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_005195576	Merrick, Richard T. (Richard Thomas), 1826-1885.	A letter from Richard T. Merrick, Esq. of Baltimore, against uniting religion with politics.	1854		.txt	text/plain	4811	120	41	This election in all that appertains to it belongs to the kingdom of God—not man—and should be sacred, alike from the control and influence of civil power and the baser persecution of political faction. If such might stop in their career, and for a moment pause to hear the traitor teach his flock their treason , they would learn—that in his theology the higher law ordains the supre- macy of civil power, and that in society and government, instituted to promote the great purposes of peace and virtue and happiness among men, obedience is the greatest glory — the noblest duty, and the highest law—and that to advise resistance to the authorized enactments of national sovereignty is offensive to Heaven—a desecration of the temple, and a soiling of the white robe of the ministerial office.	cache/_005195576.txt	txt/_005195576.txt