The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-10


.-------.--~.--------
WEBB ON PETY, PCRITANIsM AND HOLY
WAR.--ln the midst Of revolution which
threatens to sbatter the government into atoms,
Cheyalier Webb has nothing better to Offer as
remedy than praying and believing. He is
like man just awakened from confused
vision Of Biddle's bank, a mahogany stocked
pistol and FOOLS paradise. BY wonderful
conglomeration of ideas he identifies God and
the Puritan Pilgrims with the horrors Of the
French Revolution. Webb was once famous as
man of profane war; now that he has joined
1.-The church militant" and taken TO piety, he
buckles on his armor as "a soldier of the Cross"
and goes in for a holy war In leading arti-
Gle two yards long, opening with the ominous
words, Treason, rebellion, civil war, muir
derer, manslayer,' be descants upon "the
mysterious workings Of Providence "thc dis
coyery Of the New World and the Reformation"
He assures us that "God in his providence pro-
vided for our fathers an asylum from religious
prrsacntion. history tells us the Purtans
who had left England were quietly settled in uol-
land for eleven years, when they left in disgust
because the people there were too strong for
them to persecute, restriction for which they
took ample reprisals in the New World by re-
ligiously prosecuting all who differed from
them in religion. Professionalism, fleeing from
religious prosecutions in the Old World, planted
itself in the wilds and soli.ades of a savage
wilderness ..'eghEato recognise the hand
of God in s..-i 80. ~ :ionsrfo destruction"
"a differez ! ;f93ra al !be ssst Of Gods
creation" Co., .,:aas3i cur fathers in q will
derness to ..-'>H - Glfseaat from ;he people
of Il =: world;' "they were from
the pcglmi ing put instruments in His
hand to accomplish his work" He
prepared them for his work. "Our triumph
in 1888 was the cause Of tho French Revolu-
ton in 1887, and all the great events which fol-
lowed Including the indiscriminate slaughter
Of men and women, guilty of no offence against
God or man; the abolition of Christianity, and
the setting up harlot for public worship as
"the Goddess of Rcason'D. "Soulh Carolina,
rising in rebellion against Him (God) and the
work CT His hands, and impiously declaring
their intention to destroy that which He has
established" "Most emphatically Gods own
work. 1--WE had always supposed II was the
work of slaveholders), "the religious obliga-
ton Of man not to encourage the extension of
human slavery" "Can any Christian doubt
what is his duty under the circumstances"
1--WE thank God that He has blessed us with
government worth even the strife of civil war,
and most earnestly do We pray" &c.
Such is the farrago Of Puritan picty. strange
history and bellicose logic, with which the
readers of the Courier are treated at this event
full time. Henry Ward Beecher, in lecture
few evenings ago, said he wished we had
Cromwell for President now. IL Lincoln
don't come up TO the mark, by all means let
Webb some fine morning stalk into the halls Of
Congress with the Wide Awakes at his back,
armed with torches, dispense the Assembly,
then proceed to the White House and cut of
the Presidents head, and proclaim himself
Protector" in the name Of the Lord
Surely the piety of Webb will save the Com.
monwcalth.