The daily union., 1856-01-30
unlyFnsIrY OF MISSISSIPPI.

MY received your lelef addressed
through the columns Of the Nachez Courier nearly
three months ago and postponed my answer TO II at first
that not appear just before the Mississippi eectons
again. that il might appear during the session Of the
Memphis conference the Memphis Appeal being the chosen
medium of its publication and the Oxford paper being
then suspended and yet again that appear during
the winter vacation OF this institution.
In what follows hatter myself that neither you
the party which you will find thing Objectionable
in the Hore which prompts IT. whatever you may think Of
its matter and form The appearance OF your letter om
whig) in paper published hundred and forty
fifty miles from your residence, edited by aknow-uohing
candidate for Congress one Of my most wanion and i'm
pacable maligners, just in time to spread fully the
State before the elections ALL doubtless, pnrely acc
| dental. But allow feictate you upon your good
fortune n having been led by your impartial Judgment to
take sides with the know-nothngs against your dear old
friend and brother for had you happened to reverse
your position your organ would have given you spec
OF its naurazed southern sympahes that would have
into your tender sensbilities like and
your knownothng brethren would have taught you that
ovefcasts poor convances to knit hearts together
compared with know nothing lodges. s,..
You regret that yon have but OF letters SO
do L. Had you them ALL you would have had more
charity for my motives than you evince and more charity
for yourse than have dropped expressions and
ntimalions that find in your communication. You
would have learned that my controversy with the know
nothngs not of my seeking that it was forced upon
me by wnothing SANDERS unmitgated aud unrelent
ng--slanders which struck at my dearest interests and
most sacred relations that bore all these for long
time in silence and in PATIENCE even until saw this po-
cal party you pleased to call it, while protesting
aloud against my teaching of politics in the University
whispering the students of my charge into ITS midnight
gatherings and there binding them by oath upon oath TO
everlasting fidelity TO its political creed now spoke
out boldly in defence and against this party not
against its principles but against its mode of propagatng
them In strict truth there not word of politics in
my first letter. il understand the term said nothing
about foreigners and than this about Caihocs
~ am Catholic. Put Methodism and Romansm the
field of fair argument and will stake my all upon the
Issue; but not such coward as TO flee the field
Of honorable warfare for savage ambush fighting
such fool to believe that mans religion is to be
/ -.
blind that when the work of crushing churches
is began in the country IL is not going TO stop with the
overthrow Of one" This just such letter you tell
you would have INDUCED Not so with either the saints
sinners of the know-noihng party. They assaed me
from all sides and in all modes Not one of them grayey
answered my objections 10 the know nothing discipline
and dealings They chose rather 10 asail personally
in language uubecoming In them as it was nndeseryed
by Even my literary bagatelle the amusement of my
idle hours hve-andtweny ago held up to view
a of my fitness morally and intellectually for the
sacred Office and responsible station to which have been
called And yet these public assaults undeailed in their
severity kind courteous and ous compared with
the private COMMUNICATIONS which addressed to me
under The authors names in answer TO this letter They
all agreed however, in one particular at least and that
was that If had meddled with politics before
had done IL now aud that shis crying sin in in
sruc,or Of youth You perceive then brother that you
grossly msTepsent the know-nohings when you accord
to me the right of opposing them in any way N
That should not have very exalted opinion OF them,
after what have suffered from them, think you will
quite natural Have little charity for me- then, IL
ding elder dogmstsm dication Of learned doctor,
combination of Christians and politicians, power of
numbers, me into respect for them.
You say ." defy you my brother TO specify any thing in
knownothngism Of equal ptude my i,alics) with this
attempt to enlist church organization in crusade against
political party, matter what that party may be-" That
hard word, brother which underscored IL would
have inspired considerable indignation had you not been
kind enough 10 embrace in its application Mr.. Wesley,
yourself the main body Of your church. and the whoebod
Of knownothngs Mr.. Wesley endeavored enlist not
only his people but all Americans all Englshmen,
and rshmen against the daeicdH party Of l77G. Was
he guilty Of turptude in doing Nay my brother.
Taptude involves Intentional error and Mr Wesley
the TO commit that lie really believed that the
colonies had just grounds of revolt against the mother
country that they perling everything valuable in
Church and State every thing sacred in faernsl ties upon
political distractions and so believing be exerted
his influence TO It's utmost extent to reduce the colonies TO
submission That the nohest political party that ever
formed and IL 1t be turpitude TO enlist church or
ganization against any political party, matter rhat that
parry may BE- where does Mr. Wesley stsnd2 Is the mod
Americar parry tits name was Sam when took The
pen against IT. holy more pure, more noble more
dignihed, than the old American party IL then, be-
eyed verify did believe that the knCwnothings were
about to rend churches nHame passions sunder friend
ships and kude the flames Of civil war, why might not
my best ende 10 turn church at least away
from IL without incurrng the guilt Of iurpitudeP But
this only by the way I viii show you presently that
you have mistaken my designs in this church matter en-
rely.
ed our friendships WHEREIN you represented my feelings in
describing your own you say ave together have warred
srenuousy against the rSagnan tendencies or abolition
anaticism aud suffered together in that ruthless war
areH True your efforts In that struggle gallant
noble powerful mine the weakest Of my life, and
therefore to myself the most morying. But against
whom contending, brother Against political
party which had brought it's banefn principles into our
church. What aim when argument failed 10 er
act Justice from that pary2 To all southern Method
sm all parties all who respected religion ghi, and
fair dealing against H. What the issue Of labors
The almost entire withdrawal Of southern and southwest
ern Meihodsts from all connexion with the northern
hran nf the establishment nm
pendent southern church. which bath fellowship with
IL Was there any turp,ude In all thsi IL there
you were a much larger sharer in IL than was, for
you were by far the efficient aborer Of the two.
And here let remark, in passing that one Of my
strongest objections 10 knownothngsm was that II uni
ted the main body OF southern Mehodss in bonds
Of fellowship with that very party who had repced them
BY prescription blisered them by caumny and pookeed
all the partnership funds II in the land Of these law
despising rghabusng prosecutors that know nothngism
originated Senator Adamss Information 70 the contrary
Notwithstanding cannot stop TO prove u at arRe suf
fee il for the present that Chase says IL originated in the
free States The first know-nothinE formulary Of the
grand council was issued from the press Of Damrel
Moore No rs Devonshre street. Boston Baltimore would
have sent its bautng TO receive its swaddng IN
Boston The Infamous Judson according 10 the papers
was recently introduced to council in Pennsy ylvana
the father Of the order and he received with plsud
its. The thing has southern feature But enough Of
this
think hazard nothing in saying that when wrote
my seyentenths Of the members Of
church had joined this party For what To accom-
psh rs avowed aims of And what they ri
Whv to senisr every Protestant Church organization In
the land in Crusade against Of the weakest churches
Numerically the whole country Here the hrst OBJ
of know-nptbinp marty and the second al