The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-02-22
City Election---Monday, March 6, 1e4e
FOR MAYOR,
DAVID C.. MAGOUN.
The Puritans.---Mr. Judd's Lecture.


The Puritans.---Mr. Judds Lecture.
The Rev. Sylvester Judd, of Augusta, de-
livered lecture last week before the Bath Ly-
ceum, on the Puritans. The lecture was
written in the peculiar style of its author, and
was listened to with much interest by the au-
dience. The subject was good one, and
worthy the careful research and thought which
the lecturer has evidently bestowed upon it.
The character of no class of men, perhaps,
who have lived in the past, has been so little
understood as that of the ancient Puritans.-
Even their descendants have more or less
drawn their ideas of them from the testimony
of their adversaries, or have formed them from
ed their failings and obscured their virtues.
The character of the Puritan of the old world
is more or less associated in our minds with
that drawn by Butler, or portrayed in the
thousand novels written by the friends of
prerogative, to which the Pnritans were such
strenuous opposers. The Puritan of the new
world starts up before US as the believer in
witchcraft, the executioner of witches, and
the prosecutor Of Quakers. This shadow con-
ceals the champion of popular rights, the hater
of oppression although it must be admitted
that one OF the deepest stains on the Puritan
character-their treatment of the Indians
perhaps does not exert its comparative weight.
1t was the purpose of the lecturer to do JUS
tice to the Puritans, to portray their virtues
and show the excuses which can be urged for
their faults, or at least such was the effect of
his lecture. He considered their principles to
be better than their practice. In the former
they were centuries in advance of their time.
They had discovere the truth, but had not
learned to put it fully in practice. We, how
ever, shall not attempt to follow the lecturer
in his remarks; suffice to say, no one could
have listened to them without coming away
feeling higher veneration for those men who
first kindled the torch of civil and religious
freedom Though we may still regret that
they did not carry out the principles they
taught, towards the whites who differed from
them. and, more than this, that they did not
like Penn, exercise the humane principles of
their religion towards the Indians.
~ 1t is said, as there are several Dem
ocrats in want of Office, that it is in contem-
plat ion to appoint Deputy Collector in
Woolwich, to collect the revenue from the
Ferry Boat. 1t is not known whether the ed
itor of the Times will be an applicant or can-
didate for the office, as he makes distinction
between the two terms.
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