Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-02

s If the American nationality is not religious, God fearing, Sabbath -reverencing nationality, then it has right to records, the deeds, to the men, of the American revolution.
 But at the basis of our national character does lie this deep religious sentiment-and it was the starting of this sentiment by infdel murmurings, which would have blanched the cheeks of our fore fathers, that first aroused the American feeling, and gave birth to the American party"
 Another birth you see to this great party. All these "Blood Tubs" "Short Boys, :" "Croakers," rowdies, ballot box suffers, shoulder -hitters, the bullies of Louisville, New Orleans, and Baltimore; the veriest plug-ugly of them all are deeply imbued with religious sentiments. This is startling news and we must be permitted to say, if it be so, they have strange way of showing t. The Commodore grows more fervent and pious as he proceeds:
 "We, therefore, the Ameriran party, claim afresh the fathers of the American revolution as our own and in fact that we are conscious of true sympathy With their reverence, lies our hope and belief that we shall have share in the wisdom and success that marked their proceedings in nurturing that nationality which we now arise to guard from the perils which have assaied it''
 Here he "gets after" the Germans, who will spend Sundays in the gardens or at concerts, and the Jews, who keep the last instead of the first day of the week:
 " At the first, the foul spirit of infdelitv and contempt ot Heaven, engendered by the effete sys tenn of the old world, sought to gain it's ends bv working stealthiy and nsidiouslv on the soil the new-it sought, by adrot and slight f-hand meth ods, to corrupt our iterature and to poison our in stitutions of learning. But in process of time, it grew bolder; it gave forth uncertain sound of it's malignant presence among us; it opened its ribad mouth in words of impurity, jest and basphemy which first mortified, and have now aroused us to action And is it not time? And when I tell you that there are now one hundred and fifty infde newspapers published in the United States; and when tell you that thousands of these fore gners are banded together in our Christian cties for the purpose of destroying our Christian Sabbath, will you say 1t is time for the American nation to rise up?'
 Alter painting this horrid picture the Commodore grows catechetical and winds up in this strain:
 Are we human beings? Are we susceptible of the sympathes that are created by being connected with such a line of noble ancestry? Are we intel ligent beings, and cannot we see that the results which came from their course of action were the results of Divine and protecting Providence?- And are to be told that the Sabbath-d day is noth ing better than any other day! Are we to be found in league with infdels to resist the power of All mighty God? Are we to deny the Bible, that book which has made it's way through the world against the subtlety of cabinets and the power of armies against the decrees of councils and the acts of ty rants? Are we to deny that book, arrayed against which, nations have been withered and all opposi- ton to it crumbled in the dust-that book which went from the tomb of Joseph and the cross of Calvary to the Imperial tomb and the palace of the C@sars? Are we to deride the power that watched over and guided the footsteps ofour P grim fathers to the Rock of Plymoth, and that God who has ever since watched over the preservation of our great and glorious republic?
 As sure as there is God in Heaven, unless we respect His laws and His word, we shall suffer the penalty of disobedience.
 The American party does recognize our obga- tions as Christian people One of the great ob- lecs 1t has in view is the preservation of our reli gious institutions and the promotion of sound mo- ralitv.'
 We will all be virtuous and there shall be no more cakes and ale. Churches may be closed and know nothing mass meetings held in their stead. There shall be no more fishing on Sunday. When the American party gets in power Sabbath-breaking shall be punished with death
 It ia bad enough when ministers of the gospel step down into the arena and de- grade their high calling by mixing politics with religion But when party attempts to humbug by pretending to be a religious one, it is disgusting. That same know nothing party bound it's members to lie, as as preliminary step, by requiring them to deny the existence of the order, or their membership. Yet it is now the party of the Bible. It has organized bands, lodges and societies in Louisville, New Orleans Baltimore, and elsewhere, who assault and even murder their opponents, and the hands of whose members drip with blood Yet these are to uphold our religious nationali- ty! The humbug is so glaring as to be ridiculous We waste words in treating it seriously. In all the phases of know noth- ingism, nothing in impudence has equalled this assuption of piety Commencing by waring on one religious denomination, it now turns its attacks on infdes, and be- comes a conservator of christianity and the champion of religion. If the Commodore speaks the truth the members of the Ame- rican party must all become religionists- We await to see the experiment begun here. We suggest that they begin with the head one-with the " old he's''-sinners of long standing and bad eminence. If this new dodge is to be the means ofreforming these men, and Heaven knows they need refor- nation, we shall be glad to see it go into operation, but if we are to take them in all their enormities as patterns of religion, eY- emplars of morality and models of piety, we beg to be excused. And further, if the preservation of our religious institutions and the promotion of sound morality de- pends on plug-uglies, short-b oys, blood tubs and others of that stripe, all of whom are strght-out Americans, we think that these institutions like Touchstone's shep- herd, are Gin parlous state"
 
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