Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-01-17

times oftener) the New England folks get up
a grand celebration, or dinner, or something
else, in honor of the landing of the Pilgrims,
and set up an orator whose duty it is to dis
course for one, two, or three hours as the
case may be, on the unparalleled virtues of
the Puritans-at which, as matter of course,
the descendants of the Puritans, the Yankee
auditors, feel very good, and give vent to
their admiration by sundry cheers, stamp
ings, and clapping of hands. Some of these
celebrations have recently come of, at which
Senator Seward, Wendell Phillips, and Others
ministered to the vanity of the modern Pu-
ritans, by telling them of the great deeds Of
their ancestors, their sufferings in hehaif of
liberty of conscience, etc.
Singularly enough, just on the heels of
these celebrations, number of the most dia-
bolical murders ever recorded in criminal an
nails have taken place in Connecticut the
very heart of blue light Puritandom. The
murderers are a species of spiritualists who
p;ofess to have received directions from the
Almighty to commit these murders-just as
the Puritans of old contended that they were
only obeying directions from on High when
they hung Quakers, drowned witches, burned
heretics, and performed similar charitable
and Christian works.
We only refer to the subject of these hor-
rid murders, in this connection, for the pur-
pose of reminding our readers that they were
committed in that section of the country
which is responsible for most Of the abomin-
able isms which now afflict the country po-
litically, morally, and socially. and which are
in great measure attributable to the self
righteous, Pharasaical, and bigoted dogmas
bequeathed by the Purtans to the modern
New Englanders. A people who are ready
to preach the entire population Of the South
ern States into the bottomless pit because
they hold slaves, who think that Catholic
should not be permitted to breathe American
air, and who vote to dsfranchise all who are
not able to read their laws. cannot, Of course,
have any just conceptions of the atrocity of
murder. If New England fanaticism pro.
crosses at the same ratio it has been doing
the last few years. life and property will soon
have but little protection within her borders.
6TA difficulty has recently taken place
at Bethany College, Virginia, between some
abolition students from Canada, Ohio, and In
diana, on the one side, and the Faculty and
southern students on the other. 1t appears
there are about 130 students in the college,
of whom about 100 are from the South and
30 from the North. The northern students
persevered in determination to discuss the
subject of slavery, and Mr.. Burns, of Can
ada, preached a sermon of so ultra an aboli-
ton character that violence was threatened
to his person. Meetings Of the students Of
both sections were held, and finally portion
of the northern students, considering ' dis
erection the better part of val'r," submitted
to the requirements ef the faculty, while the
Others, ten in number, among them John
Gufin, Leander Mcconnell, and ID. II. Van
Buskirk, of Indiana, withdrew from the in
stitution. 1t is little singular that even a
southern college cannot be exempted from
the impertinence of abolition lneddlers.