The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-05-27
AIR, MD. FRIDAY MORNING g. MAY q 81

ioA SUE SianASah eeutlment vi puppy poH
tieians. Of the North, ''This duty of un-
conditional, unreseryed loyalty, says the
"Reverend r." we can fancy him read
ing to an audience in bombazine, while
waiting for a hot, fannel-cake and more
stewed chicken, "this dutyo uncoudtion,
al, unreseryed loyalty to the constitution.
ally elected governments of the nation, we
desire distinctly to reafirm, as principle
Of our holy religion and part Of our ale,
glance to God, Was there ever silEer
piece of nonsense than this written? Let
US analyze this proposition of the Presby.
terrain Bull, and see the consequences to
which it leads, if carried out. ZIG. ~,
The reverend Robinson" and his al
lies that unconditional, upreseryed loyal,
ty to the government of the nation, - Ito
wit: the, U. s. Government is o arinci;-
pile Of oar. holy religion, and partfof our
aaeyiance'to Cod" Now a principle is
something steadfast, immu.able and Of
universal application. The "principles of
holy religion" are those great capital docs
trines upon which men, must mould their
filth and shape. their lives, if they hope
to be saved. We presume the "Rever-
end Robinson" and his associates will
assent to this and that they profess to
derive their doctrine and authority from
the Bible, But inasmuch as no mention
is made 10 that book of the United
States Government, by name, or indeed
any preference expressed for govern.
ments Of republican form, their propo-
position ifthey affect to support it from the
gospel, must mean that Unconditional
and unreserved loyalty" to the government
under Which zoe happen to be hviag, is a
principle of our holy religion, and part of
our allegiance to God" Aud this broad
proposition must necessarily be as binding
on the people of every other government,
as it is on ours. 1t must bear alike upon
the despotisms and democracies, upon
the subjects of the King of Dahomy, and
the Dey of Algiers; on the crushed pa,
triots of Poland and the down trodden peo-
pie of Hungary. This principle of our
holy religion" is by no means an original
conception Of the Reverend Robinson and
his loyal associates. Slaves suck it in
with their mothers milk 1t is the first
lisping of toadies all the world over. 1t is
coeval with despotism. 1t was Numbered
from the pulpits of England while the
Presbyterian forefathers OF these gentlemen
were being hunted, like wild beasts,
through the hills and Businesses of Scot.
land. The Wigton martyrs doubtless
heard it from the "loyap' clergy who
watched the waves creep up and down
them, and the Catholics of Ireland, learn
ed its divine origin from the reeking sword
points of Cromwell's Presbyterian rabble.
The New England Puritans had time to
digest this blessed "principle' as they
tossed on the waves in the leaky NIsy flow
err, as it was burned into the souls of the
poor Quakers, who crisped in the boufres
with which the Mayfower malignants
thawed the frozen soil to which they had
fled from persecution. The gowned and
mytred parasites of Charles the First up
held his perjuries, and sought to perpetu-
ate his tyranny, by sounding in the ears
Of the people this "principle of our holy
religion, and the round-head exhorters of
Cromwell's army found warrant for
butchering that "christian" monarch and
for boVing the knee to usurper, born of
blood and violence in this same principle
of our holy religiou.' Every wrong ever
wrought by power upon weakness has
been sapctifed by this principle of our
holy religion" In the creed of slavish
ecelesiastics the mailed hand of despotism
and the awful hand of God, have been
identical since the beginning of the world.
This "principle of our holy religion" was
enforced with equal JUNCTION by the cler-
gy who committed Cromwell's body to the
earth as the dust of Saint whom God
could no longer spare, and by the clergy
who, from the same pulpi,s, pointed to his
grinning scull, torn from his mouldered
body and perched on Temple. Bar, as a
warning to all impious rebels against the
s'divine right of Kings" 1t is the royal
filth of every land, and crowned scoun-
drels who believe in nothing else devoutly
accept this ''principle of our holy religion
1t was the faith of Strafford, of Jeffries, of
Metternich, of the British ministry who
bounded on the American war;. 1t is a
principle which would have kept the sword
of George Washington idle in its scab
bard, would have checked the pen eff JEFF,
fersou, palsied the tongue Of Patrick Hen
ry and welded FIST the letters which held
these Sovereign States in Slavish deper-
dence upon the British crown. 1t is a
principle in short which if accepted as Of
divine origin, would doom the people of
every land suffering under the unright-
,eous yoke Of despotisn patiently to endure
the iron heel, and leave it Us a heritage
to their children.
To thess undeniuble examples of the
aexibility OF this"principle of our holy re-
'ligiou,' of its power as an engine of des-
potism, of its fame as. the buckler Of cru
saders against the rights of man, the Grew
erend Robinson and his fellow Presby.
ters will doubtless reply that they concede
the right of revolution in certain cases of