Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-01-04
For tie LsteAfsld Ehgniss
PuritahlaR and rs NISSAN. Ns'

American that he is more especial
than the man Of any other nation fun.
ling the mission Of the Anglo saro.
race. The Puritan Is the most gennina
type and representative Of Anglo saxo.
dom. England. the older branch ii shis|
great family, has done and is doing much.
very much to carry out the great provi.
DENTAL scheme. which shall end & the
complete revolution and renovation 81
the world. In breaking down Old sys.|
TENS Of error and despotism and prepar.
ing the way for the institutions II civil
freedom and d pure Christianity, Eng
land is acting part which America .
neither suited nor commissioned to act,
And in her noble benevolent enterprises
she is foremost in the ranks Of Heavens
alniohels to the ignorant and the errine.
Yet America is executing and seems dsss
tined TO execute still more important
mission. She is 10 give to the world !
freer and purer relioi;sa anu 4 govern
naan.-.ren harmony with such 8 reIi-
gion than the world has 80 !. -
In those singular characters imported
in the MAYFLowER, we meet the Angl0g5
Saxon element in its greatest purity ~dn
embodiment Of q new elemept low cast
into the great crucible ~ human affairs.
The Pilgrims landed with q firm step.
and on their brows are written the stern
purposes of their souls. Forests, frosts, Il
famines, sickness, savages, shake not their
firm resolves. They have mission to
fulhl-purposee - "xA"..tA more mag1
,pifAoent and lasting than ever fell to Il =
lot Of the founders of Rome
Before these men disembarked fro
the Mayfower, they are said to have ca
embodied, in the plan Of free Cover
ment, those principles which had anima
ted their souls in the old world, which,
lad moved them to seek another and
better country. In their very souls they
were Republicans and Christians. And
.heir mission in America was to give
body and development to thoss princi-
Piles. Here God had prepar = new
and an unoccupied sol on which he
would aow the wheat be had sifted from
the bestin the old world. How this
has taken root and sprung up and boEse
fruit | must leave, in its many intefes ~
details. to the historian Of New Engla
Puritanism.
The chureh and theaschool house 4
up before them. The College and hi
er institutions of learning followed
quick succession. The arts and
manufactures, scarcely waited the Gle,
,ng away Of the forests before their bt
din was heard. 1t was at once to
seen that society was here being devel0
ped under new auspices. A new leayeI
was at work-a new element was deyel
oping itself in society, government AMI
religion.
The industry and enteTpFzs. 60 IS
ling virtues aid the free institutions Vi TN
Puritans opened . new chapter in th.
history Of the world The most obvioa,
and important results which have beef
wrought out BY this Puritan element. IRE
to be seen in respect e government and
1 religion. Liberty was born ii America.
Long had she travailed in birth in the old
world many throe had CONFUSED Eu-
rope 70 the very centre, till IN this fair
land liberty first saw the light. There
had before been much il the world called
liberty, but it was the mere glmmering
of starlight, or the meteor's blaze. COM
pared with the full o, bed luminary which
now arose--but the harbinger Of the day
which now for the first time broke upon
the world. Nor has its light been coni-
ned to this western continent. It has
cost its rays over the Atlantic, and before
it Kings are fleeing and thrones erumb-
ling, and despotism is licking the dust.
as we shall see by and bye.
| Man is social being. and not only g fit
subject for government. but his best inter-
ests require that he should be subjected 70
government. Her man governments IS .
Divine Institution; yet its form and mode
of administration, like most other institu-
tons. are left to the sagacity and gui.
dance Of man. The design Or eaaof II
right government is no doubt the good d
the people. and the aaikoyity 81 govern.