Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-09-11

There are thousands of our feow.creatures in ds
tress and appeal ia made 10 Us for all tii w, vs.
hrar) Ii is appeal which take upon lnSst ;m No
a native OF British North America, to say ""' -
heartily responded I'd in that country.
For tie Enqn"sr.
NOIrMERNlSMS.
Ma.s-s Editor. Under this head pr"poSe !"
spsak of most of those notions anu -, Ey.r,
ARE peculiar 10 the people OF New ;I.ad ,ba snb
cauiid rau who has npnr''a!iy you: - ,r,,t j.;
rt viii ar once admit that there Is "n o,ees ~
- E,and society fhnt encourages anything Hi"
.v.rvt,,iry fsnacal, ridiculous 'hc"ns'n' V.
h.hlo and might extend catalogue Oh 'nis h'ha o'
sdiectres TO the full power OF inc EnsnI o'.n
.rSis tsndency-all these Sorthernisms-naVe com.
mon root origin, paternity. namely: "Ine ipgrlm
Estbers"-who, by the way, were the most narrow
minded selfish supers.ious, noerant BET OIL fharl'
ssica hypocrtss Of which history gives any account.
This fact is well known TO many VINO iauu the'n
hiphl,; and many who ought to be better employed,
ars a1nisndno ,be stern yirtues of the Pilgrim Fa.
ibers even go far as to become apologsts Tor ther
taking the lands and winter supplies OF tue INDIANS
withou. pay hanging the Quskers cruelty persecating
Roger Williams. Salem witeneral', a,shgur'ng anu
killing Methodist preachers horses, burning their
meeting houses, &c. Although 1.-THE Pilgrim Fla
theirs" emipraied to tbs "nsw world to lice perse-
cu,iop, cannot fluid from history that any Of them,
fur opiniou sake we're eyer imprisoned scourged, or
in spy way Ill treated, except, that the great mass
a,nnnd them took the liberty to think and believe for
themselves and, therefore, Haman-like "the Pilgrim
Fsthrrs" were unhappy. This intolerant. persecu
ting spirit of theirs, and their descendants name as
the rst Norhernism in the catalogue OF which pro.
noss to speak, freely and frankly. Their ridiculous
laws fer tha observance of the Christian Sabbath is
the s.copd Northernism will name, when it was q
misdemsanor for husband to kiss his wife on Sun.
day, and visa versa; and for young gentleman and
lady, unmarried, to exchange kisses on Sunday, was
a crime; and in their code was called filthy dali.
;la fbaaa m tpiluriIn Eath6rB' and
their immediate descendants, If they caught an In
dian chief would cut off his head, cut his body IN
quarters and put the five parts on the tops OF hvs
poles, in as many conspicuous places 10 the rlymouh
beer rorked Sunday! know their apologists ask
us to excuse those times Of ignorance, that dark age
but, ask, how much have their descendants i'm
proved upon that darknessl While "the old Purl'
tans" whipped the beer barrels because the beer
tyorkpd Sunday, their descendants, "ths Maine Law.
ties" have within five years past, 6rokenhe head of
a barrel because IL he}diiqm0r on rcek days. Icll
it not in Gath" Passing over multitude OF sayings,
dOings and believiugs, OF this same ridiculous cha
acler, will next mention "Saem witchcraft; ana
who can but regret that 30 many worthy persons
should suffer martyrdom or assassination, in order
that "the Pilgrim Fathers" or their descendants,
should give such striking proof Of their stern vir.
ups when all the usual legal rules of proof were dis
regarded when worthy aud useful citizens were trled
and condemned to death, upon the testimony OF little
whose .stern virtues (hesh malice) were thus
most clearly proved, when the ordeal OF sinking or
swimming when cast into water, decided the fate OF
the accused-"fOr a witch wouldn sink overlook.
ing the fact that corpu!ent person Will NOT SINK,
while lean one will In the troubles Immediately
preceding the revolutionary war, the sans lmpru'
dent headstrong, rash and fanatcal spirit was very
clearly dscoverable; for, beside many other proofs
Massachusetts sometimes passed resolutions, OF
which the other colonies did not approve, but such
was never the case with Virginia.
And there was at other times during that war, q
strong influence in Massachusetts, and as far as her
influence extended, to depose General Washington,
and make Gen. Gates t"an old fool, commander
in chief. Rut the country was saved by losing
Charleston, s. c., and the Southern army. And MIR.
Sumner showed himself Of the Same stock, when,n his
"great speech" he blamed South Carolina, for the in
competency of the toror,te of Massachusetts,
While Gen. Greene, Quaker that !" the Pilgrim ra-
thers' did mt hang, drove the British out OF the
South with what Southern men he could raise amer
Gates had lost the main army. Passing very lightly
over religious prosecutions, the Shay insurrection-
old John Adams Observation-Disclosures f" midnight ju'
dietary" &c. will in my next, speak OF Northern
isms that have hourished in my own time-that have
had their rise and prosperity since can we'll remem.
history. But before droppng<ny pen, will say
word Of political N0rthernism that seemed to grow
out of Mr.. Jefferson's purchase OF Louisiana; The
direct descendants of 1.-The Pilgrim Fathers" said,
.'Tom Jefferson" had sold the country to Bona.
parte"-that the purchase he had made was Of no
vaue-"a vast swamp, full Of alligators az big as
miogs, and bullfrogs as big as loads OF hay" &C.,
nc. And that same element has continued to show
itself whenever chance has offered up TO the pre-
sent time. Mos: of my reader can remember the
same or similar complaints, when we purchased
Fiorida-upou the acquisition of Te1as--prior to,
and during the Mexican war-and upon the conclu.
sion of that war. when We obtained New Mexico and
California Who that opposed all those great nation.
al nj t,,Iv ia AslameQ OF
his course Who will now acknowledge that he was
ever SO great fool Very few indeed. And yet
we can see the same hostility in anticipation Of the
acquisition OF Cuba.
These NortAe,p.tsmS prevail more or lees wherever
the descendants Ut 1.-THE Pilgrim Fathers" are scat.
tered; bnt as YET, the South have very little internal
trouble from anything of the kind. l. Z.
Chesterfield, Sept. Z. 1857