Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-02-22
For Me Reoista.

e. When the party called Know Nothingsl
.sprang into existence. its adherents pro
lfessed thatfthe great objectof the new or
ganiization was,a purification Of party poll
lies Having succeeded so lar in' the
cleansing The halls of egislationS as 10 pre-
cipitate into Congress host of abolition.
lists, and giving to the world an embodi-
ment of truth, honor. and disinterested pa
triottsm 10 the person of the Honorable
Johns. iCaflile, who is 70 stand as a 4bea-
n-to the rising generation and the 4iu-
ture statesmen. of the Repnblic, they now
with pious satisfaction turn their at
tention to the correction ofstheamerala and
social conduct of the serring members of
that party which has had the obstinacy to
oppose themlin their charitable and phi
lanthropic. labors. ss In pursuance aoflthis
laudable design, Mr.. Philip +. Chrih6eld,
who has been hired or employed by the
Clarksburg Council of this suprenae order
to WELD the brightdsword4 of a pure and
evangelical religionlinfithese capes, pro.
ceeded in the last mum Der of that !delee-
trable and yeracious sheet called. the "lAge
Of Progress r. over whose destiny with
much gravity iheapresides. to quote suns
dry passages ofscriptureto acertain youth
who was 8 dissoluteY enough to write a
series Of resolutions ncondemnatory of the
supreme order whose leigeman he is
Now, Mr.. Editor, beg leave most re-
spcctfulIy to suggest that Philip F. Crib
field is by no means the proper person to
make structures upon either the Social
religious, or political conduct of airy per
son. Having made the suggestion, will
giyeryou my reasons forIso doing. Is it
not the strangest thing that has happened
in these strangest Of strange times, that
this Crihfeld. who is an ayowed in6del,
and who published in this town. some
years ago. a paper which. towards the
close Of its existence. openly and avowed-
ly declared in favor of Inidelity, should
per saltuns appear as a champion of pro-
testantism and the christian religion p
Here is a most glazing inconsistency. He
language Of that Bible which he denoun~
ces as g a cunningly devised fahle''-the
invention OF man. and to talk in a canting
and hypocritical manner of the holy sa-
crament Of the Lords Supper, and the
christian church, How dare he have
the brazen.faced effrontery to take into
his polluted lips the, name of that God
whom he has denied and insulted, his
Bible that lie Las denounced and scotfed
at, or that church which he has slandered
and lraduced During the publication
of that paper its columns were main
ly filed up with q neelange OF worse than
heather heresies, politics, and improves
ment (?) upon the steam engine; the
motive power being then, as it is in his
paper now, steam. LIS character is dis
tinctly remembered by many persons
now, as defined by Methodist clergy
man then who was assaulted in its columns
and who scorned any kind of controycr-
sy with its unprincipled editor, but in a
communication to the Pittsburg Christian
Advocate, spoke oft as can insignificant
sheet, by 8, devoted to politics and inf
delHy." So rabid did this same CrihGeld
become that, inflated with the iJea tina,
his vapid deistical editorials had given
him '' name." he challenged-in con.
junction with another person whom he
; had persuaded into his belief, or who had
persuaded him-the whole world to com,
bat on proposition, 1" there Is no God p
Did any one ever hear Of so much iyno
rance. vanity. and presumption existing
in ONE man before? What a sublime
egotism, and delightful self-saLisfaction
1t would be rbarbarous, indeed, 30 scratch
the fine skin Of such a happy vanity
, But seriously, sir, does it not appear ano
malous that any one who has proved re-
creant to mans cardinal virtues, who i.
devoid of those high and ennobling quail
/ tiles that make him approximate what hi'
, creator designed him to be-the perfec
ton Of humanity should for an instan
assume surveillance over the mora!
conduct Of indiyidualE 1 pause for {
reply.
1t has been serious thought with me
whether CrihGeld was not more to be- pi
tied than blamed, for his many shortcom
ings and transgressions. Bought ovel
soul and body, like a Guinea niger or
the coast Of Africa, by the Hindoo organi
: cation, to whom he is indebted for the ne
cessaries Of life, how could it be otherwise
than that he should dance when they
whistle. or shuttle when they cut? If
when struck SO sorely upon the raw, he
should kick out of the traces, he has The
pleasing prospect of starving to death
painted in the most lively colors before
his eyes. He can obey his conscience
only by the sacrifice Of his meat, bread
and home, or obtain his freedom by the
entailment Of utter ruin and misery upon
himself and family. Truly. he is placed
between the horns Of most uncomfor;a-
BILE dilemma. He calls his paper by a
lstcus non lucendo, the " Age Of Pro
4 gress," and with the countenance of the
great Magnus Apollo of the Hindoos, so.
licits subscrintions for the love of Know.
Nothingism. Whether he has ever risen,
from being mere religious loafer OF
sanctimonious man-about-town to the