Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-08
~ 40 JOHN S. PRESTON.
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RESPECTFULLY, &c,
.lsTza16 JOHN S. PRESTON
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Had the aHduciiy nv friends to steal
4 much more OF your tme,I might summon
up the testimony 10 sustain my plea in full
aad prove to yon that these Bishops have
not created this University. The germ is in
our own hearts-iu every Institution of oul
| civilsm-it belongs to every att ibute which
pertains TO the order Bnder which we live
You cannot resist is growth any more than
you can resist The growth of your limbs,
| save by sia and violence against nature and
| custom These men are the. generous, the
! enlighenrd the devoted guardians who are
fostering it into a genial life and gigantic
| force. The Church they represent aud illus
trate is that huls and blessed Church which
| Tor more than thousand Years has made
| liberal knowledge a part of her vital poliiy
/ and an uid 10 religion and liberty. and
which, since she has ASSUMED the distinctive
| appellatiVe OF the Protestant Episcopal
| Church has ever required such knowledge
| Tor her 5 TV.cr, She uow comes forward in
| the beauty % her hoiiness-in the majestic
power and po-sp OF her celestial truth-wiIh
| the laurel c. oWn IpOn her brow, aud the
| pats lot hanu in In hand. to cast er pro-
| tee lag arms aroHnd his Young eat. rps ise-
to call II her uYn-iO give il nurture from
her own cha-te hos m-tD1 give il light
| drawn down by her nIurs- tiiau Prom ILean
| hand" Sh,- has sought divine philosophy
ia Is farthtst homes. and draw n hri ,ht we'd
! science from iis shs,doAy cells. and with their
| wand aud cnmp.s>~. sets them on this Inuulf-
lain side. a. Il raises erran"py over lib m.
Her s,rvier i Que tu God; Lat she rrnderS
on the grand ST sctlr OF adOIaion which ev-
II Church Wa called 10 give icy ne Offering
she makes her. to- day. Ten Dioceses II The
Prot Stanf E.i- copat Church OF An RIGA are
| This diy mak,ug Oblttion. winch. before
GID. believe Viii cvmr 20 lie Ih.- chef ,.lt-
mett iu HIS c n"IDs q: rederming, pefpct-
uaIiHg aud rXaltiHg The people of he>e
Southern States with AL their Institute ms
ti,,ir literature aud their hopes, for all time
TO come.
To these States and the people thus repre-
ssnt d bere. IN .re stefnly tEam to any other
Pc, pie or G .yerlmunt on earth i the mali
daie-educatr. elevate the CITIZEN. every
citizcn Who owns properly, iuliiis any lnnc-
Iiun of society in these States Is a civil ma
gistrate aud a religious teacher. la addition
TO ali other Uili saJiUns he has the creates
mission ever entrusted t. man. that of re
deeming 10 Christianity iliroi. Gh th. portals
of slavery, infesi"r s,I' jeci, ii, Prhd-nt and
necessary race, on which his u l. order of
civil q ton Is has 3D. Ten millions of free
Intelligent, reSpon-l.ie men are nav engaged
IN this mission. in ii you are S thing beneath
the awful juis ment of Eternal Justice and
the eyes al your fellow men. all over the
world, are upon you; ihe 20. d with anxious
and trrmulOas prayer. the wicked dennnci
ati"ns-rrviiings aud lNing ready Ii = a
sovereign Stue of This L public whose ia
III rs were soldiers oil God and Liberty gwen
lis most exalt. past and high st rcInun .r;l-
tons 10 a eOwardly and pirIiul liar, that he
may stand in The high places of Europe and
America, and pour his filthy vituperaiion mp
on y0G-Ma-sachusetts,- he land of the PHI
grim Fathers, gives heF gold. her honors and
her praise. to traitors. towards and trampIug
women, That they may d-fie and d fame
those who have furnished half The gl0rT and
none OF the shame tn Ills RrpLblic Another
sovereign S ate made by yuur industry to n
val the richest nations of the old world. bids
its chief representative in our iinmon Coun-
ell, tell W., that We must Sied our mission
or ourselves be made SUBJECT to syst m> it
, chUuses 10 lamp. sc. Again we are told from
beyond the suas, in our own tongue. by those
who read Bacon and Milton with US, and
pray with oar prayer book. and who gave Us
this mission. hat we must yitl it or aban-
don our communion with the civilization of
the age.
Now fanaticism is always false, and no
mauif, station OF itnaiiciSIn since The world
began ever exhibit ed such IA concentIa ed lie
as that which is raising its hollow cutlery
against the systrm of slavery as it exists in
the Southern States And il is because of its
hollow ialseh"Od that we must b. better pre-
pared to reiute its scandal, aud resist lis ag
gress Ons, and give over its followers o the
| Infamous notorieiy they have achieved, while
We preserve the system which sayrs ms from
the sins and dangers growing naturally in the
soil OF abOlttioa. la those States where this
anaticism i most rife, its associations seem
to be the modern type of those Pagan mvs
tcries. y hich. under plea OF religious wOr-
ship, or philinthropic purpose, praciiced the
most abCrnlnabe and Infamous Iicrase.
venture to assert that in none of Ia. mysle-
ries OF Hiudo>tan, Per-it or Greece, was the
dehaucherv OF such gross mural lurpitude as
is daily praciiced or dir city resulting from
the abolition societies They have all thu.
folly of Spiritualism and all the D as illness
IF Mormonism- Wherever a community re-
solves itself ia an abolition ASSOCIATION. and
d m.iidS that we shall give up slavery, that
instant. as If by n.iu al forces, it become
the re G -yoir ,,f ALI the Contiguous vice aud
immortality. Tho moment they demand Of
u Ia alb. li,h SLAVE TX. ia the same breath they
uniformly d-nsnd h u the world shall re-
lease them from ell-tifat binds man to G. d
and all th ( i sacred bgtw en- man and man.
Thus, in America, sisfl"liiy and univerdl IL
cense are the iB-rparsble associates at :.lnli-
tion. IL Matters uot whether Tuu fluid il In
the giided s',It,o pf the acvnue. or The stink
ing hovrl 9th; aileA; in the Senate CIa'Ii-
b sr Ibe ,eer shop; IN IiIe CbuJch or in the
Winar'r Right, Con rntihns; in Wall str. Ell
or Five Point by The family fre>id of IA
New E gland yi!l,ge, il The "hom = of n W
En- IL nj. y ar in tn vautted library of the
Bo ton aiesinin-i' is the Same-abY lition
is inhd siily aud treason. q
And such Is one of our enemies but lis
filthy aud despietble tails hood is rather our
strength than our " nkness There are o'her
erfrdBfous eHtmies 4 might eann,eraie as demand
ing # us srong n'aHUIel,ts for our proteci,oa,
but ciA LeaUe ltens 10 be Geat 10Th on another
arena. .EssaseEtb So
TIE immedia e. predominant and distinct
nee. ssity which d. mands of US sncb an ins, i
tntiun n this University comes of The habi-
tudrs engendered by our cl mate. our system
of labor, and our r, latiuiIs, through it, to
other forms ni society. and ,sie3i.slly to The
tom oi government under which We must
mt,et these incdeuts- where socl.l restraints
are limited solely by civil regulations tinIess
the citizen is elevat. BY moia aud inielcc
tual culture, social virlhe. and cnns qHenily
iudiy idaal and public morals must deg-h-
crate With Us the : gregation of The
we titby Citizens. leaves very much To each
mans sense of right the preservation OF or
der and The advance OF sOci ~. Be~id.
which he If ei-gatLd almost eallrely To his
own resources for the moral t ,iit. and the in
tell. ctuaE store which saves him from vice
and soothes his way Ut rlife. &C n ,veE. in asy
previously existent i',lia ut society, has toe
indix i'll ual cltIzrn had such dread response
bility as that " hich pertains To the Southern
planter; and be mast meet il. He c3lnnot
avoid it. His extraordinary duties are rs
necessary, as Imperative. as his daily food
and clothing. He, mass performs them or
perish. sszs st.slsas
Aud be cannet perform them efficiently for
himself. or acceptable 10 his country -ss,d 10
God, ithout tue very highest moral and in
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