be mistaken in my views, still,
if I am, I am honestly deceived. I have no confidence in the
moral honesty and Christian integrity of any Protestant
Preacher, of any denomination, in this country, who openly
arrays himself against the American party, and takes the side of
the Catholics, Foreigners, and self-styled Democrats associated
with them. Nor will I hear one such preach or pray, if I know
him to be such, and can get out of his hearing. The growing
light and improvements of this age forbid that an intelligent
and pious man and minister should identify himself with that
party. And the fiery genius, corrupting tendencies, and
uncompromising intolerance of that party, are rapidly driving
good and true men out of the party.

There never was a time since the division of parties in this
country, when I had so little confidence in what is called the
Democratic party as at present; and as at present organized and
constituted, I believe it to be the most corrupt organization.
It is made up of the odds and ends of all factions and parties
on the continent, and is one of the most anomalous combinations
of fanaticism, idolatry, prostitution, crime, and absurdities
conceivable! The _isms_ composing the party of which you are a
member, are: Abolitionism; Free-soilism; Agrarianism;
Fourieritism; Millerism; Radicalism; Woman's Rightsism; Mobism;
Mormonism; Spiritualism; Locofocoism; Higher-Lawism; Foreign
Pauperism; Anti-Americanism; Roman Catholicism; Deism, and
modern Sag Nichtism! All this tide of fanaticism and error,
originating North of Mason and Dixon's Line, went for Pierce in
the last Presidential contest: they are with that party now,
against the American party; and it is bad company in which to
find a Protestant minister! Yet, miserable Protestants hesitate
not to commend these enemies of the natural rights of man, and
of the Christian religion, as being just as good Christians as
their neighbors!

"Oh! judgment, thou hast fled to brutish beasts; And men have
not their reason!"

But, Doctor, why were you at Baltimore? Why, sir, during the
past year, you and other conscientious Methodists took it into
your heads to arraign a young man who was travelling your
circuit, Mr. Hall, and, for the Church's good, to have him
expelled, whose great sin was that he was a _