. Such characters
are confined to no sect. To the dishonor
of the race, and to the shame of religion,
they are too common in all SectS. They
constitute the stumbling block" of the
Scriptures, and do more to discredit and
retard the progress of true christianity
than all other agencies. Who can con-
template such conduct in men who profess
regeneration of heart, without turning
away sickened and Disguised with the en-,
tire system? Such men have no conception
Of the religion they profess, while they dis
grace it. A chapel full of them have not
as much of it as would save the soul of a
monkey. We sometimes think that if there
any is graduation in the next worlds punish
ments, that such Christians y will fall
heir to the hottest, sootiest, smokieSt holes
in hell. If the Union and American has
represented the Buck Runners correctly,
every one of them who took part in the
expulsion of Mr.. LEWIS, merits the scorn
and contempt of the world, while they are
permitted to live in 1.-THE God they have
insulted will provide for their deserts here
after.
But it may be that other offences deserv.
ing of expulsion were laid to Mr. LEwIs's
charge, and the Buck Runners were iusti
fable in deposing their spiritual guide. il
this be the case, they are suffering in the
public estimation while they permit such
paragraphs as the above to receive curren
cy, without contradiction For no man
can view it in the light we have been com
PEELED to regard it in, without feeling un
mingled contempt for the actors. If sucl
statements SANDER them, they wound the
religion they teach and profess to practice
and the cause calls loudly upon them tC
vindcate it and themselves from the inju
rious impressions it must give rise to-
As we have before said, we have but q
word in relation to the course which Demo
cratic editors pursue, who use such means
to injure the American party. If all the
charges were true which they allege against
individual members of the American party
they are not justifable in publishing them
as imputations on the integrity of the whole
party Would they insinuate by such q
course that infamous crimes are the inevita
BILE and natural consequences of Americans
ism The meanness and malignity of such
insinuations are only equalled by the dolt-
headed ignorance which gave birth to
them. We cannot believe our neighboI
fully eomprehends the great injustice he
does the American party by such publea
tions.
Again IL will be rememb ered that, not
withslsBding Gen. Zollicoffer now character.